After just 2 years in office, President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him) has fallen out of favor with America’s college crowd.

An Associated Press-mtvU poll (disappointingly for them) found college students ambivalent in their support for their dawg Scooter.  Dealing a major blow to Democrats trying to fire up America’s yutes in order to avoid a Midterm Election political massacre.

Forty-four percent of students are cool with the job Obama is doing as president, while 27 percent say that he’s harshed their mellow , according to the survey conducted late last month. That’s a big-time drop from the 60 percent who gave Scooter a thumbs up in a May 2009 poll. Only 15 percent did not like him back then.

The reality the Dems face is the fact that it’s not just students. Obama has lost a bunch of support from many groups because of persistently high unemployment and opposition to his horrible economic policies and Obamacare.

However, his falling-out with college kids plainly demonstrates that the Democrats’ efforts to rally them and other loyal supporters such as blacks and union members,will probably not be enough to prevent Republicans from winning control of Congress in the Nov. 2 elections.

Obama’s weaker performance on campus also highlights the Dem’s failure to turn the 15 million first-time voters of 2008, nearly one in eight of that year’s total, into a reliable bunch of Obama sycophants.   Exit polls from 2008 show 55 percent of new voters were age 18 to 24, and those young first-timers strongly backed Obama and Democratic House candidates.  That’s why the Dems are so anxious to lure them back to the voting booth.

Hoping to show that he’s still cool, Obama will appear tonight at a youth town hall being shown live on MTV, BET and other networks, filled with an audience selected though showbiz casting calls.  He will also hold another hip-hop pep rally Sunday at Ohio State University, like his rally at the University of Wisconsin and a webcast town hall at George Washington University.

Ohio State’s 55,000 students are a big part of a central Ohio congressional district in which Democratic Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy is struggling against her 2008 opponent, Republican Steve Stivers. Kilroy spokesman Brad Bauman says the students are “a huge voting bloc for us,” but Stivers spokesman John Damschroder says any advantage Kilroy had on campus in the close 2008 race will be minimized.

Referring to students’ past support for Obama aiding Kilroy, Damschroder said:

She had a wind at her back last time.  Now it’s a stand-alone election for her.

Liberal political scientists, campaign workers, students and others say many students are unhappy with Obama’s handling of the economy, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and failures to end the ban against gays serving openly in the military or to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Liberals are also frustrated with his failure to turn the economy around and to fulfill his campaign promises.

The results of the AP-mtvU poll, which surveyed more than 2,000 undergraduates age 18 to 24, come as students and others say political activity on campuses is way down from the frenetic levels of the 2008 presidential race.   According to Josh Rohrer, a senior at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., it was impossible to walk to class two years ago without seeing campaign fliers, T-shirts and tables strewn with candidates’ brochures.

Now, if you don’t read a newspaper, you wouldn’t know there’s about to be an election.

Regardless, college Republicans and Democrats are still holding registration drives and helping students vote with absentee ballots if needed. Republicans aired a TV ad in college towns in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida called “The Breakup,” showing young people expressing disillusionment with Obama. (Heart-ache)  Democrats claim they’ve made nearly 2 million phone calls and visits to young voters since late May.

Enthusiasm by all groups usually dips in midterm elections compared to presidential races. Even more so for college students, who are involved in everything from classes to football to dating and often aren’t even registered to vote in their school’s congressional district.

It’s not exactly a high priority, according to Rebecca Leber, a senior from the University of Rochester:

It sort of falls under the radar.

In the AP-mtvU poll, white students are about evenly divided over Obama — 34 percent approve of his performance while 37 percent disapprove. In May 2009, they approved by 53 percent to 21 percent. The drop is consistent with his decreased popularity among all whites.

Minority students are positive by 58 percent to 13 percent margin, slightly worse than in May 2009. In both polls, about a quarter overall were neutral.

Heather Smith, president of Rock the Vote, said it has registered 225,000 young voters for this year’s election, more than four times as many as in the last midterm in 2006.  But she complained that the political parties aren’t spending enough to energize students, and she predicted turnout would resemble 2006, a mediocre year.

She whined:

It’s a cycle of neglect.

AP-GfK polls show Obama remains more popular among younger than older voters, but more older people express interest in the congressional elections.  Per a September survey by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, among people under 30, those favoring Republicans are more likely than Democratic supporters to say they’ve thought a lot about the election.

The AP-mtvU Poll was conducted Sept. 20-24 by Edison Research of Somerville, N.J., and involved interviews with 2,207 randomly chosen undergraduates at 40 randomly selected four-year schools with at least 1,000 undergrads. To protect privacy, the schools were not being identified and students’ names were not recorded. The survey had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

The sponsorship by mtvU, an MTV channel for college students, is related to its “Half of Us” program, which it runs with the Jed Foundation for publicizing students’ mental health issues.

Rock the Vote and the MTV Networks have worked hand in hand to promote Liberal ideology and the Democratic Party for years.  So, for college students to be waking up to the hypocrisy and failed promises of this president and his political ideology, despite the Progressives’ propaganda efforts, gives me hope for America’s future.