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Pew Report: Support for Obama Slides Among White Women

By Jeralyn

Via Politico, the Pew Research Center has a new report, available here, finding 49% of white women and 35% of Democratic white women now have a negative perception of Obama. Politico summarizes:

Forty-nine percent of white women view Obama unfavorably, while only 43 percent hold a favorable opinion. In February, 36 percent of these women viewed Obama unfavorably, while 56 percent had a positive perception of the likely Democratic nominee.

Over the same period, Democratic white women’s negative view of Obama increased from 21 percent to 35 percent, while their positive view decreased from 72 percent to 60 percent — roughly the same rate as white women overall.

For men,

White men, in general and among Democrats, have shown only a slight drop-off in their perception of Obama — one-third of the shift seen in white women. About 20 percent of Democratic white men have an unfavorable view of Obama, a figure which has remained stable since February.

Pew also has a report on favorability and electability in the general election.

Obama's favorability has not just declined with white women but with Independents.

Here's another new Pew report on Hispanics in the 2008 election and in particular, Puerto Rico's primary

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on May 30, 2008 (boomark / email).