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MoveOn.org Attacks Over Healthcare Reform Bode Ill for Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook September 1, 2009 Comment (14)By Peter Roff, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
If it weren't for MoveOn.org, Barack Obama might still be just another United States Senator.
Originally founded by a couple of California millionaires who wanted the country to get past Bill Clinton's sexual peccadilloes, it became the rally place for American liberalism, as important to the left-of-center coalition as the Christian Coalition once was to the center-right.
Over time, MoveOn.org evolved into the cornerstone of a reinvigorated movement that exploited the Bush administration's weaknesses and was an important source of money, volunteers and political activity for those who made Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House and gave Harry Reid a filibuster-proof majority in the U.S. Senate. The Democrats in power today owe them a lot—and, as history teaches us, the piper must be paid.
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Obama’s Approval Rating Tumbles as He Learns on the Job
Tweet Share on Facebook September 1, 2009 Comment (63)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
The President is slipping down a slick slope in public approval ratings. A new Rasmussen poll shows his public support down by 19 points since the beginning of the year:
Overall, 46% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. That's the lowest level of total approval yet measured for Obama. Fifty-three percent (53%) now disapprove. Eighty-one percent (81%) of Democrats approve while 83% of Republicans disapprove. As for those not affiliated with either major party, 66% disapprove.
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