His polling numbers have been looking bad for over a year now, ever since the stories of his Countrywide sweetheart mortgage deal and his role in the economic meltdown broke. Cook Political Report’s Jennifer Duffy has gone out on a limb and predicted that his chances of getting elected again to yet another term in the US Senate are slim (via The Scorecard):
If these numbers are to be believed, then all of Obama’s talk about how this economy is “Bush’s fault” is falling on deaf ears:
Karl “Darth” Rove, probably one of the most interesting – if not the most interesting – political analyst of our times, has a write-up in today’s Wall Street Journal about Tuesday’s suburbs votes – and it doesn’t spell good news for the left:
I was pleasantly surprised this morning to see this nice profile of GOP Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (Minnesota), a staunch conservative and – of course – one who is absolutely despised, not to mention demonized by the left. Here are some excerpts:
Obama has conveyed to Gov. Paterson, through various admin officials, that he doesn’t want Paterson to run for re-election:
For my fellow North Carolinians disgusted with the news last fall that North Carolina went to a Democrat nominee for President for the first time since Jimmy Carter – thus now making this once solidly red state now a “battleground state,” here is a welcome bit of news:
