Monthly Archives: April 2012

Presidential, Senate and House Updates…Election*Projection…4/30/12

There’s good news for both sides in the latest numbers here at Election Projection.

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Mitt Romney….Ted Nugent…..Whatever Works….(Cartoon)

Mitt Romney….Ted Nugent…..Whatever Works….Cartoon

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That Rolling Stone Interview with President Obama….

Let’s talk about the campaign. Given all we’ve heard about and learned during the GOP primaries, what’s your take on the state of the Republican Party, and what do you think they stand for?

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Top 10 Highly-Desired Skills You Can Teach Yourself….

With the vast amount of knowledge online, you’re now your only excuse. Here are the top ten most highly desired skills that you can teach yourself—and should.

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Planned Parenthood gets Breathing room in Texas from a Federal Judge…

So why is the court’s decision today to bar the state from barring Planned Parenthood only potentially good news? Because the state is almost certain to appeal this decision, and Texas courts have a funny way of deciding that screwing over women is totally constitutional. But for today, at least, there are 130,000 women in Texas who just might get to have health care after all.

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Daily 2012 Polling for April 30, 2012……

Daily 2012 Polling for April 30, 2012……

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Senator John Kerry for Secretary of State Again?

In an interview, Kerry dismissed the idea that he was campaigning for a job in Foggy Bottom. But he didn’t shut the door on the possibility and suggested he’d remain an outspoken voice in 2012.

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Democrats worried over Who to run against Wisconsin Governor Walker….

“We’re nervous,” said Julie Wells, who works with the grass-roots group United Wisconsin. Wells, a forklift operator from Fort Akinson, filed the papers to recall Walker, and she was there when they were submitted. But now volunteers who promised to help aren’t showing up. “We know that we can win this, but we’re not seeing the level of participation we saw during the signature-gathering phase,” she said.

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The New Obama Campaign Cry….’Forward’…..

Four years ago Barack Obama ran on another one-word slogan, “Change.” Now, as President Obama prepares to hold the first public campaign rallies for his reelection, his team is giving a sense of what his pitch to votes will look like.

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Consumer Spending in U.S. Increases as Incomes Rise….The GOP could be betting on the wrong issue…

“This report sets up fairly well for the second quarter,” saidPeter Newland, a U.S. economist at Barclays Capital Inc. in New York. “What was encouraging was that the income numbers improved. Our expectation is that job growth does increase gradually” this quarter, he said.

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Obama and Bill Clinton together for fundraiser….

At Sunday’s event, however, President Clinton was full of praise for Obama, defending his record and saying that the current president needed more time to address the problems left behind by the Bush administration.

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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Second poll gives Democrat Heidi Heitkamp a five-point lead

Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Second poll gives Democrat Heidi Heitkamp a five-point lead…..

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People who ran against Mitt Romney give up but don’t fall in line ….

CONSTITUENCIES All three of the onetime Republican front-runners have large groups of fans who do not want to see them cave to Mr. Romney. Moving too quickly to back the party’s nominee could seem like a slap in the face to those who worked hardest for them during the primaries….

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One World Trade Center Building passes Empire State Building today in height….

The Empire State Building was completed in 1931 after a little over a year of construction.

If One World Trade Center is completed as hoped in late 2013 or early 2014, it will have taken about eight years to build.

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Morning Political Roundup for April 30th, 2012…Red Racing Horses…Ron Paul gets the delegates….

No delegates were at stake but Ron Paul and Teaparty forces took over the GOP party reins this weekend. So Mitt Romney and the National GOP will be dealing with a lot of new faces in Alaska this fall.
Ron Paul won a majority of delegates selected at congressional level caucuses this weekend. This will almost certainly give him the majority of this state’s national convention delegates. The exact number of delegates will not be finalized until the state convention in June.

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Mitt Romney REALLY has his work cut out for him to pull off a win…

A detailed analysis of Romney’s various paths to the 270 electoral votes he would need to claim the presidency suggest he has a ceiling of somewhere right around 290 electoral votes. While Romney’s team would absolutely take a 290 electoral vote victory, what it means is that he has only 20 electoral votes to play with — a paper-thin margin for error…….

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