Supporters of affirmative action have been challenged to show why race should matter in admissions - so they should do just that. [...] A couple days after Gallup’s 3-day tracking poll of adults showed a dip of President Obama’s job approval index below 50% (H/T – Ed Morrissey), Rasmussen Reports’ 3-day tracking poll of likely voters has Obama further under water than he’s ever been:
The Rasmussen Presidential Approval Index hit [...](H/T – DrewM)
So President Obama has supposedly decided on sending 34,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, far short of either the “low-risk” 80,000 or “medium-risk” 40,000 commanding General Stanley McChrystal had requested. Moreover, the term “off-ramp” has entered the lexicon, with triggers for a full retreat-and-defeat starting to kick in [...]
McClatchy Newspapers reports President Obama to go the LBJ route, 34,000 more troops. If true, perhaps Obama can run in 2012 on a platform of 'not as many dead.'
From Iowa comes sanity and courage. United States candidate for Iowa Democratic nomination for Senate, Bob Krause, became the first [...]
Update: McClatchy Newspapers reports Obama to go the LBJ route, 34,000 more troops. If true, perhaps Obama can run in 2012 on a platform of 'not as many dead.' Nice job, Mr. President!After many months, and many deaths, your President seems to have finally been told what to do on the request for more troops that HIS General has been begging for for months while Obama ignored and avoided him. Reports are that he will finally announce on Dec. 1st. that he [...]
(The New York Times Via Politico)
Things are not looking good for Democratic Senatorial recruitment for what should be an easy open seat defense.
Axelrod concedes that he and Mr. Obama failed to persuade Attorney General Lisa Madigan to run for the Senate seat vacated by Mr. Obama. “She would [...]
The recent gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia are early signs that voters are fed up with the Obama Administration’s policies. Republicans are looking to continue this trend in 2010, including in Wisconsin, where the GOP has produced two highly competitive candidates.
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