Articles Tagged "2012 USA Election"

Republican primary voters have yet to decide who they want to battle President Barack Obama next November. The primary fight has been a roller coaster ride over the past few months for most of the candidates. Although it is still too early to figure out who is going to win, some trends are emerging. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney can't break through to be the nominee. Other candidates are trying to stay close enough to have a chance when voting begins in January.

These Republicans are scrambling, because they see President Obama doing poorly in the eyes of the American people. The two leading polls have Obama at a 43% approval rating (Gallup) and 46% (Rasmussen). Republican candidates know that the eventual nominee has a great chance of winning the presidency.

This race may be determined in the next few Republican debates. It also may be decided if a candidate can capture the passions of Republican voters with a new idea or proposal. It is impossible to predict who is going to win.

Click source to read FULL report from Brian Darling

Where’s the evidence President Obama can win the 2012 election?

Where’s the evidence that swing voters even want to listen to him?

Barack Obama polls below 50 percent in every state that matters. The economy has stalled, unemployment is much higher than the official number of 9 percent, and Hispanics and African Americans are disappointed. The president’s approval ratings have tanked, and the right-track/wrong-track number fell of the cliff in the summer.

Obama has reached the stage of political doom when voters’ disappointment is so deep that they just don’t want to listen to him, talk about him or watch him, said David Hill, a veteran GOP strategist and pollster, in an interview with The Daily Caller.

“Nobody says it to their loved ones … [and] they don’t want to do anything about it,” said Hill, who has worked for conservative and liberal Republicans on the East Coast, the West Coast and in the Midwest, since 1984.

A tipping point might have been reached in August, when the monthly jobs report showed zero new jobs, Republican pollster Glenn Bolger told TheDC. “With [George W.] Bush, it happened sometime in 2006, after Katrina and the 2005 Iraq situation,” said Bolger, who heads the polling firm Public Opinion Strategies.

Google's mysterious search algorithm has apparently decided that it does not rate presidential contender Mitt Romney's chances of winning the Republican nomination.

When you type the phrase 'Romney can win' into the search engine, it responds with the message 'Did you mean: Romney can't win?'

Google has said the suggested correction is not an intentional slight against Romney, but it's not likely to be appreciated by the GOP candidate....

Romney: 'We Don't Know What's Causing Climate Change'



10/27/11: Speaking at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, PA, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney reverses an earlier stance and rejects man-made global warming.

Click source for more (H/T JunkScience.com)

Also see: Mitt Romney remains cool to climate science - Politico.com

Not long ago, candidate Obama promised to cool the planet and lower the rising seas. Indeed, he campaigned on passing "cap-and-trade" legislation, a radical, costly effort to reduce America's traditional carbon energy use.

The theory was that new taxes and greater regulations would make Americans pay more for fossil-fuel energy -- a good thing if it reduced our burning of coal, oil and gas. Obama was not shy in admitting that under his green plans, electricity prices would "necessarily skyrocket." His energy secretary, Steven Chu, at one point had even said, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe" -- that is, about $8-$10 per gallon. Fairly or not, the warming movement seemed to cast a tiny elite imposing costs on a poorer and supposedly less informed middle class.

But despite a Democrat-controlled House and Senate in 2009-2010, President Obama never passed into law any global warming legislation. Now the issue is deader than a doornail -- despite the efforts of the Environmental Protection Agency to enact new regulations that would never pass Congress.

So what happened to the global warming craze?

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 18% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -22 (see trends).

That’s the lowest level of Strong Approval ever measured for this president.

President Barack Obama and his team may be hoping that this election cycle looks a lot like 2004 — when President George W. Bush was narrowly reelected despite leading the country into two increasingly unpopular wars. But Mitt Romney should be looking to 1992 — when Bill Clinton beat a sitting president, despite his own party’s misgivings about him during a long, contentious primary season.

Last week, The New York Times’s Richard W. Stevenson wrote that parallels between 2004 and 2012 are “sufficient enough that President Obama and his team have studied, and to a striking degree are replicating, the Bush reelection playbook.” That year, Bush’s message was that he was the steadfast incumbent, who made necessary, if unpopular, decisions in the nation’s best interest, while his opponent, Sen. John Kerry, lacked core convictions and would do whatever it took to win. Armed with a huge war chest and helped by independent groups willing to make the fight personal against Kerry, Bush won by a whisker.

But if Romney is indeed the nominee, 1992 may prove more instructive. That year, President George H.W. Bush, who had once looked unbeatable, was suddenly vulnerable — as perceptions that the economy was weak and that he was out of touch with the concerns of ordinary Americans took hold.

A much stronger round for Rick Perry, but Mitt Romney soaks up the punches and comes out on top, winning this debate 2-1



Republican Presidential Candidates Debate in Las Vegas. Mitt Romney and Rick Perry on healthcare and immigration. "The idea that you stand here before us and talk about that you're strong on immigration is, on its face, the height of hypocrisy," Perry said to boos and applause from the audience.

It has been one thousand days since Barack Obama has been in office: What has he wrought?

Quite a lot; the shame is little of it positive. As he spends his thousandth day in office demonstrators are occupying Wall Street, cities across America, and across the world; the sort of protests –in numbers at least—we have not seen since the Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968.

The irony is that back then, Democrat Lyndon Johnson decided not to seek re-election, essentially forced out of office due to Viet Nam and the social strife of the time (nominee Hubert Humphrey eventually losing to Richard M. Nixon). Today Obama and the Democrats are playing a similarly dangerous game courting the Occupy protesters who could turn on them at any time.

History should also note that the Chicago riots were sparked after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Yesterday on the 999th day of his presidency, America’s first black president unveiled an impressive memorial to Dr. King; the only statue on the national mall to someone not a former U.S. president.

Thousands of anti-capitalist protesters returned to New York's Times Square on Saturday, buoyed by a global day of demonstrations in support of their month-long campaign against corporate greed.

In Chicago, more than 2,000 people marched from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago to Grant Park before setting up tents. Police said they arrested more than 200 protesters who refused to leave this morning.

The Occupy Wall Street movement has been gathering steam over the past month, culminating with the global day of action yesterday.

Inspired by the grass-roots movement and Spain's "Indignants", protests started in Asia and Europe and rippled around to the US and Canada. The protests worldwide were mostly peaceful apart from Rome, where the demonstration sparked riots.

See below for RT YouTube