Welcome to your Friday open thread. Yay for Friday! (Your views may differ) What’s on your mind today? Does anyone have big plans for Valentine’s Day?
PPP Polls finds that the GOP honeymoon is over. There’s been a huge swing in the generic Congressional ballot towards Democrats.
Beyond Boehner’s numbers the most amazing thing on our poll this week is that not only are Democrats back ahead on the generic Congressional ballot by a 45-41 margin, but they’re ahead by a 38-31 margin with independents! That’s a quite change from what we saw over the course of 2009 and 2010. The four point lead for Democrats on the generic ballot represents an 11 point shift from the November elections and there were more than 40 districts that Democrats lost by that margin or less so if we went to the polls today under the current district configuration it’s entirely possible Democrats would get their House majority right back. Of course redistricting will give Republicans some opportunities to shore things up for themselves but at any rate the honeymoon, such as it ever was, looks to be over.
So, the anti-woman, who-cares-about-jobs agenda isn’t really that popular? I’m shocked! I guess people had to be reminded why they didn’t like Republicans?
Donald Trump may run for president. He spoke at the CPAC conference yesterday and apparently got a good reception. He knows his audience – he started out with a birther joke.
You gotta’ give Donald Trump credit, because he knows how conservatives get their jollies: by pretending that President Obama isn’t a real American.
Our current president came out of nowhere. Came out of nowhere. In fact, I’ll go a step further: the people that went to school with him, they don’t even know him. They never saw him. They don’t know who he is. It’s crazy. [Wild applause.]
With no track record — and, I will tell you, he’s got nothing to criticize. He’s a wonderful guy, he’s a name man, but there was no record. Nothing to criticize. He didn’t go in wars. He didn’t go in battles. He didn’t beat this one, that one, have enemies all over the place. Nobody knew who the hell he was. He’s now our president! He’s our president! [laughter]
Trump, who got a standing ovation at the end of his speech, told the audience he had what it takes to win the GOP nomination as a conservative, but that he wouldn’t make a decision until June.
Trump has declared bankruptcy 3 times. In other words, he’s the perfect Republican. Trump has the oversized ego needed to run a campaign but I’ll bet he’s too thin-skinned to undergo the scrutiny. Can you imagine the fun when he has to release his tax forms?