President Barack Obama seems to be losing the trust of three essential groups from his voting coalition, namely women, young voters and Latinos, according to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll. The president's handling of foreign affairs seems to be the cause of this downfall.
Observing a huge shift from 2012 when 55 percent of female voters approved of his presidency and 44 percent disapproved, now the president has 50 percent of female respondents disapproving of him, while 44 percent approve, according to Breitbart.
Since single women tend to gravitate towards voting for Democrats while married women are traditionally more inclined to vote for Republicans, 60 percent of females reportedly approved of Obama during his second inauguration in 2013.
Upon being questioned why only 37 percent of females, the lowest that he has ever been rated, approved of Obama's recent actions, many named distrust to be the reason, citing the incident where Obama was witnessed playing golf immediately after a press conference announcing the ISIS beheading of American journalist James Foley.
"Among voters between the ages of 18-29, 43 percent approved of Obama, a startling 11 percent less than the 54 percent of them who approved of him in June. In 2012, 60 percent of those voters approved of him," according to Breitbart.
In the first half of 2013, a whopping 75 percent of Latinos approved of Obama. Now that figure is down to 57 percent.
To analyze how votes would be distributed, suburban women, called "soccer moms" in the 1990s, "security moms" after 9/11 and "Wal-Mart moms" were included as part of the focus groups.
On Tuesday night, focus groups comprised of suburban moms met in Little Rock, Ark., and Des Moines, Iowa. Both focus groups took place in states where crucial Senate races exist for 2014.
Neil Newhouse, the GOP pollster, pointed out that the suburban moms are primarily concerned about security issues now that ISIS is on the move. "There was a sense that their personal safety and security was threatened," he said, adding that the ISIS threat "has these moms concerned, and these are women who don't naturally gravitate to international issues."
Margie Omero, the Democratic partner helping Newhouse observe the focus groups, cited the recent trouble in Ferguson, Mo., as the cause of female's increasing worry about crime in their respective communities, according to Breitbart.
"It was more pronounced than concerns about the economic downturn. There was a lot more concern about crime and international unrest than we've seen in the past," she said.
"Regardless of their 2012 vote, moms' opinions of Obama have dulled. At best, some feel sorry for him ... While he may be a player in how moms perceive the dysfunction in Washington, they will not have President Obama directly in mind when casting their vote in November," Newhouse and Omero wrote.
