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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (132677)	5/15/2012 12:26:10 PM
From: FJB	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

Alarm Grows Among Dems About Obama’s Chances By Chris Stirewalt Power Play Published May 15, 2012 It has taken months of bad news, but Democrats increasingly believe that President Obama might just lose his re-election bid. The latest wake-up call comes in the form of a New York Times/CBS poll showing Republican Mitt Romney in the lead not just among registered voters overall, but with women and independents. The Times/CBS survey is unique in that the pollsters called back the same phone numbers they had a month before. In April, Obama and Romney were dead even. Now, Romney leads by 3 points overall. That’s still within the margin of error -- a statistical tie. But the shifts with women, moderates and independents are all statistically significant. Obama lost 5 points with each of those demographics. Continues... Read more: foxnews.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (132677)	5/15/2012 12:33:29 PM
From: tonto	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

No. Bain would have made money by the company growing. They made little, as compared to what they had hoped. During the 7 years that Romney was there, they invested over $100,000,000 into the plant. They made a mistake when they paid out the dividend to them. It was justifiable at the time, but when the dumping started along with higher labor costs per ton, they did not have a chance to support the debt...just as the other steel companies who failed...