Posted on 07/09/2012 3:19:36 PM PDT by neverdem
Today, let’s look at the polls — all of them. To start with, health care: Just 6 percent of Americans think health care is the most pressing issue, according to the latest Gallup poll. Why? Because lots of those Americans don’t have jobs or are underemployed — the real jobless rate nationwide is more like 14.9 percent, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
So savoring his big win on health care is most definitely a waste of time for President Obama, and he knows it. After less than a week of spiking the football (a relatively short time for America’s most narcissistic president ever), the president is back on the campaign trail. What’s striking is where he’s going: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa — places he won in 2008.
Why? Simple. All the latest polls show he’s losing … well, everyone. He’s down 13 points with voters ages 18 to 25, nearly half of whom think he’s done a mediocre job, according to Students for Life of America. The healthy young don’t really care about health care, but they do care about jobs — and nearly 2 million 20- to 24-year-olds are unemployed.
“With skyrocketing student debt and grim unemployment prospects for those out of college, young voters’ collective love affair with the president has abated,” SFLA Executive Director Kristan Hawkins said.
The rate is far worse if you’re young and black. For blacks ages 16 to 19, the unemployment rate is now 39.3 percent, up from 36.5 percent last month...
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While the lack of enthusiasm for Mr. Obama does not translate into enthusiasm for Mr. Romney, the GOP candidate has a clear path to victory: Nibble away at the margins the president won in 2008 — across all demographics. Pick up 4 percent here, 9 percent there … until victory.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Starve the beast... States should reassert sovereignty and that is easy for men of character... and deny the gop our votes when they do not deserve it. I have 40 years experience with the gop... I know that what I am saying is true. Every election for the rest of our lives will be the most important election of our lifetime... and nothing will change if WE do not force a change... so I ask you... if not now... when? "Later" no longer works for me and I do not have the luxury of the time to continue to wait for this mythical change. I am only one man but I have decided to try to implement that much needed change and I am not alone. We exist because they feel the pain of our existence. This is good... they will feel more pain in the future.
I truly appreciate your post and I completely understand the "whys and hows" behind it. I spent 40 years thinking and believing the same thing. I do truly appreciate your post and your FReeper civility... and they say that the old FR is dead. Not hardly!
LLS
How about passing this bill, before wanting to know what's in it?
How true, because it is July, the height of summer vacation season, with the children out of school for the summer, people are not really paying any attention right now to politics. Cannot blame them.
Plus also Romney is laying low and is getting ready to pounce when the time is right.
“Their savings are smaller and their investments have devalued by 50%. Not only are they paying attention... they are not happy about anything.”
In general, there’s a lot of fear out there about the sad state of the economy and its effect on personal finances. No question about it. But July and August are big vacation months. The two beach towns we’ve driven to this summer (not the Hamptons or Kiawah) were packed with average folks spending like there was no tomorrow. Maybe there is no tomorrow, but at least for now they’re setting their cares aside and living it up while they can. Come September it will be back to reality for most people. And they will be increasingly unhappy (about the very issues you cite) as the election rapidly approaches.
IMHO there’s a good chance that oil prices will spike — shortly before the election — due to increasing tensions/conflicts in the middle east. This will be a dagger into the heart of our fragile economy. Echoes of Jimmy Carter...
No, we would be complaining about how in the world did some ex-Democrat RINO governor of left-coast California ever get the nomination? He's nothing but a B-movie actor and will lose the race to this horrible President Carter. That we thought Howard Baker should have gotten the nomination, couldn't believe that Jack Kemp decided not to run and plan on voting for John Anderson instead of that no-good divorced Reagan.
It is a perfect storm... as you say... and add in the EU and the 8 trillion dollars that burnandynankme gave the EU banks in grants and 0% loans... over the past three years (verified in the first ever audit of the Federal Reserve)... and Spain or Italy or the EU itself on the brink... and any one event can spell the end for banking and Wall Street and the complete crash of our economy and possibly our government. Things can get much worse than most think and it can get there in a hurry.
LLS
“...add in the EU and the 8 trillion dollars that burnandynankme gave the EU banks in grants and 0% loans... over the past three years...”
Best regards.
bttt
All you’re seeing are polls that show a dead heat for two reasons:
1 - The media will not admit they were wrong in ‘08 until zerO is so obviously going to lose that everyone knows it without question.
2 -If the MSM were to admit that even as of now zerO is toast, nobody would tune in for the next 4 months, and they really need to be relevant.
To these ends, almost all the polls you see are of adults or registered voters, not likely voters. When likely voters are polled, zerO is losing badly, especially for an incumbent. (Pollsters’ research shows that as many as 40% of registered voters do not actually vote, and that likely voters skew overwhelmingly toward the conservative side. As well, since 1960, when an incumbent has polled under 50%, most, if not all of the undecided votes go to the challenger.)
Thank you very much my FRiend... I will check it out.
LLS
Consider one thing as everyone pines for Romney to make a stand now. Obama is still screaming for donations. I think he has money coming out his butt he hasn’t claimed yet.
Come September he will be all over the media. between what he legitimately buys in air time and what the media gives him free because they WANT and support him Romney will have to pour on the campaign ad time then.
The Money will burn up fast in September.
So far Romney has not allowed Obama to squander his assets on foolish attack adds. Obama has attacked him about half a dozen times and Romney has just let it pass and turned it around on him quite effectively.
I think so far Romney has played a good game of level headed chess for the WH. But I honestly think it will come down to $ in september and he wants to make sure that he has the cash on hand to stand toe to toe with Obama in the final weeks where it counts in the swing states.
Lets see what happens when he picks a VP. Also Obama goes on the defensive very soon with Fast and Furious, still with Obamacare, and he opened a bunch of other cans with his Executive orders that Romney can go after anytime he wants - like 800,000 illegals and gays in marriage. Both of which lost him votes.
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