Virginia Independents Have Lower Approval Rate of Obama

2012
As Obama visits Virginia, independent voters cast critical eye (By James Hohmann and Glenn Thrush, Virginian Pilot-Hampton Roads) With a recent Quinnipiac University poll showing Obama’s job approval continuing to fall among Virginia’s independent voters — they disapprove 62 to 29 percent, compared with a 56 to 38 percent disapproval among independents nationally — several explanations are offered up.