Posted on 07/02/2012 6:55:28 AM PDT by ScottinVA
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows Mitt Romney attracting 46% of the vote, while President Obama earns 44%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided.
Matchup results are updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). See tracking history.
While the Supreme Court declared that the president’s health care law is constitutional, they were unable to make it popular. Fifty-two percent (52%) still favor repeal of the law. That’s little changed from a week ago and little changed since the law was passed more than two years ago. However, while most voters still hope for repeal, the belief that it will happen has fallen sharply. Just 39% now believe repeal is even somewhat likely, down from 61% last week.
Ratings for the Supreme Court have slipped since the health care ruling. A week ago, 36% said the high court was doing a good or an excellent job. That’s down to 33% today. The big change is a rise in negative perceptions. Today, 28% say the court is doing a poor job. That’s up 11 points over the past week.
A growing number (56%) now believe the Justices pursue their own agenda rather than ruling on an impartial basis. Also, the number who see the Court as too liberal is up while the number who see it as too conservative is down. The Court’s ratings are slipping at a time when just 22% believe the government has the consent of the governed.
Political analyst Michael Barone writes that even though the health care law survived, the political playing field has changed. “It's not a winning issue for the incumbent.”
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“Romney, so we can have more like John Roberts on the Supreme Court.”
It is shocking that Mitts staff is so incompetent that his website still endorses John Roberts.
I doubt that Mitt can win this election without the rest of us dragging him there.
No, the posting is accurate. Romney is ahead.
Monday, July 02, 2012
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows Mitt Romney attracting 46% of the vote, while President Obama earns 44%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided.
“Rasmussen. He’s pretty accurate based on past real results....”
That is who I use, because he uses likely voters, and he polls at a consistent rate across the nation. He does national polls and state polls.
Good. I find it helps to follow proven predictors, rather than the headline grabbing pollsters .
They just want their brief moment of fame due to their skewed sampling that gives someone their desired talking point for the day.
Here we go:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2902068/posts
+2 nationally equating to +8 in the battleground states
John Roberts was as well vetted as any “conservative’ justice could have been. He had a long relationship with the Federalist Society and liberals were opposed to his nomination based on his record.
His actions last week were surprising and disappointing and could not have been predicted.
We will never know why he ruled as he did.
Maybe, because of his history of epilepsy, he let his emotional sympathy for those with pre-existing conditions trump his fealty to the Constitution and just did NOT want to throw out the whole law.. despite the mandate being unconstitutional under the commerce clause?
Maybe he mistook bleating from the left wing press as reflecting real public opinion and didn’t want to hurt the court’s standing with the public and allowed himself to be swayed?
Maybe his epilepsy drugs affected his thinking?
Maybe he has nasty skeletons in his closet and was blackmailed?
We will never know.
It would have been nice to have this behind us, but we just has to deal with the situation as it is.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
His decision also gave us some gifts.
1. A fired up conservative base. Romney raised over 5 million dollars in small donations in the 24 hours following the decision. Since the only way to defeat Obamacare is now to rally behind Romney.. there is no longer any logical reason for NOT getting on board. The stakes are too high. This could be a repeat of 2010!
2. For the first time in 75 years, the SCOTUS has put limits on the expansion of government powers under the commerce clause. Left wing jurists are NOT happy over this. What’s more, it was the opinion of a majority of 5 of the 9 justices in this case..and is now legal precedent!
3. The refusal to allow the government to penalize, monetarily, states that refuse to expand their Medicaid eligibility requierements under this law is ALSO a first.. that could come back to haunt big govt types that use the federal government’s power of the purse to blackmail state governments. It places many federal govt programs that cut off funds for state noncompliance in legal question..Again, ANOTHER precedent that is giving pro-big government left wing jurists nightmares.
4. Obamacare is STILL unpopular..and Roberts has now indelibly branded the mandate in the public’s mind as a TAX..a HUGE tax.. making Obama AND the Democrats in Congress who pretended that it wasn’t a tax..as liars who deceived the American people. and pulled a shell game. It also now has Obama breaking his promise NOT to tax those making less than $250,000 a year; it will actually impact the POOR! This a HUGE bludgeon with which to bloody Obama.. and we aren’t waiting around to take advanage of it! Americans for Prosperity, a conservative super-PAC, has already taken out a 9 million dollar media buy in swing states to point this out.
5. MOST American voters oppose this law. Romney and the Republcians have promised to repeal it. Obama and the Democrats defend it. Not a good place to be if you are an incumbent running in an election year. This will not only affect the Presidential race.. but all races down ticket. Can you say..GOP US Senate?
All in all... a short term victory lap for Obama and the Dems , but potentially a huge victory for the GOP both in November.. and long term in terms of some of the legal precedents set... IF we are aggressive, don’t let up thepressure and take full advantage of it!
How many sitting Democrat Presidents have been defeated since the party was founded?
John Roberts was as well vetted as any “conservative’ justice could have been. He had a long relationship with the Federalist Society and liberals were opposed to his nomination based on his record.
His actions last week were surprising and disappointing and could not have been predicted.
We will never know why he ruled as he did.
Maybe, because of his history of epilepsy, he let his emotional sympathy for those with pre-existing conditions trump his fealty to the Constitution and just did NOT want to throw out the whole law.. despite the mandate being unconstitutional under the commerce clause?
Maybe he mistook bleating from the left wing press as reflecting real public opinion and didn’t want to hurt the court’s standing with the public and allowed himself to be swayed?
Maybe his epilepsy drugs affected his thinking?
Maybe he has nasty skeletons in his closet and was blackmailed?
We will never know.
It would have been nice to have this behind us, but we just has to deal with the situation as it is.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
His decision also gave us some gifts.
1. A fired up conservative base. Romney raised over 5 million dollars in small donations in the 24 hours following the decision. Since the only way to defeat Obamacare is now to rally behind Romney.. there is no longer any logical reason for NOT getting on board. The stakes are too high. This could be a repeat of 2010!
2. For the first time in 75 years, the SCOTUS has put limits on the expansion of government powers under the commerce clause. Left wing jurists are NOT happy over this. What’s more, it was the opinion of a majority of 5 of the 9 justices in this case..and is now legal precedent!
3. The refusal to allow the government to penalize, monetarily, states that refuse to expand their Medicaid eligibility requierements under this law is ALSO a first.. that could come back to haunt big govt types that use the federal government’s power of the purse to blackmail state governments. It places many federal govt programs that cut off funds for state noncompliance in legal question..Again, ANOTHER precedent that is giving pro-big government left wing jurists nightmares.
4. Obamacare is STILL unpopular..and Roberts has now indelibly branded the mandate in the public’s mind as a TAX..a HUGE tax.. making Obama AND the Democrats in Congress who pretended that it wasn’t a tax..as liars who deceived the American people. and pulled a shell game. It also now has Obama breaking his promise NOT to tax those making less than $250,000 a year; it will actually impact the POOR! This a HUGE bludgeon with which to bloody Obama.. and we aren’t waiting around to take advanage of it! Americans for Prosperity, a conservative super-PAC, has already taken out a 9 million dollar media buy in swing states to point this out.
5. MOST American voters oppose this law. Romney and the Republcians have promised to repeal it. Obama and the Democrats defend it. Not a good place to be if you are an incumbent running in an election year. This will not only affect the Presidential race.. but all races down ticket. Can you say..GOP US Senate?
All in all... a short term victory lap for Obama and the Dems , but potentially a huge victory for the GOP both in November.. and long term in terms of some of the legal precedents set... IF we are aggressive, don’t let up thepressure and take full advantage of it!
Thanks.. that CNN piece was the most convoluted, tangled set pf paragraphs I`d read in a while. Glad to see some progress being made. I noticed their comment about Romney having to spend resources defending traditionally GOP territory. If they`re making a point about erstwhile GOP states 0bama won in 2008, I would agree, but I`m not seeing him having to battle extraordinarily hard for the states won by McCain.
Oh, well.. propaganda, I guess. It IS CNN, after all.
I guess the tea party website got it wrong he wassupposed to be in france over 4th of july
Walter E. Williams, substituting for Rush Limbaugh on Thursday, reminded listeners that FDR won two re-election races in 1936 and 1940 with unemployment higher than it is now. Obama still believes the American people will embrace him and reject Romney, as they did Landon and Willkie in the past.
Van Buren in 1840
Cleveland in 1888
Carter in 1980
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