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Alci Maldonado
RNHA National Chairman
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Nov 14th, 2011

Dems fear Supreme Court will rule against Obama on healthcare reform

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/legal-challenges/193583-dems-fear-obama-will-lose-the-case

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Nov 15th, 2011

Obama Losing Support From Young Voters
http://b.globe.com/s6NBKl

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November 3, 2011

View This Release At GOP.com

ICYMI: Solyndra warned W.H. in Oct. ‘10
Excerpts from POLITICO
By: Darren Samuelsohn

“Solyndra’s top executive strategized with the Obama administration in October 2010 as the California solar company prepared to shut down an older plant and lay off nearly 200 employees, new internal emails show. “CEO and President Brian Harrison flagged the company’s bad news to a top DOE loan guarantee official in an October 25, 2010 email. The warning worked its way up the chain of command, ultimately reaching President Barack Obama’s top energy and climate adviser, Carol Browner. “‘Solyndra has received some press inquiries about rumors of problems (one of them with quite accurate information) and we have received in-bound calls from potential financial investors,’ Harrison wrote to Frances Nwachuku, the director of the portfolio management at DOE. “‘It is our view inside Solyndra that while not desirable from DOE perspective we need to internally announce to employees and with one selected press member’…Harrison added. ‘It is our belief that it is better for all parties to get in front of the story and control the messaging rather than get behind the story and on the defensive…I would like to go forward with the internal communication…There will be no mention of the DOE.’ “Nwachuku forwarded Harrison’s email to the head of the DOE loan guarantee program, Jonathan Silver, who then kicked it up to Rod O’Connor, then Chu’s chief of staff, and deputy chief of staff Brandon Hurlbut. A day later, O’Connor sent Harrison’s email to Vice President Joe Biden’s chief of staff as well as Browner and her top deputy, Heather Zichal. “Media reported that Solyndra was announcing plans to shut its first factory, called Fab 1, to save $60 million in capital expenditures. The company also would lay off about 40 employees and not renew contracts for about 150 temporary workers.”

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November 3, 2011

RNC Chairman Priebus Calls on President Obama to Return Campaign Donations from Jon Corzine

WASHINGTON – Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus released the following statement calling on President Obama to return the campaign donations he received from Jon Corzine: “In light of the FBI Investigation into Jon Corzine’s company, President Obama should immediately return the $500,000 that Corzine raised on his behalf. “As Obama’s ‘great friend’ and designated ‘Wall Street guy,’ Corzine did much more than give the maximum $5,000 to the Obama campaign: he bundled at least 100 times that much from his Wall Street friends and fellow executives. While the Obama campaign has entertained the idea of returning the $5,000 Corzine gave himself should he be indicted, that’s simply not enough. The entire amount he bundled should be returned immediately. “President Obama is fond of proclaiming that his campaign is funded by ‘ordinary Americans.’ But ordinary Americans typically are not suspected of losing hundreds of millions of dollars of their customers’ money. It’s time the President lived up to his rhetoric.”

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November 2, 2011

Young Voters And Moms Lose Faith In Obama Economy

Moms Who Supported Obama In ‘08 Unsure About 2012

Excerpts from Associated Press: “Cheryl Abbarno was the most excited she’s ever been about a presidential election when Barack Obama was on the ballot in 2008, but she isn’t sure she’ll vote for him again.”‘It’s discouraging to me that he’s not doing what he said he’s going to do. When he was campaigning, it was change, change, change, and I don’t see any change,’ she said.“Abbarno is a Walmart mom — women with children under 18 at home who shop at the discount superstore…Their No. 1 concern is the economy. They’re split fairly evenly by party affiliation, but more important, they are persuadable voters who will decide late in the election cycle whether they’ll support Obama or the eventual Republican nominee. “A poll released shows 43 percent of Walmart moms approve of Obama’s job performance while 54 percent disapprove. That compares to 46 percent of all voters that approve of Obama and 49 percent who disapprove. Yet 57 percent of the moms said they are still hopeful about the president compared to 42 percent who have given up on him.“During the focus groups in Florida, New Hampshire and Iowa, the Walmart moms repeatedly named the economy as the most important issue in the election. Nearly all said they’ve had to make sacrifices, including opening new credit cards for the no-interest promotions, cutting back on meals out and other activities and cancelling cable television. One woman said she and her son had to move in with her parents. Another told her kids that Santa is poor this year. Many either had gone through layoffs or had husbands who lost jobs. While other jobs were found, often times it was for less money.“While not blaming Obama, many feel like he hasn’t shown strong enough leadership to build consensus in Congress on how to help middle-class families.“‘These voters have clearly lost their passion for President Obama and there’s a sense that he’s kind of lost his passion as well. Some of these voters might vote for him again, but boy, there’s no enthusiasm,’ Newhouse said. ‘It does mean these voters are still up for grabs for the 2012 election.’”‘With the economy such that it is and with these voters that are swing to begin with, it is going to be difficult for the president’…”

Hard Economic Times Rob Young Voters Of ‘Hope’
Excerpts from National Journal: “As President Obama dusts off his 2008 theme of ‘hope’ in anticipation of his reelection campaign, he has a problem to get around: Among young voters, one of his most crucial constituencies, hope is, like, so yesterday.“A new report published jointly by Demos, a liberal think tank, and Young Invincibles, an advocacy group for young adults, highlights the dramatic effects of the Great Recession on the country’s youngest workers. ‘The State of Young America’ says that the economic slowdown has battered Americans ages 18 to 34, both in terms of their current employment prospects and their hopes for tomorrow.“Of the unemployed young adults surveyed, less than half – 48 percent – expressed optimism about finding a job within the next six months. Respondents with jobs had a related problem: With employment in short supply, their wages are suffering. Fifty-six percent of the 872 people surveyed said that their yearly incomes fall under $30,000.“Just 22 percent of those surveyed said they expected their generation to be better off than their parents’ generation. Almost half said they expect to be worse off, a shocking number in a country where the promise of a better tomorrow is one of the cornerstones of the national mythology. “The obvious economic implications of the report represent a political problem for Obama, who leaned heavily on the youth vote in 2008 but has backslid sharply among the demographic, as he has nearly across the board. According to exit polls, Obama won two-thirds of the 18 to 29 vote in 2008. “At National Journal’s Election Preview event…Democratic pollster Geoffrey Garin said that of all the puzzles facing Obama’s campaign in the coming year, replicating ‘the lopsidedness of the youth vote’ in 2008 might be the hardest to solve. ‘Young people had an excitement about President Obama, and about the change that they hoped would occur under him, that simply doesn’t exist anymore’…”

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Chairman Priebus: ‘Hope and change for the worse’
Excerpts from POLITICO
By: Reince Priebus

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

“Take the president at his word. Specifically, these words on the economy from February 2009: ‘If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition’…“Barack Obama has failed his country — not by some partisan standard but by his own standards.“Despite record unemployment…Top Democrats happily proclaimed the economy was on the ‘upswing.’ As more than 14 million Americans searched for work, White House press secretary Jay Carney brashly announced the economy had ‘vastly improved…’“’It could’ve been worse’…became the de facto mantra of the Obama campaign…not a particularly inspiring bumper sticker — and really, it’s not even true.“The biggest structural impediments to growth are products of the Obama White House. Regulatory reform, instead of protecting consumers, vacuumed massive amounts of capital from the private sector. Businesses, unsure how to interpret ambiguous legislation, are holding hundreds of billions of dollars in liquid assets that could be used to hire American workers…“Obamacare — the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — has proved to offer neither protection nor affordability. Health care costs continue to skyrocket, and 18 million people will still remain uninsured…“The stimulus — the first one — is perhaps the most pronounced failure by Obama’s own standards. For $825 billion, we were told, unemployment would stay below 8 percent. Since then, unemployment has hovered around 9 percent for 29 straight months.“Policy is not judged on what it purports to do but, rather, what it achieves…Obama’s policies… have made things worse, not better.“Most disturbing of all was Vice President Joe Biden’s fearmongering. He recently declared that the opponents of their plan would cause an increase in murder and rape. He raised the specter of widespread violence for the sake of politics, saying he wished opponents of the president’s reckless spending ‘had some notion what it’s like to be on the other side of a gun’ …he replaced the mantle of hope with a cloud of fear.

“Gallup tracking polls repeatedly put his approval rating below 40 percent…States like New Hampshire, Florida and Virginia, which Obama won in 2008, are taking on a much redder hue…“In 2012, voters will have a very clear choice: whether to reelect a president who has erected roadblocks to economic recovery or to choose a party dedicated to liberating American innovation from heavy-handed bureaucrats. It is, in short, a referendum on Barack Obama. And as Republican victories in the recent special elections…illustrate voters are ready for a new direction.

“As it turns out, then-Sen. Biden was right when he said the presidency is not a place for ‘on-the-job training…’ The president’s record is devoid of accomplishment, and his inexperience has dramatically compounded the effects of an economic disaster to devastating effect.

“So when they say ‘it could be worse,’ they’re not entirely wrong: The president could have a second term; he could get another four years…”