CO: Norton Leads Bennet By 14%
The snow is starting to fall already here in Maryland. Meanwhile, Scott Rasmussen has a new poll out for Colorado showing Republicans in a prime position to pick off this seat from Democrats..
US SENATE – COLORADO (Rasmussen)
Jane Norton (R) 51%
Michael Bennet (D) 37%Tom Wiens (R) 44%
Michael Bennet (D-inc) 40%Ken Buck (R) 45%
Michael Bennet (D-inc) 41%Jane Norton (R) 45%
Andrew Romanoff (D) 38%Tom Wiens (R) 42%
Andrew Romanoff (D-inc) 40%Ken Buck (R) 45%
Andrew Romanoff (D) 39%
This poll was done February 2nd among 500 likely voters.
Norton is my gal and Obama is coming to help Bennett
perfect storm
Boy, Obama’s numbers in Colorado stink. 44/54. A state he carried 54-45.
Anyone see “emotional” Mary Landrieu and her lunatic ranting on the floor? She’s losing it. So, now it was apparently Gov. Jindal’s fault hat he took the bribe and people who are criticizing herneed to “be quiet”. She is an idiot. She better watch it…she may only get reelected with 50.5 percent of the vote next time. Oh well, she did predict that the Saints would win the Super Bowl 300 million to zero.
Geaux Saints…..Who Dat?
Is Estrich that much of a graveyard whistler?
Her article on Rasmussen is pure fantasy and pollyanna.
Re #3…that should be “Gov. Jindal’s fault that she took the bribe”.
http://www.redstate.com
Mitch Daniels. internal polling shows him up 10% on Bayh.
Daniels says no one asked him to run.
??????
Red Light Mary
Is Daniels Term limited?
If he is, he runs against Bayh, beats him, becomes a Giant Killer and a Star.
He then gives the Governorship to his Lt, and she get s a leg up in 2012
Daniels said no one asked him to run? Well Mitch, maybe because for the last two years you’ve told everyone who would listen that this was your last elected office.
Sheesh
“We’re OK, You’re Far Right
Share Post PrintFebruary 5, 2010 Posted by John at 9:35 AM
The Gallup Poll finds that 53% of Democrats and 61% of liberals have a “positive image of socialism.” That could explain a lot about the Obama administration. Meanwhile, the Tea Party is meeting in Nashville. CNN provides a primer on the Tea Partiers, and twice describes them as “far right.”
So: socialism is mainstream, but fiscal sanity and constitutionalism are “far right.”
http://www.powerlineblog.com/
Sounds odd, like a planted story of some kind.
Nobody asked him to run, but why did he not volunteer?
He could win it and be better than Coats imo.
I hope nobody believes the General public will believe the new ‘lower’ jobless numbers. The days of the MSM being relevant or relied upon by the public are long gone.
Phil, I am kind of bummed that great GOP politico’s like Shadegg, Daniels etc… take a pass when we really need them.
These types clear the field like Hoeven did, and do not need big $$$$ to win
Tina, in terms of Daniels what is his best path, assuming he wants to stay in Politics.
Take out Bayh, you are term limited and allow your Lt. 2 years of experience.
Not only does he beat Bayh, but he helps the GOP in Ind Congressional races too.
If he wants to be Prez fine, but tell us now
Wylie, 47% of Democrats do not want Socialism. That is good, but probably all Southern DEM’s that are white.
I was surprised that his name was not tossed around, JT, I would have aksed maelstrom about it.
Daniels would be a great candidate. Unfortunately, he’s no different than Rudi in NY, Thompson in Wisc. Guys who love to hear how great a candidate they’d be but never had any intention of running.
Maybe that isn’t fair. At least Daniels made it clear unlike Rudi and Thompson who kept the door open in public without any REAL interest.
However this “nobody asked me” stuff he’s spouting now and I “have a 10 pt lead in internal polling” stuff, come on. Why throw that in there when you aren’t going to go. Yeah Mitch, you are wonderful but if you aren’t running, who the hell cares?
Hey, here is some really swell news!
http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2010/02/05/govt_buys_$25m_in_super_bowl_ads_to_boost_census
“Faced with record levels of red-ink into the foreseeable future, Washington is spending $2.5 million to create buzz for the census _ by advertising during the Super Bowl.
The Census Bureau is hoping to exploit the strong ratings from this annual attraction, aiming to get more participation from people who now seem disinclined to mail back a government questionnaire or even answer the door.”
I have always said that candidate recruitment is a mixed blessing. Scott Brown saw a US senate seat then he went and won it.
Don’t get the idea that pols are shy and self-effacing always thinking “what me be worthy of the honor of being a US senator”.
90% of folks, at a certain level, test the water in their bath and or look in the mirror checking to see if they see a US senator looking back at them.
yes the phone calls can help clarify or encourage but believe me they are thinking this stuff all the time.
Mitch Daniels is not interested in the US senate or he would have elbowed many people aside by now. Is he miffed no one from DC called him? Maybe but he has made it plain that the US senate is not what he is interested in. Either way 2012 when his term ends would be the time if he was.
Then Mitch needs to shut up. I don’t want to hear he’s up 10 in internal polling. What’s the point of trumpeting that if he’s not running?
I don’t have a problem with him not running. It’s his life. I wish him well pursuing whatever he wants to pursue. He just doesn’t need to share his wonderful poll numbers. You’d make a great candidate Governor. We ge it. No need to tell us about it unless you’re going to go for it.
If you really have any interest in the Senate, Mitch, no one’s stopping you from announcing.
That’s just it. He has no interest. He doesn’t need to let us know what a great candidate he’d be when he isn’t going to go.
Daniels really pissed me off with that one. He knew the GOP wanted him but said he was uninterested. Now he touts a poll for a job he has no intention of seeking. Piss or move out of the way for the next guy, Mitch.
Wes.
Exactly
I think a lot of people are beginning to question the reliability of the government jobs reports. When you drop unemployment from 10 to 9.7 but still lose 20,000 jobs along with all the revisions and enormous underestimate of the 2009 jobs losses just reported, credibility takes a hit. Even though all of that is just statistics measured in various ways and not manipulation, to the average voter it all starts to seem fishy.
Self-seekers really piss me off. I hope Mitch crashes and burns in the presidential primaries in two years.
Agreed, Bio.
Hi Folks.
Great RAS numbers today: -12 46/53.
We, indeed, are in a pathetic situation as a nation when we are pleased that the president and his agenda are increasingly unpopular.
I’m wondering if people such as Daniels may not realize 2010 will be a great GOP year and are regretting not having jumped on the bandwagon when they had the chance.
29…its kind of like the made for TV movie, “Many Happy Returns” which was a slap at the IRS and the corrupt tax system. The one lone guy takes on the system. In the movie, they have a “Bankruptcy Party” to celebrate when the guy’s business finally goes bankrupt so that he can start life over.
Good Morning marv and America
Market gives a thumb down on econ news
decent earnings this quarter but obama is scaring folks
Advice to HHRs. Don’t sell any of your stock and don’t redeem any mutual fund shares yet. Hang on to them, if you can, unless you have to sell at a loss for tax purposes.
After the conservative/Republican sweep this November, the market will go up and we’ll all make money.
Earnings are mostly due to shedding jobs.
“Poll: Socialism Viewed Positively by 36% of Americans
Posted by: Meredith Jessup at 11:35 AM
According to the latest poll from Gallup, more than one-third of Americans–36%–have a positive image of “socialism,” compared to 58% who have a negative images.
Predictably, peoples’ views vary by party and ideology: a clear majority of Democrats and self-identified liberals say they have positive views of socialism, compared with a minority of Republicans and conservatives.
So what does this mean? According to Gallup:
“Socialism” is not a completely negative term in today’s America. About a third of Americans respond positively when they hear the term. Some of this reaction may reflect unusual or unclear understandings of what socialism means.
Duh. This is not a surprising conclusion given the fact our schools and mainstream media seem to have their own pop-culture definition of what “socialism” means, ignoring history’s lessons of what socialism in practice is really like.”
http://townhall.com/blog/g/6c4e8efe-ba54-40c9-ae90-38c31fb32a0a
“A political newcomer who won the Democratic nomination for Illinois lieutenant governor said he has no intention of leaving the race after details emerged about his arrest for allegedly holding a knife to his former girlfriend’s throat.
Scott Lee Cohen struck a defiant tone even after running mate Gov. Pat Quinn predicted he would have to leave the race. Cohen said people should wait for all facts to become known.
“There are questions, and I will provide all answers honestly and openly,” he said in a statement Thursday. He did not return messages from The Associated Press.
Cohen was arrested on domestic battery charges in 2005, accused of pushing his then-girlfriend’s head against a wall and of the knife incident. The police report noted abrasions on her neck and hand, but charges were dropped after she failed to appear in court.”
http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2010/02/05/embattled_dem_ill_candidate_wont_step_down
To hell with the 53% of Democrats who have a positive view of socialism. They are hopeless. Let’s go after the 41% of Dems Gallup says have the negative view.
About a third of Americans respond positively
Pretty high correlation with Obama’s ratings
Cohen will start his car some morning in the next week or two and go BOOM.
It’s the Chicago way.
You see, the other 64% are just TOO STOOOOOPPPPPIIIIDDDDD to understand the “benefits” of socialism (high prices/taxes/unemployment, stagnation, repression, loss of individual liberty) and are not “enlighted” enough to know that the leftists elites know what is best for them:
http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/02/05/the_great_peasant_revolt_of_2010
“This being a democracy, don’t the Democrats see that clinging to this agenda will march them over a cliff? Don’t they understand Massachusetts?
Well, they understand it through a prism of two cherished axioms: (1) The people are stupid and (2) Republicans are bad. Result? The dim, led by the malicious, vote incorrectly.
Liberal expressions of disdain for the intelligence and emotional maturity of the electorate have been, post-Massachusetts, remarkably unguarded. New York Times columnist Charles Blow chided Obama for not understanding the necessity of speaking “in the plain words of plain folks,” because the people are “suspicious of complexity.”
My guess is that if Gallup had don this poll 15 years ago a slight majority of Dems would have been negative about socialism.
The public schools have had their impact.
Back in the 20s and 30s the elites had a real love affair with communism. They thought it was grand, and the answer to all the messiness of capitalism. Utopian in concept, its a perfect fit for touchy feely liberals, who obviously have never given up on the concept, despite the fact that it has never worked anywhere that it has been tried, usually with disasterous results for the economy.
Watch for Gallup to get slammed for asking this question BTW. You dont tear off the mask of liberals without consequences.
Weakness in Gallup: 49(-1)/44(nc)
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx