Friday Open Thread [3.23.12]
GENERAL ELECTION — PRESIDENT
NATIONAL (YouGov): Obama d. Paul (47-42); Obama d. Romney (49-42); Obama d. Gingrich (51-39); Obama d. Santorum (52-40)
NATIONAL (PPP): Obama d. Paul (46-43); Obama d. Santorum (48-45); Obama d. Romney (48-44); Obama d. Gingrich (50-42)
NATIONAL (Rasmussen Tracking): Obama d. Romney (47-44); Obama d. Santorum (49-41)
MASSACHUSETTS (PPP): Obama d. Romney (58-35); Obama d. Paul (58-30); Obama d. Santorum (61-29); Obama d. Gingrich (62-28)
CONNECTICUT (Quinnipiac): Obama d. Romney (53-37); Obama d. Santorum (55-35)
NEW HAMPSHIRE (American Research Group): Obama d. Romney (48-41); Obama d. Santorum (48-37)
OREGON (SurveyUSA): Obama d. Paul (48-39); Obama d. Santorum (49-40); Obama d. Romney (50-39); Obama d. Gingrich (54-34)
VIRGINIA (Rasmussen): Obama d. Romney (51-42); Obama d. Santorum (53-39)
Once again, if President Obama is up by these margins in Virginia according to Rasmussen, then one of two things are at play here, and maybe both: 1) Virginia is now a safe blue state demographically and 2) Obama is heading for a blowout nationally.
REPUBLICAN PRIMARY — PRESIDENT
NATIONAL (Gallup Tracking): Romney 38, Santorum 27, Gingrich 14, Paul 9
NATIONAL (PPP): Romney 34, Santorum 31, Gingrich 20, Paul 9
NATIONAL (YouGov): Romney 31, Santorum 23, Gingrich 21, Paul 12
CONNECTICUT (Quinnipiac): Romney 42, Santorum 19, Gingrich 13, Paul 9
LOUISIANA (Rasmussen): Santorum 43, Romney 31, Gingrich 16, Paul 5
LOUISIANA (PPP): Santorum 42, Romney 28, Gingrich 18, Paul 8, Buddy Roemer 2.
OREGON (SurveyUSA): Romney 38, Santorum 31, Gingrich 14, Paul 9
NORTH CAROLINA (SurveyUSA): Santorum 34, Romney 26, Gingrich 18, Paul 10
REPUBLICAN PRIMARY — U.S. SENATE
CONNECTICUT (Quinnipiac): Linda McMahon 51, Chris Says 42, Undecided 6
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY — U.S. SENATE
CONNECTICUT (Quinnipiac): Chris Murphy 37, Susan Bysiewics 25, William Tong 4, Undecided 29
GENERAL ELECTION — U.S. SENATE
CONNECTICUT (Quinnipiac): U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy (D) d. Linda McMahon (R), 52-37; Murphy d. Chris Says (R), 41-40 (17% undecided); Susan Bysiewicz (D) d. McMahon, 49-39; Shays d. Bysiewicz 43-42; McMahon d. William Tong (D), 43-39; Shays d. Tong, 50-25
GENERAL ELECTION — GOVERNOR
Liking those polls.
Over the past few days there has been alot of reporting and commentary about employers asking you for your Facebook passwords to vet your presence online. The Atlantic reports that Facebook is considering a lawsuit against employers with this requirement — apparently it is a violation of the TOS on Facebook to share your password to the site this way. Interesting!
Dick Cheney has had a heart transplant.
Please read this. Make sure you read the comments & note how many +/- votes each comment gets. The comments sicken me. I think I’ll move to Australia where I’ll only have to deal w/ wild bogans instead of dealing with ignorant, yet overly righteous and overly confident rednecks.
Now I know yet another reason why Al Mascitti ridicules NASCAR fans whenever he’s forced to live-read those stupid “Checkered Flag Challenge” commercials.