From Telegraph.co.uk: Democratic, Republican and independent pollsters agree that Mr Obama’s party will lose its 39-seat majority in the House of Representatives in the November 2 midterms election. The President’s plans for the second half of his term include implementing his historic health care reform, raising taxes on the wealthy, passing climate change legislation and [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: Barack Obama, about to be thrashed in America’s mid-term elections, made an interesting excuse for his difficulties this week: the problem is “bad communication”. No doubt if asked, he would also say it was why Abe Lincoln was shot, Napoleon had a bad day at Waterloo and Charles I had his head cut [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: You know that guy who steps into a picture at the end of an event, making it look like he was there all along? This week, President Obama tried to pretend he wasn’t late to the party by hosting a photo shoot with the five children featured in the education reform documentary,Waiting [...]

From Michelle Malkin: In an interview to rally black voters on the Tom Joyner Show, Michelle Obama chose some rather odd words to motivate black voters of faith. Transcript via Black America Web: So, once again, we have the power. We’ve got this man in office. I think we’re all proud of Barack and his accomplishments. [...]

From NewsMax.com: The Republican-friendly American Crossroads group says it has raised more than $13 million since President Obama blasted it a week ago. The group and its campaign arm Crossroads GPS have easily surpassed their initial fundraising goal of $50 million, which has now been increased to $65 million, spokesman Jonathan Collegio told The Hill. [...]

From CNSNews.com: The Obamamania that gripped college campuses two years ago is gone. An Associated Press-mtvU poll found college students cooling in their support for President Barack Obama, a fresh sign of trouble for Democrats struggling to rekindle enthusiasm among many of these newest voters for the crucial midterm elections in three weeks. Forty-four percent [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: n what would be perhaps the most symbolic defeat for the president in the November midterms, Alex Giannoulias, the Democratic senate candidate for Illinois, is only a percentage point ahead of his Republican opposition Mark Kirk. Mr Obama has already made one fundraising appearance in Chicago to rally support for Mr Giannoulias, 34, [...]

From NewsMax.com: President Obama can’t get no respect, to borrow from beloved, deceased comedian Rodney Dangerfield. Not only are Republicans and a growing percentage of the general public fed up with him, but even his staunchest backers are abandoning the president. Obama was heckled by gay and lesbian supporters at a fundraising event at a [...]

From Liberty.com: So says Haley Barbour in an Op-Ed in the WSJ yesterday. He’s right, of course, but he walks a fine line in this piece and comes dangerously close to conflating “Tea Party” with “Republican Party” and it’s worth reminding Mr. Barbour that these two things are not one and the same. Tea party [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: When Barack Obama took office 20 months ago – and what a long 20 months it seems – there was a lot of talk about the great “Team of Rivals” he was appointing around him. Parallels were drawn with the cabinet of substantial talents and big personalities assembled by Abraham Lincoln to rebuild [...]

From Townhall.com: As the November 2nd election draws closer, it appears evident that the GOP will score a major victory. The Cooke Report, a non-partisan group known for its polling accuracy, conservatively predicts that Republicans will pick up between 35 and 45 seats. Assuming this outcome, what are the implications for President Obama? Will he [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: The plan was one of several economic initiatives Mr Obama was due to unveil this week, when campaigning begins in earnest for the Nov 2 midterm elections. Speaking in Wisconsin on the Labour Day holiday, which marks the end of summer in the United States, President Obama proposed building 150,000 miles of roads, [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: The US president, who announced that he would not extend tax cuts for the richest Americans passed by George W Bush, said that the Democrats may not do well because of people’s feelings towards the US economy. “If the election is a referendum on ‘are people satisfied about the economy as it currently [...]

From Jewish World Review: President Obama calls his latest attempt to revive the economy a “Plan to Renew and Expand America’s Roads, Railways and Runways.” I’m calling it “The Mother of all Big Dig Boondoggles.” Like the infamous “Big Dig” highway spending project in Boston, this latest White House infrastructure spending binge guarantees only two [...]

From Michelle Malkin: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and the Obama job-killing machine get kicked in the ass one more time. They wanted federal judge Martin Feldman to dismiss the drillers’ lawsuit challenging their original moratorium. No dice. Via Reuters: A federal judge in New Orleans rejected on Wednesday the U.S. government’s request to dismiss a lawsuit [...]

From CNSNews.com: While President Barack Obama’s overall approval rating averaged 48 percent for the first seven months of 2010, it was 78 percent among Muslim Americans, according to the Gallup Poll. That gave the president a higher approval rating among Muslims than among any other religious category reported by the poll. Members of other non-Christian [...]

From CNSNews.com: For the first time in his presidency, Barack Obama’s average weekly “disapproval” rating has hit 50 percent, according to the Gallup Poll. Each week, Gallup interviews about 3,500 American adults, asking them whether they approve or disapprove of the job President Obama is doing. On a daily basis, the polling firm publishes a [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: Bill Burton, a White House spokesman said the First Family were “having a great time”, enjoying playing games and reading as Martha’s Vineyard was hit by wind and rain. “I’ve heard reports of Taboo and Scrabble being played. And this will probably get me fired, but I know that Valerie did not do [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: When David Plouffe, President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, wrote recently that his former boss was “not concerned with his re-election”, there was predictable scepticism. After all, it has long been a truism that every politician wants to cling to power and a reality that presidential campaigns are planned years in advance. Pronouncements [...]

From National Review: There is a chart currently making the rounds that shows President Reagan’s approval ratings during his first two years in office overlaid upon President Obama’s. The trend lines nearly overlap. Liberal commentators are using the chart to argue that Obama’s unpopularity is almost entirely attributable to the weak economy and thus comparable [...]