Elway has released a new poll today of 405 registered Washington state voters interviewed from Feb 7-9. The poll offers several interesting head-to-head match-ups with Obama:
Here are the highlights:
- Obama is +11% against Romney, 49% to 38%
- Obama is +8% against a generic Republican, 50% to 42%
- Romney loses about 6% of Republican voters compared to a generic Republican candidate.
- When Ron Paul is added to the mix, 17% abandon Romney for Paul.
Republicans are having troubles warming up to the Mittster.
Obama has maintained a solid lead over Romney in Washington state. He led by +8 (49% to 41%) in last November’s Survey USA poll. Before that, the October Washington Poll found Obama leading by +9.5% (50.2% to 40.7%):
Obama will be visiting Washington state on Friday where, among other things, he’ll visit a Boeing manufacturing plant in Everett.
Obama leads Romney in Wasington Sate? No kidding! This is a blue state, so Obama pretty much has WA in his column in November.
It’s fine – we’ll all be doing OK with Obama for another four years. With the Republicans fighting him tooth and nail, nothing will get done, and that’s about the best outcome we can hope for.
@1 If Republicans fight Obama tooth and nail, we’ll get automatic defense cuts and repeal of the Bush tax cuts — which will eliminate two-thirds of the deficit — so you’re right, we’ll be fine.
Here’s the kind of “job-destroying regulation” Republicans hate:
“The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday it’s going after those annoying automated marketing calls that always seem to come right as you’re sitting down to dinner. The commission unanimously adopted new rules to crack down on what are known as robocalls.”
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_n.....-robocalls
Roger Rabbit Commentary: The more telemarketing jobs they destroy the better! As far as I’m concerned, they can destroy them all.
“…those annoying automated marketing calls…”
I’ve found that caller ID works well to screen those calls.
I’m trying to decide if the mute button for the TV or caller ID is the most significant invention of the 20th Century. It’s a difficult choice!
“…so you’re right, we’ll be fine.”
A rare occurrence: we agree on something.
You’d think after the Ohio debacle where the Mittens crowd stole the straw poll, you’d think those crooks would have learned. But no. It looks like the Rethugs for Mittens fixed the Maine caucus totals also. Talk about bad PR.
Google Maine caucus for links. The story is all over the place now.
If they are willing to do this to one of their own, is there any doubt the Rethugs are going to do their best to steal the November election.
Ending the empire overseas is inevitable: we simply can’t sustain these wars and near-wars all over the place. The price of constant vigilance is eventual insanity, and we will be paying for these wars for decades and decades. Let’s develop a policy of not getting invovled with foreign adventures unless there’s a clear reason and the prez gets a no-shit declaration of war from the Congress. As far as I can remember, neither Iraq or Afghanistan were declared wars. What, is the Constitution not important to these guys? Why not just follow the Constitution? If we need to get into a war, the the prez should get a declaration of war from Congress before getting our military involved in another useless foreign adventure.
I’m OK with ending the Bush tax cuts: I want to go to a simple, flat-rate system. The first step in getting there is to end all these “favors of the tax code” both parties have used to reward friends and punish enemies. So, the Bush tax cuts gotta go before we can move forward to simplifying things.
@7,
Oh, don’t forget – if we do get into a war, the first questions should be, “How are we gonna pay for it?”, and the second question is, “What’s our exit strategy?”
I always thought the first question should be “what do we have to do to win?”
guess Im too old school….
Yep you are:
go have a taco[watermelon, substitute whatever racial stereotypical food] and shut the fuck up
“Old school” as in ignorant racist when jim crow was the law of the land.
@6 Between vote suppression and vote theft, the Rethugs start with an advantage of about 4 million votes more than they honestly earned. In 2000 and 2004, that was enough. In 2008, it wasn’t nearly enough. It won’t be in 2012, either. This country isn’t about to go down the Compassionate Conservatism (TM) road again.
Hopefully by November it’ll be illegal for conservatives to call themselves “compassionate” because that’s false advertising.
@6 You’re right, it’s all over the internet, Maine Republicans can’t run a caucus any better than their Iowa counterparts. And these people want to tell us how to run elections??!
@13 See, e.g.,
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/P.....t-in-Maine
Hows that Keystone pipeline going? You know the one which would have employed 20,000 US workers what is now being built using 20,000 Canadian workers, because it is going to travel through Canada to a port where the iol will be destined for Aisa.
I’m sure glad we didn;t need those Oil jobs in America, because everyone can fly around with their twirly cap.
Yet Another Owebamma Blunder
We didn’t need that 1 million barrels of oil in the US, we’d rather buy from our enemys so they can fund their Nukes.
This Idiot in Charge should be tried for financial and Stupidity Treason!
@15 “Hows that Keystone pipeline going?”
I’m glad you asked that question because there’s a lot of misconception about this project.
Keystone XL will satisfy environmental concerns by using an alternate route that avoids Sandhills and the Ogallala Aquifer, and will be completed on schedule in 2014.
“The overwhelming likelihood is that the USD7 billion Keystone XL will get built along the new path agreed by the company and the state of Nebraska. As of this writing none of the shippers committed to using the 830,000 barrels per day capacity on XL have abandoned the pipeline. …
“Five Bay Street analysts have maintained their outlooks for TransCanada in the aftermath of President Obama’s temporary rejection, among them an ‘outperform,’ a ‘buy,’ a ‘sector outperform,’ another ‘buy’ and a ‘hold.’ …
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@15 (continued)
“TransCanada is soldiering on, as management announced yesterday [Jan. 18, 2012] that it will re-apply for a Presidential Permit. In a press release CEO Russ Girling said … [t]he company ‘expects’ a new application will be evaluated in time for Keystone XL to come online in 2014.”
http://www.investingdaily.com/.....-beginning
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Well, how about that. TransCanada’s CEO expects Keystone XL to be permitted, built, and completed on the original schedule. Stock analysts also expect Keystone XL to permitted, built, and completed on the original schedule. What do these insiders know that you don’t? There’s nothing here you couldn’t have found out by spending a few minutes reading a newspaper or doing a simple internet search. I was aware of this weeks ago. But then, I invest in energy stocks, and have real money riding on how much I know about the energy business.
Btw, Keystone XL will employ 6,000 not 20,000 construction workers.
We need better trolls on this blog. The ones we have are stupid and uninformed. Yd is so bad he doesn’t even know when he should feel embarassed.
Wake Up America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v....._embedded#!
Give me the interest payment on 6.4 trillion, better yet give me the interest on 12.8 Trillion additional debt added on in a two term Owebamma administration.
Please factor in several credit downgrades which will increase the cost of debt.
I’m waiting!
@21 What’s 0% x $6.4 trillion? Seems as 0% on 10 bucks.
Interest rates on Treasuries plunged after last summer’s credit downgrade. Why? Because everyone else’s credit rating is even worse, so the few remaining people who still have any money are flocking into Treasuries.
Yeah, interest on the debt will become a significant expense if we ever return to normalized interest rates. And if we don’t, we’ll be in even deeper shit.
@22 Same not seems
We live in a strange world now. Banks charge people for the privilege of putting their money into a bank account. The government borrows money for nothing. And shipping rates are now so low that shipowners are paying shippers to use their vessels (so they don’t rust at the dock). It’s getting hard for an honest capitalist to make a buck. Ironically, if capitalism goes under, it’ll be the banksters who killed it.
Oh, and guess which stocks are outperforming all others in 2012? You guessed it, the banks — who face plunging profits and massive legal liabilities. It’s like a dog passing up his food dish and eating what’s in the kitty litter box. Who the hell ever said markets are rational?
When interest rates return to normal as in Europe, like Greece where they are 33%.
OK give me the interest on 12.8 trillion in NEW OWEBAMMA DEBT at 33%
That’s where we are headed..Lets be real
It’s called We’re F*&^ed time!
Small correction here, Darryl:
When Ron Paul is added to the mix, 17% abandon Romney for Paul.
That’s not true. About 10% abandon Romney for Paul and about 5% abandon Obama for Paul.
@26 “That’s where we are headed..Lets be real”
Bullshit. We’re not Greece, and never will be.
@27 What do you mean, “we,” wingnut? This mess is your show. You get to wallow in it by yourself. I’m doing fine.