Poll: 59% Who Voted For Obama But Switched To GOP During Midterms Say He’s Too Liberal…
A simple Google search prior to voting for him would have sufficed.
(USA Today) — President Obama is lagging behind Republicans in the chase for political moderate voters in 12 battleground states, according to a new poll by the centrist Democratic group Third Way.
About 59% of “switchers,” voters who backed Obama in 2008 but voted for a Republican in the midterm elections, say the president’s party is more liberal than they are and that their political views align more closely with Republicans. Among the 400 switchers polled, 16% said they would vote for Obama again; 25% said they would back the Republican nominee; and 59% were categorized as “persuadable switchers.”
“The problem is that they don’t see Obama and Democrats in their (ideological) neighborhood,” Jim Kessler, vice president for policy at Third Way, said of the switchers. “But we feel it’s possible for Democrats to move themselves along the continuum to a center direction.”
Democrats were drubbed at the polls last November, with independents favoring Republicans 55% to 39% in House races; Obama won the independent vote by 8 percentage points in 2008.
For Obama to win re-election, he will need to persuade a large number of voters who switched allegiances in the midterm elections to return to the fold, according to Third Way. Yet the poll of voters in 12 battleground states suggests that Obama is on shaky ground with swing voters. The results of the poll, conducted by Lincoln Park Strategies, were shared with USA TODAY ahead of today’s release.
Posted by ZIP on Tuesday, September 13, 2011, at 10:41 am | 
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REMEMBER —
IN NOVEMBER 2012, WE HAVE A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO CLEAN OUT THE ENTIRE HOUSE AND ONE-THIRD OF THE SENATE!
DONT BLOW IT!
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The fucker insists on posing the ‘Benito Mussolini’ jutting jaw and pouting lips…. What a jag.
“A simple Google search prior to voting for him would have sufficed.”
Seriously, Zip.
Can the government controlled media please knock it off already with the JEF halo pics? Really. It looks stupid.
How can a turd have a halo?
Like they needed a poll to figure this out?!?! leave it to the media to poll the obvious and sound bewildered at the common sense results.
Cowdude
He ain’t no liberal, He’s radical!
That poll should be in the ninety percentile but the public has been dumbed down so badly that real results are no longer possible. Gosh, whodahthunk???
(Grammatical errors intended)
It’s the fault of the uninformed 59% that we are in this predicament today. They should rightfully feel stupid and used.
Thats a very dark halo show impuraty and evil
The caucasian population voted for him to partially rid themselves of the guilt they have and to say, “look at me, look at me, I’m not racist because I voted for Obama and I am nice to black people”. Unfortunately it was devastating to this country. Hopefully, they’re done with that and will vote him out, or not show up to vote at all (my brother included).
Fondralicious says:
September 13, 2011 at 1:38 pm
The caucasian population voted for him to partially rid themselves of the guilt they have and to say, “look at me, look at me, I’m not racist because I voted for Obama and I am nice to black people”. Unfortunately it was devastating to this country. Hopefully, they’re done with that and will vote him out, or not show up to vote at all (my brother included).
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Exactly…..SO obvious that these ‘white’ people wanted to be ‘open-minded’, not racist or bigoted. “Look at me: I’m ready for a new era, a new, racist-free and enlightened America, because I can vote for a black man.”
I think its justice that now Dems and some new outlets are finally mentioning that people did indeed vote for him based on his color, that he accomplished nothing in his public service in Illinois, and that indeed he was wholly unqualified for the presidency.