Saturday, June 16, 2012

Before the Deluge

++There hasn't been much poll action. The Gallup and Rasmussen Tracking polls have Romney ahead by 1-2 points but the state polls remain steady. Rasmussen even surprised himself by having President Obama ahead by 8 in Michigan, when there had been two polls with Romney ahead by a 1pt and Obama ahead by less than a pt. Otherwise, we wait for early next week for nationwide polls with  larger base.


++Tomorrow we have the Greek election, which will either trigger the collapse of the Eurozone, or just another muddle through episode.


++The Obama immigration move will affect between 600,000 to 800,000 young undocumented immigrants. Nothing to sneeze at.


++John McCain told Diane Sawyer that the Republican SuperPacs are funneling in foreign money to defeat President Obama. In particular he cited Sheldon Adelson, who owns casinos in Macau as funneling Chinese money to Romney. Because of Citizens United, this is all legal because foreign companies can donate to our campaigns. 


++Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg teased an audience at a liberally leaning constitutional organization that anyone talking about how the Supreme Court will rule on the healthcare issue is either guessing or doesn't know what they are talking about. Even her comments provoked guesses that the individual mandate will be declared unconstitutional but the rest of the law upheld.  But Nancy Pelosi for the second time said she was confident that it would be upheld by a 6-3 vote. We may have this to look forward to this week.


++Mitt Romney's bus tour--well, it's not really a bus tour. He will hop by private plane from stop to stop, while the other campesinos ride by bus. Today, his campaign had to change venues to avoid Democrats.


++If you still watch the Sunday News Shows for all the updates on how white male senior citizens look at politics, you might see Willard appear with Bob Schaeffer for his first non-Fox News interview. That should be just thrilling.



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