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Q-poll shows “no rescue” for Obama in Florida
Sunshine, go away today … In 2008, Barack Obama managed to wrest Florida away from Republicans on his way to a big victory in the presidential election. Three years later, a new Quinnipiac poll shows...
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Quotes of the day
Trust. “The stock market’s stomach-turning decline Thursday both parallels and reinforces the dismal verdict on Washington rendered in recent surveys: as the market Thursday tumbled almost as fast as...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Blamethrowing. Harry Truman famously said, “The buck stops here.” Ronald Reagan told the nation during the Iran-Contra scandal, “I take full responsibility for my own actions and for those of my...
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Republicans risking a third-party presidential run?
Perot or Anderson? Could we end up with a third-party or independent challenger in the 2012 presidential race? Matthew Dowd warns that Republicans run that risk if they nominate a candidate who...
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Poll: Tea Partiers disappointed in Hill leaders
Disapproval in all directions. Everybody disapproves of everybody these days, it seems. The Tea Party is disappointed with Republican leaders in Congress. The American people are disappointed with the...
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Quotes of the day
Disenchantment. “President Obama’s re-election campaign, smarting from days of doom-saying, sent out a memo from Mr. Axelrod Friday morning, saying prognosticators busy burying any chance of an Obama...
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Chief Obama aide bemoans not getting the “breaks” in office
Bad luck? Why are President Obama’s approval ratings so low? According to Obama’s closest aide in the White House, chief of staff Bill Daley, Obama’s just not getting the breaks: “Considering the...
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What Fundraising Matters?
The Starbucks strategy. If the establishment media is reporting on campaign fundraising, it’s a fair bet they will be misreporting or burying the lede. For example, the WaPo: Even with low approval...
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Obama money advantage disappearing
So are his state approval ratings. For a year, Republicans have worried about having to face a billion-dollar Re-Elect Obama machine in the fall. Most have just assumed that whoever wins the GOP...
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Ohio voters support right-to-work legislation by 14 in new Q-poll
54/40 and fight. Conventional wisdom has Ohio being vulnerable to a Democratic rollback in 2012 after a GOP sweep in 2010. Approval ratings for Governor John Kasich have been low after his reforms of...
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Obamateurism of the Day
The buck stops … at Fox? After getting shellacked in the midterm elections and seeing his approval ratings plunge to the low 40s, Barack Obama must have spent some time taking stock of the situation …...
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Change: Supreme Court ratings jump to new high after ObamaCare arguments
Oral arguments might be useful after all! Who said oral arguments and questions aren’t useful for Supreme Court cases? A new Rasmussen poll shows approval ratings for the Supreme Court hitting a...
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Poll: Chris Christie’s favorability rating hits an all-time high
Nice. According to the latest Rutgers-Eagleton poll out Tuesday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s favorability rating has reached a new high, with a full 50 percent of registered New Jersey voters...
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Gallup: Obama hit new low with business owners in the second quarter
Before the “you didn’t build that” comment. Gallup’s latest synthesis of its quarterly polling provides Barack Obama with a mixed bag. Earlier, Gallup had reported a slight increase in Obama’s...
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