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Post subject: One year later ... has changed nothing in politics.
Posted: Tue 03 Nov , 2009 9:27 pm
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It has been one year since the election of Barack Obama as President of the USA. Obama was elected with 52.9% of the popular vote. For our purposes lets call it 53. One year later, CNN has a new poll out measuring support for the job President Obama is doing.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/03/obama.poll/
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Fifty-four percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Tuesday approve of how Obama is handling his duties as president, with 45 percent saying they disapprove.
"Obama's approval rating of 54 percent is nearly identical to the 53 percent of the vote he won a year ago," notes CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "And in nearly every demographic category, the percent that approve of Obama today is within two to three points of the percent who voted for him in 2008. It's a different story when we turn to ideology. His approval rating among liberals is 7 points higher than the number of liberals who voted for him. But among conservatives, the number who like Obama today is down 10 points compared to his share of the vote among that group in 2008."
So after one year, after ten months of Republican NO NO NO NO, after Fox News 365/24/7 war on his administration, after Tea bagger parties and protests, after phony town hall protests engineered by big health care companies, after rumors of death panels and other lies ..... one year later, Barack Obama has virtually the same support he did one year ago when he was elected.

So what does this say about American politics today?

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Posted: Wed 04 Nov , 2009 4:48 am
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I don't know, but if you watch the major news networks today you'd think that today's elections were the deciding factors for Obama, the Democrats, the Republicans, the desire for change, etc, etc, etc. Slow news days suck.

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Posted: Wed 04 Nov , 2009 12:35 pm
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I think the election results from last night are further evidence that nothing has changed. GOP victories in the governors races in Virginia and New jersey are the result of historical trends going back 30 years in Va. and 20 in Jersey. The party out of the White House wins the governors office there every time. Governors races are so much more about local issues than they are national issues and in both cases the Dems had candidates who could have been stronger.

The Dems scored big victories in the only two House of Representatives districts yesterday - the one in upstate New York and again in San Francisco. So its a 2 to 2 tie in the big races. What the republicans did to themselves in the New York race will be looked at under a microscope for a while. It should be a warning that you cannot go hard to the right - but that warning will be ignored by the Republicans who seem to have a deathwish to repeat the Goldwater fiasco of 1964. I guess in New York they thought Hoffmans movie idol good looks and smooth speaking skills could overcome his not living in the district. I have rarely seen a more unappealing candidate in this day of TV exposure. The guy may have had pure conservative credentials but he was a disaster as far as being a good candidate. Watching him trying to deliver a line in a speech was painful. While the winning candidate spent the last three weeks talking about local issues, Hoffman talked about national ideology and dissing his republican opponent. It looks like both that strategy and Hoffman himself did not go over well with the locals.

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Posted: Wed 04 Nov , 2009 3:44 pm
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I'm happy to know that the Democrat won in upstate NY. That is quite a historic event. First Dem since before the Civil War. I agree with you on the Republican implosion there. Local elections definitely don't care about the larger Rep/Dem fight and local Reps and Dems are even necessarily atypical of their party. I wonder how Prop 1 did....

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Posted: Wed 04 Nov , 2009 11:21 pm
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Prop 1 failed. Maine no longer supports gay marriage.

Interesting...

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