Zogby Report Card: Strong opening salvo to gain Big Mo
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Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama is starting the year on a high, using his State of the Union to build momentum for his agenda and shore up his base.
Obama To Congress: 'Yes I Can'
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Make no mistake about it: this was a confident if not defiant President tonight. He was on message tonight listing a number of accomplishments from energy production, to increased graduation rates, to health care expansion, and 8 million new jobs, among others. He called on the better angels of this Congress to join him in making more progress and invited them to join him on other initiatives, including a number of small incremental proposals to free trade, enhance patent processing, enable entrepreneurs, and encourage investment in domestic job growth. “Let’s make progress together.” “Are we going to help or hinder progress?”
Tonight Obama Will Address Congress From A Stronger Position Than Many Realize
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I am going to take a different tack from many of my colleagues. Some just cannot stand President Barack Obama and have simply run out of negatives to write about him. Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal has just given up and argues that “no one is listening to him” anyway. National Journal’s Ron Fournier has declared that Mr. Obama is now desperate at this point in his term and merely “flailing”. Former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen says that the President will be forced to stand tonight before Congress and the American people as a “liar”. It seems, to this coalition of partisans and the pissed off, that Mr. Obama is merely running out the clock for a failed presidency.
Zogby Report Card: A 'meh' week, but better than Bieber's
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Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama’s approval rating is slowly inching up, but that a majority still believe the country is heading in the wrong direction.
On the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade - Remember That Polls Are About People, Not Just Numbers
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My good friend and colleague Scott Rasmussen came out with an interesting finding just this past week. His new poll found that 74% of likely voters believe that abortion is “morally wrong.” I don’t dispute that finding one bit, but I sure have a lot to say about what it could mean and what it may (or may not )portend at the ballot box in 2014.
Zogby Report Card: Nation 'terribly split' under Obama
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Pollster John Zogby reports in our White House report card that President Obama's bid to rule by executive order shows that the nation is torn.