2008 - 41% D to 33% R... 2010 35% both D and R ... 2012 34% D to 36% R...

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Voter Identification

2008 - 41% D to 33% R
2010 - 35% D to 35% R
2012 - 34% D to 36% R







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... Pollster Scott Rasmussen periodically estimates party identification on the basis of thousands of robocall interviews of likely voters.

His findings have been uncannily close to the exit polls. In the last quarter of 2008, his party-ID numbers were 41 percent Democratic, 33 percent Republican. The 2008 exit poll showed Democrats ahead in party ID by 39 to 32 percent.

In the third quarter of 2010, Rasmussen pegged party ID as tied at 35 percent. The 2010 exit poll showed it exactly the same.

The third quarter of 2012 is not yet over. But the Rasmussen party-ID numbers for the second and third quarters combined are ominous for Obama’s party: 34 percent Democratic, 36 percent Republican. Republicans are up only 3 percentage points from 2008, but Democrats are down 7 percentage points.

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Humility is the Price of Hubris Among the Forgiven..

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Do you remember more Bush the campaigner or Bush the leader?

What of Obama? Do you remember Obama the campaigner or Obama the leader?

The difference between the two is that Obama campaigned beyond his ability to lead - in a word, failure.

The sense of "Obama the messiah" is gone because Obama failed to rise to the aura of his own pitch.  It is for that reason every attempt to rekindle yesterday's magic during the current campaign has failed.

And that will not change, for a messianic figure quantified  is no messiah and one quantified by his own measures of failure even less so.

That said, yesterday's hubris can be tamed and even forgiven by today's humility.  Presidents are human as even Obama's staunchest supporters know.  But nothing I have seen thus far indicates that Obama intends to embrace humility or is even capable of humility and absent humility Obama will never find forgiveness for his failure among the electorate.

That is Obama's insurmountable hurdle - the belief that in the face of his own failure he can overcome yesterday's hubris without humility.

And if Obama fails to embrace and sell his humility during the DNC he will have never, in the eyes of the electorate, matured into a leader worthy of their forgiveness or a second term.





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Obama: "We Tried Our Plan and it Worked" ...

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... and Rush hoped Obama would fail because Rush understood that if Obama's plan worked the nation would find misery.

We found that misery; Obama's plan worked.






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Rob Portman: Taxes Suck and Obama Lies...

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Ohio Senator Rob Portman:

Analysis of the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) final report on what caused the January 2001 projection of a $5.6 trillion 10-year surplus to turn into an actual $6.1 trillion deficit over that 10-year period shows that:

The tax policies enacted a decade ago are responsible for just 16 percent of the swing from surplus to deficit. Furthermore, given that only about one-fourth of the tax cuts went to upper-income earners, just 1/25th of the decline from surpluses to deficits resulted from upper-income tax cuts. (NOTE: Given that CBO does not take into account any of the positive impact of tax cuts on investment, savings and economic growth, the percentage was actually even smaller than the 1/25th estimate)

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In a second report, the CBO said that in both 2008 and 2009, the highest-earning 20 percent of taxpayers paid 94 percent of the total income tax burden – up from 86 percent in 2007, and 81 percent before the 2001 tax cuts. In other words, higher-income Americans have been paying a bigger and bigger part of the total tax burden under the so-called “Bush tax cuts.”

 This is nothing new....




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Obama's America -- Dinesh D'Souza

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Should We Really Focus on What Romney Does With His Money Rather than What Obama Does With Ours?

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--- And should we really consider removing more money from our leaden economy?

Brain-trust Obama believes so...







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8.2 Before, 8.2 After -- No Step is Obama's "Step in the Right Direction"...

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Even African Americans are Distancing Themselves From Obama"s Failed Presidency....

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Morgan Freeman --- 'He's not one of us'.

Twitchy:

Appearing on NPR’s “Tell Me More” to promote a new film, actor Morgan Freeman said he is “disheartened” by the current political climate and lamented that “America’s first black president hasn’t arisen yet.”

First thing that always pops into my head regarding our president is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him … they just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white — very white American, Kansas, middle of America. There was no argument about who he is or what he is. America’s first black president hasn’t arisen yet. He’s not America’s first black president — he’s America’s first mixed-race president.”

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Mike McIntyre (D-NC) Refuses to Endorse Obama

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N.C. Dem refuses to endorse Obama for president:

North Carolina Blue Dog Rep. Mike McIntyre (D., N.C.) refused to endorse President Obama, in an interview Saturday with WSFX in Wilmington:

ANCHOR: Rep. Mike McIntyre is staying clear of endorsing a presidential candidate for the November election. We asked Rep. McIntyre this afternoon if he was going to endorse a presidential candidate. He says his focus is on the congressional race, and not any other races. McIntyre says he is focusing his efforts on eastern North Carolina and making it better for the people who live and work in the state.

McINTYRE: We’ve always been steadfast in our work for Eastern North Carolina, and I’m grateful because we’ve had Republican and Democratic friends who’ve supported us because they know my heart is here, and it’s not about any party agenda or any other person’s agenda. Our focus is on the congressional race in Eastern North Carolina.

ANCHOR: Now, we’ve been asking McIntyre if he would endorse President Obama for reelection bid—he hasn’t answered that question.

The battleground state will host to the Democratic National Convention in September.

Wise Choice.  He will still lose his seat, though.





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Another Installment of Our UnAmerican President....

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Compare and contrast:

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi: “Jihad Is Our Path & Death in the Name of Allah Is Our Goal”:

and

White House congratulates Egypt's Morsi

UnAmerican.





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Gun Runner/Walker Went to the Top - Obama, Holder, Napolitano...

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The video says it all. Watch...


The Right Scoop:




Waiting for  executive privilege was wise...
Toast!

Update...



Via The Ulsterman Report by Ulsterman

Second, something just now breaking out is Holder walked back a Blame Bush statement he gave to Congress just last week. Fast and Furious was nothing like anything the Bush boys did. Bush era program was much smaller and had the full cooperation of the Mexican authorities. Holder lied when he attempted to link the two and now he is already trying to correct that testimony from one week ago. This kind of sloppy mistake is a clear sign he’s in big trouble and really feeling the heat. It’s also a signal to party leaders and the White House he is falling apart on this.

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This follow up from WHI is now included in this original report:

Received in-house word regarding “scrambling” at the White House. Something has them very spooked. I hinted at this to you last week regarding the meeting that had staff coming out looking very concerned. The Grassley message had to have shook them up. Told Issa has been repeating comparisons to Watergate to staff and fellow House members. White House must be aware Issa and Co. might have something that could inflict a hell of a lot of damage.

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"Is it the right thing to do for American workers?"...

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President Obama, scheduled to give a statement on his latest power grab involving deportation waivers, was an hour late and was not going to take any questions.

He still got one.




Has this gotten more coverage than Gun Runner yet?




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A Video Roundup:

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Head winds:
 

Chris Christie is always fun:

Colbert Blasts the NYT:

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"That letter needs to be at least three pages single spaced, no less, and it needs to be specific"...

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A slap down for our president and bully.

I am beginning to think Drudge is right; the president got some bad news regarding Obamacare and the Supreme Court. In his arrogance he slipped.

Of course he slipped when he chose to focus taking over 1/6 of the US economy rather than leading us out of a depression.

He had his chance, now he is a failed president.




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The Down Side to Term Limits is the Freedom From the Influence of the Citizenry Provided by the Last Term...

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I'll completely blink on missile defense after the election...

President Obama: On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him to give me space.

President Medvedev: Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you…

President Obama: This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.

President Medvedev: I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.

No. There is nothing to fear from a second Obama Term.




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Obama's Keystone Compromise Summed Up in a Cartoon...

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Really, this is an oil pipe with a hole in it stretching from Canada to Oklahoma.   No oil will flow through this pipe which will keep Obama's friend, Chavez, happy, but is it good for  America's friend, Canada and is it good for Americans?

This is election year chicanery from a styrofoam president.  If he wins reelection plan on this pipe to go unfinished throughout his second term and chalk up the expense of the Oklahoma to Gulf leg to funding Obama's reelection.

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Broken Promises? More Like a Litany of Lies...

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Lord Monckton Questions Obama's Birth Certificate...

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Daily Caller:


Great Britain’s Lord Monckton tells Dennis Miller on his radio show:

“I don’t know whether he is Kenyan or not. . . The point is that if I were you, I would want to make absolutely sure that he was born here before allowing him to be elected. And the birth certificate that he put up on that website, I don’t know where he was born. But I do know that birth certificate isn’t genuine. 

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 It appears in layers on the screen in such a way you can remove quite separately each of the individual dates,” Monckton said. “You use Adobe Illustrator and each of the individual dates is in its own separate layer. This thing has been fabricated. Sheriff [Joe] Arpaio of Arizona has had a team on this for six months. And he has now gone public and said there’s something very desperately wrong with this and of course nobody is saying anything because the entire electorate has been fooled

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I’m no birther, don’t get me wrong,” Monckton said. “I haven’t a clue where Obama was born and I wouldn’t want to entreat into the private grief behind investigating. But the point is, is what he has done on the White House website is he has put up a document which he is plainly a forgery and I would regard that as a very serious matter.”

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Our Strange President....

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Newt:

“Let’s accept that he’s a Christian. He’s a Christian whose policies are to apologize to Muslim extremists while they’re killing Americans – at the same time he’s waging war against the Catholic Church and against every Right-to-Life Institution in this country. . . . Why is it he’s more sensitive to radical Islamists who are killing young Americans than he is to the Catholic Church, to Baptists, to Fundamentalists, to people who are pro-Life. I mean, the fact is, this is a very strange Presidency. . . “

A strange president indeed. The fact is that there is a consistent clash between Obama's rhetorical claims and his actions.






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Obamacare is an Election Year Loser, SCOTUS Pass or Not...

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ObamaCare is set to face down the Supreme Court in a week or two. What are the political implications?

Charles Krauthammer says ObamaCare is unpopular because it is dog-food.



It is more than dog-food for Americans, it is dog food for the Obama campaign.

If the Supreme Court finds that Obama's signature legislation is unconstitutional, Obama will enter the November election as a greater failed president than he already is.

But what if the ObamaCare passes constitutional muster, you say?

The answer is that ObamaCare is such awful dog food not even the Supreme Court can make ObamaCare a net positive in his campaign. With the Supreme Court backing ObamaCare the Tea Party and other anti ObamaCare types will see the election as the only way to end ObamaCare. Obama will enter the November elections with a Tea Party on steroids.

There is no winning on the ObamaCare issue for Obama.



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