A new poll shows President Barack Obama is truly in a danger zone: he’s popular in Minnesota
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Half of the residents of Minnesota now disapprove of President Obama’s performance, according to a new poll.
Results of The Star Tribune survey represent the first time that his approval rating has turned negative in the state since the president took office in 2009.
Obama’s job approval rating in the poll has fallen to 43 percent.
Men had an especially unfavorable opinion of the president. According to the poll, 60 percent of Minnesotan men disapproved of his job performance, compared to 40 percent of women in the state.
But he still has the younger voters:
People under 34 had the highest approval rating for Obama, with 59 percent saying they thought he was doing a good job in office.
The statewide poll reflects a broader disapproval of the president that has been swelling across the country. Current national polls show Obama’s approval rating is among the lowest it has been while he has been in the White House.
Two things: (1)Low poll numnbers aren’t unusual for a second-term President but even with that fact it should be very troubling to the White House. (2)Get ready for partisans (as they do on each side) to begin questioning the poll’s methodology or find other reason to try and discredit it.
But getting lousy numbers on a respected poll is still getting lousy numbers.
And these are lousy numbers. Which should be a cause of concern for Dems heading inbto 2014.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.