• CA-26,  Julia Brownley,  Linda Parks,  Tony Strickland

    CA-26: Strickland Continues to Lead in Fundraising

    Parks and Strickland CA 26: Handicapping Linda Parks and Tony Strickland

    Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks (NP) and California State Senator Tony Strickland (R)

    Timm Herdt over at the Ventura County Star has the poop on the fundraising numbers – Republican California State Senator Tony Strickland leads far and away.

    Strickland had a pretty good week at fundraising last week, FEC reports show.

    He took in more than $70,000, most in the form of contributions from members of Congress and conservative PACs, including House Speaker John Boehner ($4,000) and Rep. Paul Ryan’s Prosperity PAC ($2,500).

    Meanwhile, Democrat Julia Brownley took in slightly over $20,000, led by contributions from AFSCME ($2,500), House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer ($2,000) and $2,000 each from county Democratic clubs in the Conejo Valley, Oxnard and Ojai.

    The reports show that independent Linda Parks boosted her campaign with a $10,000 contribution to the campaign from her personal funds on May 2.

    Ventura County Supervisor and No Party Preference candidate, Linda Parks, has been widely outspent by Strickland and Brownley. She accepts no contributions from PACS, although an independent SuperPAC has run some ads for her.

    Will Parks approach work in the new top two format?

    Will Republicans “GAME” the voting system and vote for Linda Parks to eliminate the Democrat, Brownley?

    Well. stay tuned…..the election is tomorrow.

  • Barack Obama,  Mitt Romney,  Polling,  President 2012

    Romney Now Leads Obama Among Middle Income Voters

    According to the latest Obama vs. Romney Gallup Presidential Poll.

    Mitt Romney currently has a 49% to 45% edge over Barack Obama among middle-income voters, those whose annual household income is between $36,000 and $89,999. Romney has the same lead among upper-income voters, while Obama maintains a wide advantage among lower-income voters.

    The results are based on Gallup Daily tracking of 2012 election preferences by demographic group, including more than 9,000 interviews with registered voters conducted between May 14 and June 3. During this period, Obama and Romney were tied at 46% among all registered voters.

    Voting preferences by income group have been fairly well-established since Gallup began tracking the general election on April 11. Obama’s lead over Romney among low-income voters has ranged between 13 and 16 percentage points in each of the three-week rolling averages of the vote by demographic group that Gallup has reported since late April. Meanwhile, Romney’s edge among middle-income voters has been between four and seven points, and among upper-income voters, between four and six points.

    Romney, the wealthy former head of Bain Capital, has slightly greater appeal to the highest-income voters in Gallup’s data, those making $180,000 or more in annual income. This group has shown a 53% to 42% preference for Romney since mid-April, compared with 50% to 45% for Romney among those earning between $90,000 and $179,999.

    Again, this is good news for Mitt Romney and the Republican Party.

    If Obama loses the middle income folks, he is not going to be re-elected.The fact is there is greater voter participation among middle income voters than lower income ones.

    It appears that Obama’s appeal is based more upon race, than winning the economic argument of “sharing the wealth around.”

    Obama’s large lead among low-income voters overall is due to two factors. First, as the prior table shows, lower-income nonwhites prefer Obama to Romney by a 68-point margin, compared with smaller 55-point and 52-point margins among middle- and upper-income nonwhites, respectively. At the same time, Romney has a smaller lead among lower-income white voters (10 points) than among middle- (19 points) or upper-income white voters (14 points).

    Second, and perhaps more importantly, nonwhites fall disproportionately into the lower-income group. Nearly half of nonwhites, 49%, report annual household incomes of less than $36,000. And 38% of those in the lower-income group are nonwhite, compared with 22% of those in the middle-income group and 17% in the upper-income group.

    But, most importantly, Mitt Romney is leading among middle income and independent voters, a key demographic.

    Though Romney’s edge among middle-income voters is similar to his lead among upper-income voters, in certain subgroups of middle-income voters he performs especially well. That includes middle-income independent voters, who right now prefer Romney by an eight-point margin, 48% to 40%. Obama leads among lower-income independents, and the two are tied among upper-income independents.

    All in all, a good poll for Mitt Romney early in the race.

    No wonder the odds makers at InTrade.com have seen Obama crater in recent trading.

  • Animals,  Jyllands-Posten,  Muhammed Cartoons

    Four Muslims Jailed in Denmark Over Muhammed Cartoons Terrorist Plot

    Jyllands Posten Muhammed Cartoons Watch: Four Muslims Plead Not Guilty to Terrorist Attack on Jyllands Posten Newspaper

    The exterior of a building housing the Jyllands-Posten Copenhagen office is seen. Four Swedes accused of plotting a revenge attack on the Jyllands-Posten newspaper that printed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad have gone on trial

    News item: Four Jailed In Denmark Over Plot Linked To Muhammad Cartoons

    A Danish court has sentenced four men to 12 years in prison each for plotting a gun attack on a newspaper in revenge for its 2005 publication of cartoons purporting to portray the Prophet Muhammad.

    The authorities have described the planned attack as the most serious terrorist plot ever uncovered in Denmark.

    The men, three Swedish citizens and a Tunisian, were arrested in December 2010, just hours before the alleged attack was to take place.

    The men had pleaded not guilty to the charges.

    The court in Glostrup, near Copenhagen, on June 4 also ordered the men to be expelled from Denmark after they serve their sentences.

    Prosecutors said the men had intended to cause heavy loss of life by opening fire on the offices of the “Jyllands-Posten” newspaper the same day that Crown Prince Frederik was due to visit the paper’s building in Copenhagen.

    A fitting end to this story, but I cannot help but think there will be more terrorist attacks based on the Muhammed Cartoons.

    Blaming the publication of these images of Muhammed offer a convenient excuse or cover for Islamic terrorist activities.

    Mohammed Cartoon Bomb Muhammed Cartoons Watch: Four Muslims Plead Not Guilty to Terrorist Attack on Jyllands Posten Newspaper

  • CA-26,  Julia Brownley,  Linda Parks,  Tony Strickland

    CA-26: Republicans Vote for Linda Parks Tomorrow

    Linda Parks Republican CA 26: Is Linda Parks a Republican?

    From LindaParksRepublican.com

    Why not?

    In California’s new top two election system, Ventura County voters can have either have a Far Left Democrat (Assemblywoman Julia Brownley) or a No Party Preference moderate in Ventura County Sueprvisor Linda Parks, face off with Republican Tony Strickland in November.

    Brownley without hesitation will vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker and for every left-wing cause down the line.

    Parks is a moderate and although more left than I would like will at least be approachable on issues. Not to say that Parks will vote more conservative, but who can be MORE left than Santa Monica resident (oh yeah Brownley just moved) Julia Brownley?

    Conservative voters tomorrow have an opportunity for a two-fer. Strickland and Parks.

    Tomorrow vote for Linda Parks.

  • Pinboard Links,  The Morning Flap

    The Morning Flap: June 4, 2012

    These are my links for June 1st through June 4th: