Interesting that Eddie, Mark, Karolyn, Denniso et al., have nothing to say about this article….hmmm.

aj, no worry, palin will announce she’s running around the first of sept. then the bolsheviks will really have a convulsion, this will make them go into orbit. barry and company will start moving whatever they can steal out of the white house, the clintons didn’t leave much.

We know Romnie and Perry are NWO’ers what about Bachmann?
Is she the real deal or a globalist in Tea Party clothing?

Thousands of progressive activists meeting in Vegas
By: CNN Senior Producer Kevin Bohn

Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) – Organizers of the annual Netroots Nation convention, beginning Thursday, hope what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas.

With the president’s poll numbers hurting and chatter increases about the possibility of major defeats for Democrats in this year’s mid-term elections, sponsors of the fifth conference hope the ideas and techniques that emerge from the participants will help propel the progressive agenda and spur action by the more than 2,200 progressive activists participating. It is billed as the largest gathering of the Democratic base in advance of the November election.

While the president still has an over 80 percent approval rating among Democrats, it has slipped a bit. As for the Democrats running this year, they are facing a large enthusiasm gap. Only 32 percent of Democrats said they were extremely or very enthusiastic about voting this year compared to 54 percent of Republicans, according to a May 21-23 CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll.

Some 80 groups and organizations, many of them key constiuencies of the liberal wing of the Democratic party, are sponsoring NetRoots, including the AFL-CIO, SEIU, AFSCME, MoveOn.Org as well as the Democratic National Committee’s Organizing For America wing.

There are over 150 different panels during the four-day event, ranging from voter contact: warming up the cold call; to channeling the power of jobs, populism and the angry voter; to how to respond to attacks on community organizers. Those sessions include a wide variety of activists, Democratic Party leaders, officeholders and candidates.

The convention occurs at a time when some in the progressive community are disappointed in the Obama Administration for not pushing harder for more of their agenda. Specifically they point to the exclusion of the public option in the health care overhaul and some of the nation’s biggest banks were not broken up in the financial overhaul package just signed by the president. Other attendees however have blamed Congress for blocking some of those actions, especially in the Senate through the use of the filibuster, and say that is why more Democrats need to be elected.

How to shrink that gap will be one of the key topics among attendees. Among the major speakers at the convention are House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Sen. Al Franken and Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer. Also speaking at a seminar is Elizabeth Warren, chairwoman of the congressional panel that oversees the government’s bailout programs. Several progressive groups are mounting a petition to encourage the president to select her as the first head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is part of the newly signed financial reform law. She has ruffled some in the administration for being too vocal in her actions.

Also present will be a large group of progressive bloggers. The convention, formerly known as Yearly Kos, first began with a technology and blogging emphasis as activists increasingly gathered on line to influence government action. Now it has morphed into a more general gathering for the wide range of progressive interests and organizations as well as those who want to use new media to communicate. Several of the panels emphasize that topic, including using new media to break through barriers, online to offline engagement and extending our reach: new tools for online progressives.

One interesting attendee is Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a former Republican member of Congress. He is participating in a panel entitled Bikes, trains, stimulus and the Obama Cabinet’s biggest surprise.

Meanwhile, about 1,000 conservatives will also gather in Las Vegas this weekend in a convention to counter NetRoots. On Friday and Saturday RightOnLine, sponsored by the group Americans for Prosperity Foundation, will feature Nevada Republican Senatorial candidate Sharron Angle, Republican Reps. Mike Pence and Michelle Bachmann and several conservative radio talk show hosts. As is true with NetRoots, sponsors of the conservative version aim to teach attendees how to become more effecitve in online activisim and with new media.

we are becoming a country run by polls. better watch these pollsters, they can maneuver their candidates with poll ratings. we have a president at record low ratings, however, that’s exactly where the bolsheviks want him.
by this time next year they will have him leading. lots of people get confused with the questions asked by the pollsters and answer wrong or they have picked out the correct people to poll, knowing what their answer will most likely be.
polls are detriment.

WOW 39%,REALLY DIDN’T THINK THAT SCUM COULD ACHIVE SUCH A HIGH RATING I AM REALLY MYSTIFIED BY THESE NUMBERS AT HAND YET KNOWINGLY THAT SOME
OR WHO WOULD WANT TO SUPPORT A FULL BLOWN IDIOT THAT DOESN’T HAVE ANY LEADERSHIP QUALITIES OR HIS DERELICTION OF DUTY TO UP HOLD THE OATH OF THE CONSTITUTION OF AMERICA IS DISTURBING, GEE I REALLY WONDER IF THESE SO CALLED FOOLISH IDIOTS CAN EVEN LOOK AT THEMSELVES IN THE MIRROR OF COURSE YOU WOULD HAVE TO SEE YOUR PROCTOLOGIST TO REALLY SEE THE WHOLE PICTURE AT HAND. I THINK A GOOD CONSERVATIVE PRESIDENT WOULD BE A GREAT FOR THIS COUNTRY AT HAND BECAUSE YOU KNOW HE WOULD HOLD WASHINGTON ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE IRRESPONSIBLE WAYS THAT THEY ALL HAVE IN COMMON OF DESTROYING THE AMERICAN DREAM & DISREGARD FOR THE PEOPLE, WHAT DID THEY ALL THINK THAT THEY CAN’T BE VOTED OUT OF OFFICE
OR REPLACED FOR THERE DERELICTIONS OF DUTY BY NOT DOING THERE JOBS ON A PROMISE OF B.S.,

At first it seems astounding that his approval rating is so high. Than I remember that much our our population at “givernment” parasites who depend on his largess.

He needs to get gone TODAY and that is a fact!!!

Let’s poll conservatives. Then, I bet, his approval rating would be hovering around “0.) Be honest pollsters, don’t over sample the far left wing professional welfare scammers.

Obama destroyed America. See- Africa always poor because low irresponsible people in power there. Those Africans migrate into white western country. Then those Africans and all people from third world are destroying all prosperous Western countries.

I cannot believe the Government brought new buses for a man who will not be reelected. The only reason his rating was up so high when elected was because of the media. They will lie just to make him look good. Time to wake up AMERICA.

I am shocked and disgusted by the fact that 39% of the people still support this mindless idiot. With the US in so much trouble right now we need a president to step up and lead. Where is Obama? Out travelling around America on the campaign trail then off for a vacation at Martha”s Vineyard. In my opion this is dereliction of duty and worthy of a court martial and a trip to GITMO.

I am mystified that there are 39 % that hate their country and think this guy is doing what’s good for America. I certainly hope they wake up soon. I kind of liked the US the way it used to be. It didn’t need to be transformed into this. Obama is trying to lie his way to another 4 yrs. I hope he fails.

Just a few thoughts,
As I do get out and around a lot more than 90% of the US population, I hear and see more than the average person about what people think and feel.
The facts are really quite clear from what I gather in my travels. Most {REAL Democrates} don’t like Barry at all, many are looking at ways to get him thrown out of office. Now talk about strange.

Be all that as it may, I firmly believe that Barry’s Approval ratings are highly inflated in the media and that all polls are taken in areas where his support is strongest.
The true numbers of his approval is more around 25%, if that.

I would also like to point out that the LAME STREAM media has already made its mind up on its Bilderburg picks on the GOP’s leading person. That being Ricky Perry the good old TLC and CFR dude, and that little monkey Mitt the Pimp.

Note just how strange that all LS media reports seemed to just pass over Ron Paul like he is not even there. That even though he was just a few votes below Bachmann just a few days ago.

Now really what one of you “quasi” liberals wants to tell us all how the {Prostitute lame stream media} has no effect on choices that have been made for you by the NWO Masters.

As a seventy two year old, with a modicum of intelligence, I cannot understand how that many people still approve of his job approval. I sincerely believe that if the White House was burning to the ground, Obama would be smiling and waving to the TV cameras, and schmoozing the crowd, shaking hands, and telling the people that this was a wonderful thing that this American icon was being destroyed. I am sick of his job performance as well as his daily lies and his stupid grin.

There is a demographic known as “the moderates” that is not being considered here.This means that Mr.Obama will probably be re-elected.
I cannot stand fence sitters,but there are millions of them in this nation.
People who play the politically correct game.
They are afraid of making a real decision about most things political.
Which is why this enigmatic man is currently in the White House.The lack of serious attention to detail has left us bereft of true leadership.It is not a party lines problem,but rather a condition of modern education.Knowledge is power.But only the ivy-league academics have the real knowledge in the DNC.The rest act as if they have the knowledge.But since the things they do preclude anyone from noticing their intelligence,they are just being manipulated by the elites,in ways that serve the elites.
So goes the moderate votes.Informed decisions are made with the blessings of collegiate party-line directions.Or by the union bosses that run a political game of three card monte.
How do I know this?
I happen to be a member of a union.
I see the socialist method pushed on the uneducated members often enough.People who work their rear-ends off to please the union officials.But are then told who to vote for district by district.The thuggery isnt as open as some make it out to be,but it is there.
So the majority goes.Playing the moderation part in a huge melodrama of global distiction.Yes the colleges and unions know well how to capitalize on the wishy-washiness of voters.Such is the issue that it will definitely surprise me if Barry doesnt pull a second term.
God help us all if the populace fails to learn from the first term of Obama’s presidency.
Yay for the moderates!They will keep us bogged down until they are forced to make a clear decision.
Hope its not after the election.
-CC.