**updated** This morning on CNN’s “Early Start,” Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin zeroed in on Rick Santorum’s latest English first gaffe in Puerto Rico, in conjunction with possible statehood. Using clips of Santorum talking on the subject, it was a damning segment, compliments of the candidate himself. It’s yet another example of the Republican Party’s [...]
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The South Votes, and Obama Polling Shows Absolute Chaos
From a new New York Times/CBS poll: At a time of rising gas prices, heightened talk of war with Iran and setbacks in Afghanistan, Mr. Obama’s approval rating dropped substantially in recent weeks, the poll found, with 41 percent of respondents expressing approval of the job he is doing and 47 percent saying they disapprove [...]
Women Obama’s Line Against Gas Prices Taking Him Out
Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they disapprove of the way the president is handling the situation at the pump, where rising prices have already hit hard. Just 26 percent approve of his work on the issue, his lowest rating in the poll. Most Americans say higher prices are already taking a toll on family finances, [...]
If Afghanistan Massacre Isn’t the Tipping Point What Will Be?
“We have to either make the decision to make a full commitment, which this president hasn’t done, or we have to decide to get out and probably get out sooner.” – Rick Santorum In recent polling cited across the morning shows today, 60% of the American people don’t think the Afghanistan war was worth it. [...]
Republicans on GOP Primary Battle, One Word Answers Begin with “Corrosive”
A new NBC/WSJ poll has all bad news for Republicans. They earned it. Among the choices 70% of Republicans used to describe the presidential primary fight were: “unenthusiastic,” “discouraged,” “lesser of two evils,” “painful,” “disappointed,” “poor choices,” “concerned,” “underwhelmed,” “uninspiring” and “depressed.” Four in 10 of all adults say the GOP nominating process has given [...]
What Women Don’t Know About Rick Santorum Helps Him
The Washington Post has an amusing poll on Rick Santorum and women. I hope Republican primary voters buy into it. But in fact, Santorum has grown more popular among women while talking about his opposition to abortion, his disapproval of birth control and his view that the federal government shouldn’t pay for prenatal screenings. A [...]
Romney Still Trails in Michigan
THE MITT ROMNEY CRISIS transcends the seven straight national polls showing Rick Santorum in the lead. It goes beyond the embarrassing reality that the son of an auto executive and two-term governor has been behind in every Michigan poll conducted since Groundhog’s Day. Even more devastating for Romney is that elite Republicans have begun to [...]
Romney Wins CPAC Straw Poll
Mitt Romney won the CPAC presidential straw poll with 38 percent of the vote, finishing with a single-digit lead over runner-up Rick Santorum, who pulled 31 percent support. Newt Gingrich was a distant third, with 15 percent, followed by Ron Paul, with 12 percent. [...] For the first time, CPAC pollster Tony Fabrizio also conducted [...]
Are You Excited to Vote in 2012?
From PPP: Our last national survey for Daily Kos found that 58% of Democrats were ‘very excited’ about voting this fall, compared to 54% of Republicans. Six months ago the figures were 48% of Democrats ‘very excited’ and Republicans at the same 54%. Generally you would expect voters to get more excited as the election [...]
Women Want Their Birth Control
“The Peggy Noonan piece left some things out. … But I have to say, the article appears to be very misleading.” – Mika Brzezinski, “Morning Joe” (7 Feburary) This started yesterday on “Morning Joe,” with Brzezinski reading part of an over the top declarative Peggy Noonan op-ed and getting very exercised about it before she [...]
Election Year January Snapshot: Romney Up in Florida, Advantage Pres. Obama
Gingrich is badly trailing Romney by 11 percentage points, garnering just 31 percent of likely Republican voters heading into Tuesday’s presidential primary, according to a Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald/Tampa Bay Times poll released late Saturday night. – Poll: Romney holds big lead over Gingrich in Florida, via the Miami Herald On ABC’s “This Week” with [...]
What Americans Think About Wealth & Romney
Mitt Romney has pulled ahead in Florida. However, his long slog hasn’t even begun with the American people. Romney finally released his tax returns on Thursday, revealing a 2010 income of $27 million and a federal tax rate of 13.9%. What effect, if any, does this information have on the way voters judge Romney? [...]
Obama to Panetta: ‘Good job tonight’
Statement by Secretary Panetta on Hostage Rescue Operation in Somalia Last night U.S. Special Operations Forces conducted, by order of the President of the United States, a successful mission in Somalia to rescue two individuals taken hostage on October 25, 2011. Ms. Jessica Buchanan, an American citizen employed by the Danish Demining Group, and her [...]
Obama to Thank the Republicans Running for President
**UPDATED** During his State of the Union address tonight, President Obama will announce the creation of a special unit to investigate misconduct and illegalities that contributed to both the financial collapse and the mortgage crisis. The office, part of a new Unit on Mortgage Origination and Securitization Abuses, will be chaired by Eric Schneiderman, the [...]
Newt Gingrich Can’t Beat Barack Obama
NEWT GINGRICH WINS SOUTH CAROLINA Memo to GOP Star Chamber. RE: Not Losing the *(&#! House and Senate GOP Majority w/ Newt Disaster. Time for a Secret Meeting. – Mike Murphy tweet UPDATE (10:00 p.m.): Once again I want to make it very clear, I do not have a candidate in the race in 2012. [...]
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