Quote:Polls also state that the current prez is not well liked and in fact has lost most of the people that voted him into office.
Like to see those polls so I could draw my own conclusions from the data. I suspect your interpretation may be............unreliable.
Perspective is everything.
It’s incorrect to say that only ‘true believers ‘still support Obama. “His average approval rating among Democrats has been 80%”
It’s not unreasonable to infer that at least 10-15% of Dems are unhappy because they think Obama isn’t liberal enough…those are Bernie’s people for certain.
In any case, forget about getting 20% of Dems to vote for ANY Republican candidate! C’mon, you saw the last Republican debate. It’s more likely that 20% of Republicans will not support the Republican candidate!
And of course you’ll find the true level of Democratic support for Obama’s policies after nominees are selected for both Parties. Each party will rally behind their nominee.
Don’t underestimate the power of Republican hyperbolic rhetoric and apocalyptic ‘predictions’ to goose Democrat approval for their candidate, and for the Dems proven ‘digital expertise’ to mount a ‘ground game’ as effective as the ones deployed in ’08 and ’12.
Google it if you believe I’m making that up, or read my post
on that subject.
You WON’T read that “Republican ‘technical expertise’ will again provide an advantage in……”. there is no such article!.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/01/...-to-obama/
Obama’s 46% job approval in December placed him between George W. Bush (30%) and Bill Clinton (55%) at similar points in their second terms in late 2007 and 1999, respectively.
It was also comparable to Reagan’s rating of 49% in December 1987.
Views of the president among members of the opposing party have steadily become more negative over time. Our 2014 report on political polarization documented this dramatic growth in partisan divisions over views of presidential job performance.
Over the course of Obama’s presidency, his average approval rating among Democrats has been 80%, compared with just 14% among Republicans.
During Eisenhower’s two terms, from 1953 to 1960, an average of 49% of Democrats said they approved of the job the Republican president was doing in office.
During Ronald Reagan’s presidency, an average of 31% of Democrats approved of his job performance. And just over a quarter (27%) of Republicans offered a positive assessment of Clinton between 1993 and 2000. But the two most recent presidents – George W. Bush and Obama – have not received even this minimal level of support.
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