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Obama Voters Express Regret In New USA Today Poll
inquisitr ^ | 10/19/14
Posted on 10/19/2014 9:56:44 PM by knak
Obama voters are having a case of buyer’s remorse, according to a new USA Today/Suffolk University poll in six states with key Senate races this November.
The number of likely voters “who can remember voting” for President Obama has turned out to be lower than the actual number that did, USA Today reports. And of those who confessed to helping reelect the president in 2012, one in seven said they now regret their decision.
Of the six states in the polling, only Kansas featured as many likely voters who remembered voting Obama as those who actually did (at 38 percent apiece.)
In the other states, it broke down in the following manner.
Arkansas had 37 percent Obama voters during the 2012 election, but now only 35 percent actually admit to it. Colorado’s percentage point drop was even steeper, from 51 percent in 2012 to 46 percent today. Iowa matched this with a drop of 52 percent to 47 percent.
Michigan fell the most, going from 54 percent to 48 percent, and North Carolina dropped from 48 percent to 43 percent.
USA Today didn’t stop there. Of the individuals who admitted to voting for Obama but now regret it, they shared the following responses.
Lois Rice, 61, Colorado: “I voted for Obama, but quite frankly I’ve been disappointed with his handling of the ISIS (Islamic State) issue and just some general economic issues.”
Kristopher Lane, 21, Iowa: “I’m kind of upset that I did vote for him… I was kind of pushed towards voting for him by someone I know.” Lane also expressed concern that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), President Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement, has turned out worse than promised.
Charles Franklin of Marquette University Law School attempted to explain the results.
“Voters who defect from their party to vote for the winner are more likely to ‘forget’ this over time and to report a vote more consistent with their current party identification. Reports of past vote also correlate with current preferences.”
Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune added that Obama voters may just be tired of seeing the President after six years.
“After six years in office, any president has been seen and heard too many times to satisfy the public’s relentless appetite for something fresh and new,” Page wrote.
What do you think, readers? First of all, if you were one of the Obama voters who ushered him into a second term, have you/do you regret your decision? And are these poll numbers a bad sign for Democrats in the battleground states next month?
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/1548696/obama-voters-express-regret-in-new-usa-today-poll/#vt1eeOiW3QWJSsIk.99
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Running Against Obama, Republicans Positioned for Midterm Sweep
Most of the battleground Senate races are trending in the GOP's direction, while Democrats are playing defense in the House.
By Josh Kraushaar
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Future Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell?(Chet Susslin)
October 20, 2014 In baseball, not long ago, there was a long-standing feud between scouts and number-crunching sabermetricians. Baseball traditionalists resisted the influx of new thinking into the game, while the data gurus too often adopted a dogmatic position that numbers always trumped personal reporting and observation. It quickly became obvious that the most successful teams are the ones that utilized a hybrid model—the best in scouting and statistics—and the Moneyball war in baseball subsided.
That's not all that different from what's happening in politics, where armchair pundits and number-crunching congressional-race modelers frequently overhype the latest polls, while downplaying the broader environment. They're directly related. The leading fundamentals of an election—presidential approval, right track/wrong track, and the congressional generic ballot, among them—are like "park effects" in baseball. If a hitter is playing in the thin air of Denver's Coors Field, it's much easier to hit a home run. Likewise, in a political landscape where the president is deeply unpopular, it's much easier for the messages of the other party's challengers to resonate, even if they're running weaker campaigns.
In July, I wrote that the odds of a nationalized election were growing because of that worsening environment for Democrats. Back then, there were clear signs that the red-state races were tilting in the GOP's direction, while Republicans were running surprisingly strong campaigns in swing states. Those trends have only solidified since then. The national environment can change over time—few could have predicted a panic over Ebola in the summer, for example—but it was hard to see the issues dragging down the president and his party subsiding by the fall. Now, it's becoming likely that Republicans will win more than the six seats necessary to retake control of the Senate.
Throughout this election cycle, the Democrats have been dogged by the president's health care law. Dissatisfaction over Obamacare, compounded by its disastrous rollout, sent the president's approval ratings tumbling. They haven't recovered. The law's popularity hasn't improved since then, even with the administration delaying unpopular provisions until after the midterm elections. When Democratic senators spent time strategizing on how to inoculate themselves from their past support of the law instead of defending it, it was clear that this would long remain a vulnerability for the party. Indeed, despite conventional wisdom that health care has diminished as a top issue in the midterms, it's still (by far) the dominant theme in Republican congressional campaign ads, according to The Cook Political Report's Elizabeth Wilner. Not only does it mobilize angry Republican voters, but it persuades disaffected independents as well.
In the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, support for the health care law isn't far from its all-time low, with 36 percent supporting and 48 percent opposing (a whopping 43 percent opposing strongly). After the health care website debacle in December 2013, 34 percent supported and 50 percent opposed. Its potency as an issue isn't too far off from 2010, an election where Republicans made historic gains in the House. Before the 2010 midterms, 36 percent of voters listed health care as one of their top two issues. Now, it's at 30 percent, ranking below economic growth, partisan gridlock, and military action against ISIS—but still a potent campaign theme.
Over the summer, worsening foreign policy was also an issue that looked bound to get worse for Democrats, not better. Presidential speeches and promises can only do so much in combating the reality of terrorists gaining ground in the Middle East and Russian President Vladimir Putin making a land grab in eastern Ukraine. As George W. Bush learned in his presidency, when events turn bad overseas, it's rare that they improve quickly. President Obama is now talking about defeating ISIS in terms of decades, not months or years. The limited airstrikes in Iraq and Syria have only had a limited effect, with the terrorist group creeping closer to Baghdad despite the U.S efforts. As a result, the president's approval ratings on foreign policy and national security—a first-term strength—have dropped to at or near all-time lows, and haven't recovered much with his prime-time address.
All told, the cascading number of controversies and scandals in the president's second term has fed into the perception that this administration is out of its depth in doing its primary job: managing government. And that's not good for Democrats, both the party in power and the party associated with an activist federal government. The dominant theme in the campaign's final month is Democratic Senate candidates struggling to distance themselves from the president, from Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor's awkward assessment of the president's handling of the Ebola crisis to Kentucky Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes's refusal to discuss whom she voted for in the 2012 election.
Republicans now are positioned to net between six and nine Senate seats in the upcoming midterms, with the higher end looking more likely. Most of the battleground Senate contests are now either trending in a Republican direction or remaining stable with a GOP advantage. Trailing in the North Carolina Senate race throughout much of the fall, Republican Thom Tillis has lately put Sen. Kay Hagan on the defensive by connecting her to the president's management of the ISIS threat and the outbreak of Ebola. In Colorado, GOP Rep. Cory Gardner has led in all of the six public polls released in October, with leads ranging from 2 to 6 points. Early voting data out of Iowa is looking favorable for Republican Joni Ernst, consistent with public polls showing her with a small advantage. The Cook Political Report recently moved the New Hampshire race between Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Scott Brown into toss-up status, indicative of polling showing Shaheen still ahead but with a rapidly narrowing lead. Outside of Kansas, political analyst Stuart Rothenberg now has Republicans holding an edge in all the red-state races, reflecting a nationalized environment against the party in power.
Democrats are hoping to upend the rough environment in conservative states like Kansas, Georgia, and South Dakota. All those GOP-held seats feature Republican candidates who have run weak races. Thanks to effective ads targeting David Perdue's history of outsourcing (and his ham-handed responses to the attacks), Democrat Michelle Nunn holds the momentum in the Georgia Senate race, though it's still likely to head into a January runoff. A late Democratic investment in South Dakota is keeping the four-way race competitive, but GOP reinforcements should push former Republican Gov. Mike Rounds over the finish line. Even Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, who has run a dismal campaign, has gotten some late traction against independent candidate Greg Orman, thanks to a flurry of outside GOP involvement. In a neutral environment, Democrats would hold a good shot at an upset or two. But in a nationalized midterm, Republicans should catch breaks in states where the fundamentals favor them.
All the trend lines in the House favor Republicans, as well. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee pulled their advertising in races that were expected to be among their most winnable, including against Rep. Mike Coffman Colorado, Rep. Dan Benishek of Michigan, and Virginia Republican candidate Barbara Comstock—moving the money to protect blue-district incumbents. Outside Republican groups are now spending millions on solidly Democratic turf, including districts in New York, California, and Hawaii where Obama won by comfortable margins. One senior House Democratic official told National Journal that internal polling in Iowa shows Ernst leading Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley in all three of the state's battleground seats, making it challenging for downballot House candidates to put away winnable races—even in Iowa's Democratic-leaning districts.
Put it all together, and it paints the picture of a nationalized election favoring the GOP. Democrats are hyping their superior turnout efforts, a similar argument to what Republicans employed before losing the House and Senate in 2006—and not (yet) backed up by the early voting evidence. While even Republicans are avoiding premature talk of a "wave" election, those type of labels often become apparent after the fact.
With anxiety over Ebola running high, renewed fears of terrorism, and most Americans not feeling secure economically, it doesn't take much imagination to see how voters could decisively punish the governing party. Republicans nominated their strongest slate of Senate candidates in at least a decade, and are benefiting from the fickle public mood. When Democrats are relying on winning races they weren't even planning to contest in South Dakota and Kansas, it speaks volumes about the state of play two weeks before Election Day.
This article appears in the October 21, 2014 edition of NJ Daily.
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http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/10/20/Obama-on-Fleeing-Midterm-Dems-These-Are-All-Folks-Who-Vote-with-Me
LOL - this is just what the GOP wanted him to say. Bye bye Dirty Harry
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/22/opinion/alison-lundergan-grimes-kay-hagan-and-other-candidates-avoid-obama.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
LOL - look at these losers now - the comments are hilarious
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AP Poll: GOP Seizes Significant Lead, Obama Disapproval Spikes to 60 Percent
Townhall ^ | October 22, 2014 | Guy Benson
Posted on 10/22/2014 1:31:30 PM by yoe
With the midterm elections less than two weeks away, a (new national poll) from the Associated Press features a parade of horribles for Democrats. This is not where a party wants to be in the home stretch of an election campaign:
(1) President Obama's approval rating among likely voters is (41/60), marking his worst disapproval number in the series. As the president has reminded voters in recent days, (Hell Yes, My Agenda is On the Ballot This Fall) of his policies are on the ballot in November, and vulnerable Democrats have been (stalwart allies) on behalf of his agenda in Washington. On issues, the president's numbers are egregious. (42/58) on the economy, healthcare and ISIS, (34/65) on immigration, and (38/62) on managing the federal government. The only issue on which Obama is above water is same-sex marriage, at (50/49). Obama's personal favorability is 10 points underwater (44/54) among likely voters.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
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http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/senate-democratic-officials-start-lashing-out-at-white-house-20141022
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A whopping 9% of likely voters “enthusiastic” about Barack Obama
Hotair ^ | 10/23/2014 | Jazz Shaw
Posted on 10/23/2014 10:52:16 AM by SeekAndFind
You can tell that the press is losing interest in covering the 2014 elections. Not only are the tides of fortune not looking all that promising for the Democrats, people in the media’s target demographic – younger, predominantly Democrat voters – just don’t seem that excited or interested in hearing yet another story about how their candidates are getting kicked around. But just how dismal are they feeling? A new poll conducted by the Associated Press and Gfk put a different spin on the usual questions which voters are asked.
Rather than just asking people whether they “approve” or “disapprove” of the job the President is doing – and how strongly – they decided to mix things up and ask how “enthusiastic” or “angry” they are about Obama. As the WaPo describes it, the results are, if anything, worse than the original numbers.
The AP-GfK poll asked the approve/disapprove question, finding 17 percent of likely voters said they strongly approve of Obama and 44 percent strongly disapprove. But then it asked a separate — and we would argue, more enlightening — question about the Obama administration. It asked how people felt about it, and gave them four options: “enthusiastic,” “satisfied but not enthusiastic,” “dissatisfied but not angry,” and “angry.”
That would seem to be a pretty good analogue for the approve/disapprove question, but the answers are quite a bit different. While 17 percent of likely voters “strongly approve” of Obama, just 9 percent say they are “enthusiastic” about his administration.
On the other side, 34 percent say they are “angry” about Obama’s presidency. Again, that’s less than the 44 percent who “strongly disapprove” of Obama.
While there is little doubt that the level of enthusiasm for Barack Obama across the country – in both parties – is likely cratering, I’m not convinced that the shift in numbers between those two polls is all that indicative of a trend. What it may be, at least in part, is a matter of wording and the way people react to particular phrases, which is a huge factor in the science of polling. If you use a word like “angry” in a question, it’s just never going to ring up the same kind of numbers as other choices such as unenthusiastic or disapproving. That’s because people can’t help protecting their own self-image, even in an anonymous poll. Most people don’t like to think of themselves as angry because that carries an inherent connotation of a loss of control. It’s a parallel to the modesty most individuals feel. In repeated surveys, more people will say that they think they are wise than smart. It’s all about self-image.
But that shouldn’t come as too much consolation to the White House. No matter whether the answer is 9% or 17% those are still some pretty awful numbers.
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Most important elections in a long, long time...
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Most important elections in a long, long time...
yep, since way way back in 2012
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If Republicans take back the Senate they can continue their strategy of doing absolutely nothing for the next two years
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If Republicans take back the Senate they can continue their strategy of doing absolutely nothing for the next two years
Good - I don't want anything being done since that worthless communist in the WH is useless. I am voting for Obama to be stopped from doing anything
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Good - I don't want anything being done since that worthless communist in the WH is useless. I am voting for Obama to be stopped from doing anything
Weren't you supposed to leave after the 2012 elections
Remember the self indulgent threads you started counting down to your departure
Kind of reminded me of an insecure 7th grade girl with all narcissistic phony drama
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Weren't you supposed to leave after the 2012 elections
Remember the self indulgent threads you started counting down to your departure
Kind of reminded me of an insecure 7th grade girl with all narcissistic phony drama
And that has to do with Obama dragging down the dems due to his failed presidency how?
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If Republicans take back the Senate they can continue their strategy of making sure Obama does absolutely nothing destructive for the next two years
Fixed
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And that has to do with Obama dragging down the dems due to his failed presidency how?
this election reminded me of that election
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Fixed
Obama has done a lot of stuff
Remember your side thinks he's a ruthless dictator
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Obama has done a lot of stuff
Remember your side thinks he's a ruthless dictator
Harry Reid has nothing to do with this does he?
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Harry Reid has nothing to do with this does he?
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The house has sent hundreds of bills to Harry Reid he wont even bring up for a vote. Why not blame him too moron?
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The house has sent hundreds of bills to Harry Reid he wont even bring up for a vote. Why not blame him too moron?
that argument works well on simpletons such as yourself
Are these bills "sitting on Harry Reid’s desk awaiting action"?
Resolving this claim is murkier.
First, a technical problem. It’s an oversimplification to say that these bills are "sitting on Harry Reid’s desk." Many have been assigned to committees, where they would need to be approved before being taken up on the floor. While Reid has influence over what committee chairs do, a chair can -- using their own powers -- decide to either fast-track or stall a bill coming over from the House.
Another complication: In at least some cases, the Senate is working on a bill on the same topic, but without using the House bill as a starting point. "The disposition of a House bill is not particularly relevant to measuring Senate legislative activity," said Steven Smith, political scientist and Senate specialist at Washington University in St. Louis.
We should also note that in the Senate, one member -- either from the majority or the minority -- can stop a bill in its tracks by threatening to filibuster -- a delay that requires 60 votes to break. Reasonable people can disagree about whether Reid or Senate Republicans are the biggest offenders -- we previously addressed some of those issues -- but the experts we checked with said both parties share at least some of the blame.
"There's plenty of blame to go around," said Donald Wolfensberger, a former Republican House aide now studying Congress at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Wolfensberger sees Reid as the bigger offender by blocking bills and amendments "to protect his vulnerable members who are up for re-election in November. You can blame the threat of filibusters and politically sensitive amendments from Republicans, but politics ain't bean bag. Senators were sent there to cast the tough votes, not to be pampered, protected and coddled by their leaders."
Others see Republican threats as the bigger problem.
"It is true that some bills, including some of substance, are being blocked by Reid from action because he wants to avoid Republican amendments of the ‘gotcha’ variety that could work against some of his endangered incumbents up this fall," said Norm Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "You can make a case that the role of the majority is to suck it up and do votes, even if some are uncomfortable. But on the balance sheet, the bigger reality is that very few of the bills passed by the House were aimed at compromise or agreement with the Senate."
A spokesman for Jenkins, Thomas W. Brandt, told PolitiFact, "Only Sen. Reid can bring these bills up for a vote, and if he did, it would go a long way in ending the legislative gridlock currently plaguing Washington."
Adam Jentleson, a spokesman for Reid, countered by noting that there are 50 bipartisan Senate-passed bills awaiting House action. (Here's the list.) http://www.politifact.com/senatebills/
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/aug/06/lynn-jenkins/rep-lynn-jenkins-blames-harry-reid-do-nothing-sena/
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LOL - yeah the socialists have 2/3 of the govt and somehow its the GOP's Fault
FNG fool
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This is really not any news at all. Two things about midterm elections :
1 - Dems have historically never done really good in the mid terms with any consistency.
2 - The opposing party of whoever is sitting in the WH generally have the best chance of making any gains from the mid terms.
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This is blockbuster news, because the Republican Party is dead. I read it right here on getbig.com.
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Oh it's dying all right. Being consumed from within.
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Oh it's dying all right. Being consumed from within.
The GOP is slated to pick up 8 Senate seats alone.
Senate Democrats wont even admit to voting for Obama let alone supporting his disastrous agenda
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There are people on this board who defend Obama more then a shit ton of sitting dem senators who owe their very political life to barry and his bullshit
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The GOP is slated to pick up 8 Senate seats alone.
Senate Democrats wont even admit to voting for Obama let alone supporting his disastrous agenda
And lose how many in return when Hillary runs?
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This is blockbuster news, because the Republican Party is dead. I read it right here on getbig.com.
One can only hope but there are to many stupid voters for that to happen.
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One can only hope but there are to many stupid voters for that to happen.
::) Which candidate will you be pretending to vote for in this election?
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::) Which candidate will you be pretending to vote for in this election?
Probably Hillary.
But what i am gonna enjoy the most will be the republican debates.
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any polls on voter enthusiasm for this election vs 2006 and 2010?
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/10/24/could-non-citizens-decide-the-november-election
:( >:(
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/10/24/could-non-citizens-decide-the-november-election
:( >:(
rush did a great piece on this recently. He said in Jan, they advertised childcare for the flood of illegals that "spontaneously" arrived in March. All planned.
And he said they made a govt contact for a printing company. They needed to be able to print 9 mil green cards this year, and 34 million over the next 3 years. AMNESTY!
This was all on rush limbaugh on thursday afternoon. He absolutely made the case that voter cards were the goal of amnesty cause the vast majority of illegals was going to become a dem.
But hey, no need to impeach obama, right? Shaking my head. :(
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/10/24/could-non-citizens-decide-the-november-election
:( >:(
This can't be, there is no voter fraud, I read it on getbig..............
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/us/politics/on-campaign-road-uneasy-democrats-show-obama-their-tail-lights.html
Lmfao. Failbama is toxic
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-midterm-momentum-belongs-to-gop/2014/10/27/6cb63a74-5e0d-11e4-9f3a-7e28799e0549_story.html
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Failbama is toxic
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/10/economic-political-discontent-make-for-a-midterm-double-punch/
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http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/house-dems-fret-debilitating-losses-112248.html?hp=t2_3
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/27/democrats-in-blue-states-in-peril-as-republicans-r/
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/28/new-poll-dems-faring-worse-than-2010/
:D
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Obama So Unpopular, Even MA Dems Don't Want Him Campaigning in Their State
Townhall.com ^ | October 29, 2014 | Donald Lambro
Posted on 10/29/2014 10:39:38 AM by Kaslin
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WASHINGTON - Americans go to the polls in seven days to cast their votes in a midterm election that's shaping up to be an angry outcry over the disastrous direction of the country.
For the past six years, the Democrats have effectively been in charge by virtue of the fact that Barack Obama sits in the White House, setting policy, and his party is in control of the Senate (at least for now) that can block any legislation passed by the House Republicans.
But even though Democrats control the major gates of power, Obama and his party have sought to convince the voters that all of their mistakes and failures are the result of the GOP or the previous Republican administration.
That duplicitous shell game worked for several years, but in the end, discerning Americans learned who was really to blame for all of their woes -- and said so when they put the GOP back in control of the Democratic-run House in 2010.
And are likely to inflict the same punishment next week on Majority Leader Harry Reid and his gang of Democrats in the Senate.
Over the last half dozen years, the national news media took great pleasure in endlessly reciting polls showing how unpopular the Republicans had become since the 2008 recession.
But they are unsurprisingly quiet about recent polls that show the Democratic Party's approval scores plunging to their lowest rating in decades.
A Washington Post/ABC News poll released Sunday found the disapproval rating for Democrats in Congress has now risen to its highest point in two decades.
This is the political environment that the Democrats are facing when voters go to the polls on Nov. 4
in what will be a nationwide referendum to decide which party should be in control of Congress for the last two years of Obama's trouble-plagued presidency.
Have you noticed that the president has been unusually subdued in the last few weeks? He has been beaten down by events and his own circumstances, seldom making any major news, or at least the kind that makes the front page or leads the nightly news shows.
The country is in the midst of a competitive, down-to-the wire, midterm election battle and Obama isn't getting a lot invitations and pleas from his party's besieged candidates to campaign for them.
Quite the contrary, the message has gone out to the White House from Democrats in tight races that his is so unpopular, the best thing he can do for them is to stay as far away as possible. So Obama has been relegated to campaigning only in dyed-in-the-wool Democratic states where his party's candidates are not in trouble.
Indeed, even in some heavily Democratic states, where he won big in 2012, he is being asked to stay out. It didn't get the attention it deserves, but Obama was asked not to go into Massachusetts to campaign for Democrat Martha Coakley who is running behind her Republican opponent, Charlie Baker, in the race for governor.
Obama easily carried the liberal Democratic state by 23 points, but now he is the kiss of death for any Democrat in a tight race. Democratic political pros were hard pressed to think of a time when their party's president couldn't campaign in a midterm election in Massachusetts.
With his approval polls sinking to near 40 percent (the same percentage of people who tell the Gallup poll they're "struggling" in this economy), he's no longer the political force he once was. Instead, he has become his party's political albatross.
It is hard to remember a president who has been the cause of so many unpopular reforms -- from Obamacare -- whose costs are still mounting, to an anemic economy that millions of Americans say is in a recession. It won't make the nightly network news tonight, but the latest evidence of this economy's chronic weakness came out Tuesday
when the Commerce Department announced the nation's durable goods orders fell in September for the second month in a row.
The report revealed a 1.3 percent decline in business demand for machinery, computers and other goods which suggests a sluggish economy.
That followed an 18.3 percent decline in August that signaled businesses were "reluctant to invest in updating equipment," the Bloomberg Business News reported.
The housing sector isn't so hot, either. U.S. sales of new homes were close to flat in September. Not a good sign in a struggling economy.
As for the jobs issue, Americans are justified in taking the Obama administration's 5.9 percent unemployment rate with a huge grain of salt. For one thing, it leaves out millions of workers who tell government pollsters they've stopped looking for full-time work because they can't find work. So they are not counted among the jobless.
The administration's shady employment numbers are swollen by part-time, "underemployed" workers who say they need full-time work to make ends meet.
The Gallup Poll, which conducts its own, and probably more accurate employment survey, puts the jobless rate at 6.2 percent and the all-too-often ignored underemployed rate at 15 percent.
Then comes a Federal Reserve study that found the median household is now worth less than it was back in 1989.
Despite Obama's claim that we're doing better than we were before he was president, economics analyst Matt O'Brien, who writes for the Washington Post's Wonkblog, suggests that's not true.
"The new harsh reality is that the bottom 90 percent of households are poorer today than they were in 1987," he writes.
The good part about these elections is that the voters will have a chance to register their disapproval of Obama and the Democrats. The bad part is that after the votes are counted, Obama will still be in office for another two years.
But if the Republican campaign goes according to plan, he will be a president without a majority party behind him or a viable agenda -- while a revitalized GOP reaches out to rebuild and expand its party in preparation for the 2016 presidential election to come.
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http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/millennials-bolt-obama-for-gop-in-midterms-20141029
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/us/politics/from-democrats-election-focus-on-racial-scars.html?_r=1
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NOTHING TO SEE HERE.........Presidents in their second term are always unpopular and the politicians who want to be re-elected run away from the president in droves during the mid-terms........ 8)
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NOTHING TO SEE HERE.........Presidents in their second term are always unpopular and the politicians who want to be re-elected run away from the president in droves during the mid-terms........ 8)
Gaybama was supposed to be different remember? The one we were waiting for? LMFAO!
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Gaybama was supposed to be different remember? The one we were waiting for? LMFAO!
sigh...ALL presidents advertise themselves as "different" and "change agents"...Romney did the same thing
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sigh...ALL presidents advertise themselves as "different" and "change agents"...Romney did the same thing
Difference is that you believed in Obama so much that you were in tears remember? Remember Benn'y thread about Obama and Egypt and you were near crying over your messiah?
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Hill panic: 300-600 Senate Dem staffers would be fired in GOP win
Washington Examiner ^ | October 30, 2014 | Paul Bedard
Posted on 10/30/2014 12:22:53 PM by Parmenio
With projections of a GOP win growing daily, nervousness in Senate committee offices has turned to panic as an army of Democratic staffers braces to be fired, replaced by a Republican majority and their aides.
The spoils of political war? Estimates are that 300-600 Democratic committee and personal staff jobs would be on the chopping block if the Republicans pull off the expected victory.
“There will be a mass exodus of Senate Democrat staff from committees,” said one insider.
And Republicans will get to hire hundreds more aides. A loss on Tuesday that keeps the Democrats in charge of the Senate will cost no GOP jobs, other than those working for retiring lawmakers.
Under a Senate deal cut by Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the funding and staff breakdown on committees is about 60 percent for the majority, and 40 percent for the minority. It had been two-thirds majority, one-third minority, but the GOP cut the deal in order to keep their minimum funding at 40 percent.
Also getting hit would be the offices of Reid and other Democratic leaders.
For Democratic staffers, the potential layoffs couldn’t come at a worse time. According to officials, some will find jobs in the Obama administration, but those openings are few and will last only two years. And Hillary Clinton’s team is already loaded up with long-time aides, leaving few policy jobs for outsiders.
"There will be nowhere in the downtown private sector to go. Maybe 10 percent can find a slot in the Obama administration. It will be ugly," said a former White House aide now working on K Street.
That's because many lobbying firms are full-up with Democrats.
And there are already a sizable number of Democratic staffers already looking for work since their bosses are retiring.
“It could be a lot of individuals. And that’s not even counting all the people looking for work now with a retirement coming up,” said a key Senate Democratic staffer.
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Difference is that you believed in Obama so much that you were in tears remember? Remember Benn'y thread about Obama and Egypt and you were near crying over your messiah?
as I recall it, YOU WERE THE ONE IN TEARS after Romney lost because you believed so badly that he would win.....so much so that you disappeared from GETBIG for awhile.....TRUE????...and lets not forget all the other conservative losers you embraced along the way such as Palin and Herm.
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as I recall it, YOU WERE THE ONE IN TEARS after Romney lost because you believed so badly that he would win.....so much so that you disappeared from GETBIG for awhile.....TRUE????...and lets not forget all the other conservative losers you embraced along the way such as Palin and Herm.
Nice deflection. Want me to bump the thread again where you said you were near tears crying because you thought Imam Ayatollah Obama El Baracki was doing such a wonderful job in the ME?
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Nice deflection. Want me to bump the thread again where you said you were near tears crying because you thought Imam Ayatollah Obama El Baracki was doing such a wonderful job in the ME?
I still think he's doing a wonderful job.....nothing he could do would ever please you.....will you admit that you cried for Romney??????????
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I still think he's doing a wonderful job.....nothing he could do would ever please you.....will you admit that you cried for Romney??????????
Wonderful Job? ha ha ha ha ha!!!!! GMAFB - ha ha ha ha for real ?
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http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/30/landrieu-obama-and-i-arent-popular-in-the-south-because-its-racist-and-sexist
Unreal. Hey you stupid c word - OBAMACARE - don't you fng get it!
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Wonderful Job? ha ha ha ha ha!!!!! GMAFB - ha ha ha ha for real ?
His legislative record is quite impressive considering he had no one to work with on the other side of the aisle who dd everything they could to tear him down.....he has a nice list of achievements
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His legislative record is quite impressive considering he had no one to work with on the other side of the aisle who dd everything they could to tear him down.....he has a nice list of achievements
Like what? IdiotCare?
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I still think he's doing a wonderful job
You would think that since you don't have two brain cells to rub together.
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Like what? IdiotCare?
Universal Healthcare has enabled more and more Americans to have health insurance which is saving us a ton of money....and regardless of what the Tea Party and conservatives say, it is catching on big time with Americans.....so much so that Republicans no longer want to totally abolish it like they wanted to...and many Republican states are starting to sign up for it as well.....
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Universal Healthcare has enabled more and more Americans to have health insurance which is saving us a ton of money....and regardless of what the Tea Party and conservatives say, it is catching on big time with Americans.....so much so that Republicans no longer want to totally abolish it like they wanted to...and many Republican states are starting to sign up for it as well.....
Put down the chooms
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Universal Healthcare has enabled more and more Americans to have health insurance which is saving us a ton of money....and regardless of what the Tea Party and conservatives say, it is catching on big time with Americans.....so much so that Republicans no longer want to totally abolish it like they wanted to...and many Republican states are starting to sign up for it as well.....
How many of those people are actually paying into the system? Recall that the system was supposed to be supported by young working people. That hasn't happened yet.
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How many of those people are actually paying into the system? Recall that the system was supposed to be supported by young working people. That hasn't happened yet.
people have been paying.....it may not last but as of now they are paying in sufficient numbers...keep trying
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people have been paying.....it may not last but as of now they are paying in sufficient numbers...keep trying
You are correct about more people starting to pay. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/18/us-usa-healthcare-enrollment-idUSKBN0HD27T20140918
You are incorrect about this being a good piece of legislation. Premiums have increased. Doesn't it bother you that the president repeatedly promised a $2500 decrease?
Obamacare, Year One: 78 Percent Premium Hikes
10/29/2014
In its first year, Obamacare hiked health insurance premiums by up to 78 percent, according to a new analysis comparing insurance costs before and after Obamacare.
HealthPocket, a nonpartisan health insurance research company, analyzed government data on individual health insurance premiums in the 2013 market before Obamacare reforms and 2014′s Obamacare exchanges, and the results are in: Average premiums are higher for all ages– far above the norm for annual increases.
Young customers have been hurt the worst by Obamacare– a big potential problem for the Obama administration, which failed to attract enough young and healthy customers during the first round of exchange enrollment. But people just several years away from Medicare have been hit with double-digit hikes as well. The average, non-weighted premiums across three different age groups are higher by over 20 percent for both men and women.
The hardest hit are 23-year-old men, who are being charged 78 percent more this year than they were in 2013; 23-year-old women pay a paltry 45 percent more in 2014 than they did before Obamacare. The picture isn’t much rosier for 30-year-olds, though: The average premium rose 73 percent for men, and 35 percent for women.
Men are seeing their premiums skyrocket because Obamacare bans insurers from charging women more — even when they use more health care services. The health-care law also requires insurers to cover a boatload of services in every plan, whether customers want it or not. Included in that 78 percent-higher premium for 23 year-old men: maternity and newborn coverage– just in case.
Of course, seniors are paying for those services as well. For the 63-year-old age group, just two years away from Medicare eligibility, men were dealt a 22.7 percent increase, while women’s premiums are 37.5 percent higher.
Obamacare’s more popular provisions are causing the rate hikes as well. Because insurers are required to accept customers with pre-existing conditions, insurers are incurring additional costs from chronically ill patients.
The study doesn’t include subsidy payments, which the Obama administration often points to when discussing Obamacare premium hikes. The taxpayer-provided subsidies cover some of the price hikes for customers between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level.
With high double-digit hikes, however, the prices are still likely to hit home for many people, including taxpayers. Middle-class earners are likely feeling Obamacare cost increases twice-over: once in their own health insurance costs, and once again in their tax bill.
The largest price hikes likely came over the past year, when Obamacare’s biggest reforms took place– and customers may see another surge in 2017, according to experts, when an Obamacare provision cutting down on risk for insurers will end. And insurance prices are likely increasing in 2015 as well. The administration will be releasing data on 2015 premiums in November– just after next week’s midterm elections.
During his 2008 campaign, Obama made a promise for a $2,500 cut in annual health care costs for the average family, and while that’s long out the window, he’s continued to tout supposed Obamacare savings. As recently as Oct. 2, he told an audience at Northwestern University that premium hikes have slowed.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/29/obamacare-year-one-78-percent-premium-hikes/
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So what are the Obama excuses on Wednesday?
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So what are the Obama excuses on Wednesday?
He'll still be your president on Wednesday?
and since the repubs lack the balls you do (on impeachment), he's not going anywhere.
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Centerforpolitics just changed the projection to Republicans 50 with 3 toss up states to Republicans coming in with 53 seats including runoffs.
About what I have been thinking the past couple weeks...Republicans ultimately come in with 52 or 53 seats.
(http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/content/images//2014-11-03%20Senate%20Map%20(600).png)
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Centerforpolitics just changed the projection to Republicans 50 with 3 toss up states to Republicans coming in with 53 seats including runoffs.
About what I have been thinking the past couple weeks...Republicans ultimately come in with 52 or 53 seats.
(http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/content/images//2014-11-03%20Senate%20Map%20(600).png)
That is the projection I've heard most often.
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Projected Senate wins so far: McConnell in Kentucky, Graham and Scott in South Carolina.
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Capito wins West Virginia.
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Tim Cotton wins Arkansas. That's plus two in the Senate.
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Rounds wins South Dakota. Plus three.
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Fng moron in Louisiana
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Rick Scott wins re-election!
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The Democrats have done such a great job. Not surprised they've taken back the house and will retain the Senate. Smart move, embracing Obama and persuading him campaign for them. Obama is such a popular president these days, being associated with him it's a sure win.
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The Democrats have done such a great job. Not surprised they've taken back the house and will retain the Senate. Smart move, embracing Obama and persuading him campaign for them. Obama is such a popular president these days, being associated with him it's a sure win.
Agreed. This election is a strong vote of confidence in Obama and Democrat policies.
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Depression at msnbc. Lol. Fuck ypu libfags
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Florida Rejects Medical Marijuana [60% Approval Needed: 57% Voted Yes]
CNN ^ | November 04, 2014
Posted on November 4, 2014 11:52:54 PM EST by Steelfish
Florida Rejects Medical Marijuana By Dan Merica, November 4, 2014
Florida voters rejected a proposal on medical marijuana in Florida, according to a CNN projection Because the law was a constitutional amendment, it needed 60% approval Marijuana proposals are also on the ballot in Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C. Washington (CNN) -- Voters in Florida have given the thumbs down to medical marijuana in the the Sunshine State, according to a CNN projection. The measure - which is one of many on ballots in 2014 - would have legalized the use of medical marijuana in Florida and would have tasked the state's Department of Health with regulating it.
Because the measure would have altered Florida's constitution, supporters needed 60% for the question to pass. Only 57% of voters voted yes, compared to 43% who voted no with 91% of vote reporting. Marijuana activists, while disappointed by the loss in Florida, were upbeat about their cause.
"While it's disappointing that patients in Florida won't be able to find legal relief with marijuana just yet, tonight's result does show that a clear majority of voters in the sunshine state support a new direction," Tom Angell, Chairman of the Marijuana Majority told CNN. "We didn't get the 60% needed to pass medical marijuana as a constitutional amendment, but patients and their supporters will keep pushing until the law reflects what most voters want."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
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Rick Scott wins re-election!
Those Florida races are almost always interesting!
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240 voted for who? ;D.
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Andrea Mitchell: 'President Obama Was a Drag'
NBCNews ^ | November 04, 2014
Posted on November 5, 2014 12:01:53 AM EST by Steelfish
Andrea Mitchell: 'President Obama Was a Drag'
Democrats may be wishing President Obama sat this one out. With Republicans poised to take control of the Senate and making gains in the House of Representatives, it seems that Obama's charisma cache may have run out, NBC's Andrea Mitchell pointed out to Brian Williams on Tuesday.
"First of all, what (Tuesday night's early results) tells us about this campaign, this election, is that President Obama was a drag," said Mitchell. "Look at Kentucky ... Two-thirds of the voters in Kentucky, had a negative view, did not like President Obama. That was an enormous headwind for Alison Grimes. You wondered why she was refusing to say whether she voted for president Obama. That’s why!"
In exit polls on Tuesday, 44 percent of voters said they approve of President Barack Obama, but 54 percent disapprove. And despite 79 percent of voters saying they disapprove of the job Congress is doing, Obama appeared to be the lighting rod at the polls.
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Holy fucking shit.... GOP looks to be picking up 9 seats in the Senate. IL and Maryland elect R governors. With Snyder, Walker and Kasich cruising to re-election, GOP now has governors in OH, MI, IN, IL, WI and IA.....been around for a long time, don't recall that ever happening before.
This is a complete repudiation of big government liberalism...can the dems move back towards the center in time for 2016? They better start marching because it should be abundantly clear even to the most ardent lefty that their brand of governance has fallen out of favor...again
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I didn't like the legalization thing, but wow, 57% of people here wanted it. So much for democracy.
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I didn't like the legalization thing, but wow, 57% of people here wanted it. So much for democracy.
You're closer to the atmosphere down there than all of us...could we see legalized recreational pot within the next 10 years in Florida?
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You're closer to the atmosphere down there than all of us...could we see legalized recreational pot within the next 10 years in Florida?
oh, it'd pass if they re-ran it tomorrow.
I had SO MANY pot users with records saying "If I could vote for it, I would!"
EVERYONE down here smokes pot. Except me, I hate smoke due to contact lenses, always have. And since i"ve been born my family is full of lazy potheads who live in poverty, so I always connected the two (I know that's not the case, but I suspect how my chemistry will react).
People were VIOLENTLY angry about losing this. I havent seen this much passion on an issue in my entire life. And it's funny how many folks I know are closet stoners too lol.
Still, personally, I was against it, and pretty vocal about it - until they have a DUI test for stoners, I don't want it. Too many idiots drinking or texting when speeding on our undeveloped roads. last thing I wanted was pot added to the mix. Road is FULL of distracted people. Pot doesn't exactly help with focus and reaction time lol...