Posted on 06/10/2011 11:46:29 PM PDT by UniqueViews
While 29 percent named the economy as the most important problem, 26 percent said unemployment and lack of jobs, 13 percent the federal budget deficit, 11 percent government leadership or the lack of it and 10 percent poor healthcare or hospitals. Only 5 percent said education is the top issue, and 4 percent fuel prices or immigration, while hot-button social issues such as abortion, race relations and gay rights were at 1 percent or less.
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Much as I hate quoting Clinton, but "It's the economy, stupid".
Report: Time It Takes to Find a Job is Off the Charts
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/06/report-time-it-takes-to-find-a-job-is-off-the-charts.html
“The median period of unemployment is now at a historic high; 39.7 weeks according to the May Report. That’s the highest it has ever been in the history of the survey.”
Obama has NO chance of being re-elected in this economic climate.
Independents and fence-sitting Democrats may not be publicly admitting that they’re terrified of another four years of Obama, but in November 2012, they’re going to vote for his Republican opponent in large enough numbers to fire him.
I’m pretty sure that Harry Reid’s crew will lose their majority in the Senate, too.
Yawn. This is a Gallup composite of four surveys, with the last survey having been conducted in the first week of May:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/148001/Subgroups-Say-Economy-Jobs-Important-Problem.aspx
Obama will go for as much unemployment as possible then go after the unemployed vote.
Unless we are facing imminent threat from a foreign aggressor, Americans will vote in national elections on the basis of the state of the economy. Inflation is a major factor in this, but the most important issue is jobs. Unemployment is now chronically high.
We all now know that Obama is a socialist and his intent is to expand government at the expense of private enterprise. We also know that government never generates capital. It only consumes wealth; never creates it. We also know that the single greatest aspect of the economy affecting how people vote is employment. If I have have had my job eliminated, my hours cut back, have been furloughed from my job, I am more likely to vote against the incumbents.
Small and mid-sized businesses know that higher corporate taxes and government regulation, which Obama loves, destroys our free market system of prosperity. Small and mid-sized business owners know that the Obama administration must be defeated in 2012. Their contributing to the elections of those who run against Obama is not enough, however.
The best way for business to insure the defeat of Obama is for them to begin now to cut back their employment rolls even more - even if it means temporarily sacrificing their companies’ profitability. Putting people out of work temporarily in order to insure Obama’s defeat in 2012 will mean a healthier business climate in the years to come. Once we get government off the backs of business and the working middle class of this country, we will be on better footing to grow our economy once again.
It might sound like a draconian measure to lay people off in order to insure Obama’s defeat, but let’s face it Obama is out to destory our country and we are in dire straits. What’s needed, as in time of war, are drastic measures.
In the past, when our country was under a threat from external forces, men (and now women) have been called upon to leave their normal means of employment to join the armed forces to insure the security of our nation for our families and posterity.
Now our country is under a different kind of threat - a threat from within - a threat from our own government which has hijacked our Constitution and has concentrated power in the hands of a few elitists. The threat is no less real than when our enemies have been external to us.
So the call for all of us to make sacrifices in a time of war is no extreme measure but is patriotic. And just as in a time of war when families, communities, friends and churches pull together to get through the crisis, so this should be the same response to those who find themselves out of work. If we all pull together, in the end our collective security will be insured and that of our children as well. Obama must not be re-elected for the good of all.
At this point, as it gets worse, Obama will be lucky to leave the US alive, much less get reelected by the public. This has ot be the worst economy in decades and Obama isn’t doing anything about it but yammering on and on and on about one unimportant thing after another and I am quite sure that there are a lot of families of government officials getting icy looks from neighbors and schoolmates.
Many might not realize it, but 2010 acted as a HUGE safety valve for the intense frustrations of voters and if Obama and Co. are smart, they won’t even try to prevent Obama from being ousted in 2012. Obama will likely have to flee the country to save his own skin and there will be intense expectations that the next President downgrade their perks considerably. Same with Congress Critters. I’m optimistic that Obama will leave in peace and I am unsure if there will be riots.
Chicago Tribune says all you ‘crackers’ are wrong about the Obama economy.
chicagotribune.com
Black hopes vs. white anxiety
Clarence Page
6:44 PM CDT, June 10, 2011
Race relations have undergone a curious flip-flop. Polls show blacks feel more optimistic about the nation’s future than whites, despite the Great Recession that’s giving everybody the blues.
Having a black, or, if you prefer, biracial, president explains a lot of that optimism, polls show. But white Americans, particularly working-class whites without a college diploma, have become more gloomy.
Ronald Brownstein, political director and demographic specialist at the National Journal, recently described whites who have less than a four-year college degree as “the most pessimistic and alienated group in American society.”
He cited a March poll by the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Economic Mobility Project in which two-thirds of blacks and Hispanics said they expected to be better off economically in 10 years. So did 55 percent of college-educated whites. But only 44 percent of non-college whites agreed.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-oped-0612-page-20110610,0,2405310,print.column
Too true. He started out with something like a 57% approval rating, and now has something like 40% approval on a good week. His support is steadily weakening because of negative conditions that are the direct result of his policies. And those policies aren't liable to change in any fundamental way before November 2012, so conditions in the country will only get worse.
Obama and the hard-core left are dragging America through a grand experiment in Socialism, and it's brought us nearly to the brink of collapse. The vast majority of Americans are going to vote with real vengeance in their hearts next November, because of what these monsters have done to us.
Those will increasingly be the “top issues” for decades into the future. The debt’s gone too far.
Even the death of Bin Laden didn’t save him, as it was merrily predicted it would. Nothing can save him really and he will go down as the biggest mistake the US ever made and a horrific example of a black man holding the highest office in the land. What a horrific waste.
So true. Obama knows it. The Dem hierarchy knows it. Obama's inner circle knows it. And every American from the center to the far right knows it.
What's truly sad, is that 40% from the center to the far left who are too ignorant, or too drunk on Obie's Special Kool-Aid to see it.
“What’s truly sad, is that 40% from the center to the far left who are too ignorant, or too drunk on Obie’s Special Kool-Aid to see it.”
It’s denial; they want to keep up the illusion of their innocence while knowing better, much like women who date drunks and thugs without learning. They want to remain eternal adolescents. For some reason they equate wisdom with being jaded or cynical and they want to avoid that at all costs.
You just described my brother's libtard girlfriend to a T. Forty-four years old, and still living at home with Mommy, while running around Hollywood, trying to get work in the movies for her daughter.
The permanently adolescent Obot.
I don’t know how on earth Obama will avoid getting booted out of the country, much less office. If he has a brain, he will leave gracefully and bow off of the world stage, or at least the American one. He might actually be a hit in Africa, but really, is that something to brag about?
I honestly don't know how hard Obama's willing to fight to stay in office. His prospects for re-election are grim, and he's not exactly the courageous sort. If he senses that "the thrill is gone", he may only give a half-hearted effort to his re-election. It wouldn't surprise me.
Like any ex-president, he's going to need round-the-clock protection after he leaves office. In his case, maybe a LOT of protection.
If by some miracle, he can force himself to face reality, he'll see that the best course of action for him is to let the office go gracefully, and exit the White House with as little fanfare as possible.
But, that may be asking too much of a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist like Obama. I fully expect him to be a louder ex-president than Bubba and Jimmy, combined.
I dunno; Clinton had the economy on his side and Carter wasn’t this bad with running the country. From what I have read, it’s been worse than Carter under Obama. Chances are even his hardest core leftist supporters will desert him and he’ll be smart to just leave. One thing about Leftists is that they are total users and they will toss aside any support for him now that Obama won’t be able to be used. He’s been so much worse for them than anticipated and his skin color didn’t work out for him at all. It wasn’t their magic ticket to utterly destroying the country, quite the opposite. He is arrogant, but it’s his very arrogance that has galvanized the country.
There are 20% in this country that are so wacked-out liberal, that they don't even see the cause and effect relationship between Obama's policies, and the current collapsed state of the nation. They will vote again for him, no matter how bad conditions are, because they're just that mesmerized.
Forty percent of Americans are solidly on the right, so we're obviously out of reach.
Then there's the other 40% who are moderate/centrist/swing voter types. I suppose that some of them call themselves Independents (though that group is all over the political map).
It's that 40% who are going to shift toward the right in the next election, and some of them will be Democrats who are sick of the ideological battles, and just want their lives back. As they did in 1980, they're going to look to the 'party of the adults' to rescue their sorry asses.
It's my deduction that they're going to look to the polar opposite of Obama for leadership. That's going to be the most fearless fiscal/social conservative on the roster, which means that Mitt has no chance.
That aside, Obama has literally cooked his own political goose with his egregious transgressions against our culture, our way of life, our traditions, our economy, our senses, our allies, and our very Constitution. He is a failure of epic proportions, and will be roundly rejected in the next election, should he choose to run.
“Then there’s the other 40% who are moderate/centrist/swing voter types. I suppose that some of them call themselves Independents (though that group is all over the political map).
It’s that 40% who are going to shift toward the right in the next election, and some of them will be Democrats who are sick of the ideological battles, and just want their lives back. As they did in 1980, they’re going to look to the ‘party of the adults’ to rescue their sorry asses.”
Exactly. A TON of college/university kids have had their futures threatened, too many people have been yanked out of comfort and security (Obamavilles, anyone?) and politics has been getting too extreme and unstable for ANYONE as we well know. As of late, rhetoric has been getting more and more insane and just plain maniacal for anyone’s comfort and so mayn are just plain TIRED. It’s been coming ot this for quite a while, but Obama just chrystallized what has only before been an abstract concept of dissatisfaction wtih what has been going wrong with this country. As for the 20% who are devoted no matter what, they’ll self destruct in the end and go back to the fringes, where they belong and be unable to really make anything happen in this country. I think that fringe is the Hollywood types and rightly they will be relegated back to Hollywood, serving as Washington’s brothel.
I think you've hit on the left's dirtiest little secret.
Obama's insane war against America hasn't just raised the alarm on the right. Millions on the left have also seen his naked attempts to completely undermine our country's most basic infrastructure and institutions, and are recoiling in abject horror - just as we are.
It's not huge news, because most of the disillusioned are quietly suffering these stark realizations privately. Perhaps they share the horror they're witnessing with other, similarly afflicted lefties.
As a group, they've yet to rise to the level of overt anger at their messiah, but if the vote were held today, I think that many millions of them would be only too happy to give him the boot he so richly deserves.
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