The latest Daily Kos/SEIU/PPP poll was released today. If you'll recall, last week the President's favorable rating dropped from a +5 51/46 rating to a -5 45/50 a big, fat 10 point drop, while his job approval went from a -3 47/50 rating to a -10 43/53 rating, a slightly smaller 7 point drop.
As noted in the linked front page diary, while his favorable ratings recovered to a break even 48/48, +5 from last week, -5 from two weeks ago, his job approval actually slid another point to 42/53 -1 from last week, -11 from two weeks ago. Not terribly good news.
But when you look at the polling data provided, you find something pretty interesting.
With respect to his job approval from Democrats, the President has pretty much held steady these past couple of weeks. When we had the big 10 point over all drop, Democrats didn't budge, remaining at a fairly robust 77/18 and this week they slid just a little to 75/18.
Meanwhile, the approval of independants, has proven less robust and less dependable, but after a fairly dramatic drop between two weeks ago and last week, going from a -6 45/51 to a -15 39/54 job approval rating for the President. So this week, Democrats were -2 for the President while Independents were +2 for the President, more or less cancelling one another out.
So that leaves one place for that loss of 1 point this week to come from, yep, the Republicans. Two weeks ago, President Obama was getting a -78 11/89 reading from Republicans. Last week, that approval ticked up to a -77 10/87 response. Looks like a floor, right? Not so fast. This week President Obama's Job approval rating amond Republicans plunged 11 points to a 5/93 rating.
And it seems like Republicans have finally made up their minds that they really don't like this President. As I said before, Obama had an "ugly" 10 point drop in favorables last week and got half of it back this week going from +5 51/46 two weeks ago, to -5 45/50 last week and back up to 48/48 break even this week.
When you look under the hood on these numbers you find that the President's favorables went for a fairly dramatic rollercoaster ride with Democrats going from +72 85/13 two weeks ago to +63 79/16 last week and back up to +69 83/14 this week.
Meanwhile, Independent favorability numbers went for a less dramatic rollercoaster ride going from -1 47/48 two weeks ago to -4 45/49 last week and back up to break even at 46/46 this week.
And then there is the Republicans foing from a -71 13/84 favorability rating that pretty much mirrored the Democrats enthusiasm and then dropping 5 last week to a -76 10/86 favorability rating, and then, while everyone else was heading back, doubling down and dropping another 6 points to a -82 8/90 favorability rating.
So basically, about 4 points of President Obama's 5 point drop in favorability from two weeks ago to this week is attributable to an 11 point drop in Republican favorability during that time.
Finally, it appears that this movement is much more partisan than ideological, because if you look at conservatives, their movement is much more in line with Independents over the last two weeks than it is with Republicans.
On job approval, conservatives went from a -59 19/78 rating two weeks ago to a -72 13/85 rating last week and back up a little bit to a -65 16/81 rating this week. And on Favorability they went from a -52 23/75 rating two weeks ago to a -69 14/83 rating last week and recovered a bit to a -61 18/79 rating this week.
So it seems that the Repbulicans are united in the hatred of our President. Should he welcome their hatred?