September 19, 2010 1:07 pm ET by Julie Millican
A New York Times poll, which was conducted September 10-14, asked, "Do you think of your vote for Congress this fall as a vote for Barack Obama, a vote against Barack Obama, or don't you think of your vote this fall as being about Barack Obama?"
Forty-five percent of respondents said that "Obama [is] not a factor" in their vote. And of those who said that their vote was, on some level, related to Obama, almost an equal amount said that their vote would be "for Obama" as those who said it would be "against Obama" (23 percent vs. 25 percent, respectively).
A recent AP/GfK poll yielded similar results, with 48 percent saying that "President Obama [will] not be a factor in your vote for Congress." The AP poll found that an equal percentage said their vote would be "at least in part" to "show support for President Obama" or to "show opposition to the President Obama."
So, really, these polls indicate that people's motivations in voting in the midterms aren't really shaping up to be the rejection of Obama as the media, particularly the right-wing media, would like you to believe.
Yet, the mainstream media has been largely absent in covering these poll results. After all, it doesn't fit into their favored storyline for framing these midterm elections, or really any election since Obama's taken over.
The media thought Scott Brown's win in Massachusetts as a "referendum on President Obama," and the November 2009 results of governors races in Virginia and New Jersey were a referendum on Obama and "Obamacare."
Yet poll after poll after poll show that more voters blame former President Bush and Republicans more than Obama and the Democrats for the current economic conditions.
But, if you listen to the media, voters are furious with Democrats and Obama and want to prove it to them by throwing as many of them out of office as they possibly can come November. At least that's the GOP story line: throw the baby out with the bathwater.
In Florida, Alex Sink, the Democratic gubernatorial candider, has emphasized that Rick Scott, her Republican opponent, thinks he is running against Obama.
Florida was one of leading states with unemployment before the 2010 elections. Florida has been run by a Repblican governor and statehouse for the past 12 years. Yet Obama is to blame for the dismal unemployment picture in Florida.
According to a Scott campaign ad: President Obama tricked us…saying he’s in the mainstream…before becoming our most liberal president ever…
And Alex Sink helped him do it…
Of course, few progressives think Obama is the "most libeal presidnet ever" or that he is out of the mainstream. With Obama's mid-western roots, he is far more manstream than any modern Repblican presidnet ever was.
Scott is fighting against the president's health care program that passed which is now clearly 'water under he bridge.' Repeal of healthcare would be impossible as long as Obama is president. Rick Scott needs to move on.
Rick Scott keeps saying 'let's get back to work,' but the GOP has never been a party that has created more jobs. It has always been focused on increasing worker productivity and making do with fewer workers.
Florida lost lot of its tourism business when gas prices went up. It also has to contend with the Gulf Oil spill that will depress the Panhandle area for years to come.
The Republican government has been laying off teachers, police and fire fighters and closing schools. According to Alex Sink:
Compared to other states, Florida ranks last in the ratio of employees to residents: 118 per 10,000 compared to the national average of 216 employees per 10,000 residents.
And Florida is dead last in the nation in state employee payroll expenditures per resident: $38 compared to the national average of $69 per resident.
Is Florida last in the ratio of employees to residents and in state payroll expenditures per resident? Politifact checked out the statements and both are correct.
The GOP prefers to lay off government workers to pay for tax cuts for the affluent.
Florida Democrats have not attacked the 12 year failed legacy of the GOP in Florida. Rightardia thinks this is a huge mistake.
sources http://mediamatters.org/blog/201009190006 and http://politifact.com/florida/statements/2010/sep/14/alex-sink/alex-sink-says-florida-last-two-state-employee-mea/
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Forty-five percent of respondents said that "Obama [is] not a factor" in their vote. And of those who said that their vote was, on some level, related to Obama, almost an equal amount said that their vote would be "for Obama" as those who said it would be "against Obama" (23 percent vs. 25 percent, respectively).
A recent AP/GfK poll yielded similar results, with 48 percent saying that "President Obama [will] not be a factor in your vote for Congress." The AP poll found that an equal percentage said their vote would be "at least in part" to "show support for President Obama" or to "show opposition to the President Obama."
So, really, these polls indicate that people's motivations in voting in the midterms aren't really shaping up to be the rejection of Obama as the media, particularly the right-wing media, would like you to believe.
Yet, the mainstream media has been largely absent in covering these poll results. After all, it doesn't fit into their favored storyline for framing these midterm elections, or really any election since Obama's taken over.
The media thought Scott Brown's win in Massachusetts as a "referendum on President Obama," and the November 2009 results of governors races in Virginia and New Jersey were a referendum on Obama and "Obamacare."
Yet poll after poll after poll show that more voters blame former President Bush and Republicans more than Obama and the Democrats for the current economic conditions.
But, if you listen to the media, voters are furious with Democrats and Obama and want to prove it to them by throwing as many of them out of office as they possibly can come November. At least that's the GOP story line: throw the baby out with the bathwater.
In Florida, Alex Sink, the Democratic gubernatorial candider, has emphasized that Rick Scott, her Republican opponent, thinks he is running against Obama.
Florida was one of leading states with unemployment before the 2010 elections. Florida has been run by a Repblican governor and statehouse for the past 12 years. Yet Obama is to blame for the dismal unemployment picture in Florida.
According to a Scott campaign ad: President Obama tricked us…saying he’s in the mainstream…before becoming our most liberal president ever…
And Alex Sink helped him do it…
Of course, few progressives think Obama is the "most libeal presidnet ever" or that he is out of the mainstream. With Obama's mid-western roots, he is far more manstream than any modern Repblican presidnet ever was.
Scott is fighting against the president's health care program that passed which is now clearly 'water under he bridge.' Repeal of healthcare would be impossible as long as Obama is president. Rick Scott needs to move on.
Rick Scott keeps saying 'let's get back to work,' but the GOP has never been a party that has created more jobs. It has always been focused on increasing worker productivity and making do with fewer workers.
Florida lost lot of its tourism business when gas prices went up. It also has to contend with the Gulf Oil spill that will depress the Panhandle area for years to come.
The Republican government has been laying off teachers, police and fire fighters and closing schools. According to Alex Sink:
Compared to other states, Florida ranks last in the ratio of employees to residents: 118 per 10,000 compared to the national average of 216 employees per 10,000 residents.
And Florida is dead last in the nation in state employee payroll expenditures per resident: $38 compared to the national average of $69 per resident.
Is Florida last in the ratio of employees to residents and in state payroll expenditures per resident? Politifact checked out the statements and both are correct.
The GOP prefers to lay off government workers to pay for tax cuts for the affluent.
Florida Democrats have not attacked the 12 year failed legacy of the GOP in Florida. Rightardia thinks this is a huge mistake.
sources http://mediamatters.org/blog/201009190006 and http://politifact.com/florida/statements/2010/sep/14/alex-sink/alex-sink-says-florida-last-two-state-employee-mea/
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