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2012 Feb 9, 11:40am
That's what I was thinking about on my walk today, an article that said how 80% of Americans agree with the Nintendo strategy of foreign assassinations by missile-firing robots from the sky.
Purists on the left need to understand there is twice as many people to Obama's right than to his left on this, and Obama is going to go to where the votes are.
This is bad when civil rights of a minority are sacrificed, like pandering to the majority on race or gay equal rights issues.
But here is just not a good hill for the purist to die on. NOT killing a suspected/alleged terrorist that does later on kill Americans will simply END your political career.
That was largely the logic that forced Congress to agree to take out Saddam once the Administration got a hard-on to do so. To vote against it, only to have Saddam in fact have WMDs or terrorist ties down the road would have exposed the politician to having endangered the American people, something piss-simple for a challenger to nail the incumbent with.
Votes against the war were brave votes, votes for the war were idiotic or craven, but that's the way things are.
http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/delegates
Romney. Hahahaha.
Santorum. Hahaha.
Gingrich. LOL
Ron Paul. Heh.
Huntsman.
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2012 Feb 9, 11:53am
So then it would be safe to deduce that if I were to vote Republican I would be sticking it to the GOP?
More bad news for shrek... And this poll comes from a site called World Net Daily, which is a lunatic Republican website full of very conspiracy theory you can imagine. It's especially heavy on birth certificate stuff.
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“The improvement in Obama’s prospects compared to the four remaining Republican challengers stems largely from two factors,†suggests pollster Fritz Wenzel. “First, Obama has largely avoided the political limelight while the GOP candidates savage each other with increasing intensity. Second, a smattering of evidence indicates that the economy is getting a little better, which helps the White House in the eyes of the voters. Secondly, the bloody fight for the Republican presidential nomination – by most estimations the nastiest GOP fight in memory – has really hurt the images of the challengers in the eyes of both Republicans and, especially, independent voters. For Republicans, each candidate carries with them now some taint that cannot be ignored.â€
In every case except the match-up against Ron Paul, more than 20 percent of Republican voters said they are more likely to support Obama than the Republican challenger. And Ron Paul is close, as 19 percent of Republicans said they are more likely to support Obama than Paul.
Making the situation more bleak for opponents of Obama, independent voters are apparently quite put off with the Republican nomination fight. While polls last fall showed them leaning Republican by roughly a two-to-one margin, they are now either split evenly or favoring Obama.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/20-of-republicans-leaning-to-obama/
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