ADL Poll: American Support for Israel Remains Solid; Increase in Support for Action to Prevent Iran From Going Nuclear
The American people’s strong support for Israel remains constant and their
support for action to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power has
substantially increased, according to a new nationwide survey released by the
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today.
The survey’s findings demonstrate that Americans recognize Israel as a strong
and loyal U.S. ally, are skeptical about “peace dividends” that would be
realized by Israel stopping all settlement construction and believe that a
Palestinian state must not be established until the Palestinians demonstrate a
commitment to end violence and accept Israel’s legitimacy.
Kouchner hinted that Israel had been generous in the time it had provided the international community to solve the crisis diplomatically, but warned that eventually the threat will cross a red line and Israel will be compelled to act.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki responded to Kouchner’s warning on Monday by saying that Tehran views the “Zionist regime” as weak and incapable of launching any kind of substantial attack on it’s nuclear facilities.
The decline of NBC as a non-partisan broadcaster began long ago, the exact date is unknown to me. For the current era of “state run” media, NBC fought and clawed their way to the front of the line to be Øbama’s boot-lickers.
The best example, of course, was the absurdity that Chris Matthews of MSNBC bestowed on us in Feb ‘08:
I have to tell you, you know, it’s part of reporting this case, this election, the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama’s speech. My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often. No, seriously. It’s a dramatic event. He speaks about America in a way that has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with the feeling we have about our country. And that is an objective assessment.
Since that time, the same Chris Matthews made the following statement:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Yeah, well, you know what? I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work, and I think that –
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Is that your job? You just talked about being a journalist!
MATTHEWS: Yeah, it is my job. My job is to help this country.
SCARBOROUGH: Your job is the make this presidency work?
MATTHEWS: To make this work successfully. This country needs a successful presidency.
That was then, this is now.
In the news ratings between FOX and the MSNBC news shows, the following are the latest Nielsen ratings available.
The numbers speak for themselves, as MSNBC is so far behind FOX in the ratings, they aren’t even trying anymore, just currying favor with the new administration. I don’t see that as business plan that will define success.
With all that, as if it weren’t enough, there is the matter of prime time NBC network shows. If it weren’t for college football, NBC wouldn’t win any time slots, but to fully illustrate the corrupt and maladaptive environment at NBC, there were two incidents on Friday, 25 Sep 09 that need mentioning.
The first was this outrageous email sent by an NBC “Dateline” producer. “Bite Me, Jew Boy!”
Then, on Friday night, the season premiere of the series “Law and Order” added another voice to the howl of the moonbats, as evidenced in the following trailer.
Yes, that’s right, they are still pushing for the prosecution of members of the Bush administration.
They did have at least one positive review for the show, as evidenced here.
Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote on the Huffington Post that “[w]hat McCoy understands is that in America, the rule of law applies to everyone. No one is above the law, not even (and some might say especially) the most powerful. … In real life, there has yet to be an investigation into the high-level authorization of torture, a crime that has stained the reputation of our nation at home and abroad.“
Of course, if the ACLU says our nations reputation is stained, then it must be anything but.
An actual voice of reason can be found at Gateway Pundit:
Hey Hollywood– This may came as a surprise but America is angrier today with the radicals in Washington than they were when Bush was in charge.
When will we see the Obama-bashing episodes?
The answer to GPs question will go unanswered, just as all requests from the NBC producer have been.
We have heard from David Frum, and other talking heads lately that the passionate Republicanism of Glenn Beck, and Mark Levin, and the supposed Republican Party shift toward “pure Conservatism” is going to ensure that the Democrats have a complete win in 2010. They would suggest that the Republican party take a more liberal, and “centrist” stance to find common ground with the Hyper-Liberals now in power.
The only problem is that this tactic of passionate Conservatism, and Republican partisanship is working!
Rasmussen reports that Obama’s approval rating has hit a new low at -11:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 30% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11. (see trends).
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Overall, 46% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. That’s the lowest level of total approval yet measured for Obama. Fifty-three percent (53%) now disapprove…As for those not affiliated with either major party, 66% disapprove. See other recent demographic highlights from the tracking polls.
The Democrat Party controlled Congress is doing even worse:
More bad news for the Democrats from Rasmussen today – The Republicans continue to maintain a sizeable lead in generic congressional balloting, 43%-38%,
This summer brought a significant shift in voter preferences in the Generic Congressional Ballot. As Republican Congressional candidates once again lead Democrats by a 43% to 38% margin this week, this is now the ninth straight ballot the GOP has held a modest advantage.
Over the past nine weeks, Republicans have held a two-to-five point advantage over Democrats every week. It is important to note, however, that the recent shift is not only because Republicans have been gaining support, but that Democrats have slipped in support. While support for Republican candidates ranged from 41% to 43%, support for Democrats ranged from 37% to 39%.
Looking back one year ago, support was strikingly different for the parties. Throughout the summer of 2008, support for Democratic congressional candidates ranged from 45% to 48%. Republican support ranged from 34% to 37%.
Democrats held a six- or seven-point lead on the ballot for the first few weeks of 2009. That began to slip in early February, and from mid-April through June the two parties were roughly even.
Prior to the week of March 15, however, Democratic candidates held the advantage in on the Generic Ballot for several years.
My my, what could have happened this year to sink the Democrats? Was it the quadrupling of the budget deficit through unnecessary and counterproductive spending? Was it the absolute waste of $787 billion on a “stimulus” package that did nothing but line the pockets of Democrat cronies? Was it the absolute negligence of the Democrats in forcing through unread bills that large majorities of the people didn’t want? Is it the current attempt to nationalise and destroy the health care system in America, so that we’ll all end up having to wait two years for that treatment for our liver cancer? Or is it the visible arrogance and contempt for their own constituents who are making their voices heard at the town halls?
Or is it all of the above?
The Democrats should keep in mind that trying to Gomer Pyle our health care system was what killed them back in 1994. And the generic numbers Rasmussen is reporting look strangely like the numbers going into 1994’s midterm elections. Just sayin’.
A couple of other tangential observations I would make about the recent polling data:
1) Turning the recent death of Ted Kennedy into another Wellstonepalooza is going to be about as well received by the general public as was the first Wellstonepalooza – which is to say, not very well at all. If the Dems succumb to the obvious temptation to cynically exploit Kennedy’s death as an excuse to try to ride it for political advantage (as they already show signs of planning), it WILL backfire on them. The Democrat’s shenanigans at Wellstone’s funeral showed them to be cynical, manipulative, and shallow. Expect that image to be reinforced if they turn Kennedy’s funeral into a three-ring circus about health care.
2) For all the talk of how much it is supposedly “hurting” Republicans, the whole “birther” thing seems to have had about zero negative effect on their polling. I’m not really into the birther thing myself, but it’s been hysterical seeing the marching morons come out of the woodwork with their dire predictions that asking about Obama’s birth certificate would somehow result in electoral destruction for the Republicans. For, you know, showing a concern about the Constitution and stuff.
Some bitter clinger over at Renew America does the dirty on Pres_ent Obama
….Now, to the chagrin of the President and his Party, he is discovering why cults of personality are not truly reliable as a source of political power. It’s because, psychologically, frenzies of excitement cannot be maintained indefinitely. In the psychological gravity of personality politics, what goes up must come down. The superficial luster will wear away. Once a personality-dependent ruler starts having to actually make decisions that will affect peoples’ lives, he will invariably start to see support slip away. And when the ruler makes a string of monumentally bad decisions like Obama has, one after the other, packed tight like a can of sardines, the slippage will turn into freefall.
There will always be those who blindly cheer the President no matter what he does. However, a critical percentage of the population — the one that does things like decide elections — has awakened to what Obama really is. They’ve seen the lies, and they don’t like them one bit. They see the gathering clouds, the storm that threatens to deluge their freedoms and their family finances, and they’re revolting against it. It is no longer enough for them that Obama is “the first black President” or that he’s cool and hip. They want governance that will bring back prosperity and protect their freedoms, or at least that isn’t going to devastate them individually and as a nation. Yet, they’re getting exactly the opposite. Obama is finding out that popularity and coolness are no substitute for substance and gravitas and wisdom and statesmanship. It’s just a shame that this discovery came after he was able to scam his way into the White House….
It’s a shame that it’s not September 2012 already. Because then, President Obama, who we can now call “Mr. 47%” would probably get to join all of the people that his policies have put into the unemployment line.
Overall, 47% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. That’s the lowest level of total approval yet recorded. The President’s ratings first fell below 50% just a few weeks ago on July 25. Fifty-two percent (52%) now disapprove.
I guess the President’s strategy of telling people to shut up because “he won” and “he’s President”, suggesting that legitimately concerned citizens at town hall meetings are really just kook right wing fringe extremists to whom we don’t need to listen, and trying to sneak 1000+ page bills through Congress before anyone can find out what they contain isn’t working. For a change of pace, maybe Obama might try a little honesty, transparency, and responsiveness to the will of the people?
Nah, that’s just crazy talk.
More bad news for Obama, the Democrats, AND all of us Americans who will have to continue to suffer because of the obtuse policies of these buffoons – Last week’s new jobless claims rate was, ah, “revised upward” to 558,000 claims. But but but, I thought that unemployment went down 0.1% last month and that prosperity was just around the corner?
Reality check – the reason the unemployment rate went down 0.1% last month was not because new jobs were being created. It was due to the vagarities of the way the “unemployment rate” is calculated, coupled with the fact that many workers are becoming classified as “discouraged workers” and being factored out of the labour force entirely. What’s worse, when you calculate the U6 unemployment rate – which is basically the entirety of people completely out of work plus those who are want to work full-time hours but are only able to obtain part time work (which is also a factor in employment slowdown), it’s at 16.3%. Folks, that’s in the range that was consistently seen throughout the Great Depression, when we had another socialist pushing through grandiose deficit-spending schemes and make-work programs which utterly failed to do anything beneficial.
I’m certain this will be reported on the three national newscasts, PBS, MSNBC, and CNN.
To me, the one thing poll shows is that a lot of people claiming to be conservative must have either stayed home and didn’t vote, or voted only for their state and local elections and not for President, or voted for The Zero™. I did read last week that less people voted in 2008 than in 2004.
(CNSNews.com) – Americans who consider themselves conservatives now outnumber Americans who consider themselves liberal by almost two to one, according to a new poll by the Washington Post and ABC News.
In the poll of 1,001 adults conducted between July 15-18, respondents were asked: “Would you say your views on most political matters are liberal, moderate, or conservative?”
Thirty-eight percent said they were conservative, while only 20% said they were liberal. Thirty-nine percent, meanwhile, said they were moderate.
The percentage of self-described conservatives has increased since President Barack Obama was inaugurated in January and the percentage of self-described liberals has diminished. A Washington Post poll conducted in mid-January, shortly before the inauguration, showed 32% saying they were conservative, 24% saying they were liberal and 42% saying they were moderates.
This Gallup poll was released a few days ago, and from my perspective, it didn’t receive the attention it deserved, particularly the info in the above graphic.
For those who fear Sarah Palin, or are terrified of her, as well as being jealous, this is not the direction their persistent assaults on her and her family is intended. Interestingly, the notion she is not sophisticated enough, or experienced enough, comes from the same people who support/ed our current resident of the White House, the most incompetent, unqualified, least experienced, and least known person to ever hold this office.
In a Washington Post Op-Ed, Sarah Palin lays waste to the “Cap and Trade” legislation the House passed.
Can America produce more of its own energy through strategic investments that protect the environment, revive our economy and secure our nation?
Yes, we can. Just not with Barack Obama’s energy cap-and-tax plan.
This piece by Gov. Palin could not go without challenge, from the George Soros cabal. Who did they trot out first to challenge/impugn her? As humorous a choice as possible, Sen. John Kerry.
MoveOn.org began e-mailing members Tuesday, asking them to fund a rapid response ad blasting Palin’s op-ed. Soros’ group said Palin was positioning herself as the face of conservative opposition to Obama’s energy policy, telling supporters her op-ed was “a marvel of misinformation and outright lies.”
That last quote is more accurately applied to the Soros cabal, and the numerous prevaricators on his pay roll.
Then there were others who decided to weigh in on her Op-Ed, as indicated by this posting at Conservatives4Palin.
As could be expected, Governor Palin’s common sense assault on this huge government intrusion into the private sector stirred a hornet’s nest of panic among the liberals and their allies in the mainstream media. Conor Clarke of The Atlantic immediately responded, as if on cue, with an incoherent attack which was promptly and thoroughly debunked by Rob Harrison. Even one of the bill’s sponsors, Representative Ed Markey (D., Mass.), felt compelled to respond in The Daily Beast and, as with Mr. Clarke, his misinformed tirade was quickly taken apart, this time by R.A. Mansour.
She has 72% approval in Palin in the Gallup poll. Political gurus and pundits — these yapping yammerers all over TV; Palin trashers in the Republican Party; the sordid, looking-down-the-nose, low-wattage elitists — you might call the office here to figure out what’s going on. This is not going to sit well with the elites in the Republican Party, the country club, blue-blood, Rockefeller Republicans. They don’t like her nearly as much as the Democrats don’t like her, but I think this is huge: 72% after a year in which she has been a target of literal political destruction. Folks, I’m just telling you: If there are any of you wimpy, wishy-washy Republicans out there who so desperately want to have a candidate that the sophisticates in the media in Washington and New York approve of, you are guaranteed to secure the Republican Party defeat after defeat after defeat. If you’re going to let them pick our nominee — which happened last time, by the way.
To further illustrate her ascendant favorable polling, despite the vicious attacks on her, I found this info at the Governor Palin 4 President blog.
It is nice to see Sarah Pac advertising on the Drudge Report. Especially since Drudge Report has often been in the top twenty visited sites in the world. In 4 months Sarah Pac brought in just under $800,000 and all of the donations were in small amounts. This is great news because it demonstrates Governor Palin has large grassroots support (unlike Romney).
Since July 3rd, donations have increased 100 fold, in 3 weeks, nearly doubling the total nearly meeting Romney’s $1.6 million. What is most encouraging for Governor Palin & Sarah Pac is the number of supporters more than triples Ronmey’s which in the end equals more votes, a much larger base and a huge grassroots campaign already in-place & nationwide.
That info reinforces the Gallup poll findings in more than an anecdotal manner. Yet, the LameStreamMedia, if it mentions Gov. Palin at all, does so with condescending and derisive reporting. Their frustration at not being able to influence more to their scripted plan of destruction must be excruciatingly painful.
The fear and loathing, while most pronounced on the left, is not to be overlooked on the self-anointed GOP elites. Victor Davis Hanson had an excellent piece last week, that has since been posted at several different sources. Why the Elitist Hatred Toward Palin?
In short, if Palin is a “nutty puppy,” these Washington and New York insiders are a deranged pack of rabid dogs. Why, though, the venom?
An excellent question, to which he supplies numerous explanations.
Another example of the self-anointed elites disdain for Gov. Palin comes from an article at American Thinker concerning one Peggy Noonan, and in my opinion, is as accurate a description of the D.C.-NY “yammerers” as any I’ve read, and one that makes me chuckle, each time I read it. Peggy Noonan: Sarah Palin Jealous!
You’re Peggy Noonan and you’re jealous. You don’t understand it. Sure, maybe she has accomplished a few things (like the $26 billion dollar natural gas pipeline deal, restructuring Alaskan government, and taking an ice pick to corrupt politicians). But she has no style, no pizzazz — she just does stuff. But so do you — and you can’t understand why you don’t get the same adoration. After all, didn’t you go before the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission and not just protest, but elegantly protest — so said The New York Times — a 16-story tower a developer wanted to build in your ritzy Upper East Side Manhattan neighborhood? Sarah Palin wouldn’t have done that; she’s not brilliant enough to understand preservation. She probably would have looked at the jobs the construction would create and given it a déclassé “Hell yeah!”
There is more that can be gleaned from the Gallup poll, as well as others, but suffice it to say she is a political force that cannot be easily disposed of by the self-anointed elites, right or left, and it is their chagrin that I pleasure in. You go, Super Sarah!!
On the heels of Rasmussen’s daily tracking poll that shows Obama’s national approval rating going down the drain fast , other polls showing him tanking in Ohio and Virginia, and yet another poll showing that the GOP is maintaining a lead on the generic congressional ballot, is this month’s voter trust poll, also from Rasmussen. The Republicans now lead the Dems on 8 out of 10 issues, up from the six they led in last month.
Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on eight out of 10 key electoral issues, including, for the second straight month, the top issue of the economy. They’ve also narrowed the gap on the remaining two issues, the traditionally Democratic strong suits of health care and education.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that voters trust the GOP more on economic issues 46% to 41%, showing little change from the six-point lead the party held last month. This is just the second time in over two years of polling the GOP has held the advantage on economic issues. The parties were close on the issue in May, with the Democrats holding a one-point lead.
Voters not affiliated with either party trust Republicans more to handle the economy by a 46% to 32% margin.
Last week’s report of 9.5 percent unemployment, the highest since 1983, raised doubts about the economy and the president’s handling of it. Consumer and investor confidenceis now down to the lowest levels in three months. Just 39% now say President Obama is doing a good or an excellent job on the economy while 43% rate his performance as poor. Those are by far the weakest numbers yet for the president.
For those interested, here are the specifics:
Issue
Democrats
Republicans
Health Care
46%
42%
Economy
41%
46%
Education
41%
38%
Iraq
41%
45%
Nat’l Security
40%
49%
Abortion
39%
46%
Social Security
37%
42%
Taxes
36%
52%
Immigration
34%
40%
Gov’t Ethics
33%
34%
I would bring the readers attention, again, to the abortion number. Republicans now enjoy a 46%-39% lead, way up from last month’s 40%-40% tie. Looks like the non-stop smear effort by the MSM against pro-lifers and the GOP about George Tiller backfired in a major way.
The American people seem to be developing a buyer’s remorse for Obama that is worse than the buyer’s remorse I have for the used Saturn Ion I bought earlier this year.
