Proving that the great state of Pennsylvania has a burgeoning moron population, there was a recent poll conducted for the Tribune-Review which shows that there is now two percentage points that separate Barry "Almighty" and Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the state, even though both campaigns have largely ignored Pennsylvania while concentrating on other battlegrounds. Barry polled 47 percent to Romney's 45 percent among likely Pennsylvania voters, with 6 percent of voters undecided and 44 days until Election Day, that according to the survey by Susquehanna Polling & Research. The survey of 800 voters, conducted Sept. 18-20, has a margin of error of 3.46 percentage points.
The poll showed most voters are disappointed with the country’s direction, evenly split on whether Barry deserves another term and hesitant to back Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts. Strangely enough fifty-one percent of the state’s voters approve of Barry’s job performance. Which is odd really, given Barry's eagerness to start shutting down nasty coal mines, in this coal state, putting even more people out of work. But hey, go figure. Oddly enough, other recent polls showed even a larger margin for Barry, leading some to speculate that Pennsylvania, which hasn’t voted for a GOP presidential candidate since 1988, no longer is a swing state. .
"All the evidence points to a much closer margin," said Jim Lee, Susquehanna president. "Nothing suggests we’re looking at anything like 2008." Voters continue to put the economy at the top of their list of concerns. Only one in three believes the country is headed in the right direction. Yet, a deeper look at the numbers shows a more nuanced picture. Romney leads Obama, 48 percent to 44 percent, on the question of who would create jobs to speed up the recovery. But as bizarre as it sounds, if you ask who looks out for the interests of the middle class and Barry leads, 56 percent to 38 percent. Kinda makes you wonder how these people can come to that conclusion.
"People run with the numbers without really paying attention to what’s behind them," said Dilip Namjoshi, 66, of Abington, a Philadelphia suburb. "Somebody says, ‘I created 2 million jobs.’ Well, yes, but 600,000 of them are in China." Leah Brooks, 63, a Republican in New Wilmington, Lawrence County, said she has a hard time reading Romney. "He seems to mean well, but I’m not sure he always sees the whole picture. I’m not sure he can get down to where we are," Brooks said. Adding, "I don’t blame him for it. But I’m not sure he really can see what it’s like." Brooks said she’s troubled by recent events in Arab countries. "It is important how we’re seen and how we handle ourselves," she said.
And as screwy as this one sounds, Barry is said to lead, 49 percent to 41 percent, among likely voters on the question of who would better defend the homeland. But voters who peg foreign affairs and international events as their top concern prefer Romney, 53 percent to 46 percent, the same poll found. "We seem to get ourselves stuck in the mud and can’t get out. I’m not sure anybody knows how to get out of the messes we’re in," Brooks said. "It seems that what (Obama) does best is campaign. I just wish he’d get down to business." I may be missing something here, but if Ms. Brooks looks back over the last 4 years she'll see that Barry did get down to business and we're mush the worse for it.
And then we have Mr. Thomas Hohler, 67, the epitome of the brain dead Democrats who point to the Republicans in Congress as being the problem. "You can’t get anything accomplished if their goal is to say no to anything Obama wants," Hohler said. The way to solve the country’s problems "is to get members of Congress, elected officials, that are willing to work together to achieve something. I’m not sure how you can do that, or how soon that’s going to happen." Adding, "Obviously, Obama hasn’t done as well as I would’ve liked. On health care, I would’ve liked to see him go for single-payer or Medicare for everyone," Hohler said. Overall, the former high school teacher gives Barry a B grade. I think he’s being a bit too generous.
Sounding a bit more like voice of reason, there's Joseph Mozaleski who said that he used to vote for Democrats before the party embraced legalized abortions. Decades later, the Republican sees increasing reliance on government assistance and rules in Barry’s health care law that require coverage of contraceptives as the consequences of a moral drift. "Something is wrong with the moral fabric, and I think Romney has a better chance of bringing back my ideals in this country," said Mozaleski, 62, of Sterling, Wayne County. A blind man could see just how the Democrat Party has moved this country farther and farther into the gutter. We would be doing ourselves a favor by never electing another one and we can start by not re-electing Barry.
In Abington, Namjoshi registered to vote as a Republican in 1988 but changed his registration to independent last month, saying he’s fed up with both parties. He said he liked Texas Congressman Ron Paul’s small-government libertarian message during the GOP primaries and will watch the presidential debates to see whether either candidate says something convincing about stabilizing the country’s financial situation. "You’ve got to be fiscally responsible. Whoever does that is probably going to get my vote," Namjoshi said. Come on, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out here which candidate has the know how to take control of our financial situation. And it sure ain't Barry.
So here we are. We're being faced with a question, the answer to which, could have some pretty far reaching effects regarding what this country is going to look like as we head into the future after November 6. Will it be decided by a majority of Americans that we should become more like Europe, and therefore willing to forsake all that makes America so unique. Or, will we come to our senses at the last minute, able to finally see the wisdom in all that it means to BE an American? At this stage of the game I really can't determine on which side we may come down. It should be a no brainer, and yet, for far too many people, it isn't. Either we all believe in what this country is, or like Barry, we believe that it is need of some additional "fundamental transformation."
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