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McCain Takes Over Energy and Ethics As Voter Issues
Sixty-seven percent (67%) believe McCain shares this priority while just 29% believe Obama holds that same view.
By substantial margins, voters believe that McCain’s top priority is finding new sources of energy while Obama is more focused on reducing the amount of energy we consume. Sixty-seven percent (67%) believe McCain shares this priority while just 29% believe Obama holds that same view.
Most voters-55%–believe that Obama’s top priority is reducing the amount of energy we consume. Only 12% believe this is McCain’s primary focus on the energy issue.
Republicans, Democrats, and unaffiliated voters all see McCain’s top priority as finding more energy sources.
As for Obama, Democrats are evenly divided-41% believe he is most interested in finding new sources of energy while 43% say he is most interested in reducing the amount of energy we use. By large margins, Republicans and unaffiliated voters see Obama as primarily seeking to reduce energy consumption. He also leads on environment, education and health care but McCain has gained on every issue in recent days.
McCain leads on the economy, energy, national security, immigration, balanced budget, social security, trade issue, and is taking over the ethics issue now too.
On Iraq Obama’s position is more in line with popular opinion. Forty-nine percent (49%) of voters nationwide now believe that getting the troops home is the top priority. Forty-two percent (42%) say winning the War is more important.
The Edwards’ scandal and his repeated prevarications is reminding voters about Clinton’s perjury and impeachment and shading their opinions against Democrats and Obama on the ethics issue too.
Partisan Gap Narrows As Obama - Clinton Blood Bath Ends
Democrats Have 7.6% Edge Over Republicans.
During July, the number of Americans who consider themselves to be Democrats fell two percentage points to 39.2%. That’s the first time since January that the number of Democrats has fallen below 41%. At the same time there was virtually no change in Republicans at 31.6% The Democrats now have a 7.6 percentage point advantage over the Republicans, down from a 9.5 percentage point advantage in June and 10.1 percentage points in May. Among men, 34% are Democrats, 33% Republican. Forty-four percent (44%) of women are Democrats, and just 30% claim the GOP as their party. Forty-one percent (41%) of government employees are Democrats while 31% are Republicans. Among entrepreneurs, 36% are Republican, 34% Democrat. Those who work for someone else in the private sector lean Democratic by a 38% to 31% margin.
In 2004, the Democrats began the year with a 2.3 percentage point edge over the GOP. That grew to 4.0 points by March before moving in the Republican direction for the rest of the year. By Election Day in 2004, the edge for Democrats was a mere 1.6 percentage points. In 2006, the Democrats began the year with just a 1.6 percentage point advantage. That grew to 6.1 percentage points by November. The differences are most pronounced between whites and non-whites with the later heavily Democrat partisans and especially so in urban areas. During the Obama versus Clinton prtimary election battle the numbers who claimed to be Democrats surged but since June there have been sharp defections with 30% of conservative Democrats saying they will vote for McCain.
Newark Mayor and Mistress To Go to Prison As Crooks And Hyprocrites.
Hypocrites and Crooks Abound in Newark New Jersey
Adventures of the Senator Mayor. Special position for special people
Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James, 72, has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison on Tuesday for his role in the cut-rate sales of city land to his former mistress, 39 year old Tamika Riley, who got 15 months. James apologized to his wife of 44-years “for his human frailties.”
The judge in letting James skate, reduced his sentence from the requested 20-years said James “has accomplished much in his life,” and the prosecution request for up to 20 years “disappoints me and shocks me,”
James was the second African American Mayor of Newark and served five, four-year terms before declining to run for re-election. From June 1999 until leaving his position as Mayor in July 2006, James simultaneously served as Mayor of Newark and a Democrat New Jersey State Senator.
Sounds like there is plenty of hyprocirsy to go around in Newark, New Jersey.
Plurality Of Voters Say Media Wants To Help Obama and Hurt McCain
Hypocrites At New York Times Reject McCain OpEd About His Iraq Views Because It Did not Include a Timeline
Forty-nine percent of voters believe most reporters try to help Obama with their coverage, up from 44% a month ago according to a nationwide survey released Monday by Rasmussen Reports. Just 14% believe most reporters will try to help John McCain win, little changed from 13% a month ago. Just one voter in four (24%) believes that most reporters will try to offer unbiased coverage. A plurality of Democrats-37%– say most reporters try to offer unbiased coverage of the campaign. Twenty-seven percent (27%) believe most reporters are trying to help Obama and 21% in Obama’s party think reporters are trying to help McCain.
Among Republicans, 78% believe reporters are trying to help Obama and 10% see most offering unbiased coverage.
As for unaffiliated voters, 50% see a pro-Obama bias and 21% see unbiased coverage. Just 12% of those not affiliated with either major party believe the reporters are trying to help McCain.
In a more general sense, 45% say that most reporters would hide information if it hurt the candidate they wanted to win. Just 30% disagree and 25% are not sure. Democrats are evenly divided as to whether a reporter would release such information while Republicans and unaffiliated voters have less confidence in the reporters.
Fifty percent of voters believe most reporters want to make the economy seem worse than it is. A plurality believes that the media has also tried to make the war in Iraq appear worse that it really is.
Troops Withdrawing from Iraq As Obama Flutters In
“So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but
words to do it with,” wrote philosopher John Locke (1632-1704).
The Washington Post printed an article Monday obviously timed to coincide with Barack Obama’s arrival in Baghdad entitled “For ‘Surge’ Troops, Pride Mingles With Doubt … Soldiers Leave a More Secure Iraq but Are Unsure if Hard-Won Gains Will Hold.” It is long on editorial opinion, and story telling but short on news - if “news” means new facts. It does reports that “The soldiers, who came to Iraq as part of President Bush’s troop increase, began returning home last week” a fact that has been virtually unreported but is widely believed to have set the timing for Obama’s appearance there.
In a companion article the Post reported, “But after meeting for nearly an hour with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other top U.S. and Iraqi officials, Obama declined to say what they had talked about.” This continues Obama’s kabuki-like silent movie strategy to give his writers time to perfect and teleprompt his speech for Euro-American audiences. So-far American main stream media have been surprisingly introspective after receiving sharp criticism for its stilted coverage of McCain versus its fawning and falling all over itself to promote Obama. In June, for instance: major TV network news developed 114 minutes to Obama to 45 minutes to McCain.
The discussion about troops in Iraq is undergoing a subtle shift in rhetoric with The U. S. and Iraq describing a withdrawal “horizon” (as far as the eye can see) rather than a time table (being a date certain). The former is fluid and includes situational analysis rather than circling a date on the calendar so enemies can hunker down, and wait. Most military people think that is an invitation for disaster.
Grammatolatry (gram-uh-TOL-uh-tree) noun: The worship of words: regard for the letter while ignoring the
spirit of something. From Greek gramma (letter) + -latry (worship). “The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.”Robert Dale Owen; The Debatable Land Between This World And the Next; Trubner and Co; 1871. ip).
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Gave Jesse Jackson Tens of Thousand at Same time as Grabing TAXPAPYER BAILOUT
Campaign Launched to Expose and Stop Those Who Finance Jackson Lavish Living.
At the same time Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were melting down earlier this month they were shoveling tens of thousands of dollars to Jesse Jackson. They are not alone but their largess is a scandal for what is defacto two concerns that depend on taxpayer money to bail out their profligacy. The fact that Anheuser-Busch, Bank of America, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca-Cola, Comcast, Ford, General Motors, Goldman Sachs, GE, PepsiCo, and Shell. fork over hundreds of thousands rather than risk a shakedown by the notorious race baiter is something for their shareholders to stop. Taxpayers and shareholders should scream and stop their wallets from being pilfered. It has worked in the past; i.e., in 2005 the NYSE had ended support of Jackson’s groups as a result of such protests.
Jackson is in the spotlight for saying he wanted to cut Barack Obama’s N***S off, and using the “N” work in the same context. “Rev” Jesse Jackson is notorius for playing the emperor of “racial justice” that supports his lavish and often questionable lifestyle and using his “constitutency” to act against those who do not “play ball” with him.
The National Legal and Policy Center has launched a campaign to expose Jackson supporters and dry up stock holder and taxpayer money.
Assorted Polling Results Clear As Mud
There someting in the water in Minnesota, Louisiana, etc. etc.
A survey of Minnesota voters shows Democrat Al Franken attracting 44% of the vote and incumbent Republican Norm Coleman earning 42%. A month ago, it was Coleman 48% and Franken 45%. Things are confused by a possible run by onetime Governor and pro-wrestler Jesse Ventura who despite a checkered record still have some affection in the left leaning state. In fact if Ventura officially enters the race he’d get 22%; Coleman gets 36% and Franken 34%.
Obama lead McCain by 18% in Minnesota and by 10% in Iowa. McCain lead Obama in South Dakota and Louisiana. U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D- LA) who badly muffed the Hurricane Katrina relief effort now attracts 49% of the vote in her bid for re-election while Republican challenger John Kennedy earns 44%. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows that, when “leaners” are included, it’s Landrieu 51% Kennedy 45%.
Nationwide The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows Barack Obama attracting 44% of the vote while John McCain earns 40%. When “leaners” are included, it’s Obama 47% and McCain 45%. Over the weekend the Presidential race was tied. Obama leading in states with 210 Electoral College votes while McCain leads in states with 168 votes. When leaners are included, it’s Obama 293, McCain 227 meaning Obama would be President.
U. S. Newspaper Readership Steady As Advertisers Desert
Good and Bad News for U. S. Newspaper - Great news for Asia
Newspaper readers are not deserting at anywhere near the rate of advertisers says the latest edition of the Readership Institute (RI) tracking study among 3,000 readers of 100 newspapers.
The Institute observes that as newspaper staffs contract it’s a challenge, to say the least, for a smaller staff to produce, sell and deliver a high-quality local news. Newspaper readers spend, on average, 27 minutes with the daily paper, little changed in the last six years. Readers spend 57 minutes with the Sunday paper, but that figure “has been slowly dropping” since 2002.
The bad news is that 62% of respondents said they had never gone to their local paper’s Web site — and just 14% said they had visited between the last seven to 30 days. RI’s Site Usage Measurement (SUM) score — measuring the frequency and duration of visits — has changed little for newspapers over the years, and is a “feeble” 1.26 on a scale of 1 to 7. A Neilsen Survey of US Newspaper websites attracted more than 66 million unique visitors in the first quarter of 2008 — a record, and a 12 percent increase on a year ago, according to Nielsen Online analysis. Forty percent of all Internet users visit a newspaper site.
U. S. newspaper circulation is down 30% since 1985. Seven of the 10 best-selling daily newspapers are in Asia, which also has the three largest markets: China, India, and Japan
Thousands of Karina “Victims” Collected As Much As $150,000 Undeserved
As many as 5,000 Katrina victims may have received tens of thousands of dollar more than they were entitled to due to what appears to be incompetence of a private contractor charged with dispensing taxpayer monies to them. The average amount of overpayment is estimated to be approximately $35,000, but in some cases may be as high as $100,000 to $150,000. In the rush to pay residents the $11 billion program almost inevitably ran afoul. Now the government wants those over-payments back amid cries, moaning and more than a little political posturing.
Some of the recipients have spent the funds on extravagance and collecting the misappropriated taxpayer money will be fraught with charges of mistreatment and unfairness. This is a boondoggle of epic proportions and it is likely that the U. S. taxpayer will be the ultimate victims once more as “victims” enjoy exotic vacations and Cadillacs paid for by the real victims.