Posted on 06/29/2012 6:12:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold Pres. Obama’s healthcare law is mobilizing Georgia Republicans. Fundraising and volunteer activity spiked on Thursday, and a new state poll shows the lead of GOP presumptive presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, is widening.
For Georgia Republicans, the ruling means one thing: electing Romney is the only way to repeal the law.
State GOP officials say donations surged upon news of the ruling, and volunteers are flooding the party’s Web site.
Mark Rountree is Georgia-based Republican strategist and pollster. His firm, Landmark Communications in conjunction with Rosetta Stone, conducted a poll Thursday that shows Romney capturing 52 percent of the Georgia vote. That’s a ten-point lead over Obama – his biggest lead to date.
Rountree says it’s notable because Democrats once thought Georgia could be in play.
“It’s galvanizing," he said. "There’s no simpler way to put it. If Romney had to have a series of political events happen for him, they’re happening for him.”
Twenty-three percent of black voters polled said they planned to vote for Romney. Rountree says that’s the strongest support from black Georgians for a GOP candidate in modern history.
"If those numbers hold, and they may not, that would be sea change in Georgia," he said.
Georgia Republicans up until now have been lukewarm to Romney. Newt Gingrich won the state’s primary before leaving the race, and Gov. Nathan Deal only recently endorsed Romney.
But Georgia GOP spokesman Chris Kelleher says Republicans now see unseating Mr. Obama as the only way to repeal the healthcare law.
“We have a volunteer signup on our Web site and we got more submissions yesterday than we got in the previous month combined," he said. "I would say that sort of awoke the sleeping giant. We’ve got a lot of party members whose sights are now set on November because we gotta win now.”
Georgia Democrats said the ruling had a smaller impact, largely because it was a win for Mr. Obama. But nonetheless they say they feel vindicated by the decision. Kristin Oblander, who runs the Oblander Group, a political fundraising firm in Atlanta, says she's seeing a surge of enthusiasm.
"I have not seen a level of excitement this high since the '08 election," Oblander said.
The Supreme Court upheld Obama’s Affordable Care Act in an historic 5-4 decision. The ruling maens 123,000 young Georgians who gained health insurance under their parent’s plans due to the law will now be able to keep it. The decision also leaves in place the so-called individual mandate. It requires Georgia’s nearly 2 million uninsured residents to buy health insurance or pay a penalty to the IRS.
To survive in their neighborhood, they had to leave that sticker on. The voting booth will be the final bumper sticker. IMHO
Have you also noticed how much more polished her interviewing skills are? I’m very impressed!!
Have you also noticed how much more polished her interviewing skills are? I’m very impressed!!
VERY IMPRESSED..of course Im biased I always thought she gave good interviews but yes recently they have gotten even better..she is on her “A” game, she is not afraid to say whats on her mind, she isn’t shackled by McCain’s cronies anymore..LOL Pelosi a dingbat, it literally took 5 seconds for that quote to be all over twitter
Moving from the socialist Romney to the socialist Obama because of this court opinion makes about as much sense as a bimbo moving from John Edwards to Bill Clinton because she found out Edwards was unfaithful.
ROMNEYCARE = OBAMACARE = STATISM
Get over it already Diogenesis...we are so past that way of thinking.
Whoops. Got ‘em backwards. It’s so hard to tell them apart...
Moving from the socialist Obama to the socialist Romney because of this court opinion makes about as much sense as a bimbo moving from John Edwards to Bill Clinton because she found out Edwards was unfaithful.
Let’s see how the polls look once Obozo starts running campaign ads featuring Romney endorsing RomneyCare and the individual mandate.
“I am scared the public may start liking the law.”
The sheeple liked the law that gave them something for free - now they’re finding out it’s gonna cost them.
has she undergone some intensive media training?
I believe her college degree was a bachelor’s in communications with an emphasis in journalism. That’s a good start :)
I agree. Obama will get no less than 94% of the black vote in November. I see it in election after election, I see it at the workplace, I see it everywhere: racial solidarity trumps all else with blacks today (well 94% of them).
Not to be pedantic, but what the heck:
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is portrayed at the very end of the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, and in the 2001 film Pearl Harbor, as saying after his attack on Pearl Harbor, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."[1] The supposed quotation was abbreviated in the film Pearl Harbor (2001), where it merely read, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant."The line serves as a dramatic ending to the depiction of the attack, but it has yet to be verified that Yamamoto ever said this (although it may well have encapsulated many of his real feelings about the attack). Neither At Dawn We Slept, the definitive history of the Pearl Harbor attack by Gordon Prange, nor The Reluctant Admiral, the definitive biography of Yamamoto in English by Hiroyuki Agawa, contains the line.
Randall Wallace, the screenwriter of Pearl Harbor, readily admitted that he copied the line from Tora! Tora! Tora! The director of Tora! Tora! Tora!, Richard Fleischer, stated that while Yamamoto may never have said those words, the film's producer, Elmo Williams, had found the line written in Yamamoto's diary. Williams, in turn, has stated that Larry Forrester, the screenwriter, found a 1943 letter from Yamamoto to the Admiralty in Tokyo containing the quotation. However, Forrester cannot produce the letter, nor can anyone else, American or Japanese, recall or find it.
They cannot make the connection that Romney has put forth that it is UP TO EACH STATE what they want. Mass, wanted that particular health care for Mass. So they got it. Its for them, and no other state. They got it, and they can suffer it. BUT, having said that, it is far easier for a state to dismantle such than it is for all the states to dismantle a national case.
Romney needs to shout that from the roof tops.
And he would still get 80%+ of the black vote.
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I’ll be thrilled if he gets 80% of the Black vote. He, and all Dems, always get 95% of the Black vote. 80% is a “Thank You Jesus” percentage.
Hopefully there’s a lot more out there like me.
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Trust me; there is.
Only the 'rat patronage is the same.
I don’t dispute your numbers. Had Bush been running against a black candidate, however, I think the 94% value is more likely. It happens in Philly in every single election—94% is the floor, with 97% more typical. I’ve seen it as high as 99%. In my experience, no voting bloc is more racist (or could possibly be, given that the maximum is 100%).
I think that may be exactly what he thought, especially in light of the Japanese declaration of war being delayed (even though the US decrypted it prior to the attack).
He had studied in the US, and had some knowledge of the people of the day, and he knew that the perception of a sneak attack would galvanize the US people. Combined with the industrial capacity of the US and a total war attitude engendered by Pearl Harbor, I think he saw the proverbial writing on the wall.
Historically, a Republic (or Ancient Greek democracy) gathered in common cause behind a course of action--such as war--is a fearsome sight to behold.
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