I get this End of the Day Report by Gary Bauer and thought I should start sharing some..
Friday, August 26, 2011
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
2012 Update
- For the second time this week a poll finds Obama struggling in the critical swing state of Florida. According to the latest Mason-Dixon poll, just 41% of likely Sunshine State voters approve of Obama's job performance, while 56% disapprove. And if the election were held today, Obama would lose the state 43% to 51% to Mitt Romney and 45% to 46% to Rick Perry. Obama narrowly edges out Michele Bachmann 46% to 44%.
- The left-wing group Democracy Corps, founded by Clinton strategist James Carville, warned this week that Obama is losing support among key liberal voting blocs. Among unmarried women, support for Obama is down 12 points compared to 2008. When he won the White House, Obama enjoyed a 30-point advantage among young voters. Today, his advantage has been cut in half. In addition, voter enthusiasm among these groups is down, suggesting that turnout among liberal voters may not match the levels we saw in 2008.
The Obama campaign knows this. That's why it launched a massive voter registration and turnout effort this week. In addition, USA Today recently reported that Obama is "significantly outpacing the fundraising activity of the previous five presidents during their first terms." What is he going to do with all that money? Trust me, it won't be a positive campaign about hope and change. Obama's only hope is to smear his GOP opponent and turn out liberal voters based on their fears.
- But conservatives could also help Obama win. Why would any conservative want to help Obama get reelected? I ask myself that very question every time I get an email from someone threatening to vote for a third party candidate. And new polling released yesterday by a Democrat polling firm only confirms the obvious -- divided we fall.
Public Policy Polling looked at seven hypothetical 2012 three-way races. Here is their conclusion:
"…we took a look at seven possible independent candidates against Obama and his strongest GOP challenger, Mitt Romney, and found … Democrats remain pretty united behind Obama, and six of the seven possible independent candidates would hurt Romney more than the president."
A Tale Of Two Recessions
In today's Wall Street Journal, Stephen Moore pits "Obamanomics vs. Reaganomics." It is a very telling tale of how two men with very different ideas about government tackled two recessions with very different results. Here are some excerpts:
"By the end of the summer of Reagan's third year in office, the economy was soaring. The GDP growth rate was 5% and racing toward 7%, even 8% growth. In 1983 and '84 output was growing so fast the biggest worry was that the economy would 'overheat.' …By the end of Reagan's first term, it was Morning in America. Today there is gloomy talk of America in its twilight. …
"The Godfather of the neo-Keynesians, Paul Samuelson, was the lead critic of the supposed follies of Reaganomics. He wrote in a 1980 Newsweek column that to slay the inflation monster would take 'five to ten years of austerity,' with unemployment of 8% or 9% and real output of 'barely 1 or 2 percent.' Reaganomics was routinely ridiculed in the media, especially in the 1982 recession. That was the year MIT economist Lester Thurow famously said, 'The engines of economic growth have shut down here and across the globe, and they are likely to stay that way for years to come.' The economy would soon take flight for more than 80 consecutive months."
Ronald Reagan believed government is the problem. Barack Obama believes government is the solution. We've tried it his way for the past two and a half years, and the results are painfully obvious. What the left-wing naysayers said would happen under Reagan is taking place right now under Obama! Unemployment is above 9%. "The engines of economic growth have shut down." Today, GDP was again revised downward, to just 1%. Are you better off today than you were four years ago?
It doesn't have to be this way. The tale of this recession can have a happy ending too. To paraphrase Reagan, "A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose your job. Recovery begins when Obama loses his job!"
This "tale of two recessions" is a great story, particularly for younger Americans who may have fallen for the hype about hope and change. Share it with them. It's a story that cannot be told often enough throughout the course of the next 14 months.
Ahmadinejad Again Vows To "Eradicate" Israel
Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed again this week to wipe Israel off the map. In an interview with a Lebanese network, Ahmadinejad said: "Iran believes that whoever is for humanity should also be for eradicating the Zionist regime (Israel) as [a] symbol of suppression and discrimination. Iran follows this issue (the eradication of Israel) with determination and decisiveness and will never ever withdraw from this standpoint and policy."
Nearly 80 years ago, elites on the left dismissed and isolationists on the right ignored another anti-Semitic madman's calls for genocide. Thanks to their ignorance, Hitler's Holocaust almost succeeded in eradicating European Jews. And that ignorance cost us dearly as the world was plunged into a second devastating world war.
Today, Obama continues to dither while Iran inches closer to becoming a nuclear power. Even libertarian Ron Paul openly advocates abandoning our strategic interests in the Middle East. Both Obama and Paul are wrong.
Foreign policy is one of the most difficult issues for individuals to influence, but we are not powerless. Given this news, I want to encourage everyone to participate in the Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem on Sunday, October 2nd. For more information, please visit daytopray.com.
