early voting has started http://elections.gmu.edu/early_vote_2012.html this is a nice site that compiles all the early voting stats
Thanks for posting this - this is a great site to do comparative analysis as the election approaches. For comparison, here is the 2008 data: http://elections.gmu.edu/early_vote_2008.html
I ask this every time those numbers are posted and nobody ever responds, but I'll try again. If you account for the fact that FY '09 was supposed to be a one-time spike in spending to address a sky-is-falling crisis, how do spending numbers look under Obama? As far as I can tell, we've basically gone into a constant state of crisis-level spending over the past four years.
This is a reasonable question. If you credit all of that to Obama, you have a growth rate of about 5-6% annually, I believe. Which puts Obama's spending growth below GW Bush and Reagan, similar to Bush I, and higher than Clinton.
This is literally true. The acceleration of growth is indeed unprecedented. It is unprecedentedly LOW.
More good news for the President in the new NBC/WSJ poll. Polls: Obama holds the edge in Florida, Ohio and Virginia The surveys from Marist College, commissioned by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal, show Obama leading Mitt Romney among likely voters by 7 points in Ohio (50 percent to 43 percent), and by 5 points in Virginia and Florida (49 percent to 44 percent in both states). Obama’s management of the economy is being viewed more favorably. He leads Romney on who is seen as a better manager of the economy in Ohio, and is even in Virginia and Florida.
At this point, it may take a catastrophic decline in the economy or an unforgivable gaff by Obama for Romney to win. Things have kind of collapsed on Mitt recently. It may get worse when polls begin reflecting the backlash from his Libya meltdown.
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priorities... <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Beyoncé and Jay-Z are hosting the President in New York—your chance for two spots on the guest list ends at midnight: <a href="http://t.co/PYCVnULw" title="http://OFA.BO/X4goCa">OFA.BO/X4goCa</a></p>— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) <a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/246443358724165632" data-datetime="2012-09-14T03:00:50+00:00">September 14, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
yeah partying with Beyonce and Jay-Z while our embassies across the globe are under siege is totally cool
It is a campaign event. Just because JayZ is there doesnt make it some super fun hip hop party. He is doing his job, as are different branches of the government. Got marines and warships to Libya, put embassies on alert, called Egypt and got the government there to step up their security and issue condemnation of the violence, working with Libya to hunt down the killers. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/w...l-rift-from-protests.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all There are more than one person working in the US goverment and Presidents, by the nature of the system, have to multitask between doing the work and campaigning. Besides, do you want him to suspend his campaign like McCain did? This would be a counterproductive panic move. Democracy doesn't have to stop just because there are problems in the world.
Project much Romney? Romney: Obama During Debates Will ‘Say Things That Aren’t True’ Mitt Romney told Good Morning America that he expects President Obama to "say things that aren't true" during the presidential debates this fall. “I’ve looked at prior debates," Romney said. "And in that kind of case, it’s difficult to say, ‘Well, am I going to spend my time correcting things that aren’t quite accurate? Or am I going to spend my time talking about the things I want to talk about?'” Romney also talked up his Republican sparring partner, Rob Portman, who is playing Obama in the practice debates. "… I will never debate Rob Portman again. He's very good."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...1e1a52-fda5-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Michelle Obama, June 2011: "[Barack Obama] is better prepared than the people briefing him." <a href="http://t.co/zTPq8Cwx" title="http://bit.ly/O3iJYY">bit.ly/O3iJYY</a></p>— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) <a href="https://twitter.com/jimgeraghty/status/246565045989949440" data-datetime="2012-09-14T11:04:22+00:00">September 14, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
