Обаме не везет. Так-то он гений, но вот не срослось. Цунами всякие, Европа мешает, то-се. Только было все наладил…

“We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, gotten the economy moving again,” Obama told a crowd in Decorah, Iowa. “But over the last six months we’ve had a run of bad luck.”

А вот Перри, наоборот, везет. Вообще-то он ни на что не пригоден, но ему всю жизнь везет. Цены на нефть высокие, инновации как-то сами собой целую новую индустрию создали, причем почему-то именно в Техасе…

“He’s been lucky,” said Bernard L. Weinstein, associate director of the Maguire Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. “Obviously, neither the governor nor public policy in Texas has pushed oil prices up, and clearly the technological innovation has created a whole new industry in Texas.”

Жизнь чертовски несправедлива.

Rasmussen: Perry 29%, Romney 18%, Bachmann 13%

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary voters, taken Monday night, finds Perry with 29% support. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, earns 18% of the vote, while Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman who won the high-profile Ames Straw Poll in Iowa on Saturday, picks up 13%.

Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who was a close second to Bachmann on Saturday, has the support of nine percent (9%) of Likely Primary Voters, followed by Georgia businessman Herman Cain at six percent (6%) and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with five percent (5%). Rick Santorum, former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, and ex-Utah Governor Jon Huntsman each get one percent (1%) support, while Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter comes in statistically at zero.

Sixteen percent (16%) of primary voters remain undecided.

Я пока остаюсь в пределах шестнадцати неопределившихся процентов.

Контрпропаганда справа: всякие графики про положение с работой в Техасе.

Цитата из Перри, июль 2009:

“There are certain truths that have to be agreed to,” Perry says. “One is that economies grow when they are free from over-taxation, over-regulation, over-litigation, and they have a skilled work force. Government isn’t difficult in theory — don’t spend all the money, keep taxes low, have a fair and predictable regulatory climate, keep frivolous lawsuits to a minimum, and fund an accountable education system so that you have a skilled work force available. Then get the hell out of the way and let the private sector do what the private sector does best. It’s simple in theory, but it’s difficult to accomplish. In Texas, we’ve implemented that theory, and it’s produced an economy that has no match in America.”

“Хорошо излагает, собака”.