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Heads Up GOP: Rasmussen Has President Obama’s Approval Ratings Rising to 51%
Heads Up GOP: Rasmussen Has President Obama's Approval Ratings Rising to 51%
As Republicans search for new ways to cave on their attempt to take the country hostage and call it winning, Rasmussen (pollster to the Republican stars) has President Obama’s approval rating on the rise at levels not seen since last spring. Obama currently has a 51% approval rating per Thursday’s Presidential tracking poll.
Another loss for the Tea baggers.
Heads Up GOP: Rasmussen Has President Obama's Approval Ratings Rising to 51%
As Republicans search for new ways to cave on their attempt to take the country hostage and call it winning, Rasmussen (pollster to the Republican stars) has President Obama’s approval rating on the rise at levels not seen since last spring. Obama currently has a 51% approval rating per Thursday’s Presidential tracking poll.
Another loss for the Tea baggers.
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Poll taken by NBC.. :roll: Yawn. NBC needs to change their name to DNC.
Hmmm, locks like its 1852 all over and the American Whig party is self destructing, Boom
Hmmm, locks like its 1852 all over and the American Whig party is self destructing, Boom
Interesting, because the Republican Party replaced the Whigs if I recall correctly? Were Republicans left or right at the time? I seem to recall that they have not necessarily been consistent throughout time. Or am I incorrect?
I recall a r/w'er a couple of years ago posting that he hated Abraham Lincoln. What a weird bunch, "hating" someone who'd been dead for 140 odd years? Haters gotta hate.
Hmmm, locks like its 1852 all over and the American Whig party is self destructing, Boom
What happens then?
It's a "Catch 22", there's a good argument to be made for both sides, you can't spend money you ain't got and you can't let folks starve to death.
Yeah, that rings a bell. That would help explain Lincoln. Mind you, Lincoln was always pragmatic about blacks. He would have as quickly shipped them all offshore somewhere if that would save the Union. He only issued the Emancipation Proclamation when he realized it was the tool he needed to fend off foreign intervention in the Civil War. By making the war about slavery, he made it politically impossible for Britain to intervene on the side of the Confederacy to get cotton flowing back to British cotton mills from Southern fields.
For the Republicans to be destroyed something has to destroy them. Wouldn't it be interesting if a new party arose left of the Democrats? Many commentators have noted that the Hispanic bubble will move American politics left. If the Republicans imploded with enough of them moving left of the Democrats to save their jobs, they could form the nucleus of a new leftist party and leave the Democrats right of them. Remaining Republicans who survived politically could move into the Democrat camp, thereby stopping the Democratic Party from shifting left of the new arrivals. Anything's possible in politics.
OTOH we don't want a two-party system like the US. It leads to US-style stagnation. As well a minority government is always better for people than an ideological majority.
Obama has been trying for the last 5 years to turn the United States into a Canadian utopia with Socialized Health Care, Higher Taxes, Gun Registrations.. but has failed.. it's impossible to mirror perfection..
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When I was young, in school, there was this kid, who claimed he had a submarine in his basement........
I see that your childish ways of trying to trump whatever anyone says, haven't changed......hey Bob?
It's still a majority of support for one party.
If you demand that one party get 50%+1 vote, then lobby to restrict the number of political parties to only 2
The Whig collapse is fascinating. the party became a 'virtual jellyfish', fighting between the South Whigs and the Northern Whigs, and ending up with an Unholy compromise , the Fugitive Slave act of 1850, that the Northern States found increasingly intolerable,. the First 'mass protest ' against the US Federal government .
The Southern Whigs are rather hugely to blame, esp. the border slave states, Kentucky, Tennessee,, Missouri, and Virginia where most Wigs didn't own slaves.
A lot of countries get around this by 'run off' elections, if one candidate doesn't get at least 40 % of the popular vote. That I would really like to see.
I wouldn't have any problem with that arrangement, however, there will always be those that are pissed that 'their' party got initially eliminated..
Besides, I could see there being a big business in brokering support from the first losers; not unlike what you see happen at the leadership conventions today
So what's wrong with that? That is a good thing. If you have a run off within a week, shouldn't be a big concern.
Run off elections are the worst fears of the 'ruling class'. But a real triumph of democracy, as they allow fore everyone to have an effective voice.
No it isn't! It is a majority of seat won with a minority of the votes. In most ridings they won with less than 50% of the vote and overall they only had 38%. You can try to twist it to a majority however you like but 60% of Canadians voted against Harper and the conservatives. That is hardly a resounding mandate from the populace.
If I was going to lobby for anything it would be no parties. Make everyone run as an independent like the constitution was written.
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Rather an odd interpretation of what happened. Joe Clark was not ousted mid term, rather his government was defeated in a non confidence vote. Not the same thing. In fact it would be next to impossible to oust a sitting PM short of a criminal conviction or possibly a recall vote in his/her riding.