Today's installment of campaign-related news items that won't necessarily generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:
* Newly-released poll results from NBC/Marist shows President Obama leading Mitt Romney in Ohio by six points (48% to 42%), in Virginia by four points (48% to 44%), and in Florida by four points, (48% to 44%).
* With two weeks to go before Wisconsin's gubernatorial recall election, the Democratic Governors Association is spending another $1 million in the race, but Dems remain the clear underdog: a new St. Norbert College/Wisconsin Public Radio poll shows Gov. Scott Walker (R) up by five, 50% to 45%.
* The same poll, incidentally, shows Obama leading Romney in Wisconsin by six, 49% to 43%.
* In Massachusetts, a new Suffolk University/7News poll shows Sen. Scott Brown (R) clinging to a one-point lead over Elizabeth Warren (D), 48% to 47%. A Suffolk poll in February showed Brown up by nine points.
* The Obama campaign kicked off a LGBT outreach initiative yesterday, featuring this new video narrated by actor Jane Lynch.
* In Arizona, Romney continues to be the favorite, with Public Policy Polling showing the former governor leading Obama in the state, 50% to 43%.
* Speaking of Arizona, PPP also found Rep. Jeff Flake (R) with a healthy lead over Richard Carmona (D) in this year's U.S. Senate race, 48% to 35%, though Flake's advantage in the primary against Wil Cardon is getting smaller.
* And in Florida, a new Quinnipiac poll shows Rep. Connie Mack (R) with a narrow lead over incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson (D), 42% to 41%.
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I would hope from Massachusetts, better than Scott Brown to replace Teddy Kennedy.
And, I'm still wiping tears from my face with Jane Lynch narrating the video to show a true champion for LGBTQ is President Barack Obama.
DOMA viewed as unconstitutional? Yes.
I'm a FIB (tha'ts f'n Illinois Bastard to cheesesheads) who will be going up to WI for Memorial Day weekend, to add boots to the ground.
Please, we really NEED to WIN this one. For tons of reasons.
It will impact Obama's chances to win in Novemeber.
This is a really short term event. One 3 day holiday out of your life.
You don't have to spend the entire time 'working'. I plan to get some rock climbing and golfing in.
Come On! Go now or you'll HATE yourself forever.
- PackerBackerBob! (a Bears fan) - Chicago. (773) 206-0008
It would be helpful for every Federal agency to have a name that is closely associated with their function and behavior. One such agency is the Secret Service. They are no longer secret. Present scandals indicate that the Secret Service is an agency in dire need of re-branding. In light of recent Congressional testimony as to their purity and sobriety, I suggest that the name be changed from "Secret Service" to "Vestal Virgins."
Join me up at The Dells in Wisconsin this weekend.
It's the place that gave Buggsy Moran the inspiration to create Las Vegas. Water parks, gambling, the Tommy Bartlett Air and Water show, ride the Ducks thru the Dells.
Most of Wisconsin will be there.
So I'm trying to get some folks to join me, walking around with signs.
Raisin' hell, reach out to some rednecks.
Oh, and I'll bring my sign - "The KKK loves the GOP" and "The GOP loves the KKK"
See the video of me carrying that a year ago - it made it to Madison Fox news, and got viral on Rightie web - 60,000 hits.
www.youtube.com/NatCapClub
Or just google PackerBackerBob
It was taken at a rally in Chicago, btw.
Let's have some fun while doing good!
- PackerBackerBob! Oehmen (a Bears fan) 773.206-0008
President
Obama doesn't send suspected terrorists to Guantanamo Bay.
Instead, he kills them with drones.
Those drones are operated by the same
military and CIA that sent hundreds of innocents to prison. The targets killed
by the drones aren't subject to waterboarding. They're blown up from afar. The Obama Administration doesn't torture -- it just quietly kills.President Obama's
defenders say that he'd have closed Guantanamo
Bay if not for a recalcitrant Congress. True or not, the fact remains that his drone policy doesn't just indefinitely detain
people without charges, it outright kills them.
Guantanamo Bay has been used to incarcerate dozens of terrorists who have admitted plotting terrifying attacks against the West -- while imprisoning more than 150 totally innocent people, top-secret files disclose."