Author Archives: Merrick "Mac" Carey
President Obama’s Anti-Growth Agenda Barack Obama seems like a decent, hard-working and admirable fellow. He is clearly smart, well-educated, and reasonably honest (for a politician). He is a good family man, and is doing largely what he said he would do during the 2008 [Read More...]
Obama And Gates Begin To Diverge The two chief beneficiaries of the collapse of the Bush presidency were Barack Obama and Robert Gates. Both have emerged as the Big Time Operators of our day, with Obama successfully engineering a broad social, tax and fiscal revolution, while [Read More...]
Obama Job Approval Isn’t Budging, Despite Big Political Developments When President Obama’s job-approval rating dipped below 50% for the first time during Thanksgiving week last year, some observers concluded that the long honeymoon the new president had enjoyed with voters had finally come to an end. Presidents who can’t [Read More...]
Polls Still Show Republicans Poised For Major Gains In Midterm Election There has been little movement in public-opinion polls during the eight weeks since national health insurance was signed into law. At that time President Barack Obama briefly dipped to his lowest job approval rating at 46% in the Realclearpolitics (RCP) [Read More...]
Public Opinion: Bottom Falling Out For Democrats It would be impossible to overstate how bad the recent round of published polls are for the Democratic Party with seven months to go before the mid-term election. Here are a few examples:
— Senator Boxer’s job approval is 40% [Read More...]
Heading Back To Divided Government Political theorist Irving Kristol argued that Americans would often vote for divided government so the federal government would gridlock and not cause any more economic or political trouble. From 1994 to 2000 America had a Democratic president and a Republican [Read More...]
Senator Boxer in Trouble Former Representative Tom Campbell has produced two public polls in recent days with small leads over California Senator Barbara Boxer. One of Campbell’s primary opponents, former HP CEO Carly Fiorina, also appears close to overtaking Boxer. Campbell is ahead in [Read More...]
Obama Disapproval Spikes President Obama’s job approval inverted for the first time today. In other words, in the average of all polls tracked by www.realclearpolitics.com, for the first time more Americans disapprove of the way he is doing his job than approve [Read More...]
Mid-Term Election Outcome Hangs On Obama’s Popularity If the 2010 mid-term election were held today the Democrats would lose five Senate seats but pick up one, for a net loss of four seats, based on published polls.
Democrats would lose Senate seats in Arkansas, North Dakota, Nevada, [Read More...]
Obamacare Is Far From Being A Done Deal A well-wired Democrat health care lobbyist says there is about a 25% chance Obamacare could collapse. There are razor thin margins in both Houses, so many moving parts, and more and more Democrats are getting dug into their positions as [Read More...]