45% misunderstand Obama

But most voters do know what he wants

The latest poll by Democracy Corps, the firm of James Carville and Stan Greenberg, has Republicans leading on the generic ballot among likely voters, 48 percent to 42 percent.

Deep in the poll, they ask, “Now, I am going to read you a list of words and phrases which people use to describe political figures. For each word or phrase, please tell me whether it describes Barack Obama very well, well, not too well, or not well at all.”

On “too liberal,” 35 percent of likely voters say it describes Obama “very well,” 21 percent say “well,” 21 percent say “not too well,” and 17 percent say “not well at all.” In other words, 56 percent of likely voters consider Obama too liberal.

When asked about “a socialist,” 33 percent of likely voters say it describes Obama “very well,” 22 percent say “well,” 15 percent say “not too well,” and 25 percent say “not well at all.”

In other words, 55 percent of likely voters think “socialist” is a reasonably accurate way of describing Obama.

(from nationalreview.com)

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How the U.S. became Californicated, like Greece

City Journal's Steve Malanga offers the most detailed and succinct history yet on how public sector unions grew from being toothless employee associations to having a virtually lock on all of the key power levers in California and how they've used that power to enrich themselves while all but ruining a once-goldern state.

As Malanga explains, what has already happened in California is well underway across the rest of the nation and in Washington, D.C.:

"The story starts half a century ago, when California public workers won bargaining rights and quickly learned how to elect their own bosses — that is, sympathetic politicians who would grant them outsize pay and benefits in exchange for their support. Over time, the unions have turned the state’s politics completely in their favor," Malanga writes.

"The result: unaffordable benefits for civil servants; fiscal chaos in Sacramento and in cities and towns across the state; and angry taxpayers finally confronting the unionized masters of California’s unsustainable government."

Malanga's extraordinary piece also points to a host of reasons why the dominant domestic issue of the next several decades will be how to extricate the nation's financial future from the crippling power of public employee unions and from the mummifying of the private economy by the environmental movement.

If you read nothing else this week ... go here.

(from washingtonexaminer.com)

You'd better get used to The Chicago Way

StopJarret.com covers The Blago Trial: July 8

• Recording: Blagojevich Learns He’s Being Taped
• Blago witness: Jackson backer offered fundraising
• Blagojevich witness clashes with attorney
• Tapes played at trial reveal shaken Blagojevich
• Aide: Blagojevich hid in bathroom to avoid staff
• GOP mocks Blagojevich with T-shirts, mousepads

(from stopjarrett.com)

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Revolt, Nazi Hunters, O.J.

On this day: July 9

The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution (1932)

A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France; a note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility (1979)

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