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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (34413)	7/27/2010 1:32:03 PM
From: clutterer	Respond to of 103300

"Guys like Arch Crawford, Robert Hitt, and Jeff Harman see it plain as day in the astro charts. Arch summarizes what's going on 'upstairs" this way... "The most exacting and powerful alignment of planets in ALL of Human History takes place from July 26- Aug. 3 Astrologers are calling it the Cardinal Climax being ALL near Zero degrees of ‘Cardinal’ signs. Of course, that means it’s as important as anything that has ever happened - WWI, WWII, Great Depression, Black Plague, Fall of Rome (and everyone else). More specifically July 30-Aug 1. Represents a Maximum of a Strange Attractor in all kinds of phenomena. ***An Earthquake Warning In case you missed Clif, chief time monk, High's appearances on CoastToCoast last night during the show's first hour, the most important thing he had to say (very near term) was a heads up for the West Coast over the possibility based on predictive linguistics of a major quake toward the end of this week or maybe into the weekend... "Within the immediacy data sets there are clear indications of a major [damaging] earthquake on west coast of america (MOST likely north america due to angular momentum issues of planetary alignment) and more probably than not, in the PNW perhaps down to mid CA. This quake shows as being completed with problems, such as yet more [wedding interruptions] by August 3, however the data accretion patterns point to the last two days of July as the point of impact and largest number of after shocks. Damages are indicated to include [roadways] and [bridges] such that is [restricted (in some places)] for months afterward. Water flows are also to be affected and even altered for long time (months/years) which is how i found it. By noting the odd number of longer term indicators for [water pathways change] in the data accretion patterns for November and onward in 2010. A significant majority of these traced back to something in the immediacy data that turned out to be this pending earthquake in very late July. "

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (34413)	7/27/2010 3:05:54 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Will President Obama drag down Senate candidates? By Chris Cillizza \| July 26, 2010; 2:10 PM ET Two years removed from an electoral wave created by President Barack Obama that swept Democrats into wide Congressional majorities, the chief executive's numbers have faltered badly in a number of contested states -- raising concerns that he could be a drag on Democratic candidates this fall. A new independent poll in Missouri paints a grim picture for the president. Obama's job approval rating stood at just 34 percent with the overall electorate; among independents the numbers were even worse with just 27 percent approving of the job Obama is doing and 63 percent disapproving. Go deeper into the poll and the numbers don't get any better. With the economy shaping up to be the dominant issue in the campaign across the country this fall, just one in three Missouri voters approved of Obama's handling of it; among independents a whopping 68 percent disapprove of how the president had handled the economy. Despite those numbers, Rep. Roy Blunt (R) holds only a 48 percent to 42 percent lead over Secretary of State Robin Carnahan (D) in the race to replace retiring Sen. Kit Bond (R) this fall. That trend -- poor Obama numbers coupled with a competitive head to head Senate race -- has played out in a series of polls in recent weeks. To wit: * Obama's approval at 41 percent (56 percent disapprove) in a new independent poll in Kentucky; ophthalmologist Rand Paul (R) takes 41 percent to state Attorney General Jack Conway's (D) 38 percent in the Senate race. * Forty-five percent approval/49 percent disapproval for Obama in a late June Quinnipiac University Ohio poll (including just 40 percent approval among independents); Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher (D) at 42 percent to 40 percent for former Rep. Rob Portman (R) in the Senate race. * Forty-six percent approval/49 percent disapproval for Obama in a mid-July Q poll in Pennsylvania with disapproval among independents at 53 percent; Rep. Joe Sestak (D) and former Rep. Pat Toomey (R) tied at 43 percent in the Senate race. Eric Schultz, spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, insisted that the disconnect between Obama's approval ratings and the head-to-head numbers is evidence that Republican attempts to make the election a referendum on President Obama won't succeed. "As much as Republicans wish it wasn't true, their candidates are on the ballot too," said Schultz. "The national environment is relevant, but not determinative." Perhaps. But, remember that in very few of these races have the two candidates engaged in any meaningful way (read: television ads) -- a fact that makes it difficult to draw hard and fast conclusions about whether Obama's number will ultimately hurt Democrats in states like Missouri, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nevada and Kentucky. Missouri, forever a swing state, may give us an early indication of whether (and how much) Obama will drag down Democrats. In a new ad, Blunt goes directly at Carnahan's decision to raise money with President Obama -- describing her as a "rubberstamp" for his agenda and quoting the chief executive saying "it would've already been done if I had Robin Carnahan there." (Obama was referring to the passage of financial regulatory reform.) Here's the ad: voices.washingtonpost.com That commercial went on the Missouri airwaves July 20 and the Mason-Dixon poll came out of the field just one day later so its impact (if there is one) isn't reflected in the latest survey. (Worth noting: While Carnahan raised money with Obama in Missouri earlier this month, she was out of town during a March presidential visit.) Blunt's strategy, which almost certainly will be mimicked by other Republicans running in competitive Senate contests around the country, is borrowed from Democrats in 2006 who labeled virtually every Republican running for office as a rubberstamp for then President George W. Bush. (One important difference: Bush was far less popular nationally in 2006 than Obama is today.) Will the Republican rubberstamp strategy work? "Midterm elections are usually a referendum on the President," said one Democratic pollster granted anonymity to speak candidly. "But I think there are a host of other numbers that are more worrisome -- right direction, lack of economic optimism, the Democrats in Congress having poor numbers and the sharp rise in anti-incumbency." Elections are far more complex than many people -- including the media (damn media!) -- typically assume and, as a result, it's impossible to quantitatively measure exactly what the Obama effect will be this fall. But, numbers like the ones in Missouri have to be concerning for Democratic candidates who have to hope Obama's approval ratings improve between now and Nov. 2. Running with a light breeze in your face is one thing; running with a gale force wind blowing against you is quite another.