I'm not an Obama fan, as most of you know. He's better than his predecessor, and way preferable to the guy he ran against in '08. Those are about the most enthusiastic things I can say about him.
He tends to be an unintentionally polarizing figure. According to a Research 2000 poll commissioned by DailyKos, Obama is viewed favorably in most regions of the country: In the west his favorability percentage is 59 percent, and in the midwest it's 57 percent. In the Northeast it's a whopping 67 percent, but in the former Confederacy -- you guessed it -- his "viewed favorably" number drops to 40.
The great divide I find most fascinating in this poll, though, is the gender differential. His favorability rating among American females is 65 percent -- two out of every three ladies like him. But among American males, that number is 43% -- more than twenty percentage points lower.
That's a huge difference, and I totally don't understand the reasons for it. Is Barack Obama some kind of beefcake to some people? And is he also some sort of "guy you wouldn't want to have a beer with" to others?
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