O44 and unmarried women

27 January 2011 |permalink | email article

The 2010 election represented a significant pullback in support for Barack Obama among unmarried women but the President took an important first step in re-engaging with this critical block of voters with his speech Tuesday night on the economy. In partnership with the Democracy Corps and other women’s groups the speech was tested among 30 unmarried women in Denver. Half were weak partisan voters, half were women with more progressive values.

According to the Greenberg, Quinlan Rosner polling firm overall, unmarried women who were interviewed afterwords reacted strongly to the speech, lifting the number who strongly approve of Obama’s work by 13 points.  On core measures where the President most impressed the participants his numbers jumped 30 points on “has good plan for the economy.”

Bachmann is a joke

Rep. Michele Bachmann was the subject of Anderson Cooper’s “Keeping Them Honest” CNN segment Tuesday night, for her comments last weekend that to America’s diversity-conscious first settlers, “it didn’t matter the color of their skin, it didn’t matter their language, it didn’t matter their economic status.”

Cooper explained that the segment was subtitled “Flunking History,” which he explained was because Bachmann’s comments “are either a deliberate rewriting of our history, or signs that she has a shaky grasp of our history.”

Bachmann said in her remarks that “we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States. It is not a surprise that she declined to appear on the show to defend her remarks.

Testing the waters for a 2012 presidential run the Minnesota congresswoman is obsessed with the Constitution and most fond of quoting John Adams, the second president of the United States.

Third-grade students know more about how badly the founding fathers treated slaves than Bachmann, and that it took an American Civil War to settle the issue. She’s become problem for the House Republican leadership, and a growing embarrassment for the Tea Party.

Quotable

We have to “stop pretending” that cutting this kind of spending “alone with be enough.” – Obama rebutting Republicans squarely, and attacking their single-minded focus on slashing discretionary domestic spending at the expense of investment in the future. 

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