51% Don’t Want Second Term For President Obama
A majority of Americans now oppose giving President Obama a second term, reflecting the country’s continued weak economic performance, according to the latest IBD/TIPP survey released Monday.
By 51%-41%, respondents in October picked “someone new deserves a chance” over Obama “deserves to be re-elected.” Among independents, it was 54%-36%. Back in September, the readings were 50%-44% and 53%-38%, respectively.
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AP Editor: We Still Consider Herman Cain A Second-Tier Candidate
Yeah, Herman Cain won the Florida straw poll, crushing Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. And OK, a CBS poll recently found him tied with Romney among likely Republican primary voters. Sure, he also scored a resounding victory in another straw poll this weekend. And Rasmussen just today released the finding that 56% of GOP voters like Cain’s 9-9-9 plan.
So is that enough to make the Associated Press consider Cain a first-tier candidate? Nah. On MSNBC’s “Daily Rundown” this morning, AP’s political editor, Liz Sidoti, sniffed “we still consider him a second-tier candidate.”
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Herman Cain surging, edging Obama (PP: 43%-41%)
In a hypothetical head-to-head presidential race, Republican Herman Cain edges Democrat Barack Obama, according to our latest national scientific opinion poll.
The poll found Cain topping Obama by a narrow 43%-41% margin, with 15% saying they had no opinion. The 2% difference falls within the poll’s 3% margin of error.
Poll Position’s scientific telephone survey of 1,135 registered voters nationwide was conducted October 9, 2011 and has a margin of error of ±3%.
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Obama Raises $2.4 Million from Wall Street in one evening (Hey Wall Street occupier, check out your god)
Last night Obama headed to the Upper East Side to wine and dine Wall Street.
The DNC fundraiser at tony restaurant Danielcostattendees $35,800 each, and a source told Ben White at Morning Money that the event netted $2.4 million […]
Marc Lasry was there, as expected. So was Orin Kramer.
According to Dealbook, the menu included:“Maine lobster salad with roasted beets, duos of Black Angus beef, braised short ribs with young spinach, and roasted tenderloin with stuffed potato and hen of the woods.”
The meal was prepared by Daniel Boulud himself.
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Herman Cain tops MLC straw poll with more than 50% (The Hermanator’s Surge Continues!)
Let’s just get it out of the way and all recite the mantra at once, shall we?
Straw polls don’t mean anything.
But for those who still like to follow them, we had yet another this weekend in Minnesota at the Midwestern Leadership Conference. And once again Herman Cain mopped up the competition, this time registering the largest margin of victory yet, bringing home more than half the votes.
Former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain rounded out a very good week with a straw poll victory at the Midwest Leadership Conference in Minnesota on Saturday.
Cain pulled off a decisive win, garnering 52.6 percent of the vote and beating Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann in her own backyard. Bachmann took a distant second place with 12.2 percent of the vote, followed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney with 11.1 percent. Texas Rep. Ron Paul attracted 10.7 percent of the vote while Texas Gov. Rick Perry got just 4 percent.
Cain’s numbers are stunning to be sure, but what is probably the saddest footnote of this event is the fact that Bachmann barely broke out of single digits in her own home state. That campaign may not be officially dead, but they’ve got a priest on standby with a copy of the last rites.
Also, following the Values Voter Summit, this is two back-to-back outings where Rick Perry – who was briefly the newly crowned king of the pack – sank below the background noise level. (Though sitting on $15M in donations can salve a lot of wounds.) Mitt didn’t do much better than that, though he at least managed to edge out Ron Paul for once.
There will be singing and dancing in Cain-Town this week to be sure. No matter what you think of straw polls, headlines which include words like “winning” are always good news for a candidate seeking to expand their name recognition and drive donors to pry open their wallets. Cain has been racking up one impressive showing after another lately, and talk about Herminator Momentum is getting harder and harder to treat like a joke.
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Here’s The Chart That Will Get Obama Fired
Unemployment is worse now than he ever imagined or said it would be.
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Herman Cain steps up attacks on Occupy Wall Street protests
Republican presidential contender Herman Cain amplified his criticism Sunday of the growing Occupy Wall Street movement, calling the protesters “jealous’ Americans who “play the victim card” and want to “take somebody else’s” Cadillac.
Cain’s remarks, on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” came amidst an escalating war of words between Republicans and Democratsover the merits of the movement, which has spread from New York to other cities across the nation, including Washington and Los Angeles.
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Romney rivals may go after him for flip-flops
Mitt Romney faced relentless criticism four years ago for changing his positions on abortion and gay rights and equivocating on other issues, including immigration and gun control. This year, the former Massachusetts governor has largely escaped such attacks as he competes again for the Republican presidential nomination. That might be changing.
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How the ‘Hermanator’ could be the Republican to challenge Barack Obama in 2012
He is a former pizza chain magnate, the son of a chauffeur and a cleaner, a conservative African-American — and, to just about everyone’s surprise, a strong contender in the Republican presidential race.
As other leading contenders have begun to falter, Herman Cain has surged into second place in Republican ranks, buoyed by his fiery oratory and impressive debate performances, a radical tax plan – and a background in business, not politics.
All that, plus the plain-speaking appeal of a man who calls himself “The Hermanator”, has suddenly pushed Mr Cain’s candidacy into a national spotlight as some Republicans now believe that this is the man to challenge Barack Obama in 2012.
“The American people are signalling that they don’t want another politician nominated as their candidate or in the White House,” he said last week, in the booming voice and Southern cadences already well known to congregations at the Atlanta Baptist church where he is an associate pastor and gospel singer.
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Bachmann, Cain won’t say Romney is a Christian
Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann dodged questions Sunday whether Romney is a Christian. The issue arose during the just-completed Values Voters Summit in Washington, exposing tensions among evangelicals over Romney’s religious faith, as we reported today. Dallas Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress kicked things off by endorsing Rick Perry and declaring that Mormonism is a cult and Romney is not a Christian. Speakers went back and forth on the issue — and Romney himself weighed in, denouncing “poisonous speech” that doesn’t help the nominating process. Asked about Jeffress’ comments, Perry said he doesn’t believe Mormonism is a cult.
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RINO Rick Perry on In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants: “It’s No Free Ride”
ORANGE CITY, IOWA — Making his second stop in western Iowa, Rep. Texas Governor Rick Perry was confronted by a voter with questions about his immigration policy after a speech at the Blue Mountain Culinary Emporium in Orange City.
Fae Groff-Moritz from Remsen, Iowa asked the governor to explain what exactly in-state tuition rates for illegal immigrants in Texas means.
“It’s not a free ride. Because the border has been porous, we have to deal with this issue as a governor of a state and the state has to deal with it,” Perry said.
“At that particular point in time, we have to make a decision. Are we going to have tax wasters or tax payers?” Perry said about the legislation.
Perry noted that the Texas legislature nearly unanimously passed the in-state tuition for illegal immigrants legislation in 2001.
“They had to pursue citizenship. At that particular point in time they would become taxpayers and be part of the skilled workforce. If they didn’t, the state was probably going to pick up the cost of a substantial number of them because they’re unskilled. If anyone moves to the state of Texas and spends three years there, they’re eligible for in-state tuition so no free ride,” Perry said.
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SOLYNDRAGATE: Huge Email Dump Implicates Obama And Rahm In Bankruptcy Scandal
The White House released a bunch of emails related to the Solyndrabankruptcy scandal to Congressional investigators today, in what has become a regular Friday evening email dump.
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Rick Perry in 5th Place in New Hampshire’s WMUR Poll
WMUR TV in New Hampshire released their periodic Granite State Poll today, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry is polling in 5th place with 4% of the respondents indicating they’d vote for him if the election is held today.
WMUR Granite State Poll Results 10/7/2011:
Romney: 37% Cain: 12% Paul: 9% Huntsman: 8% Perry: 4% Gingrich: 4% Everyone else: 2% (+/- 4% margin of error)
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Herman Cain drowns out Perry at Republican showdown
WASHINGTON — Republican White House hopeful Rick Perry tried to revive his campaign Friday but got dragged into a religious row and saw a plea to Christian voters drowned out by fast-rising longshot Herman Cain.
Perry, who exploded into the White House race in August but has since fallen back after wobbly debate performances, sought to win over evangelical Christian conservative voters, a crucial bloc in the party nominating contest.
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Mitt Romney Just Unveiled A Keynesian Stimulus Plan (Obama Lite)
Romney says he wants to build the air force and the navy with 100K more active-duty personnel. He also wants naval warships to intimidate Iran. In other words, he’s trying to be like Reagan: do a do a mass buildup of of defense, and maybe break the enemy that way.
Also: It’s a form of Keynesian stimulus, which worked very well for Reagan — running up the deficit, and adding more jobs and work for Americans.
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If You Liked George Bush, You Will LOVE Mitt Romney’s Foreign Policy
Mitt Romney rolled out his foreign policy platform this morning — and it looks remarkably familiar.
Addressing cadets at South Carolina’s Citadel military academy, Romney attacked President Obama for forfeiting U.S. military and economic primacy and promised to restore America’s global dominance by increasing defense spending and taking a more aggressive approach toward global threats.
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Presbyterian church in Wisconsin to ordain 1st gay man
SUN PRAIRIE, Wisconsin (AP) — More than two decades after Scott Anderson told his California congregation that he was gay and therefore must resign as its pastor, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A) is preparing to welcome him back.
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Poll: Cain surges, opens up 20-point lead on Romney
In news sure to inject shock and awe into the Republican political primary season, a IBOPE Zogby poll released Thursday showed Herman Cain leading the Republican field, topping former front-runner Mitt Romney by an astonishing 20 points. Cain would also narrowly edge out Obama in a general election, the poll found, by a 46–44 margin.
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No New Ideas from Romney (Romney just recycled neocon talking points)
Romney just recycled neocon talking points. Today Mitt Romney gave a foreign policy address at the Citadel. It contained eight specific policy proposals. Like Romney’s previous speeches, this one doesn’t have the facts going for it. The address contained more in the way of nice-sounding rhetoric designed to enthuse his audience than it did in terms of serious policy proposals that can draw a contrast between him and President Obama. The lack of substance is disappointing because this is where Romney was supposed to get serious and lay out a platform. He released a list of his foreign policy advisors yesterday, most of whom were high-level players in the Bush administration, so it seemed like he’d be going for more.
‘Fast and Furious’ docs reveal Holder was given detailed accounts of gun program
New Department of Justice documents the House Oversight Committee released Thursday morning show Attorney General Eric Holder was briefed on Operation Fast and Furious many more times than previously discovered documents suggested. They also show that Holder was given detailed information on what happened in Fast and Furious.
These new documents show Holder received information and updates on Fast and Furious in at least five weekly memos starting in July 2010 — including over four consecutive weeks last summer.
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