Pew: Most Americans Want New Direction in '16

Real Clear Politics ^ | May 6, 2014 | Adam O'Neal -

[Hojczyk]

According to the new Pew Research survey, Americans are ready for a change of direction. By a 2-1 margin, poll respondents said they want the country's next chief executive to pursue "different policies and programs" than President Obama.

“The public’s desire for a change from the president’s policies is almost as widespread as it was during Bush’s second term,” according to analysis that accompanied the poll results.

Some 65 percent of Americans want the next president to pursue policies and programs that are different from President Obama’s. Just 30 percent want someone who will pursue similar initiatives, and only 5 percent are undecided.

Obama’s policies remain slightly more popular than President Bush’s. Seventy percent of Americans wanted a leader who would pursue different policies at the same point in Bush’s presidency (April 2006). Only 23 percent wanted a president who would act similarly (7 percent were undecided).

The survey of 1,501 adults (including 1,162 registered voters) was conducted April 23-27 and has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.

[PaulCruz2016]

Pew: Most Americans Want New Direction in '16

So whom will these Americans vote for in the great Bush-Clinton presidential race of 2016?

[Amendment10]

As a consequence of parents not making sure that their children are taught about constitutional checks and balances on the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, please consider the following.

Patriots have so far twice passed up the opportunity for a new direction in '10 and '12. This is because if patriots had worked to win 2/3 conservative majority control of both Houses of Congress in those elections, then Congress would have had the power, under the Constitution's Clause 2 of Section 7 of Article I, to override presidential vetoes. In other words, Congress could have repealed constitutionally indefensible Obamacare Democratcare, for example, without Obama's signature.

In fact, for the naysayers that have been saying that Congress overriding presidential vetoes is impossible, note that Congress has exercised this power as recently as Bushes 41 & 43, and also with Clinton.

List of United States presidential vetoes

[Slyfox]

According to the new Pew Research survey, Americans are ready for a change of direction.

I hate the word "change" because no one quantifies it. Change from what to what? Obama used the word to exhaustion and it became a buzz word no one could explain but everyone seemed to know what it was but could not explain it.

Change of direction to what?

"Well, we know that what's going on right now is not working."

Problem is that it is working for the commie-progressives. We are exactly where they want us.

In order to quantify "change" you have to know what your foundation is made of. Is it made of grounded ideas that have stood the test of time? Or are your ideas in a bunch of muck surrounded by sand?

It is good to do what successful people have done in the past by looking to solid ideas that worked like when our Founders took all of the Biblical, Roman and Greek ideas and sifted through them and built a Constitution that so far has stood the test of time.

What Obama and his progressive hoard has spoon-fed us is crap. We must demand the actual truth and solid ideas, not regurgitated pablum from the "greatest Socialist thinkers."

And that goes for the RINO's. If they can not stand in the same shoes as our Founders then we don't need them.

[Verginius Rufus]

Obvious signal to the parties to nominate Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush. Maybe they can talk H. Ross Perot into making a third run for the Presidency.