New cracks have begun to show in President Obama’s support amongst. Blacks , who have been his strongest supporters. Five months ago, 83 percent of African Americans held “strongly favorable” views of.
Obama, but in a new Washington Post-ABC news poll that number has dropped to 58 percent. That drop is similar to slipping support for Obama among all groups.
“There is a certain amount of racial loyalty and party loyalty, but eventually that was going to have to weaken,” said Andra Gillespie, a political scientist at Emory University, who studies African Americans.
“It’s understandable given the economy.”
Waters, who head the CBC’s jobs initiative, said she saw the frustration that is registering in the president’s polls at the job's fairs she attended. “I saw the kind of hopelessness that is setting in.People were not only discouraged. They came to try to get a job, but they didn’t really believe that something substantive was going to happen,” she said.“The president cannot rest on his laurels with respect to blacvoter representation. Given the fact that people don’t necessarily strongly approve of President Obama, that could translate to less enthusiasm for his candidacy,” she said. “That doesn’t mean they will vote for th Republican candidate. It means they will not turn out.”
“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a
country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.”
― John Adams
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