President Obama won the Electoral College by a 365 – 173 margin in 2008. Using the 2012 map, if Mr. Obama carried the exact same states, the Electoral College would stand at 359 – 179 because of redistricting. The Republican candidate-to-be has already gained ground without making one general election campaign stop. The states of […]
In This Issue: How Close is President Obama to Being Unelectable In 2012? Occupy Wall Street Is No Cup Of Tea The Last Best Hope to Defeat Obamacare A Commonsense Plan in a World Gone Soft Why Nevada Matters And more … Obama Biden Watch Volume 3 Issue 10 – October 2011
While Americans suffer with 9.1 percent unemployment, President Obama palled around with Hollywood celebrities this week to raise money for his $1 billion campaign. The tone deafness that was on display at the fundraiser in Hollywood last night and his fourth appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno this evening just shows how out-of-touch […]
Democrats are scrambling this morning to downplay their huge loss last night of disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner’s seat in New York 9, a district that Democrat National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said was a “very difficult” one for Democrats. Remember, this seat was once held by current New York Senator Chuck Schumer and […]
President Obama’s campaign today launched “Project Vote” to increase registration amongst Democrat-friendly demographic groups. The Obama campaign wants to “expand the electorate” for the upcoming 2012 race. One problem with the name “Project Vote” – it shares the same title as a 501 (c) (3) also called Project Vote which worked closely with the now-defunct […]
Hugh Hewitt writes about President Obama using the decision he excoriated in 2010 for the 2012 elections in the Examiner: When President Obama broke with long-standing tradition and blasted the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Citizens United even as members of the court sat before him at the 2010 State of the […]
Yesterday, President Obama threw a temper tantrum like a two year old and stormed out of a meeting that he personally called for on the debt crisis. President Obama has become unhinged and is resorting to scare tactics and childish behavior in an attempt to win the media spin cycle. He is playing politics with […]
This week President Obama’s campaign manager Jim Messina gave a sneak preview of their 2012 campaign strategy. Messina noted that because of Citizens United v. FEC, the 2012 election will be different than the 2008 election. Messina warned of the dangers of Republican aligned Super PACs dominating the election cycle. He didn’t mention that a […]
In our system of divided government, Congress passes laws and the President implements them. President Obama, a former constitutional law professor, seems to have forgotten this notion of separation of powers. He now seeks to legislate from the White House, doing through Executive Order and signing statements what Congress has refused to do through legislation. […]
“We’re not going to use signing statements as a way of doing an end-run around Congress.” That was then-presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008 pledging to not issue signing statements as qualifiers to bills Congress passes. But over the weekend, now-President Obama issued his own signing statement to object to Congress eliminating certain czars and […]
Our op-ed in The Daily Caller on Democrats changing their tune on CU v. FED: As President Obama and the national Democrat establishment gear up for their billion-dollar-plus 2012 election campaign, insiders connected to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are hatching plans to protect the tenuous Senate Democrat majority. These Reid insiders are forming a […]