Obama '08?

Despite deepening doubts about President Obama’s economic agenda, Americans generally prefer the proposals he offered last week for reviving the economy to the competing ideas advanced by congressional Republicans and the GOP’s 2012 presidential field, a United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll has found.

The poll suggests Americans remain unconvinced that either party’s agenda can significantly dent the nation’s longest period of sustained unemployment since the Depression. The share of Americans who said that Obama’s policies have compounded economic difficulties was nearly double the portion who said he has improved conditions. And just one-in-six said they expected the jobs plan he sent to Congress will significantly reduce unemployment.

Yet, nearly half of those surveyed thought his plan would help somewhat, and the president still held a 37 percent to 35 percent advantage over congressional Republicans when respondents were asked whom they trusted more to revive the economy.

The Congressional Connection Poll, conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, interviewed 1,010 adults by landline and cell phone Sept. 8-11 for most of the questions in the survey; those questions have a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points. Interviews about Obama’s new jobs plan, which he announced on the evening of Sept. 8, were conducted with 783 adults Sept. 9-11; those questions have a margin of error of 4.1 percentage points.

The Republican candidate won former Rep. Weiner's seat in the special election in New York -in a district that has elected only democrats for several decades.

Yet another ominous sign for the fate of an Administration in accelerating decline.

The crowning blow to the Democrats would be if black voters would begin to flee their plantation in great numbers. Hispanic voters too.

Republicans have forfeited Latino votes not by promoting border security and opposing pathways to citizenship, but by alienating Latinos with their rhetoric on those issues, Lopez told me after Election Day 2010, which saw Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle defeated in Nevada after demonizing illegal immigrants with almost unprecedented fervor. As Republicans pursue the support of immigration hardliners, the Democratic Party's gross Latino advantage has been collateral damage. Perry's DREAM Act explanation was encouraging in that regard, Lopez said.

"I think that's definitely a positive point. Unfortunately a lot of Republicans have failed to learn that lesson of separating the policy view from some of the harsh rhetoric, and then from lumping everyone in together and failing to understand what the root cause of the [illegal immigration] problem is," Lopez said.

Perry seems unwilling to make that rhetorical trade-off. As the governor of Texas, he has represented more Hispanic constituents than any other candidate in the 2012 race. Hispanics now make of 37.6 percent of Texas's population, according to the 2010 Census, and, as Erica Grieder wrote last month on this site, Perry owes some thanks to immigrants for Texas's economic health -- thanks he offers publicly. And as he calmly offered welcoming phrases to a growing minority population, the Texas governor appeared more viable for the general election than the candidates who attacked him.

If Latinos, like other Americans, have lost confidence in Obama because of America's sagging economy, then they may look for new leadership in 2012, regardless of whether the president failed to enact comprehensive immigration reform, or whether the Texas DREAM Act included a pathway to citizenship. In a close race against Obama, an improved showing among Latinos could deliver the White House to the Republican.

The votes could be out there, and, if they are, Republicans will need someone ready to collect them. Perry might just be their man

Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Fordham University, said Turner's people have identified Israel as a "winnable" issue.
"The campaigns have paid close attention to the demographics in this district," he said.
The district is one of the most heavily Jewish in the state, comprising Orthodox and more liberal Jewish neighborhoods. It is also one of the most reliably Democratic, having elected only Democrats to the House since the 1920s. The district voted for Al Gore in the 2000 presidential race by more than a two-to-one margin. In the latest Siena College Research Institute poll, Weprin leads Turner among Jewish voters by just 6 points, 51-45.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/09/race-for-weiners-old-seat-could-turn-on-jewish-votes-for-catholic-republican/#ixzz1XuOUYxhR

BTW OKIE....did you note that ED Koch supported the GOP candidate for Wiener's seat because he is fed up with Obama and the DEMS "throwing Israel under the bus"?

The Democratic Party’s strategy of using handouts to garner the black votes while working to keep blacks mired in poverty was described as “plantation politics” by President Obama in his book “Dreams From My Father.” As a result of the politics of poverty practiced by Democrats, including Obama, the black community firmly believes the government must “do something” for blacks.

Democrats have been running black communities for the past 40-plus years and have turned those communities into economic and social wastelands with their failed socialist policies. Yet, the Left has the gall to blame Republicans for the deplorable conditions they themselves have caused while they also accuse Republicans of doing nothing to help poor blacks – a charge that resonates with victim mongers.
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OKIE: I assuming that you read this, but if not it is right up your alley

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The Democratic Party’s strategy of using handouts to garner the black votes while working to keep blacks mired in poverty was described as “plantation politics” by President Obama in his book “Dreams From My Father.” As a result of the politics of poverty practiced by Democrats, including Obama, the black community firmly believes the government must “do something” for blacks.

I did not realize even Obama recognized it in one of his books. Thanks, hawkeye.

Emails Show White House Pressure Ahead of Solar Company Loan Approval

Doesn't this come under the heading "what did Obama know and when did he know it?"
If he or any of his friends profited personally, he should be held accountable.