Wednesday, November 6, 2013

BloggeRhythms 11/6/2013

Today’s news is full of very strong indicators of things to come, if you put them together. And basically, what’s seemingly clearer is a much rougher road ahead for Democrats, regardless of the positive spin they’ll try to con voters with.
 
A major event for Dem’s, of course, was the win by Clinton hack, Terry McAuliffe, in the Virginia gubernatorial race. However, not only wasn’t the victory margin as huge as predicted, thanks to the incumbent’s new health care tax, if the election was held a week or two later, the odds are Republican, Ken Cuccinelli, might very well have pulled off an upset win despite his extremely conservative ideology.
 
According to FoxNews.com’s Dana Blanton: “Ken Cuccinelli’s strongly conservative views on issues like abortion hurt him with female voters. Women backed Terry McAuliffe by a nine percentage-point margin.  In 2009, women preferred Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell (who is also pro-life, but less conservative) by eight points.”
 
But then, you have to dissect the details, because: "Despite being outspent by an unprecedented $15 million, this race came down to the wire because of ObamaCare," Cuccinelli said in his concession speech. "That message will go out to the entire country tonight." 
 
In that regard, “While 46 percent of Virginia voters support Obamacare, a 53-percent majority oppose it. That includes 41 percent who said they “strongly” oppose the law.
 
Furthermore, “Unmarried women went for McAuliffe by a wide 67-25 percent margin,” while “Cuccinelli had the edge among economy voters (+6) and health care voters (+4), while McAuliffe had a whopping 25-point advantage among abortion voters.” 
 
Exit polls also showed,  a “53-percent majority disapproving of the job Obama’s doing as president.  Just 46 percent approve.  That’s down from the 51 percent of the vote Obama received in Virginia in 2012.”
 
However, despite all the money spent by Dem’s and the pull of the Clinton’s, the Republicans still took down several challengers to retain a solid Virginia House majority. So neither Mr. McAuliffe nor the Dem’s are going to accomplish much in the state anyway, which voters probably knew.
 
As far as Hillary herself is concerned, while McAuliffe's win might seem to bode well for her presidential aspirations, it might not really mean that much. Howard Kurtz put it precisely in Media Buzz today in FoxNews on-line when he asked: “And what would the argument for a Hillary presidency be? Something interesting happens when you ask Democrats why her in 2016. They say that it’s time for a woman, that she’ll raise oodles of dough, that other potentially strong candidates won’t dare take her on. The answers are about the process more than the person or any vision she has for the country. There’s no poetry in them. That’s not good.” 
 
Then again, next time around folks might be tired of Dem’s in general because of things like the following as reported by Tim Devaney of the washingtontimes.com about a company, Ecotality, that “received $135 million in total funding from the federal government over the past eight years. Including $35 million for two projects that were approved in 2005 and 2011, and a $100 million grant from the Obama administration’s Recovery Act, known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which gave a boost to energy-efficient companies.”
 
And after receiving the $100 million in aid from the 2009 stimulus, “Ecotality filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection September16, but the officials at the Energy Department failed to give the inspector general notice in the months leading up to the bankruptcy.”
 
It’s this sort of news that folks may be tiring of, despite all the hype and smoke emanating from the White House, whereas as Deadline's, Dominic Patten points out, the CNN TV show “Crossfire has hit new lows. 
 
Resuscitated on September 9 after eight years off the air, the political debate show pulled in just 233,00 viewers overall and a mere 59,000 among adults 25-54 between 6:30 PM and 7 PM on Monday. Full-hour time-slot rivals on Fox News Channel and MSNBC did a lot better — to put it mildly. FNC’s Special Report had 2.44 million viewers with 411,000 in the key news demo, while MSNBC’s Al Sharpton-hosted PoliticsNation had 707,000 total viewers and 170,000 among the 25-54s.”
 
So, if folks aren’t tuning in the administration’s main TV outlet, choosing despised Fox instead, or even deadbeat Sharpton, it looks like folks are just plain fed up. Which likely explains the next item.
 
Because despite all the Dem noise every time “W’s” mentioned,  according to Eric Pfeiffer, of Yahoo News via Drudge: “In the first week of November in the fifth year of their presidencies, Obama and Bush have nearly identical approval numbers, according to the latest Gallup polling.
 
When President Obama first ran for the White House in 2008, it was with the promise to turn the page on the presidency of George W. Bush. But for all their political differences, it turns out the American public pretty much view the two men in the same light, according to new polling data, where In fact, Bush comes out one point ahead, 40 percent to 39 percent, respectively.”
 
And if that isn’t an indicator of things to come for the administration, I’ve included a link to a very informative article suggesting where the health care tax and socialism in general will likely take us  It’s well worth reading. Doctors say Venezuela's healthcare in collapse
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios

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