Day: July 24, 2012

She exploits her 3 year old on a reality show. She "disciplines" a misbehaving a three year old by uttering empty threats, and she laughs it off when her three…

Gallup finds that President Obama averaged 46.8% job approval during his 14th quarter in office.

"The recent and continuing improvement in his approval rating, though, is a positive sign for his re-election prospects, but it remains below the 50% level that virtually assures a president of a second term in office. Obama appears in much better shape now than the two recently elected presidents who were denied a second term -- Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush -- both of whom averaged below 40% approval their 14th quarters in office."

We've got a ton of new state polls from over the weekend, and they change our map a little bit. Obama gains 1 electoral vote from last week's total of 318 and Romney loses 14, dropping from 220 to 206.

Absent a pressing life or death calamity such as an earthquake, apartment fire, car crash or a fall from a ladder, what we decide to be panicked by is largely a function of the mass media. Since the mass media is a for profit business, they have an interest in creating a baseline level of panic and keeping that base panic simmering on a continuous basis. Studies show that what we are panicked by has little connection to what will actual kill or maim us. In this blog's very comments section we have people panicked by the idea that the government could run amok and take away "our freedom" whatever that means. (The freedom to have your kids paralyzed by backyard trampolines, I suppose.) Having worked for the federal government, the idea that people can be panicked about a government run amok strikes me as ludicrous. But the radio stations these people listen to and the movies they watch keep jamming the panic button down for them. Poor things. ...

Another great ad from the President.