Obama '08?

Obama's approval rating is above 45%, and he whups every potential Republican candidate's ass in trial match-ups. You're going to be really depressed after Nov., 2012, H2.

Obama make me wish Carter was still in office and Barry continues to makes GWB look like the more intelligent man on a daily basis.
Depression will overcome the few remaining Obama supporters after the 2012 election is over... meanwhile panic controls the democrat party today.

Beatable, And He Knows It

The president has already accept defeat in 2012. Also, Obama has stated that he would accept being a one term president. Obama knows that he won't have the support he had in 2008. The only way he could win is by a third party candidate entering the race or by cheating. Since FDR, there has been no incumbent president that was re-elected with a high unemployment and a dismal economy. Let's hope the trend continues.

(IBD) Politics: The president jokes about unemployment and says ATM machines kill jobs. Mean-while, one of his top aides says 2012 voters should avoid "affixing blame." Sounds to us like someone who knows he's in trouble.

The Republican National Committee could not have scripted a more damning sound bite. President Obama on Monday attended his administration's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness at an enviro-friendly lighting firm in North Carolina. Considering the dismal state of the economy, it should have been a subdued event.

But when it was explained to the president that the federal permit process for construction and infrastructure projects can cause delays ranging from "months to years," and "in many cases even cause projects to be abandoned," a gaffe ensued.

It was remarked to the president, "I'm sure that when you implemented the Recovery Act, your staff briefed you on many of these challenges." A smiling Obama responded, "shovel-ready was not as . .. uh ... shovel-ready as we expected."

Even the staging couldn't have been more hurtful. Big signs reading "Jobs Council" loomed above him and adorned the desk at which he sat. After the president's quip, members of his "Jobs Council," led by his friend, General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt, laughed heartily.

During the event, the president asked, "How do we deal with making sure our regulations make sense, so that we start eliminating ones that don't work, aren't making consumers better off or aren't improving our quality of life?"

Was that a joke too? Shouldn't the president have known the answer to that question before running for president — not nearly 2 1/2 years into his term of office? Start eliminating defective, job-destroying regs? Start that process this late in the game?

If the president's joke wasn't funny to the nearly 2 million Americans who had jobs when Obama signed the Democrats' $800 billion stimulus into law, but don't have jobs today — or the other 12 million unemployed Americans — his ATM crack is even less amusing.

"The other thing that happened," the president claimed in an NBC "Today Show" interview Tuesday, "is there are some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers.

"You see it when you go to a bank and you use an ATM. You don't go to a bank teller. Or you go to the airport and you're using a kiosk instead of checking in at the gate."

ATMs and automatic check-ins were invented since the stimulus? They weren't around when the country was enjoying 4.5% unemployment under George W. Bush? It's a socialist fairy tale to blame automation for killing jobs; it's always brought new jobs because it lets businesses expand faster.

In 1963, AFL-CIO president George Meany similarly called automation "a curse" and "a real threat" that "could bring us to national catastrophe." But automation reduced the price of any and every type of manufactured good, and made more wealth available for new projects and new jobs. Has the U.S. economy of the last half-century been a "catastrophe"?

No wonder former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told CNN on Monday that the 2012 election shouldn't be about "affixing blame" for the economy. And no wonder Obama says his family is "not invested in daddy being president."

For someone whose ideas have failed and who is incapable of considering better ones, he seems to know that more time with the family is an idea the voters may take him up on.

Obama's approval ratings is 46%; his disapproval is 46%.
Congressional approval ratings is 18.5%; disapproval is 74.5%.
General election republican field vs. Obama/ Obama 43.8; republican 41.5%

Romney 42.8%; Obama 48%
Pawlenty 36.5%; Obama 50.2%
Bachmann 33.3% Obama 51.0%
Cain 32.3%; Obama 48%
Gingrich 37.85; Obama 52.5%
Paul 38.3%; Obama 49.3%
Huntsman 36.0%; Obama 50.0%

RealClearPolitics

The president visited the 10th Mountain Division today and congratulated them on their service.
Then he told the soldiers that he had given the Medal of Honor to Jared Monti who came back from Iraq alive.

Jared Monti was actually killed in Iraq in 2006.

Obama is an empty suit, a hack and this country will celebrate
the end of his reign when he is defeated in the 2012 election.

I saw a very similar poll this week with North Carolina voters. Obama holds a 5% lead against " Republican candidate", but his numbers grow considerably when put up against individual (R) names.

It feels great to live in a southern state that elected a black man president, and it's gonna be that much sweeter celebrating his second term.

If election were held today, Obama would lose

According to a Gallup poll released on Thursday, President Barack Obama would fall to an unnamed Republican candidate by a narrow margin if the election were held today.

Although 44 percent of respondents said they would vote for a Republican candidate when asked whom they would support in the 2012 election, only 39 percent of participants said they would vote for Obama. Eighteen percent of respondents said they had no opinion.

The poll was based on telephone interviews conducted with 914 registered voters between June 9 and June 12. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percent.

While the Gallup report notes that the Republican Party’s lead is statistically insignificant, the numbers suggest that the race is close.

However, recent surveys have shown that Obama usually fares well in a head-to-head matchup against the current Republican candidates.

States Obama would lose if the election were today

Listen, Kevin, you tried that in 2008. Half of your posts championed McCain, who Obama then made his bitch. You need to understand that the world is much larger than your Klan headquarters there in the backwoods of Georgia.

You Obama apologists are standing on thin ice.

You need to understand:
Obama has made all that voted for him 'his bitch'.
Obama is your master, you are his slave.

From H2 Oboy's own post:



When people aren't just asked a generic question, but rather presented with actual matchups between Obama and the actual Republican candidates, the Republicans lose in every case.

It's also an irony that waterboy continues to claim that Obama is destroying our economy. Waterboy's disconnect between reality of voters preference for Obama over all GOP candidates and what he believes are poles apart. A loser by any definition.

The matchup between Obama and a generic Republican is close (MOE included) but he fares well against specific Repub opponents.
It is still early but I wonder when someone will trot out the idea that the next President should be elected by popular vote rather then the Electoral College.
Gallup, Cook, Sabato et al wrote about that just after mid-April. We should see some updates on that come early July.

I doubt they will change the electoral college any time soon; and not for the next several elections. My guess.

Changing the Constitution would make that problematical, yes?

In a word, yes. Since the Constitution has established the electoral college, we as citizens do not vote directly for the president and vice president. They are left to the electoral college and their representatives.

A third party candidate would have difficulty winning any election because of this.

Imposter girl claims to have put me on ignore some time ago, but cice sure doesn't act like it... I blame GWB for this.