Showing posts with label Rush Limbaugh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rush Limbaugh. Show all posts
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Sunday, March 04, 2012
Poll Watch: PPP (D) Ohio 2012 Republican Primary Survey
PPP (D) Ohio 2012 GOP Primary Poll
- Mitt Romney 37% [25%] (19%) {19%} [20%] (23%)
- Rick Santorum 36% [22%] (1%) {1%}
- Newt Gingrich 15% [26%] (20%) {14%} [8%] (16%)
- Ron Paul 11% [11%] (5%) {7%} [8%] (13%)
- Someone else/Not sure 2% [16%] (9%) {12%} [16%] (18%)
- Mitt Romney 41%
- Rick Santorum 34%
- Newt Gingrich 17%
- Ron Paul 8%
- Rick Santorum 36%
- Mitt Romney 36%
- Newt Gingrich 15%
- Ron Paul 11%
- Someone else/Not sure 3%
- Strongly committed to that candidate 72% [44%] (36%) {29%}
- Might end up supporting someone else 28% [56%] (64%) {71%}
- Rick Santorum 57% [59%] / 34% [24%] {+23%}
- Mitt Romney 52% [47%] (47%) {55%} [52%] (55%) {53%} [53%] / 40% [37%] (37%) {33%} [30%] (25%) {26%} [25%] {+12%}
- Newt Gingrich 46% [47%] (62%) {56%} (42%) {46%} [53%] / 40% [37%] (24%) {32%} (34%) {29%} [27%] {+6%}
- Ron Paul 38% [31%] (33%) {32%} / 51% [52%] (46%) {49%} {-13%}
- Yes 27% [28%] (35%) {33%}
- No 60% [57%] (50%) {54%}
- Are an Evangelical 43%
- Are not 57%
- In the last few days 12%
- In the last week 10%
- In the last month 37%
- Earlier than that 30%
- He was 42%
- He was not 37%
- Not sure 21%
- Favorable 45%
- Unfavorable 28%
Romney up 40-23 with folks who decided in the last few days in Ohio.
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Plouffe Licks His Chops Eyeing Potential Palin Candidacy
In a joint interview with RCP and CNN, David Plouffe, Obama's 2008 (and likely 2012) campaign manager, leaves little doubt that the White House is salivating over the possibility of Tea Party darling, Sarah Palin, being the president's opponent in two years.
Plouffe also sought to discourage more electorally viable moderate Republicans from even competing for the GOP nomination (see Christie, Chris; Giuliani, Rudy).
Scott Conroy of RCP reports:
Plouffe also sought to discourage more electorally viable moderate Republicans from even competing for the GOP nomination (see Christie, Chris; Giuliani, Rudy).
Scott Conroy of RCP reports:
In spite of Palin's recent string of successes in endorsing Republican candidates in contested primaries, Plouffe said that he welcomed her rising influence in the GOP.
"I think that long term, the more sway and power she has in the Republican Party, the worse off the Republican Party will be," he said. "But they should not take advice from me. It's not my business to give advice to the Republican Party, but if the Republican Party believes that Sarah Palin is their savior, more power to them."
Asked about Palin's insinuations that Pete Rouse-who is expected to become Obama's interim chief of staff-may be helming a White House operation designed to undermine her politically, Plouffe smiled tightly.
"Well that's--just like a lot of things--nuts," he said. "But we don't spend much time thinking about her."
Plouffe added that the upcoming nominating cycle will be "fascinating" for Republicans "because no matter whether she runs or not, sort of that Palin-Limbaugh-Beck wing of their party is going to be the most dominant factor in most primaries and caucuses, in Iowa, in South Carolina, Nevada, so you're going to have to nominate someone who does very well in that wing."
Plouffe, who was in Ohio to stump alongside Governor Ted Strickland, said that recent primary results suggested that there would not be a niche for a moderate Republican candidate to fill in 2012.
"If you're a moderate Republican thinking about running for the primary in any office in 2011 or 2012, you're going to think twice because you're going to get the Mike Castle treatment," Plouffe said, referring to the moderate GOP congressman's defeat in the Delaware Senate primary. "So they're going to nominate more and more extreme Republicans who are doing very well in that sort of Palin-Limbaugh-Beck base."
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Rush: The Senate is Full of Moderate Republicans
Huh?
I suppose we can chalk this up as one more bogeyman that the talk radio crowd has set up -- moderates. This list includes the establishment, the media, elites, Islam, socialists, etc.
The problem with arguing that the Senate is full of moderate Republicans is that this can so easily be proven false. I mean really. Just count them. In the words of Rick Moran,
I am starting to agree with Nate Silver that the more the FoxNews/Talk Radio wing of the Republican Party repudiates moderate Republicans, the better they look. It is an unintentional endorsement.
And Scott Brown going on and on and on, "There's no more room for moderates." Mr. Brown, let me tell you something. Look around you in the Senate. You are surrounded by moderate Republicans, Mr. Brown. You're surrounded by 'em. Not only where you live but in the Senate, surrounded by 'em. You got moderate Republicans in Maine. After this election you're still going to be surrounded by moderate Republicans in the Senate. What are you talking about? No more room for moderate Republicans in the Senate? The question is whether there is room for Reagan conservatives anymore in the Republican Party. That's the question. That's what this is all about. These guys are whining and moaning already, "Oh, my God, (crying) may not be any room for moderates." For crying out loud, we're surrounded by 'em in the US Senate. By the way, Mr. Brown, with all due respect, if it weren't for conservatives and Tea Party activists nationwide raising money for you, you wouldn't be in the Senate. What is this, "Oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh, there's not enough room for moderates." Plenty of them. It's Reagan conservatives that are the target here.
I suppose we can chalk this up as one more bogeyman that the talk radio crowd has set up -- moderates. This list includes the establishment, the media, elites, Islam, socialists, etc.
The problem with arguing that the Senate is full of moderate Republicans is that this can so easily be proven false. I mean really. Just count them. In the words of Rick Moran,
The next time a tea party elitist talks about the GOP senate being lousy with RINO’s, I demand they name names. Who do they think is a “moderate” besides the obvious targets? There better be a lot more than 6 or 7 in order to make good on their observation about the senate being full of moderates. I’m sure we will be surprised to learn who they believe doesn’t measure up to their ever narrowing definition of conservative. More than likely, many senators they believe are RINO’s would hold views to the right of Reagan.
I am starting to agree with Nate Silver that the more the FoxNews/Talk Radio wing of the Republican Party repudiates moderate Republicans, the better they look. It is an unintentional endorsement.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
The Irony of O'Donnell Winning Because She Was Endorsed by the Tea Party
Christine O'Donnell won her primary because the Tea Party crazies came pouring into Delaware like a biblical plague of bed bugs. They infused mountains of cash into her campaign. The talking heads of the Tea Party...Limbaugh, Levin, Hannity, Palin, DeMint...endorsed O'Donnell and spread half-truths and lies about Castle at the last hour to put O'Donnell over the top.
Yet the Tea Party wants to revoke the 17th Amendment, depriving the people the chance to vote directly for their Senators. They believe that the people aren't to be trusted with such matters and that the only people worthy to ascend the heights of Olympus are the state legislators. Of course, the Tea Party really want to be those state legislators so that they can sell Senate seats ala Rod Blagojevich.
What irony, then, that if the 17th Amendment had been repealed prior to the Delaware primary, Castle would have been the Senator from Delaware and not O'Donnell. The state establishment were squarely in his corner. I doubt that O'Donnell would have had one supporter in the Delaware legislature.
Yet the Tea Party wants to revoke the 17th Amendment, depriving the people the chance to vote directly for their Senators. They believe that the people aren't to be trusted with such matters and that the only people worthy to ascend the heights of Olympus are the state legislators. Of course, the Tea Party really want to be those state legislators so that they can sell Senate seats ala Rod Blagojevich.
What irony, then, that if the 17th Amendment had been repealed prior to the Delaware primary, Castle would have been the Senator from Delaware and not O'Donnell. The state establishment were squarely in his corner. I doubt that O'Donnell would have had one supporter in the Delaware legislature.
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