Poll: Many Obama 2008 supporters defecting to GOP

Source: AP via Yahoo

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's winning coalition from 2008 has crumbled and his core backers are dispirited. It's now Republicans who stand to benefit from an electorate that's again craving change.

Nearly two years after putting Obama in the White House, one-quarter of those who voted for the Democrat are defecting to the GOP or considering voting against the party in power this fall. Just half of them say they definitely will show up Nov. 2, according to an Associated Press-Knowledge Networks poll released two weeks before Obama's first midterm elections.

Yet in a reflection of broad dissatisfaction with politics, just as many people who backed Republican presidential nominee John McCain are either supporting Democrats now or still considering how to vote.

Still, McCain voters — to borrow Obama's campaign rallying cry — are far more "fired up, ready to go." Two-thirds say they are certain to vote next month.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_ap_poll_obama_voters

AP sounding more and more like Fox.

Yesterday a similar article was posted from yahoo.....picked up from the AP. Kind of like a circular firing squad and the Democrats are the only target. Propaganda 101.

since the nixon days if its an ap story you can bet your ass its a bunch of bullshit

If you keep repeating it, it might come true

look to the last admin to see how effective it is.

confines of a few hours of MSNBC, in the entire rest of the media, you will find this theme repeated. "The Democrats have already lost."

That's the real danger there, people too indifferent or depressed to vote.

Have been predicting a republican victory for over a year now. I guess their Crystal Balls are working over time. I don't believe any true Obama voter would go republican.

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...we're certainly not seeing it here in eastern Wisconsin.

nt

They're doing what they did for the Bush/Gore race, getting their people to push propoganda. This will backfire on them, and energize the democrats.

... russfeingold.org

...........on anybodies parade here, but ALL polls, including Charlie Cook and Nate Silver are predicting big Dem losses in Nov. How anyone can sit and pretend that this is not happening is a fucking sad joke.


We probably won't lose the Senate, and the House may not be that bad in lost seats. Stop and think just for a minute what would happen if say the Senate was 52-42 and the House was 220-215 in the Dems favor? What great spectacular legislation can we expect in the next two years? We will have EXACTLY the same shit only the Republicans will be MORE effective blocking ANYTHING. Bottom line we have the same shit for the NEXT two years. I'm tired of this bullshit and want some real change. I will be voting for change this November, count on it.

If you're expecting anything like real change out of the republican party I can only guess you've submitted yourself to one of their combination lobotomy cranial/anal inversion procedures.You admit that even with the reps anticipated gains they'll maintain their current policy of blocking anything and everything that does not cleave to the wingnut ideological line I'm tired of the BS too but don't see where you've advanced any mechanism for the real change you say you want.If you're figuring to support repub candidates I hope you've got your hidey hole all prepared.We might not be able to expect spectacular legislation,but we can and should keep fighting the good fight. Sometimes lost causes are the only ones worth supporting.

............I don't want to get booted off DU again, so I cannot say who I am voting for. The RULES, ya know. If anyone cares to change the two party dictatorship in this country you'll have to figure out on your own how to vote because on this forum it it ain't a Dem, you can't say it.

He can come back though.

Even the random samples are skewed, because who answers their phone at ALL, at say 4:00 pm?

Oh right. You're at work and have a cell phone.Or at some hipster watering hole. Or typing on DU.

I wonder who's home who answers those polling calls? Ya Think it's Faux News' core audience?
I think the Dems in Wisconsin being within the margin of error is a pretty good sign.

It wasn't random, and they keep going back to the same people.

To find out how the electorate's political views have changed since the 2008 election, the AP and Knowledge Networks re-interviewed the same 1,254 people who were part of a random sample of Americans surveyed up to 11 times throughout the 2008 campaign by the two organizations and Yahoo News.

This is NOT how the majority of the population is thinking. It is how these 1,254 people, who have been spoon fed information over 11 times in different polls, think. This is not average America.

And then they bury this piece of information: "Just as many people who backed Republican presidential nominee John McCain are either supporting Democrats now or still considering how to vote."

P-R-O-P-A-G-A-N-D-A, thy name is the AP.

Just what is interviewing the same people again supposed to accomplish?

76 percent of Obama voters say they will support the Democrat in their House district, while 8 percent plan to back the Republican and the rest are undecided.

_71 percent of McCain voters say they will vote for the Republican in their House district, while 9 percent plan to get behind Democrats and 20 percent haven't chosen a candidate.

24% is less than 29%.

I swear.

Okay.

the right wing is doing the most to disseminate distorted information.

like most of the seniors in Florida voting Republican, who favor cutting back on Soc. Sec. and Medicare, while allowing the tax cuts for billionaires and the huge divide between rich and poor.
The dumb ones favor attacking other countries without rhyme or reason, but don't want to put their own lives on the line.(no draft, for sure) The biggest reason has to do with the average voter not looking any further than the one or two sentence blurbs on TV campaign ads, which the Repukes completely dominate with all their corporate money from all over the world.

Even though following regulations is what should have prevented the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, and as far as building small business, no one here has any money to buy anything, so I'm not really sure WTF kind of small businesses they intend to build. (Maybe more private prisons?)

Bunch of empty horseshit that I can't believe a majority of voters will swallow. (But I've been wrong before.)

That's what it is. Srsly. :fistbump:

They had already lost all credibility but the past couple weeks, they have completely crossed the line into Faux Snooze's realm of writing fictional stories about a fictional universe that they vomited up from their minds.

It's almost scary how far right the AP seems to be moving.

How soon they forget.

trying to convince anybody who will listen that people who voted for the Democrats and Obama would vote for a republican. It is true. No body and I mean no real true American would vote for a republican after what they did and are continuing to do to this country. Same old crap just rehashed over and over. Their masters told them to make up crap against Democrats and they are doing so.

all of the Democrats, and is favoring a recent Republican in Florida. Too many 'centrists' searching out that elusive middle ground, as always. The voters 'in the middle' are always moving from one Party to another.
Back in '08 when they started in on the purging of GLBT voters, I was told by the OFA folks that we were no longer needed as they had a 'new base' comprised of 'the faith community, and Republicans who support Obama, whom we call Obamacans'. This is why they were so eager to stand with McClurkin, this is why they sent Jarrett out to dog whistle to them again. Hoping their faithful will be faithful.
Meanwhile the liberals and progressives vote, as always, for Democrats. The moderates will wander off to vote for Crist and other Republicans. It is thus each and every cycle.

to keep making the CHOICE clear. You can't win by attacking and writing off the moderates.

While the liberals, GLBT voters, and the entire left never, ever votes for Republicans or anything like them.
My point is that you can not win by attacking liberals and gay people all the time. The 'moderates' have dumped the Democrat in Florida, openly on DU they call for him to drop out. Personally I support the Democrats, across the board at election time, in spite of the trash talk of all the Robert Gibbses and Val Jarretts they can push forward with dog whistles and cheap wise cracks.
And anyone who votes for Republicans over Democrats is not moderate, they are right wing Republicans. Period. Pitching your woo to them gets you what you have right now. Insulting the actual active voters constantly is a poor choice.

Reviews of her writings can be found here:

http://www.rateitall.com/i-931793-liz-sidoti.aspx

and here:

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/06/ap-scribe-who-s.html

and here:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200812100001

Some right wing nut reporter writes this garbage as his way of contributing to the extreme wing nuts...Between Wall St Jrnl..and the and AP the Repukes are able to deliver their scripts along with the corporate MSM.Then of course Yahoo news just repeats this garbage for them.
This campaign started on January 20 2009 because the idiot Republicans can not stand the fact that they lost.They did the same thing in 1993..The worst thing we can do is repeat this BS for them.
No doubt there are Democrats that are pissed ..sure but they are still Democrats.With all this conniving MSM blitzing for the Repukes ..Democrats will show up and vote.

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venues spewing that Obama and the Democrats are anti-business

It should be obvious to anyone, especially since the media is a partner in these attacks, that this is a consorted effort to demoralize the Democratic base, and hope they don't vote

The stories coming out are so blatantly bias, interspersed with comments that distort the true picture

It is a rare report that you will find which presents the fact that the republicans have not presented any solutions on what they will do. How the republicans stood as a block to vote against everything the Democrats brought forth, and refused to take part in ANY meaningful discussions or solutions

The agenda from the MSM is clear, defeat the Democrats at all costs.

The agenda from progressives, liberals, and Democrats should be to vote, and ignore all media reports regarding the demise of the Democratic party

headline be Some voters switch parties?

Of course, some voters always switch parties, so yawn.

Bullshit headline!



Breaking: More Republicans are defecting to the Democratic Party.

Guess what: The 8 percent and 9 percent are consistent with the crossover votes in the 2008 Presidential election.

As the election draws near, expect the GOP shill media to show their true colors.

to the GOP". If they really are looking for change they would be backing Progressive Democrats or third party candidates.

The "Obama supporters going to the GOP" headline makes no sense.

Not happening.

GOP plan to stir up crazy Teabaggers to make themselves look reasonable by comparison has worked to some degree.

Before our months of bipartisan begging for the one or two GOP votes we could get by weakening Democratic legislation, the GOP was at around 29%. Now they're around 40-something. So the further mention of more reaching out to the Party That Crashed Our Economy is really foolish IMHO.

With the breathing room that our Democrats gave them with the bipartisan outreach, the GOP stepped up their dangerous stirring up of desperate people to super hard right positions to make their standard bearers seem like regular guys in comparison. Even though they condoned war on false pretenses, torture, war profiteering, and reckless deregulation that crashed our economy. Even though they ignored our infrastructure in favor of war funding.

The GOP has raised the giant distraction from their incompetence by fielding all the hard right crazies to run against them. We were talking about the nuts instead of the bolts-- that the GOP crashed our economy and they want their party members to vote for them again.

I hope the public realizes what that game is all about and give us many more Democratic legislators instead.

I hope enough people remember through the crazy haze that the GOP crashed our economy and want to cut social safety nets instead of military spending and don't seem to care for infrastructure spending, even as our bridges fall down and power grids burst, unless the projects are in their own districts.

But when the hard right is allowed to own and run an anti-Democratic "news" opinion channel 24/7, that is a lot of propaganda to overcome.

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middle though.

A 10 minute look at DU makes that clear enough.

They thought Obama and the Dems might be a good change for the country. Since then Faux Newz and much of the rest of the media has convinced them Obama and Dems are a complete failure.

They're trying to depress the vote. This is NOT the time to sit around worrying. Volunteer!!! Line up some friends or relatives to bring with you to the polls. We've got a couple of weeks so get busy!

If I see the AP wrote an article I bypass it. It is usually bunk.

If the polls say the Republicons are close or slightly ahead it cuts down on investigation of electronic voting machine fraud after the election. They prefer to "win by a nose" as it is easier to control and requires less obvious manipulation. They got surprised last time by the turnout.

Wow, I was right--I didn't even need to look.

Wouldn't these be received much better at freeperville?

nt

as I already said, your target audience should be freeperville. They'll eat this shit up.

that vote republican will seal their doom,and rightfully so,to vote against their very interest is foolish beyond stupid.

84% of people think the press is just faking the poll numbers to get Republicans elected.

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