Pennsylvania was ground zero in voters dramatic center right shift
GREENSBURG, Pennsylvania — For the first time in Westmoreland County history, no Democrat was elected to a countywide office seat in the November 2021 off-year elections.
Not only did Republicans sweep all of the row office races here, they also won the district attorney and coroner races, ousting longtime officeholders that many in the community respected.
“They won a statewide Supreme Court seat and other judicial races, but they also won seats outside of the more conservative west in the Philadelphia suburbs in county government and for township supervisors, seats they had lost during the Trump years,” said G. Terry Madonna, a political science professor at Millersville University and a frequent commentator on Pennsylvania politics.
It turns out this wasn’t an outlier. A full year's look by Gallup at political preferences in 2021 shows that they have undergone a dramatic shift away from the Democratic Party. Whereas a 9 percentage-point plurality perceived themselves as Democratic one year ago, Republicans had surged to a 5-point edge by the fourth quarter of 2021.
Both the 9-point Democratic advantage in the first quarter and the 5-point Republican edge in the fourth quarter are among the largest Gallup has measured for each party in any quarter since it began regularly measuring party identification and leaning in 1991.
Youngstown State University professor Paul Sracic said it is pretty unprecedented for a party to fall this far from grace in just one year. “This big party shift just doesn’t ever happen, and these numbers are just stunning.”
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Joe 2.0: Biden attempts an upgrade as polling shows last-year's model is dangerously out of date
The need for a new edition of the president is unmistakable: Biden is strikingly unpopular
By Keith Koffler | Fox News
President Biden's decision to burst out of the gate in 2022 with something he spent most of 2021 running from — a press conference — suggests the White House is attempting to learn from the mistakes made in its first year with a shiny new approach to running the country.
Wednesday afternoon's East Room press conference is emblematic of a White House attempting to reconstruct itself into a less-cloistered outfit that embraces the public.
And so, at the podium Wednesday, the press and the nation will behold Biden 2.0.
The need for a new edition of the president is unmistakable: Biden is strikingly unpopular. A Quinnipiac poll released last week shocked Democrats and Republicans alike with a finding that only 33% of Americans approve of the job Biden is doing, compared to 53% who do not. The poll is an outlier, but others aren't too much better.
President Biden speaks during a news conference after attending the G-7 summit, Sunday, June 13, 2021, at Cornwall Airport in Newquay, England.
President Biden speaks during a news conference after attending the G-7 summit, Sunday, June 13, 2021, at Cornwall Airport in Newquay, England. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
The president is often criticized as being out of touch and divorced from the problems of voters. For example, inflation, which according to a FOX Business poll conducted last month is easily the biggest economic problem voters say they face.
Until recently, the White House did not seem to be taking inflation very seriously. Just three months ago, Biden's chief of staff retweeted a tweet calling inflation a "high class" problem. Meantime, the White House has sought to emphasize that the economy is growing and that various other economic data look great.
But Americans can't see GDP growth. They can't see an unemployment rate and might not be too worried about one unless they are out of a job. But as they stroll the supermarket aisles and cruise past the local Exxon, they can sure see the rising prices, and they feel them achingly when they run their credit cards.
Worse for Biden, 47% of voters think he is making inflation worse, along with 28% who say he's not making a difference, according to the FOX Business poll. Only 22% thought Biden's policies are helping with inflation.
Voters specifically believe Biden's signature Build Back Better social spending plan, which flamed out in December, would make prices go up more. And while the spending plan is generally popular, it's hardly the top thing on people's presidential to-do list.
Gas prices grow along with inflation as this sign at a gas station shows in San Diego, California, Nov. 9, 2021.
Gas prices grow along with inflation as this sign at a gas station shows in San Diego, California, Nov. 9, 2021. (REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo)
So Biden 2.0 is not talking much about reviving BBB. And last week, when inflation for December came in at 7%, the highest number in 40 years, Biden released a statement devoid of charges that evil corporate fat cats were jacking up prices, a line the White House has previously taken. Instead, Biden acknowledged the problem and said he was focused "every day" on creating sustainable growth while curbing inflation.
JOE BIDEN WAS THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD AS IT FELL APART AROUND HIM IN 2021
Now, the president is showing new attention to the daily needs of Americans frustrated that the CVS is out of COVID-19 tests and that the N95 masks that they hear are the best are expensive and hard to find. A website went up Tuesday promising four free tests per household. And as a bonus, Biden Wednesday will announce he's handing out literally hundreds of millions of N95s.
And then there's Wednesday's trip to the bully pulpit.
Biden held but nine press conferences last year — three of which were with foreign leaders on hand — fewer than his recent predecessors. While the president takes questions on the fly, a press conference is a chance for Americans to get a good look at him, to experience his personality and perhaps gain a connection with him, and to hear him explain his policies in detail. It's a chance for Americans and Biden to get reacquainted.
President Biden speaks with members of the press about the Texas synagogue hostage incident before volunteering with first lady Jill Biden at hunger relief organization Philabundance, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022, in Philadelphia.
President Biden speaks with members of the press about the Texas synagogue hostage incident before volunteering with first lady Jill Biden at hunger relief organization Philabundance, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Meantime, down the West Wing hall in the vice president's office, change is also afoot, with a brand-new communications team hired for Kamala Harris and a commitment to taking more questions from reporters. And amid mocking and criticism of her leadership role in combating illegal immigration, her office revealed Tuesday that she'd be jetting off to Honduras soon to rip out the "root causes" of illegal immigration.
But there's a risk to sudden availability. There are reasons why Biden's and Harris' handlers limited their exposure. Harris can be hard to follow as her sentences zigzag down roads to nowhere. And Biden tends to introduce strange new words into the lexicon and freely commits gaffes. It could well be that for Biden and Harris, intimacy with America will only breed more contempt.
But with as few as a third of the country admiring the job the president is doing and Harris' rating also in the dumps, it's probably worth the risk.
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Trump stopped funding The Human Right Agency of The U.N and Biden restarted doing so believing he could modulate it's message. Another foolish action on his part. A waste of American tax dollars and now the Agency is bigger, more costly than ever. The expanded agency is stacked with anti-Semites, it's entire program is dedicated to slamming Israel and circulating false messaging and its behaviour is so obviously one sided that our funding is a disgrace if "human rights" is meant to be an effective component of our foreign policy.
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The “Inquiry” has formally issued a “call for submissions.” It said: “The Commission invites individuals, groups and organizations to submit information and documentation relevant to its mandate."
Jewish and non-Jewish experts, NGOs, other organizations, parliamentarians or legislators – who care about defeating modern global antisemitism embodied in this UN Commission of Inquiry – need to proffer submissions.
By making a submission to this rigged exercise, will we legitimize it? The answer is emphatically NO, the greater the number of individuals and organizations who act.
Submissions are not about changing their minds, but about educating those who remain open to learning the truth about the Jewish state and the Jewish people. About exposing antisemitism and calling it out as such. About urging others to stand with the people of Israel and to object to the perversion of law and the falsification of right and wrong by the United Nations – for the sake of real human rights victims, now and in the future.
So stand up to #PillaysPogrom. Write now.
Submit Your Testimony - Everyone is Eligible
The United Nations Human Rights Council has voted to begin an ongoing, "independent" investigation into Israel’s conduct during the war that Hamas waged upon Israel last May. What this does to the Israeli population was not even mentioned in the resolution. Possibly the most hostile, anti-Israel “inquiry” in U.N. history, this inquiry's mandate is to investigate “all alleged violations of international humanitarian law and all alleged violations and abuses of international human rights law leading up to and since April 13, 2021, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and all underlying root causes of recurrent tensions, instability, and protraction of conflict, including systematic discrimination and repression based on national, ethnic, racial or religious identity.”
Unfortunately, this is likely to be a Kangaroo Court. The illustrious members of the Human Rights Council include China, Russia, Cuba, Libya, Mauritania and Venezuela, none of which are bastions of human rights.
The name "Hamas," or the fact that over 4,360 missiles rained down on Israel during the 11 days of conflict in May is not even mentioned in the resolution.
The consequence of this “inquiry” is an interminable assault on Israel which can be used in criminal legal proceedings, such as in the International Criminal Court, and will be used by those who want to further the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement to further isolate Israel from the community of nations.
Hear from one of the world’s pre-eminent legal scholars and experts on how to respond to these outrageous allegations with very far-reaching consequences.
About the speaker:
Anne Bayefsky is the director of the Touro’s Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, and a professor at the Graduate School of Jewish Studies. She received her Master of Letters from Oxford University and recently served as a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, an independent research organization that promotes the advancement of global security, prosperity and freedom. Professor Bayefsky has served as a delegate of the government of Canada and many non-governmental organizations, including the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists and the American Society of International Law, at United Nations conferences worldwide. She is the author or editor of 11 books and has taught at York University, Columbia University and the University of Ottawa.
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I grew up in a period when America had a sense of humor and did not know what "political correctness" meant. As I have often said I lived during the "filet period" of this country. If the best is yet ahead it had better start soon because a few more years of what we are experiencing, and the current trends and it will be too late.
Hollywood Squares - Those were the days. Hard to believe they did not know the questions before hand!
Squares' game show responses were spontaneous, not scripted.
Q. Paul, what is a good reason for pounding meat?
A. Paul Lynde: Loneliness! (The audience laughed so long and hard it took up almost 15 minutes of the show!)
Q. Do female frogs croak?
A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.
Q. If you're going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be?
A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.
Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years...
A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.
Q. You've been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?
A. Don Knott: That's what's been keeping me awake.
Q. According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay to ask him if he's married.
A. Rose Marie: No. Wait until morning.
Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?
A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency.
Q. What are: 'Do It,' 'I Can Help,' and 'I Can't Get Enough'?
A. George Gobel: I don't know, but it's coming from the apartment next door.
Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while talking?
A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question, Peter, and I'll give you a gesture you'll never forget.
Q. Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather?
A. Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.
Q. Charley, you've just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during the first year?
A. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I'm too busy growing strawberries.
Q. In bowling, what's a perfect score?
A. Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.
Q. During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?
A. Rose Marie: Unfortunately Peter, I'm always safe in the bedroom
Q. Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?
A. Marty Allen: Only after lights out.
Q. When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose do?
A. Paul Lynde: Make him bark?
Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?
A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark.
Q. According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?
A. Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.
Q. Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he trying to do?
A. George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.
Q. Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your elephant?
A. Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant?
Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?
A. Charley Weaver: His feet.
Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?
A. Paul Lynde: Point and laugh.
WE DO NOT STOP LAUGHING BECAUSE WE GROW OLD, WE GROW OLD BECAUSE WE STOP LAUGHING
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