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To: i-node who wrote (673054)9/12/2012 6:09:07 AM
From: puborectalis  Read Replies (5) | Respond to of 1578762
 
Democratic National Convention Moves Consumers

It appears that the spark for the dramatic rise in Americans' economic confidence last week was the Democratic National Convention. A review of Gallup's nightly tracking results shows that the index was consistently near or below -25 each night in late August and early September, but then sharply improved on Sept. 4, the first night of the convention, to -18.

Confidence then held at or near -18 through Sunday, despite the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' mixed August unemployment report Friday morning showing continued weak jobs growth.

More specifically, the convention appears to have given Democrats and, to a lesser degree, independents, fresh optimism about the economy. Democrats' confidence for the week spanning the convention averaged +24, up 17 points from +7 the prior week. Confidence was up 13 points among independents, but was virtually unchanged among Republicans.




To: i-node who wrote (673054)9/12/2012 12:03:03 PM
From: tejek  Respond to of 1578762
 
> Well, now one winger pundit is starting to get it.

Apparently, that went over your head.

Her point was that obama is such an incompetent that if a R. can't win in this environment it is time to start over. I agree.


I understand what she said...............and she got part of it right.........the second half of her statement. I've been telling you the same thing for years now. And I am not on the teevee. ;)



To: i-node who wrote (673054)9/12/2012 1:46:29 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 1578762
 
Win Or Disband

I don’t know that there is any connection between what I’m about to write about and Mitt Romney’s risky and clumsy attacks on the president over the events in Cairo and Benghazi, but it does make you wonder….

Here in its entirety is Dylan Byers’ Politico post late yesterday on a new batch of threats from leading conservative gabbers that a loss on November 6 would justify a dissolution of the GOP:

Leading conservative talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham are both arguing that the Republican party will or should be shut down if Mitt Romney loses in November — an idea that, however hard to believe, gives you an indication of the right wing’s dissatisfaction with the Republican party.
“If you can’t beat Barack Obama with this record, then shut down the party. Shut it down, start new, with new people. Because this is a gimme election, or at least it should be,” Ingraham said on her radio program yesterday. “Election after election, we hire people who have lost previous campaigns, who have run campaigns that have failed, who have messaged campaigns where the message fell flat, and they keep getting re-hired.”
Where Ingraham made an argument, Limbaugh made a prediction: The Republicans would fall, but not before blaming the conservative base for their woes and opening a window for a third, more conservative party to take their place. he said.
“The only problem is, right now Romney’s not running a conservative campaign. But they’re gonna set it up to say, ‘Well, the right sat home,’ or, ‘The right made Romney be other than who he is.’ They’ll try to deflect the blame, but they got who they want.”
Wow. Not to be outdone, Sarah Palin told Bill O’Reilly yesterday that she agreed with this warning to Rolmney, noting Ingraham’s threats and saying:
“I couldn’t have said it better myself.”
She also offered these suggestions to Mitt:

Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly asked the former Alaska governor on Tuesday if Romney’s campaign — which has come under fire from Republicans — needs to go after Obama in a
“more personal way” and use buzzwords like “incompetent, dangerous, socialist.”“Those aren’t just buzzwords,” said Palin. “Those are accurate descriptions of the commander in chief.”“He should be very aggressive, and he should be adamant in his attacks on Obama’s record, which is so dismal, his plan, or lack of a plan of Obama’s, to get his out of these woeful times,” Palin continued. “He needs to be severely aggressive.”
That’s an interesting choice of words aimed at the man who once boasted to a CPAC audience that he was a “severely conservative” governor of Massachusetts.

by Ed Kilgore