The great recession has contributed a ~800 billion dollar budget swing (~400 billion in lost receipts, and lost economic activity *in 08-09 numbers). Other outlays has been the 2 ongoing wars he didn't start (yet is still running). The rest of Obama's "profligate spending" has been tax deductions and their extensions and unemployment aid. That is why lefty bloggers complain that the "stimulus wasn't large enough". Check out the actual budget, dude. Might put things in perspective.
Even basso's newsfeeds can understand swing state math. It'll be interesting to chronicle his meltdown status in the oncoming weeks.
Worse and worse for Willard. The last three or four days of national polls have been consistently trending to the president (all but one). And the margins are growing. Romney Plunges in Key States There’s more bad news for the Romney campaign as a new Wall Street Journal/NBC/Marist poll reveals he is falling behind in Iowa, Colorado, and Wisconsin—places he had hoped to gain a foothold. In Iowa, Obama leads by 8 points (50–42), just four months after the two were neck and neck in the state. Independent voters there favor Obama by a 10-point margin. Romney had been trying to bring Wisconsin, the home state of his running mate, Paul Ryan, into play, but the poll found he is trailing there 50–45. (Two other polls also gave Obama the lead in Wisconsin.) Other recent polls show Romney’s prospects are dimming in critical battleground states like Florida, Virginia, and Ohio.
Can someone start a thread on the Senate and congressional races? I'm not up to speed on those and the Romney/Obama stuff is starting to get stale for me. This thread is now all about Dems gloating and the right-wingers in silly denial.
Okay, okay I was just reading about the senate races myself. Apparently in less than a month Dems have gone from something like 30% keeping the senate to almost 70%. crazy
What's crazy about it? The Republicans have stated their case to the American people and the undecided among them have in turn responded as any group of sane individuals would.
The real crazy thing is that there are studies out there saying the Dems may have a real chance to take the House majority (25% in one study, even more in another).
That's a dream of mine, as unlikely as the prospect seems. Every once in a while, the American people shake things up in the House far more than the pundits expect. Instead of a near miss, a party inches over the top for control, or an expected narrow victory becomes a rout. Democrats have been on the losing side of a few of these, so maybe it's the GOP's turn. The polls show that the public disapproves of the job Congress is doing by record or near record numbers. Sure, that includes Democrats, but they aren't viewed as obstructionists nearly as much as the Republicans, in my opinion. I think we just might see a large shift in the House again.
Voter fraud. I know it's wikipedia, but... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_election_voting_controversies
Tracking Drudge this month has been like watching rodeo clowns. He's been spamming scare quotes for days, and none of it's working.
Ryan was booed today as he gave a speech to the AARP. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NF-MX1Jsmik" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
