New Quinnipiac poll finally has a tiny bit of good news for beleaguered Democratic Governor Jon Corzine. Corzine still has a dismal approval rating (36%) and still trails his Republican challenger Chris Christie by a wide margin (9 points), but both numbers are up slightly from Quinnipiac's survey last month.
Christie (R) 51 (-2 vs. last poll in July)
Corzine (D) 42 (+1)
Overall, Christie now leads Corzine by 12.1% in the RCP Average.
Corzine's 36% approval rating is a three point improvement from last month, while his disapproval rating dropped two points to 58%.
These slight improvements come amid one of the biggest corruption busts in New Jersey history. According to the Quinnipiac survey, 71% of voters say corruption is a "very serious problem" in New Jersey, with another 22% declaring it a "somewhat serious problem." Additionally, when asked which party is more associated with the corruption issue, 50% said the Democrats, while only 15% said Republicans and 34% said they didn't know.
Despite those numbers, when asked if the recent arrest of many New Jersey Democrats on corruption charges made them less inclined to vote for Corzine, 67% said "no" while only 28% said "yes."
Lastly, Corzine does lead Christie by six points (42-36) on the all important question "who would you rather spend an afternoon at the Sandy Hook beach with?"
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Funny, because the health care supporters and the tactics they are using to silent people and strong arm them into submission remind me of the nazis.
New poll in Nevada by Vitale & Associates (July 29-30, 510 LV, MoE +/-4.4%) shows incumbent Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid losing by six points to Sue Lowden, chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party, 44-38, with 10% undecided.
Pollster Todd Vitale said the most telling numbers might be the ones related to Reid.
In three Reid-related categories -- image, approval and whether they would vote to re-elect -- respondents gave the senator a thumbs down. Just 39 percent viewed Reid favorably, and 34 percent said they would vote to re-elect him.
"All of those are very, very telling pieces of information," said Vitale, who has been a pollster for 15 years. "I've never seen an incumbent with numbers this bad who hadn't had some scandal."
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...You know, I've been saying since the 2000 elections that we're going to see a (D)incumbent at the national level (Congress/Senate/President)who is going to lose - and lose big - and refuse to leave office.
Any takers on whether or not Reid will be the guy?
Mike
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Favorable rating below 50% is very bad news for any incumbent. 39% is death.
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Peloski has been shooting her mouth off like crazy but Reed has been pretty quite. He knows now is not the time to give his opponent ammunition for the coming race.
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Smartest thing Harry could do is give up being Senate Majority Leader and spend the next year working on his image back home.
Since it's the smartest thing he could do, he won't do it.
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Searchlight Nevada misses its' Village Idiot
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Speaking of village idiot has anyone seen or heard from our vice prez???
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Have Reid represent your state in the Senate is almost as embarrassing as Franken.
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Lowden is a former Miss New Jersey and Miss America runner-up. If Lowden is any good, she might be the Republican to walk through the door that Sarah Palin opened up.
The Obama administration is proposing to scale back a long-standing ban on tracking how people use government Internet sites with "cookies" and other technologies, raising alarms among privacy groups.
A two-week public comment period ended Monday on a proposal by the White House Office of Management and Budget to end a ban on federal Internet sites using such technologies and replace it with other privacy safeguards. The current prohibition, in place since 2000, can be waived if an agency head cites a "compelling need."
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Following Barry's democratic town hall meeting today, many evil doctors and surgeons had better watch out. In another rare Joe Biden moment, Barry alluded to "those unneeded foot amputations of diabetes patients as opposed to medical professionals providing badly needed preventative treatment."
The White House disagreed this afternoon with the contention by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, that the disruptions at town hall meetings are "un-American," as the Democratic congressional leaders contended in a USA Today op-ed this morning.
"I think there's actually a pretty long tradition of people shouting at politicians in America," White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton told reporters on Air Force One when asked about the comments....
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"under the bus, b*tch"
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Ask the White House if the protests are unbecoming of New S0cia1ist Man.
PS. Any reason why "S0cia1ist" is blocked?
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Nancy is in a safe district. Someone at that White House can't be sure of that for all districts [or at least 50.01 percent of those needed in 3 more years].
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Search for "MSNBC Anchor: ''S0cia1ist' Is Becoming the New N-word'" from Newsbusters.org. Can't link it since the Word That Must Not Be Mentioned is part of the link.
Newspeak is alive and well.
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Thanks Excalibur.
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"MSNBC Anchor: ''S0cia1ist' Is Becoming the New N-word'"
If it swims like a duck, flies like a duck, waddles like a duck and quacks like duck, it's a duck. Redistribution not based upon free economy but government dictation it is. The real question is why they shy away from embracing the title if they believe their agenda is so good for America? /rhetorical question.
Know what I think is un-American, that these elected Congress critters are not required by law to participate in at least 40 hours of open participant forums in order to qualify their position in office. Every - Single - Year.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said she would back another big stimulus package if unemployment remains high.
And if New York gets enough to cover its state budget deficit ...
Gillibrand, in an interview Saturday with North Country Public Radio, said she could support another stimulus between $500 billion and $700 billion to help put people back to work. She said she wouldn't be surprised if lawmakers make a "second investment" to follow the $787 billion stimulus passed in February if jobs keep disappearing.
Where the money comes from she doesn't know ... maybe pixies ...
"My view is if we don't have the recovery that we're looking for in the next year and a half, [another stimulus] is something I would certainly look at, and you probably want it to be on a significant magnitude if you need it," she said.
Gillibrand said she could back more money spent on energy and infrastructure projects, which could help all of New York. She added, however, that the need for another big jobs bill will depend on how well the $787 billion package works over the next few months.
While several House Democrats have said they're open to another stimulus, the Obama administration and Senate leaders have largely avoided the topic. Like Gillibrand, the White House and top Democrats in Congress have said that the current stimulus needs to be given more time to work.
Though the unemployment rate fell from 9.5 percent in June to 9.4 percent last month, Gillibrand said more job losses could come. "I don't think we've seen exactly how high unemployment will necessarily go," she said.
The rate dropped in July for the first time in 15 months, but much of the decline was due to Americans leaving the workforce. In July, the labor force shrank by 422,000 people. In June, just 122,000 had stopped looking for jobs.
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.) said Congress should pass his proposed $500 billion surface transportation authorization bill to create more jobs. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who has backed Oberstar's bill, said that it could serve as stimulus should one be needed later this year.
But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said last month that he didn't see the need for another stimulus package when just 10 percent of the $787 billion act had taken effect.
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How about giving each family of four $130,000, the cost of Obama's deficits. Though most will just blow it on food, fuel and other luxuries.
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You've pissed away the better part of 1 TRILLION dollars. You do not get a mulligan.
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Considering that relatively little of the $787 B has been spent yet, why in hell would anyone say we need a second package? The best thing to do would be to repeal what's left of the first and eliminate other spending. That would send a message and get things rolling.
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Where the money comes from she doesn't know ... maybe pixies ...
Donks are basically Economic Creationists. They believe value/capital magically appears out of thin air [or off of printing presses or at the push of a computer button].
NEW Jersey's incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine thinks Republican challenger Chris Christie, who's clobbering him in the polls, is hiding something.
A press release sent out by Corzine, a former US senator as well as the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, accuses Christie, a major fund-raiser for George W. Bush, of failing to comply with his campaign's efforts to obtain basic information about Christie's stint as the Garden State's US attorney.
According to the release, more than 20 requests for Christie's budget, travel expenditures, and no-bid contracts made under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) have gone unfilled. Jersey State Sen. Loretta Weinberg, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, says, "Mr. Christie's campaign Web site says he will demand greater transparency and accountability in government. So why doesn't he start with himself? What's he hiding?"
According to the most recent polls, Corzine trails Christie by anywhere from 8 to 14 percentage points.
One Republican operative tells Page Six, "It's more than a little ironic that Corzine is going on and on about transparency here after what happened with Carla Katz," referring to the governor's ex-girlfriend, the former head of New Jersey's Communication Workers Union.
In May of 2008, New Jersey Superior Court ruled that 745 pages of e-mail correspondence between Corzine and Katz should be made public in light of complaints that their relationship might have impacted negotiations between Corzine's administration and state labor unions, but his lawyers appealed the decision. Katz dated Corzine for two years before splitting in 2004.
Still, a Jersey Democratic operative said, "Everyone's wondering what's in the documents that the Corzine campaign requested." A Christie campaign rep said, "The campaign has nothing to do with fulfilling FOIA requests, and as such these requests are in the hands of the Justice Department."
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U.S. Rep. John Dingell was greeted with jeers and cheers Thursday as he tried to explain why changing the nation's health care system -- as he has advocated for more than a half century in Congress -- makes sense.
Despite what some protesters said, "there will be no payment of taxpayer funds for abortion," Dingell, 83, told the crowd.
But you aren't in charge ...
As Dingell opened the forum, Mike Sola of Milan interrupted the congressman as he pushed his son, Scott, in a wheelchair, to the podium. He said proposed changes wouldn't help Scott and called Dingell a fraud.
Even before the Romulus town hall began, opponents engaged backers. "You may be dead in five years!" shouted Val Butsicaris, 60, of Taylor. "They may euthanize you!" She referred to concerns of government rationing of care for elderly people.
Mel Hoffer, 67, of Monroe, a retired Ford quality control worker, said he supports reforms because the country needs it. There's no assurance autoworkers will continue to get health care they now have. "We don't know what's going to happen."
Earlier in Troy, several hundred protesters gathered outside the office of U.S. Rep. Gary Peters.
The news release announcing the town hall wasn't issued until Thursday morning, but by 6 p.m., when U.S. Rep. John Dingell's meeting in Romulus began, the word was out and hundreds of people showed up, many intent on disruption.
Scott Hagerstrom, the Michigan director for Americans for Prosperity -- a group opposing President Barack Obama's health care initiative -- said that after he learned about it, he sent an e-mail alerting 18,000 members in southeast Michigan.
Dingell, 83, the dean of Congress and a man passionate about changing health care in America since first being elected in 1955, wasn't deterred by protests that had occurred at similar events around the nation, including one in Petoskey on Wednesday.
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Dingell, 83, the dean of Congress..
A professional politician [ie someone who's a professional at spending other people's money]. Term limits [you failed big time Newt].
550 Million Slated for Purchase of Eight More Planes as Lawmakers' Travel Soars
Congress plans to spend $550 million to buy eight jets, a substantial upgrade to the fleet used by federal officials at a time when lawmakers have criticized the use of corporate jets by companies receiving taxpayer funds.
The purchases will help accommodate growing travel demand by congressional officials. The planes augment a fleet of about two dozen passenger jets maintained by the Air Force for lawmakers, administration officials and military chiefs to fly on government trips in the U.S. and abroad.
Lawmakers in the House last week added funds to buy those planes, and plus funds to buy an additional two 737s and two Gulfstream V planes. The purchases must still be approved by the Senate. The Air Force version of the Gulfstream V each costs $66 million, according to the Department of Defense, and the 737s cost about $70 million.
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I heard on the radio this morning that some folks are having second thoughts, especially if the DoD really doesn't want them. [hint, hint]
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From Newsmax. No link. Murtha, again!
"If the Department of Defense does not want these aircraft, they will be eliminated from the bill," said Rep. John Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat who chairs the panel that approved the additional spending.
A spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she supported the decision, which was expected to face resistance in the Senate.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
New Quinnipiac poll finally has a tiny bit of good news for beleaguered Democratic Governor Jon Corzine. Corzine still has a dismal approval rating (36%) and still trails his Republican challenger Chris Christie by a wide margin (9 points), but both numbers are up slightly from Quinnipiac's survey last month.
