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Public Likes XL Pipeline and Birth-Control Requirements

By Jim Geraghty
Two other lopsided results in the latest Fox News poll: By a 67-25 percent margin, voters support building the Keystone XL pipeline. That includes: 87 percent of Republicans, 69 percent of . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, Polling

Romney Winning Independents, But Losing Ground Overall?

By Jim Geraghty
Fox News shares a somewhat surprising poll result: Looking ahead to November, Obama edges Republican Mitt Romney by 5 percentage points (47-42 percent) in a hypothetical matchup today. In January, the . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum

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Obama’s Faith-Based Initiative, Believing in Himself

By Jim Geraghty
Plenty of CPAC fun and a bit of talk about the media’s coverage of the 2012 GOP presidential primary, but also this thought in the final Morning Jolt of the . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, Kathleen Sebelius, Leon Panetta

Rubio: Expect ‘All-Out Personal Evisceration’ From Obama in 2012

By Jim Geraghty
Quick notes from a morning meeting with Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican. What he expects from the general election: “You’re going to have an extremely negative [general election] campaign. Barack Obama . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, Marco Rubio

Did Obama’s Election Feed the Resentment of the Unsuccessful?

By Jim Geraghty
A provocative thought over in the comments responding to a Charles Murray piece in Time: I will suggest that the real reason people dislike the rich is that they know deep . . .

Tags: Barack Obama

Americans Paying $33 More Per Month for Gas Than Last Year

By Jim Geraghty
This morning, Obama adviser David Axelrod cheerfully spotlights a Bloomberg story declaring: The U.S. is the closest it has been in almost 20 years to achieving energy self-sufficiency, a goal the . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, David Axelrod, Energy, Gas Prices

Be Sure to Tip Your Gunrunner!

By Jim Geraghty
There’s campaign news and talk of war in the Middle East in today’s edition of the Morning Jolt, but the two sections dealing with Obama seem the most likely to . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, Campaign Fundraising, Jeb Bush

GM Will Survive the Apocalypse With Your Tax Dollars

By Jim Geraghty
This morning there seems to be a bit of buzz about this Super Bowl ad: A couple of points worth remembering. 1) The 30-second spot cost GM, the parent company of Chevrolet, . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, GM

It’s Never a Referendum on Obama, Is It?

By Jim Geraghty
Ron Brownstein becomes the latest big media voice to recognize that whatever the flaws of the eventual GOP candidate, President Obama will run for reelection in a country that, in . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, Democrats

Keep Your 3:16 Off of My 1040

By Jim Geraghty
From the final Morning Jolt of the week: Obama Insists His Tax Hikes Are Simply Divine! Look who’s now insisting upon pushing his religious values upon everyone in America: “And so when . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, Religion, Taxes

Consumer Confidence Almost Back Up to 1980, 1992 Levels

By Jim Geraghty
Over at Politico, they point out that the recent happy talk surrounding Obama’s reelection chances are . . . not quite the whole story: To hear Democrats (and much of the . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul

Eric Holder Should Become a Campaign Issue Today

By Jim Geraghty
From the Thursday edition of the Morning Jolt: Today, Eric Holder Loves Executive Privilege So if Mitt Romney wanted something else to talk about besides what he meant when he made his . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Fast and Furious

Swing States to Obama: We Don’t Approve

By Jim Geraghty
Gallup has released Obama’s average job approval rating for 2011 in all 50 states (and D.C.). The numbers are pretty lousy-to-awful in most of the swing states. Wisconsin: 47.4 percent. Pennsylvania: 45 percent. Virginia: . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, Swing States

Obama’s Debt-Reduction Promises Continue to Expire

By Jim Geraghty
This morning, the Congressional Budget Office offers one more indicator of how far Obama has missed his bold promises on reducing the debt, projecting “a $1.1 trillion federal budget deficit . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, Debt

Obama Laments That We’re ‘Consumed by Personal Ambition’

By Jim Geraghty
Jonah looks closely at Obama’s salute to the Navy Seals. “At a time when too many of our institutions have let us down, they exceed all expectations. They’re not consumed with . . .

Tags: Barack Obama

Obama’s Favorite Companies Hitting Hard Times, Again and Again

By Jim Geraghty
The RNC notices that another one of Obama’s favorite companies, solar-panel manufacturer Amonix, is hitting hard times. The company only officially “opened” its plant in North Las Vegas in May . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, RNC, Solyndra

Who Knew the Key to the Economy Was Locks?

By Jim Geraghty
We will win the future by moving to a padlock-based economy: President Obama praised a well-known Milwaukee company during his State of the Union address Tuesday night. The president cited Master . . .

Tags: Barack Obama

Great, Now Mitt and Newt Have High Unfavorable Numbers

By Jim Geraghty
Hey, remember yesterday’s post about Newt’s high unfavorability ratings? Byron York points out that, as of this morning, the point may be moot: In a survey conducted January 18-22, the Washington . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich

The Shifting Odds on the GOP Nomination & Obama’s Clichés

By Jim Geraghty
I receive press releases from Paddy Power, “Ireland’s largest bookmaker and a leading provider of gaming services in the UK, Australia and Ireland.” Most of the releases reflect predictable shifts . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich

Democrats More Satisfied With Obama-Romney Race Than GOP

By Jim Geraghty
Hmmm . . . Should we be surprised that Democrats are more pleased with an Obama-Romney match-up than Republicans are? There’s been little serious talk of any primary challenge to Obama, so Democrats . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney

Next Week, Obama Will Try Fiddling

By Jim Geraghty
Gas prices are up for the fourth straight week. The Wall Street Journal: More than 13 million individuals are out of work—and millions more are stuck in part-time jobs—as the unemployment rate . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, Economy

What Has Changed in the Past Three Years?

By Jim Geraghty
The RNC thinks back to three years ago today . . . and how things haven’t changed very much since then. The RNC’s selected messenger, laying out “pretty rotten economy right . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, RNC

Obama 2012’s First Ad: We Kept Our Promises for One Day!

By Jim Geraghty
If your first television ad of the 2012 cycle is about Solyndra, portraying the president as the victim of “secretive oil billionaires,” and if it has to insist that you’re . . .

Tags: Barack Obama

Not-Quite-Maddow Stars in New NRCC Ad

By Jim Geraghty
The NRCC has fun emulating Rachel Maddow in their latest web video, hitting President Obama for holding up the Keystone XL Pipeline project. “Lean Backwards.” Well, it’s safer than leaning forward . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, Keystone XL Pipeline, NRCC

We Can’t Wait . . . Except When We Can.

By Jim Geraghty
What the president will be announcing today: President Barack Obama will ask Congress on Friday for greater power to shrink the federal government, and his first idea is merging six sprawling . . .

Tags: Barack Obama

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