Don’t call it a campaign, but President Obama is in Virginia right now, stumping for re-election. Earlier, he was in North Carolina.
In both cases, Democratic elected officials and candidates — including former Va. Gov. Tim Kaine, who is running for Senate — are steering clear. Want to know why? This image, courtesy of the Gallup Organization, is why:
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This chart begins on November 2, 2010, the day Republicans made sweeping election gains. At 38 percent approval, President Obama is at an all-time low, and his disapproval is just one point from its all-time high. He is less popular and more disliked today than he was at the time of his “shellacking.”
The president is toxic — not quite Bush-toxic, but not far from it. To make matters worse, Virginia holds its state legislative elections on November 8. Nobody at the state level wants to be seen with him, either.
Obama doesn’t just suffer from 38 percent approval. Gallup also gives him a 38 percent re-elect percentage against a “generic Republican.”
