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Fickle independents returning to Barack Obama
Politico ^ | 01/23/2011 | Alexander Burns

Posted on 01/24/2011 8:51:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: brownsfan

You got that right. bttt


21 posted on 01/24/2011 9:08:42 AM PST by Matchett-PI (Trent Lott on Tea Party candidates: "As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them" 7/19/10)
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To: La Lydia

Deny reality all you want, but he is indeed getting a boost right now for various reasons. Getting a lot of his way in December, AZ shooting, and so on..

Plus presidents almost always get a state of the union bump. So I can easily believe he’s up in the polls now.

Unfortunately for him there are no elections for a long time, so it’s completely meaningless.


22 posted on 01/24/2011 9:12:03 AM PST by Tolsti2
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To: SeekAndFind
That unpredictable, cranky group of voters who helped carry the president into office two years ago before turning against him in dramatic fashion, may be turning back in Obama’s direction even more quickly.

If this is true, maybe they are just too stupid to understand what is going on.

The people tend to get the government they deserve.

23 posted on 01/24/2011 9:12:26 AM PST by MichiganConservative (Terrorists don't commit genocide. That's what governments do.)
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To: La Lydia

I believe every word of it. The list of why it sucks is too long to type.


24 posted on 01/24/2011 9:14:32 AM PST by Williams (It's the policies, stupid.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
"giving him some semblance of a victory "

Coupled with his media spun home run of a speech in Tucson, he at least temporarily is the comeback kid . The Ascended One is underestimated at our own peril.

25 posted on 01/24/2011 9:14:53 AM PST by buckalfa (Confused and Bewildered With a Glass Half Empty)
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To: SeekAndFind

I consider ANYBODY that votes for him, and this includes my lawyer sister-in-law, mentally retarded.


26 posted on 01/24/2011 9:15:03 AM PST by biff
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To: SeekAndFind
thanks, for the information / thread.
a (BARF ALERT) Isn't (really) needed, eh?

27 posted on 01/24/2011 9:17:25 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (Imam Zer0: "Don't retire or get sick, just die! ...& remember pay all my fees / taxes" :)
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To: brownsfan

Why would he be considered the only “viable” choice? I don’t get it.


28 posted on 01/24/2011 9:17:31 AM PST by KansasGirl
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To: SeekAndFind

this is one independent who will never trust this America hating, muslim hiding,commie socialist, closet homosexual,illegal immigrant.


29 posted on 01/24/2011 9:18:39 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: MichiganConservative

Then again in reading the whole article, most polls show even with an upswing most independents are negative on Obama.


30 posted on 01/24/2011 9:19:14 AM PST by Williams (It's the policies, stupid.)
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To: KansasGirl

If the GOP goes suicidal and runs Palin the entire middle will go for hussein again. She is such damaged goods outside of echo chambers like here that there’s just no way she’d not get beaten by at least 10%, maybe far worse.


31 posted on 01/24/2011 9:19:51 AM PST by Tolsti2
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To: SeekAndFind

Indies are susceptable to propaganda.

They remind me of the people that only go to church on Christmas and Easter.


32 posted on 01/24/2011 9:24:19 AM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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To: Tolsti2

I’ll make another prediction. Palin’s chances of beating Obama are more than Romney’s. Once the media hangs Romneycare around his neck, he won’t even have his base. They’ll wait until he get the GOP nomination, of course.


33 posted on 01/24/2011 9:24:52 AM PST by KansasGirl
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To: KansasGirl

I’m not entirely sure about that. I think Romney would do a bit better, but still lose.


34 posted on 01/24/2011 9:26:17 AM PST by Tolsti2
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To: KansasGirl

I’m not entirely sure about that. I think Romney would do a bit better, but still lose.


35 posted on 01/24/2011 9:27:13 AM PST by Tolsti2
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To: cripplecreek

I’m registered Independent, been so all my adult life.

Nobody asked me if I support Obama.

I don’t.


36 posted on 01/24/2011 9:31:41 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (My memory's not as sharp as it used to be. Also, my memory's not as sharp as it used to be.)
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To: SeekAndFind
OBAMA MTG
37 posted on 01/24/2011 9:33:33 AM PST by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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To: eCSMaster

I’m not registered with either party either. In this case I think independents means moderates.


38 posted on 01/24/2011 9:33:37 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: SeekAndFind

Perhaps a few reminders of that 9.4% unemployment figure would be in order.

WTH is the matter with these people? If Bush had these unemployment numbers, agitprop media would’ve been screaming for his head in more shrill terms than they already were.


39 posted on 01/24/2011 9:38:20 AM PST by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The economy will be what sinks him or not in next years elections. What he is doing now is simple, he decided to copy what Clinton did and just take a popular sentiment position on everything but his core policy issues to keep from losing his base.

He isn’t going to be a leader now that he lost the house and doesn’t have Nanci to carry his water there for him, he is going to be a candidate for the next two years and bend in the wind for the swing voters.


40 posted on 01/24/2011 9:39:08 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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