Burying the Bad News: Obama Still Unliked by 'Non-College Whites'
A new survey by The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School for Public Health found dire news for Democrats: “When asked which party better understands the economic problems that people in the country are having, non-college whites side with the Republicans by a 14-point margin.”
That news is so uncomfortable for media liberals that the Post put that sentence in paragraph 15 of a story they placed on page A-2. The headline on this story by Jon Cohen and Dan Balz was “Non-college whites gloomy about economy: Group is more pessimistic than those with degrees, poll finds.” It wasn't “Non-college whites don't like Obama economic policies.” There's also that finding, in paragraph 13:
Just 14 percent of non-college whites say the president's economic policies are making things better, half the number of white college graduates saying so. Only 15 percent say they are getting ahead financially, again about half the number among white college graduates.
About six in 10 say the Obama administration is doing "too little" to look after the economic interests of their families, and not enough for the middle class and for small businesses. Nearly half say the administration is doing "too much" for wealthy Americans.
The Post also remembered how Obama trailed among these voters in 2008:
In the 2008 nomination battle, then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) outpolled Obama among whites without college degrees by 2 to 1 across primaries that had exit polls. In the general election, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the Republican nominee, captured 58 percent of the white, non-college vote compared with Obama's 40 percent (about matching George W. Bush's 2004 reelection victory margin over Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts).
Balz and Cohen did suggest in the story's second paragraph that this opinion was too harsh: “Whites without college degrees also are the most apt to blame Washington for the problems, and are exceedingly harsh in their judgment of the Obama administration and its economic policies.”
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Huff
Submitted by RightRealDeal on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 9:14am.
You know, I didn't see any of these subjects/stories mentioned on today"s Huffington Post. I'm sure they will get to them don't ya think?
What I may ask Obama
Submitted by Ogundipe S.O. on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 9:51am.
If I were an American when the debates kicks off for the 2012 elections. I would send in a Youtube question to Obama by asking him a simple question: '' Mr. President, what has been all over the media for the past few years has been the talks of deficits and that America as a country is broke. Question: You're the president of this country, you know a lot that many of us doesn't/will never know, you're privy to a lot of things. This talks of no money, no money, is it true? or are we just being told this lies so people would be careful how not to waste money and also we may not want to let the whole World know exactly how rich we really are? I mean, there are some parents that would tell there kids that there is no money or no this, no that but in fact, everything is available but they just don't want the kids to be wasting resources unnecessarily.
I am asking this question because every time you say there's no money, you tout another big project that requires huge expenses and most of this so called ''investments'' of yours are just pure wastes given how history has proven them to be unprofitable. Is it that there's is no money really?? or there's money? If there's money, would you like to tell us exactly how much the country has and why our debt cannot be paid down now?? or do you think we don't have to pay our debt? and if there's no money but you keep wasting money as you're wasting it (yes it's not spendings, it's just wastes), does that mean you intentionally want to ruin this country and claim the victory as the man who conquered America??. Which is it Mr. Obama?
Another pretext for asking this question because you refused to rein in deficit as the President and you lashed out against Governor Walker for trying to rein in deficit in his own state, calling his actions '' an assault''. Your actions and sometimes your words is a prima facie for how much you're willing to run this country further into debt in the face of opposition by the majority of Americans.
What I may ask Obama
Submitted by Ogundipe S.O. on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 9:53am.
If I were an American when the debates kicks off for the 2012 elections. I would send in a Youtube question to Obama by asking him a simple question: '' Mr. President, what has been all over the media for the past few years has been the talks of deficits and that America as a country is broke. Question: You're the president of this country, you know a lot that many of us doesn't/will never know, you're privy to a lot of things. This talks of no money, no money, is it true? or are we just being told this lies so people would be careful how not to waste money and also we may not want to let the whole World know exactly how rich we really are? I mean, there are some parents that would tell there kids that there is no money or no this, no that but in fact, everything is available but they just don't want the kids to be wasting resources unnecessarily.
I am asking this question because every time you say there's no money, you tout another big project that requires huge expenses and most of this so called ''investments'' of yours are just pure wastes given how history has proven them to be unprofitable. Is it that there's is no money really?? or there's money? If there's money, would you like to tell us exactly how much the country has and why our debt cannot be paid down now?? or do you think we don't have to pay our debt? and if there's no money but you keep wasting money as you're wasting it (yes it's not spendings, it's just wastes), does that mean you intentionally want to ruin this country and claim the victory as the man who conquered America??. Which is it Mr. Obama?
Another pretext for asking this question because you refused to rein in deficit as the President and you lashed out against Governor Walker for trying to rein in deficit in his own state, calling his actions '' an assault''. Your actions and sometimes your words is a prima facie for how much you're willing to run this country further into debt in the face of opposition by the majority of Americans.
I wouldn't be at all surprised...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 10:59am.
HuffPo regularly carries a great deal of polling/survey results and data, and reports it without regard to its reflection on Obama, his administration, or Democrats in general.
Jer
Cohen and Balz Not Leaning
Submitted by Boil It Down on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 9:30am.
First of all, they didn't learn in college that ad hominem characterizations like this are discouraged in legitimate journalism and show the weakness of their argument. Secondly, they haven't learned that doing this detracts from their credibility, especially when it hints at racism. The poll makes it look like the entire effort was made in order to gin up racism by stupid white people where there was none. How is a reader to trust anything further that they offer?
see the obvious
Submitted by Huapakechi on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 9:54am.
You do realize that the whole point of these polling reports is to divide the population into antagonistic factions?
The alinsky socialist currently in the White House and his co-conspiraors in Congress seek to divide by race, economic status, geographic location, and education, then cause further strife by destruction of the national economy.
"Non-College"?
Submitted by Ashrak on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 9:31am.
Kinda showing who has the better education, huh? "School" isn't the only, much less the best, place to learn.
As for the "white" part, well, those who seek to use race as a decider are what they are - racists.
"Exceedingly"? Freedom will always exceed tyranny, eventually.
→ Ashrak
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 9:36am.
College boys are going to give the answer that gives them the best chance of scoring.
This, too, shall pass.
Kaiser polls are
Submitted by forest on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 9:33am.
Kaiser polls are questionable..
But I'll count this as further evidence that college makes people dumber.
Non-college whites
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 10:18am.
Translation: those religion- and gun-clingers.
And the elites know whythey don't like Obama. ;-)
I don't know why they bother
Submitted by Thoreau on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 10:44am.
I don't know why they bother with polling. He won't win another election and it's not like he cares what American's think in the first place. And why would he? This isn't his Country.
"Non-College Whites"
Submitted by DanOinOhio on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 11:04am.
Translation #2: Those not indoctrinated (read brainwashed) by Liberal profs
Proud non-college, non-union white. -Dan O
Balz and Cohen did suggest in
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 11:12am.
Balz and Cohen did suggest in the story's second paragraph that this opinion was too harsh: “Whites without college degrees also are the most apt to blame Washington for the problems, and are exceedingly harsh in their judgment of the Obama administration and its economic policies.”
I don't believe Balz and Cohen were either "suggesting" or editorializing. It appears to be a straightforward statement of fact regarding the explicit findings of the survey.
Jer