nashville, tn. headline: Distaste for Obama grows in Tennessee

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the shit i wake up to here in the lovely south

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3 GOP candidates would easily win


Disapproval of President Barack Obama has intensified, and Tennesseans are indicating that they are ready to throw their support behind any one of his main Republican rivals, a new poll by Middle Tennessee State University suggests.

Nearly two-thirds of Tennesseans say they disapprove of the way Obama is handling his job, up from 52 percent last spring, and the president’s approval rating has plunged to 30 percent, the lowest since he took office in 2009.

With dissatisfaction over the economy high, Tennesseans said they were more likely to vote for any of the three top candidates for the Republican nomination — former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former restaurant executive Herman Cain. More Tennesseans also said they trust Republicans to create jobs, and they opposed Obama’s proposal to raise taxes on wealthy households.

The results suggest Democrats may have a hard time competing next year in Tennessee, a state that they lost by a wide margin in the 2008 presidential election.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20111025/NEWS01/310250051/Distaste-Obama-grows-Tennessee?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

[d_r]

1. It is pretty bad around here.

[Shagbark Hickory]

2. If you think that's bad, you should see wall street. People are so unhappy there, they've taken to

the streets!

[LonePirate]

3. This is simply ignorance due to a right wing echo chamber with no truth-telling opposite viewpoint

[DCKit]

12. +1 Can't name the (R)-Corporate congresscritters who are actually to blame.

We need to provide civics lessons to our unwashed, proudly ignorant fellow citizens. They just don't get that the President can't do shit without a sane Congress.

[mfcorey1]

4. My distaste for Tennessee has not changed either. I avoid the state like the plague.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. I could understand the argument that voters are opposed to *their* taxes being raised.

I'll never understand their opposition to only richer citizens having their taxes raised.

[Cid_B]

26. Really?

Not even on an intellectual level?

[2pooped2pop]

6. well, of course if the news told the truth instead

of total propaganda, no one would ever vote republican again. Mainstream media = mother fucking traitors to this country and her peoples.

[tibbiit]

8. absolutely right!

welcome to du. tib

[kctim]

13. Yeah, it's all the media's fault, not the policies

:sarcasm:

[2pooped2pop]

21. well people would better understand what is going on and

who to vote for to change the policies if the media had any integrity at all and told the truth, instead of feeding us little republican sound bites all day long. So yeah, it's a whole lot of the fault of the media; traitors to this country and to every American.

[kctim]

22. How do you know

that people don't understand what is going on and don't vote for what they believe in?

[2pooped2pop]

25. Because I see faux news telling ourtright lies

and the bagggers just repeating it. Not knowing what they are suppose to be bitching about without their faux news coach. People can't make decisions based on Fox republican soundbites.

[kctim]

28. I'm sure oberman, sanders, grayson and maddow

soundbites are just fine though, right?

There is usually a grain of truth in ALL that is "reported." The difference lies only in which grain you personally choose to keep.

Personally, I think what people believe goes much deeper than what is 'reported.' IMO, people gravitate to what they agree with more than what they are told to agree with. This is why some on the right believe President Obama to be the devil and why some on the left believe OWS is some kind of HUGE movement that will change the world.

[2pooped2pop]

29. I am not familiar with any Oberman, or Maddow sound bites

I guess they just don't show what those people have to say on my corporate ran tv stations. Now, Grayson He has a few but we don't chant them. Studies have shown that when people hear something three times on tv, they believe it to be true. GOP uses that. They don't care if it's lies. As long as the sound bite is heard. They know the fools will believe it.
If OWS doesn't change the world you should explain to your kids why you failed to save the world for them Because life as we know it, is coming to an end.

[Scuba]

7. Our poll says everyone loves Republicans! Jump on board!

[asjr]

9. Two thirds of Tennesseans probably

only listen to Rush Limbaugh. Two Thirds vote only for the one their pastor tells them to vote for. I am so ashamed.

[raccoon]

10. From SC--I feel your pain. nt

[JustAnotherGen]

11. Won’t make a difference

Their 11 electoral votes went to McCain in 2008. I’d be far more concerned if this was Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Massachusetts, California, etc. etc.

And I'd hate to see the Obama campaign spend a lot of time there when there is a power grab by Republicans in PA for electoral votes. Better to focus on where you have a snowball's chance in hell than a lost cause. Doesn't mean there should be ZERO focus on Red States likely to stay Red . . . but majority should be where there is a remote possibility of him taking it. TN isn't a state he can even think about winning at this point.

[Lint Head]

14. I live in Nastyville, Tennisshoe. I doesn't matter. Obama will win anyway.

We currently have a crop of idiots in the state legislature and as governor. They have the bully pulpit and there are a lot of easily led lemmings living here. There are some great progressives here but the bigots and lemmings have been shouting them down literally and figuratively.

[EC]

15. Did he win Tennessee last time?

I'd expect him to not be popular in Tennessee anyway.

[libinnyandia]

16. Even Gore couldn't take Tennessee

A lot of people blame Gore for not winning in his home state in 2000. No democrat could have and that doesn't make RN any less wrong about running in 2000.

[hfojvt]

17. "Speaking just for me

and some people from Tennessee ..."

I'm not happy with how Obama is doing his job either. I'd like to see him replaced by Al Gore.

[Tsiyu]

18. Tennesseans for the most part have no clue how it works

It's frustrating, because they refuse to even discuss politics, but they sure do love to bitch about the economy.

And for most of them, I hate to say, they believe all of their problems are caused by black people, immigrants, gays and abortions.

Very unsophisticated bunch, so used to the Good Ole Boy system, they honestly believe a White Good Old Boy will make everything right for them. They believe ANYTHING a White "Christian" sez. The truth? Don't even try sharing it!!!!

Except those GOB's are going to trash this state like every other they run, and then Tennesseans will STILL believe blacks, gays, immigrants and abortions caused it all.....sad beyond belief.


Can't wait til my son graduates and I can go far, far away.

Sorry, Tennessee, but you will never wake up and smell the politics....

[white_wolf]

19. As soon as I graduate I'm moving to New York or California.

I'm ashamed to have to say I was born in this hell hole.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

20. Meh. I've heard worse on a local level.

The thing is, they're right. In our states he, and pretty much most Dems, are doomed from the starting gate. Every time I read something like that I just think to myself how they're pandering to the ignorant amongst us, and how they're doing nothing in the end but furthering the irrelevancy of our states on a national level. When a state can be bought and paid for with as little as a non-union plant or two, low end wages and sub-par benefits, you really can't expect too much from the local media. The majority of the population is all too happy with the slop they're serving. :(

[LuvNewcastle]

23. So what?

The people in Mississippi don't approve either. Obama could woo these assholes from now 'til kingdom come and they would never vote for him. He was lucky he won VA, NC, and FL last time. If southerners want to keep voting for RW reactionaries, they deserve to be politically ostracized.

[GSLevel9]

24. hey... it's a divided nation.

This is what happens when you take a large diverse nation and stick them in 1 box.

Take a trip to San Francisco and a trip to Nashville. You might as well be traveling to Jerusalem from Rihad.

[aaaaaa5a]

27. Hey... Its the South. What are you going to do. NT