January 25, 2012

Many Florida Republicans Not Ready to Choose

January 25, 2012January 25, 2012 Trish

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Number of registered Republican voters in Florida who say they are still making up their minds who to vote for in less than a week. Their candidates have one more “debate,” as the press conference/Greek chorus/American Idol/Survivor T.V. contests are called, before the Florida primary. Another 64% of Florida Republicans said they have made their choice and will stick with it.

Half of Americans Think Economic System Is Unfair

January 25, 2012 Buck Banks

49%

Of Americans agree with President Obama’s claim that the U.S. economic system is unfair, while 45% say it is fair, according to Gallup. At the same time, 62% say the U.S. economic system is fair to them personally.

Romney’s Favorability Drops 18 Points Among Independents

January 25, 2012 Jon Ponder

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Drop in Mitt Romney’s favorability rating among independents over the past two weeks, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll. Talking Points Memo reports that the “internals of past ABC/WaPo surveys showed that partisan voters were very steady — Republicans had remained at nearly 60 percent favorable while Democrats were in the low twenties. But when it came to independent voters, Romney went from a positive 41 – 34 split to a negative 23 – 51, showing themselves to be the culprit in the overall drop.”

Pelosi: Newt Is ‘Not Going to Be President of the United States’

January 25, 2012January 25, 2012 Jon Ponder

Let me just say this: that will never happen. He’s not going to be president of the United States. This is… That’s not going to happen. Let me just make my prediction instead by… it isn’t going to happen. There’s something I know. The Republicans, if they choose to nominate him, that’s their prerogative.

– Former Speaker and current Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, in an interview with CNN’s John King, commenting on the presidential candidacy of disgraced former Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Factcheck.org Confirms President’s Record on Job Growth, Proves Romney Lies When He Says Obama Has Created No Jobs

January 25, 2012January 25, 2012 Jon Ponder

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The 18 debates among the Republican presidential wannabes have been such horrific clown shows that both Sen. John McCain, the GOP 2008 nominee, and Bush’s propaganda czar Karl Rove have expressed concern that they are harming the party.

The debates have also been veritable blizzards of lies, particularly about Pres. Obama’s record. None of the candidates is a smoother or more practiced liar than Mitt Romney, who has made his political career out of changing his positions in order to get votes.

In his State of the Union speech last night, the president addressed one of Romney’s often-repeated lies — that no jobs have been created since Obama took office.

Pres. Obama: In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than three million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005. American manufacturers are hiring again, creating jobs for the first time since the late 1990s.

Factcheck.org confirms the president’s statement even while griping a little about what he didn’t say — and in doing so puts the lie to Romney’s oft-repeated claim that no jobs have been created since the Obama took office in the depths of the Bush recession:
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State We’re In

January 25, 2012 Buck Banks

We’ll leave it to the historians to take the long-term view
About the difference between what presidents say and do.
But once every year
The pundits long to hear
The mellifluous rhetorical relish of POTUS’s SOTU.

Day: January 25, 2012

Many Florida Republicans Not Ready to Choose

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Half of Americans Think Economic System Is Unfair

49%

Of Americans agree with President Obama’s claim that the U.S. economic system is unfair, while 45% say it is fair, according to Gallup. At the same time, 62% say the U.S. economic system is fair to them personally.

Romney’s Favorability Drops 18 Points Among Independents

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Pelosi: Newt Is ‘Not Going to Be President of the United States’

– Former Speaker and current Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, in an interview with CNN’s John King, commenting on the presidential candidacy of disgraced former Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Factcheck.org Confirms President’s Record on Job Growth, Proves Romney Lies When He Says Obama Has Created No Jobs

State We’re In

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

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31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”