Anti-Dem Propaganda Watch #3 - "GOP gov. hopefuls run against Obama"

[TomCADem]

Anti-Dem Propaganda Watch #3 - "GOP gov. hopefuls run against Obama"

Here is more corporate media propaganda for those of you to make the case that President Obama should move either to the left or the right.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7188256.html

They’re all Rick Perrys now.

A year and a half after the governor of Texas energized his reelection campaign by casting himself as an antagonist to President Barack Obama, Republican gubernatorial candidates across the country are following his example.

In Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer has cut a television commercial placing her Democratic challenger’s face on an Obama-style campaign poster, replacing the word “Hope” with the word “Wrong.” In Georgia, the Republican Governors Association has aired attack ads against former Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes, comparing his leadership style to the president’s and calling both men “thin-skinned and arrogant.” The Republican Party of Florida is running a spot supporting Rick Scott’s campaign for governor, showing a clip of Obama urging voters to do “whatever it takes to make sure that Alex Sink is the next governor of Florida.”

Even in places where the president remains relatively popular, GOP candidates are using him as a foil for their state-level races. In Obama’s home state of Illinois, Republican gubernatorial nominee Bill Brady bragged over the summer that he “could beat the president running for governor in Illinois today.”

The Obama-centric message is partly a sign of the president’s dropping poll numbers. By the middle of the year, the president’s job approval had dropped below 50 percent in 35 states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia and Arizona, according to Gallup. In nine states, Obama was below 40 percent.