Gallup: Most Of White America Dislikes Obama.

[kermit da hustla]

only 36% of whites approve of obama. remember that when you're thinking these cacs are your friends. they're not. they claim it's not about racism, but gwb didn't see white support drop to that level.

A majority of white Americans are unhappy with President Barack Obama’s job performance, suggest recent Gallup polling data, and it’s not just because of his race, say political scientists from two of the nation’s top universities.

The latest weekly snapshot of President Obama’s approval rating provided by Gallup shows the president with a national approval rating of 48 percent among all adults. When that number is broken down by racial demographics, however, the distance between the approval ratings of white and non-white Americans is staggering.

Reflecting a weekly decline of just one percent, 76 percent of non-white Americans approve of President Obama’s job performance while among whites that number has remained flat at 36 percent.

A breakdown of the non-white numbers gets even more interesting. President Obama’s approval rating among blacks fell by eight percent from the week before the latest round of polling to 87 percent while it jumped by five percentage points among Hispanics to 69 percent over the same period.

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Carol Swain, a professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt University who recently authored Be the People: A Call to Reclaim America’s Faith and Promise and launched a TV show of the same name, said whites are not happy with the president because they feel he is not working in their interests.

“It’s obvious that a lot of white people feel that he is not operating in the interest of the country and they’re suspicious of him and his administration,” she said.

“The administration has taken action, especially through the Department of Justice that would cause some people to fear that there is racial bias that would work against white people whether it’s true or not. They have taken action with regard to voting rights and some other issues that would make them seem suspect,” explained Swain.

In her comments on the polling data she also notes that a desire among people to be politically correct with their responses could belie Americans’ true feelings about President Obama regardless of race.

“The survey shows 36 percent support (among whites), if people weren’t lying it probably would be 20 percent,” said Swain.

“I think there is a tendency to give the politically correct answer especially when you’re talking about a black president. White people don’t want to be perceived as racist and so I think that they’re lying and a lot of blacks I guess, they are too,” she said. “I know some black people that are unhappy with the president but I don’t believe they would tell a pollster that.”

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For many black Americans, she added, Obama’s high approval rating is: “All about race and in some ways it’s about racism because they are not holding the president to the same standard they would hold a white person to.”

 

[alpo]

And?

 

[kermit da hustla]

And?

the implications are clear. the divide between white america and black america is staggering. they don't like us. gwb was much worse of a president, his policies gutting a surplus and throwing us into a near depression, but he didn't see white support fall like that.

 

[acri1]

This is such common knowledge that there was honestly no need to even make a thread about it.

But I do wonder what exactly Obama has done that makes them think there's "racial bias that would work against white people" in his administration. I mean white people in the U.S. are better off (by a huge margin) than black people by every measure imaginable, and the gap hasn't decreased under Obama. But they way they talk you'd think Obama was sending out checks to every black person or something.

It honestly comes off as irrational paranoia spurred by too much FOX news.

 

[Prince Akeem]

Post racial America...

 

[88m3]

Wait, white people don't like us? Chilling.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

 

[Black Hans]

 

[KiD WavE]

you gotta remember this is a lot of the older generation though

besides rednecks most white people under 35 are down with obama

 

[Blackking]

they don't like us..

The majority don't.... so why would they like Obama? I don't even like Obama. I would rather have a black man hold any position over someone white- but dude isn't really doing a great job.

 

[Black Magisterialness]

This just in water is kinda wet

 

[the next guy]

Most whites in the midwest, north and west like Barry. The south skews the stats. Don't post stuff without context.

 

[jadillac]

except for the insane amount of who voted him??

Except for the fact that black people alone didnt get Obama into the white house not once, but twice?

 

[daze23]

it seems most people in The Coli dislike him as well. I guess that means they're white

 

[the next guy]

except for the insane amount of who voted him??

Except for the fact that black people alone didnt get Obama into the white house not once, but twice?

word.