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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (108579)7/25/2011 12:59:45 PM
From: TideGlider2 Recommendations  Respond to of 224750
 
Nonsense kenneth!


Trust on Issues
Voters Give GOP 10-Point Edge Over Democrats on Economy


Sunday, July 24, 2011
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With lawmakers haggling over government debt and consumer confidence at a two-year low, voter confidence in Republicans to handle the economy is growing.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that 45% trust Republicans more when it comes to handling economic issues, while 35% put more trust in Democrats. Nineteen percent (19%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The gap was the closest in years in May when the GOP held just a 46% to 42% lead on the economy, which voters have consistently regarded as the most important of 10 issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports.
Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on nine of those 10 issues. In May, Republicans led on just six issues after being trusted more on all 10 in early January. Two years ago Democrats were trusted more than Republicans on most issues. Still, there are several issues that the parties are close on in terms of trust.
Health care, which voters rank second behind the economy in terms of importance, is an issue the GOP holds a tight 46% to 43% advantage on. Before President Obama was elected, Democrats had a huge advantage on this issue. During Election 2010, the advantage switched to the GOP. In May, the parties were essentially tied.
A majority of voters continue to support repeal of the national health care law and believe it will increase the federal deficit.
(Want a free daily e-mail update? If it's in the news, it's in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook.
Two national telephone surveys of 1,000 Likely U.S. Voters were conducted July 18-21, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error for each survey is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Taxes are a big part of the debt ceiling debate, and voters trust Republicans more than Democrats by a 46% to 40% margin on that issue.
Most voters are worried that the final debt ceiling deal will raise taxes too much and cut spending too little. Seventy-five percent (75%) believe that even if the deal includes tax hikes only on the wealthy, ultimately taxes will be raised on the middle class, too. Still, the majority of voters don’t care much for the way either political party is performing in the debt ceiling debate.
The one issue Democrats do hold an advantage in trust on is education, 42% to 38%. Nineteen percent (19%) aren’t sure which party they trust more, however.
The parties are nearly tied on the issue of Social Security, with Republicans holding a statistically insignificant 42% to 40% lead. In May, Democrats barely edged the GOP on this issue.
Republicans hold a slight 38% to 35% edge in the area of government ethics and corruption, a reversal from the modest lead Democrats held in May. But 27% of voters don’t know who to trust more on this issue.
On immigration, Republicans hold a sizable 47% to 33% advantage, with 21% of voters are undecided.
Two-out-of-three (66%) voters think gaining control of the border is more important than legalizing the status of illegal immigrants already living in America when it comes to immigration reform policy. More voters continue to favor tougher laws against employers who hire illegal immigrants than against landlords who rent to them. But support for strong sanctions against both employers and landlords is at record highs.
As is always the case, Republicans hold the trust advantage when it comes to national security and the War on Terror and the handling of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (108579)7/25/2011 1:00:18 PM
From: lorne3 Recommendations  Respond to of 224750
 
kenny..."Fifty-two percent of Americans think Obama has acted responsibly in the debt ceiling talks so far,"....

That should be just about hussein obama's voting block of welfare and those living off the government and of course illegal immigrants..in other words his paid for voters...is that about right??



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (108579)7/25/2011 1:01:12 PM
From: TideGlider3 Recommendations  Respond to of 224750
 
Health Care Law
57% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law

Health Care Law
57% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law

Monday, July 25, 2011
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Most voters continue to favor repeal of the national health care law, and fewer voters than ever believe the law will be good for the country.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that 57% favor repeal of the health care law passed in March of last year, including 46% who Strongly Favor its repeal. That’s the strongest support for repeal since early May. Thirty-six percent (36%) oppose repeal of the law, including 24% who are Strongly Opposed. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Although it has peaked this week, support for repeal is still little changed from last week. A majority of voters have favored repeal of the measure every week but one since it was passed by Congress in March 2010. During that time, support for repeal has ranged from a low of 47% to as high as 63%.
Thirty-one percent (31%) now think the health care law will be good for the country, the lowest finding since the law's passage. Fifty-three percent (53%) think it will be bad for the country, while three percent (3%) believe it will have no impact. Prior to this survey, belief that the law will be good for the country has ranged from 32% to 41%.
(Want a free daily e-mail update? If it's in the news, it's in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook.

The national telephone survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on July 22-23, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Fifty percent (50%) now say it is at least somewhat likely that the health care law will be repealed, including 16% who say it is Very Likely. Earlier this month, that finding hit a high of 53% but has since fallen back to previous levels. Only 31% consider repeal unlikely, with seven percent (7%) who say it is Not At All Likely.

Most voters (44%) also continue to believe that repeal of the health care law will be good for the economy. Twenty-four percent (24%) think repeal would be bad for the economy, while 17% feel it will have no impact at all. Since the law's passage, voters have consistently tended to believe repeal would be better for the economy than keeping the law in place.

But just 29% say repealing the law would create new jobs. Thirty-six percent (36%) think repeal will not do anything to create more jobs. Nearly as many (34%) are not sure what effect repeal of the law would have on job creation. This is consistent with findings for well over a year.

When it comes to which political party they trust more to handle the issue of health care, voters give a narrow 46% to 43% advantage to Republicans. Before President Obama was elected, Democrats had a huge advantage on this issue. During Election 2010, the advantage switched to the GOP. In May, the parties were essentially tied.

Earlier polling found that voters think less government red tape and more competition are the best ways to bring down health care costs. They also believe letting states compete to determine the most effective standards and guidelines would do more to reduce health care costs than having the federal government involved.



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (108579)7/25/2011 1:08:12 PM
From: lorne2 Recommendations  Respond to of 224750
 
Kenny remember madalene albright's involvement in this...she turned against those very people..The Serbs... who saved her from hitlers death camps during the 2 world war....like any/many lefty democrats cant be trusted and traitorous.

Norway madman triggered by Clinton's bombing on Serbia
Norway suspect: Serbia bombing 'tipped the scales'
By IAN MacDOUGALL and KARL RITTER,
Associated Press
(07-24)
OSLO, Norway (AP) --
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Anders Behring Breivik said he was a boy when his life's path began to turn. It was during the first Gulf War, when a Muslim friend cheered at reports of missile attacks against American forces.
"I was completely ignorant at the time and apolitical but his total lack of respect for my culture (and Western culture in general) actually sparked my interest and passion for it," the suspect in Norway's bombing and mass shooting wrote in his 1,500-page manifesto.
The 32-year-old Norwegian said it was the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999 that "tipped the scales" for him because he sympathized with Serbia's crackdown on ethnic Albanian Muslims in Kosovo. A year later he said he realized that what he called the "Islamization of Europe" couldn't be stopped by peaceful means.
Police and Breivik's lawyer says he confessed to, but denied criminal responsibility for, Friday's bombing at government headquarters in Oslo and the mass shooting later that day at an island summer camp organized by the youth wing of the ruling Labor Party. At least 93 people were killed in the attacks.
Breivik's manifesto chronicled events that deepened his contempt for Muslims and "Marxists" he blamed for making Europe multicultural. He suggested his friends didn't even know what he was up to, and comments from several people who had contact with the quiet blond man indicate he was right.
Jack Levin, a professor at Northeastern University who has written a number of books on mass murderers, said the manifesto helps Breivik show himself as more human.
"It makes the killer look like a victim rather than a villain," Levin said.
From September 2009 through October 2010, Breivik posted more than 70 times on Dokument.no, a Norwegian site with critical views on Islam and immigration. In one comment, he entertained the idea of a European Tea Party movement.
In December of 2009, Breivik showed up at a meeting organized by the website's staff.
"He was a bit strange. As one could see from his postings, he had obviously read a lot but not really digesting it," said Hans Rustad, the editor of the website.
But Rustad said he "hadn't the faintest idea" about Breivik's murderous plans.
"Other people have the same views on the Net and they don't go out and become mass murderers. So how can you tell?" Rustad told The Associated Press.
In the document Breivik styles himself as a Christian conservative, patriot and nationalist. He looks down on neo-Nazis as "underprivileged racist skinheads with a short temper."
Part of Breivik's manifesto was taken almost word for word from the first few pages of the anti-technology manifesto written by "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski, who is in federal prison for mail bombs that killed three people and injured 23 others across the U.S. from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Breivik did not cite Kaczynski, though he did for many other people whose writings he used.
Breivik changed a Kaczynski screed on leftism and what he considered to be leftists'"feelings of inferiority" — mainly by substituting the words "multiculturalism" or "cultural Marxism" for "leftism."
For instance, Kaczynski wrote: "One of the most widespread manifestations of the craziness of our world is leftism, so a discussion of the psychology of leftism can serve as an introduction to the discussion of the problems of modern society in general."
Breivik's manifesto reads: "One of the most widespread manifestations of the craziness of our world is multiculturalism, so a discussion of the psychology of multiculturalists can serve as an introduction to the discussion of the problems of Western Europe in general."
Breivik called his upbringing in a middle-class home in Oslo privileged even though his parents divorced when he was 1 and he lost contact with his father in his teens. His parents split when the family lived in London, where his father, Jens Breivik, was a diplomat at the Norwegian Embassy in London. A spokesman for the embassy, Stein Iversen, confirmed that Jens Breivik was employed at the embassy in the late 1970s, but wouldn't discuss his relationship with the Oslo suspect.
Breivik said both parents supported Norway's center-left Labor Party, which he viewed as infiltrated by Marxists.
His mother won a custody battle, but Breivik said he regularly visited his father and his new wife in France, where they lived, until his father cut off contact when Breivik was 15. The father told Norwegian newspaper VG that they lost touch in 1995, but that it was his son who wanted to cut off contact.
"We've never lived together, but we had some contact in his childhood," the older Breivik, who VG said is now retired in France, was quoted as saying. "When he was young he was an ordinary boy, but reclusive. He wasn't interested in politics at the time."
He learned about Breivik's massacre on the Internet. "I was reading online newspapers and then I suddenly saw his name and picture on the net," he told VG. "It was a shock to find out. I haven't gotten over it yet."
Breivik's mother lives in an ivy-covered brick apartment building in western Oslo, currently protected by police. Neighbors said they hadn't seen her since a few days before the shooting. Police said they've spoken to her and that she didn't know of her son's plans.
In his manifesto, Breivik said he had no negative experiences from his childhood, though he had issues with his mother being a "moderate feminist."
"I do not approve of the super-liberal, matriarchal upbringing though as it completely lacked discipline and has contributed to feminize me to a certain degree," he said.
But Breivik claims he never lacked courage: "If anyone threatened me or my friends, regardless if we were at a disadvantage, we would rather face our foes than submit and lose face." He said that attitude was atypical among ethnic Norwegians, who had a tendency to "sissy out."
In Internet postings attributed to Breivik on Norwegian websites, he blamed Europe's left-wing parties for destroying the continent's Christian heritage by allowing mass immigration of Muslims.
He said he came in contact with like-minded individuals across Europe, and together they formed a military order inspired by the Knights Templar crusaders. Their goal was to seize power in Europe by 2083 in a string of coups d'etat. Norwegian police couldn't say whether the group existed.
Two European security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the investigation said they were familiar with increased Internet chatter from individuals claiming they belonged to a group called the new Knights Templar.
Breivik said he also tried to get engaged in domestic politics, in the Progress Party, an a populist opposition party which calls for stricter immigration controls. He claims he was a popular party member who almost got elected to the Oslo City Council seven years ago.
"That's just something he imagined," said Joeran Kallmyr, whom Breivik described as his "rival" in the party.
Breivik attended only five or six party meetings during those two years and left the party quietly, said Kallmyr, now a vice mayor of Oslo.
"He was very quiet, almost shy. He seemed like a well-educated man. He was very well dressed and very polite. He wore a tie all the time," Kallmyr said. "I couldn't see any signs that he was coming apart."
Kallmyr said he only had one conversation with Breivik, a forgettable chat about Breivik's business. According to Breivik's manifesto, he was the director of Anders Behring Breivik ENK at the time, a business he describes as a "front" and a "milking cow" to finance "resistance/liberation related military operations."
He describes elsewhere in the document how he used his own companies to secure bank loans and credit to fund his attack.
Breivik, who detailed his preparations for the attacks in eerie detail, also anticipated the hostility he would face, even from his friends and family, if he survived his "mission" and was brought to trial.
Levin said that part could be part of the motivation for the manifesto.
"He talks about visiting prostitutes and taking steroids. Why would he say such negative things about himself? I think what he's doing is — this humanizes him," Levin said. "He's trying to tell people he's not a monster, that he's a person with frailties and weaknesses like everybody else."



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (108579)7/25/2011 4:32:33 PM
From: jlallen3 Recommendations  Respond to of 224750
 
lol

CNN???