Posted on 07/18/2012 10:17:00 AM PDT by smoothsailing
July 18, 2012
James Pethokoukis
A daisy chain of political disaster seems to be forming for President Obama, says political analyst Dan Clifton at Strategas Research. Clifton suggests that “there seems to be a relationship between consumer confidence and whether a president gets reelected. The current levels of confidence are consistent with Carter and George H. W. Bush when they lost reelection.”
That conclusion is displayed in the above chart.
And Clifton’s reasoning is based on the following three charts: .....
(Excerpt) Read more at aei-ideas.org ...
That’s the way I see it. Just like McCain. Palin almost screwed that up for him.
Good read. I do not agree that the Black support for the Disaster will drop because of his Gay-loving agenda. Nothing will change that.
Nor will there be much decline in the Jewish vote, they love socialism too much.
Nor can you count on the drop in the Catholic vote he predicts. That vote has been tied closely to the big city RAT machines since day one.
I am predicting a tsunami wipeout for the dems in November.
I perdict lots of perdictions!
“It’s Reagan-Carter all over again”
Except this time Reagan didn’t run and Bush got the nomination. Do people want Carter in full-malaise mode or Carter Lite?
Las Vegas “odds maker” opines on why Obama will get “killed” by Romney in November.
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“Incumbent Rule: Over 80% of the time, most or all of the undecideds voted for the challenger.”
I read that they only broke for the challenger once and that was President Bush in 2004. Is that correct?
“So in November we will see if America has reached the ‘tipping point’”
The very fact our candidate is Mitt Romney is evidence that we haven’t reached the tipping point!
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