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Flap’s Links and Comments for June 8th on 12:59
These are my links for June 8th from 12:59 to 20:02:
- President 2012 GOP Poll Watch: Romney 23% Giuliani 13% Palin 12% Cain 7% Gingrich 7% | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012 GOP Poll Watch: Romney 23% Giuliani 13% Palin 12% Cain 7% Gingrich 7% #tcot #catcot
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: American Association of Public Health Dentistry Publishes Dental Therapist Curriculum Guidelines – American Association of Public Health Dentistry Publishes Dental Therapist Curriculum Guidelines
- President 2012: Bill Kristol Says Rudy Giuliani is Running | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012: Bill Kristol Says Rudy Giuliani is Running #tcot #catcot
- California Congressional Redistricting: Visualizations Have Thousand Oaks Thrown Into Democratic San Fernando Valley District | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – RE: Today, the California Citizens Redistricting Committee is taking the day off. Tomorrow there will be more discuss…
- President 2012 GOP Poll Watch: Palin 22% Romney 20% Cain 7% Paul 7% | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012 GOP Poll Watch: Palin 22% Romney 20% Cain 7% Paul 7% #tcot #catcot
- Federal Appeals Justices Skeptical of ObamaCare | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Federal Appeals Justices Skeptical of ObamaCare #tcot #catcot
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: The Daily Extraction Video: I Want to Extract Teeth – Flap's Dentistry Blog: The Daily Extraction Video: I Want to Extract Teeth
- President 2012: Ed Rollins Walks Back His Comments About Sarah Palin? | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012: Ed Rollins Walks Back His Comments About Sarah Palin? | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
- President 2012 Poll Watch: Obama Approval Up On International Issues Sinks on the Economy | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012 Poll Watch: Obama Approval Up On International Issues Sinks on the Economy | Flap's Blog – Fullos…
- Flap’s Links and Comments for June 8th on 09:47 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for June 8th on 09:47 #tcot #catcot
- President 2012: Rudy Giuliani AGAIN Says He Is Considering Presidential Race | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012: Rudy Giuliani AGAIN Says He Is Considering Presidential Race #tcot #catcot
- Dilbert May 23, 2011 – Malicious Compliance | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Dilbert May 23, 2011 – Malicious Compliance #tcot #catcot
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President 2012 GOP Poll Watch: Romney 23% Giuliani 13% Palin 12% Cain 7% Gingrich 7%
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 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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President 2012: Bill Kristol Says Rudy Giuliani is Running
*****Update from original post******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.”
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President 2012 GOP Poll Watch: Palin 22% Romney 20% Cain 7% Paul 7%
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.
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Federal Appeals Justices Skeptical of ObamaCare
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.
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Flap’s Links and Comments for June 8th on 09:47
These are my links for June 8th from 09:47 to 11:58:
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: The Daily Extraction Video: I Want to Extract Teeth – The Daily Extraction Video: I Want to Extract Teeth
- President 2012: Ed Rollins Walks Back His Comments About Sarah Palin? | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012: Ed Rollins Walks Back His Comments About Sarah Palin? #tcot #catcot
- President 2012 Poll Watch: Obama Approval Up On International Issues Sinks on the Economy | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012 Poll Watch: Obama Approval Up On International Issues Sinks on the Economy #tcot #catcot
- CA-36 Poll Watch: Craig Huey in TIGHT Race Against Janice Hahn | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Craig Huey within 5 pts of Janice Hahn in #CA36 – Help him out here: #tcot #teaparty
- CA-36: Not Janice Hahn Makes an Appearance on Twitter | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – CA-36: Not Janice Hahn Makes an Appearance on Twitter #tcot #catcot
- Weinergate: Should Rep. Anthony Weiner Resign? | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Weinergate: Should Rep. Anthony Weiner Resign? #tcot #catcot
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President 2012: Rudy Giuliani AGAIN Says He Is Considering Presidential Race
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.”
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Dilbert May 23, 2011 – Malicious Compliance
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President 2012: Ed Rollins Walks Back His Comments About Sarah Palin?
“As far as we’re concerned, it’s not” an ongoing fight, he insisted. “This was my one comment, which I shouldn’t have made, at the end of the day this has nothing to do with Michele, Michele’s campaign, or any of the rest of it. This was my transition from being an analyst to a political strategist, and I missed a step.”
Rollins had suggested to POLITICO that Bachmann would fare well in a Palin contrast, and told a radio interviewer that the former vice presidential contender is “not serious.”
Of Team Palin’s call for a retraction, he said, “What’s the retraction? I say she’s serious?”
There is tension between the two campaigns or one campaign and one wannabe campaign. This “slip” is just the beginning.
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President 2012 Poll Watch: Obama Approval Up On International Issues Sinks on the Economy
According to the latest Gallup Poll.Majorities of Americans approve of the way President Obama is handling terrorism, the situation in Afghanistan, and foreign affairs. That contrasts with the majority disapproval he gets for his handling of the economy and the federal budget deficit.
These results are based on a May 12-15 USA Today Gallup poll that shows the effect of Osama bin Laden’s death on Americans’ evaluation of how Obama is handling key issues. The president’s ratings on terrorism, foreign affairs, and the situation in Afghanistan all improved significantly from Gallup’s prior measurement. However, Americans do not view his handling of the economy or the federal budget deficit any better than they did in late March.
The race for President 2012 will be on the economy and Obama is already in trouble.
The president’s weak approval on the economy is a clear vulnerability, given the issue’s dominant status as the most important problem facing the country in Americans’ eyes. Americans are less concerned about international matters such as terrorism and the war in Afghanistan, issues on which Obama receives much more positive ratings. Indeed, the May 12-15 poll finds that U.S. registered voters are much more likely to say the economy will be extremely or very important (71%) to their decision on whether to vote for Obama in 2012 than will foreign affairs (49%).