That’s just one of the details to come out of the latest Public Policy Polling survey of the New Jersey Electorate.
Here are some of the juicier details:
Barack Obama’s approval rating among likely voters for this fall’s Gubernatorial election has dropped to just 45%, with 48% disapproving of him.
Those numbers are down a good bit from PPP’s last survey of the state in July, which found his approval at 53/39. While Obama is steady with Democrats he has dropped a good deal with both Republicans and independents. Among GOP voters his approval has dropped from 20% to 12%. With unaffiliated ones it’s an even steeper decline from 48% to 36%.
Support for Obama on health care is even lower than his overall approval rating. Only 39% of voters say they support his plans, while 50% are opposed. That falls largely along party lines, but 64% of independents are against his plans with only 26% expressing favor.
But what, there’s more:
- 32% of self-identified conservatives don’t believe Obama was born in the United States, 24% aren’t sure, and 44% believe that he is
- 33% of Republicans don’t believe Obama was born in the United States, 19% aren’t sure, and 48% believe that he has
- 14% of Republicans and 18% of conservatives believe that Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ
- 40% of self-identified liberals and 32% of Democrats believe that George W. Bush had advance knowledge of the September 11th attacks
- 36% of conservatives and 41% of Republicans believe that President Obama’s speech to schoolchildren last week as “inappropriate”
We’re through the looking glass folks and in crazy land.
