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Poll: Obama Wouldn’t Win Florida Today
April 12, 2011
Only a third of independent voters in Florida say they approve of President Barack Obama’s performance, according to a new Sachs/Mason-Dixon poll released Monday that also found Obama would lose to either Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee if the election were held today.
The phone survey found Republican Romney leading Huckabee among GOP voters 23 percent to 18 percent. In the poll, commissioned by Ron Sachs Communications, 43 percent of respondents approved of Obama’s performance and 56 percent disapproved. Among crucial independent voters 56 percent also disapproved of his performance, while just 34 percent approved.
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19 Responses to “Poll: Obama Wouldn’t Win Florida Today”
xpc….We have read enough of your remarks to know you aren’t that clever. Nice recovery though.
omrbh….I don’t believe in evolution. It’s interesting to note that you do. I would not have expected that given your rant against huh earlier. I guess rolling your eyes is a new trick you learned while you are “evolving”.
As far as fingers getting ahead of brains, I think that’s what the spell check button is for.
@ eab
Read closely. The word was misspelled to add a subtle gig. That is why it is in quotes. Kind of like typing obama with a lower case “O”. Thanks, though. I am certainly not beyond making “misteaks”. : )
Proof reading is always an important part of making ones ideas known on a public forum. Otherwise, we might come off as an uneducated buffoon that has not studied history or the subject at hand enough to know how to make an informed opinion. Still, it is possible to sometimes let our fingers get ahead of our brain and overlook a misspelled word.
For this, we have word police such as eab. If they cannot convince with their opinions, they will look for other ways to prove they are higher up the evolutionary ladder….roll eyes……..
xpc….you misspelled “intellectuals”. Just offering a helping hand.
@ OMRBH
Thanks for sheding a true light on the subject! Separation of Church and State has nothing to do with our country being founded upon Christian principles. Most “INTELECTUALS” don’t seem to get it…
Kudos @ Name (required) and xpeecee! It’s plain to me that the two of you understand how to run your own household and you understand that one cannot continue to spend more than ones income. That is an idea beyond some people comprehension!
It’s also plain that some readers of Northescambia.com do not have your foresight in matters of a fiscally responsible government and these people have no problem with a president bypassing congress to sign their socialistic ideas into law.
@huh………You, sir are correct in stating that the Constitution is a secular document. I must, however, question your knowledge of the writings of the Founding Fathers as MOST of them expressed a belief in a Devine Power and most of them chose to worship that Devine Power with a Christian congregation. Indeed, over half were ordained ministers or held degrees in Divinity. Are you aware of that? Look it up!
“Christian principles” has absolutely nothing to do with a government established church, but rather the Judeo-christian ethic is the foundation upon which our secular Constitution was based.
As of today, I’ve not heard our political or Christian spiritual leaders proclaim that we would or should become one denomination or that we will proclaim ourselves to be all one religion. From the writings of one non christian religion, I’ve read that anyone who does not join and embrace the teachings of that non christian religion shall be converted or SHALL be put to death.
My concience dictates that I follow and live by Christian ethics. You, Mr. Huh, must likewise live as your concience directs you.
Will you seek the truth and live accordingly, or will you do as you please and then seek to prove that what you did is right and just?
The Nameless One said….”Yes, I am sure that those who reject Obama are not as intelligent as those who do…. that is a legitimate position…. if you have no Justification for your own support of him.”
I said…Hmmm….I don’t know what to say about this, except thanks for the kind words. If you have someone read my posts to you, you will see that nowhere do I say that I support Obama. Other than giving him the respect the office is entitled to, I don’t much care for his presidency. It’s simply that he’s better than any alternative candidate the Republicans have trotted out to date.
The nameless One said…”His anti-business / anti growth approach to problems is rooted in a unrealistic idealism born of academia and completely isolated from any real life experience.”
I said…Bush had experience,eh? That really didn’t turn out so well. What our grandchildren will truly regret is how our country has let business move jobs to other countries while lapping up tax breaks here. See General Electric.
The Nameless One said…”Government expansion in a time of rising debt is a short sighted and unbelievably destructive approach to the problem …”
I said….What a ridiculous statement. My goodness. See WPA, CCC, Roosevelt, Franklin D.
@ Name (required):
Well stated, sir!
Yes, I am sure that those who reject Obama are not as intelligent as those who do…. that is a legitimate position…. if you have no Justification for your own support of him.
The unprecedented increase in the national debt under Obama might be reasonable, given the global economy…. MIGHT be IF he had responded in a reasonable way. Instead he took the mind boggling step of increasing the national fiscal obligation with Obama Care. The blind push forward with this unsustainable, unaffordable program is completely irresponsible, to the point of raising doubt about his real agenda.
His anti-business / anti growth approach to problems is rooted in a unrealistic idealism born of academia and completely isolated from any real life experience.
Government expansion in a time of rising debt is a short sighted and unbelievably destructive approach to the problem that serves to through gasoline onto a fire that our children and grandchildren will be left to extinguish.
In times of crisis a corporation will become lean and increase it’s ability to compete. Our nation is in crisis, and under Obama’s leadership we have continued to increase our parole and decrease our effectiveness.
Even a child knows that spending one’s self out of debt is not a solution… so why can Obama not see this?
” We don’t want to depart from the Christian principals that our country was founded upon”
Our country was not founded on Christian principals , The USA Constitution is a Secular document .
“Congress shall make NO law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
the truth?….It’s interesting that you should mention Hofstadter.While I have read none of his books, I am familiar with his work and remember perusing “Paranoia in American Politics” some years back at a friend’s house.
I moved to Florida after a period in Atlanta, so I am very familiar with Tom Watson (now I know some people are gonna ask why I bring a golfer into this), a man I have been giving some thought to recently. Watson was one of the products of the time period you mentioned, the turn of the century. I am certain you are aware of his work. Like many of our “populist” (I use that term for lack of a better one and to avoid intentionally offending anyone) friends today, some of Watson’s ideas sounded great. As long as you weren’t Black, Jewish or Catholic that is. Watson practically ran the state of Georgia for a couple of decades and when I left Atlanta,his statue was still on the capitol lawn. It is instructive to remember that Tom Watson’s voice was one of the loudest denouncing Leo Frank before Frank’s lynching.
I guess we can say these ideas could no longer flourish in our society but as Lewis Carroll’s Alice might say…things are getting curiouser and curiouser
@ eab; having read a good bit revolving around the turn of the twentieth century it is absolutely amazing (and frightening) how much we repeat ourselves, in our actions, our thoughts and worse our fears.
Have you ever read Richard Hofstadter’s essays on anti-intellectualism and paranoid style in politics. He was focused on the mid-twentieth century up to the early 60’s but it applies today.
Well put, the truth. From the few posts so far on this story I see a couple of folks who never have anything really to say other than what Limbaugh or Beck told them to think and say.
They never have anything thought out to add to the discussion. The Nameless One keep beating the drum of “damage he has done already” without ever elaborating what the damage actually “is” and how much was already done when Obama got there.
As for our other friend xpeeceeing on himself/herself, the message never changes. It’s just a straight cut and paste rant. The poster probably doesn’t even know what it says.
Sad, really.
But stick around. There are a couple of people who really examine the issues and work of that. blame game made a nice post this morning and yours was very good.
Here’s hoping.
I guess that out of control spending under the previous President doesn’t count anymore? This one isn’t perfect but he got on board when the country was going down the toilet so plenty of blame to go around.
And the fact is the party most support without question has been eroding the middle class from the other end of the spectrum faster than the ones in power but both have contributed. So what is one going to do?
Hating your government and dragging in social issues into the debate of deficits shows a misguiding nature to the current movement, and a lack of historical knowledge and even a sound theological background when it comes to the notion of our government being founded on Christian principles; read what the main founding fathers had to say about that: Franklin, Paine, Jefferson, Adams and Madison. It might shock some of you.
Much damage control lies ahead!
The message from the people is clear:
* We don’t want socialism
* We dont want more government
* We don’t want more taxes (as in septic tank inspections)
* We don’t want out-of-control spending
* We don’t want illegal aliens getting a free ride
* We don’t want more gun control
* We don’t want to depart from the Christian principals that our country was founded upon
For those who didn’t get the message – – – we will vote you out of office!!!
Maybe, Florida’s blaming the wrong person for all their problems. I’m sure we had major problems before he got in office!
With all the problems Florida and our country was in, it takes time and more time than we would like to get out of it, and no one person can do it.
As for as one party over another being conservative, I don’t see it at all! Bush’s spending years (repub.pork and do nothing) and Dems. doing the same in congress, has gotten us in this shape. BOTH PARTIES!
Want real change, vote independent! I see – No – improvement by the tea party folks, only more harm to our country more loss of jobs and the serving of big business at the expense of the working class.
“A real Republican is Ron Paul, a strict constitutionalist.”
I’ll second that statement!!!
People are not happy with any of the current choices, Obama was far too center right wing , for the left to vote for him again. Romney lacks experience and Huckabee goes on religious rants that are just far out of touch from what people care about.
A real Republican is Ron Paul, a strict constitutionalist
I certainly Hope that the voters will continue to pay attention and vote for Change.
We can not afford him now.. it will be a real challenge to fix the damage he has done already… the future we vote for is our children’s, and our grand children’s freedom….