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Electorate Wises Up on Obama
Part One of Three By Dave Andrusko Good evening, and thanks for taking time to read Today's News & Views. Part Two brings you the second installment in Dr. Randall K. O'Bannon's analysis of the deaths of two more women who took RU486. In Part Three Wesley Smith discusses the attempts to compel hospice to get involved in physician-prescribed suicide. Over at National Right to Life News Today (www.nationalrighttolifenews.org), there is the latest installment in the war against CPCs. Jonathan Rogers encourages pro-lifers to be politically active while Marie Rivers reminds you there is still time to help the NRL Educational Trust Fund through CFC. Please send your comments on Today's News & Views and National Right to Life News Today to daveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like, join those who are following me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/daveha.
How about the subjective/personal elements? Even if there were no hard numbers you can almost intuit when the electorate has had enough. All of us use as reference points a handful of people we know who used to feel one way but who have now come 180 degrees. I can't begin to tell you how many people I know who swooned for pro-abortion Barack Obama and who couldn't wait to "give him a Congress he can work with," who now have no use for him. And the more objective stuff? Well, we've written dozens and dozens of stories that reinforce the same three points. 1. Republicans are gung-ho, Democrats are hanging on, and Independents who went for Obama and his fellow pro-abortion Democrats in 2008 now favor the GOP. 2. ObamaCare is like a heavy-duty chain around the ankles and almost all Democrats are either bragging that they didn't vote for it or are looking for chain-cutters. 3. The more Obama tries to pin the blame on others (including flat-out lying), the more even his most loyal followers are repelled. But the real signal is when your most loyal voters start to abandon ship. Take these amazing opening paragraphs from today's News York Daily News. "Barack Obama is no longer the big man on campus," writes Aliyah Shahid. "College students' support for the President is waning -- a worrying sign for Democrats who are trying to reenergize young voters before the midterm elections, which are just three weeks away. "Just 44% approve of the job Obama is doing, while 27% said they are unhappy with his job performance, according to a new Associated Press-mtvU poll. That's a significant dip from the 60% who gave the president high marks in a May 2009 poll. Only 15% of college goers had a negative opinion of him back then. "And if 2008 is any indication, the Democrats need young voters. During that presidential race, nearly one in eight voters cast their ballots for the first time. Exit polls showed 55% of new voters were age 18-24, and those young first-timers strongly supported the Democrats." So, we know how much the kids love Obama. Actually less than we thought! But the polling result that truly shocked me, and may play a huge role in less than three weeks, came from the newspaper, The Hill. What has been the dominate narrative of a gazillion stories? That the GOP has been taken over by crazies. Here's the headline from Alexander Bolton's story today: "POLL: Voters more likely to see Dems as dominated by extremists." He writes, "Likely voters in battleground districts see extremists as having a more dominant influence over the Democratic Party than they do over the GOP. This result comes from The Hill 2010 Midterm Election Poll, which found that 44 percent of likely voters say the Democratic Party is more dominated by its extreme elements, whereas 37 percent say it's the Republican Party that is more dominated by extremists. "The revelations in a survey of 10 toss-up congressional districts across the country point to problems for Democrats, who are trying to motivate a disillusioned base and appeal to independents moving to the GOP ahead of the Nov. 2 election." Wow! You can read this story at http://thehill.com/house-polls/thehill-poll-week-2/124177-the-hill-poll-swing-district-voters-more-likely-to-see-dems-as-dominated-by-extremists. You can Shahid's story at http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/10/14/2010-10-14_president_barack_obamas_support_among_college_students_waning_before_2010_midter.html |
When
can you tell there is a real groundswell of change in the offing? There are
as many answers to that as there are reasons to feel good right about now.