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BIG TROUBLE FOR BIG O: Obama Down To 39% Approval Rating In Colorado
December 16th, 2011 | 
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A recently released Ciruli Associates poll shows Barack Obama in deep trouble in Colorado, with only 39% of voters approving of his job performance. 53% of Coloradans disapprove of his performance. His reception is even chillier on the Western Slope, where only 32% approve. The poll was conducted December 1-6 with 500 registered voters who either voted in the 2008 election or are newly registered.
This poll is a bad sign for the President as Colorado has been called one of the most pivotal states to Obama’s re-election by strategists from Karl Rove to Obama’s campaign manager, Jim Messina. Colorado’s chief prognosticator, Governor Hickenlooper, recently told Reuters in an interview, “Certainly a Republican could easily win here.” Hickenlooper has dipped his toe into the waters of prophesy before, saying in July, Obama “will have a hard time” winning Colorado. If polls like this continue to come out, “a hard time” may be a vast understatement. |
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Quarterbacking Our Country: Tebow Style
COMMON SENSE
Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow (15) prays in the end zone before the start of an NFL football game against the Chicago Bears, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011, in Denver. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Updated: December 13, 2011 | 10:21 a.m.
Last night, watching Denver quarterback Tim Tebow’s post-game press appearance and President Obama’s interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes, I was struck by the fact that one man is offering his team (and the country actually) the leadership they need while the other is trapped in traditional discourse and scoring political points. Read the rest of this entry »
GOP’S Road To Victory? Be Like Tebow!
By Dave Diepenbrock
Sunday’s win on the road. Wow! Two factors made it happen for the Broncos. First, defense keeps Tebow in the game until he delivers the win. Colorado’s Republicans couldn’t count on defense in 2006 or 2010. We lost both governor’s races in a summer media onslaught, not on Election Day. (Fair disclosure: in those elections, both Republicans leading before the attacks are longstanding friends.)
Second, Tebow uses some “surprise” tactics, at least in the pro game. Gregg Easterbrook analyzed Tebow’s use of “high school tactics” like stop-and-go, out-and-up plays, zone read and running out. What they add up to is playing in ways pro teams don’t. And surprise tactics work, in football and politics. Read the rest of this entry »
Saturday, January 14th is the next NSRF meeting
Our next meeting is from 9:30-11:30 am, Saturday, January 14th featuring Dr. Jill Vecchio who will discuss why ObamaCare isn’t what America needs. She explains what ObamaCare really is and why the Democrats bribed legislators to pass the bill. We meet at our new location, the Anythink Huron Street Library community room, 9417 Huron St, Thornton, 80260. We’ll have a continental breakfast with coffee and water so come join us and bring a friend. $20 annual dues for 2012 will be collected along with the $3 per meeting cost.
CO GOP Statement Regarding Reapportionment Briefs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 8, 2011
CO GOP Statement Regarding Reapportionment Briefs
Greenwood Village, CO – Colorado Republican Party Chairman Ryan Call issued the following statement today after briefs in opposition to the plan adopted by the Reapportionment Commission were filed:
“The objections to the maps submitted by the Democrat majority are simply stated: these maps are ill-intentioned, hyper-partisan and constitutionally flawed.”
“The majority plan unnecessarily splits counties and cities, ignores important communities of interest, and violates the clear standards set forth by the State Constitution and the Colorado Supreme Court. And the majority’s effort to draw ten Republican incumbents together is nothing more than an example of partisan politics and political gerrymandering at its worst.”
“I am confident that the Supreme Court will see the obvious flaws in the majority’s maps, which were pushed through the back door without public comment or the opportunity for amendments, and will order the Reapportionment Commission to adopt a fair and legal plan that protects the interests of the people of Colorado.”
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Douglas County leads GOP charge to appeal new Colorado congressional boundaries
By Tim Hoover
The Denver Post
Led by Douglas County, Republicans today appealed a judge’s decision last week that picked a Democratic map to draw new congressional district lines.
Richard Westfall, attorney for a group of Republican plaintiffs supporting the appeal, said it would challenge “the manner in which the court just adopted wholesale uncritically what the Democrats proposed.”
Westfall cited the fact that, under the map Denver District Judge Robert Hyatt approved, all of Douglas County, save for Highlands Ranch and the southern portion of Aurora, would move from the 6th Congressional District to the 4th, which encompasses the Eastern Plains. Read the rest of this entry »
Hispanic voters: Stick with Obama or go with GOP?
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A year before the 2012 presidential election, Hispanic voters are facing a choice. They can continue to support President Barack Obama despite being hurt disproportionately by the economic downturn or turn to Republicans at a time when many GOP presidential hopefuls have taken a hard line on immigration.
Obama kicks off a three-day trip to Western states trip with a stop Monday in Las Vegas, where he wants to rally support for his jobs agenda in Congress. Nevada has the nation’s highest unemployment rate, 13.4 percent.
The trip comes as Republican candidates have taken a more strident tone on immigration. Read the rest of this entry »
NSRF September 2011 monthly newsletter
Monthly Newsletter of the North Suburban Republican Forum for September, 2011.
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Insults, Stupid Arguments, and Lies from the Progressives
As the 9/11 massacre underscored the failure of the left’s multicultural worldview, so the current debt crisis highlights the failure of leftist redistributionism.
In fact, leftism has failed utterly. It has failed everywhere and it has never done anything else but fail. From the murderous, leftist tyrannies of the Soviet Union and China to the soft but nonetheless oppressive and stagnant socialism of a moribund Europe, the relativist, wealth-crushing, overweening state has revealed itself to be an engine of misery and collapse. Read the rest of this entry »
Progressive Groups Unveil ‘Contract For The American Dream’
WASHINGTON — In the wake of the deal to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, widely viewed as yet another setback for the progressive community, advocacy groups on the left are redoubling efforts to change the political narrative.
S&P’s decision to downgrade the United States’ debt and the market selloff that followed has only emboldened those voices who believe the main structural problem plaguing the economy has less to do with debt and more to do with a lack of economic growth. Read the rest of this entry »
