By Dave Andrusko

Pro-abortion President Barack Obama
After months of declining poll numbers, nobody should be surprised that a USA Today/Pew survey found that among Millennial, President Obama’s job approval is only 50%. Just ahead of his second inauguration, the president’s approval rating with these young Americans stood at a whopping 67%.
In a three-tiered explanation leading up to story written by Aamer Madhani and Jim Norman, we get one index why this is so important:
“46% disapprove of his job performance
“Millennials played a key role in helping Obama’s two presidential election victories
“The key to making the health care law work is enrolling young, healthy people”
Millennials are defined as those 18-29 years old. The battered and bruised ObamaCare rollout depends heavily on younger people signing up, paying, but not requiring a lot of medical care to offset the costs for older Americans who are (as USA Today wrote) “expected to flock to the [health] exchanges.”
The one thing missing in that three sentence introduction is that in addition to Millennial’s tepid support for Mr. Obama’s job performance, 54% disapprove of ObamaCare–that is only 1 point lower that the average for all Americans—and only 41% approve.
As the Harvard Institute of Politics survey found (see “Obama’s approval bottoms out with Millennials”), “Only 18 percent say Obamacare will improve their care. Among 18-to-29-year-olds currently without health insurance, less than one-third say they’re likely to enroll in the Obamacare exchanges.”
Moreover, as we shall see below is the case with older liberal Democrats, the intensity has slackened among Millennials.
According to Madhani and Norman, “Twenty-two percent said that they approve strongly of Obama’s performance in the latest poll compared with 41% who said they approved strongly when they were surveyed in January.”
The USA Today/Pew results mirror several other recent surveys, including the one from the Harvard Institute of Politics we wrote about. But rather than attribute the President’s falling numbers to issues of substance, John Della Volpe, polling director at the Harvard Institute of Politics, told USA Today, “If Obama is going to have success rebounding again, it’s essential he do a better job communicating with young Americans about the law.” (emphasis added).
In a separate report from Pew, even though the support among liberal Democrats for the President remains “sky-high,” we also learn from Seth Motel that “many don’t feel strongly.” He writes
“But many liberal Democrats are lukewarm about this approval. While 54% say they strongly approve of the president’s job, about one-in-three (32%) say they ‘not so strongly’ approve of the president. (The remaining 4% approve of Obama, but do not say how strongly they approve.)
“Although 90% approval among liberal Democrats is historically a solid showing for Obama, the 54% share who strongly approve is tied for worst among the 13 times over his presidency that Pew Research has asked about approval strength. This June, the most recent time we had asked about approval strength, 73% of liberal Democrats strongly approved of Obama and 17% approved not so strongly of his job.”
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