"Thank you for speaking with Steve. I have attached some information about Steve's polices for you to review. I invite you also to visit his website www.steve4georgia.com to get further information.
You might also be interested to read a recent newspaper study that found Steve's opponent received 86% of his campaign contributions from utility insiders: http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-07-21/donors-georgia-public-service-commission-members-vested-decisions - so thank you for helping fund this campaign from the PEOPLE!"
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When voters have made a mistake if you want to get them to change their mind it is far more difficult when you demonize the person they voted for. This approach makes them defensive and forced them to have an even greater need to defend their previous choice.
If, however, you point out where the policies of their candidate have failed in a logical and factual manner then the job becomes easier.
This is what Romney and Ryan have begun doing and should continue to do. Let Obama and his thugs attack, slash and burn and take the personal route because they have no other recourse considering their failed record.
This does not mean by taking the high road you exclude a response to such attacks. It simply means you must use superior ideas and a touch of satire to supplant getting in the gutter and appeal to the best instincts in Americans not their worst.
As the campaign plays out I believe Romney and Ryan will gain strength, more acceptability and will win big time.
OBAMA HAS CHOSEN TO CAMPAIGN IN THE STYLE OF HIS PRESIDENCY AND THAT DOG HAS PROVEN IT CANNOT HUNT.
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More and more are coming around to my thinking. (See 1 below.)
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If you did not catch the speech of this charming young lady it is worth reading and thus posting. (See 2 below.)
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In discussions with friends, of the opposite political persuasion, I refer to Obama as their president. They remind me Obama is mine as well. I point out this is not the case because Obama has set me aside in order to attack my success, my beliefs and the list is endless. I have lived under Democrat Administrations and in some cases voted for them but never have I been singled out, made to feel less an American. So no, Obama ain't my president nor, frankly, does he preside over a nation I remember and wish to identify with because I do not favor an America in decline. I do not wish America to slink back into history's darkness along with other former powers. I do not accord with an America incapable of defending its destiny as the world's best hope.
Obama has declared war on American citizens who are achievers, he has declared war on those who save and want to see value in the dollar. He has declared war on our Constitutional form of government and he has declared war on just about every value I associate with being an American and I was taught identified and separated my nation from all others. No he ain't my president and the sooner he and all his cronies are sent packing the better off America will be and I will feel!
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When voters have made a mistake if you want to get them to change their mind it is far more difficult when you demonize the person they voted for. This approach makes them defensive and forced them to have an even greater need to defend their previous choice.
If, however, you point out where the policies of their candidate have failed in a logical and factual manner then the job becomes easier.
This is what Romney and Ryan have begun doing and should continue to do. Let Obama and his thugs attack, slash and burn and take the personal route because they have no other recourse considering their failed record.
This does not mean by taking the high road you exclude a response to such attacks. It simply means you must use superior ideas and a touch of satire to supplant getting in the gutter and appeal to the best instincts in Americans not their worst.
As the campaign plays out I believe Romney and Ryan will gain strength, more acceptability and will win big time.
OBAMA HAS CHOSEN TO CAMPAIGN IN THE STYLE OF HIS PRESIDENCY AND THAT DOG HAS PROVEN IT CANNOT HUNT.
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More and more are coming around to my thinking. (See 1 below.)
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If you did not catch the speech of this charming young lady it is worth reading and thus posting. (See 2 below.)
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In discussions with friends, of the opposite political persuasion, I refer to Obama as their president. They remind me Obama is mine as well. I point out this is not the case because Obama has set me aside in order to attack my success, my beliefs and the list is endless. I have lived under Democrat Administrations and in some cases voted for them but never have I been singled out, made to feel less an American. So no, Obama ain't my president nor, frankly, does he preside over a nation I remember and wish to identify with because I do not favor an America in decline. I do not wish America to slink back into history's darkness along with other former powers. I do not accord with an America incapable of defending its destiny as the world's best hope.
Obama has declared war on American citizens who are achievers, he has declared war on those who save and want to see value in the dollar. He has declared war on our Constitutional form of government and he has declared war on just about every value I associate with being an American and I was taught identified and separated my nation from all others. No he ain't my president and the sooner he and all his cronies are sent packing the better off America will be and I will feel!
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Dick
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1)How 'The Shy Republican' Could Be Masking a Landslide
By Adam Shaw
At time of writing, polls show the race for the presidency to be tight. General consensus seems to be that whoever wins, the 2012 election will be won by a bat squeak.
1)How 'The Shy Republican' Could Be Masking a Landslide
By Adam Shaw
At time of writing, polls show the race for the presidency to be tight. General consensus seems to be that whoever wins, the 2012 election will be won by a bat squeak.
Yet to many, especially those of us on the right, it seems peculiar that Obama is still remotely in the race. With high unemployment, minimal GDP growth, a 100% increase in food stamp costs, and out-of-control spending, many conservatives are asking how just under half of the American population can possibly want more of the same.
While it is not possible now to get into the many reasons certain people will vote Democrat in November, I propose that all polls, not just left-leaning polls, may be being strongly misled by their data, and Romney/Ryan may actually have a huge lead not seen in polls.
It is my contention that this is due to a mix of the infamous Bradley effect and what is known in Britain as "the Shy Tory Factor," with both coming together to exaggerate just how popular Obama is in America.
The Bradley effect is a much-debated polling distortion that is easy to demonstrate but difficult to prove. The idea that when a black or minority candidate is on the ticket against a white candidate, certain voters may lie under pressure from a pollster, worried about being seen as a racist for choosing the white candidate over the minority, sounds highly plausible. The consequence, should the Bradley effect be in play, would be a skewed poll indicating that the minority candidate is in better political shape than his or her opponent.
Some argued that while it may have been a factor in the past, it was not a factor in the 2008 election, when Barack Obama was elected convincingly, just as polls predicted.
Yet this dismissal may be premature. A closer look at the statistics shows that predictions for how much of the white vote Obama would win were strongly exaggerated by polling companies. For instance, a CBS poll near election day predicted that McCain would win the white vote by a mere 3%, and on election day the Republican actually brought in 12% more of the vote than the Democrat. Had it not been for an unusually high turnout among blacks and minorities, Obama's landslide would have been a lot closer.
Therefore, there is no reason why we cannot expect at least a similar Bradley effect this year. In fact, it could possibly be even stronger -- after all, the liberal smear that those who oppose Obama are racist is one that really took off since Obama took office, specifically with the rise of the Tea Party. This could serve only to magnify the Bradley effect, as some white voters may feel ashamed of being seen as sympathetic to a "racist" organization.
Yet there is another factor that, mixed with Bradley, could radically distort the numbers -- and it is a concept not known in America, but known very well in the United Kingdom. Called "The Shy Tory Effect," it could be the little-known variable that could be hiding a landslide for Mitt Romney.
The concept was coined after the British general election of 1992, the result of which stunned the pollsters, the politicians, and the media. After 13 years in office, the ruling Conservative Party was Thatcher-less and divided. Led by their extreme Welsh socialist leader Neil Kinnock (the same Neil Kinnock whose speeches Joe Biden had already ripped off), the left-wing Labour Party were firmly ahead in the polls. Britain was drifting toward a socialist authoritarianism that they hadn't experienced since the 1970s.
As election day approached, Labour held a chunky lead, causing Kinnock to yell giddily into the microphone in his final speech to the Party before election day, "We're all right, we're all right" repeatedly, to rapturous applause.
It seemed Labour had it in the bag. The only exception was the cool and collected Tory prime minister, John Major, whose internal polling suggested that things were not as they seemed.
As the results came in on election night, Labour started off celebrating. However, by 10 o'clock, the BBC's exit poll predicted that Labour might not win, but there would be a hung parliament, which would still probably cause Kinnock to be prime minister of a coalition.
Yet the final result was a total shock -- a comfortable win for the Tories, losing a few seats, but picking up the highest total number of votes for any political party since 1951. Left-wing pundits couldn't explain what had happened.
The explanation for the gap between polls and reality was eventually named "The Shy Tory Factor." Since the ascension of Thatcher to Downing Street in 1979, the Tories had been presented as a nasty, evil party that wanted to destroy communities in their war against the miners, gut health care, and take money from the poor to give to the rich via the poll tax [i]. Does this sound familiar to any Americans at all?
While the policies of the Conservative Party were popular, the media and the screeching left had helped turn the Tory brand into a toxic one that many people didn't want to be associated with in spite of their secret support. Therefore, when polled, the shy Tories answered Labour, but voted Conservative.
Although this happened twenty years ago and in a different country, I propose that the important characteristics that make up the Shy Tory Factor are present in America in 2012. According to the mainstream media, the Republicans want to deny people health care, throw Granny off a cliff, and generally reduce the country to a Dickensian nightmare when the rich get richer, and do so by pulling bread out of the mouths of the hungry. Mixed with the aforementioned labeling of Republicans and Tea Partiers as racist, this is quite a suppressive combination.
While this blend of the Bradley effect and Shy Tory Factor may not affect voters in red states, in purple states it is not difficult to see why those intending to vote Republican may not wish to publicly identify as so, even to a pollster promising anonymity, in fear of being judged as the new Jim Crow.
The other note worth mentioning is that, in the Shy Tory Factor, the only person who knew of its existence before the election was the leader, whose internal polling is usually more accurate. Could this be why Obama's team seems to have gone into panic in recent weeks? Do they know something the polling companies don't?
The Bradley effect has been influential, if at all, only by a few overall percentage points. But if it is wrapped up with an American version of the much more powerful "Shy Tory Factor," we conservatives may be in for a treat in the form of a massive landslide come the first Tuesday in November.
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The America I know
Let me tell you about the America I know. My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity. Through hard work and great sacrifice, they achieved success. So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.
Watching my father work odd jobs in order to provide for us and maintain his independence taught me valuable lessons in personal responsibility. When tough times came, he didn’t look to Washington, he looked within. Because the America he knew was centered on self-reliance. The America I know is founded in the freedom self-reliance always brings.
What makes America great is the idea that when government is limited, people are free — free to work, free to live, free to choose, free to fail and free to achieve. The America I know provides everyone an equal opportunity to be as unequaled as they choose to be.
The America I know gives back. Americans, regardless of financial status, are the most giving people on the planet. On their own, without government requirement, our people give their money, their time and their attention to causes, communities and people in need whether it is across the street or around the world.
The America I know makes tough choices. As the mayor of a small town in Utah facing its own fiscal cliff, we put limited government, fiscal discipline and personal responsibility first in order to create an amazing community that could last. I have also seen that facing challenging choices head-on inspires our citizens to get involved, engage in meaningful dialogue, rally around shared values, do things differently and change the way government works.
Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true — you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn’t make excuses.
The America I know is grounded in the gritty determination found in patriots, pioneers and struggling parents, in small business owners with big ideas, in the farmers who work in the beauty of our landscapes and the artists who paint them, in our heroic military and our inspiring Olympic athletes, and in every child who looks at the seemingly impossible and says, “I can do that.”
Unfortunately President Obama doesn’t seem to live in or believe in the America I have come to know.The America I know is great — not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things. That is the America I know!
His America is a divided one. He has taken class warfare to a new low. In an effort to distract our nation from his failed economic and social policies, he has attempted to pit us against each other based on the color of our skin, our gender, income level, age and social status.
For President Obama, job one has always been to keep his one job. His commitment to cling to power through division has put our nation and our future at risk. He obviously hasn’t learned the math of America — whenever you divide, you diminish.
The truth is that the president’s policies have made minorities and the most vulnerable in society more desperate and dependent on government, less self-reliant, less upwardly mobile and ultimately less free. His America is an ever-expanding nanny state that is simply unsustainable and unhealthy for our people, our economy and our future.
The president’s America is one where big-government Washington bureaucrats make healthcare choices, pick winners and losers in the marketplace and redistribute wealth. Whenever he faces a challenge, his answer is to create another federal agency, add a new czar and pile on more stifling and more intrusive regulation.
The America President Obama knows looks more and more like Europe and less and less like the America we know and love.
I am in this fight not just as a candidate for Congress, but more importantly, as a mother, spouse and concerned citizen. President Obama had a chance to unite and lead this nation — and failed. We are not better off than we were four years ago and no rhetoric, bumper sticker or Hollywood ad campaign can distract us from the dreadful direction he is taking our country.
Americans know better and deserve more. Mr. President, the American people are awake and we are not buying what you are selling in 2012.
You see, the America I know deserves a leader who will respect and serve the people not because of their race, gender or economic status but because they are Americans! We need a leader who will unite the country around the principles that have made us great and will make us great again.
The America I know deserves a leader who believes this country is exceptional. We need a leader who believes our best and brightest days as a nation are still to come.
The America I know deserves a leader who trusts the people and will tell them the hard truth about where we are and what we need to do in order to preserve our future. We need a leader who is prepared to engage in a dialogue about realities, priorities and solving America’s problems.
The America I know deserves a president who actually knows how to balance a budget, create real jobs and unleash America’s entrepreneurial spirit.
The America I know deserves and needs that kind of leader. I am convinced that leader is Governor Mitt Romney.
The America I know isn’t just my story and it isn’t just your story. It is our story. It is a story of endless possibilities, human struggle, standing up and striving for more. Our story has been told for well over 200 years, punctuated by small steps and giant leaps; from a woman on a bus to a man with a dream; from the bravery of the greatest generation to the explorers, entrepreneurs, reformers and innovators of today. This is our story. This is the America we know — because we built it.
With Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan leading the way, I believe we can restore the greatness of this nation and ensure that the America we know is the America our children will know and the America our grandchildren will possess for years to come!
We must fight to keep the America we know as that shining city on a hill — truly the last, best hope on earth.
Mia Love is the mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, and a conservative candidate for Utah’s Fourth Congressional District.
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