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Stuart Rothenberg – Let’s Poke Holes in the “Anti-Incumbent” Hype

“There are plenty of data showing that voters distrust politicians, are unhappy with the direction of the country, have a low opinion of Washington institutions and officeholders, and are sympathetic to “outsider” candidates preaching change…But this mood has not resulted in voters engaging in a scorched-earth policy against incumbents or in most “establishment” candidates falling in primaries. It simply hasn’t happened.”

http://rothenbergpoliticalreport.blogspot.com/2010/06/lets-poke-holes-in-anti-incumbent-hype.html

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Republicans’ Midterm Voting Enthusiasm Tops Prior Years – largest in Gallup history dating to 1994

Chris Cillizza said  ”Put simply: Midterm elections tend to be low turnout affairs, making the two party bases — the most reliable of voters — even more important. When one party’s base is, to borrow a phrase, fired up and ready to go and the others isn’t, major change can happen.”

http://www.gallup.com/poll/140819/Republicans-Midterm-Voting-Enthusiasm-Tops-Prior-Years.aspx

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America Get’s It! 66% of Voters Are Angry At The Media

Sixty-six percent (66%) of U.S. voters describe themselves as at least somewhat angry at the media, including 33% who are Very Angry.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/june_2010/66_of_voters_are_angry_at_the_medi

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Best Headline from Tuesday Night’s Primaries

White House official: ‘Organized labor just flushed $10 million down the toilet’

Big labor and the left set out to punish moderate US Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and lost. They also spent a huge sum of their valuable resources, allowing personal vendetta’s and personalities get in the way of winning this fall. A good lesson for our side!?!

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0610/White_House_official_Organized_labor_just_flushed_10_million_of_their_members_money_down_the_toilet_.html?showall

Tuesday’s Biggest Winner
The Arkansas Democrat Blanche Lincoln defied the odds and lived to die another day? But the really good news is that her Republican challenger, Rep. John Boozman holds a commanding lead in the polls for this falls match-up. A great pick-up opportunity for the GOP.

MI Governor’s Race: AG Mike Cox endorsed by MI State Chamber & Right to Life
In what has to be some of the best news any Republican candidate can get in Michigan, Attorney General Mike Cox received dual endorsements this week from two of the biggest primary voter groups in our state, the Michigan Chamber of Commerce (which brings with it a $34,000 check) and Right to Life of Michigan. Regardless of who anyone supports, this is significant and deserves a congratulations!

The GOP’s new hue – A New Kind of Party
Across the country, Republicans nominated some great candidates for the the general election. And yes, many of those nominees help the party put our new, expanding “face of the party” forward to American voters. It’s a great sign of things to come and reflect how our common sense conservatvie policies appeal to a broader and broader audience nationwide!

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38446.html

Missed Newt at the Greater Detroit Chamber Conference
Newt delivered a straight forward and challenging message to Detroit’s civic leaders saying “It’s either about real change or it’s about baloney. If it’s about baloney, you’re wasting your time”.

You can watch Newt’s complete speech here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyi5JsYeY6E

Gallup: For Majority of Voters, National Issues Paramount in 2010 Vote
Today’s latest Gallup poll shows that the 2010 election is shaping up to be a referendum and not the ‘choice election’ that the Obama White House and the Democrat-led Congress hope it to be. By a margin of 55%-39%, voters say that a candidate’s stand on national issues “matters more to them” rather than “his or her ability to help people at the district level.”

Key excerpt:
The maxim that “all politics is local” — most famously advanced by the late House Speaker Tip O’Neill — may have once been an accurate characterization of the relationship that congressional candidates had with their constituents… However, since 1994 — perhaps because of the nationalization of that election with the Republicans’ Contract With America — Americans’ voting priorities have flipped.

In a year when voters rank the federal budget deficit as high as terrorism as a top concern, the implications are clear. Twenty years ago, candidates for Congress might have ingratiated themselves with voters by bulleting all of the federal spending projects they either had delivered to the district, or would support if elected. Today, such messages may be more likely to spark constituents’ concerns about the effect the spending involved could have on the national debt.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/139622/Majority-Voters-National-Issues-Paramount-2010-Vote.aspx

Gallup: This Week Republicans Jump Out To Historic Lead In Gallup Generic Ballot!?!
Gallup polling shows the number of voters saying that they would vote for Republicans rising three points from last week, while the number saying they will vote for Democrats dropped four points. The 49%-43% lead for the Republicans is the largest that the pollster has ever recorded for the party.

http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2010/06/01/republicans-jump-out-to-historic-lead-in-gallup-generic-ballot/

House Republican Launch “America Speaking Out”
GOP members of the U.S. House of Representatives launched a unique online “Town Hall” meeting with America to hear our views, get our input and help turn this country around.

Please check out this site, share it with your email list. Encourage your friends and neighbors, Republicans and others to take part in what is truly a unique American experience. Be part of making a difference.

http://www.americaspeakingout.com/

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America’s jobless picture is alarmingly bleak

Wherever you look the scene is bleak. Leading economic indicators fell in April – unusual at such an early stage in the up-cycle. Jobless claims were up by 25,000 to 471,000. And up again above expectations in the first three weeks of May – raising the four-week moving average to a level consistent with 100,000, or more, net job losses. For the past several months, claims have been nowhere near the levels of 400,000 and less that in the past were consistent with sustained job creation. We are not enjoying the normal cycle of economic improvement. If we were, employment would already have reached a new high and made up all of the jobs lost, as it did during the previous postwar recessions. This time we remain short of the old peak of employment, by an astounding 8.4m jobs. One in six Americans is either unemployed or underemployed. This is not a normal cycle when compared with a typical recession, which sees no more than 2m to 3m jobs lost.

Research by David Rosenberg, chief economist at Gluskin Sheff, reveals jobless statistics behind the headline numbers that are downright scary. More than 6.5m people (more than 45 per cent of the jobless) have not worked for 27 weeks or more, compared with 3.2m this time last year.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/32229d12-7195-11df-8eec-00144feabdc0.html

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Microsoft makes play to power campaign

New York (CNN) – Microsoft took a big step Friday into the political arena, by partnering with ElectionMall.com to create a one-stop shop for running campaigns online.

The new partnership centers on “Campaign Cloud,” which helps campaigns launch their websites, manage ad buys and social networks, organize get out the vote efforts, and ease communications and collaboration between staff, donors and volunteers.

Stan Freck, Microsoft’s director of Cloud Computing described Campaign Cloud to CNN as “a central dashboard for unifying the core elements of [a] campaign. This includes access to Microsoft technologies but you can also snap in products from other companies like Twitter, Facebook and Google.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/05/microsoft-makes-play-to-power-campaigns/?fbid=45qofGruY23

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U.S.’s $13 Trillion Debt Poised to Overtake GDP

(Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama is poised to increase the U.S. debt to a level that exceeds the value of the nation’s annual economic output, a step toward what Bill Gross called a “debt super cycle.”

The CHART OF THE DAY tracks U.S. gross domestic product and the government’s total debt, which rose past $13 trillion for the first time this month. The amount owed will surpass GDP in 2012, based on forecasts by the International Monetary Fund. The lower panel shows U.S. annual GDP growth as tracked by the IMF, which projects the world’s largest economy to expand at a slower pace than the 3.2 percent average during the past five decades.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aa0cI64Gx.4E&pos=15

American Ingenuity with NO Government Intervention
Two farmers…yes, not engineers or chemist, but two American farmer have come up with one of the most logical, simple solutions to the BP Oil Clean Up…with NO government intervention needed to come up with the solution! Just awesome!

http://www.wimp.com/solutionoil/

Personal Democracy Forum A Great Success
The 2010 PDF conference in NY by all accounts was a great success. Over 800 technology activists attended from around the world. I was part of the closing panel with Arianna Huffington, Tim O’Rielly, Newark Mayor Corey Booker & NY Times columnist Nick Bolton. For more information and clips from the conference see:

http://streams.civicolive.com/stream/137

Gingrich at Greater Detroit Chamber Conference
Newt delivered a straight forward and challenging message to Detroit’s civic leaders saying “It’s either about real change or it’s about baloney. If it’s about baloney, you’re wasting your time”. To read more about his comments you can see this Detroit News article:

http://detnews.com/article/20100603/POLITICS02/6030382/1024/POLITICS03/Gingrich-pitches-no-tax-zone-to-revive-Detroit#ixzz0pn2j5XhD

You can watch Newt’s complete comments here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyi5JsYeY6E.

Gallup: This Week Republicans Jump Out To Historic Lead In Gallup Generic Ballot!?!
Gallup polling shows the number of voters saying that they would vote for Republicans rising three points from last week, while the number saying they will vote for Democrats dropped four points. The 49%-43% lead for the Republicans is the largest that the pollster has ever recorded for the party.

http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2010/06/01/republicans-jump-out-to-historic-lead-in-gallup-generic-ballot/

Microsoft & ElectionMall.com Announce Partnership
One of the major announcements at the Personal Democracy Forum was the partnership between Microsoft and ElectionMall.com of their “Campaign Cloud” product launch. In essence, ElectionMall will offer EVERY campaign, large or small, a suite of products and service for FREE. They included web hosting, online collaboration, Microsoft Office online and more. Obviously other premium services are offered too.

However, most campaigns can get just about EVERYTHING they need to have an effective online campaign from ElectionMall for FREE or little cost. There is NO excuse not to have your campaign online.

For more info got: http://electionmall.com/microsoft

House Republican Launch “America Speaking Out”
GOP members of the U.S. House of Representatives launched a unique online “Town Hall” meeting with America to hear our views, get our input and help turn this country around.

Please check out this site, share it with your email list. Encourage your friends and neighbors, Republicans and others to take part in what is truly a unique American experience. Be part of making a difference.

http://www.americaspeakingout.com/

BEWARE: IMPOSTER “Tea Party Group” Launches Third Party Petition Drive
As reported by Wendy Day – We learned today that a group called “Tea Party” has launched a petition drive to add a third party to the ballot in Michigan. Petitions are being circulated in the Metro Detroit area using paid signature gathers. This story was first reported by www.outsidelansing.com

“This effort is in no way tied to the Tea Party groups that I’m aware of,” says Wendy Day, President of Common Sense in Government. “This sounds like a liberal Democrat effort to split the conservative vote in Michigan.”

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Keep the faith!

Closing Session of the 2010 Personal Democracy Forum….had a great time, learned a tremendous amount and met some new friends.

http://streams.civicolive.com/stream/137