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Dismal poll numbers for Obama in PA
Morning Call ^ | August 19, 2011 | Colby Itkowitz

Posted on 08/20/2011 5:33:36 AM PDT by markomalley

President Barack Obama, who political experts say will need a win in Pennsylvania to retain the White House, dipped to 35 percent approval among the state's registered voters, according to a Muhlenberg College poll released Friday.

The results come on the heels of a bad week in polls for Obama that showed him first dropping to 39 percent nationwide in Gallup's daily tracking poll. Then another set of Gallup results Thursday showed only 26 percent of Americans approve of how Obama is handling the economy.

These numbers are a huge blow to Obama who won the state handily in 2008, and a significant drop in just a few weeks from when Quinnipiac University polled Pennsylvania voters and found the president with 43 percent job approval.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
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To: Principled

Very True.
Snowe needs to go


21 posted on 08/20/2011 6:06:46 AM PDT by ncalburt (NO MORE WIMPS need to apply to fight the Soros Funded Puppet !)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Sorry Pennsylvania but I will never trust you again to vote for what’s best for the country. Murtha??? Nuff said.

And after B. HUSSEIN called you “bitter gun-clingers” you still voted for him in 2008??? Nope, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on you.

PA voting against King Barry? I’ll believe it when I see it.


22 posted on 08/20/2011 6:07:06 AM PDT by Josa
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To: Principled

We The People must expose every one of them and vote them out. We The People must give these arrogant, self-serving Elitists a heads up to start packing now. We must scour the DC sewer and send all of them back to where they were spawned. Vote every single one of them them out in November 2012 and continue to vote them out for the years to come.


23 posted on 08/20/2011 6:09:09 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: markomalley

35% among REGISTERED voters? Bye bye jug ears.


24 posted on 08/20/2011 6:12:40 AM PDT by denydenydeny (Rage all you want, looters & moochers, but the gods of the copybook headings are your masters now.)
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To: markomalley

There is no path to victory for the Democrats that doesn’t include PA, is there? When was the last time a Democrat lost Pennsylvania but still won the Presidency? Was it Buchanan in ‘56 - 1856, that is?


25 posted on 08/20/2011 6:13:34 AM PDT by lowtaxsmallgov (This Administration has absolutely no idea how to grow an economy)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Now the rats are fearing that O’Blowme is taking all the cash and their will be little for the Dummies to run with. How poetic.


26 posted on 08/20/2011 6:15:08 AM PDT by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: Josa

Agreed. He’d piss on their head and they would still vote for him.


27 posted on 08/20/2011 6:20:33 AM PDT by Reagan79 (Today, I consider myself the wisest Latina Woman on the face of the earth.)
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To: lowtaxsmallgov

I think it was 1948 - Truman over Dewey.


28 posted on 08/20/2011 6:21:08 AM PDT by writmeister
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To: Tribune7

A decade? Try right now...LOL! If they do admit it is with their eyes staring at the ground, if they had a tail it would be tucked between their legs.


29 posted on 08/20/2011 6:21:48 AM PDT by HerrBlucher ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." G.K. Chesterton)
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To: lowtaxsmallgov

Answer to my own question...
1948 - Dewey

From 1860 to 1932 PA voted GOP every year except 1912 when it went for Teddy Roosevelt (P) rather than Taft (R) or Wilson (D).

* note I confused myself on Buchanan, of course he won in 1856 and being from PA of course he won his own state. Only Al Gore could lose his own state LOL...


30 posted on 08/20/2011 6:24:06 AM PDT by lowtaxsmallgov (This Administration has absolutely no idea how to grow an economy)
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To: markomalley

As I recall, Gore lost PA because his overt anti-gun stance was unpopular in the rural part of the state. The GOP should remember this and hammer GunRunner in PA.


31 posted on 08/20/2011 6:30:40 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine; markomalley

My bad... Gore just barely won PA, but it was close.


32 posted on 08/20/2011 6:32:14 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: markomalley; All
In the comments to the article, a poster states:

This week Obama signed an order which will almost make it impossible for white males to get jobs with the federal government[.]

After a quick search, I've found nothing else on this. Did Obama sign such an order and do any of you have any details?

33 posted on 08/20/2011 6:33:39 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)
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To: gussiefinknottle

His loyal following is chanting “4 more years” as the Won vacations on the Vineyard.


34 posted on 08/20/2011 6:34:10 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: markomalley

None of this means anything to Obama. He is without class, manners, graciousness , integrity, honor or shame. Any decent man would be shamed by such a record of his glaring incompetence. But when one is without shame, one can not be shamed. Such a man is Barack Obama.


35 posted on 08/20/2011 6:35:56 AM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: markomalley
President Obama.....dipped to 35 percent approval among the state's registered voters
Since when have Democrats depended solely on "registered" voters to win elections?
36 posted on 08/20/2011 6:37:41 AM PDT by no dems (No matter who it might be, when I find out a person is a Democrat, I lose respect for them.)
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To: Reagan79

“He’d piss on their head and they would still vote for him<’’ They’d do that because Obama would have them convinced it was raining.


37 posted on 08/20/2011 6:38:58 AM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: jmacusa

Old Chinese saying,

“A man without shame can eat waygu beef fo’evah”


38 posted on 08/20/2011 6:39:52 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: lowtaxsmallgov

No, I am pretty sure Pennsylvania voted for Buchanan. He is the only President to hail from the state.


39 posted on 08/20/2011 6:42:08 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: markomalley; All
OK; I HAVE A QUESTION FOR EVERYBODY:
How do pollsters "poll" people these days. Many people have only a cell phone and have NO LAND LINE at all; especially the younger demographic. ARE THESE POLLS ACCURATE? I'm sure they have their means, but, can somebody tell me how? Thanks in advance.

no dems
40 posted on 08/20/2011 6:44:33 AM PDT by no dems (No matter who it might be, when I find out a person is a Democrat, I lose respect for them.)
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