Obama free fall continues

An Indian living in the West writes:

I am still amazed at the fact that Obama continues to enjoy a 43 percent approval rating. What gives?

LA replies:

Don’t you understand that Obama has just plummeted to a new low of 43 percent?

Obama has ALWAYS just plummeted to a new low of 43 percent.

LA continues:

Which poll is this?

ILW replies:

Gallup. I don’t check it daily but he had 43 percent last time I checked. I am really amazed at that.

This recession has hit his core voter base quite hard: blacks, Mexicans, the young. They have suffered the most and yet they continue to support him in record numbers. I don’t get it.

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James N. writes:

Obama is the logical destination of the policies of the coalition government we’ve had since 1933.

He is the only choice for those who believe what most Americans—liberal and “conservative”—believe.

The only way to see beyond Obamaromney is to change deeply held beliefs.

And, by the way, the unseemly haste to crown a nominee nine months before the convention and more than a year before the election is simply to prevent any minds from seeing that there are any beliefs other than Obamaromneyism. You can’t change your beliefs if they are the only ones that exist.

N. writes:

ILW writes:

This recession has hit his core voter base quite hard: blacks, Mexicans, the young. They have suffered the most and yet they continue to support him in record numbers. I don’t get it.

Tribal loyalty trumps economics. It’s that simple. There have been any number of dictators in South America, Africa, and parts of Asia who remained in power for years, despite wretched and worsening economic conditions, due to that loyalty. Please note that as a rule, these leaders almost always wound up blaming their failures on others, often “colonialist whites.” The obvious example that should come to mind is Zimbabwe but there are others.

Don’t expect liberals to notice this. Anything that contradicts the “blank slate” notion of human behavior cannot be recognized by liberals, because it would damage a fundamental premise of liberalism.

LA replies:

For a similar reason, blacks support mass Hispanic immigration, though it harms them. Though here the “tribal loyalty” that keeps them in line is loyalty to the liberal tribe, or to the tribe of nonwhites as a whole, who are displacing the whites.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 13, 2011 01:35 PM | Send