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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.
    • 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……

    • 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

      (tags: sarah_palin)
    • 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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      You think?

  • Barbara Boxer,  Carly Fiorina

    CA-Sen Poll Watch: Carly Fiorina 47% Vs Barbara Boxer 45%

    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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  • Barack Obama,  Day By Day

    Day By Day July 11, 2010 – Tea Time



    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Ha! Chris.

    Do you REALLY think President Obama and his Administration is THAT bloated with big spending?

    Just wait for a few weeks when the national unemployment numbers show LITTLE or NO improvement and the Democrat members/leadership in the Congress (especially the ones up for re-election in swing districts) start to run scared. The Congressional PORK will not be able to flow fast enough.

    Of course, there are the matters of debt and inflation.

    The Congress will swing back to the GOP this November as unfortunalley the American economy sinks further into the abysss.

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