Monday, October 8, 2012
Pew Center Poll
A new Pew Research Center poll states that President Obama's lead has been wiped out due to Romney's performance at the first debate. From Pew "Romney is seen as the candidate who has new ideas and is viewed as better able than Obama to improve the jobs situation and reduce the budget deficit." And maybe worse news for Obama as the report states "More generally, the poll finds Romney’s supporters far more engaged in the campaign than they were in September." Looks like Romney has revitalized his supporters!
Sunday, October 7, 2012
$4.65 per gallon?`
Ouch! Gas prices in CA rose to $4.65 per gallon!
Wonder how this will play out as we know the prices are coming our way.
Wonder how this will play out as we know the prices are coming our way.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Romney Wins Debate
Most are saying that Romney won last night's debate but many are saying that much of what he stated was untrue or a reversal of previous statements.
Obama was not on the attack and failed to mention many of the things that his campaign has brought out regarding Romney. The 47% comment was never mentioned. "It was as if he left his campaign’s best attack lines in a folder backstage."
I would think that Romney may have pulled some undecided voters his way. My favorite Romney line:" Look, I've got five boys. I'm used to people saying something that's not always true, but just keep on repeating it and ultimately hoping I'll believe it." Rings true for me!
From the Washington Post: "Mitt Romney finally found his voice Wednesday night. After many months of awkward moments and shifting campaign messages, he forcefully and confidently stood alongside President Obama and offered an alternative economic vision to what he called Obama’s “trickle-down government approach.”
From the Huffington Post, The Etch-A-Sketch Debate: "We know who he is. He believes in more tax breaks for the wealthy, less regulation on the corporations, more corporate trade deals, more money for the military, deep and debilitating cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, and every domestic program. The full catastrophe that got us into the mess we are in. But he's prepared to abandon that agenda to sell it, and to do so without even a glimmer of conscience that he forcefully argued the reverse last month."
If anyone cares, Sarah Palin called the night a victory for Romney and felt sorry for Obama: " "I almost felt sorry for him in his role as president trying to explain why we need to repeat four more years of failed policies. I thought this was Romney’s night. Romney did very well and he was able to articulate well why it is that someone with great business experience is what we need to turn this economy around.”
From the Washington Post, Presidential Debate: Two candidates on stage, two different ones on campaign trail "Wednesday’s presidential debate was a tale of four candidates: the two men who stood on the stage for 90 minutes and the two rivals Americans have seen for months on the campaign trail and in television commercials. There was no comparison."
Let the Fact Checking begin!
Washington Post
Dubious Denver Debate Declarations, from Factcheck.org
Obama was not on the attack and failed to mention many of the things that his campaign has brought out regarding Romney. The 47% comment was never mentioned. "It was as if he left his campaign’s best attack lines in a folder backstage."
I would think that Romney may have pulled some undecided voters his way. My favorite Romney line:" Look, I've got five boys. I'm used to people saying something that's not always true, but just keep on repeating it and ultimately hoping I'll believe it." Rings true for me!
From the Washington Post: "Mitt Romney finally found his voice Wednesday night. After many months of awkward moments and shifting campaign messages, he forcefully and confidently stood alongside President Obama and offered an alternative economic vision to what he called Obama’s “trickle-down government approach.”
From the Huffington Post, The Etch-A-Sketch Debate: "We know who he is. He believes in more tax breaks for the wealthy, less regulation on the corporations, more corporate trade deals, more money for the military, deep and debilitating cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, and every domestic program. The full catastrophe that got us into the mess we are in. But he's prepared to abandon that agenda to sell it, and to do so without even a glimmer of conscience that he forcefully argued the reverse last month."
If anyone cares, Sarah Palin called the night a victory for Romney and felt sorry for Obama: " "I almost felt sorry for him in his role as president trying to explain why we need to repeat four more years of failed policies. I thought this was Romney’s night. Romney did very well and he was able to articulate well why it is that someone with great business experience is what we need to turn this economy around.”
From the Washington Post, Presidential Debate: Two candidates on stage, two different ones on campaign trail "Wednesday’s presidential debate was a tale of four candidates: the two men who stood on the stage for 90 minutes and the two rivals Americans have seen for months on the campaign trail and in television commercials. There was no comparison."
Let the Fact Checking begin!
Washington Post
Dubious Denver Debate Declarations, from Factcheck.org
Sports News, briefly…
Before I get to the election, I had to blog about Miguel Cabrera’s feat of winning Baseball’s Triple Crown, the first winner since 1967! Congratulations!
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Bias in the media
Does NPR have a Liberal Bias? I'm not sure but I do agree with this quote from David Carr of the NYTimes:
"Many in Congress, including Mr. DeMint, have argued that NPR’s serving of news comes with a heaping side dish of squishy liberal ideology. And that’s true to a point. In terms of assignments and sensibility, NPR has always been more blue than red, but it’s not as if it has an overt political agenda. Working in public broadcasting probably disposes you to certain kinds of government assistance — to public broadcasting, for example."
Question: do you think you can detect bias in the reporting of an issue you don't care about? Well....No. I'm not sure I would be able to. I'm not sure I can detect bias in the reporting of an issue I do care about. I may just object to the information and ignore it.
"Many in Congress, including Mr. DeMint, have argued that NPR’s serving of news comes with a heaping side dish of squishy liberal ideology. And that’s true to a point. In terms of assignments and sensibility, NPR has always been more blue than red, but it’s not as if it has an overt political agenda. Working in public broadcasting probably disposes you to certain kinds of government assistance — to public broadcasting, for example."
Question: do you think you can detect bias in the reporting of an issue you don't care about? Well....No. I'm not sure I would be able to. I'm not sure I can detect bias in the reporting of an issue I do care about. I may just object to the information and ignore it.
Lots of folks think there is bias in the media and the call is out to tune out the liberal media.
From a Fox News story:
From a Fox News story:
More than 20 Prominent Conservative Leaders Call on Public to Tune out the Liberal Media!
In a letter posted on Media Research Center (America's Media Watchdog!) site, the conservative leaders claim the established media are "out of control with a deliberate and unmistakable leftist agenda."
Fox News states regarding the liberal media "To put it bluntly you are rigging this election and taking sides in order to pre-determine the outcome."
Just when we thought no one cared about foreign policy…
Post Debate: I see that the debate tonight was on domestic policy only. Oh well... so much for my blog post. Waiting on the NEXT debate! I've been dealing, as Romney has, with my lying teenage boys.
What will be said about Benghazi, Libya in the debate tonight? We’ve heard little about foreign policy but this could change.
What will be said about Benghazi, Libya in the debate tonight? We’ve heard little about foreign policy but this could change.
Per Bloomberg.com: “That attack by what is now believed to be al-Qaida-linked militants has become fraught with election-year politics as Republicans accuse administration officials of dissembling in the early aftermath on what they knew about the perpetrators and for lax security at the diplomatic mission in a lawless part of post-revolution Libya.”
And from the NYTimes: “The Obama administration sidestepped Al Qaeda ties in the case of the Libyan attack to perpetuate the narrative that the president had decimated Al Qaeda when Osama bin Laden was killed, and to preclude allegations that they were asleep at the switch on the anniversary of 9/11. Better to blame it all on a spontaneous protest to an anti-Islam video on YouTube.”
Does any of this bring Jimmy Carter to mind? Some think so, such as this article on the “JimmyCarter Strategy”
Is Paul Ryan Right that Obama’s Foreign Policy is Blowing Up in Our Faces?
And, last...
Eager to watch the debates tonight! Not sure why the colors are off on my text. Blog help!
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