As I indicated in my reply to "Nightswimmer", the numbers I cite are general polling numbers, not anecdotal accounts. I'm really not trying to start a numbers war here. I follow tracking polls from all the major polling firms. RCP "averages" the poll numbers, which is fine; CNN does the same thing. Even under the averaging, Obama's negatives are going up, not down, and he is losing support among white Democratic voters across the board in upcoming primary/caucus states.

Additionally, Obama has fallen behind Clinton in a national Rasmussen poll. The drop has been hovering at +/- 4 points over the past week. Today, he is -2 (43-45).

Polls certainly aren't the be-all, end-all. They are reflections of what is happening at any given moment in a campaign. They are indicators. It should be a concern for Obama that he is losing support among a key Democratic demographic: blue-collar, white, generally middle-class voters in states that have significant impact on a GE. He cannot win a GE with only Blacks and Hispanics.