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GOP: Obama Is Declining in Midwestern Swing States

Posted July 9, 2009

President Obama's relatively high job-approval ratings in national surveys are misleading, according to Republican pollsters and strategists. That's because, while he enjoys strong popularity on much of the East and West coasts, Obama's ratings are declining in key Midwestern swing states that are crucial to his ability to put together winning coalitions in Washington. Continued declines could signal a Republican rebound in the 2010 midterm elections.

Obama has already suffered a 13-point drop in his job approval ratings in Ohio. A Quinnipiac University survey this week has Obama's approval rating in Ohio at 49 percent, compared with 62 percent two months ago. This probably means that he will suffer drops in other key Midwestern states with similar economic problems, such as Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin, according to GOP strategists. Unless the economy, especially the jobless rate, begins to improve soon, Obama could face a very rough patch. Recognizing the problem, Vice President Joe Biden plans to campaign in Ohio today, scheduling an event in Cincinnati to talk up the administration's economic stimulus package.

 

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That sinking feeling that you’ve been had

Obama’s attack on our free market economy began long before the current crisis. The following legal documents, news articles, and videos show his part in causing this crisis over the past fifteen years. Now he uses it as an excuse to do even more damage. To him, our free enterprise system is a giant merciless beast that he and his allies have succeeded in wounding. In a free market, your choices as a consumer, select against society’s losers, which he represents. This is why the Obamabots, having won, are still seething with hatred for their opponents. Having wounded the beast they are now closing in for the kill. The recovery of our free market economy is not their objective. They would rather replace it with something else. So their policies are only making matters measurably worse. They want revenge for the unfairness they perceive in the free market.

These legal documents show Barack Obama suing Citibank under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) from 1994 to 1998, where he and other lawyers got $950,000 in legal fees without finding any evidence of wrongdoing:

http://clearinghouse.wustl.edu/chDocs/public/FH-IL-0011-9000.pdf

http://clearinghouse.wustl.edu/chDocs/public/FH-IL-0011-0007.pdf

This was part of a legalized protection racket perpetrated on our nations banks, and part of a widespread systematic shakedown, described in detail in this article published in the year 2000: "The Trillion-Dollar Bank Shakedown That Bodes Ill for Cities":

http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_1_the_trillion_dollar.html

The New York Times reported on this in 2003, and explained what additional regulatory action the Bush administration tried to initiate to protect the banks, in "New Agency Proposed to Oversee Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae", only to be blocked by Democrats in congress:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/business/new-agency-proposed-to-oversee-freddie-mac-and-fannie-mae.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

Obama, ACORN, Bill Clinton, the Clinton Administration, and members of congress explain what happened here in their own words in these videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivmL-lXNy64&feature=channel_page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs&feature=related

This video connects the dots:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZVw3no2A4&feature=iv&annotation_id=event_597487

Thomas Sowell summarized it all in his column, "Do Facts Matter?":

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NGRjODM1MTJlOGZiZDk2ODI4NTUzMWMxYjgwMjliMGQ

The Washington Post provides additional detail: ("Where Was Sen. Dodd? Playing the Blame Game On Fannie and Freddie"):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091102841.html

The Wall Street Journal provides additional detail: ("Blame Fannie Mae and Congress For the Credit Mess "):

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212948811465427.html

This pattern of behavior must be stopped to protect the economic future of our country.

Ohio is bleeding from job losses

So they blame Obama? Are we to believe they would like John McVeto better? Vetoing their health care reform so they could not have health care a layoff? Vetoing what assistance has been given to the all-important auto industry? Vetoing the federal extensions of unemployment benefits? Yeah, right.

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