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Shaw's Blog: Gallup Poll–Battleground State Nightmare for Obama
fox nation Today, Gallup released their aggregate state approvals for President Obama over the entirety of 2011. His drop relative to his 2009 standing is especially stark in battleground states. Here are some of the …
Webutante: Battleground States Show Sharp Decline For Obama
Battleground States Show Sharp Decline For Obama. AS MITT ROMNEY MOPS UP IN FLORIDA TONIGHT, many of my fellow conservative commenters diss and whine about Romney's conservative qualifications, his …
The following data is from all of 2011, and 2012 is not looking any better.
The Good News For Obama
His political standing is in reasonable but not good shape in traditionally Democratic Midwestern battlegrounds such as Wisconsin and Michigan and the more Republican heartland state of Iowa where his rating is 46 approval/46 disapproval.
And his numbers in Virginia are better than those in other battleground states 45% approve, 49% disapprove.
His numbers in North Carolina 44/49 approve/disapprove and Florida 44/48 approve/disapprove and even in Georgia 45/48 approve/disapprove aren’t good, but given his overall numbers, they aren’t that bad either.
The Bad News For Obama
His job approval ratings in the other battleground states are solidly underwater however, and in many states, they are much worse than publicly perceived, mostly because of White House spin.
In Colorado, which is seen as a gateway to aggressively contesting the Southwest, Obama scored a net -12 job approval 40/52 throughout the year.
In Nevada, also seen as a major bellwether, Obama has a 41% approval rating, with 50% of respondents disapproving.
In the critical battleground state of Ohio, 50% of voters disapprove of his performance, with only 42% approving.
And in the must-win state of Pennsylvania, Obam’s job approval is underwater, with 45% approving and 48% disapproving.
More Bad News
New Mexico is seen as a Democratic-leaning state because of its voting history and its significant Hispanic population.
But Obama’s performance there, 42% favorable, 51% unfavorable, isn’t much different than his weak standing in the other Southwestern battlegrounds.
The Obama campaign argues that it has an outside shot at contesting Arizona, but his approval rating is at 40%, with 52% disapproving.
In New Hampshire, a state that John Kerry carried in 2004, Obama’s job approval is at 39%, with 54% disapproving, and it’s a state that with Romney heading the GOP ticket, is starting to look more and more out of reach.
So What Does Obama Have To Do To Win?
Based on the above numbers, the most plausible path for the president’s re-election runs through Virginia, Florida and Iowa, which isn’t a scenario that Team Obama drew up in its spin sessions, but if the polls are to be believed, then it’s likely the only way to go.
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Occupy: the sad reality and the mad fantasies | Sean Collins | spiked
www.spiked-online.com11/23/11
Occupy: the sad reality and the mad fantasies. Far from being clear-eyed, … Many liberals, especially liberal pundits in the major media outlets, present an idealized account of the Occupy protesters. Their vision of what the …
Commentarama: Liberals to Obama: “Quit!”
That right there is why liberals lose wars, folks. ….. A liberal friend of mine posted a letter to Obama about how he was sad that there wasn’t more done and how he was joining a moderate independent party instead. November …
Many people told me over the years that many Liberals are mentally sick people, and I always thought that it was way over the top.
But having watched Mika Brzezinski fall apart on MSNBC when Gingrich suggested that the "OWS demonstrators get a job after taking a bath"; and now having seen this Karen Finney video.
I have come to the conclusion that many Liberals are definitely very sick people!
Man’s (or woman’s) most basic instinct is most likely survival, but they just don’t have it.
It seems that they lack something that every other animal on the planet has.
Gingrich wasn’t talking about “young kids”, but about the wasted money that goes to Universities that make money out of students striving for a degree that they will never use.
And about the time that those students waste, when they could otherwise be contributing to society.
In the foreseeable future, there will always be a need for people to do menial jobs; so why should these self-same people spend time and money at a University when they could be working.
And that was Gingrich’s point, but perhaps it was to difficult for Karen Finney to grasp.
