The American populace is far from a monolith, and the nation is hardly marching in lock step behind the president. Nor are the people willing to overlook his peccadilloes just because the economy is good, as some commentators suggest. They try to make the American people out to be one-dimensional idiots. Democrats and racial minorities are the strongest Clinton supporters. Republicans and whites tend to be most critical.
Independents come down somewhere in the middle.
Mellman asserts that as long as the job-approval number among independents holds, Clinton is safe. Many minorities say Clinton's urban policy, his focus on race relations and civil rights, attention to African affairs and his record numbers of minority appointments outweigh his personal behavior. She says she likes the job Clinton is doing, but she's not all that happy with his personal conduct. Yet, Brown has some sympathy for the president. I'm not upholding his role, but it seems like that to me.