A new batch of Senate polls are out. There’s not much good news for the Democrats:
Republican Linda McMahon cut her opponent’s advantage in Connecticut’s Senate race from 10 percentage points to 6 points in a week, according to a new Fox News battleground state poll. … [A]fter a debate that featured Blumenthal freezing up when asked about job creation, McMahon seems to be in contention. She now trails in the survey of likely voters 43 percent to 49 percent.
Sharron Angle clings to a two-point advantage over Harry Reid, and Dino Rossi is one point up on Patty Murray. Meanwhile, the most stark indication of the president’s declining fortunes comes from Ohio:
GOP Senate candidate Rob Portman, a former Cincinnati-area congressman and budget boss to President George W. Bush, maintained a 17-point lead for a second week over Democratic Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher in a new Fox News battleground state poll of likely voters. … But the killer for Democratic aspirations in Ohio this year is likely President Obama’s dreadful ratings in the state. This week’s poll saw Obama’s approval in the state fall to a new low in Ohio of 33 percent, down 5 points from last week.
The only positive note for the Democrats: Christine O’Donnell is trailing by double digits. It seems Karl Rove was right. Nevertheless, if McMahon continues to cut into Blumenthal’s lead and Rossi and Angle hold on, Delaware will not matter. It does and will continue to serve as a warning that the GOP is fully capable of shooting itself in the foot in 2012; not every Republican can win in the Obama era.
Shorter Abe Greenwald:
“The Democratic Party and Barack Obama aren’t anti-semitic, but maybe they are?”
Obama agrees with Jackson.
Before he ran for the US Senate, he told the owner of the radical Electronic Infitada, a pro-Palestinian supporter in Chicago, that he couldn’t overtly show his support for the Palestinians because of his new position.
Obama was tight with Rashid Khalidi. I could go on, but it won’t make any difference.
“while there is absolutely no evidence that Barack Obama is remotely anti-Semitic”
I wish that were completely true. I don’t think he’s anti-Semitic, but he was happy to play those cards in his celebrated 2002 anti-Iraq-war speech:
“What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other arm-chair, weekend warriors in this Administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.”
Gee, why specifically Perle and Wolfowitz, and not, say, Cheney and Rumsfeld? I think I know, and I think you do too. Obama knew his audience that day.
I thought the same thing, Marc, when I read that a long time ago. It’s not even transparent.
I hadn’t really heard Perle’s name mentioned before by the anti-neo-cons (ie Jews).
It’s sickening that Move On/Obama is being financed by so many who are Jewish or once Jewish. I guess we would need a pyschiatrist to figure that one out.
Obama says how brave he was to come out against the war in 2002. lol
That rally was organized by Marilyn Katz, former SDS member, who does PR for Daley. That was mainstream in Obama’s neighborhood.
It’s too late to convince people that he is a fake, phony, fraud.
“It’s too late to convince people that he is a fake, phony, fraud.”
It’s not too late. Never forget the Feiler Faster thesis. John McCain must keep up the attack regarding Barack Obama’s substantial relationship with Bill Ayers. Americans do care about this issue—if they learn about it in time. We still have three weeks.
The thing about anti-Semitism is there’s enough of it to go around. If you really think the DNC has a lock on it, Abe, I advise you to go read around on the other conservative blogs out there–they don’t like us very much. (And frankly, between anti-Semites who have gun and anti-Semites who don’t, which would you choose?)
While there is report that Obama’s camp is distancing itself from the statement, its probably moreso due to trying not to muddy waters more than about his convictions. There is nothing wrong with what Jesse Jackson said. However, the truth does seem to hurt. Compared with the ‘Schlep’ talk all day, what’s wrong with putting the U.S. before any other nation; and dealing justly with other nations, even though we hold special favor of one over another? 5pillar.wordpress.com
To 5-Pillar Scribe,
The canard of the “zionist occupation government”, like Hitlers “Dagger stab legend”, and the Blood Libel accusations plays well with either the village idiot, or with those who wish to harm Jews. If you are just another village idiot I pity you, if your views indeed mirror those of Jesse Jackson than I acknowledge the Reverends ability to identify and connect with his target audience, made up of village idiots.
Perhaps Greenwald can explain the difference between Jackson’s comments, and e.g. some of Pat Robertson’s nuttier statements about 9/11 being God’s revenge for (Blue-) America’s sinful excesses…
The bottom line is both men ran for President and they both have had considerable influence.
It’s not as if McCain has never sought endorsement from nutty pastors saying controversial things about religious or ethnic minorities.
MARCU$
I live in Detroit–actually in the city–I follow the local black media to some extent, and I worked for a city department a while back that was mostly black. I am in a position to say that what distresses me a great deal about the black establishment is that even people who can by no stretch of the imagination be termed anti-Semitic do not find anti-Semitism to be a disqualifying factor. They may not approve of actions by people like Sharpton, but anti-Semitism…and fomenting pogroms…is not considered something even to mention, let alone a cause for breaking the relationship.
In defense–sort of–of Jesse Jackson, a friend of mine in Chicago pointed out that Jackson may well genuinely believe he’s not anti-Semitic. The friend mentioned that Jackson probably knows and works with a fair number of Jews but those he knows are all quite radical; he probably knows no Jew who belongs to a synagogue beyond the “hi, how are you?” level. So he may truly think that the Jews he knows are fairly representative of American Jews.
Personally, the fact that Obama not all that long ago considered the Palestinians to be the most oppressed people on the planet ought to cause in his Jewish supporters and others at least a moment’s thought. It doesn’t, somehow.
So Obama is like Jesse Jackson because they’re both black? Is Greenwald like Julius Rosenberg because both are Jews, after all both show primary allegiance to another country?
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