Hispanics + Asians approve of Obama. Blacks will always support a Democrat (particularly a Democrat who is half-black) by 97%, and always disapprove of a Republican by 97%. Blacks are the most hyperpartisan group of all, for reasons that clearly do not include the fact that Robert Byrd and George Wallace were recent Democrats. So a Democrat always has a 10% advantage over a Republican, no matter what. So Obama at 49% is identical to Bush being at 39%, if you exclude the black unconditional support. Lawyerchik1 | 7.26.09 @ 2:12PM Excellent analysis, Mr. Stein. I have been asking the question "what's the rush?" for a while now, and yours is the first answer that makes any sense. I voted against Mr. Obama (which only means that I held my nose and voted for McCain), and while there is a certain amount of schadenfreude at being able to say "I told you so" to my liberal friends, that is so overshadowed by the anger and heartsickness I feel over what is happening to this country at the hands of this poseur that it doesn't bring me any real joy. "Elections have consequences" isn't really fair either, since the election was decided by a fairly small margin. We still have choices, though. We can continue to push our elected representatives (congress people and senators) and we can remind them regularly and often that many of them are up for reelection next year. Thanks again for rallying the troops. We need all