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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: bijou on September 19, 2009, 08:25:12 AM
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It's just one state. But it’s one of the centers of African-American culture and influence in the nation. Atlanta, with nearly 6 million residents in its metro area, is home to hundreds of top black musicians and other entertainers, civil rights leaders, and business entrepreneurs. Janet Jackson, Usher, Tyler Perry, and Andrew Young are just a handful of the many big names that can be found moving about the Georgia city on a given day.
That's why I was startled when our firm, InsiderAdvantage, conducted this past week two separate surveys about various issues for corporate clients in the area. Both polls were conducted on the same night. To keep phone respondents on the line while the poll quizzed them on rather mundane subjects, they were told they'd be given a chance during the questioning to offer an opinion on the job performances of certain political leaders.
I was shocked when one survey showed President Barack Obama with a disapproval rating of 35 percent among African Americans in Georgia, while the second one had it at 38 percent. Those two results are statistically identical, as both polls had margins of error of plus or minus 4 percent.
Obama still shows relatively strong support coming from blacks in national surveys. So how do these two Georgia polls make sense?
At first blush, they don't. But I'm highly confident in our ability to gauge the opinions of black voters in Georgia and other Southern states. Our firm was the only one that indicated just how well Obama would fare in Georgia in the election last November. He got 47 percent of the vote, and might have done even better had he concentrated campaign resources here until Election Day.
Is Georgia an anomaly, or does it portend ominous things for the president? To answer that we first need a bit more background. ...
http://www.newsmax.com/matt_towery/obama_atlanta_georgia/2009/08/06/244911.html
This is from August but I just spotted it at Free Republic and I couldn't recall it being posted here. I don't think current polls are showing any great level of dissatisfaction with Obama among the African American community so perhaps it was an anomaly.