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Poll Watch: The Demographics of the 2010 Electorate
Gallup is out with a poll today that spells danger for the Democrats in the 2010 elections.President Barack Obama’s efforts this week to stir young voters to turn out in November on behalf of his party’s candidates come as Gallup finds support among this group — so important to the Democrats’ success in 2008 — improving. Gallup’s September polling suggests that young voters remain in the Democrats’ corner, and show increased support at a time when seniors have shifted more to the Republicans. The key question is whether young adults will vote in big enough numbers to offset the impact of the senior vote. The most recent indications on this from Gallup polling are not promising for the Democrats.
Hispanics present a different problem for the president’s party. While they voted strongly for Obama in 2008 and were supposed to be one of the building blocks of Democratic victory in 2010, Gallup’s recent polling suggests their support for Democratic congressional candidates is slipping. This is in line with Hispanics’ dwindling approval of Obama as president, with the initial decline seen in May possibly linked to the Democrats’ failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
The fact is the “youth” vote will NOT turn out for the November 2nd elections like they did in the Presidential election year of 2008. There is not a young “COOL” candidate like Barack Obama running. They will stay home while “Senior” voters who are scared to death of ObamaCare and the cuts to Medicare will – and vote the GOP ticket.
Hispanics feel betrayed by Obama. They mistrusted him initially (culturally they do anyway), supported Hillary Clinton, but resigned themselves to support Obama because they just could not vote for the old white guy, John McCain. There have been diminishing expectations for them without an immigration deal and they are weary about becoming another taken for granted minority voting group for the Democrats like African Americans and Jews. Hispanics may very well be ambivalent to this election except in California where Jerry Brown and the SEIU are race baiting with Nicky the $23/hr illegal alien maid for Meg Whitman.
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CA-Sen Video: Carly Fiorina Welcomes VP “Slow Joe” Biden to California
The latest web video from the Carly Fiorina Campaign, “Political Point”A hearty welcome to “Slow Joe” Plagiarizing Biden, Vice President of the United States to the big OC (Orange County, California). He is town to raise money for Senator Barbara Boxer who is in a tight race against Republican Carly Fiorina.
Fiorina’s campaign has released a web video, “Political Point,” that reminds Biden that Boxer voted against the 2007 bill that included funding for body armor and brain trauma treatment for the troops. It includes a clip of Biden railing against those who voted against the bill to score “political points.” “There’s no political point worth my son’s life. There’s no political point worth anybody’s life out there,” Biden argued.
It is noteworthy that President Obama has not shown his face in the Republican enclaves of Southern California where he is extremely unpopular. As far as Biden is concerned, he is forced to come to very blue California to raise money for an entrenched Senator who remains vulnerable.
Does this say anything about how badly the Democrats trail presently and will do on November 2nd?
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Signs Bill Decriminalizing Marijuana Possession
In his younger days Arnold Schwarzenegger smoking some weedThe California Governor, Schwarzenegger, who opposes Proposition 19, this morning signed a landmark bill in the state of California which decriminalizes the possession of marijuana. For those wondering, this does not make marijuana possession legal, but it no longer will be a misdemeanor offense. Instead of the mandatory fine of $100 as well as the mandatory appearance in front of a judge, the outcome of being caught with marijuana will now simply be a $100 fine. The new law will be in effect on January 1st and include anyone caught with up to an ounce of marijuana. Basically the possession of the drug is seen no different by California now than speeding is.
Schwarzenegger signed the bill because it will save the state a ton of money since there will no longer need to be a judge and attorneys appointed to each and every one of the misdemeanor offenses involving marijuana possession. Last year alone there were 60,000 Californians caught with the drug, and in the last decade approximately 500,000 offenders.
I am trying not to be cynical here but really isn’t this a ploy to make sure that Proposition 19 which legalizes marijuana on the November ballot will NOT pass? The fact is the medicinal marijuana law is a mockery and the use of marijuana is very common place – like alcohol in California.
I really don’t know how California will EVER solve its numerous problems with more stoned out citizens. But, the current law is really a joke anyway.
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Day By Day October 1, 2010 – Hopenchange
The “One Nation” rally tomorrow is too little and too late to save the LEFT from the November 2nd Congressional Midterm elections. The Democrats and their friends in the Far Left wish to energize their base to stave off the disaster the polls foretell.Will it work?
Probably not since American voters are really not paying attention to what is happening in D.C. Instead they are being bombarded by paid media in their local Congressional Districts.
How much the GOP wins in November will now revolve about “Get Out the Vote” and early voting organization.
But, the fact remains: Americans are unhappy with the state of the nation and the Democratic Party who control the Presidency and the Congress.
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