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Dismal poll numbers for Obama in PA
Morning Call ^ | August 19, 2011 | Colby Itkowitz

Posted on 08/20/2011 5:33:36 AM PDT by markomalley

President Barack Obama, who political experts say will need a win in Pennsylvania to retain the White House, dipped to 35 percent approval among the state's registered voters, according to a Muhlenberg College poll released Friday.

The results come on the heels of a bad week in polls for Obama that showed him first dropping to 39 percent nationwide in Gallup's daily tracking poll. Then another set of Gallup results Thursday showed only 26 percent of Americans approve of how Obama is handling the economy.

These numbers are a huge blow to Obama who won the state handily in 2008, and a significant drop in just a few weeks from when Quinnipiac University polled Pennsylvania voters and found the president with 43 percent job approval.

(Excerpt) Read more at mcall.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
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To: USS Alaska
These three are life long members of the Steamfitters and Plumbers Union and are as solid demonRATs as there are, and when they may have voted against the demonRATS, they never spoke out about it in front of an "outsider".

Without economic prosperity, there are no construction jobs for the working guy, and with the way the Dow has been doing, the retired guys are worrying about their pensions and/or IRAs. Or, to borrow a phrase "It's the economy, stupid!"

The Rasmussen poll shows O in his eleventh day of -20 or below, with his popularity keeping in step with the economic news.

41 posted on 08/20/2011 6:48:03 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
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To: Principled

That is factually incorrect. Baucus could have brought his bill to the floor with or without Snowe’s vote. The Dems then had a 13-8 majority on the Senate Finance Committee. Snowe’s vote was immaterial.

Snowe and every other Republican voted against cloture and againt Obamacare. McConnell did an outstanding job holding his caucus together.


42 posted on 08/20/2011 6:56:45 AM PDT by mwl8787
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To: jmacusa
He is without class, manners, graciousness , integrity, honor or shame. Any decent man would be shamed by such a record of his glaring incompetence. But when one is without shame, one can not be shamed.

Very well put.

43 posted on 08/20/2011 6:58:15 AM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (If he has nothing to hide, why is he spending so much $$$ hiding it?)
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To: markomalley

Meanwhile, the command center at the Vineyard turns to CRISIS MODE as: “What do you mean you’re all out of arugula?!?”


44 posted on 08/20/2011 7:00:34 AM PDT by Caipirabob ( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: 70th Division

There is already talk that Biden will be cashiered and sent over to the State Dept and Hillary will be installed as VP at the convention to shore up support from the base and from women.


45 posted on 08/20/2011 7:00:46 AM PDT by mwl8787
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To: Scoutmaster
This week Obama signed an order which will almost make it impossible for white males to get jobs with the federal government[.]

Obama Issues Executive Order on ‘Diversity’. He's essentially ordering all federal depts to increase hiring of "diversities", which means that white, straight, males go to the bottom of the hiring pile.

46 posted on 08/20/2011 7:01:10 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
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To: Scoutmaster
Obama Orders new Plan to Diversify Federal Workers
47 posted on 08/20/2011 7:01:58 AM PDT by kristinn (Lowering the IQ on FR since Jul 31, 1998)
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To: Erik Latranyi

With the help of the media, this will be a close election.
______________________________________________________________

With the help of the media..... the Blacks, illegal Mexicans,
Union Thugs, Chicago-style-Election-Stealing Thugs, Philadelphia’s intimidating Black Panthers, white trash Rednecks who’ve been on the dole for 4 generations, the gays, the baby-killers......I’d say he has a lot of help. You are correct; THE 2012 ELECTION WILL BE CLOSE!!!


48 posted on 08/20/2011 7:04:08 AM PDT by no dems (No matter who it might be, when I find out a person is a Democrat, I lose respect for them.)
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To: USS Alaska

Enjoyed what you had to say. But, See my Post #48. There will be no Landslide. We will have to work our butts off just to get a win.


49 posted on 08/20/2011 7:07:04 AM PDT by no dems (No matter who it might be, when I find out a person is a Democrat, I lose respect for them.)
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To: mwl8787
There is already talk that Biden will be cashiered and sent over to the State Dept and Hillary will be installed as VP at the convention to shore up support from the base and from women.

Somehow I think Hussein would feel safer playing a game of catch with a bottle of nitro with the Muslim Bruthu-hood.

50 posted on 08/20/2011 7:07:57 AM PDT by Caipirabob ( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: gussiefinknottle
Ref. your Post #17:
If that happens, and he wins by doing that, I guarantee you, THERE WILL BE A REVOLUTION IN THIS COUNTRY!!!
51 posted on 08/20/2011 7:09:58 AM PDT by no dems (No matter who it might be, when I find out a person is a Democrat, I lose respect for them.)
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To: mwl8787

Sorry, I thought that cloture could have been prevented but Maine rino voted to allow vote.


52 posted on 08/20/2011 7:11:43 AM PDT by Principled
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To: SaintDismas
Vacation from what exactly?

Agreed. I follow his official schedule each day. Rarely does he begin a day before 10 am. Rarely does he put in over 3 hours of actual work in a single day. And rarely does he actually sit in a meeting for more than 30 minutes. He is far and away the laziest President this nation has ever had. Obama likes being President; he just doesn't like doing President.

53 posted on 08/20/2011 7:15:16 AM PDT by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: 70th Division; unkus; JLAGRAYFOX; MamaDearest; freekitty; justiceseeker93; flat; exit82; GingisK; ..

IMO, all the cash in the world can’t get the stench of feces off the “Wannabe King.”


54 posted on 08/20/2011 7:20:52 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Josa
Must be nice to live in a place where they ALWAYS vote for the conservative, and never make mistakes.

Obama won because there was voter shenanigans in Philly. When you get 100+% of the registered voters voting, there is something wrong. Also, the 8 years of Bush-bashing convinced some of the electorate that change was necessary.

Murtha won because he always brought home the bacon, so much that the GOP never ran a strong opponent against him. (FYI, the district was so heavily gerrymandered as to make it virtually impossible for a Republican to win. This will change in next redistricting.)

Murtha's clone won by demagoging his opponent as wanting to add a 23% sales tax along with income tax. And he enjoyed a gerrymandered district.

PA does go conservative from time to time. Typically, the governor switches from D to R and back every 8 years or so. And the union folks and rednecks are pissed at the jerk in half-white hut that they will vote against him.

Finally, PA has been a swing state for some time. There is always huge amounts of money being spent here to convince the masses. I would bet that more was spent in PA in '08 than in CA and NY combined. Don't write us off yet.

PS: Where in Shangri-la do you live?

55 posted on 08/20/2011 7:28:46 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: PapaBear3625; kristinn

Thank you for the information on the Obama Executive Order on ‘diversity’


56 posted on 08/20/2011 7:44:06 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)
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To: Covenantor

LOL!


57 posted on 08/20/2011 7:45:30 AM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: markomalley
dipped to 35 percent approval among the state's registered voters, according to a Muhlenberg College poll

...wonder if they polled likely voters?

58 posted on 08/20/2011 7:58:05 AM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: markomalley

good for him.


59 posted on 08/20/2011 7:59:38 AM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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To: kosciusko51

Any chance that Casey could lose with Obama atop the ticket? I’d like to see Santorum drop out and run for his old seat..


60 posted on 08/20/2011 8:02:25 AM PDT by ken5050 (Should Christie RUN in 2012? NO!!! But he should WALK 3 miles every day.)
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