ICYMI: Highlights from Call with Fmr. Sen. Sununu and NH Sen. Maj. Leader Bradley Former U.S. Senator John Sununu (R-NH):
"If you look around the world at what's happening in Europe, what's happening in the financial markets, the seriousness of this issue, dealing with the budget, dealing with the debt really cannot be overstated. And the facts are that Barack Obama has undermined America's financial future like no other president in history. Five trillion dollars in new debt in the last three years. A $2.6 trillion healthcare takeover whose cost keeps going up. That isn't any campaign rhetoric, that's the White House and CBO budget analysis of the cost of the global healthcare takeover. And maybe most important and worst of all, Obama has provided no plan and very little expression of interest in addressing these issues. He's certainly issued the talking points. But his budgets have shown no substantive plans or goals to address the exploding costs of the Baby Boomer retirement.
"He was given an opportunity and failed to provide leader |
Polls explain desperate Bain attacks So now we know why the Obama campaign rushed the rollout of their desperate attacks on private enterprise the same day they fundraised with a private equity donor. He’s down in the polls. Between Wisconsin, North Carolina, housing as a major issue in Arizona, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania and the dour national mood, it can’t be a great day in Chicago. Yesterday, they lashed out at The New York Times, who or what is next for Chicago to take out its anger on. I guess we’ll have to wait for the next strategy meeting in the White House this Sunday.
Wisconsin Poll: Among Likely Voters This November, Romney And Obama Are Tied At 46 Percent. (Marquette University, 604 LV, MoE 4.1%, 5/9-5/12/12)
Among Registered Voters, 49 Percent Of Wisconsin Voters Disapprove Of President Obama’s Job Performance While 45 Percent Approve. (Marquette University, 704 RV, MoE 3.8%, 5/9-5/12/12)
Walker Opens Up Lead Over Barrett In Wisconsin Recall. NBC: |
Obama’s Pennsylvania Problem MEMO
FROM: Rick Wiley, RNC Political Director
TO: Interested Parties
RE: Obama's Pennsylvania Problem
The Obama campaign is counting on Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes in their difficult task of cobbling together the 270 needed to hold the White House.
But even Pennsylvania may be out of reach for President Obama come November.
In 2008, the president won the Keystone State with 54.7 percent of the vote to Senator McCain's 44.3 percent. Today, however, 51 percent of Pennsylvanians say the president "does not deserve to be reelected," according to a recent Muhlenberg poll. And among Independents in a late March Quinnipiac poll, that number stood at 53 percent.
Similarly, the Muhlenberg poll also found that the president has only a 43 percent approval rating in Pennsylvania, while half disapprove of his job performance. Fifty-three percent of Independents disapprove, according to Quinnipiac. That's a long fall from his April 2009 overall approval rating of |
ICYMI: Highlights from Conference Call with U.S. Rep Dennis Ross Former U.S. Congressman Dennis Ross (FL-12):
"The president did not create our debt problem. I'll be the first to admit that it has been a Republican and Democrat issue for the last 30 years at least but the president has spent the last three years ignoring it. He has offered a budget. He just couldn't get a single Democrat to vote for it in either the House or the Senate. He complains about the hand he was dealt, then gambles with money borrowed from China in trying to address our economy.
"The debt of this country is increasing at a rate of 4 billion dollars a day. Debt per citizen is about $50,000, taxpayers about $140,000...what's important to know is that we're not on a course to correct this. And the president has...failed miserably to address the spiraling debt of our economy and so one of the things that we were...excited about was that as a Republican Congress we are finally making some moves towards what the American people want us to do and that's |