In most cases so far, where the media or politicians are concerned, folks have chosen to take the politically correct route and blame PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) or some other mental ailment for the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas.

Senator Joe Lieberman has decided to call it what it really is, terrorism. Nadal Malik Hasan may have been a Major in the Army, he may have been a psychiatrist charged with treating PTSD in soldiers back from battle; but the facts remain, he was a Muslim who ascribed to a radical brand of the religion.

More information comes out daily about Hasan and his connections to radical Islam. It was just reported yesterday that he attended a mosque at the same time and under the same teaching as two of the 9/11 hijackers. Yes, that 9/11.

I for one am glad to see that Lieberman thinks the Fort Hood shootings were an act of terrorism. It is what it is, no amount of sugar coating or cover up will make it anything else. The President was quick to tell us not to jump to conclusions; Napalitano is worried about a backlash against Muslims. Even the top military bureaucrats are not willing to claim that Hasan’s Islamic background was the major factor in the shootings.

Lieberman is the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Chairman and plans to go forward with an investigation into the Fort Hood attacks. Lieberman said Hasan was a “self radicalized home-grown terrorist”. Three cheers for Joe Lieberman; just another reason for liberals to hate the guy.

This page on political polls and analysis will be updated daily so bookmark it and return frequently for updated information. The data will grow over time to include sections on key 2010 Senate race polls, 2012 presidential polls, and the data you see today.

What we have now is an analysis of Rasmussen data as it pertains to Barack Obama’s job approval rating, public opinion of his performance on key issues, healthcare weekly updates, the generic congressional ballot and matchup data dealing with trust on the issues.

Recent updates are highlighted in red.

The passage of the Stupak Amendment is a huge victory for the pro-life community and those concerned that not having conscience clauses in the bill would result in significant shortages of doctors willing to practice under the parameters set up through the democrat’s health care plan. The bill was sponsored by Bart Stupak, a Michigan democrat, expressed concerns that the bill as it stood could be used to fund abortions from tax-payer dollars. The amendment passed with a 240-194 vote.

This is all part of Nancy Pelosi’s wheeling and dealing to get to the point of being able to take a vote on the massive tax-payer spending spread under the auspices of what the progressives are calling ‘health care reform’. Long and tiresome debating on the floor of the House today was geared towards eventually taking a vote on the bill, but only once Pelosi is certain she’ll have the votes to pass the bill.

With the Stupak Amendment passed, the healtcare bill passed at 11:15 p.m tonight, by an extremely slim margin (220-215). Only one Republican voted for the bill, Joseph Cao of Louisiana, and 39 democrats voted against it. Now it goes to the Senate until the incompetence of Harry Reid, so there is still hope this travesty won’t be perpetrated on the American people against our will.

Here is some more news:

Weasel Zippers - Game Time! House Vote on ObamaCare at 10:00 pm Tonight..Update: Debate Is On, Boehner Kicked Ass..Update: Stupak Amendment Passes…UPDATE: It Passed 220-215 With 1 GOP Vote

Betsy McCaughey gives us some insight into the realities of ObamaCare.

Wake Up America - Pelosi’s ObamaCare Bill will cost us $2.6 Trillion

Pundit and Pund - Senator Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, threatened to have the entire ObamaCare healthcare bill fiasco read on the Senate floor. Oh I wish they would do that!

Big Government - Here we go again: Rostenkowski Health Care and the original town hall protest

IowaHawk - America Take Can Pride In This Historic, Inspirational Disaster

The American Spectator - Pelosi’s Pyrrhic Victory?

Okay, now go read and if you are so inclined, fall to your knees and say a prayer pleading for help and guidance in saving our great Republic.

The video below gives more information about why the Stupak Amendment, the abortion restriction amendment, was a prerequisite to getting the heath care reform bill passed in the House of Representatives.

Obama’s transition team - Major Nidal Hasan, page 32

It has been a bit disconcerting that the President of the United States has seemed so terribly disengaged from a terrorist attack on a military base in the heartland of the United States. On American soil. He gave some lip service to the ‘horrific outburst of violence’ at the end of some comments he made at the end of the Tribal Nation Conference on the day of the attack. He warned people to not ‘jump to conclusions’ - you know, like he did when a white police officer was doing his job and got cussed out by one of Obama’s friends and they all ended up having to have a ‘beer summit’ with the President to improve race relations. Yeah, don’t jump to conclusions like he does.

Of course, the reason he warned about jumping to conclusions is that it turns out that the Army Major is a muslim with a muslim name. Major Nidal Malik Hasan. He’s the alleged perpetrator, traitor and enemy combatant who cornered a large crowd of unarmed Soldiers in the Soldier Readiness Center at Ft. Hood in Killeen, Texas.

Okay, so we won’t jump to conclusions, Mr. President. But the question remains, why has the president shown so little interest in an attack being perpetrated by an enemy combatant on a military base on American soil? Why the downplaying? Rationalizing it away? Giving his family in Palestine a voice via American media outlets to decry the Global War on Terrorism? The spin seems to be that he’s disgruntled, mistreated by his peers for being muslim, scared of being deployed. Yada-yada.

The other side to that story comes from virtually everyone else who tells us that he initiated arguments with peers at work, couldn’t relate to the Soldiers he was ‘treating’ at Walter Reed Hospital and apparently told everyone within listening distance that he was ‘muslim first, American second.’ He also made statements to many people that he viewed an attack on an Army recruitment center as justified and that muslims should take up arms against American troops.

This is NOT a disgruntled, mistreated guy who was picked on because he’s muslim. This is an enemy combatant and a traitor to the United States.

Meanwhile, former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura Bush quietly visited the wounded from the Ft. Hood massacre on Friday. They didn’t allow photo opts, rather quietly visited the wounded. They are said to have spent hours there and were very concerned and comforting to the wounded and grieving.

Obama, on the other hand, the President of the United States, hasn’t gotten around to getting down to Texas yet. He’s just been so busy, don’t cha know. Here is Obama’s schedule for Saturday.

11:25AM THE PRESIDENT addresses the House Democratic Caucus - Cannon House Office Building

2:30PM THE PRESIDENT makes a statement to the press on Health Care - Rose Garden

2:45PM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart The White House en route Camp David - South Lawn

Perhaps he simply doesn’t care. Or perhaps, he’s having to try to figure out how to keep people from finding out that the terrorist who attacked our Soldiers at Ft. Hood was a member of Obama’s transition team. He was a member of the Homeland Security Policy Institute. It’s on page 32 of the Obama Transition Team documents.

Is that Obama, Hasan connection the reason that Hasan has been under investigation for six months and yet was free to go about a military base undeterred? Obama IS the commander-in-chief after all. Food for thought and something that makes you more than a little sick to your stomach.

One has to wonder how deep this rabbit hole goes. Barack Hussein Obama, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm.

You can see the odd comments Obama made, seemingly as an afterthought, about the Ft. Hood Army base massacre at the end of his comments at the Tribal Nation Conference on November 5, 2009. That conference is a whole other story.

The incident happened in Allentown, Pennsylvania; government funded sex apparently is grounds for having a prostitution charge dropped. If any of you out there are running a bordello, over or under the table, try and make sure your clients are being funded by local law enforcement.

The accused prostitute, Sun Cha Chon, works at a Shiatsu spa where she allegedly engages in more than just massages. But no worries for Ms. Chon, all charges against her were dropped when her “client” kept coming back to the trough with tax payer dollars.

The informant in this case made the initial contact with Pennsylvania police, saying he had been propositioned at the Shiatsu spa for sex. Maybe it was his plan all along, maybe he was a little strapped for cash. Or maybe he was married and figured the “cops made me do it” argument would keep him out of hot water with his wife. Who knows? From the Daily Item in Pennsylvania:

“It is difficult to imagine how this informant could have been so offended, and yet proceed to engage in oral and sexual intercourse with the two women in this case and laugh about it with the investigating troopers after each occasion,” wrote Judge John T. Bender for the three-judge Superior Court panel.

I’m with the judge on that one.

The Lehigh County judge said the man was sent back four times to partake in what he called a “smorgasbord of sexual activity”. That paints a pretty mental picture, now doesn’t it? Unfortunately for authorities in Pennsylvania, government funded sex isn’t the way to take down a madam.

Several weeks ago I summarized a variety of data and came to the conclusion that the President had stabilized his approval numbers. As soon as that was done, the President began to have poor approval numbers on a very consistent basis. So, with this in mind, it is time to revisit the data and, if merited, revise my conclusions.

The tables below have been changed slightly so that the data is easier to understand. Analysis will follow each table.

The last several weeks have not been good for the President’s overall job approval. However, we need to look back several months to look for trends.

Let’s start with overall approval. The following table includes total approval and total disapproval since early May.

This data clearly shows that there was a spike in approval during the month of May. This spike was due, IMHO, by the debate, hearings and final approval on a new Supreme Court Justice.

This data also shows a small spike during the end of September. The week of September 7 - 13 was caused by a significant outlier that skewed the results. This is evident by the approval numbers for the week prior to, and the week immediately after September 7 - 13.

The fascinating information, however, is that the data clearly shows a lessening in support during the month of October. The data is very consistently decreasing. My analysis is that this decrease in approval was caused directly by the run-up to the election. The question that needs to be answered, and can’t be until we have some data, is whether the trend will continue downward, stay at a constant level, or rise up somewhat.

I will update this post weekly to follow the trends.

Look at a table for the “approval index.”

Is there anything that can be said about these new numbers?

Strongly approve is falling and is now in the high 20% range (refer to the daily job approval post for details) and strongly disapprove is quite volatile. Some weeks shows a spike in disapproval while it in generally in the 38% range.

The four-week averages shows a consistent downard trend among approval as well.

Independents show a mixed review. The subgroup has a high MOE due to the size of the subgroup so a more accurate set of data should be the four-week averages. Let’s look at this data.

What does this tell us?

This data is much less volative than the weekly data. It shows a consistent trend of approval in the 38% to 39% range.

Now, men.

This is a set of very consistent numbers.

Let’s look at the four-week trends.

Wow. Speaking of consistent numbers.

Now, women.

What is happening with women?

Kristen and I have had several conversations about this on the “job approval” post comments. Please read for the details. The most recent conversations have been in posts in the low 200 range.

Let’s look at the four-week averages.

This data shows something else.

With regards to women, there is a consistent downward trend. The question that needs to be answered, and cannot be answered without another few weeks of data, is whether this is a result of the lead-up to the election or whether it is a true shift in opinion.

So, when all of this data is put together, there appears to be two or three things of note:

1. Approval by women is decreasing.
2. Approval by independents is consistent.
3. The overall approval percentages are being driven down by the percentage of women.