Democrats In Worry Mode – “Everything Was Going Great” Until Republicans Started Gaining Support

You want to know who’s giving the money? I want to see Ovmits sealed records ALL OF THEM. While that is happening, dont forget Kerry’s stellar military record ALL OF IT

Yikes, he’s even losing that cool with college voters:

On college campuses where Barack Obama made politics cool again, most students have moved on.

They’ve quit bugging their friends about change, they’re no longer trying to sign up new voters and the knock-on-door day trips now draw only the most hard-core.

One statistic from Rock the Vote, the most aggressive organization behind youthful political participation, illustrates the difference between now and 2008 — just 280,000 young voters signed up in its midterm elections voter drive, a fraction of the 2.5 million who eagerly put their name on voter forms two years ago.

The bottom line: From coast to coast, universities that brim with liberal ideas and idealistic students won’t be sending nearly as many voters to the polls on Nov. 2. And that’s bad news for Democrats.

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Colorado State University campus, voter registration drives resulted in 20,000 new voters in 2008. This year, only 1,200 came through.

University of Virginia. In 2008, 6,171 people registered to vote; only 2,714 this year

Virginia Tech, in 2008 7,402 people registered this year, 1,441

University of New Hampshire, record-breaking numbers in 2008…1,600 forms, this year
just 150 new student voters.

“UC-Davis recorded 1,633 votes in the 2008 election, a turnout of more than 60 percent of registered voters. This year, Stanionis said he’d be “astonished” if more than 15 or 20 percent of registered voters at the campus precincts show up.”

He did get decent numbers campaigning in Madison, aka Little Berkely and in colleges in Ohio and Massachusetts, he seems to want to show up in big venues in friendly territory to insult American voters from a safe perch avoiding the heckling that didn’t sit to well with him earlier. 🙄

But generally, the ranks have thinned for college Democrats, many of whom said in interviews that they’ve been getting about half as many like-minded students to their meetings and campaign trips as they did in 2008.

Whereas 70 percent of students said they “definitely” planned to vote in 2008, only 35 percent said they’ll do so this year, according to a new Harvard Institute of Politics poll. And even in 2008 there was a fairly large discrepancy between those who said they were going to vote and those who actually did — about 51 percent.

Other polls suggest Obama’s star power has simply diminished among students. What was a 60 percent approval rating in May 2009 is now 44 percent, according to an Associated Press-mtvU survey from late September.

Young people also are marching to the right, identifying with Democrats at just a 9-point margin over Republicans, a Rock the Vote poll from late August reported. In 2008, that margin was twice as big.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/44093.html

@Greg: and with Øbama’s various stimuli and bailouts, we only had a net loss of 2,991,000 private sector jobs?

This paragraph preceded the chart shown up above, in What is the President Talking About?, the linked article by Veronique de Rugy:

“Now, let’s look at private-sector jobs exclusively. The president says that between 2001 and 2009, job creation was sluggish, “more sluggish than it’s been over the last year.” Here again, I am not sure how he comes to this conclusion. Adding up private-sector job changes between February 2001 and January 2009, we find 7.6 million jobs. In 2010, the number of private jobs created amounts to 938,000.”

Actually, I don’t know what the heck Veronique is talking about. 7.6 million private-sector jobs created over 8 years works out to 950,000 jobs per year. She’s comparing 950,000 per year with 930,000 private-sector jobs created during 2010–a year that’s not even over yet, and has come during a prolonged deep recession–to make the point that the previous administration was doing strikingly better?

In the paragraphs immediately before that one, she makes these odds statements:

“In June 2010, employment decreased by 175,000 jobs, in July 2010 by 66,000 jobs, in August by 57,000 jobs, and in September 95,000 jobs. That’s a total loss of almost 400,000 jobs.

“Interestingly, these jobs were lost in the public sector. That may be why in this video, Austan Goolsbee, chairman of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, only uses private-sector job growth to discuss the Obama administration’s role as job guru.”

Have I misunderstood conservatives entirely? I was under the impression that private-sector jobs were what they were most concerned about; that growth in the private sector was an especially good thing. I’ve also apparently misunderstood their feelings about public-sector jobs. I figured job losses in the public sector would be something they’d generally approve of.

Maybe I need to reread Lewis Carolls Through the Looking Glass, just to refresh my mind on how backwards logic works.

October 26, 2010
The Big, Blue D Stands for ‘Devil’
By Kyle-Anne Shiver

Whom does the Democrat governor of Illinois think he’s fooling? Conservatives are haters? Oh, please. Not the lying hate card again.

Whenever Democrats are scared down to their woolies that Uncle Sam’s gravy train is about to get a new force of conductors — who actually check for tickets and promise to balance the books — their conservatives-are-haters reflex goes into overdrive. And it doesn’t take a triple-digit IQ to see through this tacky ruse.

This reverse use of the hate card is so silly, really, when anyone with half a grain of true historical knowledge and an ounce of common sense knows that the big, blue D stands for “devil.”

And, of course, the devil lies. Any second-grade Sunday-schooler knows that, honey.

Don’t believe me? Take a little trip down Democrat memory lane.

When the all-Democrat, devilish slave masters dressed themselves up as high society, donned the big-hooped skirts, the fashionable sideburns, and waistcoats, they flaunted their “goodness” in America’s finest high society. They preened and pranced, all the while claiming that they were the good white people who gave their slaves far better lives than they could have had in the jungles of Africa. These Democrat do-gooders even trumped up a whole junk-science disciple (sounds a bit like “global warming,” doesn’t it?) to show that the black man’s brain was inferior to the white one and that they — the slavers — were the paragons of virtue for putting free clothes on the backs of apes.

When Abe Lincoln ran as the first Republican president, the devilish Democrats took out the hate card faster than they could flip their bullwhips at a black man’s back. Abe is a hater! Wants to rob us of our private property rights! He’s really just a Negro, all dressed up to look white! The whole Dixie Democrat stronghold refused to even put Negro-Abe on the ballot in their states.

Historically speaking, it took less than a Chicago minute for those Democrat slaveholders to secede from the Union and start a war that came within a hair’s breadth of killing America. Their loss, when it finally came, was so ignominious that anyone would have thought the devil had got his due and would slink from history’s pages without raising his head again — at least not in polite company.

But those Democrat devils have got so many heads, it’s nearly downright impossible to slay ’em all. They rose again. Oh, yeah. Since outright slavery was abolished by the evil Negro Abe, they first killed him, then morphed their evil ways into a little system — almost like slavery — called Jim Crow.

Now, any decent person would think that at the very least, these Democrat devils would have known better than to try to sneak back into American high society afterward, but these folks have so much diabolical pride that they didn’t even bat an eyelash before jumping right back in, still preening like do-gooders. They were always looking out for the black man, don’t you know. Trying to keep him separate for his own good.

The devilish Democrat line hasn’t changed much; it’s just dressed up a little for public consumption. When Democrat-devil LBJ concocted his plan to change the color of the old racist beast’s spots, he stumbled onto a winner that’s lasted half a century and shows no real sign of letting go.

LBJ ushered in the age of condescending racism. Now, condescending racism is the same old ugly beast as slavery and Jim Crow. It’s designed to addict the still-inferior black man to the slavers’ handouts. Since real shackles were outlawed, old LBJ had to come up with something else. Republicans had been beating the equal-civil-rights drum for decades, and cunning LBJ saw time running out on the old Jim Crow system. A whole new order was called for, and it had to be good.

It was. A very, very superior-minded man, Thomas Sowell, has amply demonstrated in his book, Economic Facts and Fallacies, that until the Great Society (the new Jim Crow) was enacted, black incomes were rising dramatically. Black education levels were catching up fast. The middle-class black community — though still separate — was as strong as or stronger than its white counterpart. Out-of-wedlock pregnancies in the black community were just a sliver above the tiny percentages in the white community. Well, it took less than a decade of LBJ’s diabolical plan to see all that destroyed, and presto! The devil’s party had got the majority of blacks right back on the plantation, held firmly in place there with the invisible shackles of addiction to handouts.

The federal housing ghettos promptly took the place of the old slave quarters, where no white man dared to tread — not even police officers. The welfare office and the food stamp office became the new slave master’s rations queue. ACORN took the place of the overseer. And the most diabolical part of all was that the new system was even better than Jim Crow at producing more numbers of dependent offspring. That’s right. The black nuclear family that had thrived under Jim Crow, with just a tiny percentage of illegitimate births, suddenly disintegrated under LBJ’s diabolical plot to give more in handouts for the more dependent kids a black (slave) could produce. And voilà. The black community now keeps itself voluntarily in slavery with a never-ending explosion of out-of-wedlock births. To top that off, Democrat devils ushered in control of the public schools by teachers’ unions. They promptly destroyed public education in America, insuring that the black ghetto (slave quarters) will go on and on and on.

And here we are, full circle after all these years. The Democrat devils are out there in full force right this minute, trying to scare the daylights out of their slaves and herd them to the voting booths. They’ve even got their half-black overseer out on the stump, sounding downright “articulate” and looking downright “clean-cut.”

And they’re all screaming, “Conservatives are haters!” at the top of their little devilish lungs.

It’s as though they really do believe they can make evil into good and good into evil with nothing more than a thrust of their lying tongues.

If the election of Barack Obama has taught this country a single worthy thing, it’s this: souls come in only one color. Just like the African continent has discovered to its dismay and disgust, the color of a man’s skin doesn’t mean a thing. It’s just like Martin said it was. The only thing that counts is a man’s character.

So, whether led by a white demon or a black demon, that big, blue D just stands for “devil” — like it always has.

And lying is the devil’s middle name.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/10/the_big_blue_d_stands_for_devi.html

So Greg, why won’t you mention how hypocritical the dems are on the issue of campaign donations? Why are you deliberately trying to derail the thread?
Because you know the dems have stepped in it yet again. You being the mentally ill drone just have to try and come to their rescue. Too bad you’ve failed at that too.

Ummmm, wrong Brainded rob.

http://old.nationalreview.com/nrof_luskin/luskin200405050850.asp

The unemployment rate bottomed at 3.8 percent in April 2000, and started deteriorating steadily from there (during the Clinton administration).

The fed funds rate — the overnight interest rate administered by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve — peaked at 6.5 percent in 2000, and had to be lowered in an emergency move on January 3, 2001, “in light of further weakening of sales and production” (during the Clinton administration).

As the chart below shows, GDP growth fell off a cliff in the third quarter of 2000 (during the Clinton administration). Despite the shock of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, growth started to revive in the fourth quarter of 2001 (during the Bush administration).

Stop feeding us the Media Matters lies because they don’t fly here.

@B-Rob:

Oh my goodness, wouldn’t you think it would be a whole lot less confusing if that silly Fiscal Year(FY) budget thingy would go from January 1 till December 31 every year instead of from October 1 of the previous year to September 30 of the present.

Why, if that FY stuff went from January to December you could actually blame Bush for Clinton’s depression now couldn’t you? But using October1 to September 30 that didn’t allow the new president his own budget until over 9 months into his first year. That would be October 1, 2001 for President Bush, when did you say that depression started again?

Does anyone else notice that brob seems to have a hole in his boat or somewhere? 😯

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David Brooks comes back in from the wilderness.

No Second Thoughts
By DAVID BROOKS

When times get tough, it’s really important to believe in yourself. This is something the Democrats have done splendidly this year. The polls have been terrible, and the party may be heading for a historic defeat, but Democrats have done a magnificent job of maintaining their own self-esteem. This is vital, because even if the public doesn’t approve of you, it is important to approve of yourself.

In fact, I would go so far as to say that Democrats have become role models. They have offered us lessons on how we, too, may continue to love ourselves, even in trying circumstances.

Lesson one. Think happy thoughts. Never allow yourself to dwell on downer, depressing ones.

Over the past year, many Democrats have resolutely paid attention to those things that make them feel good, and they have carefully filtered out those negative things that make them feel sad.

For example, Democrats and their media enablers have paid lavish attention to Christine O’Donnell and Carl Paladino, even though these two Republican candidates have almost no chance of winning. That’s because it feels so delicious to feel superior to opponents you consider to be feeble-minded wackos.

On the other hand, Democrats and their enablers have paid no attention to Republicans like Rob Portman, Dan Coats, John Boozman and Roy Blunt, who are likely to actually get elected. It doesn’t feel good when your opponents are experienced people who simply have different points of view. The existence of these impressive opponents introduces tension into the chi of your self-esteem.

Similarly, the Democrats and their enablers have paid lavish attention to the Tea Party this year. It’s nice to feel more sophisticated than those hordes of Middle Americans, who say silly things like “Get government off my Medicare.”

On the other hand, Democrats have paid little attention to the crucial group in this election — the independent moderates who supported President Obama in 2008 but flocked away during the health care summer of 2009 and now support the GOP by landslide proportions.

Losing friends makes you sad. It is better to not think about why these things happen.

Lesson two. Always remember, many great geniuses were unappreciated in their lifetimes.

Democrats are lagging this year because the country appears incapable of appreciating the grandeur of their accomplishments. That’s because, as several commentators have argued over the past few weeks, many Americans are nearsighted and ill-informed. Or, as President Obama himself noted last week, they get scared, and when Americans get scared they stop listening to facts and reason. They get all these crazy ideas in their heads, like not wanting to re-elect Blanche Lincoln.

The Democrats’ problem, as some senior officials have mentioned, is that they are so darn captivated by substance, it never occurs to them to look out for their own political self-interest. By they way, here’s a fun party game: Get a bottle of vodka and read Peter Baker’s article “The Education of President Obama” from The New York Times Magazine a few weeks ago. Take a shot every time a White House official is quoted blaming Republicans for the Democrats’ political plight. You’ll be unconscious by page three.

Lesson three. Always remember: You are the hero of your own children’s adventure story.

Some low-minded people could look at events this year and tell a dull, prosaic story. They would say that parties that promote unpopular policies tend to get punished at election time, These grubby-minded people would point out that Democratic House members who voted against health care are doing well in their re-election bids, while those who voted for it are getting clobbered.

But many Democrats have a loftier sensibility. They see this campaign as a poetic confrontation between good (themselves) and pure evil (Karl Rove and his group, American Crossroads).

As Nancy Pelosi put it at a $50,000-a-couple fund-raiser, “Everything was going great and all of a sudden secret money from God knows where — because they won’t disclose it — is pouring in.”

Even allowing the menace of secret money, embracing this Paradise Lost epic means obscuring a few inconvenient facts: that Democrats were happy to benefit from millions of anonymous dollars in 2006, 2008 and today; that the spending by Rove’s group amounts to less than 1 percent of the total money spent on campaigns this year; that Democrats retain an overall spending advantage.

But legend rises above mere facticity, and this Lancelots-of-the-Left tale underlines a self-affirming message — that Democrats are engaged in a righteous crusade against the dark villain who tricked Americans into voting against John Kerry.

In short, it’s hard not to be impressed by the spirit of self-approval that Democrats have managed to maintain this election. I say that knowing it may end as soon as next Wednesday, when, as is their wont, Democrats will flip from complete self-worship to complete self-laceration in the blink of an eye.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/26/opinion/26brooks.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Ummmm braindead, I lived thru that time. I know the recession started under Clinton and the article I posted also proves it. Unlike you I wasn’t is high school or jr. high.

AGAIN, what is your opinion on the dems accusing the GOP of raisng money from overseas which is what the dems have been doing for years?
Stop trying to threadjack.

@B-Rob:

Read it and weep.

http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/economics/3691-Last-Economic-Recession-Began-Under-Clinton-Despite-Rewrites-The-Left.html

“Everything was going great and all of a sudden secret money from God knows where — because they won’t disclose it — is pouring in,” Pelosi said.

Really?

Is this just another one of the Democrat diversions?

Probably they don’t want you to notice that HOUSING is taking a double dip.

Unemployment is still huge.

More Americans on Food Stamps than ever.

Failing schools because all the teachers do is propagandize.

Ummm Braindead, the article I posted has the NBER admitting they were wrong to say the recession started under Bush. Let me repeat that-the NBER said they got the date wrong on when the recesion started.

So they MIGHT be taking in foreign contributions, but there is no proof of that right? If there is no proof, why should they have to produce anything? If I were to accuse you of being a criminal and demanding your arrest, there would have to be proof before you could be arrested, right? So why are scumbags like Axlerod saying the CoC needs to prove they aren’t guilty?
Might want to check this link:

B, I’ll elaborate on the “foreign money” the dems (Obama) were taking in. Just one of many examples was money from Gaza. Hamas controlled Gaza. They then lied about returning the funds. There was no proof in their donation records that they returned them and the donors denied receiving the funds back. Then there are the Obama campaign donation records.

http://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2010/10/11/foreign-contributions-investigating-obama/

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/obamas_donor_contributions_sil.html

The big one, which the links above touch on, are Obama’s website that allowed blatant donation fraud. I saw this for myself during the campaign. Yet the media sat on it and continues to do so.

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/05/obamas-donation-website-accepts-illegal.html

You may not like the sites chosen, but trying to find anything from the lefty sites or MSM is a waste of time. They don’t want people to know their obama is guilty of what they are accusing the CoC of.

LOL! 😆

As usual, the Washington-wise Howard Kurtz has produced another cogent analysis of communications in the nation’s capital — “White House goes into bunker mode.”

According to Kurtz over at his new Daily Beast online domicile, as the S.S. Obama cruises toward its midnight rendezvous with a gigantic electoral iceberg on Nov. 2, the president’s communications aides are running around on deck, frustrated that their alternative storyline isn’t gaining traction in the cacophonous world of modern political babble.

It’s like “spitting in the ocean,” White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer complains to Kurtz.

There can’t be more than two or three breathing Americans who haven’t heard …
… Obama’s economy storyline several times by now: You know, about the eight years of failed you-know-whats by you-know-who, about the huge hole Obama inherited after spending $750 million of other people’s money to buy responsibility for the presidency and how the national ship isn’t sinking as fast as it was 22 months ago. Never mind all those new 0’s on the national debt. And the still missing Recovery Summer. And Guantanamo. And DADT.

And who crashed the national car into the ditch? And who wants the keys now? And who has to get in the back seat? And something about a Slurpee, moving forward?

In fact, there’s a little-known theory that Osama bin Laden isn’t hiding in a Waziristan cave for fear of American attacks, but to avoid exposure to Obama’s economy yada-yada even one more time.

Obama has several problems. The worst is he’s the Real Good Talker.

That’s how he made his first national splash at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, as the Real Good Talker. That’s been his strong suit, thanks to Teleprompters that enable him to read the words while focusing more on delivery. Like some MLB pitcher going to his trademark fastball way too often.

To put it bluntly, it’s arrogance. Prof. Obama is so sure that he’s right — and, therefore, so is his insular staff — that he keeps on talking full speed because if he just explains his thinking one or two or 30 more times using the same metaphors and jokes, even the dimmest of his pupils is bound to get it. And to realize that what they thought they wanted isn’t really what their president knows they need.

That’s why last year Obama wasted 59, as in nearly five dozen, town hall meetings selling his colossal healthcare bill to the public and to dozens of Democratic House members, who are now inching fatalistically forward in the sad line toward Tuesday’s political firing squads.

For 22 months of the Obama Era now, frightened Americans have been watching their friends, families and neighbors lose the onetime givens in American life — jobs, homes, savings, spouses and hope.

And they’ve been telling every pollster and reporter and Republican, “It’s the economy, Mr. President.” And until the last few weeks the president’s response has been, “No, it’s not, stupid.”

American voters are never the most attentive. Through most waking hours, they collect fragments of information from an amazing array of sources — TV, online, radio, co-workers, cellphones, family, neighbors.

Again without paying attention, over time those bits and pieces coagulate into an impression. And once that impression sets, it’s like a deep grass stain impervious to even New, Improved Tide, regardless of verity. Was Gerald Ford clumsy? Is George W. Bush smart? Does Bill Clinton have an eye for ladies?

Despite all his Great Society social legislation, Lyndon Johnson paid for the nation’s impression of the awful Vietnam War and the searing social poison that spread everywhere back home. Richard Nixon denied he was a crook, but that same public wasn’t buying it by then.

The other night, David Letterman said he woke up that morning, went to let the dog out, but instead found an uninvited Obama in the backyard talking about the economy. And millions laughed, revealing they shared the same set impression about the predictably tireless talker just weeks before the midterm elections that will be a referendum on him.

And that impression is that Obama may be a Real Good Talker. But he’s a Real Bad Listener.

In Kurtz’s credible scenario, the vast diversity of competing info sources has diminished the presidential bully pulpit such that the chief executive has to shout to be heard. Every few hours Obama or Mrs. Obama or Joe Biden or Mrs. Biden leave carbon footprints all over the country making the same tardy case to choirs of supporters who are, by definition, already convinced.

If Obama visits Ohio much more, he’ll need a driver’s license. He’ll be back there again and elsewhere this weekend, demanding of crowds, “Are you fired up?” As someone’s father once said, “When everyone around you is shouting, the way to be heard is a whisper.”

As inattentive as they are, American voters can also be very forgiving of contrite politicians.

After soundly spanking a liberal Clinton in his first midterms by delivering both houses of Congress to the GOP for the first time in four decades, voters watched that savvy former governor run back to the middle of the road that he had originally promised. And two years later, in 1996, those voters eagerly reelected him over another old white Republican legislator.

Though their ranks are much thinner now, Obama’s surviving supporters should hope that he focuses on the defeats next Tuesday, not a few slim successes. And that he finally listens to the same civics lesson as Clinton heard 16 years ago. Judging from the differing personalities of the engaging Arkansan chief executive and the aloof Illinois legislator, that may be a vain hope, however.

When’s the last time you heard someone from Harvard admit they were wrong?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/10/obama-communications.html

SMORGASBORD: hi,FROM what I read, previous comments, why GOD not allowed to send money to REPUBLICANS, IF MOHAMED was allowed to send to OBAMA?
IS PELOSIE talk against a double STANDARD?
WE all know about what’s good for the goose… what the .