President Obama's average approval for September by demographics

[ProSense]

Gallup

[Radical Activist]

1. So he's stil very popular with liberals and Democrats.

Good to know! It's nice to see that young voters are still favoring Obama by a healthy margin.

[Radical Activist]

2. And he's least popular among white, old, conservative Republicans.

Those for categories make up the bottom of the list. No surprise there!

[AspenRose]

4. I'd love to meet some folks from that 12% republican group

...and ask them why they are still republicans.

[stray cat]

9. Like progressives they don't vote single issues and integrity in a leader matters

[AspenRose]

17. I don't see anyone in the GOP leadership with integrity.

So unless these folks live in Maine, they should at least vote Independent.

[AspenRose]

3. I'm not sure how this works - isn't it possible to be in more than one

subgroup and then be counted more than once? How does this work? :shrug:

[laconicsax]

6. There's overlap, but it doesn't change the overall numbers.

Think of it like a Venn diagram. The circles overlap, but that overlap doesn't change the number in each group.

[AspenRose]

16. Ah, okay - gotcha

:thumbsup:

[laconicsax]

5. Overall approval is 45%

It'd be nice to see a higher approval going into midterms.

[stray cat]

7. 39% for married couples, 40% independents, Women and men high 40s%

not a winning national ticket

[Drunken Irishman]

14. Compared to...?

[stray cat]

8. When DU is one of his highest approval group its worrisome

[CakeGrrl]

12. Where is DU on that list?

Do you think his approval is running near 80% on DU? I sure don't.

And why shouldn't Democratic/Liberal support for a Dem president be one of the highest demos? Makes sense to me.

[LAGC]

10. Wow, what's really telling is the age differences.

Seems the younger the generation, the more support. What is it about growing old that turns people more conservative?

[Robb]

11. Not always more conservative. Possibly just more critical.

[ClarkUSA]

13. And probably more racist.

[Arugula Latte]

26. Yep -- the older generations tend to be more racist -- in GENERAL (before I get flamed)

So, the good news is that demographic trends are working against racists and homophobes and bigots.

[Jennicut]

18. It is not age, a lot of the baby boomers turned conservative in their 30's during the 1980's.

It is directly related to the rise of Reaganism (gag).

My Dad voted for Carter...and then Reagan. Been a conservative ever since. He was 34 on 1980.

[marlakay]

21. Reagan at the time was a real charmer

and they blamed the contra thing on Carter. Reagan really used all his acting skills...he pulled one over on america....and Carter was so nice he came off as weak and not tough enough to be president. That is what I heard all the time back then.

I liked Carter a lot and voted for him.

[Jennicut]

27. He pulled it over on a lot of people. Unfortunately it started my father down the road

to ultra-conservatism. My mother was always more conservative, but was always more a Ford moderate type of Repub.

[Radical Activist]

24. I don't want to get drafted.

I don't want to pay high taxes.

I don't want cuts to my social security.

What's the difference? A majority of white boomers were always conservative. Hippies were the minority.

[Arugula Latte]

25. On the other hand, my parents voted for Ford & then Reagan (dad twice, mom once)

but wound up voting for Clinton and Dems. since (until my dad died). Mom is actually registered as a Green now.

[marlakay]

20. money

my younger daughter who just got job this past year at top accounting firm near DC after getting her masters and starting at good pay, joked with me, mom if kyle and I keep this up financially we will have to start voting republican! She was messing with me because she knows I am big activist and they are dems but what she said kind of scared me...

[Beacool]

22. The young tend to be idealists and naive.

;)

[CakeGrrl]

23. But better than bitter!

:hi:

[Beacool]

28. That will happen when reality hits them in the butt.

As it has for thousands of them who can't get jobs. The unemployment rate is the highest among the young and AA men.

;-)

[Dawgs]

15. I get 'white people are stupid'.

As a white, 40 year old male, I get 'white people are stupid'.

[Clio the Leo]

19. I'm gonna start giving my father a break on his random moments of Obama frustration...

.... considering he meets almost all of the bottom ranking groups (all but the Republican one.) And to his credit, his moments of frustration are usually drone-inspired.

But overall, he likes the President and knows he's the best option anyone has ATM.

[GSLevel9]

29. pretty amazing numbers...

the most shocking number is 36% approval in non-Hispanic Whites.

Men, women, rich, poor... educated, uneducated... white skin >>>> 36% approval rate.

and 40% amongst self proclaimed independents.