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[Kusagari]

1. Obama 73%
2. Huntsman 62%
3. Johnson 59%

About the expected.

 

[GhaleonEB]

A better survey is at Vote Smart.

http://www.votesmart.org/voteeasy/#

Obama 82%
Huntsman 51%
Buddy Roemer 39%

 

[watershed]

I got Obama 78%
Huntsman 61%
Johnson 53%

 

[KingK]

Obama 82%
Huntsman 55%
Johnson 45%

They'll be updating congressional candidates throughout the year too, it seems. Pretty awesome.

 

[BigJonsson]

Obama - 96
Huntsman - 52
Roemer - 30something


I'm Canadian though, lol

 

[ToxicAdam]

Interactive map to see what percent you are:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/15/business/one-percent-map.html

 

[woolley]

Gary Johnson 76%
Ron Paul 75%
Buddy Roemer 69%

Was a little surprised that Obama was all the way in last with only 38% but I never liked him anyway. And I never heard of Gary Johnson before.

 

[jamesinclair]

Looking over the last page, its a buddy surge!

 

[The Chosen One]

Wow, I didn't realize I was such an Obama-bot. smh

Obama - 96%
Huntsman - 48%
Buddy - 35%

 

[jamesinclair]

Enought with the quizzes, its republican hypocrisy time. Yes, it's a Monday!

A Georgia Republican who wants all welfare reciepients subject to drug tests failed one himself after he ran a red light on Friday morning.

The officer said Smith finally agreed to blow into the device. The report stated that Smith blew a .091., which is above the legal limit of .08.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/20...-georgia-welfare-recipients-arrested-for-dui/

 

[antonz]

How does DUI relate to drug testing?

 

[Drkirby]

How does DUI relate to drug testing?

Alcohol is a psychoactive drug.

 

[Wilsongt]

In response to Santorum bashing gay parents, Yahoo has posted this article.

http://news.yahoo.com/why-gay-parents-may-best-parents-131902676.html

It's a good read as long as you avoid the comments.

 

[Byakuya769]

Interactive map to see what percent you are:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/15/business/one-percent-map.html

Seeing where my family was, before I forced the life of a poor student upon them, I really feel concerned at how high I was, but how my living style seemed disproportionately low compared to many. Most people have to be living far above their dwindling means.

 

[The Librarian]

A better survey is at Vote Smart.

http://www.votesmart.org/voteeasy/#

The questions on here aren't that great.

"Do you support reducing growth in Medicare spending?"

Okay...reducing growth in what way? Allowing Medicare to negotiate with drug companies?

 

[Byakuya769]

The questions on here aren't that great.

"Do you support reducing growth in Medicare spending?"

Okay...reducing growth in what way? Allowing Medicare to negotiate with drug companies?

That question was particularly annoying.

 

[ToxicAdam]

Can we all just accept that these types of polls (from USA Today (!!) and Votesmart) are not going to be nuanced and comprehensive as you might like. It's not a politcal compass, it's just a light and easy candidate match meant to appeal to the masses.

 

[neutralgamer02]

Obama - 90%
Huntsman - 54%
Roemer - 40%

 

[Stinkles]

How does DUI relate to drug testing?

alcohol is a drug. He failed a test for it. And risked lives, not welfare checks.

 

[Byakuya769]

alcohol is a drug. He failed a test for it. And risked lives, not welfare checks.

Perk of being hardworking and successful.

 

[ReBurn]

Enought with the quizzes, its republican hypocrisy time. Yes, it's a Monday!



http://thinkprogress.org/justice/20...-georgia-welfare-recipients-arrested-for-dui/

I sure hope he doesn't apply for welfare. Because if he dd that would certainly make him a hypocrite.

 

[The Librarian]

I touched on this yesterday here, but Ezra Klein, coincidentally, has provided a post that gives a far more detailed case.

Julie Schmit reports that the housing market is at, or very near, its bottom. After falling by 9 percent last year, single-family housing starts are expected to jump by 37 percent in 2012. Prices could still fall a bit, but by 2013, we should be in a real housing recovery.

(Andrew Harrer - Bloomberg)

In a play on the administration’s widely mocked “recovery summer,” Matt Yglesias has dubbed this period the “recovery winter,” arguing that the economy is making a real turn toward a sustained recovery. I’m more skeptical. I think we’ll see headwinds in 2012 that will keep a lid on the recovery, at least for the first half of the year. But there’s no doubt that the pressure toward a recovery is building in the American economy. The next president, whoever he is, will enjoy a “recovery presidency,” and so too will his party. And that makes the 2012 election really, really important.

...

 

[Sirpopopop]

Obama 70%
Huntsman 59%
Johnson/Roemer - 48%

 

[Invisible_Insane]

Can we all just accept that these types of polls (from USA Today (!!) and Votesmart) are not going to be nuanced and comprehensive as you might like. It's not a politcal compass, it's just a light and easy candidate match meant to appeal to the masses.

To flesh out the complaint a little bit more, the masses should be made aware that there are credible policy prescriptions to our nation's problems to the left of center-right. It presents an incredibly distorted picture to people who might not otherwise be aware, for example, that DHHS could conceivably reduce prescription drug costs without significant benefit reductions. I don't think the assumption on the part of most people here is that websites like those are deliberately omitting such options, but I think the more pernicious reality is that it might have never occurred to the editors of such a piece to include them.

 

[Byakuya769]

I sure hope he doesn't apply for welfare. Because if he dd that would certainly make him a hypocrite.

Hm, did he revoke the ENTITLEMENTS paid to him by the public, for his public position, after his drug test failure?

 

[AlteredBeast]

Hm, did he revoke the ENTITLEMENTS paid to him by the public, for his public position, after his drug test failure?

LOL. good point.

 

[Aaron Strife]

1. Obama (82%)
2. Huntsman (60%)
3. Johnson (53%)

 

[Matt]

So, how do Obama critics here (both from the left and right) feel about Sullivan's new piece?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/01/15/andrew-sullivan-how-obama-s-long-game-will-outsmart-his-critics.html

 

[ezekial45]

Here's the cover to that issue of Newsweek

 

[Matt]

Here's the cover to that issue of Newsweek

Yeah...covers like that don't help encourage discusion of the article's (very reasonable) point.

 

[AlteredBeast]

Terrible photo, should have had him creepily looking above the camera, eyes glassed over and grinning.

 

[Door2Dawn]

His head is blocking the title..

 

[The Librarian]

So, how do Obama critics here (both from the left and right) feel about Sullivan's new piece?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/01/15/andrew-sullivan-how-obama-s-long-game-will-outsmart-his-critics.html

Here's a tweet from Ezra Klein about it: https://twitter.com/#!/ezraklein/status/158965703892942848

Reading it now. Should be interesting given the man's background.

 

[Angry Fork]

Obama 68%
Huntsman 51%
Gary Johnson 46%

 

[Lambtron]

He makes some good points in the article, but he kind of hand waves things that are really important to me that Obama hasn't improved on: civil liberties & murdering countless people with drone bombs in the middle east.

 

[RustyNails]

1. Obama 80%
2. Huntsman 40%
3. Roemer 39%

 

[Plinko]

A better survey is at Vote Smart.

http://www.votesmart.org/voteeasy/#

Thanks for posting. My new results:

1) Huntsman -- 72%
2) Obama -- 65 %
3) Roemer -- 63%

 

[RustyNails]

I touched on this yesterday here, but Ezra Klein, coincidentally, has provided a post that gives a far more detailed case.

If Obama wins this year, I'm certain that next elections will also chose a Democratic President, unless Obama diddles an intern.

 

[AlteredBeast]

If Obama wins this year, I'm certain that next elections will also chose a Democratic President, unless Obama diddles an intern.

Unless the Dems choose a wooden puppet. Remember the prosperity of the Clinton years and Gore...

 

[Cyan]

Here's the cover to that issue of Newsweek

Neeek.

 

[The Librarian]

Unless the electoral college fucks up again.

Modified. Remember Al Gore got about 500K more votes than Bush, but the EC screwed him over.

 

[AlteredBeast]

Modified. Remember Al Gore got about 500K more votes than Bush, but the EC screwed him over.

Change to a popular vote, then. The point remains, any reasonably interesting candidate would have blown Bush out of the water to the point of garnering many more EC votes.

 

[Plinko]

Change to a popular vote, then. The point remains, any reasonably interesting candidate would have blown Bush out of the water to the point of garnering many more EC votes.

LOL...the GOP will NEVER vote to move to a popular vote.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

So, how do Obama critics here (both from the left and right) feel about Sullivan's new piece?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/01/15/andrew-sullivan-how-obama-s-long-game-will-outsmart-his-critics.html

this

Mitt Romney accuses the president of making the recession worse, of wanting to turn America into a European welfare state, of not believing in opportunity or free enterprise, of having no understanding of the real economy, and of apologizing for America and appeasing our enemies. According to Romney, Obama is a mortal threat to “the soul” of America and an empty suit who couldn’t run a business, let alone a country.

amuses me.

Because the quality of life is better in europe than what goes on in America these days. But Romney wouldn't admit that. Obama wouldn't either, but he seems smart enough to recognise it and wouldn't be above putting through policies that are a slightly worse version of what europe has had in place for years. (see healthcare).

Also this

On foreign policy, the right-wing critiques have been the most unhinged. Romney accuses the president of apologizing for America, and others all but accuse him of treason and appeasement. Instead, Obama reversed Bush’s policy of ignoring Osama bin Laden, immediately setting a course that eventually led to his capture and death. And when the moment for decision came, the president overruled both his secretary of state and vice president in ordering the riskiest—but most ambitious—plan on the table. He even personally ordered the extra helicopters that saved the mission. It was a triumph, not only in killing America’s primary global enemy, but in getting a massive trove of intelligence to undermine al Qaeda even further. If George Bush had taken out bin Laden, wiped out al Qaeda’s leadership, and gathered a treasure trove of real intelligence by a daring raid, he’d be on Mount Rushmore by now.

Just proves he's got huge balls.

 

[The Librarian]

BREAKING:
Huntsman has dropped out and has endorsed Jon Huntsman for president.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/huntsman-drops-out-endorses-huntsman,27060/

 

[Ghost_Protocol]

What is a European welfare state?

 

[Angry Fork]

Interactive map to see what percent you are:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/15/business/one-percent-map.html

Bottom 9%

feels bad man

 

[ToxicAdam]

Another debate tonight (9pm FOXNews)?! Make it stop.

 

[The Librarian]

Not to take PoliGAF's attention away from Sullivan's article (I'll comment on that in a moment), but what is PoliGAF's read on Massachusetts senate race? Who do you think is going to win?

 

[cartoon_soldier]

So, how do Obama critics here (both from the left and right) feel about Sullivan's new piece?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/01/15/andrew-sullivan-how-obama-s-long-game-will-outsmart-his-critics.html

I agree with Andrew Sullivan here a lot (I have always admired and agreed with him a lot though). I think he falls with me under the umbrella of understanding that Obama was never a liberal crusader, he was always a pragmatic Progressive. And his achievments are great from a progressive and liberal perspective. That is a point I have tried making many times, just like Sullivan there are things I am dissapointed in with Obama. But I step back, look at and read about what has happened since he took office and then I look accross the aisle and realize that Obama needs another 4 years. For the sake of America's future, Obama needs another 4 years.

And he is dead on that if what Obama has achieved in terms of foreign policy and fighting Al-Qaeda had happened to Bush he would be on Mt. Rushmore.

Not to take PoliGAF's attention away from Sullivan's article (I'll comment on that in a moment), but what is PoliGAF's read on Massachusetts senate race? Who do you think is going to win?

It is going to be really close. It will also be the race with highest amount of spending in 2012 (apart from the Presidency that is). It is tough to say who will win. Scott Brown has already started to shift into positions that are more supporting of the President and that will help him. A lot might hinge on Democratic turnout.