CHANGE: Women Defect: Obama Ratings Down.

President Barack Obama’s favorable ratings are in negative territory, according to a Quinnipiac University poll out today that shows women voters souring on his performance in office.

Women voters were key to Obama’s re-election in 2012, giving him 55 percent of their votes, according to a CNN exit poll. In an April Quinnipiac survey, 56 percent approved of Obama’s job performance and 39 percent disapproved, and Obama had an overall approval rating of 49 percent positive and 45 percent negative.

In this latest poll, women approved of Obama’s performance in office by just 48 percent to 44 percent, and his overall ratings were 48 percent unfavorable and 44 percent favorable.

U.S. voters disapproved of the way Obama was handling the economy, 55 percent to 41 percent; Syria, 48 percent to 33 percent; immigration, 50 percent to 41 percent; and foreign policy, 52 percent to 40 percent.

This isn’t going to draw Dem candidates closer to him in 2014.