Obama Now Losing Voter Support in Primary States

In 2008, Barack Obama took all 21 electoral votes to win in Pennsylvania. According to USA Today, a new poll from Susquehanna Polling and Research shows 48 percent of voters in the Keystone state disapprove of Obama's performance as president while only 41 percent approve. Furthermore, only 43 percent of registered voters in Pennsylvania say Obama has done well enough to deserve re-election while a stunning 50 percent say "it is time to give a new person a chance."

In other words, even with a GOP contender having yet to be determined, "a new person" means Pennsylvania voters want anyone but Obama.

Obama took 51.2 percent of the votes in Ohio. Numbers from Quinnipiac University in March found that only 45 percent of Ohio voters think the president deserves re-election in 2012, while 46 percent say he doesn't. More than 50 percent of Florida voters pulled the proverbial lever for Obama.

Today, with the unemployment rate being nearly 2 percent higher than the national average and with residents being hit harder with foreclosures and loss in property values than most others in the country, Obama's job performance rating in the Sunshine State hovers somewhere between 44 percent and 47 percent.

"The fact that one in two voters are looking for someone else suggests that President Obama has little room to grow and that Pennsylvania will again be a toss-up state in next year's presidential election," said Jim Lee, president of Susquehanna Polling & Research, "particularly if the slow economic recovery continues to haunt the president."

"The president can win the White House re-election without Florida," admits Steve Scale, who served as Obama's director in 2008, "but it's certainly easier if he does win Florida." Florida offers 29 electoral votes, more than 10 percent of the 270 needed for Obama to win a second term. An April Quinnipiac poll predicted Obama will lose the Sunshine State in 2012.

In New Hampshire, Obama took 54.3 percent of the vote in 2008. Now only 46 percent of New Hampshire's voters approve of his job performance. "Political scientists consider 46 percent the break-even point for re-election," according to Andy Smith, Director of the UNH Survey Center. "Presidents with approval rating above 46 percent typically get re-elected, while an approval rating below 46 percent typically results in electoral defeat."

According to recent polls, Obama has lost approval among whites, blacks and Hispanics, Jews, independents, the poor, the youth and even among liberal Democrats. Now Obama is losing the support of voters in battleground states.

Considering that the president may need a new profession after the 2012 elections; perhaps now we know why he is spending so much time on the golf course.

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