 Gallup has Obama job approval, state-by-state, for 2009. Minnesota was at 61.5% approval. Note that this is job approval, which typically runs 5-10% behind personal approval. He was above 50% in a solid majority of states, including places like South Carolina, Mississippi, South Dakota, and Tennessee.
Interestingly - and you'd never pick up on this, from corporate media coverage - even his lowest approval (Wyoming, 41.6%) was well above what Bushleague's was, nationally, at the end of his term. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune will continue to print editorials (and, for that matter, alleged 'straight news' stories) calling HCR 'dead,' and the Obama presidency a 'failure,' of course.
This is a good opportunity to clarify something that's been bugging me, below the fold. |
| It wouldn't surprise me a bit to learn that a good many of, for example, the Strib's or WCCO's employees are privately embarrassed, even ashamed, at laying out what they know to be twisted, even harmful, corporate spin, and trying to pass it off as legitimate, objective journalism. But they have mortgages and hungry kids, so have little apparent choice but to make their deals with the devil.
Hell, for years I worked as a civil engineer, playing a key role in enabling overbuilding, wetlands destruction, and urban sprawl. And, since I've never reproduced, I didn't even have the justification of it being some kind of necessary trade-off. So I don't have much business being judgmental of persons in these matters. Corporate media content, however, is absolute fair game. |
