Wednesday, June 20, 2012

The Bloomberg poll is an outlier, but, other polls show the President leading the election, too.

A measure of the overall polling can be discerned at Real Clear Politics. The RCP graph shows a trend in the 2012 election whereby President Obama continues to widen his re-election bid over the former Governor of Massachusetts. 


President Obama has been out in front of defining the former Governor and honestly assessing the GOP strategy. I do believe the country's electorate knows the claims that "Obama's policies has failed," is simply nonsense. The GOP wants to claim if the President did nothing like the Republican Congress the country would be better off. The Congress has been a disaster since the election of 2010 and nearly crashed the USA budget causing a public show that lowered the USA credit rating in one credentializing agency. I could debate the accuracy of that rating, but, that nearly isn't the point. The USA cannot afford to have a public show of governing implosion. The Congress and the Executive Branch has to be prepared to act in a way that tells the world the USA is in control of their immediate and long term future. 


The President showed 'good faith' in addressing both the debt ceiling level while seeing the national debt as a challenge the nation has to win when he offered a Grand Bargain and calling for a Presidential Commission on methods to address the national debt. On the other hand, the Congress appeared as deer in the headlights with these issues. It was completely obvious Congress had no clue about how to achieve any realistic governing goal, yet alone tackle the national debt in a way that would not destroy the elderly and young's lifelines.


So, while the Bloomberg poll is an outlier there are other polls showing the trend overall of the President making his case for re-election.


The GOP needs to stop their denouncing of the Obama Administration and actually govern rather than seeking to find a propaganda campaign that works for them. The Executive Order saving young Hispanics from deportation is not a pivot. President Obama has believed that is the correct thing to do for his entire Presidency so far. The Executive Order defined the fact Congress is broken and causing hardship in young people's lives. 


This generation has been abandoned by the Congress causing the highest unemployment rate of professionals in the country's history. To some extent the dynamics of the young Hispanics is mimicked by their American born peers, so there is no reason to believe they are compounding the employment picture. The idea these young folks are causing hardship  for others is nonsense. This entire generation, be them immigrants or citizens by birth, are facing huge challenges to find employment. 

Critics denounce Bloomberg poll indicating support for Obama’s immigration pivot (click here)

Bloomberg News is touting a new poll that appears to shows strong public support for President Barack Obama’s de facto amnesty for many illegal immigrants, but the poll is skewed and pushes respondents toward approval, say critics.
“It doesn’t mention that at least one and a half million illegal aliens are being offered work permits to compete with the 20 million under- and unemployed Americans who can’t find a full-time job,” said Roy Beck of NumbersUSA....


The Bloomberg poll only reflects the fact President Obama needs to continue to speak the truth and make his case to the American people to break the stalemate in DC.