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In reply to the discussion: Don’t look now, but Barack Obama is suddenly popular [View all]certainot
(9,090 posts)11. there's a very simple reason for it - trump
trump's rise has ensured that 1200 radio stations are more focused on the republican problems of unity and excusing trump than on swiftboating dems and attacking obama.
here's the math:
at a cheap $1000/hr x 15hrs/day x 1200 stations, rw talk radio is worth 4.68 BIL$/ year or 390MIL$ /month FREE for coordinated global warming denial, pro republican wall st think tank propaganda, free market deregulation bullshit, swiftboating, and the hate and fear used to get people to vote republican.
instead of being dedicated to driving down obama's numbers that giant PSYOPS has been diverted to republican problems.
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when Obama first took office, the first week republicans asked him to shelve 'obamacare plan' for a
Sunlei
May 2016
#54
wait until he's done and free. Comfy shoes are in the closet with his favorite comfy 'mom jeans'
Sunlei
May 2016
#56
People look ahead to having Clinton or trump next year and suddenly Moderate Republican
Doctor_J
May 2016
#12
President Obama says president Obama is a moderate republican, and his record attests to
Doctor_J
May 2016
#18
Of course, 'moderate republicans' voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act and the EPA.
pampango
May 2016
#40
Glad President Obama is getting the respect he has earned. It is a good sign for the GE, too.
greatlaurel
May 2016
#51