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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Metacomet who wrote (100306)	8/29/2011 12:15:40 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Sometimes I really wonder where are the heads of these journalist pundits. Its like they are creating their storyline out of thin air. Obama and the dems have been calling for a mix of spending cuts, tax increases, et al for months now. But this tool says its "not the agenda of either party". How he landed a coveted position with the NY Times I will never understand. As for America, we’ve thrived in recent decades with a credit-consumption-led economy, whereby we maintained a middle class by using more steroids (easy credit, subprime mortgages and construction work) and less muscle-building (education, skill-building and innovation). It’s put us in a deep hole, and the only way to dig out now is a new, hybrid politics that mixes spending cuts, tax increases, tax reform and investments in infrastructure, education, research and production. But that mix is not the agenda of either party. nytimes.com

To: Metacomet who wrote (100306)	8/30/2011 10:40:03 PM
From: John Vosilla	Respond to of 149317

I think Florida might be the battleground swing state along with North Carolina and Colorado for similar reasons as most of the in growth migration is northern urban (think Philly-NYC-Boston), retired union workers from the midwest and minority which vote more democratic. Hispanic non Cuban growth and to a lesser extent Caribbean is huge here and don't forget the younger people voting the first time vote Dem. Ohio I imagine is a different dynamic much more static, more aging, much more white blue collar the most likely of all swing states to go GOP. Ensuring a crappy economy is the entire game plan of the GOP these days and don't be surprised if a decent number of swing voters who voted for change yet again in 2010 realize the kind of change the teabaggers were pushing wasn't good for them either.... Expecting voter turnout to far surpass any prior election in 2012 another 'wild card' of angry formerly nonpolitical types to consider..