Johnny Dollar: The Kelly File- Megyn Kelly, Scott Rasmussen & Michael Reagan

Source:Johnny Dollar- Scott Rasmussen, Megyn Kelly, and Michael Reagan.

"Chuck Todd Rips Rasmussen, Rass Responds! Also present: Michael Reagan, Megyn Kelly."

Source:Johnny Dollar

Several reasons why NBC News's Chuck Todd, The Washington Post and others in the so-called mainstream media consider Scott Rasmussen and his Rasmussen Poll partisan and why FNC and Fox News use their polling so much, is because they're partisan. At least in the sense that they tend to poll heavily Republican or Republican leaning areas and then call their polls national. 

Right now only Rasmussen and Fox News views the Romney-Obama race as tight. Most of the polls have President Obama with a clear Electoral College lead, because he's leading Mitt Romney in all of the swing states right now. Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, etc. 

The President could lose both North Carolina and Indiana, which he won in 2008 and still win the Electoral College and be reelected President with a electoral landslide. But Rasmussen and Fox News perhaps because they don't want the Republican vote to feel like the election is over and that President Obama will be reelected, feel the need to make this election look closer than it actually is right now. 

Tom DeWeese: 'The Assault On Our Property Rights'

Source:Still Free To Choose- Tom DeWeese speaking for the New-Right in America.

"Tom DeWeese, American Policy Deweese identifies the assault on private property rights.  Agenda 21, ICLEI.. What's that?  Who's behind it?  Should we be concerned?  Recorded in Portland, OR Sept 22, 2011. More at Oregon Agenda." 

From Still Free To Choose

Ezra Levant: 'Freedom of Speech in Canada'

Source:Idea City- Ezra Levant talking about free speech in Canada.

"Co-founder of the Western Standard magazine, Ezra Levant, discusses freedom of speech in Canada based on his own experience of being hauled before a Canadian human rights commission for printing the Danish cartoons of Mohammed in the magazine." 

From Idea City

PBS NewsHour: 'Bush vs. Dukakis: The first 1988 Presidential Debate'

Source:PBS NewsHour- Vice President George H.W. Bush (Republican, Texas) vs Governor Michael Dukakis (Democrat, Massachusetts) in 1988.

"The 1988 presidential election cycle featured Vice President George H.W. Bush, the Republican nominee, and Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, the Democratic nominee. The first debate was a 90-minute discussion, focusing on foreign and domestic policy. Moderated by Jim Lehrer of PBS, with questions posed by a panel of journalists, it took place on September 15, 1988, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

This content is brought to you as part of a PBS NewsHour project to make all presidential and vice presidential debates available to watch online." 

From the PBS NewsHour

"The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor[6] based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly funded[7] nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of educational programming to public television stations in the United States, distributing shows such as Frontline, Nova, PBS NewsHour, Sesame Street, and This Old House.[8]

PBS is funded by a combination of member station dues, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, pledge drives, and donations from both private foundations and individual citizens. All proposed funding for programming is subject to a set of standards to ensure the program is free of influence from the funding source.[9] PBS has over 350 member television stations, many owned by educational institutions, nonprofit groups both independent or affiliated with one particular local public school district or collegiate educational institution, or entities owned by or related to state government." 

From Wikipedia

Reagan Foundation: 1984 Presidential Candidate Debate- President Ronald Reagan vs Walter Mondale

Source: Reagan Foundation- President Ronald W. Reagan (Republican, California) debating Walter Mondale (Democrat, Minnesota) in 1984.

"The full-length 1984 Presidential Candidate Debate between President Reagan and Walter Mondale on 10/7/84."

Source:Reagan Foundation 

I just saw this debate Saturday, because I knew I would probably be blogging about it this week. This was the debate that Walter Mondale was remembered for looking really strong and quick. Able to go toe-to-toe with the President of the United States and actually beat him. While Ronald Reagan, looked old, slow and unsure of himself and how to answer the questions. 

President Reagan, clearly didn't look good in the first debate, but didn't look as bad as he tends to be remembered. His answers were somewhat slow and so-forth, but he answered the questions and didn't take any shots from Vice President Mondale lying down. He took them on and threw some back as well.

But Fritz Mondale just looked good the whole night, while admitting that the economy had definitely improved from four years earlier. That the economy wasn't as strong as it needed to be and that we paid a heavy price for the recovery that we were going through. Increases in debt and deficit and: "If we continued to allow those things rise, we would pay for it in high interest and inflation rates later on." He was right, because the Stock Market crashed just three years later in 1987. The economy slowed in 1989 and of course we had a recession in 1990-91.

This was Fritz Mondale's opportunity to get back in the race. He was down 10-15 points going into this debate and took advantage of it. He brought President Reagan's lead down a bit and had he had a great debate in the second debate, he could've prevented the landslide that came and could've made it a very tight race. 

Mondale's second debate wasn't bad, but President Reagan just bounced back and had a very good debate as well with the memorable line when he was asked about his age, suggesting that he might be too old for President, by saying that: "I'm not going to make age an issue in this election and exploit Fritz Mondale's youth an inexperience." 

Whether voters decided that Fritz Mondale would've been a better President or not, what they did decide, was that they liked Ron Reagan more and liked where the country was going and headed and weren't ready to fire President Reagan.

Human Events: John Gizzi- 'Best Debate Moments': Mike Dukakis in 1988

Source:Human Events- Governor Michael Dukakis (Democrat, Massachusetts) at the 1988 presidential debate against Vice President George H.W. Bush (Republican, Maine)

"#3: What if some criminal raped and murdered Dukakis' wife, Kitty. Would Dukakis still oppose capital punishment? Michael Dukakis's unemotional response is our #3 debate moment.

John Gizzi counts down the Top 10 Debate moments in our multi-part series "Presidential Debates: How they changed the race." 

From Human Events 

Mike Dukakis had one more opportunity to turn a presidential election, he should've won at least going in around in the presidential debates and used those opportunities to let the Americans know more about him, that he wasn't cold and could connect with people in a personal positive way. 

But Governor Dukakis blew that when Bernie Shaw of CNN asked him a gotcha question, by bringing his wife into it, about the death penalty. It was sort of no win situation for Governor Dukakis, because it was a gotcha question about his wife of all people but he could've avoided losing it as well and instead of trying to make it a question about policy, he should've took the question for what it was, which was a personal gotcha question and should've answered about how he would feel, if his wife was raped and murdered. And what he feel should be done to the person responsible for the crimes. 

But instead Governor Dukakis used it as an opportunity to explain his opposition on the death penalty, an issue at least back then where a large majority of Americans were in favor of the death penalty.

Human Events: John Gizzi: 'Best Debate Moments #8: Fuzzy Math / Lockbox'

Source:Human Events- political reporter John Gizzi.

"#8: George W Bush's "Fuzzy Math" vs. Al Gore's "Lockbox"

John Gizzi counts down the Top 10 Debate moments in our multi-part series "Presidential Debates: How they changed the race"

From Human Events

If the 2000 presidential election between Governor George W. Bush (Republican, Texas) and Vice President Al Gore (Democrat, Tennessee) could be summed up in one word, it would be ridiculous 

In 2000 we had what most objective people would probably consider two decent, likable men, (at least the people who know them) with good sense of humors in George W. Bush and Al Gore and we get these two presidential debates where both men could barely find anything to say that was positive about themselves and what they wanted to do as President of the United States. 

Oh wait, we did have empty political slogans like Governor Bush saying: "I'll return the people's money to the American people." And with Vice President Gore saying: "We need a world class economy for the American people and put Social Security and Medicare in a lockbox." 

And when Bush vs Gore couldn't find anything positive to say about themselves, they tried to make look like the other guy would destroy the country as soon as he became President. That he was too risky, etc, to be President of the United States. 

If there any real wondering left to do why during a good election year, maybe 3-5 Americans who are eligible to vote, even bother to vote. Especially today with all the legitimate alternatives to voting like reality TV, celebrity court cases, smartphones, social media, and coffee houses, to keep Americans out of the voting booths.