presidency

div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/3/voting_booth.jpg” alt=”Empty voting booths in St. Louis county” height=”384″ width=”550″ / div class=”dkimg-cap”Empty voting booths in St. Louis County. (Sarah Conard/Reuters)/div /div I wrote yesterday on the a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/07/1072094/-GOP-turnout-woes-intensify”GOP’s turnout problem/a, with numbers mostly down from 2008.

pimg src=”http://images.dailykos.com/i/user/426/APR_926.jpg” //p psmallVisual source: a href=”http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/”Newseum/a/small/p pa href=”http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/?eventId=84328″Someone’s fading/a:/p div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/426/Intrade926.png” alt=”" height=”148″ width=”530″ //div a href=”http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64352.html”Politico/a: blockquote“Perry’s showing in the [FL] straw poll was disa

Sarah Palin will visit South Korea for the first time to speak at a Seoul forum in October, in a move that will fuel speculation that she could be considering joining the race for Republican nomination for the presidency.

(Elizabeth Cromwell/ CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Public Policy Polling (PDF) (7/15-17, registered voters, 6/19-12 (PDF) in parens): Barack Obama : 45 (47) Mitt Romney : 45 (45) Undecided : 10 (8) Barack Obama : 48 (50) Tim Pawlenty : 39 (39) Undecided : 13 (11) Barack Obama : 48 (48) Herman Cain : 36 (38) Undecided : 16 (14) Barack Obama : 53 (52) Sarah Palin : 37 (38) Undecided : 9 (10) Barack Obama : 48 Michele Bachmann : 41 Undecided : 11 (MoE: ±3.2%) Tom Jensen headlined this poll by saying Obama is in “perilous” shape.

JUNEAU, Alaska — The state of Alaska on Friday will release thousands of Sarah Palin’s emails from her first two years as governor, a disclosure that has taken on national prominence as she flirts with a run for the presidency. The emails were first requested during the 2008 White House race by citizens and news organizations, including The Associated Press, as they vetted a vice presidential nominee whose political experience included less than one term as governor of Alaska and a term as mayor of the small town of Wasilla.

Conservative Tea Party favourite Sarah Palin said on Wednesday she could beat
President Barack Obama in a race for the White House amid growing
speculation she will run for the presidency in 2012.

George W Bush believes Sarah Palin spoiled the Republican party's 2008
election campaign, according to reports.

Sarah Palin has released a trailer for her new television series which shows her canoeing, dog sledding, skiing and watching bears grapple in the wilds of Alaska.

The Shirley Sherrod debacle shows that Barack Obama’s White House pays a great deal of attention to Fox News and the right wing blogosphere. They refer to it as ‘the atmosphere’, as thought the right wing were a force of nature that can only be dealt with by panic and immediate surrender. Many have suggested that President Obama ignore the right wing but we all know that telling someone not to think of a red elephant only makes them think of it right away. The human brain abhors a vacuum. We need to focus on something.

President Obama’s most enduring political weakness has been his relative difficulty connecting with working class white Americans. He won the Democratic nomination in 2008 by building a coalition based around African Americans and white liberals. The economic collapse and the widespread anger at President Bush, pushed a lot of working class white voters towards Obama in November of 2008, but this was a brief alliance, rather than a strong gesture of support.