"To squeak out a majority, Mitt Romney probably needs to win at least 61 percent of the white vote — a figure exceeding what George H.W. Bush commanded over Michael Dukakis in 1988."
Mitt Romney campaigns in Holland, Michigan, 06/19/12. (photo: Evan Vucci/AP)
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Remember where you heard that ADMISSION.
ROMNEY IS FAR WORSE THAN OBAMA.
bush jr. floated the same idea of "doing all he could in 4 years because he'd probably not be re-elected". AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENED...! Before repugs denounced bush jr. as being "too liberal" (since he was so WILDLY unpopular), they VOTED FOR HIM - TWICE! They secretly LOVED everything he did to this country.
Now, romney wants to GO FURTHER! This isn't about ANY current issues:
1. This is about the coming WAR WITH IRAN,
2. DESTROYING SOCIAL SECURITY and
3. DESTROYING MEDICARE.
THAT is their plan. Right now, the ONLY things standing in their way are a Democratic President and a Democratic Senate.
They're projected to flip the Senate with about 53 repugs.
That leaves PRESIDENT OBAMA, as the ONLY thing left to stop them.
THINK ABOUT THAT, when you make the false-equivalen cy required to vote for a 3rd party candidate who didn't bother to challenge the President in the primaries.
He and his bud will see that Corps go back to polluting by bringing standards down. He will back Monsanto and no labeling.
Then we will discuss Buffalo and Wolves slaughter as the NRA and major outlets for sporting give rewards for wolf hides etc. So where could we possibly go wrong with two men who represent the Church Community, Political Greatness?
For those who think OB is bad I will not see ya again on any internet site unless we are buying foreign made goods, reading some hypocritical religious nonsense....Int ernet will go so over board on finding out who you are it will make OB's failure to say not to more Homeland Crap a walk in the Park
Big Brother is Waiting to take over your lives...enjoy them while you still have them
I think the latest count is 32, for the number of states that have adopted some form of 'voter suppression' through ID requirements.
Under the utterly false claim that voter fraud is rampant, voters who have voted for half a century at the same polling place, but do not have a 'valid' ID, will not be allowed to vote, according to these new laws. If you are a student, with a, student picture ID, paying $25,000 a year tuition, that student ID is not good enough for the election board in these states. But, if you have an ID from the NRA, that's okay, please go right in.
There have been many legal challenges to these new laws, but in most cases the results will not come in time for this election. The GOP machine knows that just like a jury is told to disregard a false statement is like trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube, they are counting on denying enough non GOP voters to make the critical difference.
Country...hell she couldn't even run a state...she is out of here.
As far as the white vote I'm not so sure he can get it. The middle class is dwindling and have had enough of the so called trickle down theory.
Romney hasn't built anything except destruction of American industries.
Here's where we must concentrate efforts to keep all voters properly registered. Do check with your neighbors and friends who may be at risk. The Rethiglicans will be out in droves at the polls to challenge voters, so we have to stay ahead of them.
Then there's the voting machines... Do you trust them? Will there be enough in the highly Democratic-voti ng precincts? Do your best to assure that everyone can vote in a timley manner and have their vote counted.
Also remember that when liberals get their way, they manage to balance the budget WHILE providing social services. Conservatives can't do this, because they need A LOT MORE money for their wars and no bid government contracts.
1945
Debt as GDP% 121.7%, 13.1% Government, 108.7% Public, Effective tax rate on top quintile 20.7%,
Top marginal tax rate, 94% (on income over 2009 equivalent of $2.4 million)
"Public" back then didn't mean same "offshore %" as today.
2012 est
Debt as GDP% 104.0%, 30.6% Government, 74.2% Public, Effective tax rate on top quintile 20.7% (just like 1945),
Top capital gains rate, 15% (no limit on how many billions or trillions you make, less 1/6 the rates we collected on people making more than $2.4 million in 2009 equivalent dollars back in 1945).
(Did we have our most advantaged hoarding more than 2X our GDP, or somewhere between the equivalent of $21 trillion to $32 trillion, offshore, back then, not even taxed at the 15%?)
Yes I do see a problem, but a bigger problem if we keep getting farther from the old solutions.
(part 1 of 2)
I personally don't want to see Dark Money taking us back to the Dark Ages that Grover Norquist's "No New Taxes" pledge is leading us to. On 60 minutes, he said he wanted to take us back to taxes he says were only 8% of GDP. I don't know how that relates to Effective tax rate or value of what was provided (something accountants often find hard to grasp), but I'll bite and see what our country looked like back then. Were we at war? No the Spanish American War had ended in 1898. What was our infrastructure like? Good Postal Service, but internal transportation was via poor roads, in a horse and buggy era for most, but monopolized railroads, mule and canal boats for much of the industrial East coast.
Even in later days, I remember Harry Truman's political career started as an honest agent trying to improve the roads for farmers in the county. My wife's uncle started out WWII as a mule skinner in the Army
A few neat pictures from back in that era (but I don't want to go back). See www.lakesidehistory.org/Americana/PPS/Horse_And_Mulepower.pps
Heck, I don't even want to go back to the times my mother described, trying to get around all the horse manure (and dead horses) even in the cities, though I would like some of work ethic and forward looking they did back then.
Robin and his merry men would all end up with their heads on pikes decorating the gates of Nottingham and the tops of Trump Towers. And the world would return to its proper order, with the rich robbing the poor and Friar Tuck starved, while Prelates and Princes feast off the fat of the land.
In the next generation after these elderly have died, those of privilege will be relying on the others to pay in the taxes for their Social Security and Medicare and military. There will be less questioning of the differences. There will, as time goes by, less difference. Unfortunately, in that scenario, the poor, regardless of what color they are, will be looked down on with suspicion and fear. That is the model this country was built on:privilege included first the white men, then the mostly white women, then the slaves, then the marriages of more than one color, then the Indians, then the Chinese, then the Japanese. Privilege and fear - not a good recipe for a democratic country. But it is possible we are learning.
Does Romney and Ryan have much experience outside their spheres of wealth and privilege? I personally don't think so. A Republican country will mean great limitations on those who will work to pay the social costs of the next generation. Why do that?
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