(Buried In CNN Poll): Majority Of Southerners Says Obama Has Done Better Job Than Bush

[kpete]

CNN Poll: Majority Of Southerners Says Obama Has Done Better Job Than Bush

This finding from the new CNN poll is buried deep in CNN’s article, but it’s striking. According to the network’s polling director, Keating Holland, the internals show that a majority of southerners thinks Obama has done a better job than native son Bush:

***** Fifty-seven percent say Obama has been a better president than George W. Bush; only a third say Bush’s track record was better.

***** “Compared to Obama, Bush does fairly well among southerners and rural voters. But even in those categories, a majority still says Obama has done a better job than Bush,” says Holland.

Obama’s numbers have generally been far worse among southerners: A recent Research 2000 poll for Daily Kos found that Obama’s favorability rating in the south is a meager 28%. Another recent survey found that a majority of southerners either don’t believe Obama was born in the United States or are not sure.

According to CNN, though, a majority of southerners still prefers Obama’s performance to that of Bush — yet another measure of how abysmally unpopular the former president remains. I’m trying to get the internals with the exact numbers and will update if I get them.

more:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/03/obama.poll/index...
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/president-obama/cnn-p...

[gratuitous]

1. 57% say Obama's done a better job; 28% rate him favorably

So that means approximately 29% of Southerners dislike Obama even though they think he's done a better job than George W. Bush. Now, as I'm reliably informed time and time again both here at DU and elsewhere, I know the reason can't possibly have anything to do with racism or being bone-stupid. So there must be another explanation for these 29%.

[27inCali]

4. to be Liberal in the South takes guts

and all you Southern Libs deserve the utmost respect from all of us who live in happy Liberal territory, all the same, you gotta be honest....

you're surrounded by a whole shit load of stupid, uninformed, racist dill-holes.

[redqueen]

6. LOL... yeah...

there's kinda no escaping that fact, really.

[fl_dem]

10. so true 27incali

I'm scared to go out at night. Kidding. But it isn't easy living among such fools. True story. I had jury duty this last Monday at least 300 showed, we sat cramped in a room like sardines, i was literally a captive audience to Fox news blaring in front of me. The woman to my right was reading Revelations, a study guide to sunday school teachers and 2 people behind me were birthers, as soon as I heard some redneck woman saying , "well hell, he ain't got no birth certificate" I turned around and literally laughed in her face. She looked at me like I had 3 eyes and shut up for about 1 damn minute. Worst Monday ever!

[gatorboy]

11. Why thank you.

We fight the good fight the rest of you take for granted.

[mariawr]

13. We Southern Dems are a blue dot in a sea of red..nt

[jacko_be]

2. lol after bush it wasn't that hard to be a better president lolzzz

[vinylsolution]

3. And if Republicans have lost the south....

... what do they have left?

[iceman66]

9. Utah.

[4_TN_TITANS]

5. "better job than native son Bush"

That turd is no 'native' to the South, someone needs to brush up on their BFEE.

[SIMPLYB1980]

7. You are correct.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

"George W. Bush: Every Bad Stereotype of the South rolled into one man

And he's from the freaking north!

He's not even a real person, he's a freaking caricature. REAL cowboys don't need to wear boots to a black tie affair to make themselves feel like men. His crappy accent is infuriating. He is ignorant and PROUD of that fact. He is "religious"-but not really. He's a closet racist. He's willing to subvert science to fundamentalism.

Every single bad stereotype about the south can be found in his nasty chimpy body."

Best way I have ever seen it put.

[BolivarianHero]

14. I know...

His daddy was a White supremacist carpetbagger who ran against the best damn person Texas has every elected, got his ass kicked, and somehow proceeded to become President.

Son is a more stupid version of Poppy who beat the third best person Texas ever elected (sorry Richards, you can't beat Yarborough or Hightower) and somehow became President.

[emulatorloo]

8. Good Find n/t

[timeforpeace]

12. Yeah, kudos for trying to find a way to make 28% approval into a positive.