Barack Obama's job approval has fallen in Louisiana, poll shows
by Ed Anderson - Times-Picayune (excerpt)

President Barack Obama's job approval is 3 percentage points lower than the 40 percent he received in Louisiana in the 2008 election, according to a new poll released Thursday. The Clarus Research Group of Washington, D.C., polling for WWL-TV and two other television stations in the state, has Obama's approval rating at 37 percent and his disapproval rating at 61 percent. Ron Faucheux, president and chief analyst of Clarus, said Obama's approval ratings among white Louisiana voters is 17 percent but 92 percent among African-Americans, who make up about one-third of the state's population. "His support base in Louisiana is very polarized by race," Faucheux said.