From the New Yorker magazine:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/27/140127fa_fact_remnick?currentPage=3Obama’s drop in the polls in 2013 was especially grave among white voters. “There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President,” Obama said. “Now, the flip side of it is there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because I’m a black President.”
For the idiots who say this is a fair assessment, you need to get your head out of obama's rear end. I know you like it in there, but you need to stop being so faggoty.
He had approval rating after 2008 of 70%. The SMALL percentage of people who don't like the idea of a black president were already included in the 30% who looked on him unfavorably in the first 2 years of his presidential term.
He didn't go from 70% approval to 54% disapproval because all of sudden most of his original supporters realized he is HALF BLACK. That is not what happened here.
His poll numbers are what they are because HE IS A FAILURE. HIS POLICIES ARE FAILURES THAT DON'T BENEFIT ANYONE BUT A SMALL SEGMENT OF THE POPULATION. AND HE WAS CAUGHT ON ONE OF THE BIGGEST LIES EVER. A lie that he repeated 29 times.