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The Democrat-favoring Public Policy Polling has three-term incumbent Sen. Russ Feingold trailing Republican challenger Ron Johnson in Wisconsin, by an 11 percentage point margin. Politico reports:
It’s the largest polling lead Johnson has held since he clinched the state Republican Party’s endorsement back in May, and a jarring deficit for the state’s junior senator in the traditionally deep blue state.
PPP chalks up Johnson’s advantage to “an enormous enthusiasm gap” and a “malaise with Democratic voters” – a lethal combination for a state where President Barack Obama defeated Sen. John McCain by a breezy 14 points just two years ago….
Democrats have attempted to paint the self-funding Johnson as an extremist who believes Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme” and blames global warming on “sunspot activity,” but the PPP survey indicates that 46 percent of likely voters view the plastics manufacturer favorably.
Yeah, the Dems (and media) should keep up that sunspot attack on Johnson — it’s a real winner.
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Ken (Old Texican)| 9.22.10 @ 12:20PM
Paul,
I love it. Thank you for the youtube.
Real American| 9.22.10 @ 12:40PM
"A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned. The Ponzi scheme usually entices new investors by offering returns other investments cannot guarantee, in the form of short-term returns that are either abnormally high or unusually consistent. The perpetuation of the returns that a Ponzi scheme advertises and pays requires an ever-increasing flow of money from investors to keep the scheme going."
The only difference here is that Ponzi schemes are voluntary, whereas working Americans are forced AT GUNPOINT to pay into this failing scheme. Johnson is right. Feingold is LYING! What else is new?
ds80| 9.22.10 @ 1:56PM
Can't wait to hear another of Andrea Mitchell's smart-*ss smirking laughs on the morning of Nov 3rd.
Mark James| 9.22.10 @ 2:40PM
Johnson is also correct about sunspot activity being the major causality of global temperature swings. There are actually two scientifically supported views on greenhouse gas causality. One is that there IS a greenhouse gas effect but it is minor, and the other is the greenhouse gas effect is non-existant.
Sunspots directly affect the solar winds and the magnetic flux which in turn directly affect the amount of radiation hitting the upper atmosphere from space. The changes in this radiation level measurably affects the cloud cover which is the main driving force of climate variation. Carbon dioxide has not affect that is presently measurable.