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DNC delegate says she wants to kill Romney
A Democratic National Convention delegate from New York said she would like to kill GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney during an interview with Blaze.
The Secret Service is “taking the appropriate follow-up steps,” according to The Daily Caller.
Posted: September 6th, 2012 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2012 Presidential Politics | Tags: Democratic National Convention 2012 | 9 Comments »Vin Gopal: Obama has a good chance of winning Monmouth County
Monmouth County Democratic Chairman Vin Gopal thinks President Barack Obama will do better in Monmouth County than he did four years ago.
Speaking to a Star Ledger reporter in Charlotte during the Democratic National Convention, Gopal said:
“I think President Obama has a great shot to win Monmouth County this year,” said Gopal. “He came very close four years ago. The Republicans are hoping that people have amnesia and don’t remember the eight years under George W. Bush.”
Gopal knows where his votes are:
“We want to get our votes out for the President in Democratic constituencies like Long Branch, Neptune and Asbury Park to help make sure he gets four more years.”
In 2008, Obama lost Monmouth County to John McCain by only 12,000, due to an extraordinarily high Democratic turnout in Long Branch, Neptune and Asbury Park. Obama’s coattails helped sweep Amy Mallet to victory over John Curley for freeholder, giving the Democratic Party control of the Freeholder Board for the first time in twenty years.
Posted: September 6th, 2012 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2012 Presidential Politics, Monmouth Democrats | Tags: Amy Mallet, Asbury Park, Democratic National Convention 2012, John Curley, Long Branch, Monmouth County Board of Freeholders, Neptune, Vin Gopal | 4 Comments »
Quinnipiac: In New Jersey, Obama leads Romney by 7%, Mendendez leads Kyrillos by 10%
Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney for President, 51%-44%, and Bob Mendendez leads Joe Kyrillos for U.S. Senate, 50%-40% among likely New Jersey voters, according to a Quinnipiac poll released this morning.
Quinnipiac says that this is their first likely voter survey and it can’t be compared to eariler polls of registered voters. The university surveyed 1471 likely voters between August 27 and September 2. They did not disclose the partisan breakdown of those responding to the survey which they say has a margin of errror of +/-2.6%.
The methodology of the Quinnipiac poll differs from that of the internal poll released yesterday by the Kyrillos campaign in that Quinnipiac randomly calls phone numbers, land lines and cells, and the respondants self identify as voters or likely voters by the way they answer the questions. The Kyrillos pollster called a data base of known voters. Kyrillos’s poll showed him trailing Menendez by 4% with 65 days to go before the election.
“Our poll shows we are within 4 points of Bob Menendez and gaining and the Quinnipiac University poll shows positive movement as well,” said Kyrillos Campaign Manager Chapin Fay. “That’s because Joe Kyrillos has a plan to create jobs and opportunity for New Jersey families, while Bob Menendez is proposing more of the same- more debt, more spending and more job killing regulations.”
Menendez 2010 Communications Director Paul Brubaker still hasn’t called me back from yesterday when I asked him to comment on the Kyrillos poll.
Posted: September 6th, 2012 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2012 Presidential Politics, 2012 U.S. Senate Race | Tags: Barack Obama, Bob Menendez, Chapin Fay, Joe Kyrillos, Mitt Romney, Paul Brubaker | 6 Comments »
Happy 50th Birthday Governor Chris Christie
Keep surprising us.
Posted: September 6th, 2012 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Chris Christie | Tags: Happy Birthday Chris Christie | 1 Comment »Chaos in Charlotte
A divided Democratic National Convention amended the platform they had adopted just yesterday to reassert the party’s commitment that Jerusalem be the the capitol of Israel and that God is the source of American values.
The amendment was offered by former Ohio Governor Ted Stickland who served as the chair of the platform committee.
The convention’s by-laws require a 2/3 vote to amend the platform. Convention Chairman Antonio R. Villaraigosa, the mayor of Los Angelos, called for a voice vote three times before he declared that the motion to amend the platform had passed.
Does it look/sound like a 2/3’s majority to you?
The New York Times reports that opposition to the Jerusalem amendment came from Majid Al-Bahadli, an Iraqi-American who is a delegate from Washington. Al-Bahadli spent time as a prisoner of war during the first Gulf War for taking up American calls to rebel against Saddam Hussein.
@CoryBooker, the co-chair of the platform committee, has yet to explain why “God” and “Jerusalem” were omitted in the first place.
Posted: September 5th, 2012 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2012 Presidential Politics | Tags: Antonio R. Villaraigisa, Cory Booker, Democratic National Convention 2012, God, Jerusalem, Majid Al-Bahadli | 38 Comments »
Internal Poll has Kyrillos within 4 points of Menendez
The Kyrillos for U.S. Senate campaign released an internal poll this afternoon that shows the GOP challenger within 4 points of the incumbent, Democrat Robert Menendez, with 65 days left to go before election day. 45% of those survey said they would vote for Menendez, 41% would vote for Kyrillos and 14% are undecided.
Of the Menendez voters, 76% said they were definitely voting for the Hudson County incumbent while 24% said they probably would. 71% of Kyrillos voters were solid compared to 29% probable.
The poll, which was conducted by Magellan Strategies between August 30 and September 3rd, is a survey of 746 likely general election voters from New Jersey. The margin of error is +/- 3.5% with 95% confidence. The survey was weighted based upon past general election turnout demographics.
29% of the respondents were Republicans, 39% Democrats and 35% Independents. 27% of the respondents consider themselves conservative, 16% say they are liberal and 51% say they are moderate.
“Joe’s message of creating jobs for the middle class and working together with members of both sides of the aisle is resonating with the voters of New Jersey,” said Kyrillos Campaign Manager Chapin Fay. “It’s clear New Jerseyans want change and, if this surge continues, in two months they will have it when Joe Kyrillos is elected the next US Senator from New Jersey.”
“This marks another poll in which Menendez is yet again under 50%,” said Adam Geller of National Research, the Kyrillos campaign’s pollster.
Menendez 2012 communication director Paul Brubaker was not immediately available for comment. This post will be updated if he calls back.
If they follow their usual pattern, Quinnipiac will likely release a Kyrillos-Menendez poll from the survey they took August 27-September 2 within the next few days.
Posted: September 5th, 2012 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2012 U.S. Senate Race, Adam Geller, Bob Menendez, Joe Kyrillos | Tags: Adam Geller, Bob Menendez, Joe Kyrillos, Magellan Strategies, Quinnipiac poll | 8 Comments »What we won’t hear tonight:
Posted: September 5th, 2012 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2012 Presidential Politics | Tags: Bill Clinton: The era of big government is over | 6 Comments »Empty Chairs Strike Again
First it was Clint Eastwood talking to an empty chair followed by a ongoing viral response on twitter and facebook depicting the president as an empty chair. Now empty chairs are moving President Obama’s acceptance speech away from Charlotte’s 74,000 seat Bank of American Stadium. The DNC announced that the speech will be delivered indoors at the arena where the rest of the convention is being held due to a 30% change of rain.