Republicans lead by 51% to 41% among registered voters in Gallup weekly tracking of 2010 congressional voting preferences. The 10-percentage-point lead is the GOP’s largest so far this year and is its largest in Gallup’s history of tracking the midterm generic ballot for Congress…
This marks the fifth week in a row in which Republicans have held an advantage over Democrats…
Matthew Sheffield pulled out a bit more of the Gallup article that will have Democrats diving for the anti-depressants and bottles of Ripple: since the poll began in 1942, the Republicans had never held more than a 5-point lead. They started the month by tying the record, then broke the mark three times. In other words, the American public has not wanted the Democratic party out of power more since at least the middle of World War II.
And what’s worse, this poll included registered voters, not likely voters. As we know, most registered voters don’t quite make it to the polls on Election Day. Likely voters do, which is why we call them likely, and most of those voters are going to be very excited Republicans.
So maybe Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid should start packing now to save us all a bit of time. I suspect the Republicans will want to get to work taking a machete to the wicked tangle of freedom-killing, totalitarian government we’ve had foisted on us the past 18 months. At least they will if they have any political sense at all.
(Graphic courtesy of James Lileks)
Tags: 2012 Election
As you no doubt know*, I’m a fan of “ghost hunting” shows and, one day, I’d love to be involved in a legitimate ghost hunt (as opposed to those hunts where you pay 50 bucks and you get a tour guide a glorified haunted house amusement park ride). When I do finally get on that hunt, I’d like to think I’ll remember one of the cardinal rules of ghost hunting: don’t hunt for a “ghost train” by walking out on a regularly-used train track.
Iredell County Sheriff Phil Redmond says 29-year-old Christopher Kaiser of Charlotte was killed about 2:45 a.m. Friday as he waited with friends at a railroad trestle. Redmond says witnesses said about 12 people were on the trestle hoping to see a ghost train when the real train rounded a bend.
*especially if you listen to The Delivery, and if you don’t, well why the heck not?
Let me sum up this air-biscuit of an editorial in today’s New York Times thusly:
Sarah Palin is is a mean, racist, stupid conservative who is bad for women but who has, due to powers we are quite willing to attribute to witchcraft, inspired more women to get involved in politics in just a couple years than decades of our inspiring, sunshine and free ponies feminism has and we just hate her. Oh, and we want a Sarah Palin, too.
Far be it from me to school two such accomplished feminists on what women really want, but I will suggest that what women do not want is to be patronized by a couple snooty elites who can’t envision a world where women derive strength from themselves and the families instead of an all-controlling Big Daddy government.
I sense more than a little bit of high-school jealousy from the authors. Sarah Palin is more accomplished, happier, and more popular than both of them combined. She chose her own route, made the best use of her own abilities, built a family to whom she is fiercely devoted, and, worst of all, has a vibrant and loving partnership with her husband, whom she considers indispensable. She’s the girl next door who is just at home in heels as she is mud boots, who can go out off-roading all day with her family and show up that night as a fancy dinner and wow everyone she meets. And she does this all without an expensive liberal girls’ college education or years marinating in the poisonous stew that is modern feminism.
It’s a shame that the authors can’t say what they really feel: for all they say they hate Sarah Palin, deep in their heart of hearts they want to be her.
Tags: Feminism, New York Times, Sarah Palin
Let the media sapper operation against Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally begin! Here is how ABC is headlining the rally in Washington, DC today:
Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Rally Draws Thousands
Well, sure, “thousands” is accurate, but so is “tens of thousands”. In fact, the latter is more accurate, wouldn’t you say?
How about another view?
But this is pretty standard stuff from the MSM, who were pre-smearing the rally last night and yesterday morning and who mysteriously avoided mentioning the front-and-center role of Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I prefer to get my news from people who were at the rally, instead of those who carp and snark from the sidelines. I simply do not understand why progressives and the MSM (but I repeat myself) can not give even a small, muted cheer for a rally with the central, and very loud, theme of “Freedom, F**k Yeah!”. You don’t have to be a Glenn Beck aficionado to appreciate his effort to remind America that its greatest days are far from fled and that freedom is the main tool we’ll have to use to dig ourselves out of our recent economic, political, and foreign policy woes. How do I know that? Because I’m not a Glenn Beck aficionado — I don’t watch his television show nor listen to his radio show. I don’t dig his style, but I’d have to be one of the biggest fools on the planet not to get behind a message that has always brought us strength, determination, and joy. As Sissy Wills reminds us, we are not infants and Beck does us the courtesy of not treating us as such.
We may well be “post-partisan” and “post-racial” these days, but we are most certainly not “post-freedom”. I think the tens of thousands who crowded Washington, DC this weekend to push back hard against the always-encroaching nanny state proved that decisively. To that, I can only say, Freedom? F**k, Yeah!
Tags: Free Speech (?), Glenn Beck, Progressives
I know blogging has been slow here in the past few days, and my “slow” I mean “completely nonexistent”. I’ve been dealing with a bit of a health issue that’s slowed me down. But I’m feeling better this weekend (though not 100 percent) and I even felt like taking a walk!
Blogging will recommence shortly. Thanks to all of you for being so patient.
Tags: The Sundries Shack
Tucker Carlson’s $3 million vanity project, The Daily Caller isn’t going to be around much longer if it continues to print garbage like this as news. Jonathan Strong sallied forth today to smite the right-wing blogosphere a mighty blow, perhaps because his boss took a bit too much heat for his week-long JournoList transcriptions. Unfortunately, the only mighty blowing that occurred was Strong’s journalistic chops, and boy oh boy did they blow. Here’s his headline:
True stories of bloggers who secretly feed on partisan cash
To the credit of Strong, who I hope did not hurt himself when he grunted out this pile of journalism, he found just enough “true stories” to warrant the use of the plural. That is, he found exactly two stories of bloggers who “secretly” took partisan cash.
Of course, one of those bloggers doesn’t anymore, which limits the number who “feed” — present tense — to one. So perhaps his headline is a big, fat lie. I’ll let him slide on it because it’s a misdemeanor compared to the journalistic felonies he commits in his article.
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Tags: Jonathan Strong, Media Bias, The Daily Caller, Tucker Carlson
I have become quite a fan of what Rob Long; Peter Robinson; editors James Poulos and Diane Ellis; and a whole host of stellar bloggers are doing over at Ricochet.
One of its new features is Guest Contributor Week, for which the editorial staff corrals a blogger and lets them post pretty much as they please. Thus far, the choices have been stellar. First came John Hinderaker of Powerline and last week Ed Driscoll of EdDriscoll.com sat in the guest chair. What has interested me about the Guest Contributors is how non-political the posts have been. We’ve seen posts about the Miss America Pageant and movie special effects in the days before CGI among the expected political stuff. This, I like.
I also like that Ricochet’s choice for Guest Contributor this week is Robert Stacy McCain. Stacy’s posts have already led to some nice cross-bloggination and some brisk conversation in the comments. Conversation is Ricochet’s mission, so everyone’s happy.
I don’t know who will be up for next week (though I can offer a couple interesting suggestions), but they’ll have some awfully big shoes to fill once after Stacy’s done.
Tags: Blogs and Blogging, Ricochet
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