Polls confirm Perdue unpopularity

We are ending comments in this thread because the chatter has devolved into a series of personal attacks. If this continues we may be forced to block certain accounts from commenting. -- BN

No worries, scharrison.

Sorry, Ben. I had my sarcasm meter set on "Overly Sensitive". I've since changed it to "Some Things Could Fly Right Over Your Head", which is actually better from a stress standpoint.

There's actually another correction to your story that should be made. If you look at the Crosstabs for this poll question, you'll see that Governor Perdue's "Favorable" rating is actually 37%, but when Civitas wrote their press release, they dropped it down to 36%.

Which I'm sure was just an innocent mistake...

See, since I turned down my sarcasm meter, that sentence looks just fine. ;)

Wow - we went to college together - get a grip

Jeez, Larry Craig, keep it in your stall.

I suppose CO deserved it with his antics.

Pot, kettle, get a ROOM!

Wow - we went to college together - get a grip

I am not CO, although I do know him personally.

Aforementioned "wife" or "roommate?"

This just keeps getting better!

I think that there should be an update, because it can lead to people like Gosh taking that statement the wrong way and attacking people later on.

Ben - I know you posted that quip before the news broke. Nevertheless, I thought it was funny.

Ben - I know you posted that quip before the news broke. Nevertheless, I thought it was funny.

I know that increasing taxes in a recession is a poor economic decision.

I know that I read the post that you provided attacking CO and see that you have a poor reading comprehension skills - similiar to the education provided by the likes of those that show up at Perdue rallies or the teachers in NY that are forced to "take breaks."

I am not CO, although I do know him personally.

Plus CO was right, Obama promised no lobbyist and then has lobbyist = flip flop or a LIE...

The Bush Administration only passed TARP 1 - not the Stimulus Package, Omnibus Appropriation Act of 2009, and TARP 2.

So since the markets started crashing we have had 4 government injections of capital into the markets. One on the watch of Bush and three on the watch of Obama.

Thus, it is fair to say that 75% of the "bailouts" are Obama's and CO use of the Buffett quote shows that it is not helping. PS> Buffett is an Obama supporter....

Plus, Gosh you seem fairly political saavy, so you know just as well as I know that the President only executes legislation, thus to blame the economic downturn fully on Bush is unfair and incorrect. Obama was US Senator and the Democrats had control since 2006.

I will not justify the actions' of the Bush Administration as I fault them for a large expansion of government. Nevertheless, people voted for change and not a continuation of that expansion of government.

Question:
Is the Obama Administration expanding the federal government?

Certainly no sarcasm intended.

Maybe North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue should consider joining South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford in Argentina.

I think it is irresponsible for the News & Observer to suggest that our Governor head to an "exotic" country to have an affair.

"Right you are, scharrison. As always, we appreciate your work as Dome's copy desk."

And I appreciate your graciousness. :)

Sarcasm is fun!

please support your claims. Most of them, according to CO's research appear to be false and I, with my own research, agree with CO.

Do you know what "most" means any more than CO understands what "$200,000 a year" looks like?

He said lobbyists still exist and the US economy is still in shambles after Bush.

Duh.

Is the point we should re-elect Bush? Want his first 100 days to compare?

And for the record, I don't buy your sudden appearance on behalf of this fine upstanding young, and sometimes old poster any more than I do lesjustthink or any of the other names CO registered after being caught in a lie.

Thanks for the giggles though.

Thanks factsversefallacy!

It seems I am not the only one on here that understands the degrading efforts of Gosh to quell the facts that are contrary to the liberal agenda.

Excuse me, but it was OlBlue that posed the question concerning the "accomplishments of President Obama."

It was your response that CO proved many falsehoods and since he was not logical to ask you to refute his rebuttal, then please support your claims. Most of them, according to CO's research appear to be false and I, with my own research, agree with CO.

It does appear though that if you get proven wrong with facts that you resort to personal attacks on posters.

And that action is very childish, but at the same time, I suppose CO deserved it with his antics.

I am glad you are so saavy on the blog, Gosh, but do you get paid or something, you have a lot of free time and post quite frequently!

factsversefallacy,

What questions?

This is the only question mark in any of his posts.

Man you are really have no life but to fantasize about Richard Burr...Did he bully you in school or something?

Talk about childish personal attacks.

I was stating that I was a small business owner...

You are so blinded sometimes and resort to personal attacks when your "facts" are contrary to the real facts...

Seems to me that CO was stating that he is a small business owner.

Gosh - why don't you answer his questions instead of resorting to personal attacks...that is childish..

Of course, can we apply that to lies too?

Please refrain from personal attacks of any kind. Thank you. --BN

Submitted by CitizenOpinionated on June 24, 2009 - 3:11pm.

Again personal attacks when your facts do not stand up - and please post the article where I said I was married - I think you misread it...BULLY

Sure!

Submitted by CitizenOpinionated on June 11, 2009 - 9:21am.

Raising the taxes on a couple making $200,000 is not the Paris Hiltons of the world. It is a small business owner, like myself.

So is what you actually meant is that you are single, a recent grad, not a republican and make $200,000 a year as a small business owner?

Or just that you'll say anything like a bad John Cusack movie?

If I'm "BULLY," it's only because you are a LIAR. And if you're actually "not a couple" in spite of previous claims, that's probably for a reason too.

I am fairly sure I was speaking hypothetically concerning the tax increases affect on families, individual and small business

You seem to understand hypothetical very well - that is the whole Obama agenda - fake numbers to achieve fakes results - kinda like that Stimulus...

Again personal attacks when your facts do not stand up - and please post the article where I said I was married - I think you misread it...BULLY

Keep trying to be "moderate."

Easy enough for me. How about for you?

Must be hard as a "non-republican, married, business-owner making over $200,000 a year since recently graduating from college and currently living with two roommates" as you've recently posted. Want the links to what you've said again?

Here's a clue on what's considered moderate in NC these days.

Voter Registration as of 06/24/2009
Democratic: 2,777,760
Republican: 1,939,317
Libertarian: 5,215
Unaffiliated: 1,366,211
Total: 6,088,503

Which one is you?

The only poll that matters-- is the one held every 4 years-- in November. Once held, the Governor is best served getting about the business- of governing.

Bev Perdue is a savy veteran who worked her way up the ranks in the North Carolina Senate. This Governor won't be led around by the nose, of the knee-jerk 24 hour news cycle. Leave that melodrama to the excuse makers, apologists, and those crying on the sidelines.

I want my Governor-- focused on getting about the business of looking at the long range plan for this state. I want the Governor keeping Legislators on track to continue this state of North Carolina forward thinking as we work through the present road bump handed to us by the latch-key crowd at the helm in Washington DC for the past 8 years.

Bev Perdue is doing exactly what she was elected to do-- and to the whimpering crowd, those snipping on the sidelines with no constructive ideas- Governor Perdue will continue to do this state's business.

If you got a problem with it- you can cast your opinion in 4 years. I can assure you the results of how we've run the course throught this federal crisis will assuredly speak for itself by then. In the meanwhile Governor, you keep doing your job- and GOVERN.

That is South Carolina not North Carolina...

Do not consider myself a Republican - more of a conservative...

You are the one that listed of the things that Obama has accomplished - most of which were flat out lies - I guess you consider "national security" a game - I consider it a life or death situation...

Keep trying to be "moderate."

Bottom line is that many North Carolinians are opposed to a tax increase to repay a debt to the teachers union. I did not incur the debt.

Gosh -

Man you are really have no life

Sorry, I left my Crazy to English translation dictionary with my Argentinian mistress this weekend.

You were saying? Oh yes, nothing is perfect. But the Yellowstone Caldera hasn't blown up either.

If you get to count your Republican efforts a "success" because we were only attacked once in the first year of Bush's presidency, I think I get to count our continued existence under Obama the same.

Thomas Paine - if you believe as your name would imply - then I must ask for clarity on one questions...

Bev Perdue is doing exactly what she was elected to do-- and to the whimpering crowd, those snipping on the sidelines with no constructive ideas- Governor Perdue will continue to do this state's business.

Government is accountable to the people first and foremost. I concur that she need not worry with the news or the poll numbers, but focus on governing. Governing - to me and to the real Thomas Paine - meant beholden to the wishes of the people - not a select few, such as the SEIU or the NCEA.

"To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not."

Gosh -

Man you are really have no life but to fantasize about Richard Burr...Did he bully you in school or something?

Anyways - on to your rant about how great Obama is...

diminished the role of lobbyists in the White House

List of Lobbyist in Obama Administration

Another Lobbyist Enters the Obama Administration

Obama passed the largest economic stimulus bill in American history

How is that working out for him...well according to Warren Buffett - no so well...

Warren Buffett to CNBC: U.S. Economy In "Shambles" .. No Signs of Recovery Yet

This is not to mention that great diplomacy effort with North Korea, the fact that he projected unemployment would NOT reach over 8.9% and it is 9.4%, illegal firing of an Inspector General, breaking the campaign promises on openness and amount of time a piece of legislation would be open for public review before he signed, the list goes on and on...

P.S. The surge in Iraq worked - yes the same one Obama voted against and the same one that enabled him set a timetable...

Many of us feel that we cannot endure a tax increase, as she is proposing, during the worst recession since The Great Depression. She seems totally unaware of how bad things really are. If we have to add 2 or 3 children to classrooms in grades 4 through 12 for a year or two, I think we can survive that. The state spending has to be cut. It has to. No matter what.

Right you are, scharrison. As always, we appreciate your work as Dome's copy desk.

But, what has he actually accomplished????

So true. I bet I could list the first 100 days in one sentence.

Obama passed the largest economic stimulus bill in American history, ordered the closing of Guantanamo Bay military detention facility and abolished enhanced interrogation techniques, set a fixed timetable for withdrawing U.S. combat forces from Iraq, ordered 21,000 badly needed additional troops to Afghanistan and enlisted European allies in a new multi-layered strategy there and in Pakistan, returned science to its rightful place by lifting the Bush restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, expanded children's health insurance to millions of our next generation, improved the ability of women who allege pay discrimination to sue their employer, diminished the role of lobbyists in the White House, lifted cold war travel and remittance restrictions for Cuban Americans who seek to travel more frequently to the island, re-engaged world leaders in Europe, Turkey, Latin American and the Caribbean to our side once again.

Slacker.

So how do you explain that our President has done the same, and remains wildly popular? All he has done is hold news conferences, fly around the world, and make promises that "Change is on its way". But, what has he actually accomplished????

Just a friendly correction, Ben: the word is "fared", without an "i".

She has been visible all of the time. There has been no hiding. I think that you should come up with specifics where she has run away from an issue.

Greenswamp, can you give a specific example of where she has "led" or where she has been "proactive" recently? She's been AWOL on the budget for months now, with the exception of using state aircraft to fly around to NCAE rallies in support of her proposed take hike. Seems she's been taking "obscurity lessons" from former Gov. Easley. Give us a little credit for understanding...please. Your statement sounds like it could've been written by her communications staff. There's a reason she's unpopular right now...its called lack of leadership.

The thing that I like about Perdue is that she is not paying any attention to the polls like most in office do. She is governing, but not in that perpetual campaign mode like so many are. She knows that raising taxes and cutting pay is not popular, but accepts this as her responsibility to act in this bad environment for the interest of this state. From day one this has been a proactive administration. How could her actions be considered self-serving given the reaction she knew she would get?

Perdue faired even worse in a poll conducted by the Public Policy Polling, a Democratic-leaning poling firm.

Maybe our Governor should pick a fight with Public Policy Polling like our Senior Senator did yesterday.

I bet if Richard Burr holds those liars down, Miss Bev could set their pants on fire.