78% Of MSNBC Viewers Responding To Poll Approve Of “Targeted Killing Of American Citizens”

78% Of MSNBC Viewers Responding To Poll Approve Of “Targeted Killing Of American Citizens” – Weasel Zippers

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In an MSNBC poll, 78% of respondents approved of executing Americans without trial. #tcot #teaparty pic.twitter.com/HSM2UT2Jcx
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MSNBC Viewers- Obama State TV. What would they not approve of, if he said it was alright? Flaying people in the street?

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22 Signs Of Democrat Voter Fraud In 2012 Election

22 Signs Of Democrat Voter Fraud In 2012 Election – Fellowship Of The Minds

Terry, Hardnox, and I have been posting about evidence that the Democrats committed massive vote fraud in the 2012 presidential election. (See the post links colored neon green on FOTM’s “2012 Election” page.)

But our posts were on separate instances and types of vote fraud. Thankfully, Michael of The American Dream collated the many separate accounts of vote fraud into a list of 22, with embedded links to the sources:

#1 According to the Election Protection Coalition, voters across the United States reported more than 70,000 voting problems by 5 PM Eastern time on election day.

#2 There were 59 voting divisions in the city of Philadelphia where Mitt Romney did not receive a single vote. In those voting divisions, the combined vote total was 19,605 for Barack Obama and 0 for Mitt Romney.

#3 The overall voter turnout rate in Philadelphia was only about 60 percent. But in the areas of Philadelphia where Republican poll watchers were illegally removed, the voter turnout rate was over 90% and Obama received over 99% of the vote. Officials in Philadelphia have already ruled out an investigation.

#4 According to WND, one poll watcher in Pennsylvania actually claims that he witnessed voting machine software repeatedly switch votes from Mitt Romney to Barack Obama:

It was in Upper Macungie Township, near Allentown, Pa., where an auditor, Robert Ashcroft, was dispatched by Republicans to monitor the vote on Election Day. He said the software he observed would “change the selection back to default – to Obama.” He said that happened in about 5 percent to 10 percent of the votes. He said the changes appeared to have been made by a software program. Ashcroft said the format for computer programming has a default status, and in this case it appeared to be designating a vote for Obama each time it went to default.

#5 Somehow Mitt Romney won 55 out of the 67 counties in the state of Pennsylvania and still managed to lose the entire state by a wide margin because of the absurd vote totals that Obama ran up in the urban areas.

#6 Barack Obama received more than 98 percent of the vote in 10 out of the 50 wards in the city of Chicago.

#7 Prior to the election, voters in the states of Nevada, North Carolina, Texas and Ohio all reported that voting machines were switching their votes for Romney over to Obama.

#8 There were more than 50 precincts in Cuyahoga County, Ohio where Mitt Romney received 2 votes or less.

#9 There were more than 100 precincts in Cuyahoga County, Ohio where Barack Obama received more than 99 times the votes that Mitt Romney did.

#10 Barack Obama also received more than 99% of the vote in a number of very important precincts down in Broward County, Florida.

#11 Wood County, Ohio (which Obama won) has a voting age population of 98,213, but somehow 106,258 voters were registered to vote on election day.

#12 Ten counties in the swing state of Colorado have a voter registration rate of more than 100%.

#13 Barack Obama did not win in a single state that absolutely requires a photo I.D. in order to vote.

#14 In Ohio, two election judges were caught allowing unregistered voters to cast ballots.

#15 Many Ohio voters that showed up at the polls on election day were surprised when they were informed that they had already voted.

#16 In fact, there were reports all over the nation of people being unable to vote because records showed that they had already voted.

#17 According to U.S. Representative Allen West, there were numerous “voting irregularities” in St. Lucie County, Florida on election day…

“The thing that spurred our curiosity in our race was the fact that at 1 o’clock in the morning on Election Night, all of a sudden there was a 4,000-vote swing that took me from being ahead to put the lead into my opponent’s hands.”

#18 In Wisconsin, there were allegations that Obama voters were actually being bussed in from out of state…

The Democrats stationed a self described “BIG Chicago pro bono attorney” as one of their two observers at this small polling place. He remained at the polling place from 7:00 a.m. until well after 8:p.m. …A high priced CHICAGO attorney, sitting in a Sheboygan WISCONSIN polling place, observing wards comprised of 1500 voters? …WHY???

Why would someone from Chicago be observing in Sheboygan Wisconsin? And WHY at such a small polling place? Finally, isn’t it interesting that this would occur at the VERY polling place in which all of the above described events ALSO occurred? AGAIN WHY WOULD A CHICAGO ATTORNEY BE OBSERVING AN ELECTION POLLING PLACE WITH FEWER THAN 1500 VOTERS IN IT, IN SHEBOYGAN WISCONSIN? Of all the places where there has been suspected voting irregularities, and OUTRIGHT FRAUD throughout the ENTIRE United States, WHY HERE? WHY SHEBOYGAN? WHY THIS SMALL WARD?

This lawyer spent the day running in and out making, and taking calls, which coincidentally then coincided with influxes of groups of individuals by the van and bus loads, coming in to register, AND VOTE, using what appeared to be copied Allient energy bills. These individuals often did not have photo I.D.’s, could not remember their own addresses without looking at the paper, and became easily tripped, confused and annoyed when questioned.

Many of these same individuals, just so happened to be dressed in/wearing CHICAGO BEARS apparel, and whom openly discussed “catching busses back to Chicago” with each other, with poll workers, via their cell phones in the lobby area just outside the polling place, as well as in the parking lot, both before and AFTER registering and voting.

One woman was dressed head to toe in CHICAGO BEARS apparel including perfectly manicured BEARS fake fingernails! She complained because registering was taking too long and she had to hurry up to catch her bus back to Chicago.

We have photos of these people in vehicles with plates from different states, photos of them leaving the polls, and other irregularities.

#19 Prior to election day, an Obama for America staffer was caught on video trying to help someone register to vote in more than one state.

#20 It is being alleged that unions in Nevada have been registering illegal immigrants and pressuring them to vote.

#21 According to townhall.com, there was a systematic effort by the Obama campaign to suppress the military vote because they knew that most military votes would go against Obama…

Aiding Obama’s win was a devious suppression of the conservative vote. The conservative-leaning military vote has decreased drastically since 2010 due to the so-called Military Voter Protection Act that was enacted into law the year before. It has made it so difficult for overseas military personnel to obtain absentee ballots that in Virginia and Ohio there has been a 70% decrease in requests for ballots since 2008. In Virginia, almost 30,000 fewer overseas military voters requested ballots than in 2008. In Ohio, more than 20,000 fewer overseas military voters requested ballots. This is significant considering Obama won in both states by a little over 100,000 votes.

#22 According to the Naval Enlisted Reserve Association, it appears that thousands of military votes from this election will never be counted at all.

I suggest that you print this list out to accompany the letters you write to your state’s attorney general asking that he or she investigate vote fraud in your state’s 2012 voting, and to your state’s Electoral College electors.

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Nate Silver is the Rodney Dangerfield of Polling

He gets no respect from those Conservative bloggers, no respect I tell ya!

Stacey McCain continues to badger poor Nate Silver, who some think is THE big cheese among poll analysis. Nate, I think, has been built up past his abilities, as he continues to not see the obvious. As McCain puts it Nate Silver approaches a clue and almost gets it:

Nate Silver approaches a clue and almost gets it:

For Romney to Win, State Polls
Must Be Statistically Biased

Missed it by that much, as Maxwell Smart might say.

His headline summarizes exactly what Republican poll-mongers have been saying since September, as they see poll after poll with crazy oversamples of Democrats. As for example, the NBC/WSJ/Marist poll that has Obama winning Ohio by 6 points — SIX FREAKING POINTS!— about which Ed Morrissey says, “all you need to know is this: the D/R/I is 38/29/32.  In 2008, the exit polls showed a split of 39/31/30, and in 2010 36/37/28.”

Stop for a second and think about that: What this poll is telling us is that partisan ID has shifted 2 points toward Democrats since 2008, which was the best year for Democrats since LBJ won a landslide in ’64. Therefore, we must choose between two alternative explanations:

1. Obama is headed toward a world-historic victory based upon the remarkable popularity of the Democratic Party; or
2. The poll sample is fucked-up beyond all comprehension.

The issue, the problem with Nate Silver’s model is this, he is using polls that use bad sampling. Samples 2008 and 2010 are decidedly different, and frankly, the numbers from 2008 are likely outdated. A LOT has changed since 2008, not so much from 2010. The economy still stinks, the same issues that caused Democrats to lose badly two year ago remain, excitement levels about voting are still higher among Republicans than Democrats, and Romney continues to hold solid majorities among Independents. Yet, Nate Silver ignores all of that

UPDATE: Michael Flynn at Breitbart.com Friday:

This morning, because the sun rose in the East, Nate Silver again increased his odds of Obama winning reelection. Silver now estimates Obama’s chances of reelection at a precise 83.7%.

Not  83.6% mind you, not 83.8%, no 83.7%!

Woman Blocked From Voting For Wearing ‘Vote The Bible’ T-Shirt To Polls

Woman Blocked From Voting Over ‘Bible’ T-Shirt – CBN

A woman was blocked from early voting near Austin, Texas, last week after wearing a T-shirt that said “Vote the Bible.”

A pro-family group called Texas Values said election workers told resident Kay Hill at the Taylor City Hall polling place in Williamson County her shirt was quote “offensive.”

She was told to turn the shirt inside out, go home and change, or cover up the words “Vote the Bible.”

Hill tried to disagree but was eventually forced to cover up her Bible message. Poll workers reportedly provided a jacket for her to wear over the shirt.

“It’s outrageous that a person of faith would be mistreated this way while trying to vote,” Jonathan Saenz, president of Texas Values, said. “If this isn’t voter intimidation, I don’t know what is.”

In a press release Saenz said, “No one else should have to suffer the humiliation, embarrassment and intimidation that Ms. Hill endured. No one should be asked to give up their religious freedom in order to vote.”

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Christian Group Fights Texas For Banning ‘Vote The Bible’ Shirt At Polls – Raw Story
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Hurricane Sandy set to pound Northeast, Nate Silver’s grip, on reality hardest hit

Team Obama is desperate, the sycophants are also desperate, and they are willing to cling to any port in a storm, even if that port IS an actual storm. Enter Nate Silver, who, again, seems to fellating Obama artificially inflating Obama’s chances of winning next Tuesday. Stacy McCain, who is in Ohio, has a lengthy report on the Romney campaign’s ground game there in the Buckeye State. Read that for sure, but note the very end of that post

UPDATE V: Thanks to Finrod in the comments for the news that Rasmussen’s latest Ohio poll has Romney 50, Obama 48.

Of course, Nate Silver has raised Obama’s re-election chances to 74.6%, because . . . Objectivity!

Nate, Nate , Nate.

Romney still has momentum, Nate Silver hardest hit

The first part of that headline is clearly the most pertinent, Romney is doing better and better, and you can feel the desperation in Team Obama’s tactics. 

If you are wondering just who Nate Silver is, don’t worry, not many folks know who he is. Sure, I know, but I know people like Silver so you do not have to, and The Other McCain certainly knows Silver, and his whistling in the graveyard act

Excuse me for my continued attention to Nate’s graveyard-whistling, but no matter how clear the evidence of a pro-Romney trend, the Grand Swami at the New York Times won’t stop. He’s now raised the likelihood of Obama’s re-election to 71.0%. (The one-tenth of a percentage point being necessary to the pretense of scientific exactitude.)

There is greater than a 71% chance that Nate Silver has an Obama poster above his bed

Is Nate Silver hustling an insider-trading scam with InTrade? Or is he merely acting as an Obama pompom girl? Either way, the poll-watcher at the nation’s most influential newspaper cannot be unaware of how his coverage functions to shape elite opinion, which is in turn reflected in other media coverage that then influences mass opinion, and believing that Nate Silver is acting as an honest neutral broker in this transaction requires a faith in human goodness that I lack.

Is it over for Obama?

If I was a betting man, then I would wager yes. Frankly there really is no viable reason to believe that Obama will triumph in two weeks. Every indicator points to a Romney romp frankly. Yet, some still cling to “hope” RS McCain, like me, is not an expert with a New York Times column, yet still…

Nate Silver continues to lead the Democrat Graveyard Whistling Choir, raising Obama to a 70.3% likelihood of victory based on . . . what?

I dunno. I’m not an expert with a New York Times column or anything, much less a Magical Forecasting Model™ that can divine future events with the precise scientific exactitude of 1/10 of one percent.

This morning, Silver told us that Ohio might be a crucial battleground, which might be news to a victim who just escaped from an underground rape-dungeon after nine months of being held hostage and tortured by a sociopathic sex offender. But to everyone else, it’s not news at all.

My apologies for the bizarre word-imagery. Debate-night aftermath, a shortage of sleep and other psychological stress sometimes have this effect on my prose. But don’t worry. After 24 debates in 16 months, I’m used to it by now. And speaking of bizarre word-imagery, Ace of Spades:

“It’s going to be a grim affair, grim and horrible and just sad, but there’ll be lots of alcohol.”

That’s in reaction to unmistakable evidence of doom and gloom inObama’s increasingly desperate fundraising e-mails. The plural of “anecdote” is data, as they say, and you don’t need a Magical Forecasting Model™ to see the dots in this emerging gestalt pattern, including the Gloria Allred “October surprise” gambit. Never heard a peep about this until after Obama got his ass kicked in the first debate, did ya?

Lots more at the link. We keep hearing rumors that Team Obama is examining ways to win that do not include Ohio, or that they have given up on North Carolina, maybe Virginia, and Colorado, we see the polls, we can sense the momentum, and again, I see no way Obama wins.

 

Good news and bad news for the president

The good news? Well all the pundits say he won the last debate. The bad news? Romney’s lead in the polls is growing

IBD/TIPP Daily Tracking Poll: This newspaper’s historically accurate daily tracking poll of likely voters down the campaign stretch shows Mitt Romney has whittled Barack Obama’s lead down to a narrow 1.5 point margin, 46.8% to 45.3%. With all appearances of a new tie developing.

The Republican has accomplished this by holding his five-point lead among independents, 45% to 40%, while constructing an enlarged five-point lead among seniors, up from a three-point margin.

Romney’s strongest support comes from a middle-aged, conservative, white suburban Protestant male in the South with some college education who earns more than $75,000 a year. Obama’s strong suit would be a liberal black, urban single woman with a high school education in the Northeast with an annual income under $30,000 and no particular religion.

Romney wins among married women, 55% to 41%, while Obama takes single women, 63% to 26%.

RASMUSSEN: Today’s latest tracking poll of likely voters from Rasmussen Reports, which includes one night’s results after this week’s Romney-Obama debate, shows Romney now expanding his one-point lead to two points with Thursday’s results, 49% to 47%.

Impost this not because I am a big follower of polls, I am not. I post this because I believe all those “experts” who say Obama won the second debate are wrong. Sure, those who watched saw a president who was more engaged and lively, but they also saw a president who has nothing but the same tired class warfare  rhetoric, and who seems incapable of taking any responsibility for his awful record. Sure, his base loved hearing his Leftist ideology, but how did it play with the folks who do not have a Kool-Aid IV? They heard a president either promise to keep doing what he has been doing the last four years, and we can all see how that is working out, or they saw a president promise to do all the things he promised in 2008, but has yet to even attempt to do. You know, like cut the deficit, or, here is a good one, remember your promises to bring unemployment down? One word Mr. President, FAIL!!

 

I knew last week’s dip in the unemployment rate was all smoke and mirrors. Now there’s proof. Initial jobless claims spiked back up to 388,000 this week. Right where they’ve been for months.

Weekly applications for U.S. unemployment benefits jumped 46,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 388,000, the highest in four months. The increase represents a rebound from the previous week’s sharp drop. Both swings were largely due to technical factors.

The four-week average of applications, a less volatile measure, rose slightly to 365,500, the Labor Department said Thursday. That is a level consistent with modest hiring.

Last week, California reported a large drop in applications, pushing down the overall figure to the lowest since February 2008. This week, it reported a significant increase as it processed applications delayed from the previous week.

“Technical factors” == California Democrats distorting their reports to make Dear Leader look good ahead of his anticipated “rebound” in the second presidential debate. Look! A Recovery! My “plan” is working!

No, it’s not.

Obama has no plan. Obama has no clue. More of the same won’t cut it. Alas, he’s out of ideas.

 

So, how many times can an ass hat like Joe Biden interrupt Paul Ryan in a VEEP debate?

Smitty crunches the numbers and tells the answer, 68!

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Another debate, another glimpse of a shell of a party we used to call Democrats

Last night, I watched the debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan. No doubt Biden was better than Obama in the Denver debate. Biden at least appeared to be engaged. He was feisty some might say, he was assertive others might say. To me, and, according to those I watched the debate with, he was rude, condescending, and acted like a bully. Biden did not make any glaring gaffes, but, how he conducted himself might have been more damaging. His over the top smiles, really creepy smiles to be honest, his constant interruptions, which the moderator did nothing to stop, and his other facial gymnastics made him look like a man with nothing to say. Nothing of any substance anyway. Biden dished out the same old talking points, the same old fear and smear, and the same bold class warfare rhetoric we have come to expect from the Democratic Party, which I am thinking of re-branding the Hollow Party.

Some, I am sure, loved Biden, and his ass hat act. Democrats loved it, and the Liberal base loved it, but I have serious doubts whether or not the undecided voters were digging Joe Biden’s deplorable behavior. Maybe Biden was trying to be like Romney and dominate his opponent. If that was his strategy, he failed. Romney debated Obama with class, he was not rude, he did not make faces, or interrupt continuously. Romney used substance, and shined. Biden played the role of a thug, and that showed big time.

Others also watched, and rated the two debaters, Big Government pointed out that the media observers, the ones  who are honest anyway, were not impressed with Biden’s Joker act Among the best tweets were  Piers Morgan who tweeted Joe, seriously, STOP SMIRKING. This is serious stuff. Be Vice-Presidential. Erik Wemple of the Washington Post added this Biden really pushing it with his interruptions. And Phillip Klein summed up my feelings quite well If Biden’s strategy was to come off like a complete jerk, he’s succeeding brilliantly.

Jim Picht of the Washington Times wrote this scathing indictment

Biden maintained a feral grin throughout, often laughing and smirking when Ryan spoke. His intent may have been to intimidate Ryan or to make him look like a mere boy, but his demeanor was more Joker than vice-presidential. He went back and forth between contemptuous and deranged in a performance that, combined with his frequent interruptions of Ryan (over 80 according to one TV pundit), was both fascinating and slightly disturbing.

Biden displayed a certain command of the issues, but he laced his arguments with red herrings. His performance carried more than a whiff of the “Chewbacca Defense”: “Look at me. I’m the vice president defending a failed administration, and I’m talkin’ about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you’re in that voting booth deliberatin’ and conjugatin’ the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must reelect Barack Obama! Thank you.”

Lots more media reaction at Politico

The Other McCain was pretty happy with what he calls a “Crushing Ryan Victory”

Matt at Conservative Hideout scored the debate issue by issue and concludes Ryan won, but wonders if undecideds will be swayed

All in all, knowing the issues, I think Ryan won.  But, the debate is really all about convincing the previously unconvinced, so did they go to Ryan’s fact based presentation, or was Biden’s more emotional, yet inaccurate portrayal the best sell?

Allahpundit wondered how the angry old dude was last night

I expected “table-pounding atmospherics” from Biden but I didn’t expect him to act like a total jackhole for fully 90 minutes. Give him credit for knowing his target audience, though: His task tonight was to get the left excited again after Obama fell into a semi-coma in Denver, and evincing utter disdain for Ryan — grimacing, shouting, laughing inappropriately, constantly interrupting, the total jackhole experience — is just what the doctor ordered. He might have irritated independents and undecideds, but probably not so much that it’ll change people’s votes. The Democrats needed someone to go out there and clown for liberals, and if there’s one thing this guy knows, it’s clowning.

I had the same thoughts. Democrats will eat Joe’s antics up, independents and undecideds not so much. I do think, though, that Biden’s antics will be enough to turn a number of those voters away

Here is one voter who summed up Biden perfectly

The RNC jumped on Biden’s behavior with this ad, which I think is very effective

Some poll numbers that show that Biden did nothing except excite his base

Sam Feist ‏@SamFeistCNN

BREAKING: CNN-ORC post-debate poll of Registered Voters: 48% said Ryan won. 44% said Biden won. Sampling error: +-5%.

Peter Hamby ‏@PeterHambyCNN

CNN/ORC POLL October 3 DEBATE WATCHERS Who Was More In Touch With Problems of People Like You? Ryan 51%, Biden 44%

Peter Hamby ‏@PeterHambyCNN

CNN/ORC POLL October 3 DEBATE WATCHERS Who Was More Likeable? Ryan 53% Biden 43%

Also check out Bob Belvedere’s aggregation of debate reaction

Also do not miss William Teach and his round up of Jokergate!

Pollster: We’re Not Polling FL, VA, Or NC Anymore Because Romney’s Going To Win Them

Suffolk Pollster: We’re Not Polling Florida, Virginia, Or North Carolina Anymore, Because Romney’s Going To Win Them – Hot Air

Via Gateway Pundit, I’ll give you the RCP averages tonight and leave you to judge. They’ve got Romney by three points in NC (although the latest poll has him up nine), Romney by less than a point in FL, and Obama by less than half a point in VA.

See Guy Benson for more good news in various state polls. Ohio and Pennsylvania are getting tighter.

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What happens when a political party runs out of ideas?

 

The Democrats have a big problem. Their ideological tank is on fumes, they have no ideas, they have nothing to offer, nothing to campaign on except race baiting, class warfare, and of course recycled ideas that have failed miserably in the past. This has been apparent to Conservatives for a very long time now, but, Democrats have been able to hide this ugly truth, until last night. Last night, President Obama had to run away from, or spin his economic record, and his energy policies because he has failed so miserably that he cannot defend either. the president spent as much, if not more time, looking down like some school boy being scolded, or gazing at the debate moderator than he did debating. Maybe he was wishing it was still 2008.

In 2008, Obama could hide, and, with the economy turning, and President Bush taking the flack for it, Obama could run a campaign based on empty promises, and baseless rhetoric. He, and his party had all the cards in their hands back then. But, then, something terrible happened to the Democrats, they won both houses and the White House. Swept into power, they had to govern. They had to lead, and even worse for them, they had to keep their promises to the American people. That is when the seeds for the 2010 elections were planted.

The Democrats, after bemoaning the “partisan politics” of the GOP, engaged in the most bitterly partisan politicking in recent memory. Instead of tackling job losses, they instead dove head first into taking over the nation’s health care, which poll after poll showed the nation did not want. Democrats could have insured their party majorities for years to come, but they let their power blind them. Obama ignored Republican plans to fix healthcare, and accused Republicans of not cooperating. They forced the health care bill through, showing their disdain for the people, and for the Constitution. President Obama’s promises to run a transparent administration, and to close Gitmo, and to not allow lobbyists access to his White House all melted away under the glare of Liberal power grabs. And the economy, got worse, and worse, and the discontent of Americans grew worse, and worse.

Then, the policies began to take effect. Obama, unable to pass cap-and-trade, bypassed Congress ordering his EPA to do what Congress would not. Obama used the BP oils spill to further hamstring drilling in the Gulf, he closed large areas to exploration. His policies have put more effort into increasing the food stamp rolls than into creating jobs. And the people have noticed. Last night, President Obama had to wear that suit of clothes for tens of millions of Americans to see. He could not use empty slogans, or hide behind the message of 2008. He could not blame bad economics on someone else, even though he tried. What last night forced Obama to do was to look into the mirror with America watching.

 

Mitt Romney running for president whiny garbage man hardest hit

Is THIS the worst political ad ever? Perhaps so, via Weasel Zippers

Good Freaking Grief! Now Mitt does not understand that garbage men pick up garbage? I guess he hates garbage men, and just will not hug them! Oh GOD the humanity!

A question to ponder about polls

Looking over several polls, both state and national, I am struck by something odd. These polls show Obama with 5, 7, 9, even 10 point leads in some swing states. Yet these polls show both candidates winning about the majorities of their party, and they also show Romney winning independents. Does this not strike you as odd? Independents usually swing the election don’t they? Gateway Pundit has video of Karl Rove discussing this on O’Reilly’s show Now, I am not the biggest fan of Rove, but he knows about polls. 

I would also point out that Dick Morris has Romney winning by 4-5 points if the election were held now. Do not buy these polls folks!

Do you believe in polls, or people?

Stacy McCain, who is up to no good in Ohio, poses that question, and with darned good reason. Personally, I think all those polls are cooked, to depress GOP voter turnout, and, truth be told, Obama is headed for a fairly bad loss in November. Stacy offers up a good report from Toledo

OK, if you believe the polls, Mitt Romney’s 10 points behind in Ohio. But then there are those people — THOUSANDS of people — who stood in line in the rain to get in to see Mitt this afternoon in downtown Toledo:

Well those folks likely never got polled, which, again, begs the question

Do you believe in the polls, or do you believe in thepeople?

PEOPLE! People fed up with the worst president in America’s history. People fed up with Obama’s war on the economy, and his bumbling foreign policy, and runaway spending, and so on. And yes, people fed up with biased reporting

Jim Acosta of CNN got an exclusive one-on-one interview with Mitt Romney yesterday in order that he could ask Mitt this ridiculous question:

“African-Americans have a tremendous sense of pride that there is the first African-American president in the White House. If you were to somehow beat the first African-American president, what would you say to the black community to assure them that you would be their president also?”

Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters says Acosta “should be ashamed of himself,” but what shocks me is that, instead of punching Acosta in the face, Romney politely answered the question:

“I want to be the president of all the people of America. I want to help all the people of America. You don’t get into a race like this with myself and my family and do the kind of work and commitment that we’ve put forward without the passion to help all of America. And the people who really need the help right now are the people in the middle class, people who have fallen into poverty. I know how to get them help. The president doesn’t.”

That was a good answer, but watching Mitt punch Acosta in the face would have been fun too, and talk about blogging gold? WOW! Stacy agrees

Show of hands: How many of our readers would like to see Mitt Romney punch out a network reporter on live TV? 

Yeah — it’s unanimous. Do it, Mitt.

There ya go, Pugilists for Mitt!

Michigan Secretary Of State: 4,000 Noncitizens On Voter Rolls

Secretary Of State: 4,000 Noncitizens On Voter Rolls – Detroit News

One day after being sued over a controversial ballot box citizenship question, Secretary of State Ruth Johnson said Tuesday there are an estimated 4,000 noncitizens on Michigan’s voter rolls.

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The estimate is based on the state’s access to citizenship information for one-fifth of the population, Johnson said, adding the federal government won’t give her access to more citizenship data.

Johnson said the results of a “very tedious” analysis of 58,000 driver’s licenses and state-issued identification cards found 963 noncitizens registered to vote.

Department of State employees cross-referenced those noncitizens with voting records and found 54 have a voting history and have voted a total of 95 times, Johnson said.

Using census estimates that 305,000 noncitizens live in Michigan, Johnson’s office extrapolated that 5,064 could be noncitizens and then lowered its estimate to 4,000 to account for children, spokeswoman Gisgie Gendreau said.

Johnson said the discovery justifies her insistence that Michigan’s 7.34 million registered voters be asked to affirm their citizenship if they vote at the polls in November. The daughter of a Canadian immigrant, Johnson said the citizenship question is necessary because over the years noncitizens have been automatically registered to vote while legally obtaining a driver’s license.

“We have a problem. We need to fix it,” Johnson told The Detroit News. “Denying and minimizing it doesn’t get the job done.”

A group of voting rights advocates, labor unions and citizens sued Johnson in federal court Monday, challenging her authority to ask voters to affirm their citizenship after Gov. Rick Snyder vetoed legislation adding the question to absentee and in-person voting applications.

The plaintiffs say the question is redundant because voters affirm their citizenship when they register to vote and say the question is an ineffective way to root out potential voter fraud.

“If someone is legitimately trying to misrepresent themselves as a citizen in order to interfere with our elections, then what’s to say they won’t misrepresent themselves a second time at the ballot box,” said election attorney Jocelyn Benson, who was Johnson’s 2010 Democratic opponent.

Benson said Johnson’s office should remove the noncitizens from the voter rolls rather than “using fear and xenophobia” with the citizenship inquiry at the polls.

Johnson, a Republican, also implied President Barack Obama and Democratic county and city clerks are obstructing her efforts to root out noncitizen voters. She specifically noted her office found 80 noncitizens registered to vote in Macomb County, where County Clerk Carmella Sabaugh, a Democrat, has said she won’t let the citizenship question appear on applications to vote.

“I don’t think anybody wants noncitizens to vote no matter what their party affiliation to vote,” Johnson said.

Sabaugh questioned Johnson’s data and wanted to know whether the Secretary of State’s Office has notified the noncitizens on the voter rolls that it’s a felony for them to vote.

“If she sees this as a real big problem, then I think she needs to look at her branch offices” where people register to vote, Sabaugh told The News. “I don’t know if we can trust these numbers.”

The state Bureau of Elections is “working to remove anyone who is not a qualified voter from the rolls,” Gendreau said.

Johnson, a former Oakland County clerk, said she’s been “turned away” by the Social Security Administration and U.S. Department of Homeland Security in four attempts to verify the citizenship of all registered voters.

“I think the best way is for this administration to do their job and that’s to help us get noncitizens off the voter rolls,” Johnson said.

Johnson’s late afternoon news release contained statements of support from Oakland County Clerk Bill Bullard Jr.; state Sen. Darwin Booher, R-Evart; and Rep. Pete Lund, R-Shelby Township.

“We know that noncitizens have been invited to register to vote for decades with many doing so,whether they’ve done it intentionally or not,” Lund said in a statement. “Putting noncitizens on notice that casting a ballot is a serious crime is a simple, common-sense solution to this problem.”

Citing her general authority to prescribe election forms, Johnson first added the citizenship question to ballot applications in the February Republican presidential primary.

After that contest, Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer filed a Freedom of Information Act with Johnson’s office to see how many noncitizens were caught voting in the GOP primary. Johnson’s office said four of the 1.2 million may have been noncitizens, according to Brewer.

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CBS/NYT Poll Oversampled Democrats By 13% Even Though Republicans Outnumber Them By Over 4%

CBS/NYT Poll Oversampled Dems By 13% – Sweetness & Light

From CBS News:

Poll: Obama has foreign policy advantage

By Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto, Fred Backus, Stephanie Condon | Fri September 14, 2012

(CBS News) – In a CBS News/ New York Times poll conducted as the current Middle East turmoil erupted, President Obama has the advantage over Mitt Romney when it comes to who voters trust to handle an international crisis.

65 percent of likely voters are at least somewhat confident in Mr. Obama’s ability to handle an international crisis, including four in 10 who have a lot of confidence. By comparison, 58 percent have confidence in Romney’s ability to do so, including just one in four with a lot of confidence.

Which is a 7 point difference. But it turns out that this poll oversampled likely voters by 6%. (Rep/Dem/Ind = 29%/35%/36%.)

The poll was conducted Sept. 8-12, and most of the interviews were done in the days just before violent protests against the U.S. broke out in the Middle East.

On Sept. 11, protesters angered by an obscure Internet movie belittling Islam attacked U.S. diplomatic offices in Egypt and Libya. Early the next morning, the U.S. learned that U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed. By Friday, Muslims around the world were protesting for the fourth straight day.

When asked separately who would do a better job handling foreign policy, 49 percent chose Mr. Obama and 39 percent chose Romney…

But we are not told whether these were likely voters or just registered voters. For registered voters the poll oversampled Democrats by a whopping 13%! (Rep/Dem/Ind = 22%/35%/33%.) Apparently, they didn’t want to take any chances.

Meanwhile, the latest , released on August 31, found that people identify themselves 37.6% Republican, 33.3% Democrat and 29.2% Independent. In fact, that same Rasmussen poll found the number of Republicans in the US has never been higher.

So why aren’t the polls oversampling the GOP by 4%?

Anyway, something tells me we aren’t going to be many polls about Obama’s handling of foreign policy any time in the immediate future.

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Hill Poll: Voters Say Second Term Undeserved, Country Is Worse Off

Hill Poll: Voters Say Second Term Undeserved, Country Is Worse Off – The Hill

A majority of voters believe the country is worse off today than it was four years ago and that President Obama does not deserve reelection, according to a new poll for The Hill.

Fifty-two percent of likely voters say the nation is in “worse condition” now than in September 2008, while 54 percent say Obama does not deserve reelection based solely on his job performance.

Only 31 percent of voters believe the nation is in “better condition,” while 15 percent say it is “about the same,” the poll found. Just 40 percent of voters said Obama deserves reelection.

The results highlight the depth of voter dissatisfaction confronting Obama as he makes his case for a second term at this week’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.

They also strongly suggest Democrats need to convince voters the election should be a choice between Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, rather than a referendum on the president.

Obama’s biggest problem remains voter unhappiness with his handling of the economy.

Fifty percent of voters said they were “very unsatisfied” with Obama’s stewardship of the economy. Another 8 percent said they were somewhat unsatisfied.

More voters in The Hill’s poll think Romney will win the fall election than think Obama will win – despite state-by-state polls that suggest the president would have an edge in a number of swing states if the election were held today.

The poll found 46 percent of voters believe Romney will win the Nov. 6 election, compared to 43 percent who said they expect Obama to win.

The Hill’s poll was conducted Sept. 2 among 1,000 likely voters by Pulse Opinion Research. It has a 3 percentage point margin of error.

Romney’s campaign on Monday sought to exploit Obama’s vulnerability on the economy by asking voters whether their lives are better now than when Obama became president.

“The president cannot tell you that you’re better off,” GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan said in a speech in North Carolina. “And if we want to improve things, then how would rehiring the same administration do that? It wouldn’t.”

The GOP attacks have been helped along by Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), who on Sunday answered “no” to the question of whether the country was better off four years after Obama’s election.

O’Malley on Monday reversed himself, saying the nation is “clearly better off.” But O’Malley’s misstep allowed Republicans to go on offense.

The Hill’s polling shows skepticism about the president is entrenched among coveted centrist voters who are key to the election outcome.

Fifty-two percent of centrists said Obama does not deserve reelection based on his job performance, 56 percent are unsatisfied with his handling of the economy and 53 percent feel the country is worse off.

Men (57 percent) are more likely than women (51 percent) to believe Obama does not deserve reelection.

The poll found sharp partisan differences in views about Obama. While 78 percent of Democrats believe the president deserves reelection, 1 in 5 do not believe he should get a second term. A poll for The Hill in early July also found 1 in 5 Democrats feel Obama has changed the nation for the worse as president. Eighty percent of Republicans believe Obama doesn’t deserve reelection, and only 11 percent think he does.

Among “other” voters – those who said they were neither Democrats nor Republicans – 61 percent say Obama does not deserve reelection.

The Obama campaign’s challenges extend to voters of all ages.

Among those aged 18-39 – a voting bloc that helped push Obama to victory in 2008 – 51 percent said the president does not deserve reelection, while 40 percent said he does.

Anti-Obama sentiment is strongest among seniors, the poll found. Sixty-five percent of voters aged 65 and over said Obama shouldn’t get a second term, while 53 percent of voters 40-64 years old feel the same.

Obama is also facing stiff headwinds on the economy among lower-middle-class and middle-class voters.

Among voters earning $40,000 to $60,000 a year, 67 percent said they were not satisfied with the president’s handling of the economy and 62 percent said the country is in worse condition now than in 2008.

Similarly, 58 percent of people earning between $20,000 and $40,000 a year said the country is worse off now, and 66 percent are unhappy with his handling of the economy.

The Hill’s poll’s sample included 51 percent women and 49 percent men. It had a slightly larger sample of Republicans – 36 percent – than Democrats, 34 percent.

Thirty percent of those polled identified themselves as being neither Democrat nor Republican.

Apart from the assessments of Obama and the state of the nation, The Hill poll found Vice President Biden is not considered a major hindrance to Obama’s reelection.

Biden stirred controversy last month when he told a mixed-race audience that Republicans, if they controlled the White House and Congress, would “put y’all back in chains” by deregulating the financial industry.

The poll found just 11 percent of voters overall – and only 6 percent of Democrats – believe Biden will damage Obama’s chance of reelection.

Seventy-one percent of voters overall said Biden’s status as Obama’s running mate will make no difference to the president’s chances of earning a second term.

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