October 17, 2015

Deju VU?

Romney gains 15 points to tie Obama in New Hampshire after first debate

Mitt Romney, President Obama now tied in New Hampshire, according to poll

By Callum Borchers
Globe Correspondent | 10.15.12 | 11:00 PM

Mitt Romney has pulled even with President Obama in New Hampshire, according to a poll released late Monday by the Suffolk University Political Research Center.

Romney had been fading in the Granite State before his spirited effort in the first presidential debate two weeks ago. A poll published on Oct. 1 by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center showed Obama with a 15-point lead.

Last week, a UNH poll conducted partly before and partly after the debate in Denver gave the president only a 6-point edge.

Now, the Suffolk poll, taken entirely after the first presidential debate and the lone vice presidential debate, shows Romney tied with Obama at 47 percent. The survey included 500 likely voters and had a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.


2012 New Hampshite Election Results



Just to keep things in perspective in response to Hillary pulls ahead of Bernie Sanders in N.H. 37 -35%.

October 11, 2015

Why Wall Street Loves Hillary (from 11/11/14)

Hillary Clinton has finally shown her hand. After having sat out the financial crisis and all the economic turmoil that has followed in the past six years—and with good reason, since for most of that time she was tending to the nation’s diplomacy as secretary of state—she is proving to be an anti-Wall Street populist too, and as much a socialist as her former boss, President Obama.

But here’s the strange thing: Down on Wall Street they don’t believe it for a minute. While the finance industry does genuinely hate Warren, the big bankers love Clinton, and by and large they badly want her to be president. Many of the rich and powerful in the financial industry—among them, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman, Tom Nides, a powerful vice chairman at Morgan Stanley, and the heads of JPMorganChase and Bank of America—consider Clinton a pragmatic problem-solver not prone to populist rhetoric. To them, she’s someone who gets the idea that we all benefit if Wall Street and American business thrive. What about her forays into fiery rhetoric? They dismiss it quickly as political maneuvers. None of them think she really means her populism.

Although Hillary Clinton has made no formal announcement of her candidacy, the consensus on Wall Street is that she is running—and running hard—and that her national organization is quickly falling into place behind the scenes. That all makes her attractive. Wall Street, above all, loves a winner, especially one who is not likely to tamper too radically with its vast money pot.

(So in addition to funding unnecessary wars, I presume we will bail out Wall Street again should she become president. And they haven't learned their lesson from 2008; why would they, as they have not suffered for it like the rest of us)

I realize this is an old story, but it shouldn't be forgotten.

Wall Street and Hillary