Who is Obama's base? well, according to polls: dems, liberals, latinos, blacks, post grads, young

[WI_DEM]

Domenico Montanaro writes: While some think President Obama's "core" coalition "has been shattered," here are some numbers from our latest NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll that looks at Obama's approval among some of those "core" groups:

- Blacks: 90% approve/6% disapprove
- Democrats: 82/12
- Liberals: 79/16
- Latinos: 56/33
- Post grads: 56/41
- UPDATE: 18-29: 53/38
- UPDATE 2: NBC's Ana Maria Arumi notes that in the 2010 midterm exit polls, voters 18-29 said they approved of the president's job by a 62/38 margin, which is close to how they voted in 2008 -- 66/32
- Women: 52/43
- 18-34: 49/43

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/06/5596757-obama-core-coalition-hardly-shattered

p.s.
Here is how Obama is doing among "the base" in a few states in recent polls according to Public Policy Polling:

Michigan:
Obama has decent approval numbers in Michigan with 50% of voters giving him good marks to 45% who are unhappy with his job performance. Democrats are pretty universally still happy with him, with 90% expressing approval. Republicans strongly disapprove of Obama but not quite to the extent that Democrats like him- 85% of them give the President bad marks. Independents split slightly in favor of Obama, approving of him by a 47/44 margin.

Minnesota:
Obama's not particularly popular in Minnesota. 49% of voters in the state approve of him while 46% disapprove. His numbers are pretty completely polarized with 89% of Democrats approving of him and 90% of Republicans disapproving. Independents are pretty closely divided but lean slightly in favor of the President's performance by a 48/44 spread.

North Carolina:

Ideology
Liberal Moderate Conservative
Obama Approval
Approve
Disapprove
Not sure
45% 81% 58% 18%
51% 17% 36% 79%
4% 2% 6% 3%

Virginia:

Base
Ideology
Liberal Moderate Conservative
Obama Approval
Approve
Disapprove
Not sure
50% 87% 68% 10%
45% 10% 26% 86%
5% 3% 6% 4%

www.publicpolicypolling

[jaxx]

1. Yep a lot of people are the base. Not just one little slice of them.

The base is big, not small.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. And when was that poll taken? I think there would be some shifts if not absolutely current. n/t

[stray cat]

3. DU doesn't own him?

[Clio the Leo]

5. shocker huh? nt

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[Fearless]

6. Looking at trends over time would be valuable. This is not.

[WI_DEM]

7. Ok do some research on line and look up at trends and I think

you'll find there has been little in the last year erosion among the president's basic base.
P.S.
It's also more valuable than some posters on DU claiming that Obama's base is leaving him without anything to back it up except their own opinions.

[no limit]

8. In may 66% of latinos supported Obama. How is that for a trend line?

Earlier this year among self identified liberals support was in the 90% range.

Google is a great thing, isn't it?

[WI_DEM]

10. Boy you are going out on a limb

nobody said that there hasn't been some falling off, but really you are trying to say that 79% approval among self described liberals and 82% approval overall among democratic voters isn't significant and doesn't represent a strong endorsement of the president overall among the base.

compare that with how Bill Clinton was faring among liberals in 1994 and early 1995:

History, too, suggests that Obama hasn't lost any outsized chunk of his liberal base.

In a January 1995 Washington Post/ABC poll, 65 percent of liberals approved of the job President Bill Clinton was doing while 32 percent disapproved. (Overall, 45 percent approved of the job Clinton was doing while 51 percent disapproved.)

Gallup's December 1994 data shows similar numbers with Clinton at 61 percent, 65 percent and 66 percent in its three weekly tracking polls of that month.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/white-house/does-obama-have-a-liberal-prob.html

And if you think those numbers indicate a strong call for a challenge to the president in a primary then I want some of what you are smoking.

[no limit]

11. Losing 10% of latinos in 7 months isn't significant?

Nor is losing over 10% of over self identified liberals in the same period?

Would you like to bet that the next poll asking liberals what they think will be even lower than it is today?

[WI_DEM]

12. There is no revolt which is what some on DU would like

it appears among hispanics they didn't go to disapprove but to undecided.

[no limit]

13. Nobody said anything about a revolt. But Obama's support among his base keeps dropping

and if the trend line is any indication it will keep dropping all the way till 2012.

[Fearless]

9. Other than DUers look to

KO, Bernie Sanders, the House Democrats who voted NOT to take up the tax bill this afternoon... Umm.. what more do you want? A Gallup poll? ...Like the ones we didn't trust during the election because they were "biased".

:eyes:

[ProudDad]

14. Gee, all the folks that he's pissing on

in order to make nice with the republicans... :eyes:

And please his corporate capitalist masters...