Archive for June 8th, 2011
These are my links for June 8th from 12:59 to 20:02:
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According to the latest Fox News Poll.
Qualified Vs. Not Qualified to be President:
- Mitt Romney – 68% Vs. 21%
- Newt Gingrich – 58% Vs. 33%
- Tim Pawlenty – 43% Vs. 25%
- Sarah Palin – 41% Vs. 56% (With 42% Saying Not At All)
- Herman Cain – 32% Vs. 24%
GOP Primary Election:
- Romney – 23%
- Giuliani – 13%
- Palin – 12%
- Cain – 7%
- Gingrich – 7%
- Pawlenty – 5%
- Paul – 5%
- Bachmann – 4%
- Santorum – 4%
General Election:
- Obama – 47% Vs. Giuliani – 43%
- Obama – 48% Vs. Romney – 41%
- Obama – 56% Vs. Palin – 35%
- Obama – 53% Vs. Gingrich – 34%
- Obama – 50% Vs. Pawlenty – 32%
- Obama – 49% Vs. Christie – 34%
Job Approval Vs. Disapproval:
- President Barack Obama – 48% Vs. 43%
The entire poll is here.
The president’s job rating has returned to pre-bin Laden raid levels, according to a Fox News poll released Wednesday. Currently 48 percent of American voters approve of the job Barack Obama is doing and 43 percent disapprove. Last month, after the death of Usama bin Laden, it was much more positive: 55 approved and 41 percent disapproved (May 2011). Prior to the raid the president’s rating was split evenly 47-47 (April 2011).
The poll finds similar mixed views on the president’s re-election. Nearly half of voters — 49 percent — would vote for someone else rather than re-elect President Obama if the 2012 election were held today. Forty-four percent would vote to give him a second term. These results are essentially unchanged from January, the last time this question was asked, when 51 percent said someone else, and 42 percent said re-elect Obama.
Among the president’s party faithful, 82 percent would re-elect him. That’s about the same as the 79 percent of Democrats who said so in January, though down a bit from 87 percent at the beginning of Obama’s term (April 2009).
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I’m told by two reliable sources that Rudy Giuliani intends to run for the GOP nomination for president in 2012. He may throw his hat in the ring soon.
Rudy’s theory of the race: In the fall of 2007, he decided he couldn’t compete with both Mitt Romney and John McCain in New Hampshire, and disastrously decided to try to pull back there and pitch his tent in Florida. This year, he’ll commit everything to New Hampshire, where he thinks he has a good shot at beating Romney—whom he criticized there earlier this week. He then thinks he can beat whichever more socially conservative candidate(s) is left by winning what are still likely to be winner-take-all primaries in big states like California, New York, and New Jersey.
I will be making some calls. Stay tuned…..
Former New Yory City mayor, Rudy Giuliani talks about how first responders saved thousands of lives at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 during the N.J. Hall of Fame during the induction ceremony at New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, N.J., Sunday, June 5, 2011
Rudy has been saying this over and over but does anyone REALLY believe him?
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said today he is pondering whether to run again for the presidency and will decide by the end of summer.
If he does run, he said, he would “do it the right way” this time and spend more time on person-to-person campaigning in New Hampshire.
In 2008, Giuliani led in the polls at various times and was sometimes described as the front-runner. But he made little effort in first-caucus state of Iowa, eventually pulled most of his advertising out of the first-primary state New Hampshire, and focused on Florida, where his campaign collapsed.
Giuliani placed fourth in the 2008 New Hampshire primary after doing little campaigning here. He vowed to run differently if he decides to jump into the 2012 race.
“The impression was we didn”t spend a lot of time here because we didn”t do it the right way,” Giuliani said. “We were spending so much time trying to raise money that we forgot about the politics.”
This time, Giuliani pledged to run a more retail-style campaign. “Much more talking to people, meeting with them, getting their ideas,” Giuliani said.
This was his seventh visit to New Hampshire in a year.
No bat signal from Gotham yet. My bet Rudy is waiting for Palin to jump in or not. If Sarah is IN, so is Rudy.
The key quote:
“I would like to see a Republican defeat President Obama,” Giuliani said. “If I thought someone else had a better chance of doing that than me, I”d probably end up supporting that person. If I thought I had the best chance, I’d be more inclined to do it.”
Tags: President 2012, Rudy Giuliani, Sarah Palin
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According to the latest Ipsos/Reuters Poll.
- GOP Primary Election:
- Sarah Palin – 22%
- Mitt Romney – 20%
- Herman Cain – 7%
- Ron Paul – 7%
General Election:
Obama leads all potential Republican challengers by double-digit margins, the poll showed. He is ahead of his closest Republican rival, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, by 13 percentage points — 51 percent to 38 percent.
In the Reuters/Ipsos poll, the other Republican contenders fared even worse than Romney’s 13-point gap in a match-up with Obama. Palin trailed Obama by 23 points and former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty was behind by 19 points.
State of the Country:
- 35% Right Direction Vs. 60% Wrong Track
This is the first poll I have seen with Sarah Palin leading the pack. But, if nominated, she trails President Obama by a whopping 23 points.
The poll, conducted Friday through Monday, surveyed 1,132 adults nationwide by telephone, including 948 registered voters. The margin of error is 3 percentage points.
Tags: Herman Cain, Mitt Romney, Polling, President 2012, Ron Paul, Sarah Palin
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ObamaCare goes to court and it is running into constitutional problems.
A top Obama administration lawyer defending last year’s healthcare law ran into skeptical questions Wednesday from three federal judges here, who suggested they may be ready to declare all or part of the law unconstitutional.
Acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal K. Katyal faced off against former Bush administration Solicitor General Paul Clement in what has become the largest and broadest challenge to the healthcare law. In all, 26 states and the National Federation of Independent Business joined in urging the judges to strike down the law.
And in an ominous sign for the administration, the judges opened the arguments by saying they knew of no case in American history where the courts had upheld the government’s power to force someone to buy a product.
That argument is at the heart of the constitutional challenge to the healthcare law and its mandate that nearly all Americans have health insurance by 2014.
“I can’t find any case like this,” said Chief Judge Joel Dubina of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. “If we uphold this, are there any limits” on the power of the federal government? he asked.
Judge Stanley Marcus appeared to agree. “I can’t find any case” in the past where the courts upheld “telling a private person they are compelled to purchase a product in the open market…. Is there anything that suggests Congress can do this?”
ObamaCare is obvioulsy in trouble and the political ramifications are huge if and when the federal 11th Circuit Court of Appeals declares the legislation unconstitutional.
Already, appeals courts in Richmond, Va., and Cincinnati have heard legal challenges to the healthcare law, and a fourth hearing is set for September in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
The challengers hope that at least one of those appeals courts strikes down the law as unconstitutional. Such a ruling would almost certainly require the Supreme Court to take up the case and decide the issue.
The United States Supreme Court will ultimately decide the issue but it is doubtful they would take it up prior to the 2012 Presidential elections and remember – NO Republican votes in favor of passage.
Tags: Barack Obama, Obamacare
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These are my links for June 8th from 09:47 to 11:58:
Tags: #catcot, #tcot, #teaparty, CA36, Pinboard Links
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Former New Yory City mayor, Rudy Giuliani talks about how first responders saved thousands of lives at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 during the N.J. Hall of Fame during the induction ceremony at New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, N.J., Sunday, June 5, 2011
Rudy has been saying this over and over but does anyone REALLY believe him?
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said today he is pondering whether to run again for the presidency and will decide by the end of summer.
If he does run, he said, he would “do it the right way” this time and spend more time on person-to-person campaigning in New Hampshire.
In 2008, Giuliani led in the polls at various times and was sometimes described as the front-runner. But he made little effort in first-caucus state of Iowa, eventually pulled most of his advertising out of the first-primary state New Hampshire, and focused on Florida, where his campaign collapsed.
Giuliani placed fourth in the 2008 New Hampshire primary after doing little campaigning here. He vowed to run differently if he decides to jump into the 2012 race.
“The impression was we didn”t spend a lot of time here because we didn”t do it the right way,” Giuliani said. “We were spending so much time trying to raise money that we forgot about the politics.”
This time, Giuliani pledged to run a more retail-style campaign. “Much more talking to people, meeting with them, getting their ideas,” Giuliani said.
This was his seventh visit to New Hampshire in a year.
No bat signal from Gotham yet. My bet Rudy is waiting for Palin to jump in or not. If Sarah is IN, so is Rudy.
The key quote:
“I would like to see a Republican defeat President Obama,” Giuliani said. “If I thought someone else had a better chance of doing that than me, I”d probably end up supporting that person. If I thought I had the best chance, I’d be more inclined to do it.”
Tags: President 2012, Rudy Giuliani, Sarah Palin
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