Quote of the Day
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 6th, 2011 4:37 am by HL
Quote of the Day
“President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong.”
— Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, introducing President Obama at a rally in Michigan.
Perry Holds Huge Lead Over Romney
The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds Rick Perry has jumped to a strong lead among Republican primary voters nationally with 38%, followed by Mitt Romney at 23%, Rep. Ron Paul at 9% and Rep. Michele Bachmann at 8%.
The Politico/Battleground Poll finds Perry at 36%, followed by Romney at 17%, Bachmann at 10%, and Paul at 10%.
Bachmann Will Not Attack Perry Yet
Following a decline in the polls and a staff shakeup over the weekend, Rep. Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign will be focused on the upcoming debates, the National Review reports.
“But don’t expect Bachmann to go after Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, her tea-party competitor, at least initially. Bachmann, another adviser explains, is aiming to use the debate at the Reagan library this week to reassert her credentials and message, “in the style of her New Hampshire debate, not the Iowa debate, where she fought with [Tim] Pawlenty.”
The Year’s Defining Political Moment
GOP pollster Bill McInturff tells Gerald Seib that the debt negotiations over the summer “were more than a passing moment of politically induced indigestion” and instead “may rank right up there with the Iranian hostage crisis, Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, Hurricane Katrina and the collapse of financial markets as a defining political moment.”
Said McInturff: “We are entering a new phase of the American political dialogue that has been irrevocably shifted in a way that will prove difficult to predict. Historically, though, this type of deep voter anger, unease, and economic pessimism leads to unstable and unpredictable political outcomes.”
