Americans' political party preference during 2021 shifted from Democrat to Republican in the largest move since Gallup began regularly measuring party identification and leaning in 1991.
“Democrats went from a nine-percentage-point advantage in the first quarter of 2021 to a rare five-point deficit to the GOP in the fourth quarter, Gallup said Monday.”
49% of Americans considering
themselves Democrat in last year's first quarter fell to 42% in the final
quarter, while those identifying as Republican increased from 40% to 47% during
the same period. That's a 14% swing.
“Republicans held as much as a five-point advantage in a total of just four quarters during the past 31 years, the last time being in early 1995, when they held a five-point edge after winning control of the House of Representatives for the first time since the 1950s.
“The GOP held a larger advantage only in the first quarter of 1991, after the U.S. victory in the Persian Gulf War led by then-President George H.W. Bush.”
Among those claiming to be core supporters, Democrats (29%) and Republicans (27%) both trailed independents (42%.)
At the same time another poll, the Redfield & Wilton Strategies survey, reported on by pandemic versus former President Donald Trump.
“According to the survey, conducted Jan. 8-9, 44% of Americans disapprove of Biden's overall performance, while 39% approve, giving him a net -5% approval rating. That is down two points from the same survey a month earlier when 44% disapproved and 41% approved.
“Forty percent of respondents say Biden has done a worse job handling the pandemic than Trump, while 39% say he has done a better job.”
Making things worse for Biden, if that’s possible, he ”was the clear loser to Trump on the issues of the economy (46% favored Trump); immigration (44%); national security and defense (41%); and foreign policy (41%.) Forty percent said Biden handled the economy better than Trump.”
Some other news having huge negative effect potential is that according to Joe Wallace @wsj.com: “Oil Prices Hit Seven-Year High on Rising Geopolitical Tensions.”
According to Mr. Wallace: “Crude prices rose to their highest level since the 2014 shale-induced oil crash, a milestone in a rally that is gathering momentum as geopolitical tensions threaten to knock supply.
“Futures for West Texas Intermediate, the main grade of U.S. crude, added 1.7% to $85.20 a barrel Tuesday morning. If the contracts settle above $84.65 a barrel, it will mark their highest closing level since October 2014, when oil prices were moving in the opposite direction as a gusher of U.S. crude flooded the market.
“Among the factors driving the rally are concerns that tensions in the Middle East and Europe will spill into energy markets by denting supplies from major crude producers,particularly Russia and the United Arab Emirates. Any outages are likely to goose prices in a market where demand is rising and stockpiles have fallen below recent norms, traders and analysts say.
“Gasoline prices are rising, adding to inflationary pressures and complicating matters for President Biden, who released crude from the strategic reserve in the fall in an attempt to help drivers facing sticker shock. National average gasoline prices stand at $3.314 a gallon, according to AAA, up from $2.386 a year ago.
“The market “perceives a capacity crunch could happen later in the year and is trying to get ahead of that,” said Paul Horsnell, head of commodities strategy at Standard Chartered. He said traders worry energy exports from Russia will take a hit from tensions with the U.S. over troops at the border with Ukraine and are also concerned by attacks on the United Arab Emirates.
“Also pushing oil prices higher, a shortage of natural gas outside the U.S. has boosted demand for fuel oil. Analysts at Goldman Sachs Group this week said gas-to-oil switching at power stations in Europe and Asia raised oil demand by half a million barrels a day in December. They forecast a further 300,000 barrel increase each day in January and February and figure demand for crude will reach record highs this year and next.
“Spot prices for crude have risen above prices for oil further in the future, showing traders are willing to pay up to secure tight supplies immediately. Futures for U.S. crude to be delivered next month cost $9.75 a barrel more than those for crude to be delivered 12 months later Tuesday, among the highest premiums of the past 10 years.”
While the details of oil trading around the world are much to absorb, they’re included today because they underline the damage done to American consumers by the moronic shutdown of perfectly safe drilling in the United States. Not one of the international issues mentioned above mattered an iota when President Trump fostered development of petroleum markets totally within our national borders.
In closing, and certainly still unaware of anything Bill Clinton’s wife might do in the future, mention is made of an article by Charlie McCarthy also found @newsmax.com today.
According to Mr. McCarthy: “Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was slammed on social media after using a Martin Luther King quote to criticize two fellow Democrats.
“With President Joe Biden's approval numbers in free fall, Clinton is being mentioned as the party's possible 2024 presidential nominee. That potentially could set up a rematch against former President Trump.
"MLK Jr. said: 'I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.' This is a subtweet," Clinton tweeted Friday.
"Based on the reactions to her tweet, Clinton faces much work in winning over progressives."
“BetterWorld2@Socrates091 responded to Clinton’s MLK quote with a quote from Malcolm X.
"The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative," BetterWorld2@Socrates091 tweeted. "Both want power, but the white liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro’s friend and benefactor."
"Other people responded to Clinton's post with their own comments."
"Girl if you don't keep King's name out your mouth! (emoji) Also this is a self-burn," Dr. CBS tweeted.
"Ur not gonna win if u ran. U can cut the theatrics, ms. mass incarceration. (yawning face emoji)," Mohammed El-Kurd tweeted.
"You're the ones Malcolm X warned us against, you garbage dumpster. You’'e the super predator," See Jay tweeted.
Other comments derided Clinton for being "a moderate."
"But you are also a white moderate and literally 2 weeks ago were attacking the left wing of our party…,” Jon Munitz tweeted.
Clinton late last month told MSNBC that Democrats need to do "some careful thinking about what wins elections" outside of solidly liberal areas.
"Not just in deep-blue districts where a Democrat and a liberal Democrat, or so-called progressive Democrat, is going to win," the former secretary of state told MSNBC. "I understand why people want to argue for their priorities. That’s what they believe they were elected to do."
Widening the scope of the problems, Bill himself was not forgotten. “Other responses to the MLK tweet referred to Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton, who has been scrutinized for his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein,.
"I remember you mentioning super predators in the past. Were you referring to bffs Jeffrey and Ghislaine [Maxwell]???," Lack Excellence tweeted.”
So, I guess, here we go again. Bar-rump, bar-rump.
That’s it for today folks.
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