With African Americans. However, even they are unhappy with Obama's Ferguson performance.
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As The Washington Post reports, [5]
President Obama has pointedly refused to weigh in on what happened in Ferguson, Mo., aiming not to inflame an already delicate situation.
That approach, though, is not earning him his usual strong marks from his most loyal base of support: fellow African Americans.
A new poll from the Washington Post and ABC News shows that blacks still approve of Obama's handling of the issue by a significant margin. But the 63 percent who approve is his lowest rating on any of seven issues tested in recent months by WaPo and ABC. It's also 28 points below his overall approval rating among blacks, 91 percent in a late-October Post-ABC poll.
Further, the 30 percent of African Americans who disapprove of Obama's handling of Ferguson is an unusually high number. This demographic, after all, voted for Obama 93-6 in 2012 and 95-4 in 2008.
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