Who’s winning the GOP primaries? Not who you’d expect. The kind of story we love: http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/09/election/2012/obama-gop-campaign/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
According to this, Obama is dangerously left wing. This may hamper his efforts to attract independents and moderate democrats. Do you think a suitable solution is establishing a national Ayn Rand day, or perhaps hosting a sudden death match where two departmental heads have to duel to the death? Perhaps reinstating feudalism would satiate the more traditional crowd?
All interesting ideas, but I think you may be looking for the Ask a Senior Gingrich Aide thread. The President’s numbers are now up among independents, and from the polling I’ve seen, moderate Democrats never left him.
The President is up over both Romney and Santorum in the latest CNN poll: http://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/27/obama-up-in-new-poll/?iref=obinsite
And good news for him out of Virginia: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/20/obama-leads-gop-in-battleground-virginia/
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The President is commited to seeing that everyone who is eligible to vote is able to actually cast a vote, and that every valid vote cast is actually counted.
But not that every vote is valid?
Did you not read both the words “valid” and “eligible” in that sentence?
Now the Pubs are reaching one step back further in the process – they’re passing laws to discourage voter-registration drives. What are you going to do about that?
Your quote tags are in the wrong place, BrainGlutton.
Mr. Campaign Aide, what’s up with your guy coming over all vague when preemptively accusing SCOTUS of judicial activism?
Well, if he wants to encourage eligible voters to cast votes and that every valid vote is counted, that implies that some eligible voters will cast invalid votes. To be really pedantic, the President probably wants every eligible voter to cast a valid vote and every valid vote from an eligible voter to be counted. Though the latter half of that may be tautological if a vote has to be cast by an eligible voter in order to be valid, but can be invalid in other ways.
So does “eligible” mean the same thing as “valid”?
That previous question was not meant to be cute. It seems like a technically eligible voter could cast a ballot for somebody else. One doesn’t really know if the vote is valid if you don’t know that the person who cast is not just eligible but is the person on the rolls entitled to cast that vote.
The President would veto such a bill if presented to him by Congress. He obviously has no control over state action of this kind, but would discourage passage of such bills, and direct the Department of Justice to take a close look to ensure that no one’s constitutional rights were violated. Filing a lawsuit and seeking an injunction could follow.
Unemployment is down, the stock market is up, and car sales are surging. Life is good.
Meanwhile, Romney says Obama spent too much time at Harvard… a year less than Romney himself did. The stoopid, it burns!: Mitt Romney: Obama 'Spent Too Much Time At Harvard,' Also A Year Less Than I Did | HuffPost Latest News
Bah, he couldn’t even be bothered to get the Dept. of Justice to go after the guys on Wall Street who screwed the economy. I doubt he’d bother with something like that … might make him look like a liberal.
Romney spent time at Harvard but he didn’t inhale.
Well, even if you disagree with his politics, you’ve just gotta admire that kind of lung control.
More good polling news for Team Obama, now that Romney is pretty much The Last Republican Candidate Standing: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/16/cnn-poll-gender-gap-and-likeability-keep-obama-over-romney/?hpt=hp_t3