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The approval rating of President Obama is up to 50 percent while 42 percent of Americans have a positive feeling about Mitt Romney.
Rick Santorum's approval rating is 33 pct. His sweater vest comes in at 17 pct.
Ice cream is ahead of all candidates at 97 pct.

Yes we can show Romney he sucks for another cool 57 million dollars.
By the way a lot of it is not his but his friends money.

The next states where Republicans will be voting in one week are Arizona and Michigan. Michigan is particularly important because it is the home state of Republican contender Mitt Romney. Now that Rick Santorum is the main opponent of Romney people have to pay attention to what comes out of his mouth.
This happened just this week. Santorum comparing Obama to Hitler. Santorum's spokesman talking about the radical Islamic policies of Obama.

In the polls Rick Santorum is doing almost as well as Romney:

ARIZONA (PPP): Romney 36, Santorum 33, Gingrich 16, Paul 9
MICHIGAN (PPP): Santorum 37, Romney 33, Paul 15, Gingrich 10
MICHIGAN (We Ask America): Romney 29, Santorum 29, Paul 12, Gingrich 10

Look at Texas though... wow. Luckily for Romney Texans won't vote till May 29.
University of Texas/Texas Tribune. 2/8-15.

This is what writer Tim Egan had to say  in the NYTimes about the electoral process in the United States. The Republican primary electorate looks more like the population that the U.S. in 1890 than in 2012  than in 2012:

"There is no other way to put this without resorting to demographic bluntness: the small fraction of Americans who are trying to pick the Republican nominee are old, white, uniformly Christian and unrepresentative of the nation at large."

Op welke plaats staat het Nederlands, wat betreft aantal sprekers, van de ruim 6.500 talen die er wereldwijd worden gesproken?

a)  627ste
b)  37ste
c)  As 'n huus.

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The approval rating of President Obama is at the highest level since a year. More than half of the Americans now approve of what he's doing. 
Finally his well thought out strategy of not being any of the Republican candidates is paying off.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is outspending fundamentalist Christian Rick Santorum 30 to 1 in his home state of Michigan. Still Santorum is surging ahead in the polls. The Republican primary will be held there on Februari 28.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Romney wanted to 'let Detroit go bankrupt' when President Obama saved the car industry in that town with a bailout.

Santorum, who will campaign in Michigan on Thursday, has responded with a small ad buy, reportedly $40,000 compared to $1.2 million from Romney’s campaign and a SuperPAC supporting him.

Thirty years ago 3,2 percent of all marriages in the U.S. were interracial. Now a record 8,4 percent of marriages is between races. In 2010 more than 15 pct of all marriages were between races. Mostly black people with another race, according to a study by the Pew Research Center.

Gayhating Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum is ahead of expert flipflopper Mitt Romney in the last CBS News/New York Times national poll by a 3 percent margin. In all national polls only Gallup still has Romney slightly ahead of Santorum. CNN/Opinion Research has Santorum up  2 points.
Let the smearcampaign part 2 begin.

Good for President Obama is that independent voters are leaving the Romney bandwagon. Romney was ahead of Obama among independent voters in november 53 pct to 41 pct. Now those numbers are 41 to 42 pct..

The last polls show that the Republican primary is now a two-man race between moderate flipflopper Mitt Romney and extreme Christian gayhater Rick Santorum. Newt Gingrich is out. The huge amount of negative add's by the Romney campaign, with were very easy to produce thanks to Gingrich' past, have worked. Democrats hope he won't accept it till the end if the race. Here are some polls:

NATIONAL (Gallup Tracking): Romney 32, Santorum 30, Gingrich 16, Paul 8
NATIONAL (Pew Research): Santorum 30, Romney 28, Gingrich 17, Paul 12
MICHIGAN (American Research Group): Santorum 33, Romney 27, Gingrich 21, Paul 12
MICHIGAN (PPP): Santorum 39, Romney 24, Paul 12, Gingrich 11

The surge of Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum just goes on and on. Since his three primary victories on Tuesday, rightwing Republicans finally seem to have decided on the Not Romney. In PPP's newest national poll Rick Santorum is at 38% to 23% for Mitt Romney. Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul are out with 17% and 13%.
There's one reason why Santorum is soaring: almost no one hates him. Something that can't be said of the competition.

This is coming from a poll by Fox News, repeat Fox News. So Fox News:

Twice as many voters overall would be enthusiastic if Obama were to be re-elected than if any Republican contenders were to win.
And twice as many Democrats would be enthusiastic if Obama were re-elected than Republicans would feel enthused about a victory by any of the GOP candidates.

Cardow, The Ottawa Citizen

How enthused are Republicams about this primary? Let's compare the Republican turnout numbers till now from 2008 with 2012.

                                2008        2012

Iowa                    119,118   122,255

New Hampshire   234,851   248,448

South Carolina    445,677   603,856

Florida             1,949,498 1,672,352

Nevada                 44,324      32,894

Colorado               70,229     65,479

Missouri               588,720   251,868

Minnesota             62,828      47,801

So not to bad in Iowa and New Hampshire. Than a significant boost in South Carolina when Republicans suddenly and shortly fell for Gingrich's Stop-Romney effort. After that it's significantly downhill.

Christian gaybasher Rick Santorum has won more states than moderate Mitt Romney while spending 30 million dollars less.
Apparently Republicans don't trust Mitt Romney to really take their Medicare away.

Rick Santorum surprises everyone by taking Missouri and Minnesote (and possibly Colorado) from Mitt Romney in the Republican primary. Newt Gingrich seems out of the race. 

Missouri  Minnesota  Colorado

reporting            100% 85% 45%

Santorum, Rick     55  45  37

Romney, Mitt        25  17  37

Gingrich, Newt      10  11  13

Paul, Ron             12  27  12

Wow, how much do Republicans not like Mitt Romney. That much that if he becomes the Republican nominee, it's clear that not all Republican voters will come out to vote for him.

The Birther myth isn't going away. The percentage of Republicans who say they don't believe he is born in a hospital in Hawaii is even higher than before Obama released his long-form certificate.
It's not that much that so many Republicans don't think that Barack Obama was born in the United States it's more that they don't want him to be born in the U.S.

Now that Americans start to remember more and more about the life and works of Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney seems almost unbeatable in the Republican primary. This are the last polls:

NATIONAL (ABC/Washington Post): Romney 38, Gingrich 24, Santorum 18, Paul 14
NATIONAL (Gallup Tracking): Romney 35, Gingrich 24, Santorum 16, Paul 12

And President Obama is looking better and better against Romney. In the polls that is:

NATIONAL (ABC/Washington Post): Obama d. Romney (51-45); Obama d. Gingrich (54-43)
NATIONAL (Rasmussen): Obama d. Romney (49-42); Obama d. Paul (50-38)

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Mitt Romney has won his second state in a row: Nevada. But Newt Gingrich promises the Democrats he will keep on fighting.

The results of the Nevada Republican primary till now: Bain 40.5% (Mitt), Adelson 24.9% (Newt), Peter Thiel 21.5% (Rick), Foster Friess 12.8% (Ron).

This is very good news for the Democrats. Presidential contender Mitt Romney won big in Florida but Republican voters were not that less enthusiastic about the whole process. Even though the media attention was enormous the Republican turnout in the Sunshine State was significantly lower than in 2008.
Four years ago 1.94 million people voted in the Republican Florida primary, this year only 1.66 million voters showed up. 

American politics

Mitt Romney did outspent Newt Gingrich 6 to 1 in the Republican primary in the state of Florida.
He is even doing better than in 2008.
Mitt Romney has more votes than Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum combined.

With 98 percent of the votes counted:

Romney, Mitt       46%
Gingrich, Newt     32%
Santorum, Rick    13%
Paul, Ron              7%