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Do 71 percent of Obama voters regret voting for him in 2012? Nope
By Katie Sanders on Tuesday, February 25th, 2014 at 6:29 p.m.
A claim that 71 percent of Obama voters regretted their vote quickly spread on social media.
For President Barack Obama’s opponents, word of his latest downfall was stunning and welcome.
Headlines and tweets all said just about the same eyebrow-raising thing: "Poll: 71% of Obama supporters 'regret' voting for his reelection." (Those all link to different websites.)
The purported statistic from a YouGov.com poll was the focus of a Washington Examiner post last week that spread quickly through conservative blogs, social media, radio and online forums. Tweets about the news by big guns like Fox & Friends and various accounts with smaller reach were hard to miss.
But the news is wrong. PunditFact will explain why.
The origins of the claim
YouGov.com did not even mention the news about regretful Obama voters in its Feb. 17 writeup of a new poll.
The story that accompanied the poll, headlined "Mitt Romney’s phantom campaign," explored whether Romney is viewed more favorably ahead of the 2016 presidential election given more positive media buzz about a Netflix documentary about him. (The answer, based on their polling data, is not really.)
YouGov polled about 1,000 voters over two days in early February, asking voters of Romney and Obama if they would make the same decision today that they did in November 2012.
YouGov found 90 percent of Romney voters would vote for Romney again, while 79 percent of Obama voters said they would stick with Obama.
Of the remaining 2012 Obama voters,
10 percent said they would not vote for him again, and 11 percent said they were unsure.
The 10 percent who would not vote for him again got a follow-up question: Do you regret voting for Obama?
Of 35 people in that group, 25 said yes. That's 71 percent. [of 35 persons]