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Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1980
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
Filed under Barack Obama, Elections, Jimmy Carter, Mitt Romney, Ronald Reagan
True, it was a lovely Saturday in May, lots of reason for kids to be cramming for finals or outside enjoying the weather. But this was the President of the United States who was wildly popular with young voters in 2008. And the Obama campaign boasted an expected overflow crowd. They didn’t get one, but this embarrassment was expertly cover up by most of the big media outfits. They’re good at that, having had plenty of experience in covering up for Teh Won over the last four years.
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Sources:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/05/obama_kicks_off_his_campaign_to_half_empty_arena.html
https://twitter.com/#!/RyanGOP/status/198825335670833152
Filed under Barack Obama, Elections, Media Bias, Mitt Romney
My absolute favorite is the parchment-y one, third column, fifth row.
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Filed under Elections
NOTE: I GOT AN EMAIL FROM PETE. He’s having technical difficulties and can’t get the Grudge Report up. Feel free to use this one as a place to share good links today, k?
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Death of the Moderate . . . Democrat
By Erick Erickson – April 27, 2012
It is worth noting that on Tuesday several moderate Democrats went down in flames in Pennsylvania, continuing a trend that has escalated since 2008. Liberals do not want moderate Democrats in their caucus.
What is most interesting about it from a conservative perspective, however, is how there has not been a ton of coverage about the death of the blue dogs — more dogs dead in Barack Obama and the left’s war on dogs. Had moderate Republicans been defeated, we would have major stories on pretty much every news network and on the front page of every paper in America.
Routinely we hear that Republicans cannot win in New England, despite Republican successes in New England in 2010. Routinely we hear about the GOP driving moderates out of the party. Big tent cliches surround the stories. Rarely does the ongoing purging of the Democratic Party make such news.
In fact, the Democratic Party has become increasingly hostile to moderates, though the media rarely cares to focus on this because the reporters who’d pay attention often are to the left of the moderate Democrats and proclaim their position the center. Those moderate Democrats are, therefore, well outside the mainstream.
I do not lament the decline and fall of the Blue Dog Coalition. The United States remains a center-right nation and Democrats must continue to run as “centrist” to appeal in swing states. Their true colors ruin their chances. The fewer “centrists” they have, the more difficult it becomes for them to appeal to voters, including Hispanic voters who continue to be some of the most socially conservative voters in America.
Read the rest @ http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/04/27/death-of-the-moderate-democrat/
Filed under Democrats, Elections, Republicans
Posted by Pistol Pete
Doing this post is one of the few things I enjoy that isn’t illegal,immoral or fattening.
If you can’t find anything of interest today,you’re way too fussy
Filed under Barack Obama, Elections, Funny Stuff, Medicare/Medicaid
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Filed under Democrats, Elections, Republicans
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In the video, Hare claims to have read the bill multiple time. He is challenged on that score with a little math. The bill is 2,700 pages long. Calculating a minute per page to read and comprehend, just one reading would take 45 hours. Multiple readings? Puh-leeze.
Hare also could not specify where in the Constitution it gave Congress the right to force people to buy products they don’t want. The Constitution is 6 pages long.
Even the Supreme Court justices who are considering its constitutionality are loathe to actually READ the whole of the so-called Affordable Care Act.
After a lawyer suggested the justices might go through the bill and decide which parts were constitutional, Justice Scalia said, “You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages? And do you really expect the court to do that? What happened to the Eight Amendment?” (The Eight Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.)
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https://polination.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/kagan-refusing-to-recuse-on-obamacare/
Filed under Constitution, Democrats, Elections, Obamacare, Republicans, Supreme Court, Tea Party
When you consider the garbage he’s pulled when he still had a re-election campaign ahead of him, this is really really frightening!
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Source:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/president-obama-asks-medvedev-for-space-on-missile-defense-after-my-election-i-have-more-flexibility/
H/t Pete @ https://polination.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/the-monday-grudge-32/
Filed under Barack Obama, Elections, Foreign Policy
Democrats currently hold 53 seats in the United States Senate.
67 sitting Senators are not up for reelection. If none leave, say to serve in the next President’s cabinet or something, they will bring 30 Democrat seats and 37 Republican seats to the 113th Congress.
33 seats are up for reelection. An analysis of these races by Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, resulted in 16 that will probably go Democrat and 9 that will probably go Republican, resulting in absolute balance between parties at 46 to 46.
According to Sabato’s analysis, eight races can’t be called. These are:
1. Florida – Rep. Connie Mack IV (R) and incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson (D) are neck and neck, with a large number of undecideds.
2. Massachusetts – MA is a deep Blue State, but Republican Sen. Scott Brown (R) has been making all the right moves lately. Politics isn’t all about the issues, and to the extent Brown can make this race more about Bay State blue-collar culture, and less about specific issue stances, the better his chances become.
3. Missouri – Incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) is trailing all of her potential GOP challengers at Rasmussen, but the primary won’t be until Aug. 7, so it will be awhile before we know who is actually running against her.
4. Montana – The incumbent, Sen. Jon Tester (D), is running about even with the likely GOP challenger, Rep. Denny Rehberg (R).
5. Nevada – Rep. Shelley Berkley (D) is running to unseat appointed incumbent Sen. Dean Heller (R). No clear advantage to either at this point.
6. New Mexico – Democrat Jeff Bingaman is retiring. The parties have yet to choose their candidates.
7. Virginia – Democrat Jim Webb is retiring. The likely ballot this fall will be George Allen (R) vs. Tim Kaine (D). Many say this will be the most competitive Senate race in the country.
8. Wisconsin – Democrat Herb Kohl is retiring. The Senate primary won’t be until Aug. 14.
If Sabato’s analysis is correct, the race for partisan control of the Senate will be agonizingly tight.
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Sources:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/erikajohnsen/2012/03/22/balance_of_power_the_2012_senate_tossups
http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/tilting-the-toss-ups-the-eight-races-that-will-decide-the-senate/
H/t: https://polination.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/the-friday-grudge-33/
Filed under Democrats, Elections, Republicans, U.S. Senate
Will wonders never cease! Following the 2010 census, DEEP BLUE New York was forced to surrender two of its 29 seats in the United States Congress. (That means, we also will have 2 fewer electoral votes this fall, thank God.)
Following the utter failure of our State pols to agree where the new districts should go, a panel of federal judges took over and decided for them.
And none too soon, I might add, seeing as New York candidates for Congress have to begin collecting signatures to qualify for a spot on the state’s primary ballot and kinda sorta need to know what districts they’re going to be running in. Duh.
Amazingly enough, the judges decided to go with compact, common-sense districts, putting people together based on geography and population density, rather than on how they’re likely to vote or on where the current incumbents happen to live.
The new map eliminated the mid-Hudson Valley district represented by retiring Democrat Maurice D. Hinchey, as well the Brooklyn-Queens district formerly represented by Democrat slime-bucket Anthony Weiner.
Weiner’s special election replacement, Republican Bob Turner, is seeking the Republican nomination to challenge Democrat Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand who occupies the seat Hillary Clinton vacated to become Secretary of State.
I’m feeling very schadenfreude-ish* over the fact that The Socialist Republican of Ithacastan is no longer gerrymandered to benefit the red diaper babies and effete elite ivory tower types, but instead is grouped with the rural, predominantly Conservative and Republican, wine-and-dairy counties of southwestern New York. Hee hee hee!
*Would you believe? Schadenfreude-ish is actually in the WordPress spell check dictionary! LOL I spelled it wrong at first, but it’s correct now, in case you’re ever wanting to use it. Such a cool word, dontchathink?
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