Students cooling on Obama, poll finds

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON The Obama excitement that pervaded college campuses two years ago has faded.

An Associated Press-mtvU poll found college students cooling in their support for President Barack Obama, a fresh sign of trouble for Democrats struggling to rekindle enthusiasm among the newest voters for the crucial midterm elections in three weeks.

Forty-four percent of students approve of the job Obama is doing as president, while 27 percent are unhappy, according to the survey conducted late last month. That's a significant drop from the 60 percent who gave the president high marks in a May 2009 poll. Only 15 percent had a negative opinion back then.




Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/10/14/1760103/students-cooling-on-obama-poll.html

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Isn't this normal for a mid term? You won't be able to get all of them out no matter what but you can get enough if them out. Probably didn't call any cell phones

this was probably a landline poll taboot.

"The AP-mtvU Poll was conducted Sept. 20-24 by Edison Research of Somerville, N.J., and involved interviews with 2,207 randomly chosen undergraduates at 40 randomly selected four-year schools with at least 1,000 undergrads. To protect privacy, the schools were not being identified and students' names were not recorded. The survey had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points."

That's straight from the full AP article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j7re-hKU81Y3Mux0c_tBj9Vu02SgD9IQVGF00?docId=D9IQVGF00

BTW, here's the May 2009 poll, in which President Obama got 60% approval. Similar methodology was used in both surveys, which means any sample bias would affect both equivalently.
http://surveys.ap.org/data%5CEdison%5CAPMTV%20Topline%20marginals%20May%2019.pdf

Denying there's a problem will not help with finding a solution.

why they are dissatisfied. The implication is that these students are becoming republicans, but that conclusion is dubious. Seems likely that many of these individuals are just recognizing that Obama is a corporatist, has failed to deliver on DADT, his HC and Fin. Reg. reforms were half-measures etc etc.

the administration dragging its feet over key Gay rights legislation hurts with young people (personal observation).

pot in california. Thats not going to help with the youth vote.

Next question is, will they hold their noses and vote for Dems, anyway?

Same old stuff -- lesser of evils!

:)

It means exactly nothing.

I started cooling on him before the election, when I found out who his economic advisers were.

I still voted for him, but had a lot of second thoughts when he started picking his cabinet.

I never would have voted for McCain, but I don't think I could vote for Obama again.

Fool me once....Fuck you, you ain't fooling me twice.

and most everyone else.

not to mention the Sherrod debacle and his waffling on DADT= no way in hell will I ever tap anything with his name on it. Let their be an opposition to the right wing or let's be honest about there being no difference.

in the dumpster already since he is in my mind already an embarrassing footnote in history. I am ready for the next round and hope our rulers will not include quite so much Betrayal and Cowardice and Contempt for Supposed Inferiors.

how selfish of them

Ohio election fraud second time.

that fraud was a workable option. Almost half the country voted for the SOB.

because these idiots will be getting elected for the same reasons that the students are losing interest. If your choice is somebody from one party that is currently not delivering on promises and an idiot, many will choose the idiot, especially since they do not realize just the extent of how much of an idio the candidate is. Remember, not everybody spends time on political discussion boards. Most only hear the ads that are flooding the airwaves due to the new corporate influx of donations.

I could believe this. The not worrying part, not the idiots for candidates.

Quick, break out the Reality Extinguishers. I'm doubting this story gets any traction, except for those who want to deny to the bitter end that their marketing campaign has faltered and that people prefer actual solutions to excuses and betrayals.

The reason Scott Brown won in Massachusetts is that turnout was way off in traditionally Democratic areas. If that pattern holds for the Yes We Can (sic) brigades, it will be a disaster in the mid-terms.

because the product sucks.

The first rule in marketing is to never oversell the goods. If you tell everyone that your sugar water is pure hope in a bottle that will change their lives forever, then you better not be selling nasty toxic sludge in a pretty package, because no one will buy that shit twice.

Color me shocked. Oh, wait. Never mind.

That's a skeeery poll.

If they were Obama voters, they may not have voted in mid-terms, even if they were over the moon about Obama's performance.

May never show up at the polls again until the get old and turn Repuke. These voters have no interest in politics

it really isn't surprising.

He didn't deliver that. Why? Because the Repubckucans delivered the "same old song and dance"

Increased pell grants, direct government student loans, increases in community college funding, kept on parents' health insurance, Iraq War over, Afghanistan withdrawal to start next year. Oh yeah, that's just exactly the same as Bush. :eyes:

Don't you get dizzy from all that spinning?

If the 'war' is 'over', then why are we still there?

Ditto for Afghanistan. I'll be asking you this question a year from now.

Military presence does not mean we are conducting a war.

We are not fighting in Germany, Japan, and South Korea. We are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

if i were a college student right now, i'd be pretty pissed off. obama made lots of pretty noises during the campaign, but what has he delivered to your avereage 21yo? it's not like there are so many jobs that recent grads or students feel confident about their futures. let's not even go there wrt to banks and lending, good luck getting a mortgage or small business loan if you're young. student loan debt? higher than ever, and more predatory than ever in terms of collections. education budgets? slashed and cut left and right, with no real federal help in sight. legalizing mj? gay rights? ending the wars? ha ha, don't make me laugh; this administration has literally insulted people working on those issues, democratic people, baldly and blatantly ("get a job," "you need to be drug tested," "grow up" etc).

it's hard to imagine how a "democratic" administration could do more to turn off young voters. it's fashionable to call today's american youth "stupid" and "uniformed," but if they are in fact rejecting this administration, i can only call them wise.

Other than Health Insurance executives and Wall Street tycoons?

In the words of the sage: "How's that Hopey, Changey stuff workin' for ya?"

:hi:

17,000 students packed the mall + an extra 9,000 outside who couldn't fit in. Obama has really lost the youth vote, I can tell.

http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-100928-obama-madison-visit,0,4743986.story

He's the president of the United States. Even Republicans would go see him speak at a school.

I got to see Dwight Eisenhower in a motorcade in Honolulu when I was a little kid, but that was different -- I was a little kid and he was a very different Republican from his successors.

What sort of Repub would go to an on-campus political rally for Feingold and Obama? And why -- so they could feel the love?

Hekate

Feingold is popular with the students; Obama is not.

Were they by any chance chanting things at him, like "Yes We Can" or "Fired Up"?

Film at 11.

Hekate

and prime chance to socialize on a light week for studies, in beautiful fall weather.

nt

Passive, uninterested, not motivated. Will not vote, IMO.

"The Obama excitement that pervaded college campuses two years ago has faded."

....when cold water is dumped on your fire, you cool down....

A lot of their parents have also been laid off or have taken pay cuts. What was it James Carville used to say back in 92?

and HIS treasury dept who shoveled hundreds of billions into the bankster's pockets...

And did diddly-squat for the average worker...

Obama has shown he is not.

This sounds perfectly believable to me.

This sounds like more Corporate bullshit to demoralize the left. I'm not buying it.

The first thing Obama does is widen the wars, increase the war budgets, shovel TRILLIONS at the banksters and really not do SHIT for Main Street.

He and the callow Dems should have created a new WPA to get people back to work. But instead he hires the same fucked up "economic advisers" that Clinton had -- the boys from Goldman Sachs -- who finished the job of making the conditions RIPE for collapse...

And of course those assholes made their friends richer while IGNORING the cries of the unemployed, underemployed and poor...

Now the kids in college are seeing tuition increases and no chance at a decent job when (if they can afford to) graduate!