What will it take for the MSM to call it a good month for Gov. Romney?
First, let us review this chart of the Gallup tracking poll. HT to the PJ Tatler
Now the left leaning MSM/DNC has been calling the past month a “bad month” for Gov. Romney. I don’t think the word “bad” means what they think it means.
Keep in mind that this is the Gallup poll, not the historically more accurate Rasmussen poll. It is also a poll of registered voters, not likely voters. Add to that the historic trend of Gallup and most other polls over ratting Obama by several points.
Given all that, plus what is charitably called a “lackluster” recovery that is in danger of slipping back into a recession, it looks like polls, like this Gallup poll, are being carefully crafted to try and make the MSM/DNC label of a “bad month” for Gov. Romney appear to be true. Even with them cooking the books, this polls shows a challenger running dead even with an incumbent President with the election less than two months away.
Keep in mind, most polls had Jimmy Carter, the worst President of the latter half of the 2oth Century, four points ahead of Ronald Reagan at this point in the 1980 election.
Friday B-Movie Pick: Terminator 2: Judegment Day
Arnold Schwarzenegger came back. This was a well done sequel that expands on the original. This 1991 (yes, it is old enough to order its own booze) movie had ground breaking special effects. It was also a good vehicle for Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor. She went through extensive training, including advanced weapons handling, to prepare for the role. Robert Patrick became a SciFi icon as the T-1000 Terminator. The movie is also noted for its use of identical twins to portray both the character and the T-1000 imitating the character. One of the pairs of identical twins was Linda Hamilton and her sister, who is a nurse.
Religious Bigotry from the left
No surprise here, it is one of their fallback hates.
Economic Video of the Day
Filed under: economy, Obama Economy, Our Dear Leader, Politics, Video
Obamanomics 101, Understanding How the Obama Economy Works
U Didn’t Build That by MC ‘Bama
Emails Show Close Coordination Between “Justice” Department and Left-Wing Agitprop Organization Media Matters
Filed under: Culture of Corruption, Our Dear Leader, Politics
HT to Ace for this one. Color me not surprised The Obama regime has been anything but “open and transparent” in their actions, legal and illegal.
Internal Department of Justice emails obtained by The Daily Caller show Attorney General Eric Holder’s communications staff has collaborated with the left-wing advocacy group Media Matters for America in an attempt to quell news stories about scandals plaguing Holder and America’s top law enforcement agency.
Taking a look at the Obama Economy
Filed under: economy, Obama Economy, Our Dear Leader, Politics
It’s time again to take a look at the state of the US economy under the so called “guidance” of our Dear Leader.
As you can see we are still at an unemployment level that is much higher than what the Obama economic team promised us it would be if the federal government did nothing, and even higher still than what they claimed it would be if we passed the trillion dollar “stimulus” package. So, not only epic fail on the part of the Obama so called “economic team”, but actual evidence of incompetence is pretty damn clear.
It’s also pretty clear that they are trying to “cook the books” in order to hide their massive pooch screwing of the economy.
Let’s look at that unemployment number of 8.1% for August 2012. It dropped from 8.3%, with only 96,000 new jobs being added. As anyone who has been paying attention knows, you need to add at least 125,000 new jobs a month just to keep up with population growth. So America was short 29,000 jobs of breaking even. The reason the unemployment number when down is because the federal government stopped counting 368,000 Americans as being unemployed for a variety of reasons, none of which was that they became employed. One of the primary reasons that people dropped off the rolls of employed was that the people who were being counted exhausted their unemployment benefits. They are still unemployed, but the feds don’t count them anymore. So in the is case, the reduction in the “official” unemployment rate is an indication that things are getting worse, not better.
Need another example? The Egan-Jones credit rating agency just downgraded the US government’s credit rating. This is because the Obama regime has initiated a third round of “Quantitate Easing.” Incase you don’t know what that means, the Fed created $40 billion out of thin air and inserted that into the money supply. So you have more dollars chasing the same amount of goods. This is bad news for the American consumer. If you still don’t get it (i.e. you can’t repeal the Law of Supply and Demand), here is a helpful instructional video
Monday Book Pick: The Jefferson Allegiance
The Jefferson Allegiance by Bob Mayer
A political thriller with conspiracies linked to secret branches of organizations founded by the Thomas Jefferson (author of the Declaration of Independane and the third President) and Alexander Hamilton (first Secretary of the Treasury). Plenty of action and lots of history. A tasty bit of reading for somebody like me, who likes thrillers, conspiracies and American history.
An observation on political yards signs
Filed under: economy, Obama Economy, Politics, The Peoples Commonweath
As I drove around town this weekend I notices something very consistent with political yard signs.
Every small business, most independently owned, with a yard sign had signs for Scott Brown and/or Marty Lamb.
Scott Brown is running for re-election in the US Senate, on the Republican ticket and Marty Lamb is running for State Representative, also on the Republican ticket.
Senator Brown’s opponent is a Harvard law professor, who makes over $300,000 a year for teaching a single class and claims she “represents the people.” Elizabeth Warren is best known for falsely claiming to have Cherokee Indian ancestors and using that claim to obtain benefits as a minority.
Small business owners are intimately familiar with the negative effect democrats have had on the economy since taking control of Congress and the White House and clearly do not want that to continue
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