Yesterday, Jay Cost discussed President Obama’s problem with independents, noting that Obama started to lose independents by the truckload when the debate over Obamacare heated up and “has never won [them] back.”  Today, a new Quinnipiac poll further highlights the extent of the trouble that Obama faces in this regard. 

The Quinnipiac poll surveyed an exceptionally large number of respondents, and therefore its sampling of independents is quite large — it surveyed 946 independents, all of them reported to be registered voters. So what does this survey tell us about independents’ reflections on the first 3-1/2 years (or so) of “hope and change”? Let’s take a look.