The marketing of conservative women by the Right is even more boldly impressive when juxtaposed against the Democratic brand today. You’ll understand after you read Rick Pearlstein’s acerbic assessment of the new Democratic logo, which is emblematic of the 2010 malaise. It’s the manifestation of the weakness of the Democratic Party in the era of [...]
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2010: Obama and Democrats Face Independent Problem
Obama’s job approval rating among independent voters stands at just 39%; 50% disapprove of the president’s job performance. Still, Obama’s rating among independent voters is higher than George W. Bush’s was in September 2006 (29% approve/57% disapprove). – Pew Poll When Republicans took out Tom Daschle they did it with John Thune. Today, Tea Party [...]
Conservative “Pledge to America” is Meant for Straight Men
Oh, and it was written by a lobbyist. Sam Stein: The Republican Party’s 21-page blueprint, “Pledge to America,” was put together with oversight by a House staffer who, up till April 2010, served as a lobbyist for some of the nation’s most powerful oil, pharmaceutical, and insurance companies. It’s not a good sign for Republican [...]
CBS/NY Times Poll: 68% Disapprove of Republicans in Congress; 58% of Dems
Republicans are heading into the general election phase of the midterm campaign backed by two powerful currents: the highest proportion of voters in two decades say it is time for their own member of Congress to be replaced, and Americans are expressing widespread dissatisfaction with President Obama’s leadership. But the latest New York Times/CBS News [...]
Pres. Obama Tries Trading on 2008 Persona
For the first time in more than four years, Republicans run about evenly with Democrats on the basic question of which party they trust to handle the nation’s biggest problems. Among registered voters, 40 percent say they have more confidence in Democrats and 38 percent say they have more trust in Republicans. Three months ago, [...]
The Summer of Democratic Discontent
As a 2012 ad pushing Hillary for Pres. hits the airwaves, a laughable idea, Pres. Obama finds himself down and out on every front. It’s been a very bad summer, with Democrats not running on their health care “accomplishments,” they can’t run on a recovery that never happened, plus there is a general feeling among [...]
Glenn Beck on Best Behavior, Hate Speech Returns Monday
Front Page Feature on Huffington Post –bumped– King’s niece, anti-abortion activist Alveda King, was one of many minority speakers and awardees, a group that also included St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols, a native of the Dominican Republic, who received an award for promoting hope. Like Beck, Alveda King linked the rally to her [...]
2010: Boehner Shouldn’t Measure for Drapes; Dems Should Go Hard Negative
While Politico warns that insider Democrats feel their prospects are “worsening,” which isn’t a bad bet at all considering the economy, Roll Call has a contrarian view, seeing anything but a foregone conclusion for Democrats losing the House. It’s interesting for one reason, which keeps tugging at my mind. There are likely as many Republicans [...]
Clinton Impeachment Hack McCollum Loses to Fraudster Scott
Public Policy polling got it right, with Quinnipiac and especially Mason-Dixon, blowing their predictions. Scott’s win a final humiliation for Florida Attorney General McCollum, one of the self-righteous Republicans who wielded weight during impeachment and paid for it when he tried to run for Senate in 2000. Floridians took pity on him making him attorney [...]
2012: Room Growing for An Independent
Dan Balz has a column up about Obama advisers holding on to hope for 2012, grabbing the Gipper’s political story as a lifeline. I hope it gives them comfort, but it misses the picture by a mile. First, the economy today is much worse than what the U.S. was suffering under Reagan, plus the politics [...]
Dr. Laura Follows Sarah Palin, Offers Dumbest Quitter Excuse Ever
“I want to regain my First Amendment rights,” she said. “I want to be able to say what’s on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, [...]
Sestak and Bloomberg Show How It’s Done
…As its defenders point out, the Community Center at Park51 will occupy not a solitary inch of the 16-block site on which the Twin Towers stood. Once built, the center will indeed house a mosque, “open and accessible to all” — but also a swimming pool, basketball court, auditorium, library, day-care facility, restaurant and cooking [...]
Mosque Politics
What Barack Obama and his White House political team haven’t learned could fill a large notebook at this point. But you’d think they would have at least learned from George W. Bush’s two-term presidency. The American electorate care less if a president is right than if he stands up strongly even when wrong. This last [...]
Pres. Clinton Saved PA-12, Boosted Romanoff, But Can Bill & Hillary ‘Save the Democrats’?
It’s hardly surprising that a president stands to play a commanding role in the fall campaign. But who would have guessed it might not be Barack Obama, but Bill Clinton? – Can Bill Clinton Save the Democrats? It’s not a matter of fighting the Clinton versus Obama battle. It’s tactical electoral practicalities at this point. [...]
Missouri Says No to Health Care Mandate
For now call it purely symbolic. See the failed efforts if you’re skeptical. But the mandate without the public option is a loser and always has been, as I’ve been writing from the start. That the Show Me state, where I was born, was the first to weigh in and say so doesn’t surprise me [...]
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