GOP strategists cannot like what they’re seeing
So this is what it looks like on Sept. 20, 2012, 47 days to the election that Newt Gingrich kept calling the most consequential since 1860:
In the presidential race, Mitt Romney remains neck and neck with Barack Obama in both the Rasmussen and Gallup tracking polls, with most of Obama’s post-convention bounce eroding. Other recent polls, however, show Obama building a significant lead. The latest Pew poll puts Obama up eight points; the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll puts him up five.
But Romney’s real problems show up at the state level. In the swing states that he has to have — Ohio, Virginia, Florida — poll after poll shows his situation deteriorating significantly. At a point in the campaign where he has to be shrinking the margin, the margin is growing. Fox puts Romney down seven in Ohio, down five in Florida and down seven in Virginia.
Republican hopes to take the Senate, a goal the party once deemed a near certainty, seem to be collapsing as well. In state after state, the numbers are turning. Massachusetts, Florida, Virginia, Connecticut, Ohio, Wisconsin — in every crucial state in which fresh numbers are available, the tide is strongly Democratic. Last night in red Arizona, a new poll put Democrat Richard Carmona up by five over U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake, the first lead Carmona has enjoyed. Other polls will be needed to confirm that switch, but back in June, Rasmussen gave Flake a seemingly insurmountable 16-point lead.
“I’m not one for hyperbole,” Nate Silver of Fivethirtyeight tweeted last night. “But GOP Senate map is imploding. Chance of a takeover now just 21%.”
Most if not all of these numbers were generated before release of the video of Mitt Romney speaking a little too candidly to a roomful of donors. But GOP candidates all over the country are explicitly rejecting those remarks, running from them like Japanese villagers fleeing Godzilla. In Washington yesterday, Senate Republican leaders abandoned the microphones rather than take questions on the subject. (Rich Lowry, editor of the conservative National Review, has an admirably frank analysis of Romney’s distorted mindset at Politico.)
Even if you don’t put much credence in poll numbers, watch and listen to the Republican political professionals. If you don’t believe it, they do. Some are already in blame-shifting or recrimination mode, or trying to tamp down panic. Their internal polls are apparently telling them what the public polls are telling the rest of us. They also understand that if this turns out to be what it looks like — a broad and significant shift toward Democrats — Democratic control of the House, once considered little more than a far-fetched dream by party leaders, could — I stress could — become a possibility.
On the GOP side of the ledger, 47 days is a long time in politics, and Romney still has three debates against Obama in which to turn things around. He has a lot of money yet to spend, both in his own campaign coffers and through “independent” campaigns funded by wealthy conservatives. Outside events could also intervene. (However, his ham-handed approach to events in Egypt and Libya don’t inspire confidence in his ability to turn that to his advantage, should it occur.)
Finally, electoral waves that build too early have a way of cresting and receding by the time Election Day comes around. So it ain’t over, not for a while yet.
But something does seem to be going on out there.
– Jay Bookman
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larry
September 20th, 2012
11:30 am
Rquest prayer for him also as he likes to “assassinate” that way.
Like AQ’s No. 2 man in Yemen.
If it was a Repub president doing this, it would be a brillant military move.
But since it’s a Democrat president doing this, its assassination.
Interesting…
getalife
September 20th, 2012
11:30 am
jm,
The history between China and Japan has always been ugly.
Oscar
September 20th, 2012
11:32 am
Jm – The problem is education funding has not been used appropriately
————
There is a simple cure for that. We should start using funds the way they should be used – appropriately.
Emory made a change this year. More changes should be made.
ByteMe - Got ilk?
September 20th, 2012
11:32 am
Interesting that the Hardees “news” only appears on the Newsmax site. Not in a press release, not on the Hardees site, nowhere else.
Only conspiracy theorists will blame everyone else for not picking up on this “news”.
Obambarrassment
September 20th, 2012
11:33 am
First things first: Mike Luckovich is a dweeb.
As to the Bookman post: But something does seem to be going on out there.
Reminds me of the SNL news skit: <"You know, there are a lot of folks out there..
Real profound guys. $16 trillion in debt already, ambassadors being killed, and we’re looking at the monumental effect on opinion polls from what Romney said in May.
Reminds me of another SNL skit: “A new poll today found that Americans are sick of polls, studies and surveys”
Liberals are a walking variety show–so little substance otherwise.
Is this what it’s going to be Mr. Bookman? … Penetrating regurgitation of opinion polls day-in, day-out till the election?
Regnad Kcin
September 20th, 2012
11:34 am
“There maybe some Independents who generally vote Republican who don’t believe what Romney said but that number is probably rather small”
Just enough to swing the election…
getalife
September 20th, 2012
11:34 am
When we were losing 800,000 jobs a month, the stock market and housing were collapsing, the gop minority leader said his number one focus was to make our President a one termer.
In a sane country, this would end the gop party.
Jm
September 20th, 2012
11:34 am
Skydog’s 11:26 victim alert!
Skydog – your assertion is frankly, not true
Brosephus™
September 20th, 2012
11:34 am
It is nice to focus on the one person but a single payer would essential mean ALL the people at United Health Care would be laid off. Of course the government would have to hire people to oversee healthcare.
A single payer is essentially a HMO with a monopoly.
My position all along is that we need a hybrid system. The country already has the infrastructure in place to implement it too. Use the state health clinics as a single payer type of basic health care provider. Only the basics and preventive care could be done there, but give people the option of maintaining their current provider as well. Using a single payer style here would free up insurance for what it’s intended purpose is, and that is to provide catastrophic coverage. Let insurance companies and hospitals deal with emergency and non-standard things.
As to staffing, open up slots in medical school programs and make spending time in basic care in the clinics as part of the degree program. Offer graduating students the choice of doing 3-5 years to retire half of their medical school debt, give them more incentive for doing more years beyond that. Once they complete their time in the clinics, then they can go back for specialized study. That way, you have enough doctors to staff primary clinics to account for the increase in patients. You pretty much eliminate the need for people to go to the emergency room for routine treatment. And you eliminate some, most, or all of the debt incurred by doctors from medical school.
TaxPayer
September 20th, 2012
11:35 am
The Romney/Ryan/Republican Reform is very simple. They will crush, kill, destroy the leeches that consume that which rightfully belongs to the makers and take back what is rightfully theirs. No more welfare moochers, no more food stamp takers, no more unemployment money taken from the wealthiest, no more medicaid scum, no more redistribution of money from the makers to the social security and medicare takers. You see. Simple.
Welcome to the Occupation
September 20th, 2012
11:35 am
Erwin’s cat: “As you rally against capitalism….what do you want to replace it with?”
I want to replace it with a better system.
Normal Free...Pro Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
September 20th, 2012
11:36 am
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 20th, 2012
11:23 am
I guess that I feel the need. Last weekend I questioned your military service. Jackie set me straight. I apologize for that. We see things a lot differently, you and I, but we we both members of the greatest armed service in the world. I respect your service to our country.
As an aside, I have always believed that “violence is the last refuge of the incompetent” and I take it one step further that , war is the last refuge of an incompetent administration, hence my starting to question your service. War affects us all differently, I guess, and for me, war was always a very stupid thing. One day maybe we can get together and talk about it. I’ll buy.
A whisper in Medvedev's ear
September 20th, 2012
11:36 am
Fast forward to November – but the exit polls even had him in the lead. I can’t believe this is happening.
larry
September 20th, 2012
11:37 am
I read that Tim Pawlenty has left the Romney campaign to go to work as a bank lobbyist. Big suprise there. I guess the rats are starting to leave the ship.
And no , i didnt read that on a commie site.
cobbmom
September 20th, 2012
11:37 am
I can’t take it anymore. The conservative’s right response to anything they consider negative is to blame the “liberal media”. Good grief you people are stupid. You are always yelling about poor people needing to take responsibility for their choices but when it comes to your choice for a presidential candidate who is a twit you instead blame the media. It’s not the media’s fault that Romney speaks out of another body orifice instead of his mouth most of the time. It’s Romney’s fault for being a misinformed twit! Take responsibility for YOUR choices and quit blaming the media for reporting the FACTS.
Jm
September 20th, 2012
11:38 am
Oscar 11:32 – yes. The federal government needs to chain too
No student loans except for STEM. Cap funding at for STEM at $25k per year.
TaxPayer
September 20th, 2012
11:38 am
Do yourself a favor and research charitable giving between parties. You might learn something.
Better yet, you could present your evidence.
Obambarrassment
September 20th, 2012
11:39 am
larry,
On the contrary. When our ambassador is assassinated in Libya by a coordinated attack (an act of war), the Obama administration considers it not a brilliant military move, but a random one. We’ll see if the administration can ever bring itself to admit that it was an attack and that it wasn’t at all prepared, a la Jimmy Carter.
Liberals, you sure have your handle on labels.
Verbal Kint
September 20th, 2012
11:39 am
What was that term the Obama campaign used in 2008? Oh yeah, punch back twice as hard.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama#.UFr-ZFLEWXF
Jm
September 20th, 2012
11:39 am
Getalife 11:30
Not in recent history
This is new
Rising china
Weak America
Bad combo
getalife
September 20th, 2012
11:40 am
cobbmom,
Well said.
They are clearly unhinged.
Thomas
September 20th, 2012
11:41 am
me thinks there is some noise and baffle going on in the #s
All fun and games for those folks with nothing better to do- does anyone like that Dick Morris character?
The below from FiveThirtyEight blog from the NYTimes
At about 1:30 on Wednesday afternoon, I tweeted in exasperation: “The. Polls. Have. Stopped. Making. Any. Sense.”
I’d just seen a Marquette University poll of Wisconsin, which put President Obama 14 points ahead of Mitt Romney there. This came after a Rasmussen Reports poll of New Hampshire, published earlier that day, which had given Mitt Romney a three-point lead in the Granite State.
There is no plausible universe in which Mr. Obama wins Wisconsin by 14 points but loses New Hampshire by three. It’s not even obvious which of the states is more favorable for him. Earlier this week, for instance, we’d seen a Wisconsin poll putting Mr. Obama up just one point there, while a different survey of New Hampshire gave him a five-point lead.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 20th, 2012
11:41 am
DRUDGE REPORT: 1 BILLION PAGE VIEWS IN PAST 31 DAYS! FIRST TIME IN SITE’S 17 YEAR HISTORY… DRAMA, DANGER, LIFE AND LOVE… IT’S ALL HAPPENING NOW…
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barking frog
September 20th, 2012
11:41 am
Jm 11:39
How is America weak?
Is Obama’s post-convention bounce over? | Latest News & Headlines
September 20th, 2012
11:41 am
[...] for Obama. The president’s bounce nationwide does appear to be “eroding,” says Jay Bookman at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Still, the new picture looks bad for Romney. “In the swing states that he has to have — [...]
godless heathen
September 20th, 2012
11:42 am
Good grief you people are stupid.
And that’s when I stop reading.
getalife
September 20th, 2012
11:44 am
jm,
America is not weak.
Your party is.
KatyWatts
September 20th, 2012
11:45 am
DeborahInAthens, how dare you? You are a perfect example of the closed minded elitists that feel they will be labeled racist if they don’t vote for Obama. I’m voting for Romney not because of those “pesky social values” you sneared about in your diatribe. I am pro-choice. I think that Ellen DeGeneres and Portia DeRossi are one of the classiest couples in Hollywood. I love that I can buy beer on Sunday. But what you socialists don’t get is that Obama is spending this country into bankruptcy. And that’s all I care about. I’m sick to death of this government thinking it is their right to take my hard earned money and “share the wealth”. You can walk down any city street and the poor are all around. So where is the money going? Thought about that??? My husband lost his job shortly after Obama was elected. And all Obama can do is blame Bush???? REALLY???? Hasn’t this administration ever heard of mea culpa? Have you???????????????????
ByteMe - Got ilk?
September 20th, 2012
11:45 am
Good grief you people are stupid.
And that’s when I stop reading.
Moral of the story: if you’re going to insult your audience, do it at the end.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 20th, 2012
11:46 am
What was that term the Obama campaign used in 2008? Oh yeah, punch back twice as hard.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama#.UFr-ZFLEWXF
drudgey spam
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
September 20th, 2012
11:46 am
Well, next time we’re going to run the Silent Republican. We’ll nominate him and then tape his mouth shut. We’ll feed him thru his veins. We’ll just run a bunch of billion buck ads and show his picture. Then he can’t screw up.
Have a good Thursday everybody.
nelson
September 20th, 2012
11:46 am
I like what I am seeing of the GOP. They have a very successful business man and politician running for the nations highest office. If he were to be defeated, all the crying and complaining about the economy being in the dumps will be their own doing. That is what i would call justice.
Oscar
September 20th, 2012
11:49 am
Jm No student loans except for STEM. Cap funding at for STEM at $25k per year.
________
Agree that student loan program needs to change. $25K per year is too high. Should be limited to cost of an in state education at a state school. Does not cost that much to go to a public university.
Adam
September 20th, 2012
11:49 am
Latest Rasmussen: Obama up two, up three with leaners, at 50 percent with leaners.
B
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MMMMMMMM!
getalife
September 20th, 2012
11:49 am
He went from disdaining 47 % to the 100 % President overnight.
It’s a miracle.
Steve Shamrock
September 20th, 2012
11:50 am
“I think the trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution,” he said, “because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure everybody’s got a shot.”
-Barack Obama
If you look at Obama’s actions over the past 4 years…this is truly where we are headed…Socialism!!
Welcome to the Occupation
September 20th, 2012
11:52 am
Tim Pawlenty making out big, lining his pockets, taking full advantage of the utterly corrupt, hollowed out klepto-system of revolving doors, connections, and privilege that is our political system.
Too bad the current occupant of the White House can’t make a peep. Not the administration that had Larry Summers and Tim Geithner working for it, it can’t.
Jm
September 20th, 2012
11:52 am
Frog getalife
Maybe you haven’t noticed the trillion dollar deficits and 8% unemployment, and super slow growth
The rest of the world has
Verbal Kint
September 20th, 2012
11:52 am
What a brilliant response, Kam. Brilliant.
larry
September 20th, 2012
11:53 am
Liberals, you sure have your handle on labels.
Labels? When someone was being critical of the President using drones to kill AQ but does not offer up another way to kill them, or as he says, ” assassenate” them.
If it was a Republican using this strategy, he would have said nothing.
Obambarrassment
September 20th, 2012
11:54 am
cobbmom,
The anger tells me that the truth is bugging you. Good.
If we weren’t living in a left-slanted world where the media wasn’t in a slobbering love affair with Barack Obama I might get angry with your statement and be confounded like you are.
However, what you write is complete nonsense.
We attack the media because the media doesn’t report the trutth about Obama as it does about Romney. Obama hasn’t answered true questions from the press in weeks, since well before the Democratic convention, and a lot has happened in that time. We have had ambassadors killed, diplomatic personnel slain and their bodies dragged through city streets.
If a republican were in charge now, during these atrocities, the media’s attention would be, shall we say, slightly less apathetic about demanding a response from the President.
Instead, we have a churlish attack based on our old friend, class warfare, the 1%, the 47%, Romney’s tax returns, whatever….
We weren’t born yesterday, Cobbmom. We remember Dan Rather and the false story about George Bush’s military service in the 2004 election October suprise, and that story wasn’t even true. We remember how the press turned on John McCain after favoring him in the primaries, and we see it happening now again with Romney.
And we’re not whining. Most of us are entirely fed up, we’re activists, Tea Party, sick of the spending, tired of the brushing off of a pending financial crisis and most of all, sick of a media that manipulates the undecideds in this country with entirely slanted coverage. Believe us when we say that without the media’s full-throated advocacy for him, Obama would already be down 15 points in every single poll in the country, at least.
I can’t imagine how the media would portray Romney any differently, focussing on this one nearly meaningless tape, if the mediia themselves were on the Obama payroll. They provide an incredible amount of cover and free propaganda for the President. All the while, our economy, our sovereignty, our freedom and our safety hang in the balance….. while you guys call Romney an insensitive rich guy and poke microphones in the faces of all capitol hill republicans.
Ask Joe Biden what he thinks of “you didn’t build that!” and you’ll see some whining straight away, Cobbmom; and you know it. .
Jm
September 20th, 2012
11:54 am
Oscar 11:49 agreed
Steve Shamrock
September 20th, 2012
11:55 am
Obama – The Redistributor in Chief
UNCLE SAMANTHA
September 20th, 2012
11:56 am
why can’t OBAMA can’t get growth and jobs during his Presidency?
its his skill set……… he was trained and has experience at COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
great skills to get elected
but not great skills for creating jobs
and THE LOST DECADE BEGINS
Steve Shamrock
September 20th, 2012
11:56 am
Obama – 8.1% Unemployment and $16 Trillion in Debt
straitroad
September 20th, 2012
11:57 am
All things considered, Romney is in pretty good shape for the final leg of the campaign. Obama is down about 6% from where he was against McCain and Romney is up about 3% campared to McCain at this time in 2008. Given the state of the country with the debt, unemployment, failed foregin policy, and general negativity it’s a miracle that Obama is still in the race. I suspect the numbers will begin to turn shortly after the debate season.
Welcome to the Occupation
September 20th, 2012
11:57 am
Steve Shamrock, actually you’re almost right. It really should read:
George W. Bush and Obama – 8.1% Unemployment and $16 Trillion in Debt
ByteMe - Got ilk?
September 20th, 2012
11:58 am
Aw steve shamrock, why did you not print the full quote:
Obama: I think the trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level to make sure that everybody’s got a shot. How do we pool resources at the same time as we decentralize delivery systems in ways that both foster competition, can work in the marketplace, and can foster innovation at the local level and can be tailored to particular communities.
Oh, that’s right, because selectively editing the quote makes your point better. When your point — and the entire Republican Presidential campaign — has to be based on lying to voters, don’t you think you’ve already lost? No?
Normal Free...Pro Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
September 20th, 2012
11:58 am
Steve Shamrock-regurgitater-in-chief…
paulo977
September 20th, 2012
11:59 am
US in UK….”and yesterday’s vote in which the GOP turned its back on vets isn’t going to help any”
_______________________________________
Oh yes …this was an endorsement of Romney’s distaste for ‘workers’ and whom he describes as ‘freeloaders’!!!!!!
Doggone/GA
September 20th, 2012
11:59 am
In the whole clip, Obama says:
I think the trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level to make sure that everybody’s got a shot. How do we pool resources at the same time as we decentralize delivery systems in ways that both foster competition, can work in the marketplace, and can foster innovation at the local level and can be tailored to particular communities.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2012/09/what_obama_really_said_about_r.html
Fomiesha
September 20th, 2012
12:01 pm
“…poll after poll shows his situation deteriorating significantly.”
Sure. I seem to remember several months before the last election polls indicated TSPLOST was going to win, too. Keep in mind that lots of people deliberately lie to pollsters.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
September 20th, 2012
12:01 pm
Steve
Its really 14.7% because both parties have quit counting those that DROP OUT of looking for work and those that are UNDEREMPLOYED (mba at mcdonalds drive thru)
but dont forget obama’s other #’s
160+ fundraisers
100+ rounds of golf
and 1 meeting with his JOBS COUNCIL this year
at least he cares about 1 JOB
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 20th, 2012
12:02 pm
What a brilliant response, Kam. Brilliant.
(shrug)
drudgey spam deserves nothing more.
Welcome to the Occupation
September 20th, 2012
12:02 pm
Steve: “If you look at Obama’s actions over the past 4 years…this is truly where we are headed…Socialism!!”
Steve.
Steve.
I think your seat in the 3rd hour next to Morality? is missing and the principle is going to come looking for you soon. The bell rang a good 35 minutes ago. Shouldn’t you be getting back to class soon?
Aquagirl
September 20th, 2012
12:02 pm
The anger tells me that the truth is bugging you. Good.
Immediately followed by a long, rambling, paranoid screed.
Cons peg out the irony meter again.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 20th, 2012
12:03 pm
Obambarrassment @ 11:54
Thanks for that entertaining post of fictional nonsense. I am still laughing. Especially at the “believe us”
Do you do a dance with that post? http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2012/09/19/navy-vmi-oregon-duck-psy-gangham-style/70000737/1
getalife
September 20th, 2012
12:03 pm
mccain tried the same lie and failed steve.
Try some original poo to sling.
barking frog
September 20th, 2012
12:04 pm
Jm
How has the rest of the
world reacted to this
‘weakness’ ?
Verbal Kint
September 20th, 2012
12:06 pm
Kam – How does the Washington Examiner (a news outlet) qualify as Drudge? Please explain. Was Matt Drudge the author???
The only thing I can believe is that anything that might be slighly negative towards Obama MUST be a lie because, well, Salon Mag, Rolling Stone, MSNBC and Chris Matthews told me so..
ByteMe - Got ilk?
September 20th, 2012
12:06 pm
Its really 14.7% because both parties have quit counting those that DROP OUT of looking for work and those that are UNDEREMPLOYED (mba at mcdonalds drive thru)
And in January 2009 as the worst economic recession in a lifetime kicked in, what was that number?
13.9%.
You’re whining about .8%, silly.
Butch Cassidy (I)
September 20th, 2012
12:07 pm
katywatts – “But what you socialists don’t get is that Obama is spending this country into bankruptcy.”
An apparently you don’t get is that Obama can’t spend anything without the approval of Congress. Please, share with us your utter disdain for the Republican led House and their out of control spending habits.
Nostradomus
September 20th, 2012
12:07 pm
In other words we have a 79% chance of people electing to continue on a path of a failed economic recovery and the bankrupting of the nation. You reap what you sow voters and in 2-4 years you’ll be reaping an economic and financial collapse that will make the W recession seem like a walk in the park.
ByteMe - Got ilk?
September 20th, 2012
12:07 pm
Oh, for a link where I got the U-6 from January 2009:
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_02062009.pdf
Lord Help Us
September 20th, 2012
12:07 pm
‘We have had ambassadors killed, diplomatic personnel slain and their bodies dragged through city streets’
YOU LIE!! (h/t – Joe Wilson)
SBinf
September 20th, 2012
12:08 pm
T-Paw is leaving the Romney campaign. To mix a metaphor, it appears he doesn’t want to hitch his wagon to that sinking ship.
If Pawlenty had any thought that Romney were going to win, he’d be hanging around through the election to wait for a cabinet position.
Mittens is done.
Butch Cassidy (I)
September 20th, 2012
12:08 pm
Steve Shamrock – “If you look at Obama’s actions over the past 4 years…this is truly where we are headed…Socialism!!”
When are your parents coming for you?
ByteMe - Got ilk?
September 20th, 2012
12:08 pm
path of a failed economic recovery
30 straight months of employment growth is a “failed economic recovery”? Move the goalposts much?
Jm
September 20th, 2012
12:09 pm
Frog 12:04
Our enemies are emboldened silly
To do things they might not otherwise do
Like send naval warships into Japanese territory
Adam
September 20th, 2012
12:09 pm
Labels?
You mean like:
Statist
Communist
Marxist
Socialist
Fascist
Libt*rd
Labels like THAT?
Adam
September 20th, 2012
12:09 pm
ByteMe: 30 straight months of employment growth is a “failed economic recovery”? Move the goalposts much?
Since January 20, 2009, anything less than 100% success = FAILURE
Normal Free...Pro Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
September 20th, 2012
12:09 pm
Keep,
…and to think guys like those were my officers…oy
getalife
September 20th, 2012
12:10 pm
The economic numbers look good jm.
Bad news for you.
Great news for our country.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 20th, 2012
12:10 pm
The only thing I can believe is that anything that might be slighly negative towards Obama MUST be a lie because, well, Salon Mag, Rolling Stone, MSNBC and Chris Matthews told me so..
For honest-to-god journalism I go here:
http://news.mcclatchy.com/
Anything else is varying forms of infotainment.
DannyX
September 20th, 2012
12:11 pm
“In other words we have a 79% chance of people electing to continue on a path of a failed economic recovery and the bankrupting of the nation.”
Or maybe it’s because the nation is being responsible for not wanting to give the keys back to the drunk driver.
getalife
September 20th, 2012
12:12 pm
cnn reports nothing but speculation in Libya.
Wait on the FBI report instead of gop lies.
USMC
September 20th, 2012
12:12 pm
Romney’s quest for the White House is DONE!
Pawlenty stepping down signals the END of Mittens! LOL!
Pawlenty steps down from Romney campaign to head bank lobbying group…
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-financial-regulation-pawlentybre88j0ll-20120920,0,2490314.story
Butch Cassidy (I)
September 20th, 2012
12:12 pm
Nostradamus – “In other words we have a 79% chance of people electing to continue on a path of a failed economic recovery and the bankrupting of the nation”
Followed immediately by a 100% chance of your head exploding.
getalife
September 20th, 2012
12:13 pm
usmc,
He cashed out.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 20th, 2012
12:13 pm
Normal…. In your day they were doing the YMCA.
Or was that just Senior Digits? 
ByteMe - Got ilk?
September 20th, 2012
12:13 pm
Like send naval warships into Japanese territory
Really? How many “warships” does China have? About 100. How many do we have? Over 400. Some of ours are submarines, which are probably right up near their boats and they won’t even know it.
You stress about silly stuff.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
September 20th, 2012
12:13 pm
byteme logic
underemployed people need to be grateful for obama since in 4 years they still cant find full time employment to what they had
celebrate staying put
here comes the LOST DECADE
brought to you by both liberals and conservatives………..
partners in crime
barking frog
September 20th, 2012
12:13 pm
Jm
China and Japan are both
our allies. No warships in
our territory. Japan is
deliberately antagonizing
China by occupying Chinese
territory.
Welcome to the Occupation
September 20th, 2012
12:15 pm
Steve Shamrock:
See, Shammy, if you were really someone who was serious about engaging in a serious debate you wouldn’t just plop down the word “socialism” as an end of the conversation, but instead would present an argument with some coherence, with some evidence leading up to that conclusion. You might, for example, realize that all manner of facts fly in the face of the ’socialism’ charge, not least of which is the plummeting government employment we’ve seen under Obama. Another example would be the statement I alluded to yesterday in which this president stated clearly his belief in the private sector as the true engine of real sustained job growth. Any socialist who would make such a claim would probably have to turn in their socialist badge, don’t ya think?
But then maybe I’m naive for expecting people in the age of FOX News and Sean Hannity to demonstrate any real knowledge of political systems.
ByteMe - Got ilk?
September 20th, 2012
12:16 pm
byteme logic
underemployed people need to be grateful for obama since in 4 years they still cant find full time employment to what they had
Nope. My logic is you shouldn’t hand the keys back to the drunk drivers just because they claim they’ll do better when they can’t remember what they did wrong in the first place.
Your logic? Do tell.
Aquagirl
September 20th, 2012
12:16 pm
Obambarrassment @ 11:54 Thanks for that entertaining post of fictional nonsense. I am still laughing.
“Hey, angry woman—CLASS WARFARE LAMESTREAM MEDIA IN OBAMA’S POCKET DAN RATHER TEA PARTY AIN’T GONNA TAKE THIS NO MORE TEOTWAWKI YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT!!!!!”
I’m disappointed Area 51 didn’t make it in there.
ByteMe - Got ilk?
September 20th, 2012
12:17 pm
I’m disappointed Area 51 didn’t make it in there.
As a noun or a verb?
Cobbian
September 20th, 2012
12:17 pm
One of the things costing Romney support is the continuing Republican onslaught on issues important to women. The Issa Committee meetings were a disaster, the Blount Amendment was a disaster, the Senate Republicans blocking the “fair pay” bill is remembered by women. The Republicans House bill that stripped out protection for gay women who are abused just because they are gay is unbelievably stupid – and totally partisan political pandering by placing the life of some women at risk. Equally remembered iare the repeated efforts by the Republicans in the House to defund Planned Parenthood and limit abortions.
Planned Parenthood to most women is not about abortions, but it is about access to contraceptives and basic health care needs for women, especially poor women. It took all those years since 1970, when the federal government first recognized the importance of contraceptives to protecting women’s health, for the availability of contraceptives to slowly grow, as state after state passed legislation requiring coverage of contraceptives in health insurance prescription drug benefits sold in those states. By the time the Affordable Care Act was passed, 28 states had such a requirement.
Women are also beginning to add up what is happening at state levels when the Republican legislatures pass or try to pass such stupid bills as those that include “probes” of women’s bodies and even the ill conceived “personhood” amendment, such as the one that failed to pass in exceedingly conservative Mississippi.
I have a very conservative Republican sister who is spitting mad about all this and is teetering on either just not voting or, a horrible thought to her, even voting for Obama. And it all has to do with keeping contraceptives in health insurance, keeping abortions legal, and keeping the job market fair in its treatment of women. We are seeing the Republican led governments roll back decades of hard won equal protection for women in our states and in the nation.
getalife
September 20th, 2012
12:17 pm
frog,
It is about oil rights to those islands.
This is what happens when you are addicted to oil.
While the gop senators were on the floor lying about our President, Lisa Murkowski from Alaska stood up and said they are to blame for our addiction to oil and they could change that fact.
I almost fell out of my seat.
JKL2
September 20th, 2012
12:18 pm
adam- And equal opportunity means everyone gets an education, food, shelter, and all of the things necessary to make them have equal footing with their peers in the job market
ROFL! Please come back from liberal fantasy land and join us in the real world.
Life has winners and losers. Hard work is supposed to be rewarded. Wealth redistribution has been a dismal faiure throughout history. Quit rewarding people for sitting on the couch.
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” Ben Franklin
Democrats: Patriotically destroying our country!
UNCLE SAMANTHA
September 20th, 2012
12:20 pm
byteme
you are so blinded by your liberal rage that you can’t understand that i dislike both parties
but being an illogical emotional liberal, you assume
both parties have taken us to $16+ trillion in debt
and to argue that its the other sides fault and not mine
is like children
of which Congress represents BOTH PARTIES
which both act like children
JamVet
September 20th, 2012
12:21 pm
Our enemies are emboldened silly
To do things they might not otherwise do
Like send naval warships into Japanese territory
You are in a word, daft.
They have ALWAYS been emboldened…
Its really 14.7% because both parties have quit counting those that DROP OUT of looking for work and those that are UNDEREMPLOYED (mba at mcdonalds drive thru)
What part of that has been the way the unemployment numbers have been counted for FORTY YEARS alludes you?
Sam, isn’t it finally time you willfully ignorant read on on the thing you profess to have knowledge of???
Maybe not…
getalife
September 20th, 2012
12:21 pm
jk,
” join us in the real world.”
Please do but don’t think you can.
Perhaps after the election but still don’t think you can.
You are lost in la la land.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 20th, 2012
12:21 pm
Aquagirl, if Area 51 makes it into his dance video all can be forgiven.
With a guest appearance by Michelle Bachman.
Joe Hussein Mama
September 20th, 2012
12:22 pm
D. Abernethy — “If Democrats win it all I guess those of us who are strong conservative Christians can expect to be thrown to the lions because America will be just like Rome in the days of Nero.”
The way y’all cry and moan, people would think you’re *already* being munched on by lions.
getalife
September 20th, 2012
12:24 pm
Uncle Sam.
Which party votes for the middle class?
USMC
September 20th, 2012
12:24 pm
“usmc, He cashed out.”–Getalife
TYPICAL CON!
Geaux Dawgs!
Madmax
September 20th, 2012
12:24 pm
I see the Barack is not responsible for anything crowd is back in action. We can’t possibly hold him accountable for anything according to the left because that would be just too unfair. What a bunch of crap. Is he the president or not? If he is, he is accountable to all of the citiizens of this nation. The debt is his, the tax cuts are his, Medicare is his, etc.. If he can’t be held accountable then he should vacate the office.
Normal Free...Pro Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
September 20th, 2012
12:26 pm
USMC
September 20th, 2012
12:12 pm
USMC,
Look at it this way, he saw he was on the Titanic and decided to leave before it hit the iceberg…
Lord Help Us
September 20th, 2012
12:26 pm
‘If he can’t be held accountable then he should vacate the office.’
Translation: None of the feces we are throwing has stuck, so he should leave…