Polling Report [5.30.12]

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Contrary to our resident teabagger RustyDils, the President has a 19 point lead in California. No, Rusty, car elevators do not endear Romney to Californians. Meanwhile, Michigan becomes strong Obama territory, and Obama takes a slight lead in Colorado, although not a big enough lead for Colorado to lose its Toss up status.

Shocker: GOP wants to keep the popular parts of “obamacare” without paying for them…

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This is pretty typical for the reality impaired GOP. They want to force insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions without an individual mandate that would create a big enough risk pool to pay for that coverage. I have no doubt that they will propose some magical unicorn financing system which will make the system viable. Perhaps Iraq War oil revenue...?

I’m Liking Team Obama’s Righteous Anger

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From Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter:
“Mitt Romney’s continued embrace of Donald Trump and refusal to condemn his disgraceful conspiracy theories demonstrates his complete lack of moral leadership. Now he’s even standing by silently as Trump assails John McCain’s courage in standing up to the most extreme and hateful voices in the Republican Party—all in order to raise money for himself. If Mitt Romney lacks the backbone to stand up to a charlatan like Donald Trump because he’s so concerned about lining his campaign’s pockets, what does that say about the kind of president he would be?”

Tuesday Polling Report [5.29.12]

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There was not much by way of polls released over the holiday weekend, so we will have to make do today by looking at some internals of recent polls. Given that the economy is the most important issue of this election, and given the conventional wisdom that a bad economy dooms President Obama, how do we explain Nevada?

Tracking Poll Results — Markell Leads

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Despite the two concerted attempts by spammers to rig the results. The first attempt occurred sometime Friday, when "Others" somehow garned 132 votes. Is this the unseen hand of internet troll Doug Beatty? Perhaps. Or perhaps it was the Libertarians. Steve Newton, who is running for Governor on the L ticket? The second attempt happened yesterday and Sunday, when some teabaggers woke up and try to place Cragg in contention.

Bad Triangulation Theatre Starring John Carney

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WDEL did an interview with John Carney yesterday and they put a snippet of it up on their website. It is worth it to go over there to hear the whole thing. Our lone Representative in the House tries to have it both ways on the critique of Bain Capital and ends up looking pretty insensible in the end.