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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
The Plum Line: Wisconsin 14 planning "homecoming" march on capitol tomorrow
The fourteen Wisconsin Democrats who have been on the lam for weeks are all returning to the state tonight -- and will celebrate their return with a march together on the capitol tomorrow meant to signal that they fully intend to fight on, a state senator confirms to me.
Watch: No Debt Deal Could Lead to Doomsday Scenario?
Barrons' Michael Santoli discuses what could happen if the debt clock runs out.
Source: http://feeds.abcnews.com/click.phdo?i=cc03a88237c665a4ad6863c3e92632c1
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Liberal groups to push Obama on jobs plan
A coalition of liberal groups Thursday will call for the Obama administration to put out a detailed plan to create jobs and urge both parties to stop focusing so much on the federal budget deficit.
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Polls: Liberals steady in Obama support, everyone in DC looks worse to public
Gallup, week of July 25-31
From Gallup this afternoon:
Most of the week's news headlines focused on failed plans and recriminatory accusations, although by Sunday, congressional leaders and the president announced the outline of a negotiated agreement. Twice last week, Obama's three-day rolling approval average reached 40%, the lowest such average of his administration. By the end of the weekend, his three-day average had rebounded slightly to 43%.From WaPo/Pew (the same poll as this word cloud):A number of reporters and columnists have speculated on how Obama's role in the agreement will affect his support within his liberal base. A New York Times online story over the weekend declared, "Outcry From the Left Precedes Debt Deal," while Times columnist Paul Krugman, in a Monday morning column headlined, "The President Surrenders," accused Obama of "folding" in the face of Republican threats. The website Politico carried a story on Monday morning headlined: "Debt deal complicates liberals' support."
Yet the data show that Obama's support from his liberal base remains as high relative to his overall average as it has throughout his term. Specifically, liberals' approval of Obama last week was 72%, 30 points higher than his overall approval rating of 42%. By comparison, liberals' approval has averaged about 28 points higher than his overall average so far in the Obama administration.
On the other side of the aisle, the fiercest intra-party criticism of Obama has been from liberals, but in the new poll, moderate and conservative Democrats are three times as likely as are liberal Democrats to say their opinion of Obama has deteriorated over the past few weeks. Just 7 percent of liberal Democrats say so; most, 55 percent, say their opinions are unchanged, and 37 percent say they are now more favorable.
In that poll, everyone takes a hit from the public, though the president and Democrats take the smaller hit. Interestingly, indies whack Boehner pretty hard and give tea party R's a bit of a break (a reminder that independents are not moderates).
WaPo/Pew 8/1/11
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Monday, August 1, 2011
A successor to Gates is a quandary for Obama
On five occasions the past three weeks, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has tried to nail down his departure from the Pentagon by telling members of Congress in budget hearings and in speeches to cadets at West Point and the Air Force Academy that this would be his final appearance before them ...
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