LATEST SOUTHERN MEDIA POLL: SUPPORT FOR OBAMA AND LANDRIEU CRASHES IN LOUISIANA
by Bernie Pinsonat (SMOR)

JOB PERFORMANCE:

BARACK OBAMA: 39% Favorable, 58% Unfavorable, 3% Don't Know (October 2009- 45% Favorable, 54% Unfavorable, 1% Don't Know)
10% Negative Change.

MARY LANDRIEU: 43% Favorable, 54% Unfavorable, 4% Don't Know (October 2009- 54% Favorable, 43% Unfavorable, 3% Don't Know)
22% Negative Change.

President Obama- "With 39.3 percent positive job-performance ratings for President Obama, Louisiana is likely among the states least satisfied with the chief executive. More than 58 percent of respondents gave him a negative job rating. Among black respondents, 90.8 percent gave the president positive rating. But that was offset by 79.6 percent of white respondents who gave him negative ratings."

U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu- "Sen. Landrieu’s popularity has fallen sharply since voting for President Obama’s health- care reform legislation. Her positive rating among respondents was 42.8 percent – a record low and nearly 20-point drop from one year ago. Meanwhile, her negative job rating stands at 53.5 percent. In the latest survey, 71.3 percent of white respondents rated her job performance as negative, including nearly 42 percent who rated her performance as poor."

Federal issues- "President Obama’s economic stimulus package remains very unpopular among Louisiana voters. More than two thirds of survey respondents – 67.4 percent – said the measure did nothing but increase the national debt."

"Federal health-care reform was never popular in Louisiana and the latest survey shows those opinions haven’t changed. Results showed 63.4 percent of respondents remained opposed to the measure’s passage, while 57.7 percent favor the Legislature joining in the call for the U.S. Supreme Court to repeal health-care reform."

"Survey respondents strongly support right-to-work laws and just as strongly oppose the proposed Employee Free Choice Act, the federal labor legislation sometimes referred to as card check, with 77.3 percent saying they prefer keeping labor-union ballots secret and 79.3 percent supporting right-to-work."