Obama Says Racial Animus Blunts Approval, New Yorker Reports

Brian Wingfield
Bloomberg
January 19, 2014

President Barack Obama said that racial tensions may have softened his popularity among white voters within the last two years, according to a story posted on the New Yorker magazine’s website today.

“There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black president,” Obama said in the article by David Remnick, appearing in the magazine’s Jan. 27 edition.

“Now, the flip side of it is there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because I’m a black president,” Obama said in his most direct comments on how race has affected his political standing since he’s been in office.

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Obama Says Racial Animus Blunts Approval, New Yorker Reports

Obama’s Approval Rating Drops to 37%

Associated Press
October 9, 2013

Americans are holding Republicans primarily responsible for the partial government shutdown as public esteem sinks for all players in the impasse, President Barack Obama among them, according to a new poll. It’s a struggle with no heroes.

The Associated Press-GfK survey, out Wednesday, affirms expectations by many in Washington — Republicans among them — that the GOP may end up taking the biggest hit in public opinion from the fiscal paralysis, just as that party did when much of the government closed 17 years ago. But the situation is fluid nine days into the shutdown and there’s plenty of disdain to go around.

Overall, 62 percent mainly blamed Republicans for the shutdown. About half said Obama or the Democrats in Congress bear much responsibility.

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This article was posted: Wednesday, October 9, 2013 at 9:17 am

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41%: Obama’s Approval Drops to Lowest Level in Gallup Poll Since 2011

CNS News
August 11, 2013

The percentage of Americans saying that they approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as president dropped to 41% in the Gallup poll’s three-day tracking average, the lowest it has been since Dec. 28, 2011.

Obama’s approval rating plunged in polling data the evening after he gave a rare afternoon press conference.

In Gallup’s three-day tracking period that ended on Thursday, Aug. 8, 44 percent had said they approve of the job he is doing and 46 percent said they disapproved.

One day later, in the tracking period that ended on Friday, Aug. 9, Obama’s approval was at 41 percent and his disapproval at 50 percent.

This article was posted: Sunday, August 11, 2013 at 4:21 am

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41%: Obama’s Approval Drops to Lowest Level in Gallup Poll Since 2011