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A Powerful Voting Block Obama Will Never Get

It’s a powerful voting block that most overlook. So powerful in fact, that in 2000 Al Gore tried to have their votes disqualified. It’s a voting block the Democrats never win and this time around, they will lose badly. That voting block is all the members of the United States Armed Forces… the military. Obama will lose badly in that arena, I’ll put money on that, and if you disagree, you need to put your money where your mouth is.

If the race turns out to be close, the military vote could decide the outcome.

To go along with the military block, veterans are also another important group of voters, and they usually side with Republicans although the margin is much closer compared to active duty personal. But with Obama screwing the veterans, particularly on healthcare, and that flag incident in Florida, look for the GOP candidate to win big here as well.

A bit of advice for whoever the Republican nominee may be. Don’t take this block for granted. Include them, embrace them, and make them part of the process, then follow through once you have been elected.

Congress Finalizes $1+ Trillion Spending Plan

WASHINGTON (AP) – Weary after a year of partisan bickering, lawmakers tried Monday to wrap up a sprawling $1 trillion-plus spending bill that chips away at military and environmental spending but denies conservatives many of the policy changes they wanted on social issues, government regulations and health care.
The measure implements this summer’s hard-fought budget pact between President Barack Obama and Republican leaders. That deal essentially freezes agency budgets, on average, at levels for the recently-completed budget year that were approved back in April.
Drafted behind closed doors, the proposed bill would pay for the war in Afghanistan but give the Pentagon just a 1 percent boost in annual spending, while the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget would be cut by 3.5 percent.

Read the rest at Big Government

Only 26% Favor Continued Military Action in Libya

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 26% of Likely U.S. Voters feel the United States should continue its military actions in Libya. Forty-two percent (42%) are opposed  and 32% are undecided.

But 59% agree the president should get the approval of Congress if he wants to continue U.S. military action in Libya. Twenty-one percent (21%) say congressional approval is not needed. Another 20% are not sure.

This marks a jump in support for congressional authorization from mid-March just after the president committed U.S. military forces to helping anti-government rebels in Libya. At that time, 47% said the president should have gotten congressional approval before ordering the military into action in Libya.  Thirty-four percent (34%) said the prior approval of Congress was not necessary, but 19% were undecided.

Most voters remain skeptical of how soon U.S. military involvement in Libya will end. Just 32% think it is at least somewhat likely that U.S. military operations in Libya will be over by the end of the year, with 10% who say it is Very Likely. Fifty-four percent (54%), however, think it is unlikely those operations will be done by the close of the year, including 14% who say it is Not At All Likely.