Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday
shows that 29% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President.
Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove
giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of
-11. That’s the first time his ratings have reached double digits in negative territory (see trends).
These updates are based upon nightly telephone interviews and reported on a three-day rolling average basis.
Today is the first update based entirely upon interviews conducted after the President’s prime time televised press conference.
The number who Strongly Approve of the President has remained unchanged since the press conference but the number who Strongly Disapprove has gone up by five percentage points (from 35% on Wednesday morning to 40% today).
The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). Updates also available on Twitter.
The President received generally poor grades for his response to a question about a Cambridge police incident involving a black Harvard professor.
However, the results show a huge divide between black Americans and white Americans on all questions.
Seventy-one percent (71%) of African-Americans say the president’s response was good or excellent, a view shared by just 22% of white Americans.
At the other extreme, 53% of white voters gave the president’s response a poor grade. Only five percent (5%) of black Americans offered such a negative response.
What is wrong with those white voters?! It's not like Obama said the police officer was a "typical white person" -- he just said the officer was stupid to treat an African American Harvard professor like he would any typical white person.
What in the world did you expect? Did you not read "Wright 101" before the election?
As long as we're post-racially obsessing on race, you might as well see also NewsBusters:
Morning Shows Exclude Non-African- American Guests
The networks might just as well have hung out a sign this morning: non-African-American experts on policing and racial profiling need not apply. Good Morning America, the Early Show and Today had a total of six guests on the subject . . . and every one was African-American.
Among the highlights: a writer from Tina Brown's Daily Beast suggested that given our incarceration rate, the USA meets the definition of a "police state."
AP Photo via DAYLIFE. In this photo taken by a neighbor Thursday July 16, 2009 Henry Louis Gates Jr. center, the director of Harvard University's W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research, is arrested at his home in Cambridge, Mass. Police say they were called to the home of Gates after a woman reported seeing a man try to pry open the front door.
Wouldn't it be interesting to know what the African American policer officer in the photo thinks, since he was there at the time? Maybe he was on one of the morning talk shows and I missed it.
On second thought, I'm getting a little tired of Gates-gate. There are so many more important issues ...
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