Poll: Women see Barack Obama Administration as a ‘Failure’

The White House may view the last 18 months as historic, racking up a legislative scorecard that includes a $787 billion stimulus package and an overhaul of the health care system.

 

A majority of women, however, see it as a failure, according to a new poll conducted by Kellyanne Conway for The Kitchen Cabinet, a conservative women’s group.

 

In the survey, 41 percent of the women identified themselves as Democrats, 37 percent as Republicans and 15 percent as independents.

 

The findings point to the divide this year between Washington and the electorate, which has yet to give President Barack Obama much credit for his string of legislative victories.

 

Fifty-six percent of women consider the health care reform law a failure, while 29 percent view it as a success, according to the poll.

 

The economic stimulus package is viewed only slightly more favorably: 53 percent say it was a failure, while 34 percent say it was a success.

 

Among independent women – a group that Democrats and Republicans are battling over – a majority viewed the health care overhaul, the stimulus package, the auto industry bailout and the Troubled Asset Relief Program as failures, the poll found. TARP was approved during former President George W. Bush’s administration.

 

The negative take on what the White House views as signature achievements helps explain, at least in part, why the president and congressional Democrats have seen their approval ratings plunge since early last year and are struggling to gain traction ahead of the midterm elections. Women historically turn out in larger numbers than men, spelling trouble for incumbents.

 

“People who voted for Obama feel just as betrayed by the outcome as conservatives,” said Sonja Eddings Brown, treasurer and creator of The Kitchen Cabinet. “Everybody realizes we’re burying our kids in debt, and even Democrats realize hope and change had a price tag they didn’t expect.”

 

Conway, a Republican who specializes in polling women voters, said she expected to see more optimism about the four major legislative achievements. The poll did not include any questions on the Wall Street reform law.

 

“Women are looking at this election almost entirely through an economic lens,” Conway said. “They expect the president to be a mathematician, not a magician. The policies they have seen in the last year literally don’t add with them.”

 

From:  http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43436.html

The Most Profound Victims of the Obama Hoax

“A sense of disappointment, bordering on betrayal, has been growing across the country, especially in moderate states like Indiana, where people now openly say they didn’t quite understand the President they voted for in 2008.” 

 

– TIME magazine, “How Barack Obama Became Mr. Unpopular,” by Michael Scherer, September 3, 2010

 

The most profound victims of the Obama hoax are poor, young, unemployed blacks who want jobs. They’re suffering the most from Obama’s economic policies, designed more to disembowel the U.S. economy than restore it. They got change, but not the hope they believed went with it.

 

Michael Scherer’s recent TIME article features Indiana voters who supported Obama: a laid-off payroll administrator with 23 years at an RV plant, a South Bend orthopedic surgeon who’s unhappy with ObamaCare, a disaffected “Democratic strategist” working on the midterm elections. The tone of the TIME article leads one to expect there’d be an 800 number given to donate to the individual recovery funds of the featured disaffected Obama supporters.   

 

But what about the poor, young blacks who reached for the Kool-Aid enthusiastically, clasping its cup with both hands, gulping down the elixir of hope and change hard and fast? What’s become of them? How are their new Green Jobs working out? Where are the success stories featuring their newfound careers in those shovel-ready projects that awaited only passage of the stimulus bill? A shovel was at work, all right, but it wasn’t throwing earth dirt.

 

Summer job opportunities for all youth have declined. Teen unemployment is at an all-time high at 26.1% in July. But for those voters who most overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama, the employment figures are particularly dismal.

 

Unemployment among Black teens ages 16 to 19 — while “extremely volatile from month to month,” states the [August 2010, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics] report — has been steadily increasing throughout the summer. In July, their jobless rate stood at 40.6 percent, up from 39.9 percent in June and 38 percent in May, compared with white rates of 28.7 percent (July), 23.2 percent (June) and 24.4 percent (May).

 

Teens by gender: In July, both Black men and women saw a slight increase in joblessness. Unemployment for Black male teens remains the highest at 43.7 percent, up from 43.2 percent in June. Black female teen unemployment rose from 36.5 percent in June to 37.1 percent in July.

 

So what will become of the misguided confidence that poor, young blacks put in the Obama Hoax that promised the chalice of hope and change only to serve up the dregs of an economy trending toward negative GDP growth in early 2011? Will their Great Awakening, if it comes, lead to enlightenment, or to an even deeper cynicism?

 

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