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http://azstarnet.com/news/local/govt...ef55339b7.html

Approval of Obama drops to 28 percent in new Arizona poll

Posted: Monday, July 19, 2010 12:00 am | Comments

PHOENIX - Most Arizonans no longer think Barack Obama is doing a decent job as president.

A new Behavior Research Poll released Sunday shows that nearly four out of every 10 Arizonans now rate Obama's performance as poor or very poor. That's up 5 points from the same survey taken in January.

What's different is that the number of those who think he's doing an excellent or good job has plummeted.

Three months after taking office, fully 51 percent of Arizonans gave Obama positive ratings, even though the state went for hometown favorite John McCain in the 2008 election.

A year into office, that had slid to 40 percent. But by the time pollster Earl de Berge conducted this latest survey, between June 30 and July 11, only 28 percent of Arizonans were willing to say they like the job he's doing.

According to de Berge, much of that slide tracks with a separate poll he does asking Arizonans about their views on the economy and current job market conditions.

"As might be expected, those who think the job market is static or worsening have the least favorable view of his performance," de Berge said.

[Zwnkkvle]

Whew. Good thing Pres. Obama isn't running for anything in Arizona. Oh, is John McCain wanting him to come down there and stump for him or something? No? Well, okay then.

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And in 2012, when he IS running for something that Arizona can affect for him, it really doesn't matter if he loses the state with 40% or only 1/2% of the vote. I seriously doubt he'd be expecting to win it regardless.

[Flankrene]

We're a definite Red State here unfortunately.... Although I must wonder if this "Behavior Research Poll" used the new immigration laws for guidelines in deciding who to question.

The political ads in my neighborhood all have comments about being Conservative and stopping "Obama Care." Nothing here actually points to a plan any of these people have.

The worst is that scumbucket J.D. Hayworth though. The "Constant Conservative" as he's deemed himself has his supporters going around vandalizing McCain's ads. Taping papers up to McCain's placcards saying things like "voted with Ted Kennedy on health care." I guess I shouldn't be surprised the fool Hayworth would use highh school tactics.