Poll: Romney Extends Lead Among Independent Voters To 14%… Even better, another poll finds Romney supporters in battleground states are more enthusiastic than Obama’s. Via Red State: In the new ABC News/Washington Post poll, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney extends his lead among Independents to 14 points, 53-39 percent. Two months ago, a POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground poll found Romney had a ten-point lead among the critical Independent voters. The mainstream media is touting the poll as showing the race is “dead even” — a 47-47 percent Obama-Romney contest among registered voters. Yet the new poll contains many more warning signs for the Obamacrats. Obama’s overall job rating is 47-49 percent, approve-disapprove (the same as in May). But his approvals are majority negative on: 1.The Economy, 44-54 percent; 2.Health Care, 41-52 percent (a numerical low in approval, with no bump from last month’s Supreme Court ruling); and 3.Immigration, 38-52 percent (also bumpless despite Obama’s halting enforcement against certain illegal aliens, who arrived as minors) via executive fiat.
Poll: Obama’s Approval Rating Among Blue-Collar Men Sinks To Historic Lows, 28%… Or as Obama calls them, bitter clingers. Via National Journal: The new Quinnipiac University and ABC/Washington Post national surveys out this week converge on one key conclusion: as the election nears, President Obama is sinking to historic lows among the group most consistently hostile to him. Throughout his career on the national stage, Obama has struggled among white men without a college education. But in these latest surveys, he has fallen to a level of support among them lower than any Democratic nominee has attracted in any election since 1980, according to an upcoming National Journal analysis of exit polls from presidential elections. Though pollsters at each organization caution that the margins of error are substantial when looking at subgroups such as this, each poll shows erosion within that margin of error for Obama with these working-class white men. The new Quinnipiac poll shows Obama attracting just 29 percent of non-college white men, down from 32 percent in their most recent national survey in April, according to figures provided by Douglas Schwartz, April Radocchio and Ralph Hansen of Quinnipiac. The ABC/Washington Post survey found Obama drawing just 28 percent of non-college white men, down from 34 percent in their May survey, according to figures provided by ABC Pollster Gary Langer. Romney drew 56 percent of the non-college white men in Quinnipiac and 65 percent in the ABC/Washington Post survey.
Biden: Obama “Puts Country First,” Has The “Character of His Convictions”… Talk about a steaming load of BS. HOUSTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden rallied support for President Barack Obama before the nation’s largest civil rights organization on Thursday, telling the NAACP that Obama has the “character of his convictions.” Biden drew cheers as he credited Obama for championing a landmark health care law, launching the mission that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and stepping in to rescue the financial system and U.S. automakers General Motors and Chrysler. “He has put country first,” Biden said. Biden addressed the NAACP convention a day after Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he’d do more for African-Americans than Obama, the nation’s first black president. Romney was booed when he said he’d repeal Obama’s sweeping health care reform law but otherwise got a polite reception as he reached out to a traditionally Democratic voting bloc.
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Pics: Obama Takes Time Away From His Busy Schedule of Fundraising & Golfing to Greet the NCAA Women’s Basketball Champions WASHINGTON, DC — JULY 18: U.S. President Barack Obama welcomes the 2012 NCAA Women’s Basketball champion Baylor Bears in the East Room of the White House July 18, 2012 in Washington, DC. The Baylor Lady Bears became the first NCAA basketball team to complete a 40-0 season by defeating Notre Dame 80-61 in the NCAA women’s championship.
When was he last in the White House? It could have been when he hosted the Alabama football team! No wonder he changed the welfare rules. If he ain't workin' why should they?
Poll: Romney Crushing Obama Among Military Veterans, 59% – 35%… Via Rasmussen: Most military veterans don’t like the job President Obama is doing and prefer Mitt Romney in November’s election. New Rasmussen Reports polling finds that 59% of Likely U.S. Voters who have served in the military favor the Republican challenger, while 35% support the president. Five percent (5%) of these voters like some other candidate in the race, but only two percent (2%) are undecided.
With So Many Dems Skipping Convention, Pelosi Decides To Raffle Off Empty DNC Seats As Fundraising Ploy… Desperation. In 2004, an Illinois State Senator named Barack Obama stepped onto the stage at the Democratic National Convention and gave a speech that spoke to the heart of what it means to be an American. In 2008, his words inspired a nation to choose a new path forward. In 2012, you could be there. We’re excited to announce that we’ll be sending a lucky supporter and their guest to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte! If you contribute $3 or more today, you will be automatically entered to win a trip to the convention — hotel and airfare included! It’s pretty rare that you get an opportunity to be a part of something that will be in the history books. This is your chance. Don’t miss out: http://dccc.org/Enter-To-Win Nancy
Even a RINO Can Make Ads To Be Proud Of – WTH is Wrong With Progs? <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oqDIjGsBEP8?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0"></iframe> Note: Scott Brown is running for reelection against Pocahontas in Massachusetts.
Because that's what he is and it's not a bad thing. It's the political reality of Massachusetts. As Ronald Reagan said, there should never be a litmus test to be a Republican. Each state must choose it's own representatives.
I asked because to me the term RINO denotes an absence of tolerance for someone who doesn't toe the line that conservatives believe he should follow. I know nothing about the guy other than he can't be a "true" conservative and get elected in Massachusetts. I find sad the level of intolerance by conservatives which makes them the mirror image on the right of the Pelosis and Reids on the other side. There is a huge chasm in between the two extremes which fosters the polarization that contributes to the inertia we see today. That's not governance for the benefit of the people. It's protection of one group's ideology at the expense of compromise for the greater good. Both sides are guilty. Excuse me while I step down from my soapbox.
RINO to me denotes someone who could become the next Jim Jeffords. He talks the talk, he takes money from Republican committees and donors and then turns his back on those that backed him. Yeah, I don't have tolerance for that type of individual.
:idea: There isn't going to be any compromise, because there can't be. The Democrats have lost all credibility. When Ronald Reagan made a deal with Tip O'Neil to cut taxes in favor of temporary tax increases, the lib/Dems never cut anything and made the increases permanent. When George H.W. Bush went back on his "no new taxes" pledge to compromise with them, the lib/Dems tossed the compromise in the trash and made his attempt at compromise the centerpiece of their political attacks, calling it, "The most famous broken promise in American history." When George W. Bush went to war, almost every lib/Dem voted for it, then almost immediately opposed the war as the "party of peace." It was the same betrayel that they had done with Vietnam...handing the Communists a victory they had never earned on the battlefield 2 1/2 years after the final shot was fired. The lib/Dems did it with the Patriot Act too...and waterboarding...all things that they overwhelmingly voted for and supported; only to deny it later and betray those who had attempted to work a compromise with them. A classic example of lib/Dem duplicity was the "No Child Left Behind Act." I'm surrounded by teachers who blame all failures in American education on that law and they blame George W. Bush and the Republicans for creating it and supporting it. (Most right-wing Republicans like me would NEVER support a federal intervention like that; on the contrary, we want to see the Department of Education abolished.) The truth is, "No Child Left Behind" was a compromise. It was written by Sen. Edward Kennedy's staff and he was it's chief sponsor in the Senate as chairman of the Senate Education Committee. The bill was sponsored in the House of Representatives by Nancy Pelosi, and ALL lib/Dem leaders...including Obama...supported it when it came up for renewal. Yet, even today all teacher's unions parrot the same nonsense, that kids can't learn because of the evil George W. Bush and "No Child Left Behind." Exqueeze me, but doesn't it take two to compromise? Then there was the first two years of the Obama Administration. Republicans weren't even allowed to read the bills or to discuss them. Laws that ran thousands of pages were handed to Republican leaders just hours before the scheduled vote. Obama himself set up 39 "Czars" to run the government without even asking the consent of his own party in Congress. We'll compromise with them, but this time: - The lib/Dems must cut first and reduce the size of the federal government. - All lib/Dems must be on record with their votes. No voting "present" on everything like Sen. Obama did. - The Congress has oversight, advise and consent responsibilities that are in the Constitution and those powers must be restored. Consitutional government has compromise built into it. Without it, there can be no compromise with tyranny.
"Compromising" with the Lib/Dems these days is just handing them a knife and turning your back. Attempting to kiss the viper another time is just plain stupid. They've destroyed any possibility of compromise in today's DC and they deseve to rot in the minority position.