According to the latest Gallup daily presidential tracking poll, President Obama’s job approval rating is 40 percent.
The racial gap is stark. Obama has the support of 85 percent of blacks. By contrast, only 33 percent of whites approve of his job performance.
While black Americans are propping the President up in the polls, is Obama giving them their props?
Michael Cottman of BlackAmericaWeb.com reports:
For the first time since President Barack Obama was elected as America’s only black commander-in-chief, I heard something unfamiliar inside the black-owned barber shop in Washington, D.C. where I get my hair cut regularly.“I’m not voting for Obama!” said one black man, a regular customer. “Won’t do it, and I’m not afraid to say it. Black men don’t have jobs. Blacks have the highest unemployment rate in the country. This is a capitalist country, and I don’t have any capital. What is Obama doing for me?”
Silence.
The criticism of the president from the animated customer was a rare opinion inside this barber shop of Obama loyalists, but yet it underscores a prickly issue that is apparently reverberating through some parts of the black community.
Read more: Is Obama’s Black Support Starting to Erode?
