Archive for July, 2010
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Sarah Palin is playing in this year’s elections more than just with her speeches and tweets. She’s using money to help those candidates she believes in.
According to a Federal Elections Commission report filed Sunday, Palin’s Political Action Committee, Sarah PAC, has raised $1.3 million so far this year and has about $1 million in cash with which to try and help candidates Palin supports get elected this fall.
One of those candidates is Carly Fiorina, who Palin endorsed in May before the three-way Republican primary for the chance to take on incumbent Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer.According to the FEC report, of the $87,500 in contributions Palin has doled out so far to 21 House and Senate hopefuls, she gave $2,500 to Fiorina. Of the 529 contributions Palin’s PAC took in during this past quarter, 57 of them were from Californians and two were reported from Orange County donors.
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Endorsement was worth far more than the $2,500
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California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina on Monday questioned why the Obama administration is not suing San Francisco for its sanctuary policies on illegal immigrants.
The Republican, trying to unseat Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, suggested the federal government engaged in political posturing when it sued Arizona over its law on illegal immigrants.
"If the federal government wants to take the point of view that the Obama administration and Attorney General Eric Holder seem to be taking, which is all immigration issues are federal government issues and therefore we will challenge any authority, then they ought to be applying that standard consistently and they clearly are not," Fiorina said during an interview with KCBS radio and CBS-5 in San Francisco.
Fiorina supports Arizona's law, which requires law enforcement officers to question a person's immigration status if there is reasonable suspicion they are in the country illegally.
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Obama is not enforcing the law.
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Apparently so.
It looks like that demon sheep has showed up snarling on Sen. Barbara Boxer’s doorstep.
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, the controversial Silicon Valley executive who exploded into the California Senate race with a series of colorful viral videos, is holding the Democratic senator to at least a tie, according to two polls released in the last week.
An automated SurveyUSA poll published Monday showed Fiorina narrowly ahead of Boxer, leading the three-term senator, 47 percent to 45 percent. That’s within the poll’s four-point margin of error, but it comes just days after the Field Poll showed Boxer with only a narrow advantage in her fight for a new term, leading Fiorina by three percentage points.
Whichever result is closer to the mark, there’s little doubt that California has quickly become a marquee Senate battleground, with Democrats on the defensive in one of the country’s most reliably liberal states.
Boxer campaign manager Rose Kapolczynski pointed to the Field result in a fundraising appeal over the weekend, calling the race a virtual tie – “Dead heat. Tossup. Neck and neck.”
“If anyone was taking our victory for granted — well, this news should be a wake-up call. We don’t have a vote or a moment to spare,” Kapolcynski wrote. “I’m going to tell it to you straight: we’re under 50 percent of the vote and our opponent is at our heels.”
As I said before don’t count Boxer out but with Republican Meg Whitman mounting a tough, sustained media campaign against long-time Pol Democrat Jerry Brown and with high California unemployment, it looks like an anti-incumbent year.
I don’t see California’s economy improving by the November elections and voters are bleh on President Obama’s performance in turning things around. Californians will be looking to mix things up and this will mean giving a new candidate, Carly Fiorina a chance.
Tags: Barbara Boxer, Carly Fiorina
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
There is little question that Democrats and President Obama’s political strategy has been to divide America rather than unite them in a common cause. But, isn’t that the socialist agenda – redistribution from the haves to the have-nots?
Isn’t it interesting that a majority of American voters identify Obama as a “socialist?”
The latest poll by Democracy Corps, the firm of James Carville and Stan Greenberg, has Republicans leading on the generic ballot among likely voters, 48 percent to 42 percent.
Deep in the poll, they ask, “Now, I am going to read you a list of words and phrases which people use to describe political figures. For each word or phrase, please tell me whether it describes Barack Obama very well, well, not too well, or not well at all.”
When asked about “a socialist,” 33 percent of likely voters say it describes Obama “very well,” 22 percent say “well,” 15 percent say “not too well,” and 25 percent say “not well at all.”
In other words, 55 percent of likely voters think “socialist” is a reasonably accurate way of describing Obama.
Soon desperation will set into the White House political operatives as their poll numbers continue to drop and the Republicans get ready to take over the Congress. The question is whether the Republican electoral gains will help or hurt the prospects for an Obama second term?
I think the Obama Presidency has already been set in stone – one term failure. Hope and change won’t be able to trump inaction and Big Government policies. Previous:
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A new SurveyUSA poll in California finds Meg Whitman (R) leading Jerry Brown (D) by seven points among likely voters in the race for governor, 46% to 39%.
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Jerry Brown ain't going to win this race – He is too damn old with worn out ideas
Key finding: Whitman gets 77% of Republican voters, while Brown gets the support of 64% of Democrats. Independents break by a 5-4 margin for Whitman.
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Washington didn't grind to a sweaty halt last week under triple-digit temperatures. People didn't even slow down. Instead, the three-day, 100-plus-degree, record-shattering heat wave prompted Washingtonians to crank up their favorite humidity-reducing, electricity-bill-busting, fluorocarbon-filled appliance: the air conditioner.
This isn't smart. In a country that's among the world's highest greenhouse-gas emitters, air conditioning is one of the worst power-guzzlers. The energy required to air-condition American homes and retail spaces has doubled since the early 1990s. Turning buildings into refrigerators burns fossil fuels, which emits greenhouse gases, which raises global temperatures, which creates a need for — you guessed it — more air-conditioning.
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And, we can go back to horses instead of automobiles too.
Please……
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A new financial report filed Sunday evening showed Sarah Palin’s political action committee has taken its fundraising to a higher level – and suggests that she has begun building a more sophisticated political operation in place of a bare-bones organization powered mostly by her rock star status and scrappy on-line presence.
The report, filed with the Federal Election Commission, shows that Palin’s political action committee raised more money in the second quarter of this year – $866,000 – than it had in any previous three-month stretch since Palin formed the group in January 2009.
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Building her base – much like Reagan from 1976-1980
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In a private meeting with White House officials this weekend, Democratic governors voiced deep anxiety about the Obama administration’s suit against Arizona’s new immigration law, worrying that it could cost a vulnerable Democratic Party in the fall elections.
While the weak economy dominated the official agenda at the summer meeting here of the National Governors Association, concern over immigration policy pervaded the closed-door session between Democratic governors and White House officials and simmered throughout the three-day event.
At the Democrats’ meeting on Saturday, some governors bemoaned the timing of the Justice Department lawsuit, according to two governors who spoke anonymously because the discussion was private.
“Universally the governors are saying, ‘We’ve got to talk about jobs,’ ” Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee, a Democrat, said in an interview. “And all of a sudden we have immigration going on.”
He added, “It is such a toxic subject…
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Republican Nominee Carly Fiorina and California Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer
The latest Survey USA poll has Republican Carly Fiorina beating incumbent Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer by a couple of points but the lead is within the margin of error – which means they are essentially in a dead heat.
In the race for U.S. Senator from California, Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer and Republican Carly Fiorina are effectively even, the poll found.
Fiorina got 47% voter support compared to Boxer’s 45%, which is within the poll’s four percentage point margin of error.
The poll found twice as many Democrats cross-over to vote Republican as Republicans who cross-over to vote Democrat in the senate race.
Fiorina has an ever-so-slight advantage in the Greater Los Angeles area and in the Central Valley. She also carries the Inland Empire by a 2-1 margin, while Boxer carries the Bay Area by 2-1, the poll data showed.
Note the areas of California where Fiorina is strong are also areas of the highest unemployment. If these voters remain unemployed and angry, they WILL turn out in November and vote Senator Boxer out of office.
I wouldn’t say bet the ranch on Boxer losing, but I do not see any scenario where she damages Fiorina enough to beat her.
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