Friday night good news! (maybe)
Friday nights are always good for some good news. Usually Friday nights are reserved for the news drops of bad news. However, here is something that might make you smile.
From the Daily Caller:
Where’s the evidence President Obama can win the 2012 election?
Where’s the evidence that swing-voters even want to listen to him?
Barack Obama polls below 50 percent in every state that matters. The economy has stalled, unemployment is much higher than the official number of 9 percent, and Hispanics and African Americans are disappointed. The president’s approval ratings have tanked, and the right-track/wrong-track number fell of the cliff in the summer.
Obama has reached the stage of political doom when voters’ disappointment is so deep that they just don’t want to listen to him, talk about him or watch him, said David Hill, a veteran GOP strategist and pollster, in an interview with The Daily Caller.
“Nobody says it to their loved ones … [and] they don’t want to do anything about it,” said Hill, who has worked for conservative and liberal Republicans on the East Coast, the West Coast and in the Midwest, since 1984.
A tipping point might have been reached in August, when the monthly jobs report showed zero new jobs, Republican pollster Glenn Bolger told TheDC. “With [George W.] Bush, it happened sometime in 2006, after Katrina and the 2005 Iraq situation,” said Bolger, who heads the polling firm Public Opinion Strategies.
Even Obama-friendly experts are close to dismissing him.
Gallup numbers show the president’s approval at 41 percent, and show him trailing an unnamed “generic Republican” by eight percentage points, National Journal’s Charlie Cook wrote on Oct. 28. “These numbers certainly don’t show Obama’s reelection fortunes as hopeless, but they paint a very challenging situation.”
Okay, the good news is Obama’s numbers are terrible and it does not look good for him. The bad news is that Obama’s numbers are terrible and it does not look good for him.
While this is good news for us at one level, there are things we have to worry about.
Obama’s team wants to downplay the advantages of the incumbency. Obama right now wants to make things look bad to motivate his base and make conservatives complacent.
The other real danger here is if Obama’s numbers continue to get worse there might be a serious effort on the part of the Democrats to replace him. Democrats and Hillary Clinton cannot help but notice that polling numbers have her faring much better against potential Republican candidates than Obama.
From Politico:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would trounce Republican presidential candidates Rick Perry and Mitt Romney in hypothetical head-to-head matchups for the presidency, a new poll shows.
Clinton would beat former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by 17 points, 55 percent-38 percent, according to Time Magazine. And the former first lady would blow away Texas Gov. Rick Perry by 26 points, 58 percent-32 percent.
In contrast, that same poll shows that Obama leads Romney by only 3 percentage points and Perry by 12 points.
The Secretary of State has repeatedly said “no” when asked whether she would run for president, in 2012 or 2016. Asked on NBC’s “Today” two weeks ago whether she would consider running for president again, Clinton said unequivocally, “no.”
The good news is Hillary knows that any attempt on her part to take Obama off the ticket would result in a split in the party that Democrats would never recover from. The bad news is, if Obama’s numbers get much worse, there may be serious pressure on him to step down on his own.
But for tonight, we can celebrate. No President has ever been reelected with the approval numbers that Obama currently has.
Tags: 2012, approval, clinton, democrats, election, hilary, numbers, obama, presidential, republicans
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Sumsanity on -
More people have seen the light. B O is just a lying, smarmy, snake oil selling 3 faced politician. I had him pegged the first time I heard him speak at the Lemocratic Convention in 2004. But people are gullible and want to believe in people who over promise and under deliver. When someone speaks ponderously in glittering generalities my eyes don't glaze over, my mouth does not go slack jawed. My eyes become skeptical slits and I start looking for what motivates a person.
In Obama's case it was obvious what motivates him. It is the same as most other dirtbag politicians. It is wealth, power, and prestige, the unloly trinity of the corrupt public career bureaucrat. Washington is full of them. After all, where is the biggest pile of money, control, and high sounding titles in the world? Washington DC of course. Who is that going to attract? Self centered egotist social climbers convinced of their own self importance. Just like flies to horse manure, they will be all over it.
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Permalink Reply by Thomas Nunn on -
No President has ever been reelected with the approval numbers that Obama currently has.
Problem is,
"there is a first time for "everything".
as "Obama" has proved, "time after time".
Best keep fighting as if he had 99% approval.
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Permalink Reply by Agi Yaeger on -
Have you ever seen a dictator, who had bogus elections, who didn't get at least 90% of the votes? Just look at Chavez. He won with 98%, just last year? Yeah, and pigs fly! Therefore, we need to treat 2012 the same way, here.
You are so right!
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Permalink Reply by Max Bleiweiss on -
Remember a few years back Hillary also said she would finish out her senate term and not run for president.
By the way, she's in the same mold as the current occupant of the White House. She'd be pushing the same
policies although probably not as blatantly as is now occuring.
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Permalink Reply by 1adllhejpu1rd on
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Herman Cain and Marco Rubio. Could even take on Billary.
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Permalink Reply by DocHollywoodMD on
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where is the evidence Obama can't win in 2012?
REMEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All of the Unions Nation Wide, Government Workers, Communist and Socialist Party Members, Black Panthers, Acorn, Stupid College Youth Brainwashed, Massive numbers of Welfare Freeloaders..... Not to mention:
ALL THE MASSIVE NUMBERS OF ILLEGALS, AND THOSE IN PRISON WHO WILL BE VOTING? OHHHHHH YOU THINK THEY DID NOT VOTE IN 2008? WHERE WERE SOME OF YOU?
REMEMBER NEVADA? REMEMBER THE SEIU VOTER MACHINE TECH'S AND THE EVIDENCE OF VOTER FRAUD IN THAT STATE? WHAT HAPPENED? REID GOT AWAY WITH IT.
Keeping Military overseas from Voting, Dead Votes, Illegal Votes, Multiple Votes..... and the list goes on!
IF AND I SAY IF AMERICA WAKES UP AND SEES WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING AROUND THEM, MAYBE...... MAYBE........... THERE IS A HOPE!
SORRY, I AM FRUSTRATED ANGRY, AND I HATE THE WASHINGTON CROWD! I WANT CHANGE NOW NOT LATER I DON'T WANT OBAMA CHANGE, I WANT JUSTICE FOR CRIMES AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES
And If Obama wins.......................... IT'S WAR AND I HEAR THAT FROM MANY!
AND NOT SOON ENOUGH FOR ME! LIBERALS UNDERSTAND ONLY TWO THINGS:
MONEY AND POWER POWER COMES IN OTHER WAYS AS WELL. KIND OF LIKE WHAT THE FOUNDING FATHERS DID TO THE BRITISH!
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Permalink Reply by Lawrence Brown on -
I'll be next to you.
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Permalink Reply by DocHollywoodMD on
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thank you!
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Permalink Reply by DocHollywoodMD on
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well......... off to work see you all!
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Permalink Reply by American Infidel on -
Have a good one, Doc!
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Permalink Reply by Walter T Jennings Sr on -
I too am reading and hearing the war drums from all quarters. I am sorry to say it may take a war to straighten this country out. Costly for sure but what war isn't? My "equipment" and I stand ready to defend right next to you Doc. I may be old but have 20 years of good training to fall back on. My Oath Keepers membership is not for social status.
SALUTE!!!
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Permalink Reply by Mary Creekmore on -
Even better news is when Obama, Holder, Napalitano and Hillary are all busted over the Fast and Furious crimes. I wish we could ship them all to Mexico and let all the families who lost loved ones because this egregious program could "properly" commute their sentences. They still have firing squads down there, don't they?
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