07.11.11
The hold your nose vote
Pennsylvania is looking more and more like it could be a tough hold for Barack Obama in 2012 …
However, the pollster indicates only Romney can win and the Pennsylvania voters do not favor Mitt.
Michele Bachmann gets the highest “favorability:”
If there’s one thing Obama does have going for him in Pennsylvania it’s that voters don’t think much of any of his prospective Republican opponents either. Bachmann has the ‘best’ favorability rating but it’s still a -7 spread at 34/41. That’s followed by Romney (35/46) and Cain (22/33) at -11, Pawlenty (21/39) at -18, Palin (36/57) at -21, and Santorum (31/54) at -23. Obama’s able to tie Romney and lead the rest of the GOP hopefuls despite his own unpopularity because they are even more unpopular. It’s just another reminder that with the economy still doing poorly Obama’s best hope may be for the Republicans to put forth someone so unpalatable that he wins on a sort of ‘lesser of two evils’ vote.
Side note: Rick Santorum fits the image of someone suffering from a pathologically entrenched insanity. He’s loathed in his home state but smilingly maintains that voters believe in him.
Tomorrow is a special election in soCal. In Los Angeles, you get another sort of hold-your-nose vote, Janice Hahn, to replace Jane Harman, over a orthodox Tea Party-backed candidate not worth mentioning.
Hahn’s opponent is a wealthy flea bag Bible-beating nincompoop whose livelihood has apparently been getting stupid white evangelicals to send him money. His old website is rubbish. Here’s an example of him decrying the hoax of global warming.
And now he’s more famous for horribly embarrassing and unintentionally hilarious YouTube videos, described here, including the now infamous race-baiting “Gimme me your cash, bitch” political ad aimed at Hahn.
It’s always the Bible-beaters masquerading as people in service to the beliefs of our Lord who wind up doing these things.
In any case, the inability to run away from such a man in any contest says much about how uninspirational Janice Hahn is.
Hahn comes from a family of wealthy and unremarkable career politicians. Her brother, Jimmy, was a michtoast mayor of Los Angeles from 2001-2005.
Early last week Pasadena Dems were set to run a phone bank for Hahn and sent out a call for volunteers. It was for Sunday and I received one e-mail announcement, among I assume at least hundreds.
Anyway, there’s little to recommend Hahn other than she’s not the Republican. And that hold-your-nose vote in combination with soCal’s entrenched tilt toward the Democratic Party will install her.
I went to a band rehearsal and it was time much more well spent.
Pasadena has a Tea Party affiliate.
Everyday, on the way to lunch, I pass a local house off the el Molino bridge, one with a front yard sign that not infrequently espouses its beliefs.
The Pasadena chapter has an uninteresting Facebook page concerned primarily with posting anti-Romney articles.