If Obama Loses Florida...
Rob Long ·
September 22, 2011 at 7:55pm
...2012 starts to look a lot harder for him. From today's Quinnipiac Poll of registered Florida voters:
All Florida voters disapprove 57 - 39 percent of the job President Barack Obama is doing, his worst score in any Quinnipiac University poll in any state. In possible 2012 presidential matchups, Romney tops the president 47 - 40 percent while Perry gets 42 percent to Obama's 44 percent, a dead heat. In the August 4 Florida poll, Romney and Obama were deadlocked 44 - 44 percent while the president led Perry 44 - 39 percent.
Obama does not deserve a second term, Florida voters say 53 - 41 percent.
Of course, he can claw his way back. But to start the cycle that far back, with that decisive a rejection by the voters in a key state? You almost feel sorry for the guy.
Almost.
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Jul '10
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"You almost feel sorry for the guy."
There's that "squish" again. Perhaps another round with Ann Coulter is called for.
Dec '10
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Way back in my college days, I went on a double-date to a Chinese restaurant. We ordered kung pao chicken, and the other guy picked up a dried chile pepper, asking, "What's this?" We all told him not to eat it, that it was a dried pepper and very hot, and he smirked and popped it in his mouth. A moment later he was desperately gulping ice water.
I didn't feel sorry for him then for the same reason I don't feel sorry for Obama now. Both of those guys were given ample warning that what they planned to do was going to end up with pain and regret for them, and both of them laughed at the people warning them.
The difference between the two is that the guy I knew back in college demonstrated some humility and willingness to learn as a result of his mistake. Obama seems immune to experience-based learning: his preferred methods of dealing with setbacks are to deflect blame and to attempt to revise his messaging with more credible spokespersons (as in replacing Rahm Emanuel with William Daley as chief of staff).
Jun '10
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Chew on this Pres/VP combination: Mitt Romney/ Norm Coleman.
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Gag me with a spoon!
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Rob, you should add Nevada to the list. In the recent Congressional race there, the shfit in the direction of the Republicans between 2008 (Obama vs. McCain) and the latest race was 22%. This one is the Republicans to lose.
Jul '10
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Not even almost, Rob.
Jul '10
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And he shouldn't let the door hit'em on the way out, that feckless crap weasel!!!
Dec '10
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But remember that the special Congressional election in Nevada excluded Las Vegas, where the unions manufacture whatever votes they need (see Harry Reid's most recent re-election).
In the Supreme Court election in Wisconsin, the Republicans (by design or accident) did something very smart: they failed to report votes for Prosser in a timely manner and allowed the Democrats to shoot for a false target in the number of votes they had to manufacture. Then, when the Democrats confidently said, "we found the votes to defeat Prosser," the elections clerk for a Republican county piped up and said, "Oh, wait: we didn't yet report our full results." Once those results put Prosser over the top, it was too late for Milwaukee and other Democrat county clerks to make more new votes without being detected.
Sep '10
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Rob Long: You almost feel sorry for the guy.
Almost. ·
The ones I feel sorry for are we, the tax payers, who will have to support the bum for the rest of his life with a pension, and who will have to provide security.
Jan '11
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For me, Obama will be a test case on the power of money and organization. As Haley Barbour mentioned in the podcast, Obama has nothing going for him ... except money and organization. He has a billion dollars, and union help.
Which is kind of like saying that gangs have nothing going for them except violence and the willingness to use it.
Not only is Obama a disaster, what's worse is that he's also out of ideas. It's scary to realize that he's already shot all the arrows in his quiver, and every arrow was slanted and wildly missed the target. America wants four more years of job speeches like the last one?
That's why he presents such a stark laboratory experiment on the power of money. Of all the things that money can't buy, Obama has none of them (leadership, vision, honor, integrity ... or even an adequate record). But of the things that money can buy, he's going to have plenty.
What will win? Character or muscle? 2012 is such a stark contrast!
May '10
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Stuart Creque
Then, when the Democrats confidently said, "we found the votes to defeat Prosser," the elections clerk for a Republican county piped up and said, "Oh, wait: we didn't yet report our full results." Once those results put Prosser over the top, it was too late for Milwaukee and other Democrat county clerks to make more new votes without being detected. · Sep 22 at 12:28pm
I don't think that sequence is right - it was an accident, not a ploy. It was a Democrat official who made a mistake on the PC she used to manage the results, and under-reported one district. The fact that it had been a Democrat made it harder for a fuss to be created (particularly since Ann Althouse had already reported that there must be some votes missing, because the numbers didn't tally). And that is a better situation - more gaming of the system is not the solution.
Jul '10
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The security duties will be shared by the United Nations when he is secretary-general.
Jun '10
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Paul A. Rahe
Gag me with a spoon! · Sep 22 at 12:00pm
I wasn't endorsing. I was predicting based on today's news. Coleman is from New York, he's smart, was a mayor and US Senator from the Midwest, is Jewish, is a lawyer, and can be an effective attack dog (with class) when necessary. Romney might be planning ahead.
Jan '11
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For the self-anointed savior of our immortal souls and the planet itself?
I think not.