A series of new polls show Barack Obama has become so politically radioactive that even many Democrats do not want him at the head of their ticket in 2012.
Everyone understands, if polls are accurate and the elections are free of fraud, the Republican Party will do well tomorrow. But how well? The Gallup Organization, a non-partisan polling firm respected for its work since the Eisenhower administration, has a new poll indicating Republicans lead Democrats in a generic ballot match-up by 15 points. Gallup tries to put that into perspective thus:
[T]his year’s 15-point gap in favor of the Republican candidates among likely voters is unprecedented in Gallup polling and could result in the largest Republican margin in House [of Representatives] voting in several generations. This means that seat projections have moved into uncharted territory, in which past relationships between the national two-party vote and the number of seats won may not be maintained.
The blowout is two-fold: more Republicans are likely to turn out tomorrow, and independents overwhelmingly support the Republicans. While 75 percent of Republicans or those who “lean Republican” are “absolutely certain” they will vote tomorrow, only 68 percent of Democrats feel the same. Gallup’s poll found the number of respondents who called themselves Democrats and those who called themselves independents each totaled 32 percent. But independents “tilt toward the Republican candidate by a sizable 59% to 31% margin.”
This is hardly surprising. Many independents are more conservative than the Republican establishment that has controlled the party for well over a decade.
The General Ballot Matters…This Time
Analysts usually dismiss generic ballot measures, because voters do not choose generic parties; every race pits two local candidates against each other. (I have often written this.) However, that is not true in a nationalized election. When a midterm becomes a national referendum on the president or the party in power, party designations make all the difference, and incumbents who would normally be safe are swept out of office. Barack Obama gets this. (I have not often written that.) He told supporters, “My name may not be on the ballot, but our agenda for moving forward is on the ballot.” (Incidentally, it has not been reported just who the president hoped to turn out: he spoke on the national radio program of Al Sharpton, whose racial incitement in Crown Heights in 1991 helped whip up riots that left a number of residents dead and 150-200 people assaulted or injured. Heaven knows why Obama wants those followers to show up at the polls.)
He’s right. And that is 60 percent of the Democrats’ problem. The other 40 percent is the Democrats’ record.
65 Percent Say: Throw Them All Out
A new Rasmussen poll reveals the extent of voter anger at Congress: “65% of Likely U.S. Voters say if they had the option next week, they would vote to get rid of the entire Congress and start all over again.”
Congress knows who is to blame for their predicament. And a growing number of Obama’s own party members want him forced aside before he can ruin another election.
Even Democrats Want ObamAlbatross Gone by 2012
Although it seemed unthinkable in early 2009, nearly half of all Democrats want someone else to run for the party’s presidential nomination. An Associated Press-Knowledge Networks poll finds that 47 percent of Democrats “said Obama should be challenged for the 2012 nomination.” That number includes 29 percent of voters who supported Obama during the 2008 primaries.
In modern times, no sitting president who has been faced a primary fight has won the general election. Lyndon Johnson retired rather than face Eugene McCarthy or Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. Gerald Ford nearly lost the 1976 nomination to Ronald Reagan. George H.W. Bush faced a tough campaign against Pat Buchanan in 1992. And Jimmy Carter is still complaining about Ted Kennedy’s primary fight in 1980. Nonetheless, this is what many Democrats say they want Barack Obama to face.
AP tries to smooth ruffled Democratic feathers by noting: “At this stage two years before their re-elections, Presidents Clinton and Reagan had approval ratings that were lower than Obama’s now, according to the Gallup Poll; both men won a second term. The ratings for Presidents George H.W. Bush and Carter were better than Obama’s; both lost.”
Obama faces one thing none of those presidents faced: a two-year presidential election cycle. With the realities of the Democratic presidential primaries, a would-be challenger would have to announce his, or her, candidacy within the next few months. The attack ads would begin immediately and not end until Obama’s renomination was assured. If 2008 taught anything, it is what a lingering and wasting process the Democratic nominating process is.
If Obama wins his own party’s nomination, he will face a galvanized Republican Party — and possibly a “centrist” third party designed to target the mushy middle that went for Obama so heavily two years ago.
Obama could improve his and his party’s 2012 prospects by following a Clintonesque triangulation with Congressional Republicans, then running as a moderate. However, his advisors have already indicated he will not. Asked about imitating Bill Clinton’s faux centrism, an unnamed “senior White House official” told The Washington Post, “This president is not like that president.”
That is why so many Democrats want a primary challenge; endangered Congressmen can endorse his opponent, and perhaps the party will throw a “Hail Mary” and actually nominate a more electable Democrat in 2012.
Democrats Do Not Have His Back
There is a lesson for Republicans here: Not only is Barack Obama’s agenda deeply unpopular with the American electorate, but a fair segment of the non-suicidal portion of the Democratic Party would not mind seeing him removed from office. Permanently removing a hard-Left ideologue whose unwavering agenda has proven to be electoral hemlock from the top of the Democratic ticket before another GOP tidal wave? Please, don’t throw us in that briar patch.
This should give Republicans the confidence to investigate Obama thoroughly, exhaustively, and in every significant area of wrongdoing. And if the findings merit it, it should encourage Republicans to impeach Barack Obama.
As Howard Phillips of The Conservative Caucus recently wrote, “even a conservative Congressional majority will be reluctant to begin impeachment proceedings without overwhelming public support. That’s why we must begin now to educate voters and build public pressure on Congress to begin Impeachment proceedings.”
This trio of polls should indicate that, at a minimum, Congressional Republicans should not fear a thorough investigation of Obama’s crimes. The American people do not oppose their efforts. And a few Democrats might secretly support them, as well.
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It seems that the ordinary, sane citizens will be challenged when going to the polls to vote tomorrow. We have BHO and his DOJ to thank for that. He just cannot accept defeat and he is so darned ANGRY that we will not be told what to do, how to do it, when and how often we may be permitted to do ANYTHING BY HIM! Now he is sending his DOJ, of course we know how they act, to different polls, probably to tell people how to vote. This would be against the law IF someone else did it!!
Impeachment of Obama is not the first thing the new congress should do . The first order of business the congress of 2011 is to force Obama to reveal all his past records including his place of birth. If it is proven he is not a legal citizen then legal action other then Impeachment can take place and all actions he was party to while in office well be null in void. IE anything he signed or any appointments that he made as a false US President. But if it is found that he is a legal citizen them impeachment proceeding can take place for his malfeasance in the office of the president.
"If polls are accurate and the elections are free of fraud, the Republican Party will do well tomorrow." That's a might big "IF!" How about this: "If anyone believes the polls will be accurate and free of fraud, THEY SHOULD HAVE THEIR HEAD EXAMINED! As for me, I've had it up to here. All the talk and reason and namby-pambying around has gotten us nowhere. If any Obama goons try to hassle me at the polls, I swear they're going to lose some teeth!
YES FOLKS, IF THE REPUBLICANS GET THE MAJORITY, THE FIRST THING THEY SHOULD DO, IS MAKE THE BASTARD PROVE HE IS QUALIFIED BY BIRTH TO BE THE PRESIDENT, AND THEN IF HE IS, THEY SHOULD TRY TO IMPEACH THE BASTARD. AND THERE ARE A LOT MORE IN THE TWO HOUSES WHO NEED TO GO ALSO. TURNING THIS COUNTRY INTO A MARXIST PIECE OF SHIT. WHEN I THINK OF THE BLOOD THAT HAS BEEN SHED OVER THE YEARS FOR THIS ONCE GREAT COUNTRY, TO PRESERVE OUR FREEDOMS, AND THEN A PIECE OF SHIT COMES ALONG AND THERE ARE ENOUGH STUPID BASTARDS TO PUT HIM IN OFFICE, ITS INSANE. SHAME ON THEM.
Barack Obama is a 'Ticking Time Bomb' of Narcissistic rage and he will explode publicly as his insane ideas are ridiculed and rejected. When the 'Referendum Results on Barack Obama' are in Next Tuesday and Democrats "Blame" Barack Obama for the disastrous results – Barack Obama may go over the edge.
Obama is beginning to 'Flail' like a drowning man against the 'Onset of Reality', the look in his eyes and the sluggish, depressed body language are beginning to show his desperation and inner rage. The only time Obama is able to 'Grin', is when he is 'Bowing' to an Islamic Radical Country. The only times that are enjo…yable to Obama is when a group of 'his Worshipers' are applauding him and screaming 'Yes We Can'.
What is truly disrespectful is allowing these socialest zombie treaties to linger on, they know they are dead in the water but thet act like they are still alive, but what they don't know is that their brains has been sucked out and devoure…d. For we the people Haunt the Halls of the Senate and the house. It is time …to put Obama Democrat party out of their misery.
Why do you think he has a teleprompter in front of him at all times…to keep him from going postal on people. Something to FOCUS on. We the people need to give him something else to FOCUS on..GETTING OUT OF THE WHITEHOUSE!!! What I want to know is why obama needs all those planes and all those people to go on his “trip” and WHY the media hasn’t made a big deal about it? Does anyone know the COST of obama’s vacations and trips to the American taxpayer? He is acting like a KING instead of a president…well, a dictator instead of a president. I mean…40 planes and 500 people…someone needs to explain this!!!!
All I can say is that EVERYONE NEEDS TO VOTE. Don't think that your vote does not count — IT DOES INDEED! If you do not vote then you are saying that you are satisfied with the "S**T" that is going on in Washington. If you truly want change – THEN VOTE!
George Soros know the truth about the facade that was built around the hater of America. He also had a SS card with a state of CT. number on it. The imposter never worked/lived in that state. The Washington corruptocrats aren't going away so easily. Desperate to keep their jobs, the Liberal elite have launched a series of the nastiest attack ads in history. It's time to show the Dems how it feels to be out of a job!
I would like to Introducing you too! Barry Rand: AARP's executive director … and Barack Obama's "agent for social change."
Dear Fellow Conservative,…I want to introduce you to someone you actually may not want to meet. But, it's someone you need to know – because his left wing employer may be not only forcing you to pay his hefty salary, but also to underwrite his radical agenda. That's right, AARP that betrayed your trust by climbing into bed with Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to force a government health care takeover down our throats.
Voting today will be like purging a haunted house of evil spirits. Once done, the atmosphere changes to a more pleasant one. Lets purge America of the progressive evil in our government!
The time has come; we have a "new" house of representatives – -who can force barry soetoro to show his citizenship, birth and education records. I don't want this house to bother with impeachment; I want them to pursue US military arrest and tribunal, for high crimes and TREASON and all that follows! That action must include the presidential impostor and ALL his co-conspiritors! That should be the very FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS!
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