Not surprisingly, Mormons give President Obama the lowest approval ratings, and Muslims give him the highest. What I found newsworthy was that Obama’s ratings among atheists/agnostics was only 63%. I’m not sure how to interpret that statistic. Does it mean there is significant political diversity among atheists/agnostics, or are we so overwhelmingly liberal that we are disappointed by how moderate Obama has been?
According to a poll conducted at this site, 48% of our readers are liberal, 23% moderate, 16% libertarian, 12% other, and 1% conservative.
“…or are we so overwhelmingly liberal that we are disappointed by how moderate Obama has been?”
Probably that. At least that’s true of me and all my friends. Though I don’t think it takes overwhelming liberalness to be disappointed in Obama. His policies and his administration haven’t been liberal at all, they’ve been thoroughly moderate/centrist, sometimes even leaning to the right (war policies especially).
What Craig said.
I should clarify that I didn’t say you had to be really liberal to be disappointed with Obama. When I said “overwhelmingly liberal,” I wasn’t referring to a degree of liberalness, but rather the number of liberals (as in the overwhelming majority of atheists/agnostics are liberal).
Ah, that makes more sense. I still stick with my same comment though, even an only slightly liberal person has great reason to be disappointed in the Obama administration.
And yes, I do think that the great majority of atheists are very liberal.