US Election 2012

[bjmdds]

It proves my point. Those 6 liberal organizations spew 90% of their bias on the public but hopefully the uninformed voter wakes up and realizes it. Why do you think tv ratings are dropping across the board? Liberal themes and nobody cares about them nor will watch them.

[bjmdds]

Panic is setting in among the people who ran the Democratic Party prior to the miraculous arrival on the scene of Barack Hussein Obama and the perfect storm of events that propelled him into the White House.
These people, starting with Bill Clinton, the master Democratic politician of our era, can read the tea leaves, and the following factors alarm them:
1. Obama has energized his opposition. Despite throwing everything they could into the game, the turnout effort in Wisconsin was handily beaten by those Tea Party nobodies and an RNC head who is actually up to the job.
2. Obama has alienated hugely important constituencies. Labor unions, utterly essential to the ground game in November, feel betrayed, and are starting to focus more on their own survival than the success of the Obama re-election campaign. The antiwar left feels betrayed over Gitmo, drones, rendition, domestic surveillance, and a host of other issues. They turned out in San Francisco picketing his fundraisers, and spoke of not voting. His Bain Capital attacks are verging into a repudiation of capitalism, so Wall Street and the finance sector are getting alarmed, and the essential flow of political contributions to Democrats from them is drying up.
3. The economy is a disaster, and Obama is doing all the wrong things. The administration is reduced to making implausible claims of spending moderation based on an internet post. The public is fed up with Obama's performance, and his personal popularity is declining and will tank further as he goes increasingly negative on Romney. Swing voters are almost as negative about Obama as are Romney voters.
4. Obama is out for himself, and himself only. He has even thrown national security under the bus, allowing the leaking of critical information to the press about intelligence operations and cyber-warfare, and feigning outrage in Friday's presser over the idea that he would do such a thing. Never mind what they say publicly; the insiders know that we are at cyber-war with Iran and China, among others, right now. Following the prosecutorial lynching of Scooter Libby, it is politically impossible to sweep this leak, which actually is causing our allies to shun information-sharing with us, under the rug. Unlike the Valerie Plame case, people have died, and intelligence operations have been seriously harmed.
5. A wave election is shaping up. Democrats could be swept out of office in Congress, and on down to statehouses, city halls, and dog pounds. With the left flank threatening to stay home, union funds and enthusiasm depleted, and Obama offering nothing but negativity, while Tea Partiers mobilize nationally as never before seen on the GOP side, the electorate will skew so far right that the GOP could end up as dominant in 2013 as the Democrats were in 2009.
It's already leaking into the smarter corners of the media world: Obama is killing the Democratic Party. The tipping point is here.
This, not coincidence, is why several brainy Democrats, including Cory Booker, Deval Patrick, Ed Rendell, and Lanny Davis, have been providing sound bites that can be used by the Romney campaign to destroy the effectiveness of Obama's attacks on Mitt Romney. The biggest damage has been done by Bill Clinton, whose barrage includes providing the title for the current number-one bestseller about Obama, Ed Klein's The Amateur, calling Mitt Romney's business track record at Bain "sterling," and stating that the Bush tax rates should not be increased, disagreeing with Obama.
Ralph Nader thinks he knows what is going on, and told the Daily Caller's Nicholas Ballasy:
He's laying down the groundwork for Hillary Clinton running for president in 2016. Everything she is doing and everything he is doing argues that they want to run Hillary Clinton for president in 2016, so while he might appear with Obama in fundraisers in New York and elsewhere, he's basically undermining Obama.
My colleague Richard Baehr believes that Bill Clinton actively wants Obama to lose:
Bill Clinton thinks long term. Hillary will run in 2016, I am certain of it. No one loses the bug after one attempt when they came that close. I am guessing that Clinton thinks that if Obama wins this time, it will be tougher in 2016 for Hillary than if Romney wins. If Obama wins, then Hillary has to run at age 69 against a Rubio or a Ryan -- somebody young and charismatic. She goes down in flames, especially if economy is still in the tank.
But if Romney wins, Clinton thinks he will have his hands full, and there is no magic bullet to turn the economy around. He is right. In fact, all the stuff that could happen January 1st with taxes going up and spending cuts could sink the economy into a big hole for another few years. If Obama loses in November, do you think he cooperates with GOP to avoid this? I don't. If Romney wins, then Hillary runs against him in 2016, after people think GOP did not solve the problems. She wins.
All very logical. But there are only two problems with this scenario.
1. If the Clintons and their allies, like Ed Rendell and Lanny Davis, are believed by black voters to have sabotaged the re-election of the first black president, blacks will turn with fury on the Clintons. I do not imagine for a moment that Barack Obama will quietly sit back and take what he sees as abuse from the Clinton gang. If word is already out that Cory Booker is "dead to" Obama, we can be certain that the president will let his most devoted followers know if he regards the Clintons as traitors, should he lose. No Democrat can be elected president without an overwhelming share of the black vote.
2. Countless other elected Democrats in Congress and down the ticket stand to lose their offices if discouraged Democrats stay home and a wave election results. Lobbying prospects would be reduced in tandem with the loss of Democratic officeholders.
The Clinton forces are already warning the rest of the party that the Obama operation is not to be trusted. Lanny Davis called Obama's people "vicious":
You have vicious people who are working for the president - not the president [himself] - who are saying that Corey Booker - one of the great supporters of President Obama's policies - is 'dead' because he's giving the president good advice, disagreeing with the Kool-Aid drinking people in the campaign who think the way to win the presidency is to trash the other guy rather than to defend your own guy's record.
[W]hy would they want to create enemies, or depict people as enemies, who are their friends?
Mind you, this comes from a former colleague of Sidney Blumenthal.
So friendless are the Obamas that they can't even get a decent, reliable surrogate out on the stump, and are reduced to ineffective third-raters like David Axelrod, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Joe Biden.
I suspect that the Clintons and their allies are spreading the word that smart people are planning for life after Obama, that he is going nowhere, that there will be a reckoning. And that now is the time to distance oneself from what promises to destroy the party if not stopped. Perhaps the time has come to figure out some way to get Obama off the ticket. Somehow.
It would have to be a covert op. No Democrat who ever wants to carry a black precinct can be seen as slipping in the stiletto. It has to have the appearance of Obama voluntarily announcing that he will not be a candidate for re-election. Just as LBJ did on March 31, 1968. For the good of the country, his family, maybe his for his health. His medical records have never been released, after all.
It has to be a multi-phase, multi-front strategy. Right now, we are in the softening up phase. The highly public defection of Newark Mayor Cory Booker, calling the attacks on Bain "nauseating," certainly got Obama's attention. So much so that enough pressure was exerted on the mayor that he issued a self-repudiation video that might as well have had the mayor blinking S-O-S in Morse code. Follow this with respected people and allies like Deval Patrick, and Hillary enthusiasts Ed Rendell and Bob Shrum, and most of all employ the biggest gun of all, Bill Clinton. The denials and clarifications don't matter at all. The message to Obama is unmistakable: it is war. We don't have your back.
Senator Dianne Feinstein truly cares about national security. But I also know that she can read the handwriting on the wall. Last week, she came out and made the leaking of national security information into a scandal with bipartisan support for an inquiry. This is criminal behavior. She is far from the only powerful Democrat who sees the wisdom of disentangling herself from the Obama disaster.
Obama does not want to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the leaks, and his press conference Friday took a strong stand against them and promised a thorough internal investigation. Eric Holder has appointed two subordinates -- U.S. attorneys, one of whom donated thousands of dollars to Obama's 2008 campaign. This does not pass the giggle test. If Senator Feinstein or any other prominent Democrat comes out in support of an independent prosecutor this week, the pressure on Obama and his cohorts will build. Scooter Libby was ruined, and he didn't actually leak anything.
The signal also has been received by the mainstream media allies of the Clintons. Many of them are already fed up with the high-handedness, venality, incompetence, and amateurishness of the Obama crowd. But now that they see that it is okay to notice when the emperor has no clothes, they can breathe the intoxicating air of honesty and start to include some of the obvious warts on the idealized image. Obama is starting to realize that his media invisible shield is falling apart.
All of these factors paint a bleak picture for the Obama campaign's prospects, but unless there is a smoking gun about the national security leaks, nothing that would actually force a narcissist to put the interests of party and country ahead of his own. So there may be something else, something which Obama fears so deeply that he would see his own interests best served by withdrawing from his re-election bid.
Yes, we are talking blackmail. That's phase two.
We do not know what the operative issue would be, but we do know that Barack Obama is an international man of mystery, and that he has gone to great lengths to hide his documentary record. There is on the record his claim of Kenyan birth to his literary agency. It may well be that he was born in Hawaii, but used a claim to Kenyan or Indonesian nationality to gain scholarships and admission advantages at the series of elite and expensive schools he attended, starting with Punahou, the St. Grottelsex of the mid-Pacific.
Perhaps by coincidence, last week Stanley Kurtz was able to write about newly revealed evidence that in 2008 the Obama campaign lied about his membership in the radical socialist New Party. I have no knowledge of the specific circumstances of the document in question becoming available, but I would note that the offices of the federal bureaucracy, state and local bureaucracies, academic bureaucracies, and nonprofit bureaucracies are largely staffed with lifelong liberals, who were Democrats before the Obama craze hit the party, and who want the party to survive, and who may even be a little nostalgic for a president with the last name Clinton.
So, hypothetically, if someone in one of these bureaucracies happened to notice a document that proved something embarrassing about Obama, something that exposed a serious biographical lie, serious enough to put him out of the running, she might consider it worthwhile letting others know. Word gets around.
The New Party membership documentation might well be a warning shot.
But what about Hillary, you may be asking. Look at her hair! She's given up.
If you imagine that the secretary of state is so weary that she lacks the energy to do her own hair, you do not understand the realities of her life. She has staff who do all the mundane tasks at her convenience, to her specifications. Or else. Her current down-and-out look is just another hairstyle, one calculated to provide political cover. Hillary knows that she will need the black vote once she heads the ticket, so she absolutely cannot be seen as scheming to bring about the sudden surprise announcement from President Obama that her allies are greasing the skids for right now. The worse she looks, the more convincing will be her "surprise," the more sincere her willingness to step forward and save America from a disastrous Romney presidency.
If you imagine that Barack Obama's playing of the race card against the Clintons in the 2008 South Carolina primary battle has been forgiven or forgotten, you do not understand Bill Clinton. As a Southern liberal, a big part of his personal identity is wrapped up in his anti-racism. Not just his political posture -- his sense of his own self-worth is linked to his crusade to overcome the legacy of racism. It is one of the ways he excuses the cruder aspects of his life choices. His racial virtue justifies his life.
Bill Clinton, for all his bonhomie in public, is a bitter man -- first for his impeachment, and second for the humiliation he and his partner were dealt by the Obama forces in 2008. A man prone to purple rages in private, following his heart surgery, he may be taking his revenge slowly, a moderate blood pressure, as it were, smiling when walking back the latest diss.
Until Obama came along, Bill was hopeful that the novelty and wonder of history's first husband-and-wife team of presidents would overwhelm the shame of his impeachment and lying under oath. Obama spoiled that, and made Clinton's sobriquet "first black president" faintly ridiculous.
Whichever way the current campaign goes, with Obama defeated and the party in ruins, or with Obama off the ticket and Hillary triumphantly accepting the nomination for the good of the party and the nation, or so we will be told, Bill Clinton would prefer it to a second Obama term. And this time, he may get his way.

[bjmdds]

GALLUP DAILY
Jun 11-13, 2012
Obama Approval 46%
Obama Disapproval 48%

You forgot this bit:

Obama - 46%
Romney - 45%

Funny how you never mention polls that don't produce the results you want to see. The seven most recent Obama v Romney polls on RCP show five with Obama (narrowly) in the lead, one with Romney and one tie. Average lead is Obama ahead by 1.2% (which I believe is called a statistically insignificant lead). In other words, it's a toss-up.

GALLUP DAILY
Jun 13-15, 2012 – Updates daily at 1 p.m. ET; reflects one-day change
Obama Approval45%+1
Obama Disapproval49%-
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Romney46%-
Obama45%

[bjmdds]

GALLUP DAILY
Jun 16-18, 2012 – Updates daily at 1 p.m. ET; reflects one-day change
Obama Approval45%-1
Obama Disapproval48%+1
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Romney46%-
Obama45% I didn't forget Gallup.////// Wednesday, June 20, 2012: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows Mitt Romney attracting 47% of the vote, while President Obama earns 45%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and another five percent (5%) are undecided.

[bjmdds]

GALLUP DAILY
Jun 18-20, 2012 – Updates daily at 1 p.m. ET; reflects one-day change
Obama Approval43%-3
Obama Disapproval49%+1
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Romney47%-
Obama45%

[bjmdds]

Thursday, June 21, 2012

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows Mitt Romney attracting 47% of the vote, while President Obama earns 43%. Five percent (5%) prefer some other candidate, and another five percent (5%) are undecided.

[bjmdds]

Bloomberg: "Barack Obama has opened a significant lead over Mitt Romney in a Bloomberg National Poll that reflects the presumed Republican nominee’s weaknesses more than the president’s strengths. Obama leads Romney 53 percent to 40 percent among likely voters, even as the public gives him low marks on handling the economy and the deficit, and six in 10 say the nation is headed down the wrong track, according to the poll conducted June 15- 18." (This is why Bloomberg cannot be trusted to give an accurate poll. The notion that the same people who give Oh-bama low marks on the deficit and the economy and feel by 60% that the nation is headed in the wrong direction, would have the incumbent up by 13 points is a joke. Diane Sawyer tonight on ABC world news was touting the PLUNGING gasoline prices and how it will be a great thing for the summer economy and put $85.00 in everyone's pockets for the summer 3 month season, yet she does not say ONE word on the poor job numbers of this Oh-bama economy. You cannot make this stuff up. By the way, since we left Iraq, has that country suddenly disappeared? No news at all on the major networks. When Bush was President we had daily lead stories about the chaos there and the killings. Where is George Clooney to help the poor Iraqi children, or is Darfur his only concern with his father?)

[Kristatos]

I don't believe that Bloomberg poll either, it's too much of an outlier.

[Kristatos]

I am the 27%:

WASHINGTON (AP) - They shrug at President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. They're in no hurry to decide which one to support in the White House race. And they'll have a big say in determining who wins the White House.

One-quarter of U.S. voters are persuadable, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll, and both Obama and Romney will spend the next four months trying to convince these fickle, hard-to-reach individuals that only he has what it takes to fix an ailing nation.

It's a delicate task. These voters also hate pandering.

"I don't believe in nothing they say," says Carol Barber of Iceland, Ky., among the 27 percent of the electorate that hasn't determined whom to back or that doesn't have a strong preference about a candidate.

More at link

[bjmdds]

AP is NOT reliable Kris, I told you this before. They are a leftwing loon fringe organization and if they say this, the opposite is probably true. I believe 5% of the VOTING public will think about switching votes, not 27%. Most people I speak to have ALREADY made up their minds and will NEVER change it.

[bjmdds]

"Supreme Court upholds key part of Arizona immigration law"

"The Supreme Court rebuffed the Obama administration's lawsuit and upheld a key part of Arizona's tough anti-illegal immigration law on Monday that allows police officers to ask about immigration status during stops. That part of the law, which never went into effect because of court challenges, will now immediately be enforced in Arizona."

" Justices repeatedly criticized the government's argument against immigration checks. Even Sonia Sotomayor, part of the court's liberal wing, said she was "terribly confused" by the government's argument against the checks."

[Dr. No]

Bothers me the Admin issues orders to not pick up illegals. ? Which is what started this mess in the first place. Guess the lesson is we only enforce the laws we want to and can ignore the others. Gotcha. I remember when Obama was upset at a president trying to use such broad sweeping authorities but what Bush never came close to this kind of blatant disregard of law.

Obama pandering to get votes is so obvious its insulting to everyone. So much for new kind of politician

[bjmdds]

You said it Dr.No.

[bjmdds]

CNN Poll: Health care ruling has not impacted race for White House, so far

Posted by
CNN Political Unit
Washington (CNN) - Thursday's landmark Supreme Court decision upholding the country's health care law appears to have had exactly zero impact on the presidential election so far, and has produced virtually no change in opinions on President Barack Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney, according to a new national poll.

And while the CNN/ORC International survey released Monday indicates the president with a very slight three point edge over Romney among registered voters nationwide, the presumptive GOP nominee appears to hold an eight point advantage among voters who live in the 15 states considered in play in the race for the White House.

[Dr. No]

I don't believe it. Who was home last weekend and who had power?

[bjmdds]

CNN.......the lowest ranked cable news channel.........and they have Romney up 8 points(51%-43%) over Oh-no-bama in 15 swing states and predict a rout for Romney if this holds up.

[bjmdds]

Nick, your favorite source of news and polls has this: Direction of Country
Polling Data RCP:
Poll Date Right Direction Wrong Track Spread
RCP Average 6/7 - 6/28 29.7 61.7 -32.0
Newsweek/Daily Beast 6/28 - 6/28 26 59 -33
NBC News/Wall St. Jrnl 6/20 - 6/24 31 61 -30
Rasmussen Reports 6/18 - 6/24 27 65 -38
Bloomberg 6/15 - 6/18 31 62 -31
Associated Press/GfK 6/14 - 6/18 31 60 -29
Reuters/Ipsos 6/7 - 6/11 32 63 -31
If Oh-bama wins with these numbers, I give up and it's time move to Australia What say yee Dr. No?

[bjmdds]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/06/us ... bs-report/ The liberal new media is trying their best to spin these numbers on radio and cable tv. Bloomberg radio reporters were all upset this morning as were the losers at MSNBC and CNN. If these numbers were with a Republican President in the White House, that person would be crucified as a loser by the liberal media but since it is the "Mess"-iah of their politics, emphasis on the Mess, they act as if nothing bad is going on. Dr. No, will you vote Mitt once and for all? When you see the reality of this http://economywatch.msnbc.msn.com/_news ... -jobs?lite how is it possible ANY poll has Oh-bama with a positive approval rating?

[bjmdds]

Thursday, July 05, 2012

Most adults in this country are proud to call themselves Americans.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 84% of Adults feel that way. Just seven percent (7%) don't share that pride in being American, but another nine percent (9%) are not sure. (Who are these 16%? They will vote for Oh-bama for sure. Why don't they just get the hell out the USA now )

[bjmdds]

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20 ... e-gut?lite