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dtroutma
said, 7 months ago
The only folks “undecided” must be the ones living in caves for the last twelve years, unaware of how the economy crashed in ’08 due to the same folks that brought us two senseless wars. Yes, it does take time to recover from such disasters, and the effort is made worse when the same folks that brought you the “right wing” disasters, keep fighting every effort to recover, tooth and nail, with only on purpose in mind: keeping up the stupidity you gave us in the first place.
onguard said, 7 months ago
Most are Hoping for a Change.
Respectful Troll said, 7 months ago
@dtroutma
The undecideds with whom I’ve spoken are either apathetic(cave dwellers by choice) or truly conflicted. People who want to vote for Romney but ar afraid of the Republican social agenda and people who want to vote for Obama but are upset about the economy and democrat social issues.
It is my sad duty to report the largest number of "undecideds are people who say they won’t vote for either candidate because “they’re all liars” or “my vote doesn’t matter.”
Its a sad state of affairs when the country to whom the world looks as an example of Democracy turns off, or turns away, as many voters as it has.
Respectfully
C.
Molon Labe said, 7 months ago
@dtroutma
Bovine scatology… When Obama took office we had a triple A credit rating, and a national debt of 10.4 billion. Gasoline cost 1.84/gallon. The unemployment rate, which started rising from the day Obama was elected, was 6.8% and rose to 10.0% eleven months later.
The president said that if he could not fix it in three years, then he would be a one term president. Since he took over our debt today is 16.1 trillion, a rise of 5.7 Trillion in just four years. More people are unemployed today than ever before. The U6 number is 14.7%. The only way that the Obama admin has been able to temporarily get the 7.8% U3 rate is to “forget” to include california and fidge the numbers.
The last time a federal budget was passed was April 24 2009. Three months and four days into the Obama administration. You can’t blame the republicans for that. In the past two years the house has sent SIX, count them, SIX BUDGETS to the Senate, where Harry Reid has refused to allow any of them to the floor for a vote. The real party of NO is the democrats. Where is the spirit of compromise that you fascist democrats are so famous for calling for? Why do you refuse to stop borrowing 40 cents of every dollar spent by the federal government? The only way the deficit will come down is to spend less than what you take in.
1opinion said, 7 months ago
@Molon Labe
your right, that is bovine scatology.
Jeddidyah said, 7 months ago
@Molon Labe
“When Obama took office we had a triple A credit rating, and a national debt of 10.4 billion.”
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$11.910 trillion by the time shrub left office. .
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http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt_histo5.htm
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“Gasoline cost 1.84/gallon.”
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In July 2008 it was $4.25 a gallon.
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“The unemployment rate, which started rising from the day Obama was elected, was 6.8%”
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The unemployment rate, was 7.8% when Obama took Office. The Great recession began in December 2007 and unemployment increased by 6 million jobs before the election in 2008. The most under Obama was 4.5 million but gained 5.2 million jobs back. Shrub lost 1 million jobs his first term in office, 6 million in his second.
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“and rose to 10.0% eleven months later.”
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and rose to 10.2% five months later. Now we all know you are just making up numbers…
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http://news.yahoo.com/real-jobless-rate-215415585.html
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You must have flunked peckerwood 101.
Jeddidyah said, 7 months ago
@Molon Labe
“When Obama took office we had a triple A credit rating”
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and when our credit rating was downgraded the agency that did so said very specifically that they blamed the republican house for failing to take responsible action in a timely fashion and make a reasonable compromise.
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http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/05/news/economy/downgrade_rumors/index.htm
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http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/06/news/economy/sp_rating_faq/index.htm?iid=EL
1opinion said, 7 months ago
@Jeddidyah
I knew I did not have to deal with the specifics as others would do as well or better than I.
Michael wme said, 7 months ago
@Jeddidyah
The reason the US was shedding 800,000 jobs a month while Bush, Jr was still president was because the job creators saw that the election favoured Obama, and that Bush, Jr lacked to courage to declare that elections were far, far too dangerous during the War on Terror and that he must remain President until the US won. The entire recession happened because Congress was infested with Democrats and Obama was favoured to win the election.
Romney has promised that, as soon as he replaces Obama, he can keep all of Obama’s policies, but the US will have full employment, no taxes, a big budget surplus, and 50¢ gasoline, just because he’s not Obama.
And Romney’s a businessman, and businessmen know ‘business math’ and never lie, and the silly PhD mathematicians and economists who say Romney’s numbers don’t add up don’t know Business maths, since they don’t earn millions teaching maths and economics.
1opinion said, 7 months ago
Just who are these liars expecting to convince?
{only themselves}
Radish
said, 7 months ago
So if it wasn’t for the undecided voters we wouldn’t have to go through all this current negetive political stuff?
I hate it when the class has to move at the speed of the slowest student.
BrassOrchid
said, 7 months ago
@Radish
If you know their speed, you can’t be certain of their position!
Respectful Troll said, 7 months ago
@Molon Labe
We lost our triple A rating the last time our dis-functionally bipartisan legislature showed its willingness to drive over a “fiscal cliff”. Obama was only one part of a three part decision to have it “MY” way on the part of the House, Senate, and Executive. Your other points were also bipartisan in their egocentricity and lack of cooperation between the parties. To blame one side only ignores reality and drives deep painful wedges between neighbors who depend on each other.
Do you write your elected officials as well as posting here?
Respectfully,
C.
NeoconMan said, 7 months ago
@Molon Labe
You’re right, Theo. And that’s why we must elect Romney. Deficits will no longer matter under a Republican administration as he will give us all a huge tax cut which will immediately raise the deficit by $5 trillion to $21 trillion. Problem solved; we’ll all be rich.
fritzoid
said, 7 months ago
@Respectful Troll
“It is my sad duty to report the largest number of “undecideds are people who say they won’t vote for either candidate because ‘they’re all liars’ or ‘my vote doesn’t matter.’”
I’m with you there, mostly. I suspect that a lot of “undecideds” are undecided about whether they’ll vote, not for whom they’d vote. If Voter A is ambivalent about Candidate B but HATES Candidate C, that doesn’t translate into a vote for B (although it rules out a vote for C). And the voter may be very well informed, just cynical and/or disillusioned.
I stopped even trying to read "Mallard Fillmore years ago, but one thing that always got me thinking was his “If you aren’t informed, DON’T VOTE!” campaign every election. I don’t really know that I can fault the sentiment, other than to amend it to “If you aren’t informed, GET INFORMED or else don’t vote.”
A confession: I don’t necessarily vote in every election, nor do I necessarily vote on every proposition or contested race. I haven’t missed a Presidential election in ages, but in an off year or a primary, when the ballot is loaded up with Boards and Commissions or nickel-and-dime questions about issues on which I haven’t got a strong opinion one way or another (and with California’s Proposition system we put EVERYTHING up to a vote), I may leave a large portion of my ballot blank, or not go to the polls at all. I’ll leave those up to the people who know more and care more than I do. And I don’t feel the least bit guilty about it.