Posted on 11/10/2011 8:57:46 AM PST by Driftwood1
A majority of voters in the three most-important swing states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania disapprove of the job President Barack Obama is doing and most believe he does not deserve to be reelected.
The voters’ most-favored Republican: Mitt Romney, who is statistically tied in theoretical matchups with Obama. Only in Florida, though, does Romney show a lead against Obama by 45-42 percent split.
"Of these three swing states President Obama carried in 2008, Florida was the biggest surprise and had the closest margin," Pollster Peter A. Brown said in a written statement. "Florida is shaping up to be the closest swing state again in 2012 and it’s a fair bet that a year from now, it will be the toughest of the Big Three for Obama to carry."
Florida has 29 Electoral College votes — more than 10 percent of the total needed to win. Without carrying Florida, Republicans will likely lose the race for the White House because the larger states of New York and California lean so heavily Democratic.
Though Romney does best against Obama, he probably wouldn’t face him if the election were held today and confined to the big three swing states.
The poll shows that Florida Republican voters favor Herman Cain over Romney by a 27-21 percent split. Newt Gingrich is in third with 17 percent. Cain also leads Romney in Ohio, with Gingrich in third. The two are tied in Pennsylvania at 17 percent each, with Gingrich tying for third with former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.
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Hope is eternal, pray day and night for Cain!
Of course. What they’re not telling people is they’re holding back Romney’s baggage... til later - much later. Then they’ll destroy him. If the GOP falls for it, it can’t say it wasn’t warned.
OK....taking your view.....why are the Democrats going after Cain so hard. If they weren’t afraid of him, they would leave him alone.
2. Anyone who proposes introducing a national sales tax is not conservative.
3. Most people, but not Cain, apparently, know full well that corporations pay no tax. Any levy is simply passed on to the consumer.
4. His plan includes "empowerment zones" which is another way of saying someone in the government will be deciding who gets an advantage over someone else. Cain has not explained who is in these zones or who decides.
5. Cain is a past chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve, and has said that the Fed doesn't need auditing, that they already have been audited, and that any audit would tell us nothing. That was before Bloomberg News discovered the $16 trillion secret bailout total.
6. Cain claimed as late as September 1, 2008, that the economy was on solid ground. This was even after the housing bubble had burst.
7. Cain pronounced TARP a "win-win" for taxpayers. His main concern is that the government bailed out some banks and not others.
8. Cain's publicly named economic advisor, Rich Lowry, is a managing director of a Wells Fargo branch, which WF received $25 billion in TARP funds. Oh, and another $169 billion in secret loans from the Fed.
I just don't see a conservative there.
Let me explain. There is no "Tea Party" as a formal political entity, there is the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) party movement, a truly grassroots affiliation of people on an ad hoc and often local basis to confront issues and elections from the local level up.
There are smaller organizations which use the Tea Party name, but they are not the "TEA Party movement", only smaller factions thereof at best.
No one person has ever been chosen by the movement as a 'national leader', although there are a few who figure prominently in the movement on a large scale.
There are several large organizations claiming to be a "Tea Party" in the media, with definite top-down structures, and even in the best of cases, these may be regarded with suspicion if they claim to speak for the entire movement on any but the most fundamental issues. As such, there is no single leader or spokesperson for the movement, but there are popular people who address the issues and embrace policy and moral stances which are in agreement with many of the individual participants in the movement.
Again, while many might claim to be the leader of some specific faction, there is no single leader, the movement is not a top-down phenomenon.
When one person claims to speak for the "Tea Party", they may speak for an organization they have created which people have joined, but no one person speaks for (or is leader of) the entire movement, especially a national Tea Party. Be somewhat suspicious of anyone who claims to, especially the more obscure ones.
It implies that he has a dedicated (albeit parasite) base which will not abandon the Government teat. It further implies that those in the Unions and others who have filtered kickbacks to the Obama re-election campaign and other support have a hugh war chest, composed of everything from tax dollars, stimulus money (rerouted), union dues (paybacks), and other questionable sources of funding which give Obama a distinct funding advantage.
Here is where they feel the need to character assassinate Cain, who despite having a fraction of the funding of say, Romney, has as much or more support.
It takes more than dollars, it takes support from a wide enough voter base to get the votes, and despite Mitt's funding connections, it is Cain who is lighting the fire in the belly of everyday Americans who have just had enough.
The ultimate question is one of which group is larger? those who have had enough, who support America with their toil, tears, and sweat? Or those who have latched onto the vein and are sucking America dry?
Time will tell, but I think the former, if not discouraged nor intimidated, if not prevented from voting, and if not defrauded during the election by multiple and nonexistent and dead voters voting for Obama, will ultimately prevail, but only if we put forth an all-out effort to stop the Obamites.
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