Numbers in New York
Not too good for Obama -- from the
New York Post:
NY turns negative on Bam
President Obama might need to start taking a few more campaign trips to New York -- and not just to raise cash.
A stunning new survey gives the president a negative approval rating in the Empire State for the first time, with just 45 percent approval and 49 percent disapproval among voters, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll.
That's a sharp turnaround from June, when Obama's New York popularity was a healthy 57-38.
In the 2008 presidential election, Obama carried New York with 63 percent of the vote.
The poll of 1,640 registered voters was conducted from Aug. 3-8, just after Congress approved the hard-fought debt legislation and before this week's market mayhem on Wall Street.
An indication of how critical New York is shows up in this line:
In his 2008 White House run, $1 out of every $20 Obama raised came from New York state, where he took in $42 million, and New York City was his biggest cash center, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Ouch!
Posted by DaveH at August 12, 2011 4:02 PM