Only three people on twitter have more followers than President Obama

[warrior1]

bieber, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga

The President has over 35 million


Pretty popular guy!

http://twitaholic.com/top100/followers/

[PowerToThePeople]

1. Too bad popularity is not an indicator of anything other than popularity. n/t

[tridim]

2. True for Jr. High students, not true for The President of The United States.

[cali]

7. true.

so is the President's recent slide in the polls.

Racism doesn't explain why Obama's approval rating is falling

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We all know that there's a certain proportion of the electorate that's not going to support Obama because he's black. Obama lost the white vote in 2012, according to the final pre-election Pew Research poll. In the south, with its long history of racism, Obama lost the white vote by an astounding 39pt. Compare that to the rest of the country where he didn't lose the white vote in any other region by more than 9pt.

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What needs to be pointed out, however, is that most of Obama's current approval slide likely isn't because of racism. There's no way to know that for sure, but a recent piece by Jamelle Bouie points to a rough method for knowing.

Compare how Obama's approval changed between now and just before the election. We can examine how his support in different regions of the country has shifted in the polling. If Obama's fall is because white voters can't stand Obama because of his race, then we'd expect the sharpest fall to be among southern whites.

The latest Pew poll shows that not to be the case. Pew has consistently been one of the best pollsters out there, so I trust their numbers. They break down the vote by region and race.

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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/11/barack-obama-approval-rating-not-racism

Poll: President Obama nears all-time low
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/obama-approval-rating-poll-94659.html

[warrior1]

3. Popular

Because a lot of people think he has done a lot of good for this country, where republicans tried stopping at every avenue.

He's done real progress.

[uponit7771]

4. Obama might be popular but I don't have a pony so fuck em!!!

[penultimate]

5. I got my pony, but I never got my unicorn...

I'M FUMING!

[uponit7771]

11. yeap, no unicorns and no ponies!! WTF has Obama done !!?!?!!? /sarcasm cause that's needed around...

...here these days

[hrmjustin]

6. K&R!

[mick063]

8. Yea

I signed up to follow him long ago. Now I don't follow twitter at all.

[cherokeeprogressive]

9. According to a New York Times (That right-wing rag) story almost exactly a year ago...

President Obama had nearly 19 million Twitter followers to Lady Gaga's nearly 29 million. 71% of Gaga's were fake, compared to 70% of President Obama's.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/fashion/twitter-followers-for-sale.html?_r=3&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1345810035-hPtdwhoE1D2MaX4UUGwl9g&
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/08/obama-has-millions-of-fake-twitter-followers/1#.UgfcgH3n_b0

Still though... Twitter popularity! This is easily the most important, most substantive, most incredible post of the weekend!

[hootinholler]

10. Distinguished company.

Well, Lady GaGa is pretty cool in her own special way.