Material Gains, Vanishing Leads -- Newt 41% Romney 32% Florida.....

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Rasmussen

Less than two weeks ago, Mitt Romney had a 22-point lead in Florida, but that’s ancient history in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Following his big win in South Carolina on Saturday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich now is on top in Florida by nine.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Florida Republican Primary Voters, taken Sunday evening, finds Gingrich earning 41% of the vote with Romney in second at 32%. Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum runs third with 11%, while Texas Congressman Ron Paul attracts support from eight percent (8%).

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Rasmussen Poll Finds Obama Unable to Break 43% Against Unknown Thad McCotter...

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Sunshine State News:

While there has been buzz in the Beltway that McCotter could run for the Republican nomination, he has yet to take any formal steps in the race. Obama leads him in the poll 43 percent to 19 percent …

The article takes the view that this is good news for Obama when in fact our current president is unable to garner more than 43% against an unknown and undeclared Thaddeus McCotter.

Presidential weakness

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Rasmussen Confirms Gallup's Poll on the Precarious Seats of Rep. Brad Miller, David Price, Bob Etheridge and GK Butterfield...

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Rasmussen confirms Gallup's numbers that haven't been seen in generations in the previous post with Republicans +12 in generic polling. Gallup calls for between 10 and 15.

What would these numbers be if Republicans had not governed so poorly prior to Pelosi?






Ole...




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Rasmussen Confirms Gallups Eye Popping No Longer Flaky Poll Turnout Numbers...

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Rasmussen polling has returned numbers similar to those produced by Gallup:

Forty-eight percent (48%) of respondents say they would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate, while 39% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent.

Even more worrisome for Democrats, however, is the finding that among the voters who are most closely following the midterm elections Republicans hold a 55% to 36% lead.

Oof.



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Gubernatorial Polls Indicate Strong Anti Liberal Political Sentiment...

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The result of governance through Broken Consent.

Via Rasmussen

Voters will elect governors in 37 states this November. Nineteen of those governorships are now held by Democrats, while Republicans sit in the governor's chair in 18 of the states. The Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 Gubernatorial Scorecard shows Democrats solidly ahead in three states, with three more leaning their way. Republicans are running strongly in 14 states, and four more are leaning GOP. Thirteen states are currently viewed as Toss-Ups, including California, Florida, Illinois and Ohio.

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Solid Dem	Lean Dem	Toss-Up	Lean GOP	Solid GOP
Hawaii	Arkansas	California	Maine	Alabama
New Hampshire	Connecticut	Colorado	Michigan	Alaska
New York	Massachusetts	Florida	Nevada	Arizona
		Georgia	Pennsylvania	Idaho
		Illinois		Iowa
		Maryland		Kansas
		Minnesota		Nebraska
		New Mexico		Oklahoma
		Ohio		South Carolina
		Oregon		South Dakota
		Rhode Island		Tennessee
		Vermont		Texas
		Wisconsin		Utah
				Wyoming

"I can see November from my house."


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Governance Through Broken Consent Confirmed...

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Polifrog has argued that the Pelosi, Reid, Obama triad has governed through broken consent. That is to say, Pelosi, Reid and Obama have put the members of their party in both houses who also represent weak democrat districts in a position where voting with the party is no longer problematic due to the bruising ObamaCare Battle. Add in the ever increasing numbers of retiring Democrats who are also no longer accountable to their constituents and the end result is a liberal lurch to the left.

Constituents in those weakly democratic districts have howled in protest, but they have not only been ignored, they have been ridiculed and impugned with unfair charges of racism and accused of being fertile soil for terrorism.

Democrats are now poised to enter a second stage of governance through broken consent.... Lame-Duck Governance Through Broken Consent. Many congressmen and Senators are set to loose office in November, but their stints won't end until the following year giving them plenty of time to govern through broken consent without accountability. For those Democrats who were reelected, they will have a full term to reform their public images after going along with Lame-Duck Governance Through Broken Consent.

Now comes word via Rasmussen that Polifrog is not alone in his concerns. According to Rasmussen:

... a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 23% of voters nationwide believe the federal government today has the consent of the governed. Sixty-two percent (62%) say it does not, and 15% are not sure.

My...Not even 1 quarter of Americans believe the federal government has their consent to govern.

This is Failed governance and it goes a long way in attributing why Obama is being seen more and more as a failure despite signing ObamaCare into law. There is no reward for signing into law a law that is not only unwanted but actively resisted by the majority.



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