Obama Drops 12 Points Among Independent Voters on Foreign Policy Since Embassy Attack

Team Obama is spinning the truth but most know his foreign policy of “soft diplomacy” is a failure.

From Yahoo News:

President Barack Obama’s once-robust approval rating on foreign policy has slipped since August: He’s down five points among all respondents in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, and 12 points among independents.

The survey, teased here, came after a wave of Muslim anger at an anti-Islam movie online unfurled across the Middle East and North Africa, and unknown gunmen stormed the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in clashes that claimed the life of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

The poll found that 49 percent of the respondents approved of Obama’s handling of world affairs, down from 54 percent in August. Forty-six percent disapproved.

Unsurprisingly, the survey found a deep partisan split, with 86 percent of Democrats approving against 10 percent of Republicans. But the Republican number was down from August, as well, when 19 percent said they viewed Obama’s foreign policy positively.

The numbers fell more sharply among independents: 41 percent said they approved, against 53 percent last month. The poll was conducted Wednesday through Sunday and had an error margin of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.

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Gallup: Romney Leads Obama Among Middle Class Voters

I guess Obama constantly harping that he’s a “middle class warrior” is just another message that isn’t working as he travels around the country fundraising with Hollywood stars and those evil 1%ers he “hates.”

PRINCETON, NJ — Mitt Romney currently has a 49% to 45% edge over Barack Obama among middle-income voters, those whose annual household income is between $36,000 and $89,999. Romney has the same lead among upper-income voters, while Obama maintains a wide advantage among lower-income voters.

Even better news is Romney holds an 8-point lead among Independent voters.

Romney Leads Among Middle-Income Independents

Though Romney’s edge among middle-income voters is similar to his lead among upper-income voters, in certain subgroups of middle-income voters he performs especially well. That includes middle-income independent voters, who right now prefer Romney by an eight-point margin, 48% to 40%. Obama leads among lower-income independents, and the two are tied among upper-income independents.

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Gallup Poll: All Ideologies Think Obama Sucks

Everyone is disappointed in the failure named Obama. Across the political spectrum, all ideologies think Obama sucks.

Gallup:

Obama’s approval rating has decreased among all six partisan/ideology groups Gallup tracks on a regular basis since January, but it has dropped the most — 10 percentage points, from 40% to 30% — among pure independents. These are the roughly 14% of national adults who neither identify with one of the two major parties nor indicate a leaning. Obama’s approval rating has declined by nearly as much — eight points — among moderate/liberal Republicans, from 29% to 21%.

Obama’s approval rating has changed the least in 2011 among the two groups on the far left and right of the U.S. political spectrum. Most liberal Democrats and very few conservative Republicans approved of him in January and this remains the case today. Additionally, conservative Democrats’ views also showed little change — likely because their approval was already at a dampened 70% at the start of the year.

Approval among moderate Democrats fell by six points from 81% to 75%.

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Independent Voters’ View of Obama is closer to Republicans than Democrats.

The luster of hope and change have worn off…

Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, is a former White House correspondent with two decades of experience covering Washington government and politics. Click here for Mr. Brown’s full bio.

(WSJ) A truism of American politics is that elections are won in the middle, and that has led to an inescapable conclusion: As independents go, so goes the nation.

A look at who independents are and what they think tells a lot about the current state of American politics and which way the winds are blowing.

At this point, independents are significantly closer to Republicans than they are to Democrats on a host of questions involving their views of President Barack Obama, the political parties and issues. This is a reversal of the situation in 2006 and 2008.

Unless the Democrats can move independents’ views closer to their own, they are likely to face the same fate Republicans met in the last two elections.

Interestingly, independents are not demographically different from their friends, family and neighbors who call themselves Democrats or Republicans when it comes to age, income or education, according to an analysis of last week’s Quinnipiac University national poll. Blacks are slightly less likely to be independents because of their historic ties to the Democratic Party.

Independents just think differently than their brethren in the two major parties.

Obviously, President Barack Obama’s low poll ratings are being driven by the views and values of independents.

Crossing Party Lines

That’s not always the case. Presidents can be so popular or unpopular that members of the two major parties are willing to cross party lines to embrace or reject them.

But at this point, according to Quinnipiac’s national poll of 2,181 voters (almost twice the size of most national surveys) released last week, Mr. Obama gets approval from roughly four in five Democrats and disapproval from a similar share of Republicans. That leaves independents holding the balance of power. http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1295.xml?ReleaseID=1345 Click here to view the full poll and the comparisons between independents, Democrats and Republicans.

A year ago, when Mr. Obama’s overall poll numbers were very positive, he was getting 90% approval from Democrats and disapproval from only 66% of Republicans, which meant the views of independents were less important.

Independents currently give the president a 52% disapproval rating. His 38% approval rating among them is 26 points better than his 12% approval rating among Republicans, but 40 points worse than his approval rating among Democrats. That tells you independents’ view of the president these days is closer to that of Republicans than Democrats.

It must be racism because nobody can be against Obama’s policies. If you are, then it has to be because of his skin color. Sounds like the defense the lefties will use when seeing this information.

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Poll: Any Republican Would Beat Obama in 2012

Is it because of his policies or racism? The left will say the latter because it is easier to yell ‘racism’ than defend Obama’s policies.

Quinnipiac Poll:

A year after President Barack Obama’s political honeymoon ended, his job approval rating has dropped to a negative 44 – 48 percent, his worst net score ever, and American voters say by a narrow 39 – 36 percent margin that they would vote for an unnamed Republican rather than President Obama in 2012, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

This compares to a 48 – 43 percent approval for Obama in a May 26 national poll by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University and a 57 – 33 percent approval last July, just before the political firestorm created by opposition to his health care plan galvanized political opponents and turned independent voters against him.

In this latest survey of more than 2,000 voters, independent voters disapprove of Obama 52 – 38 percent and say 37 – 27 percent they would vote for a Republican contender in 2012.

American voters also say 48 – 40 percent Obama does not deserve reelection in 2012.

Anti-incumbent sentiment slams both parties as voters disapprove 59 – 31 percent of the job Democrats are doing, and disapprove 59 – 29 percent of Republicans in Congress. But voters say 43 – 38 percent they would vote for a Republican in a generic Congressional race.

I’m just going to walk away from that one. It speaks for itself.

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