Arizona's not too fond of hope and change

By The Scribe
July 19, 2010 12:15 PM

It would be interesting to see more individual state polls. If Obama's approval rating is this low in some states it has to be much higher in others to keep him in the 40s nationwide.

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.

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.

Look at what was happening when his ratings took a big drop.

But the survey also was taken about the time it became clear that the Department of Justice, asked to look at Arizona's new immigration law, intended to file suit. In fact, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in an interview with a television station in Ecuador, spilled the beans early in June.

Of course those who consider themselves to be Democrats are much slower to catch on. Maybe they will get it about the time the bottom falls out entirely.

Obama maintains his popularity with Democrats, 52 percent of whom still have a positive assessment of his work. Still, that's down from 85 percent in April 2009.

Slow but sure the overall rating continues to fall.

http://www.gopusa.com/fresh-ink/2010/07 ... change.php