Obama's approval in Texas tanks even deeper

Houston Chronicle:

President Obama's approval ratings continue to slip nationally. But in Texas — at least among independent swing voters — he's fallen off the cliff.

A new poll of Lone Star State voters found that just one in three Texans — and only 19 percent of independents — are satisfied with what is happening at the White House. That's way below the 46 percent approval rating Obama receives nationally among independents, according to the latest Gallup poll.

"Democrats are having trouble everywhere right now, but the numbers in Texas are particularly eye-popping," said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. "It's the first place we've polled where the President's approval with independents is under 20 percent." (Emphasis added.)

Obama's generally good ratings among women do not carry over to Texas, either. While the latest Gallup poll shows a 9 percentage point gender gap between how women and men approve of President Obama, there is none in Texas. The survey of 1,200 Texas voters conducted by Public Policy Polling found that 33 percent of both men and women approve of the president.

The president also is having trouble with Latino voters. Just 47 percent of Texas Hispanics give Obama a favorable rating, with an identical number disapproving of his performance. That's far below the president's numbers with other key Democratic constituencies, including liberals and African Americans.

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Congressional Democrats are even more unpopular than Obama in Texas, with 66 percent of voters disapproving of the job they're doing (24 percent give them good marks).

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Which puts them a little further behind Republicans in Congress who are not all that popular either. The finding of independents upset with Obama is particularly striking. His strategy of blaming his problems on Republicans will definitely not work in Texas.