PRESIDENT OBAMA'S APPROVAL RATING SLIPS IN KENTUCKY(from the SurveyUSA/WHAS-TV Poll)

Survey USA: Release Date: 06/17/2009 1:10 PM ET
Sponsor: WHAS-TV Louisville

47%	Approve
51%	Disapprove
3%	Not Sure

                                           

  By Region

                                                   North

                       Western Lou      Central         Eastern

Approve	49%	50%	40%	53%
Disapprove	50%	47%	57%	45%
Not Sure	1%	4%	3%	2%

Western Kentucky is mostly rural, religious area, with tobacco farms and coal mines.   

Lou (Louisville) has the most diversity of any area in the state.

North Central Kentucky encompasses the conservative suburbs of Cincinnati.

Eastern Kentucky is the strong hold of the mineworkers' unions in Kentucky.