A powerful video from a citizen tired of coddling and worrying about “offending” radical Muslims.
The Growing Threat Of Anti-Semitism
October 1, 2012 by 12 Comments
It’s no secret that Islamic totalitarian regimes like Iran have a long history of anti-Semitism, even with aspirations for genocide. But the continued dismissal of threats against Israel, as well as the reactions to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s recent UN speech, reinforces other evidence that anti-Semitism is a growing and dangerous threat, not only abroad, but also here at home.
In Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly last Thursday, he again pleaded with the world about the serious and impending danger posed by a nuclear Iran. It seems that as his pleas have fallen on the deaf ears of the Obama Administration and leaders of other nations in the recent past, Netanyahu decided to back up his words with a visual aid in hopes that possibly this approach would finally cause the western world to wake up to this dire reality.
The prime minister warned that Iran will have sufficient enriched uranium to make a nuclear bomb by next summer, at the latest, and urged the world to draw a clear “red line” to join him and the nation of Israel in stopping this threat. For those who have not yet seen it, Netanyahu’s visual aide consisted of a diagram outlined with the shape of a simply drawn vintage bomb with a burning fuse. The diagram was labeled to its outside from bottom to top: 1st STAGE, 2nd STAGE, and FINAL STAGE. A bold dark line was drawn from left to right across the diagram, about two-thirds of the way to its top, which was labeled with the figure 70%.
Netanyahu explained that “Iran is 70% of the way there and well into the second stage” and that it was getting “late, very late” to stop Iran, with only a few weeks into next summer by which any of the world’s nations might safely respond. These sentiments further supported his statements from earlier in September when he said that “The world tells Israel, wait, there’s still time. And I say, wait for what? Wait until when? Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.”
Clearly, the prime minister intended to finally drive this point home Thursday as he went on to draw a bold red line across the top of his diagram, marking the beginning of the FINAL STAGE. This line represents the point in time when he hopes for a military response from the U.S., but as he has previously indicated, he would settle for support by way of official words from his allies, or at least that Israel’s allies would resolve to not hinder the nation’s national security interests.
He went on to state that “Red lines don’t lead to war, red lines prevent war. Nothing could imperil the world more than a nuclear-armed Iran.” Netanyahu continued, “I believe that faced with a clear red line, Iran will back down, and it will give more time for sanctions and diplomacy.” He also related the Iranian threat to the time of the Holocaust, saying “Those who opposed that fanaticism waited too long to act,” with the final defeat of Germany coming years later “at a terrific cost.”
This historical parallel cited by Netanyahu becomes ironic when considered alongside the response of two big players in the mainstream media. Two shameless freeze-framed photos of Netanyahu were published by Reuters and the AP which seemingly feature the prime minister engaged in a Nazi salute, of all things. Obviously, the photos simply captured a frozen moment in time during Netanyahu’s speech as he used flowing hand gestures to reinforce the points of his speech.
As was pointed out by The Weekly Standard, “Of the hundreds of professional photos taken at this speech, the AP and Reuters decided to push these onto the wire.” We need not be so naïve as to believe that these photos were coincidental or accidental. Instead of a sign of self-hating on the part of the prime minister, could this be a blatant sign of anti-Semitism in the mainstream media? It seems that they have now, very plainly answered this question in the affirmative. Practically across the board, other traditional news organizations of the mainstream media have also been quick to criticize and mock the prime minister’s speech and visuals.
We should bear in mind that all these events have transpired just days after the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in our own New York City, making statements that denied the Holocaust and described Israel as merely a “disturbance” and “noise” in the history of the Middle East that would be “eliminated.” He was also quick to make a statement that nonchalantly dismissed speculation that Israel might attack Iran’s nuclear facilities before the American presidential election in November.
He was then allowed to take the floor at the UN to unleash a hate-filled rant against the nation of Israel in which he scolded “the uncivilized Zionists” for “intimidating” Iran. That’s right. He really said it, “intimidating” Iran! His point of view seems a little backward, but realistically, Iran should probably feel a little intimidated at this point. His wacky statements continued as he dared to suggest that he hopes for the second coming of Jesus, along with that of “a perfect human being named Imam al-Mahdi” the “disappeared” 12th imam revered by Shia Muslims, who also pray for his return. It is hard to imagine that this raving lunatic is given more time and respect by the U.S. government than Prime Minister Netanyahu, leader of America’s most important and loyal ally.
It is also unthinkable that even the mainstream media would sink to the depths of intentionally depicting the leader of Israel in a way that suggests Nazi symbolism. As the mainstream media increasingly displays a sinking code of ethics in their reporting, it’s no wonder that their ratings likewise continue to sink. The growing popularity of anti-Semitism in the U.S. can also be observed in many of our workplaces, organizations, and on the Internet among everyday citizens. Many citizen bloggers joined the MSM in mocking and undermining Israel and Netanyahu, following his UN speech. To paraphrase, apparently one blogger thought our outrage at anti-Semitism toward the leader of our ally to amount to “kissing Netanyahu’s [posterior].” It is dangerous ground for a nation to tread upon when its leaders, traditional institutions of information and private citizens begin to stand against Israel. Devoted Christians and students of the Bible in America and across the world understand this as well as anyone. They take the words of the Lord to Abraham in Genesis 12:3 very seriously, when he said of Israel, “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
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Communism On Parade? High School Marches To Marx And Lenin
September 30, 2012 by 67 Comments
Editor’s note: A version of this piece first appeared at FoxNews.com.
“What do you think of this?” So began a phone call from Todd Starnes of FoxNews radio. Starnes asked me for a comment on a shocking story: A band at a high school near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania performed a halftime show titled, “St. Petersburg 1917,” a musical commemoration of the Bolshevik Revolution, replete with hammers and sickles, military uniforms, and red flags.
“No way,” I responded. “Are you sure this wasn’t a joke, a parody?”
It wasn’t. And parents of the students aren’t laughing.
The superintendent of the school genuinely pleaded innocence. “It’s a representation of the time period in history, called ‘St. Petersburg 1917,’” she said. “I am truly sorry that somebody took the performance in that manner. I am.” She continued: “If anything is being celebrated it’s the music…. I’m just very sorry that it wasn’t looked at as just a history lesson.”
Well, as a history lesson, I give it a giant, red “F.”
To be fair to the superintendent, she sincerely doesn’t seem to understand what’s so bad about this incident and why it’s in bad taste. In fact, therein is the basic problem: We have failed to teach the horrors of the Bolshevik Revolution specifically and of communism generally.
Those horrors include over 100 million corpses generated by communist governments, starting with the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917—that is, “St. Petersburg 1917.” For perspective, 100 million is twice the combined deaths of World Wars I and II, the two deadliest conflicts in history. Even then, 100 million dead, which is the estimate provided by the seminal Harvard University Press work “The Black Book of Communism” is a conservative figure. The latest research claims that Mao Tse-Tung was responsible for the deaths of at least 70 million in China, and Joseph Stalin alone may well have killed 60 million in the USSR.
And yet, far too many Americans are ignorant of this catastrophe, especially younger Americans. I know. I’ve been observing it carefully for years. I could give a thousand examples, but here are just a few:
One former student of mine, John, told me about his first assignment as a teaching assistant in a high-school history class. He offered to cover some of the lectures on the 1930s Soviet Union. His supervising teacher agreed. So, John methodically covered the famine in the Ukraine, Stalin’s purges, the Hitler-Stalin Pact.
John was pleased at how the students were electrified, hands in the air, many questions—clearly learning these hideous things for the first time. Yet, he also noticed the dirty looks from his supervisor. Later, the teacher testily reprimanded him: “Look, John, I want you to ease up on the Red-baiting and commie-bashing. Besides, these students are going to get a decidedly different view on communism from me.” She promised to teach “a softer side of communism.”
Another student of mine, Sean, told me of the elite Christian private school he attended, where the newly hired teacher, fresh out of a major university, told the students he was a “Christian communist,” and that anyone who is a Christian should be a communist.
Another student told me of a teacher who “convinced the entire class” that Marxism was a “wonderful” but “misunderstood” idea that simply had not been tried correctly. “He absolutely brainwashed us,” she told me bitterly.
These are merely three anecdotal examples.
What’s true for high schools is even worse at the university level. I lecture around the country, sponsored by groups like the Young America’s Foundation and Intercollegiate Studies Institute. I’m often requested to give a talk titled, “Why Communism is Bad.” When I read passages directly from the “Communist Manifesto,” or when I cite authoritative sources on the maimed and dead, the students are aghast, eyes wide open. Rarely are their professors in attendance.
Those same professors, incidentally, write the textbooks used by high schools. Several years ago, I did a comprehensive, two-year study on “World History” and “Civics” texts. The study looked at roughly 20 texts used in public schools. Their treatment of communism is scandalous. The greatest abuse is the sins of omission. I could not find a single text that listed figures on the dead under communist governments. These omissions were not repeated for historical abuses like the Inquisition, the Crusades, slavery, or the internment of Japanese Americans. “Right-wing” dictators like Cuba’s Batista and Chile’s Pinochet were treated far more harshly than Fidel Castro, who generated many more victims and was still in power.
I could go on and on.
In short, we now have an entire generation of Americans born after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and USSR. They didn’t live through the mass repression and carnage that was Soviet communism. They need to learn about it, just as my generation learned the evils of Nazism. Unfortunately, they are not. And so, we shouldn’t be surprised when they merrily march to the triumphal sounds of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Dr. Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College, executive director of The Center for Vision & Values, and New York Times best-selling author of the book, “The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor.” His other books include “The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism” and“Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.”
©2012 The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College
Eye Candy On The View – Am-dad At The UN – America On The Rocks
September 30, 2012 by 8 Comments
Current affairs and foreign policy have met together in a Disney-like cartoon production where Howard Stern is heard asking questions about Romney’s choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate and getting serious answers from Obama supporters found on the street.
Just when unbelievable pushes the cartoon toward the horror genre, along comes the polls out of Ohio. The state’s motto is a Bible verse, ‘with God all things are possible’; but a glance at the Obama jump in the polls forces any serious researcher to check, just to be sure, if the motto may have been appendaged with ‘even if you are living in a vacuum.’
It is hard to believe that the state that gave us Presidents Harding, Hayes, Harrison, Grant, and Garfield has now opted for a pop-culture, eye-candy hero, whose idea of foreign policy is showing up on ‘The View’ giggling, prancing, and looking pretty, while 1.5 billion Muslims are bringing the world to the brink of world war three. The only thing missing is Daffy Duck or perhaps Lady Gaga to finish up the show.
In his UN speech on Tuesday September 24, 2012, Obama said “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. But to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see in the images of Jesus Christ that are desecrated, or churches that are destroyed, or the Holocaust that is denied.”
After giving what might seem a eulogy for Ambassador Chris Stevens and then rolling all over the petted tolerance and diversity issues they all love down at the old UN, he quoted Gandhi who said, “Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.”
As a 40-year student of the Bible, I can’t vouch for any prophet who carries a sword, marries children, and calls for the death of non-Islamists; but I do trust a real prophet who endured godless kings, vicious lions, and threats on his life for telling the truth.
The prophet Daniel announced that in the last days tolerance, diversity and a soupy general trend toward ‘live and let live’ would become pervasive in our world – but it will fail miserably. To wit:
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. (Daniel 2: 43)
Foreign policy is much more than an eye-candy prez who tells us it’s time to ‘live happily ever after,’ at the very same moment in which China, Japan, Korea, Iran, Syria, and the entire Muslim world are about to dash at each other’s throats.
Once the first shots are fired, once the first army is mobilized or once the first jets are deployed to another country to destroy, contrasts may start to come back into view. The cartoon will end for a very real-time global wake up-call. Michelle’s mandates against fatty foods in schools, Mayor Bloomies war against 16 oz. sodas in New York, and the Prez’s new cool about men marrying men and babies being dumped like refuse under the ‘law of the land’ will be seen for what they really are – nefarious lies, national denial, and the most shameful behaviors our nation has produced in its entire history.
But should a prophet arise in America, who carries a sword and kills his enemies, weds children, and tells his followers to kill non-believers, how long would he last? What law enforcement agency would not rush to scoop him up and label him as a loose cannon, a psychopath, and a dangerous man? Perhaps he could survive in Ohio where polls indicate that Ohioans are having trouble discerning between who is good for the nation and who is most likely to lead it to its final demise.
As disclaimers and apologies go, please don’t send a million emails; we all know Ohio is a great state, so take it as good advice. It will take more than eye-candy and pop-culture heroes to get America out of the sinking morass of liberal nonsense that threatens the future of our nation.
The perpetual party will expire, cartoons come to an end, and eye candy grows old and wrinkles; but the nation needs not expire along with it – consider this.
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. (Proverbs 29: 2 KJV)
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Did Harry Reid Commit Political Suicide By Trashing Mitt Romney?
September 30, 2012 by 17 Comments
Mitt Romney’s nomination on August 30th as the Republican Nominee for President of the United States was a historic moment.
No, he wasn’t the first black or the first Catholic to head a major party ticket. He was the first Mormon. He made little fanfare of the moment, though others spoke on behalf of the Latter-Day Saints community.
Some have questioned President Obama’s faith and religion over the years. I’m not sure I remember without hitting Google what Barack Obama’s faith is.
Conversely, anyone paying attention knows that Mitt Romney and his family grew up as devout members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also referred to as “LDS” or “Mormon.”) He has served his church in leadership roles. His good deeds are many. His philanthropy and help to others is notable.
Now the highest-ranking elected member of the LDS Church, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), has made an attempt to discredit Romney using the public forum.
Senator Reid was calculated in choosing words that would be memorable, stating that Romney “sullied” the Mormon faith and “is not the face of Mormonism.” Reid said he was simply agreeing with a blogger from the Huffington Post who was upset at recent comments made by Mr. Romney regarding individuals who rely on government services. I guess he had forgotten Mitt’s help to others as part of his leadership roles in the Church.
I thought this was peculiar. So I asked a former member of Reid’s congregation who has attended his same ward for several years.
He told me that from the Church’s standpoint, Mr. Reid has done more of a disservice to himself than to Mitt Romney.
The source, who asked to remain anonymous, said “Normally in the Church, we are encouraged that if we have a disagreement with someone, we should meet with them to work it out. Taking things public is inappropriate.”
The source went on to say that he has seen a change in the Harry that he knew in the last few years.
“It’s sad because he’s not the same person I’m used to. He used to be good at keeping politics out of the discussion. Like Mitt Romney, he has done good deeds to help people in the Church, and he knows Mitt has, as well. This is uncharacteristic of him.
“The right thing to do would be to apologize and move on. There are many people who have defended Harry over the years who feel it’s hard to justify these comments. That’s because they cannot be defended.”
Kimberley Stewart, a small business owner and member of the LDS community who now lives in Menlo Park, California, also went to the same Mormon congregation as Senator Harry Reid when she lived in Washington, D.C. She too was surprised by Senator Reid’s remarks.
“It was so far out of line. His remarks were inexcusable because he knows Mitt Romney is a good person. He looks like the bully on the playground. I’ve never seen anyone in the Mormon Church publicly act like this. It is so against the teachings of our faith.”
“Senator Reid has always been soft-spoken at church, and this seemed out of character.” Kimberley recalled the love Senator Reid has for his wife Landra, whom Kimberley remembers fondly as “a stunning dresser – a woman so beautiful, sweet, and kind. I really admired her.”
“Harry Reid knows that we have responsibilities in our Church to take care of other people. Mitt Romney has done so many kind and generous things behind the scenes,” said Stewart. “His generosity is so well known in the LDS community. He has never put wealth before his beliefs and has always taken care of others.”
She fears that Reid will do whatever it takes to support his party and that party now comes before religion to Reid. While that made her sad, Stewart acknowledged that there will be Mormons who won’t vote for Mitt Romney; but she didn’t think that Reid had necessarily swayed anyone in the LDS community.
Elayne Harmer is a Senior Executive at Remember My Service Military Productions – a company that produces historical commemoratives for soldiers when they come home from deployment.
Elayne’s family is well known in both Utah and California. Her father-in-law, John Harmer, was Lieutenant Governor of California under Ronald Reagan. Her husband, David Harmer, a successful attorney, ran for Congress and lost by a fraction in 2010 to Democrat Congressman Jerry McNerney (D-CA). Her sister, Sharlene Hawkes, was Miss America in 1984; and her father was a General Authority for the LDS Church, the equivalent of Archbishop in the Catholic Church. The Harmers have four children and live in Bountiful, Utah.
“I have known Mitt Romney for 20 years and my family has known him for longer than that. My brother-in-law was a Bishop in a congregation (ward) in Mitt’s stake (similar to a Catholic diocese.) We’ve all heard about how charitable he has been and know the human stories about his compassion. There are many low-income families in Boston that Mitt Romney has personally helped.”
“I don’t know what to think,” said Harmer, about Reid’s attack. “There are plenty of Democrats in the Mormon Church – even in my own family. It’s true the majority of Utah Mormons are Republican, but there are plenty who are more liberal. They think Reid was wrong to say what he said. Brotherhood in a shared religion should trump politics.”
I asked about Mitt Romney’s role in the Church, and Elayne elaborated. “Mitt has held leadership positions in the Church and has a record of being a good, compassionate human being. Harry Reid hasn’t held these roles, so it seems peculiar that he’s casting stones at Mitt Romney. It would have been fine for him to disagree, but this is just not classy.”
Harmer went on to say, “I can’t imagine a fellow Christian saying these things. I’ve tried not to say bad things about Harry Reid, but the gloves are off right now. I see him as a partisan hack. If he’s going to put politics above a shared faith and claim that Mitt has sullied Mormonism just because he disagrees with him, to me that shows that he has thrown religion under the bus in favor of politics. He has betrayed us.”
“I base someone’s Christianity on their acts. I know Mitt Romney does charitable works for his fellow man. Impugning his character is just wrong and says a lot about Harry Reid’s character.”
This most recent Reid-ism isn’t the first time Harry Reid has challenged Romney’s character. On July 31st, Reid spread a false allegation he said was from a former Bain investor who said that Romney had not paid taxes for 10 years. That falsehood led to a rather curt reply from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in an interview with Nevada political journalist John Ralston.
“Of course Harry Reid wants to talk about that, because Harry Reid can’t talk about the fact that he’s presided over a Senate that hasn’t passed a budget for three years. I mean, he doesn’t want to talk about the substance of what affects real Americans’ lives. I do. And so does Mitt Romney.”
You can link to the video here.
It’s a sad statement in American politics when the highest-ranking elected Mormon uses a personal political agenda as his bully pulpit against another.
And what happens if Governor Romney becomes President Romney? Clearly, Reid’s act against Romney won’t promote bipartisanship or solve problems.
Sadly for Reid, it’s likely that his most recent trash-talk persona will be that for which he will be most remembered. If Harry Reid is truly a man of good character, he can save face now by apologizing to Mitt Romney. Otherwise, this act will stand as a permanent blemish on his long and “distinguished” record in Congress.
This article originally appeared at ThoughtfulWomen.org.
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Take Your Mitts Off, Governor Romney!
September 30, 2012 by 9 Comments
There are just a few short weeks until the presidential election, and most polls show a tight race nationally. While the mainstream news media is declaring President Obama significantly ahead in swing state polls, some analysts like Dick Morris of Fox News believe that the pollsters are skewing the data to give the incumbent an advantage.
Whatever the exact poll numbers, almost everyone believes the outcome is still in doubt. Yet, with the situation in our country and throughout the world, this election should not be close at all. It is an outrage that GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney is not leading by a huge margin.
Our economy is horrible, the Middle East is in flames, our culture is in shambles, and race relations have deteriorated since Obama took office. In every important test, the President has not only failed, but made the situation much worse. He promised to cut the deficit in half, create more jobs, bring a greater measure of peace to the Arab World, and help heal a divided nation. In reality, the deficit has skyrocketed, jobs have decreased, the Arab World is in turmoil, and race relations are worsening as opposed to improving.
The liberal news media will not tell the true story, so it all rests on the Republican presidential candidate to set the record straight. On this measure, Governor Romney has been a failure. Sadly, he has been a very poor communicator in this race.
Gone is the candidate who eviscerated his Republican opponents in the primaries. Voters are now witnessing Romney playing the role of the “gentleman” in his match-up against Obama. Today, his campaign aides say he will adopt a “softer” tone to appeal to the moderate undecided voters.
This is exactly the wrong strategy against the President. To win, Romney needs to take off the mitts and aggressively challenge Obama on his entire record, not just the economy. Governor Romney wants to focus strictly on economic matters; however, many other issues deserve attention and can be used to rally conservatives and Independents to his campaign.
Unfortunately, Romney has allowed the media to sidetrack his message with a variety of bogus issues, including the “bombshell” video taken at a Florida fundraising dinner in May.
In the video, Romney tells a small group of wealthy donors some basic facts about the electorate. To win, he will need to appeal to the undecided, independent voters. The ones not paying taxes are most likely in Obama’s camp. This supposedly controversial comment was misconstrued by the media into a statement that Romney does not care about 47% of the electorate. In reality, he was admitting that he cannot focus on that group of voters and needs to worry about those he can attract.
It is time that Romney stopped playing defense on issues such as his tax returns and started playing offense. He does not have a woeful record to defend; it is President Obama who should be on the defensive.
To woo undecided voters, Romney needs to convince them they are not better off under Obama and the country is not moving in the right direction. He needs to persuade voters to “fire” Obama and hire a new person, a candidate willing to take the country on a different course.
Some voters find Obama to be a likeable person who is well meaning, but Romney needs to dispel that notion. He should be educating voters about Obama’s radical roots, his radical mentors, his radical philosophy, and his radical agenda.
Romney cannot expose the President by being a gentleman and playing “nice.” In politics, nice guys finish last. Four years ago, John McCain played “nice” against Barack Obama and finished with 46% of the vote, losing in an Electoral College landslide.
To avoid that scenario, Romney needs to be honest, straightforward, and direct with the American people about the dangers of an Obama second term. It is not just that Obama will wreck the economy even more. His failure to deal with radical Islam is another growing problem.
Romney should outline how he will fix the economy, deal with radical Islam, and counteract the spread of this dangerous ideology in the Middle East and Northern Africa. Romney should also be candid about the President’s divisive rhetoric, his class warfare, and his racially divisive politics. The Governor should provide voters with his plan on how he will heal our country both culturally and economically.
The stakes are extremely high on November 6. Our country faces a fork in the road. Do we continue down the road to socialism, division, and appeasement, or not?
Mitt Romney needs to explain to the American people why this election is so important and why a second Obama term would be so dangerous. He will have to show emotion, outrage, and courage and take on President Obama directly. It might be uncomfortable for Governor Romney, but it is the only way he will win.
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Obama’s Phony Polls Exposed
Media fraudulent pollsters you’ve been busted. Your fake numbers have been exposed by two very unlikely and probably unwilling sources. Last Friday the Leftist cheerleaders at the Third Way “think tank” made what had to be a very sad announcement for them. They told the world their researchers had found Democrat registration has fallen by 490,000 in just Ohio alone and without going into finer numbers had also declined by significant numbers in other important states. Florida Democrat registration is down 4.9%, Iowa Democrats have lost 9.5% and remember that “this close” swing state of New Hampshire, the one that flipped its entire government just two years ago – Democrat registration is down 19.7%! More than this Third Way also found Republican registration was down only a 10th of the Democrat decline and that Independents (who favor Mitt Romney by 14 points) had grown in numbers.
The full story from Ohio must be chilling for Democrats because 44% of these Democrat registration drops come from the Cleveland (Cuyahoga County) area cutting deeply into their lead over local Republicans. Hamilton and Franklin counties, both huge Democrat strongholds have seen steep declines in the number of registered Democrats as well. The combined decline of all three counties accounts for about 79% of the now “missing” Ohio Democrats.
These “adjustments” to the voting rolls in Ohio comes as a result of a vigorous program to find and remove deceased registered voters and eliminate redundant voter rolls that have been counted twice over the years.
Clearing out hundreds of thousands of dead voters makes Democrat voter fraud more difficult.
The second blow to the false polls we constantly see is the just released Gallup report showing Republicans 16% (64/48) more enthusiastic about voting than Democrats are. Remember these numbers when you read the next fraudulent poll. Added to the sharp drop in Democrat registration they prove Barack Obama is on his way to a landslide defeat next month.