Are You an Obama Voter or a Democratic Voter?

Interesting article in the Washington Post talking about President Obama’s approval numbers within the African American community. As you might guess, President Obama’s approval rating a among African Americans is pretty high:

Despite his frustration with the slow pace of the recovery, Adams, who has portraits of the first family on the walls of his shop, doesn’t think Obama bears the blame for his troubles. And neither do most black Americans. Just the opposite: Polls show that 90 percent of African Americans believe Obama is doing a good job, far higher than the president’s overall 46 percent approval rating. Obama’s popularity has dropped among nearly every segment of the population — old, young, Republican, Democrat, white, Latino. Yet blacks still overwhelmingly support him, even though they are among those who have lost the most since he was elected.

While that support continues to be high, a growing ambivalence about the mid-term elections has Democrats concerned that African Americans won’t turn out in November to vote. Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher puts it best:

These are Obama voters. These are not Democratic voters. They are leaning toward Democrats in their views, but these surge voters are not a part of the traditional Democratic voting bloc. That’s the big X factor here. We can’t turn surge voters out by two weeks of black radio.

So what is it?  Are you an Obama voter or a Democratic voter?  And will you vote in November?

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