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New poll: Obama’s executive-privilege assertion not as popular as WH imagined (Only 29% back Obama)
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Posted on 06/25/2012 5:57:36 AM PDT by sunmars

Via Jammie Wearing Fool, the numbers are as brutal as he says. In a poll taken by The Hill after last week’s assertion of executive privilege by Barack Obama in the Operation Fast and Furious probe, only 29% of likely voters supported Obama’s move to block access to Department of Justice documentation, while a clear majority disapproved:

A clear majority of likely voters believes President Obama has exercised his executive power inappropriately — particularly in blocking the release of documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious, according to a new poll for The Hill. …

The Hill Poll found that likely voters disapproved by an almost 2-to-1 margin of Obama’s assertion of presidential power in the case. Overall, 56 percent of voters disapproved of his action, while only 29 percent approved.

The news is even worse among independents, and it’s not exactly a slam-dunk among Obama’s base, either:

The defense is not proving an easy sell with voters, particularly independents.

Sixty-one percent of independents said they disapproved of the president’s actions, and just 25 percent approved. Among Republicans, opposition to the president’s use of executive privilege was more entrenched at 78 percent.

Even 28 percent of Democrats, and 30 percent of self-identified liberals disapproved of Obama’s position.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012polls; bhojobapproval; executiveprivilege; fastandfurious; ffexecutivespeech; holder; issa
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Talk about an epic cluster.... of your own making and committing political suicide in style.

Watch the Dems scatter and retreat after reading this poll.

1 posted on 06/25/2012 5:57:42 AM PDT by sunmars
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To: sunmars
Looks like Barack Milhouse Nixon's “imperial presidency” isn't going over very well...even with many democrats.
2 posted on 06/25/2012 6:00:27 AM PDT by apillar
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To: sunmars

WOW and this is with the ignoring / downplaying /cheerleading of the MSM.

Could you imagine he numbers if this was reported accurately?


3 posted on 06/25/2012 6:01:38 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: sunmars
I just hear the funniest thing on Fox News.
4 posted on 06/25/2012 6:02:29 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die!)
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To: sunmars

Why would anyone think it would be popular? I swear we have entered an alternate dimension of “conventional wisdom”.


5 posted on 06/25/2012 6:05:22 AM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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To: Yosemitest

“That the DemocratsCommunists are thinking about running Hillary as the Vice.
Yeah, like Hillary is going to support the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN CHIEF. (heh,heh,heh)”

Yeah, but the Clintoons have “friends”. She wouldn’t be “vice” for long. Look what happened to Vince Foster and others who tried turning on the Clintons.


6 posted on 06/25/2012 6:05:56 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: sunmars

If thats the case...you know Obama had to know...that this was gonna be unpopular...which means there is a red-hot smokin’ CANNON in those documents....


7 posted on 06/25/2012 6:06:50 AM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: sunmars

A Border Agent died, then Holder lied.


8 posted on 06/25/2012 6:07:06 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: sunmars

If this is the case, I’m curious as to what caused Boy Zer0’s job approval to spike +5 in a single day to 51% (Gallup Sunday).


9 posted on 06/25/2012 6:07:06 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... yet voting doesn't???)
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To: freeangel

Hillary wont run as VP, she would not hitch herself to that administration for 4 more years if she was gonna run in 2016, she’d only listen if they dumped his sorry butt and put her up in 2012 instead, there is still time for them to pull that switch.


10 posted on 06/25/2012 6:08:39 AM PDT by sunmars
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To: Williams

“stickin’ it to da man”

They think this is still a winning attitude.

To paraphrase Arsenio Hall...
It’s a ‘rat thing, you wouldn’t understand.


11 posted on 06/25/2012 6:09:16 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: ScottinVA

more dems traditionally polled on weekends as republicans generally have lives at weekends to get on with.


12 posted on 06/25/2012 6:10:03 AM PDT by sunmars
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To: Yosemitest

At this point, I think Hillary is tired and just wants out. It’s Bill and Chelsea who want her to take over.


13 posted on 06/25/2012 6:10:38 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: ScottinVA

Did they poll 50% Dem, 40% Ind, and 10% Rep?


14 posted on 06/25/2012 6:10:47 AM PDT by nhoward14
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To: sunmars; All
The regime's claim runs against everything Obama and his comrades have asserted on "Executive Privilege" in the past. The regime's past assertions on this issue even go back to the University of Chicago, where Obama taught Constitutional law - along with his Czar of all Czars Cass Sunstein.

During the Bush Presidency, in March 2007, the University of Chicago Law School published an article on its website stating the standard to be met by Bush's claims of "Executive Privilege." The author is given as "sunstein." The Univ. of Chicago Law School's website states that Cass Sunstein was a faculty member from 1981-2008 ( Link-1, Link-2 ). The standards include the follow excerpt:

8. ...The privilege is limited to “communications authored or solicited and received by members of an immediate White House adviser’s staff who have broad and significant responsibility for investigating and formulating the advice to be given to the President on the particular matter to which the communications relate.”...

9. Direct decision making by the President is required. If the President himself is not directly involved, there is no privilege. ...

"Executive Privilege: A Primer" - Link

According to those standards, how can Obama claim both "Executive Privilege" and his non-involvement in the false flag operation called "Fast and Furious?" Only with the abject complicity of his democrat party media!
15 posted on 06/25/2012 6:12:46 AM PDT by drpix
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To: nhoward14

after this disaster of a poll, you watch the normal suspects manipulate the polls this week to make dumbo look better.


16 posted on 06/25/2012 6:13:08 AM PDT by sunmars
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To: ScottinVA

“I’m curious what caused.... spike +5.... (Gallup Sunday)”

It’s Gallup... propaganda. I don’t believe anything they put out.


17 posted on 06/25/2012 6:15:05 AM PDT by Snow Eagle ("... Against all enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC")
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To: nhoward14

Male 48%
Female 52%
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18-39 40%
40-64 44%
65+ 15%
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White 77%
Black 11%
Other 12%
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Rep 36%
Dem 33%
Other 31%
_________
SEE LINK here: http://thehill.com/polls/234465-voters-obama-over-reached-in-blocking-fast-and-furious-docs


18 posted on 06/25/2012 6:15:49 AM PDT by PghBaldy (I eagerly await the next news about the struggles of Elizabeth Sacheen Littlefeather Warren.)
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To: sunmars

“...there is still time for them to pull that switch.”

The dems can’t pull that switch without branding themselves as racists UNLESS they are willing to throw him behind bars for one or some of the illegal acts he has committed sine becoming muslim in chief. An accident on the otherhand after the elections, well, wouldn’t that be just dandy for hillary?


19 posted on 06/25/2012 6:20:49 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: ScottinVA

In the same time frame, Bowbama went from -14 Approval to -22 Approval at Rasmussen. Overall approval went from 47% to 44%. Don’t know what Gallup’s poll is all about.


20 posted on 06/25/2012 6:21:52 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I miss President Bush! 2012 - The End Of An Error! (Oathkeeper))
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