Romney's statement was clearly wrong and this is an interesting graph, but just because states that vote Republican have more of the non-payers, doesn't mean that those individual non-payers are overwhelmingly voting Republican.
Well, a very large proportion of them are seniors. And seniors have, according to our favorite pollster Rasmussen, a 19% shift towards Romney versus Obama. Next excuse?
I don't think he was excusing the statement - he did say it was wrong. He's correct that a state's party affiliation doesn't necessarily connect with which voters are voting for who. Your seniors claim is also correct and is a demonstration of why Romney's statement was so ridiculous.
Hooray Minnesota one of the least free loading states. I guess that's why we've voted Democratic every presidential election since 1972.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Mitt Romney is accusing President Obama of overseeing the worst jobs recovery since the Great Depression. And months of disappointing jobs growth means the president could face Election Day with fewer workers than on the day he took office. But Romney's accusation is wrong -- President Obama's job gap isn't the worst. In fact, it isn't nearly as big as the one President George Bush faced eight years ago. Here are the numbers: There are 261,000 fewer employees on payrolls today than when Obama took office. But at the same point of the Bush administration, the jobs deficit stood at 856,000 jobs, according to current estimates of the same period. More
^ Congratulations Obama. You're slightly better in your first term than the guy your party pretty much universally calls the worst President in our nation's history.
Except he's not really hated for his jobs record. Maybe he should be, but that's not why the left thinks he's so terrible. 2004 wasn't a campaign run based on how horrible a job Bush had done on creating jobs.
And I suppose the following context is completely unpersuasive to you: Bush inherited a significant surplus and spent it on massive and unprecedented tax cuts for the people that needed them least at the same time he employed 'pataphysics ("the science of imaginary solutions") to invent a magic credit card to pay for two wars which were conducted entirely off-the-books. It is no surprise the debt and deficits exploded. After all, this was an economy brought to you by the "deficits are good" people. Obama inherited the greatest economic crisis this country has faced since The Great Depression, a crisis that both parties agreed required emergency action in order that our economy not collapse entirely. Yeah, those two things are the same, so let's compare their job records as apples to apples. That makes sense. In therapy I sometimes become impatient and complain that I've been going for three years and sometimes I feel even worse than when I began. My therapist rightly replies that it took me over 40 years to feel the way I do and that it was rather unreasonable to expect the whole thing to get turned around and fixed in so short a time as three years. The analogy is, to my mind, extremely apt. But what do I know? I'm crazy.
It was a joke. I don't think the president really has that much to do with job growth, and I don't place much blame on Obama for the unemployment situation.
Robots favor Romney. Humans favor Obama. http://www.tnr.com/blog/electionate/107446/obama-pulling-ahead-in-live-interview-surveys Interesting... I didn't know that auto/robot polls like Rasmussen are not able to reach cell phone numbers.
This has been a long running BONE OF CONTENTION btw myself and Trader/batexxx- he contends the only folx sans landline are some combo of baby momma havin' Forty-Seveners and undocumenteds, i contend that most non Matlock watchers escew such unnecessary homages to the wired era. I guess we'll see who's right in 2008!!!!
So....to try to change the subject, the Republicans dug up a 1998 video of Obama at Loyola University.....where he say he believes in Redistribution.... REALLY.....come on now.....that all you got? Next, will be the return of Rev. Right.
