Reply #16: Strawman argument much? Oh, and a huge majority of liberal Dems like Pres. Obama just fine. [View All]

[ClarkUSA]

Read all about it:

Obama’s approval among Democrats has hovered around a whopping 80 percent over the past year. During this same period, the base support for Presidents Bill Clinton and Lyndon B. Johnson was in the 70s, while Harry Truman struggled in the 60s. President Jimmy Carter was mired in the 50s, rebuffed by half his party.

The only Democrat who comes near Obama’s popularity with the base was John F. Kennedy in the early 1960s — and even he lagged a few points behind.

If the White House has any concerns about losing Democratic voters, it is not from the party’s progressive wing. Obama’s support there is holding strong — in the high 70s. His approval among moderate Democrats, however, is in the low 70s, while among conservative Democrats it just hit a low of 58 percent.

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“Many leading liberal voices,” Silver observed, “were unhappy with the debt ceiling deal that Mr. Obama struck with Republicans.” But that disappointment, Silver noted, “isn’t showing up in a big way among the liberal rank and file.”

This is an essential liberal disconnect: The narrators are far angrier than the audience.

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