Obama favorable rating 67% in Northeast 40% South; high 50's rest of country

[WI_DEM]

BARACK OBAMA
FAV UNFAV NO OPINION
ALL 54 41 5
MEN 43 52 5
WOMEN 65 30 5
DEM 91 5 4
REP 12 82 6
IND 51 43 6
WHITE 45 51 4
BLACK 92 5 3
LATINO 70 18 12
OTH/REF 72 16 12
18-29 66 26 8
30-44 58 38 4
45-59 50 46 4
60+ 44 51 5
NORTHEAST 67 26 7
SOUTH 40 58 2
MIDWEST 57 37 6
WEST 59 36 5
REST OF USA 60 34 6

http://www.dailykos.com/weeklypoll/2010/4/22

[bluestateguy]

1. If you take away the South he is a popular president

nt

[Qutzupalotl]

8. Please do.

:spank: Just kidding!

[Phx_Dem]

11. +1. And throw in Ben Nelson for good measure.

[jenmito]

2. I'm pleasantly shocked that he has a majority support from Independents!

VERY strong numbers.

[Yavin4]

3. Those Numbers Sound Like Spring Time Temps

It's Spring all over America.

[saltpoint]

4. It's runnin' real high at our house, too.

Well over the top indicator in the NE.

[Cali_Democrat]

5. The South doesn't like him all that much

A lot of African Americans in the South support Obama, but the fact is that MANY white southerners just aren't that fond of the guy. I wonder why that is?


Hmmmm.....:think:

[tledford]

12. I am SO glad that the only white racists are in the South. eom

I don't know how to input the "sarcasm" graphic.

[Cali_Democrat]

21. That's not true at all.

nt

[boppers]

24. Type colon-sarcasm-colon

Like this:

:sarcasm:

[Radical Activist]

6. People really don't care for Congress, do they?

It's no wonder. At least Obama is proposing an agenda. There's little reason for the base to be happy when what little that gets passed is watered down. A quarter of Democrats don't approve of Congressional Democrats. Wow.

[Radical Activist]

7. I just noticed that the groups who rate highest in the "not likely to vote" category

are the Democratic base. Democrats, African-Americans, Latinos, women and young people. The group rated most likely to vote are white, older, Republican men.

That's a recipe for 1994. I don't see how that changes unless Congress passes climate change and banking regulation.

[frazzled]

15. Congress passing things is not what will bring people to the midterm polls

People just don't tend to vote in midterms--especially younger and newer voters. So it's going to be up to all of US to sign up with local campaigns or with OFA to make sure these voters understand why it is so important to get to the polls in November. They have to understand that what they voted for in 2008 will not happen unless they do.

So let's not keep saying that Congress has to do this or Obama has to do that. It's what we do in helping to get voters to the polls that matters. The underinformed won't even notice if a climate bill or banking regulation passes. They are not giving or withholding their approval or their promise to vote based on that. They just plain don't vote. They need to know that everything is on the line with THEIR vote.

[Radical Activist]

16. Maybe voters DO understand things. Maybe they aren't the morons you take them to be.

Maybe they understand that only a fool keeps voting for a party that doesn't deliver on what they promise, especially on the issues that matter most to them.

You say we need to educate the moronic public on why they should vote. I say they understand better than you that there isn't a good reason to vote if Democrats never deliver no matter how big their majority is. Democratic leaders in Congress are doing a great job of proving to millions that their vote DOESN'T matter.

I think you're completely out of touch if you underestimate how many young people there are watching for climate change legislation. Way, way out of touch. Obama was the first Presidential nominee in a generation that made issues young people care most about, like climate change, a major theme in his campaign. They responded in large numbers. There's really no good reason they should vote in 2010 if they don't get what they voted for. You really give credibility to the phrase "liberal elitist."

[frazzled]

20. Maybe you spend too much time on DU instead of in the streets

I've been knocking on doors canvassing for campaigns for more than a decade. I meet voters face to face and get to listen to their concerns and issues. These are real people: I have talked to them in trailer parks and in homes with the foreclosure notice tacked to the door. In bungalows and suburban tract homes. They've been black, white, old, young.

If you think these people are sitting around watching C-Span when their daughters are in the hospital with leukemia or their husbands have left them or lost their jobs, you are indeed the out-of-touch elitist of whom you so nonchalantly speak. Yes, college students and the educated are interested in climate change. I am interested in climate change. But the people who win elections for candidates are interested in paying the bills and getting or keeping jobs and figuring out if the insurance company is going to pay for the cancer treatments. Sometimes they are so busy and pressed they don't know that an election is coming up. They've seen the signs, but they don't know who the candidates are.

That's when liberal elitists like me stand at the doorway and talk to them and tell them about the guy who's running for Congress in their district, and what he believes as opposed to the candidate from the other party, and how it may just help them a bit with their issues. And I help them figure out where their polling place is. And then I call them in the week before the election to remind them to vote, and ask if they need a ride. If that's elitism, so be it.

It would seem you have much to learn about the world, and about politics.

[Uzybone]

35. +10000

In the real world (not the world of blogs and websites) minorities, young and new voters do not usually show up in midterms. It has been that way for many decades. GOTV is what brings them to the polls, not what cable prognosticators yap about on TV.

[BlooInBloo]

9. Good thing it has nothing to do with race, or else I'd be worried.

[Drunken Irishman]

10. That west number is awesome when you consider...

States like Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana.

Clearly not the highest population (Arizona is the largest and Utah second-largest of those), but still...

[Jennicut]

13. Ugg, the South. I feel for the liberals that live there and fight the good fight.

[tledford]

14. And there is a shitload of us. :-) eom

[Dawgs]

30. Yes there are!!

:hi:

[uponit7771]

33. yeap

[Skidmore]

17. Old, white Southern men...

Call me surprised. Not.

[Dawgs]

31. That's exactly what I see everyday I pass a car with 'Bush/Cheney' or 'McCain/Palin' bumper stickers

Never fails.

[mitchum]

18. There are a lot of kkkrackers down here

[fishwax]

19. kick

:kick:

[Arugula Latte]

22. Wow -- Look at that gender gap!!

Men suck.

Kidding.

:hide:

[boppers]

25. I have no idea what the gender gap is about.

Seriously, no idea.... has Obama been gender divisive on something I missed?

[WI_DEM]

26. There has been a gender gap for years between men and women with men

by a higher margin favoring Republicans while women favor democrats. But this is a very large gap.

[Arugula Latte]

27. Democratic men are always smeared as "wimps" so lots of macho wannabes dis 'em.

Because, you know, it's so manly to be heartless towards other people, bomb them for corporate gain, and hope that nobody gets any government help besides you and your buddies.

[progressoid]

28. 45-59 yr old southern white men.

Yikes.

[chollybocker]

23. The Age Group figures bode well for the future.

If we get there.

[tekisui]

36. That is a good sign, and will be one of the longest lasting effects

of Obama's candidacy and Presidency. People are very slow to change parties, if they ever do. We have a strong generation of Dems ahead.

[Orsino]

29. Turns out that threatening to *do* stuff is a bit more popular...

...than grandstanding excuses not to.

[uponit7771]

32. Do these people only poll whites in the south?!?!

[Odin2005]

34. The South. Always the fucking SOUTH.