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What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls
Saturday, January 29, 2011
President Obama, in his State of the Union address last Tuesday night, called his plans for targeted new spending in areas like education, transportation and technology “investment,” but his speech did little to sell the idea to voters.
Rasmussen Reports asked voters the same three questions about the president’s economic proposals on the two nights prior to the speech and then again on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. On the first two nights, 39% supported the proposals. On the next two nights, support was 41%.
50% now oppose the federal government spending more money in areas like education, transportation and technological innovation, up from 45% in the previous survey.
Most voters continue to feel that cutting taxes and reducing government spending are best for the economy.
22% expect the president to hit his goal of cutting the deficit in half by the end of his first term.
54% of voters still think Congress is unlikely to significantly reduce government spending over the next year.
Just 10% rate the new Congress’ performance as good or excellent.
48% say the legislators are doing a poor job. GOP voters remain the biggest critics.
Following the House's recent repeal of the national health care law, sending the issue on to the Senate, most voters continue to favor repeal, but support has fallen to its lowest level since late October. Fewer voters also now believe the law will force them to change their existing health insurance coverage.
Republicans still hold a five-point lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot – 44% to 39%, but it’s their smallest lead since the first week of December.
The president also argued strongly in his State of the Union speech for a bipartisan effort to create jobs, but most Americans think the best thing government can do is get out of the way. 60% of Adults think decisions made by U.S. business leaders to help their own businesses grow will do more to help create jobs in America than decisions made by government officials.
It was a tie game when we asked voters which they were more interested in watching – the president’s State of the Union speech or the upcoming Super Bowl.
History tells us that primary polls are all about name recognition at this early stage, and right now the best-known Republican hopefuls are running ahead among likely party primary voters.
24%-Mitt Romney leads the pack.While Palin remains a top favorite of Republican voters, she’s also [....]
19%-Sarah Palin runs second.
17%-Mike Huckabee.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/weekly_updates/what_they_told_us_reviewing_last_week_s_key_polls
Morning Bell:
The Left Must End Their War on School Choice
January 28th, 2011
This Wednesday morning at 10 am, after serving nine days of a 10-day sentence, Kelley Williams-Bolar was released from the Summit County Jail in Akron, Ohio. Her crime? Trying to provide her two daughters with a better education. How on earth did trying to provide your children with a better education become a crime in the United States? Because the political party that currently occupies the White House is completely dependent on the power of education unions, and these unions see all efforts to shift power away from them, and to parents like Williams-Bolar, as a threat to their very existence. The case of Williams-Bolar is a perfect opportunity for the left to stop and reconsider their war on school choice.
Before January 15, Williams-Bolar had no criminal record. She lived in an Akron housing project with her two daughters, worked as a teaching assistant at Buchtel High School, and was going to college to further her own education career. Like any parent, Williams-Bolar wanted to give her children the best education possible. But the grade 6 reading and math scores of students in the Akron City School District are almost 30 points lower than those in neighboring Copley-Fairlawn City School District. While Ohio does allow school choice intradistrict, Copley-Fairlawn does not offer open enrollment to children who live in the Akron City School District. Ohio also offers private-school-tuition scholarships to students in Cleveland, but that program is not available to children in Akron.
So starting in August 2006, Williams-Bolar signed forms claiming her two daughters lived at their father’s address in the Copley-Fairlawn School District. Two years later the Copley-Fairlawn School District hired a private investigator who shot video of Williams-Bolar driving her children from their home in the [....]
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/01/28/morning-bell-the-left-must-end-their-war-on-school-choice/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell
Barack Obama’s Lying Liars
January 28, 2011
by Chip Wood
No, I am not talking about the President’s State of the Union speech from this past Tuesday. Thanks to the deadline demands at Personal Liberty Digest, I had to finish this column the day before that oration. I will comment next week on Obama’s performance (which I expect to be filled with platitudes and promises that the media will love — and the White House won’t keep).
My topic today is the great debate over raising — for the 81st time since 1940 — the ceiling on how deeply in debt the Federal government can go. Right now, Washington is not allowed to borrow a dollar over $14.29 trillion. And they’re already within $300 billion of that limit, give or take a few billion bucks.
To hear our officials tell it, [....]
http://www.personalliberty.com/conservative-politics/government/barack-obamas-lying-liars/?eiid=&rmid=2011_01_28_PLA_[PIZ0411E]&rrid=387432349
Monday, January 24, 2011
The moochers, looters, parasites and vultures are back with a new mask. Yes, the bloodsuckers have returned -- and are quickly back to stealing, looting, robbing the children, the schools, the working man, the poor .... all to line the fat pockets of fat cat statists. Predictably, the leecher teachers unions are paying off these thugs big time -- giving
The UFT last year opposed the city's attempt to close 20 failing schools and replace them with new schools with new principals and teachers. Vampires. And of course,
'ACORN' is reborn in B'klyn NY Post
Only name not same
Watch out! ACORN is back -- in all but its name.
Backed by hundreds of thousands of dollars in union donations, New York Communities for Change -- a rebranded version of the controversial organization that closed up shop amid several scandals -- is acting again as labor's attack dog on controversial issues. NYCC took over ACORN's office on Nevins Street in Brooklyn, shares some of the same board members and uses its membership lists and other resources.
The "new" organization also fights to provide and preserve affordable housing for low-income New Yorkers. But when NYCC has to choose between low-income consumers and unions, it dances to Big Labor's tune. Consider Walmart's bid to open in New York City. It would offer discounted prices, which would disproportionately benefit the poorest New Yorkers. But instead NYCC has joined the campaign to block Walmart because [....]
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/01/-acorn-new-scam-new-york-communities-for-change.html
White House needs border security plan
By Jim Kouri
Sunday, January 16, 2011
New York’s Congressman Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee demanded that Obama White House present Congress with a detailed plan to properly secure the U.S.-Mexico border after Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the scrapping border fence project.
Following the Obama administration’s announcement to discontinue work on a “virtual border,” Rep. King said in a press statement that the Department of Homeland Security should “speed up its plan to establish a protected border.”
The original Southwest Border Initiative program, started during President George W. Bush’s administration, has only established 53 miles worth of fencing along the border, and has been plagued by construction delays and equipment failure. Earlier last year, Secretary Napolitano ordered a complete assessment of the project. As reported in the past by NewswithViews.com, the original border security plan called for a fence and barriers to be used on parts of the U.S.‘s southern border, but with the [....]
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/32208#When:02:06:24Z
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