Rasmussen has come out with new polling results for the race to replace Roland Burris for the Senate seat that was held by Barrack Obama. If the election here held today, likely GOP nominee Rep. Mark Kirk would be tied with Illinois Treasurer and former mob tied Broadway Bank executive Alexi Giannoulias at 41%. Kirk leads the other democrats in the race, Cheryl Jackson (a former Blago aide) and David Hoffman (former Inspector General) by 4 and 10 points respectively.

Giannoulias, a basketball buddy of Barry’s, has closed a 41-38 gap on Kirk from the August version of the poll. Giannoulias has a plus 3 favorability rating (17 very favorable) and Kirk has a plus 10 favorability  rating (18% very favorable). 20 percent of voters do not know enough about either to form an opinion on them.  The independent vote in the poll is going to Kirk at a 52-23 rate, which has to be somewhat disheartening to the White House if independents from Illinois preferring a Republican 2 to 1 over a guy in Giannoulias who is only in his current office because Senator Obama was hawking him in campaign ads like he was Billy Mays and Giannoulias was Oxyclean.

That is why in spite of how much Kirk’s Rinoism irritates me and my preference that he stay in the House to keep that seat safe, instead of risking it for a 50-50 senate race, that I think conservatives need to back Kirk, Giannoulias is Obama.  If this race is competitive people will know about Broadway Bank and it will be another brick in the wall of corruption and radicalism that surrounds Barrack Obama. The fact that in the five years that Barrack Obama has been a major force in Illinois politics that Giannoulias is the only person that Barry has put any political capital into getting elected will enter the national political discussion. 

Poll: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/illinois/election_2010_illinois_senate_election

Rasmussen Reports released a poll today showing that shows what the results would be if there was a national GOP primary for the 2012 nomination was held today and it shows:

1. Huckabee 29%
2. Romney 24%
3. Palin 18%
4. Gingrich 14%
5. Pawlenty 4%
6. Somebody else 6%
7. Not Sure 7%

Rasmussen also asked poll respondents who they would not want to see win the nomination:

1. Pawlenty 24%
2. Palin 21%
3. Newt 20%
4. Romney 9%
5. Huckabee 8%

Obviously at this time in the “race” name id is what is driving the support for candidates and the numbers are extremely volatile and are likely to change. Next month at this time, Palin’s numbers could be really up as people who like her but are concerned about her viability as a Presidential candidate have their fears soothed after reading her book. I do think that it is worth some discussion about what this poll says about the GOP in October of 2009.

I for one was shocked to see Huckabee getting a little under a third of the vote and less than 1 in 10 respondents being against his nomination.  At a time when it seems like the party can get out of the wilderness it has been in since the day after the re-election of former President Bush, primarily because the public is uneasy with the current administration tax and spend agenda and weak foreign policy, nominating Huckabee would be telling the public “we just want to moderate the Obama agenda, not end it.” When we need to be saying, “we have to get back to fiscal sanity at home and restore America’s credibility and security abroad.”  Remember when everyone was shocked at Obama’s Nobel victory and even some lefties were pointing out how absurd it was, it was Huckabee telling us on the right “to stop whining about it.”

The good thing about this is that it is still three years away and should be on the back burner for now. Winning the House should be goal 1, 2 and 3 of the Conservative movement right now. As with a GOP controlled house it gives a chance for our brightest minds in that chamber like Mike Pence or Paul Ryan to become more well known and maybe two years from now be seen as a strong candidate for the nomination.

Link to the poll:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2012/gop_2012_huckabee_29_romney_24_palin_18

I just checked out the Drudge Report and the headline is this:

ABC/CBS/NBC/NYT/LAT/WSJ
MSNBC/AP/Reuters/AFP/Politico
FT/Time/WashPost/Newsweek
Can they all be wrong?

Their is no link to anything at all, which is a bit unusual for Drudge because most of the time that he is teasing something he usually links back to his website. The only clue about what it is is a cartoon of Obama in a Superman pose with the American Flag in the background. The top of the cartoon reads:

Presidential Material
Barack Obama

So why with all the polls showing steady but what is histroical tightening as inexpirencied candidates (Carter, Clinton, Bush43) had leads in polls narrow a week or so before the election only to win, does Drudge have a headline mocking the media already correnating Obama? My guess is either some of the tracking polls coming out tommorrow Drudge has learned (He already has Zogby showing a 4-point race tommorrow.) show a really tight narrowing or I am hoping he has some damaging info on Barry (The Whitey tape)?

I doubt it is good polling news, as besides Zogby the other tracking polls that come out in the morning that Drudge could have now are Battleground and Rasmussen. Battleground does not have that big of a following and if they had a poll showing McCain up, it would laughed away at by the MSM. Given that Rasmussen has a +7 Democrat party ID advantage, I am doubting we see any postive news from him this week. Anyways a poll could just be a one day thing and not a real gamechanger.

This leads to my wish, something that damages Obama’s chances to win the White House this year. The first thing that pops to mind is the widely hyped Whitey Tape, which is alleged tape of Mechelle Obama calling Whites “whitey” and “crackers”. Could it be that this tape was not in the hands GOP operatives as Hillary supporter Larry Johnson has said along, but Johnson had it along and has finally now given it to Drudge to take out Obama once and for all? The tape was no use to Hillary after all as it would have killed her support in the General with African Americans and white eggheads guarenteeing her defeat in the General election.

Could have a LA times intern leaked to Drudge the tape of him toasting an Islamic exremist, who just happens to had called for the destruction of Israel? Is the “Presidential Material” atop the cartoon the give away to Drudge’s mystery? Does he have a copy of a Kenyan Birth Certificate for Barack Obama, as some PUMA’s have argued he is not a “natural born citizen”. Does he have a tape of Obama in Trinty United Church at the time of a controversial sermon that Obama had no clue about until April? Is it something out of Left Field? Atleast one thing is for sure Drudge is going to get alot of traffic tomorrow as this odd headline makes it around the web.

A few weeks ago, US Congressman and Libeler Jack Murtha said that “his racist constituents” were going to cost Barack Obama 4 points in the Keystone state. He later apologized for those remarks most likely because he is in a competitive campaign for re-election.

Well good old Baghdad Jack went and tried to clarify his remarks. He noted that “5 to 10 years ago the area was really redneck”, but that now the Western PA has became only “partially redneck” and that even the racist are changing their minds thanks to the Economic crisis. Of course, what makes this the much funnier is that Murtha supported Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Primaries. So is Murtha then a converted Redneck because he had the nerve to oppose the Obamamessiah in the Primary?

This ranting from Obama and his backers claiming that anyone who opposes Obama is a racist, is going to serve as a self-fulling prophecy, that “The One” will lose because he is black. As Election Day nears and I am sure that the “a vote for McCain is a racist vote” chorus will grow louder, people who were inclined to vote Obama are going to be turned off because they will come to fear that the President’s disapproval rating under an Obama Presidency will instead become the National Racism Index, to coin a phrase from Jim Geraghty at NRO online.

By having his surrogates go out and say things as Murtha has and not go out publicly to denounce it is a defacto endorsement of Murtha’s rhetoric by Obama and shows that he is not this “post racial figure” (of course you could learn that from reading his book) he claims to be. Also if Powell wants to go on and on about how race had no role in his choice for President, why isn’t he defending white Democrats who have decided to cross party lines because they think the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Democratic Party has betrayed the Truman-Kennedy-Lieberman Democratic Party? Is a high ranking Democrat openly calling any white person votes against Obama a redneck as offensive as a high ranking Republican allegedly calling Obama a terrorist or Muslim? I want to know General.

Link

Since John McCain named Sarah Palin to be his running mate last Friday it has caused a new Mental Health disorder among the nation’s drive-by media. This disorder is Palin Derangement Syndrome (PDS), it is simlair to Bush Derangement Syndrome except the focus of the derangement is Gov. Palin and not President Bush.

The most severe case of PDS is that The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan. He has demanded DNA evidence that Bristol Palin is not the mother of her youngest brother Trig, even though it has been proven several times through various sources. The latest symptom of his PDS has caused Sullivan a man who has always talked about tolerance towards others to make a statement that morning that crossed the line to anti-semetic prejudice.

In complaning about the fact that Bill Kristol is not talking about the Foriegn Policy credentials of Gov. Palin in his latest article Sullivan writes, ” I know she’s being safely indoctrinated by Joe Liebermanand AIPAC as we speak.” Yes, his PDS is so bad he could not even hit the space bar bewteen Lieberman and and.

If Sullivan is that concerned about a Foreign Policy neophyte being a heart beat away from the Presidency, why he voting for a Foreign Policy neophyte to be President? The answer is that Sullivan will just use anything he can to make an argument aganist Palin, even if it undermines the case for Obama. The only thing Sullivan is concerned about is the fact that Gov. Palin is a strong advocate aganist gay marriage and because of that she has to be stopped at all cost.

The question should be now will Sen. Obama now take his pledge to fire any of his campaign members who take part in dirty campaigning aganist Gov. Palin one step farther and boycott media outlets that still employ people who will suffer PDS. If Obama wants to start a new politics as he stated during his acceptance speech at the DNC then to borrow a phrase of his he needs to be the change he seeks. He should also to charity the money donated to him by that slezzy publisher of US Weekly. The conservaive media needs to be more aggressive on holding Barry’s feet to the fire on this.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/thedailydish/2008/09/double-down.html

I was just looking at Rasmussen Reports and I noticed a state poll that could be big trouble for Barack as far as Rasmussen polls go, which as we all know is the most on target of all the polling firms out there. It is from the Bluegrass state where McCain leads Obama by a 49-39%. At first glance you would think this is good news for my Junior senator being down only ten in the reddest of red states, but looking back at the KY Democratic primary I had to ask myself how could he only be down 10. In the exit poll among Democrats Obama only had a lead of 50-32% and 55% percent of voters were not satisfied with Obama winning the nomination. This would tend to indicate a 25 point win for McCain in November.

National polling has not suggested that Obama has made enough inroads with Clinton voters to explain the contradiction in the Rasmussen and exit polls coming from a healing process within the party. Is Rasmussen overstating the Obama vote or is that KY Republicans have not rallied around McCain enough for a bigger margin of victory? If Rasmussen is overstating the Obama vote in each state here is a look at the Obama vote in recent battleground states done by Rasmussen from 7/22 to 7-31:

NM +5
PA +5
NH +6
FL +1
CO +7
OH -6

Could it be that Obama’s Worst Poll ever just got worse?

Links:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/oldercontent/home/mostrecentarticles/mostrecentarticles
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/publiccontent/politics/election20082/2008presidentialelection/kentucky/election2008kentuckypresidential_election
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/epolls/#KYDEM