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Negatives Won’t Kill Romney
23 May 2012 12:05 am

In a survey of 6,000 likely voters, including a special sample of 1500 swing voters taken from May 5-11, I probed how Obama’s attacks on Romney were likely to play in the general election.
As the economy declines and his chances for victory fade, President Obama is resorting to a virtual wall to wall negative campaign in a desperate effort to win re-election. It is vital that the Republicans answer these charges as they surface — one by one — but what rebuttals will work?
Obama’s first broadcast negative ad attacks Romney …

Saudis Supply 90 Percent of Jihad Funding: ‘Screwed’
18 May 2012 12:02 am

In “Screwed,” we reveal that the Saudi Monarchy, which we defended in the Gulf War with American blood, is the source of 90 percent of the global funding for radical Islamist mosques and schools throughout the world. Our oil dollars at work!
Lawrence Wright, author of “The Looming Tower,” estimates that the Saudis have spent $75 billion on spreading global jihad.
Dr. Sahr Muhammad Hatam, himself a graduate of Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi schools, describes what they are like: “The mentality of each one of us was programmed upon entering the school as …

Iran Gives Chavez Missiles to Hit the US: “Screwed”
18 May 2012 12:01 am

In “Screwed,” we document that Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez has cemented an alliance with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his terrorists to base missiles in South America that can hit American cities.
The Iranian-Venezuelan alliance first came to public view when U.S. counter-terrorist officials thwarted an Iranian-Venezuelan plot to use Mexican drug cartel operatives to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. as he ate in a D.C. restaurant.
In “Screwed,” we offer more chilling information on this new threat against us:
–Iran is selling drones to Chavez. “The Wall Street Journal” reports …

Undecided to Break Against Obama
16 May 2012 12:06 am

From May 5-11, 2012, I conducted a survey of 6,000 likely voters. On such a mammoth sample, the margin of error is less than one percent. I found that Romney has amassed a sizeable lead over Obama of 51-42, far in excess of what published polling and surveys of registered — as opposed to likely voters — are indicating.
If Romney were to win 51 percent of the vote, the election would, of course, be very close. But if he could hold Obama to 42 percent, it would be a landslide. …

China Has Hacked Our Electric Power Grid: Read About It in ‘Screwed’!
11 May 2012 12:01 am

In our new book “Screwed,” we report that, almost unnoticed and with no threat of retaliation, China has likely hacked into the United States electric grid, potentially giving it the ability to paralyze our economy and our nation by tapping a few keys on a computer.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Bush’s anti-terrorism co-ordinator Richard Clarke reports that “in 2009, the control systems for the U.S. electric power grid [were] hacked and secret openings created so that the attacker could get back in with ease. One expert noted that the …

A Romney Landslide
10 May 2012 12:02 am

If the election were held today, Mitt Romney would win by a landslide.
The published polls reflect a close race for two reasons:
1. They poll only registered voters, not likely voters. Rasmussen is the only pollster who tests likely voters, and his latest tracking poll has Romney ahead by 48-43.
2. As discussed in previous columns, a study of the undecided voters in the past eight elections, in which incumbents sought a second term as president, reveals that only Bush-43 gained any of the undecided votes. Johnson in 64, Nixon in 72, …

The Reality of Unemployment
9 May 2012 12:05 am

At last, Obama’s economic strategy becomes clear: Encourage Americans to stop even looking for work! In April, the number of Americans seeking work dropped by 522,000, part of a long term decline of 22 million in the number of adults seeking work.
When Obama took office, 135 million American adults had jobs. Now, 139 million do. But when he became president, 70 million had dropped out of the labor force or were unemployed. Now, 100 million fall into these categories.
University of Maryland economist Peter Morici writes that “Factoring in those discouraged …

Gender Gap is Smaller
25 Apr 2012 12:04 am

The Democratic PR machine has convinced the mainstream media that the Republicans have so alienated American women that a huge gender gap is looming, which will propel Obama into a second term in the White House.
The data show how fatuous this claim is. Rasmussen’s polling — the best because he samples likely voters — shows Romney running twelve points better among men than among women. But, in the presidential election of 2008, Obama actually did carry women by twelve points more than men (he won women by 13 points and …

New Jersey: Kyrillos Can Beat Menendez
21 Apr 2012 12:01 am

The New Jersey Miracle — the election of Chris Christie as governor — may be about to have a sequel in the very real chance that Republican State Senate leader Joe Kyrillos could upend Democratic incumbent Bob Menendez in the U.S. Senate race this year.
Stranger things have happened. The latest statewide surveys all show Menendez far short of the magic 50 percent of the vote, which incumbents must poll in order to be safe. Indeed, the Quinnipiac Poll taken on April 3-9, 2012 (among 1,607 registered voters) shows Menendez ahead …

Obama Failed Buffett Rule Test
19 Apr 2012 12:03 am

The loudest rhetoric coming from President Obama lately has been about the Buffett Rule, which states that millionaires should pay 30% of their income in taxes.
But now it comes out that he and Michelle only pay 20.2% of their income of about $800,000 in taxes! They flunk their own standard by ten points!
How much brains does it take to get the whole country stirred up, demanding that the rich pay 30% in taxes and then fail to do that yourself?
The other major point Obama has been touting is his success …

Undecided Goes Against Incumbent
18 Apr 2012 12:05 am

With most current presidential polls of likely voters showing 9-10 percent undecided, the question of where the undecided votes go becomes of paramount importance.
To answer this question, I compared the final Gallup Polls with the actual results in every race in which an incumbent president was opposing an insurgent since 1964. This included the Johnson-Goldwater race of 1964, the Nixon-McGovern race of 1972, the Carter-Ford race of 1976, the Reagan-Carter-Anderson race of 1980, the Reagan-Mondale race of 1984, the Clinton-Bush-Perot race of 1992, the Clinton-Dole race of 1996, and the …

What Santorum Did Wrong…and Right
12 Apr 2012 12:01 am

Immediately after his astonishing finish in the Iowa Caucuses (which he turned out to have won), Rick Santorum could have won the nomination and the presidency. But he got lost in the Evangelical Ghetto. Short of money and needing an organization, Santorum grabbed the support offered by the Christian right. Suddenly, he had available to him a pre-fab campaign with manpower, media, issue themes and even some money.
But by entering into their embrace, he also tacitly accepted their limitations. He made it impossible to exploit fully the Tea Party base …

What Are Obama’s Folks Thinking?
10 Apr 2012 12:02 am

As President Barack Obama’s re-election strategy takes shape before our eyes, it appears to involve several key elements:
1. Do not run on your record; run as if there were no incumbent.
2. Stress class warfare, negatives and fear of GOP cuts.
3. Subsume negatives about his record in a miasma of general pessimism. (Medicare was broken before we got here. Headwinds slowed the economy.)
Will it work? Most likely not. Economic populism has never been able to reach more than about 40 percent of the American electorate. And the only modern incumbent to …

Obama’s Enthusiasm Gap
4 Apr 2012 12:04 am

The conventional wisdom in Washington, D.C., is even more demented that usual in its confident prediction of an Barack Obama victory. The fact is that a careful analysis of the polling suggests that he faces the likelihood that his political base will underperform in the 2012 election, voting with their feet by staying home.
An enthusiasm gap is hurting Obama’s candidacy and his re-election chances.
Realclearpolitics.com helpfully lists all of the test match-ups between Obama and Mitt Romney. Of the last 12 polls — going back to March 11 — 10 tested …

If the Individual Mandate Is Struck Down by the Court … What Happens?
31 Mar 2012 12:01 am

The core of Obamacare is obviously the requirement that everyone have health insurance. It is likely, given the nature of Justice Kennedy’s and Roberts’ questioning of the government attorneys defending the mandate, that it will be overturned by the Supreme Court.
But we all must remember that there are other parts of Obamacare that are equally — if not more – horrible but are likely to survive judicial scrutiny.
In Wednesday’s lunch alert video, I discussed one of these — the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission — which sets up the basis for …

Is Obama Killing His Senators?
28 Mar 2012 12:05 am

Outside the beltway, polling indicates a massacre of Senate Democrats is in the offing in the 2012 elections. Currently, Rasmussen’s polls have Republicans leading Democrats for eight Senate seats now held by Democrats. Bill Nelson is six behind Connie Mack in Florida; Claire McCaskill is 10 behind Sarah Steelman in Missouri; John Tester is three behind Denny Rehberg in Montana; Sherrod Brown is four behind Josh Mandel in Ohio. And for open seats, George Allen is three up on Tim Kaine in Virginia; Jon Bruning is 20 ahead of Bob …

Obama Assumes Dictatorial Powers
24 Mar 2012 12:01 am

With two presidential signatures — one on New Year’s Day and the other issued last week — President Barack Obama has assumed the right to assert dictatorial powers over almost all aspects of the U.S. economy and to hold American citizens indefinitely without trial!
(This is not some “Space Aliens Invade” story. It is really happening).
On New Year’s Day, Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act to fund the Pentagon. But smuggled into its language is an explicit authority “allowing him to indefinitely detain (U.S.) citizens,” according to Jonathan Turley writing …

Senate Democrats in Mortal Danger
22 Mar 2012 12:03 am

To understand the full dimensions of the coming Republican landslide, one need look no further than the Senate races around the country. Because the presidential race is obscured by the heat of the Republican primary, the scale of the coming upheaval is less evident in presidential polling. But a survey of the key Senate races suggests not just a GOP victory but a total rout.
According to the usually very reliable polling by Scott Rasmussen, Republican candidates are currently leading their Democratic opponents in seven races for seats currently held by …

Holder Concealed Evidence of Gunrunner’s Release
22 Mar 2012 12:01 am

The fast and furious story gained momentum in Washington after it has emerged that Attorney General Eric Holder failed to turn over to congressional investigators evidence that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms released Manuel Acosta — a kingpin in the illegal weapons trade of the drug cartels — from custody in return for a vague promise of “cooperation,” which he failed to keep. His failure to comply with the congressional subpoena — which covered the Acosta case — will ratchet up demands for his resignation or impeachment.
At the …

Obama Gives Our Secrets to Russia
21 Mar 2012 12:05 am

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are increasingly moving to strip America of vital defense capabilities through a web of international treaties and agreements. Already, Clinton is negotiating a code of conduct in outer space that would effectively ban our capacity to destroy satellites and put interceptor missiles in space.
Last week, the president announced that he was going to provide the Russians with detailed technical information about the anti-missile systems he plans to base in Eastern Europe in the hopes of lessening Russian opposition to their deployment. …

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