Ed Morrissey on President Obama’s poll problem:
The demographics of his decline portend more bad news for Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress. Only the youngest voters support him on fiscal policy, and only barely, 52%-46%. Every other age demographic above 30 years of age has majorities now showing disapproval. Independents have begun to run away in massive numbers; they now oppose him 75%-23%, a huge break away from Obama and a sign that his supposed moderate stances have been exposed as shams. Every income level except the lowest also has majorities disapproving of his handling of the economy. Voters outside the “political class” oppose Obama 65%-33%.
Fact of the matter is, a majority of young people almost always support Democratic spending plans. The other fact of the matter is, most young people are idiots.
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10 Comments
1. ethanthom:I love the last line.No truer words have ever been said.
Jul 3, 2009 - 10:23 am 2. Steve Ducharme:2010 elections will say a lot. It’ll be interesting to see how many democrats try to ride his “coattails” and how many start running from them.
Jul 3, 2009 - 10:56 am 3. rbj:As Churchill remarked, if you aren’t a liberal when young, you have no heart. If you aren’t a conservative when old, you have no head.
Jul 3, 2009 - 12:32 pm 4. McGehee:What I’m hoping is that the same counter-factual view of the situation that has governed media coverage of Obama since he started running for the Senate, continues to hold sway over Democrats. Thus they will dutifully try to ride coattails that do not exist, essentially slitting their throats electorally rather than acknowledge the true state of affairs for their party and the nation.
American politics needs a good (figurative) bloodbath and I hope the Democrats volunteer
Jul 3, 2009 - 2:18 pm 5. Blacque Jacques Shellacque:…if you aren’t a liberal when young, you have no heart. If you aren’t a conservative when old, you have no head.
I guess I never had a heart.
Jul 3, 2009 - 4:13 pm 6. Alsadius:I still want to know what they define as the “political class”.
Jul 3, 2009 - 9:17 pm 7. Casey:How very odd. That’s exactly what I was thinking when I read that passage in Ed’s post…
Jul 3, 2009 - 10:51 pm 8. Sandy P:The young have only lived in good times, they have no experience…..
I remember the 70s………..I learned my lesson.
Jul 4, 2009 - 12:41 am 9. greg-0:“As Churchill remarked, if you aren’t a liberal when young, you have no heart. If you aren’t a conservative when old, you have no head.”
The big difference is that some of us outgrow it prior to reaching voting age…
Jul 5, 2009 - 12:20 am 10. Athena:How about a law requiring that only those who pay taxes can vote? This should undercut the demo’s by millions….
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