Over seven in 10 Obama voters, and 55 percent of Democrats, regret voting for President Obama’s reelection in 2012, according to a newEconomist/YouGov.com poll.
Conducted to test the media hype about a comeback by 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, the new poll found voters still uninspired by Romney, but also deeply dissatisfied with Obama who has so far failed to capitalize on his victory over 15 months ago.
The poll asked those who voted for Obama’s reelection a simple question: “Do you regret voting for Barack Obama?”
— Overall, 71 percent said yes, 26 percent no.
— 80 percent of whites said yes, 61 percent of blacks said no and 100 percent of Hispanics said yes.
— 84 percent of women said yes, and just 61 percent of men agreed.
— 55 percent of Democrats said yes, as did 71 percent of independents.
After Secrets first published their poll, YouGov.com noted that the sample for the question was small and recharacterized the sample as “those who reported voting for Barack Obama in 2012 but would vote for someone else if the election were held again” from “those who voted for Barack Obama in 2012.”
Still, given the choice of Obama versus Romney, Obama supporters said they would stick with their guy, 79 percent to 10 percent for Romney.
But his voters seem to have moved on and are ready for the next election, giving Obama very early lame duck status before the midterm elections. The poll, for example, found that Hillary Clinton has a higher favorability rating than the president. While Obama is underwater in his ratings, Clinton is buoyed by a 50-percent favorable to 43-percent unfavorable rating, with a sizable 28 percent rating her “very favorable.”
As for Romney, his favorable ratings have dropped, but he would edge Obama by about three million votes, probably because Americans are not wowed by Obama’s second term performance, not because they like Romney more.
Said the poll: “In YouGov research conducted from February 6th-7th, we went about it in a slightly different way, asking people who voted for Mitt Romney or Barack Obama whether they would do it again. We found an ostensibly similar picture: 90 percent of people who voted for Romney would do it again, compared to only 79 percent of Obama voters who would.
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So a poll of people who would not vote for Barack Obama again found that they regretted voting for Barack Obama. That tells us nothing, but I will bet that some readers will cite this as proof that Obama deserves the names they call him.
I’m waiting to hear Jay Carney’s, Juan Williams and the rest of their ilk put a spin on this. Of course they could always just fall back on the old race card.
Commenter No. 2: Re-read the paragraph that begins “After Secrets first published their poll …”, then tell us whether you stand by Comment No. 2. (And, hint, read brilliant comment no. 1.)
Story heading has one extra word. “Shock”
I’ll bet ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of those who did not vote for him regret the fact that millions voted for him
the owners of the yeshivaworld.com must really hate their readers to publish this article as a serious article.
you will suffer a din vcheshban for this behavior
Shows u the state of the country and how the electorate is made up of superlibs, morons and minorities who vote for whoever gives them the most goodies. 71% have buyers remorse but 79% would choose barry again over romney. Talk about banging your head against the wall.
To Commenter No. 5: I would gladly take your bet. Some American voters, even voters who voted for the same presidential candidate as you apparently did in 2012, actually understand that in a democracy, you don’t always get what you want.
To Commenter No. 7: See comment no. 3 and follow the instructions that were so graciously given to commenter no. 2. And is a “superlib” a bad thing, or is it merely someone who has different political views than yours? And what, exactly, do you have against minorities. I would guess you are a member of an ethnic/religious minority – to wit, a Jew – but not an Obama supporter.