Gallup’s latest weekly compilation of polling data on President Obama’s job approval rating shows him at 85 percent among black Americans, down from a 94 percent approval rating among blacks as recently as March. The 85 percent figure is also Obama’s lowest-ever as president among African-Americans in the Gallup weekly poll. The poll data is from July 19 to 25, meaning Gallup sampled opinion as the Shirley Sherrod matter, and the Obama administration’s handling of it, exploded into controversy.
Obama’s approval rating among Hispanics in the latest poll, 52 percent, is also his lowest rating among that group in Gallup’s weekly measurement. He was in the low-to-mid 60’s earlier with Hispanics earlier this year.
Obama’s approval rating among whites is 38 percent, mostly unchanged from recent weeks but down a few points from the beginning of 2010. Overall, Obama’s weekly job rating is 45 percent approve, 47 percent disapprove, down from a 51 percent approve, 42 percent disapprove in February.
All of which raises the question: What the fuck are those 45 percent thinking?
Well, if you consider his job to be “destroy the Democrat Party” (and what would he be doing differently if it wasn’t?), I certainly approve of his performance. He’s doing a bang-up job of it!
I can’t say whether they are thinking, but maybe they just like seeing other people suffer?
If you’re drawing a check from Social Security, or drawing a paycheck from Social Services, or drawing a welfare check from Social Services, or you’re a racist pig who’ll go to the mat for anyone who shares your skin tone (even if it’s only half!), then I’m sure you’re perfectly satisfied.
Remember, 50% of the electorate pays 3% of the income tax.
Yep, those 45% are likely the dependent class – parasites who are the Dems natural constituency.
i draw checks with crayons on paper and guns
but the tellers aren’t crayon friendly
and i’ll never do that again
reminds me of the time i said bomb on airplane/
it was funny to see peoples scared faces
**If I were a tree, hmm…
…but then, which one?**
best not to day “hi” to your friend jack on an airplane, either
Minorities may not be happy with how Democrats treat them, but they KNOW that if the GOP were in charge, in Week 1 they’d bring back Jim Crow, and in Week 2 it would be back to the plantation.
I mean, given those two choices? I’d go with the donks, too.
Sure wish I was seated near you on that flight.
everytime i light my shoes on fire to prove my love
my wife still won’t don the burka
{heres a secret/ put a blanket over them)
15% of blacks are racist extremist teabagging terrorists that hate black people?
hello?
I have a comment it is stuck Mr. Jeff can you find it if you have time?
Coming to theatres near you in week three, travelling minstrel shows.
For safety’s sake, wear rubber gloves and a mask when retrieving stuck stuff.
also you should take a claritin
and get a tetanus shot
well the shorter version is that cause of bumblefuck is falling more among older voters than younger voters so far in 2010… the fact that white peoples tend to be quite a bit older than black peoples on average and quite a LOT older than your hispanicals on average means that age might be explaining a lot of this decline rather than simply being able to attribute it to race
My liberal friends are clinging to the fact that Obama is so supernatural that despite all appearances, all will be well by 2010.
i shouldn’t make jokes about bombs and aeroplanes
i apoligize and denounce myself
but on the other hand…
if your baby keeps crying on this flight to australia
i will shut him/her up
with extreme prejudice
Buttons seems to be having the kind of day I’ve had a lot of in the last few months. I prescribe thunderstorms — they’ll make lots of ions and make everything better.
For a while.
Show me.
I did but it got swallered.
a thunderstorm is just God pissing on me
loudly/
no/ a thunderstorm is God bowling
mmm/
if i chase a thunderstorms and get hit by lightning
will u make a movie about me?
i only chased thunderstorms for the children
but not crippled kids
White people use up all the healthcare so that black people and hispanicals die really really young.
Didn’t you know? It’s part of the hateyness.
#21 – by dingo?
here [XLS] is median age by “race” from our census friends
White 38.2 / Black or African American 31.4 / Hispanic 27.7
now the Census monkeys are probably figuring median age on a total pop basis – before in what got swallered I gave you numbers of median age done off the voting age 18+ pop cause I thought that made more sense but this makes the same point
meaning that if bumblefuck loses old people it’ll impact his white people support moreso than his black/hispanical support but this suggests you could still maybe find that the drop-off in blacks and hispanicals might primarily be among older blacks and hispanicals
What the 45% are thinking is ‘Oh Boy! I’m gonna get mine from Obama’s stash! I just can’t wait!’
Perhaps happyfeet, but will the young turn out for a midterm election in which people are as excited about Democrats as they are about finding mole hills in their yards?
Remains to be seen.
Are age categories (over 18yrs) a sieve which will winnow people capable of a conception of liberty in self-governance from people incapable of such a conception? Or if you’d rather, people holding such a conception from people not holding such a conception?
I’m just meaning that if Obama’s support is slipping among older people it would explain the data as well or better than theories what said what was happening was happening cause of disaffection linked to racially-related factors.
Mr. sdferr I think it’s possible that older people might have more than their share of good sense. I don’t think they’re as likely to believe you can spend your way out of recession, for one.
I’m not studied in the matter, but I’m inclined to think that both young ones and old ones can have good sense or on the other hand, bad sense, in roughly the same proportions the one group to the other I guess.
With queasy allowances for the sex drives, that is.
#34: Not so fast. My experience with family members and others is that a significant percentage of them become entitlement anticipating as they get older. It happened to both my Father and my brother, both life long Republicans, drank the kool-aide.
The other part of the senior issue is AARP’s ongoing vision that everything they can get from the government for seniors only benefits their business plan. They, as an organization, are definitely not helping seniors see the reality of the spendings.
“who” drank the kool-aide.
Just an aside if I may? Is the consensus here that the drinking of the kool-aide derives back to the Jonestown mass suicide? Or does it come from somewhere else?
kool aide u gotta mix with water
and /third world water and sugar and death must be
very powerful
like barbera streisands voice
I take it as an allusion to Jonestown in that only a true-true believer would willingly drink that which was known to be poison. I realize that it seems that most/many at Jonestown were forced.
i have my purple sneakers on!
sdferr:
Jonestown, although the phrase tends to come from corporate circles. My sister has worked her way to management in Crate and Barrel and used the phrase to reflect her need to buy into the corporate program … lock stock and two smoking barrels.
I’ve used it to describe my father’s and brother’s transition to the AARP mindset of “protect seniors at all costs.!” My brother, who is 66 years old, still operates a small business and supported Health Care Reform because “I don’t want to be responsible for health care in my business anymore.” He’s been very quiet since the bill was passed which tends to indicate that he all too clearly understands the disaster it will be for small business.
Dad is 90 years old and still absorbs three or four publications a day. He also owned a successful small business that employed over 400 people and did 12 Million in sales at its peak. He now tries to tell me that 85% of corporations are “corrupt.”
My theory is that they are both seeing the finish line and they’d like to stop striving and have someone else take care of things. This is an attitude very much exploited by Democrats and sharpened by AARP. They may know in a reasoned sense that the system is going to hell in a hand basket but, near as I can tell, they just want to get theirs and hope that they’ll be gone before the whole entitlement castle collapses.
Me, at 54 years old, is screaming at them that I’m screwed by both the system and their attitude towards getting theirs.
i taped wings on them heels and i think i can fly
but i know i can’t
but i could fall on you/
or fall in ur general direction
Thanks fellas. I’ve been hearing the phrase a long time and have for the most part associated it with Jonestown myself, but have had nagging doubts due to a rumored practice I’d heard of people putting acid in kool-aide at parties or however that went.
sdferr:
Yes, I think the “drinking the Kool-Aid” comes from Jonestown.
A Columbus Ohio aside: Back in the mid 80’s, WTVN 610 AM did a comedy routine during their sports show, a soap opera parody called “As The Buckeye Turns” or something like that. It made jokes around the OSU athletic programs. The Athletic Director at the time was named Jim Jones, and every time a coach or somebody went into Jones’ office he would say, “Hi! Would you like some … Kool-Aid?” The reply was always, “No thanks, Jim.”
I found that terribly amusing. YMMV.
that might could be true too but maybe there’s a growing feeling of dread that all the spendings will threaten the entitlements
This has been my experience. I’m not sure it has to do as much with capability as it has to do with priorities and life experience. Would you say that being a Democrat/Liberal/Progressive is the default position for the youthful voter? If so, why do you suspect this is so?
I read the electric kool-aid book when I was little. I remember thinking it was depressing. I won’t ever read it again I’m pretty sure. But they liked for people to drink their kool-aids what had the acid in it. They thought about figuring out ways where unsuspecting peoples would ingest acid on contact with railings and such but I don’t think they ever did that.
There’s for sure a demagoguery of long-standing to that effect pressed by near every Democrat pol given a podium hf.
“They thought about figuring out ways where unsuspecting peoples would ingest acid on contact with railings and such but I don’t think they ever did that.”
Scattered others around the country did do, though. I knew people who had been treated that way, as playthings, that is. Wasn’t pretty.
except now it’s not demagoguery anymore really is it?
everything is unsustainable.
I’m gonna have some cheerios.
that’s same as terrorism
I don’t know as to that Makewi. I have made the assumption myself at times (I’ve certainly seen it made a lot by others as well), but I’m not at all persuaded that it’s a function of necessity. Which is only another way of saying, education should be sufficient, I believe, to sway young minds as well as older minds. The truth of truthful propositions, at Euclidean geometry say, aren’t any less apparent to the young than to the old.
“that’s same as terrorism”
Yeah, more or less I guess, though the object of the exercise doesn’t align so well. It’s closer to tormenting animals, I think.
acid was a cia plot initiatled in iceland
to make white farmers listen to bjork
cherries have pits
the washington mall has cherry trees!
wake up/ dumbos
walt disney /walt disney
chuck jones rules
I wonder sometimes if bjork is lonely
“except now it’s not demagoguery anymore really is it?”
Is it? Every serious approach to the subject I’ve heard or seen involves assurances that certain populations now receiving “benefits” or on the cusp of receiving “benefits” are to be held harmless, so to speak, and the cutbacks necessary are proposed to be implemented only on cohorts outside those somewhat arbitrarily determined parameters. Which isn’t to say that the “promised” deal doesn’t change, since perforce it must.
I don’t know it to be true sdferr, but I have my suspicions. I would also add that a mind will only be educated if it wants to be. Rejecting knowledge is an easy thing to do, especially when doing so comes with benefits such as approval of your peers. So I guess education should be sufficient, so long as you can get past everything else.
Pixar will need to make a movie showing that the entitlement benefits math just doesn’t add up, and Kanye will have to do the soundtrack before it really starts to sink in.
Attending to better education doesn’t entail perfection in the execution in any case . . . I assume the larger effects will fall more or less in the marginal instances, to the extent that these are reached. Nothing uniform in outcome, that is.
“All of which raises the question: What the fuck are those 45 percent thinking?”
I don’t believe that figure to be at all firm, but rather bloated with condescending, soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations “moderates” who want to cling to ’08’s delusions. To pollsters.
Cordially…
oh. I see what you mean
“All of which raises the question: What the fuck are those 45 percent thinking?”
You know one of the things I’ve always loved about coming to this place? We never get a “begs the question” unless some actual question-begging is afoot.
all your bjorks belong to someone
I don’t remember seeing Mongrel as a choice on the census.
joseph mengele had and experimet
it shouts at mountains in iceland
u bought its cd/ enabler/ nazi
goebbbles had a club foot
goerinng had planes and art
himmler was a chicken farmer
bjork is using these random facts to take over this country..
japan/ pearl harbor?
icelands close
and i hope they don’t form a axis of evil with greenland
pd, I ‘d like to thank you for
“third world water and sugar and death must be
very powerful
like barbera streisands voice”.
That is … marvelous, that is.
#69 – I rather hope they do. I’d like to fight someplace not so friggin’ hot for once. And the Afghans thought I was out of my mind because I smiled all winter…
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l love u too ltc/ fuck/ i like everybody on this site
Mengele? What…?
There’s a little town in Brazil where he once lived that has a rate of twin births that is 16 times higher than the rest of the country.
True story.
:: cue Twilight Zone theme ::
I bet she’s got one of those Icelandic vibrator-thingies to keep her occupied. You know, a djork.
“…You know, a djork.”
Super Heh!