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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 (147904)	11/2/2012 12:17:29 PM
From: tonto	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224718

I am aware of that. Unemployment went up it was reported today. People are also finding jobs. We are not moving forward, we instead are treading water...we must have a better economy. That is what matters.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (147904)	11/2/2012 12:26:34 PM
From: TideGlider	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224718

about 200K per month short of jobs needed to reduce unemployment. Since July, the economy has created an average of 173,000 jobs a month, up from 67,000 a month from April through June

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (147904)	11/2/2012 12:28:43 PM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224718

Bloomberg is now a national embarrassment. NYC Residents Rage as Generators Power up Marathon Tents It won’t be long until New York City residents completely lose it. As hundreds of thousands of Big Apple residents suffer in homes left without power by Hurricane Sandy, two massive generators are being run 24/7 in Central Park — to juice a media tent for Sunday’s New York City Marathon. And a third “backup” unit sits idle, in case one of the generators fails. The three diesel-powered generators crank out 800 kilowatts — enough to power 400 homes in ravaged areas like Staten Island, the Rockaways and downtown Manhattan. Since emergency executive orders have been issued, the governor, mayor — or even President Obama — could take the generators for a more important use, explained Pace University law professor Bennett Gershman. Such an emergency action would need the approval of the City Council, state Legislature or Congress. And they would have to compensate the owners of the devices. But plenty in the city wish they had taken such decisive action. After all, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie postponed Halloween for safety reasons, so Gov. Cuomo or Mayor Bloomberg should issue an executive order for lifesaving generators. “We’re struggling here, and we want the city to know that,” Councilwoman Margaret Chin of Chinatown said yesterday. She asked the Office of Emergency Management on Tuesday for a generator to run pumps to get water to stranded seniors. “They’re telling me there are other priorities,” Chin said. One source suspects why the marathon is even going forward. “You know what this is about? This is all so Bloomberg can stand at the finish line Sunday and tell the world we bounced back,” the source said. Yes, well the tiny tyrant got all the glowing headlines with his absurd “climate change” endorsement of Obama and nothing, even a storm of this magnitude, will ever stop him from feeding his ego. Staten Island Councilman James Oddo said, “The notion of taking one cop, one first responder, one resource, one asset and diverting it so that they stand at a post to watch runners go by when we’re still searching for bodies? It’s sinful to me!’’

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (147904)	11/2/2012 2:06:30 PM
From: Bill	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224718

Only the ignorant, stupid and mentally ill want to see another 4 years of Obama. Which one are you?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (147904)	11/2/2012 2:14:20 PM
From: chartseer	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224718

Why in the world would anybody vote for a chicago politician? Especially a Chicago Politician tied hand and foot to the Chicago Daley Democratic Political Machine? Especially one who has sealed all his records so you cannot see who he really is? Forget that he is a muslim indonesian citizen.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (147904)	11/2/2012 2:16:18 PM
From: Jack of All Trades	11 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224718

Biden: 'There's Never Been A Day In The Last Four Years I've Been Proud To Be His Vice President' Video at link... weeklystandard.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (147904)	11/2/2012 2:20:46 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224718

Why Romney Is More Likely to Win Morning Jay: Why Romney Is Likely to Win 6:00 AM, NOV 2, 2012 • BY JAY COST Single Page Print Larger Text Smaller Text Alerts When I started making election predictions eight years ago, I had a very different perspective than I do today. I knew relatively little about the history of presidential elections or the geography of American politics. I had a good background in political science and statistics. So, unsurprisingly in retrospect, I focused on drawing confidence intervals from poll averages. Since then, I have learned substantially more history, soured somewhat on political science as an academic discipline, and have become much more skeptical of public opinion polls. Both political science and the political polls too often imply a scientific precision that I no longer think actually exists in American politics. I have slowly learned that politics is a lot more art than science than I once believed. Accordingly, what follows is a prediction based on myinterpretation of the lay of the land. I know others see it differently--and they could very well be right, and I could be wrong. I think Mitt Romney is likely to win next Tuesday. For two reasons: (1) Romney leads among voters on trust to get the economy going again. (2) Romney leads among independents. Let’s take each point in turn. Romney’s advantage on the economy. This to me is pretty straightforward. Take the recent NPR poll, which was a bipartisan survey conducted by Resurgent Republic and Democracy Corps. It found Obama’s job approval rating on the economy to be underwater, 47-52. The poll also found Mitt Romney to be more trusted on the economy over Obama, 50 to 46 percent. Poll after poll, I generally see the same thing. Romney has an edge on the economy. That includes most of the state polls. PAGE 1 OF 2Moreover, this election looks to hinge on the economy, and little else. The recent Fox News poll broke the top issues into four: economic issues (like jobs); social issues (like abortion); national security issues (like terrorism); and fiscal issues (like taxes). To my mind, economic and fiscal issues are one and the same, meaning: 75 percent of respondents willing to pick a top issue picked the economy or fiscal issues. I do not know of an election where the electorate was so singularly focused on one set of issues, and the person trusted less on them nevertheless won. This makes 2012 different than 2004, when the electorate was focused on four issues, in roughly equal proportion – terrorism, moral values, Iraq, and the economy. Bush dominated the first two, Kerry the second two. This cycle, Team Obama tried to transform the culture into a second front in this electoral war, but they have clearly failed. Per the Fox News poll, just 13 percent of voters list that as their top concern. Romney’s lead among independents. This second point is related to the first, but gets down to my view of the long-term trajectory of American politics, which corresponds quite closely to Sean Trende’s book,The Lost Majority. After the Great Depression, the Republican brand was in tatters and the Democrats seemed to have saved the nation with the New Deal. The result was a forty-year period of Democratic dominance in party identification. The two Republican presidents between FDR and Ronald Reagan were Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, and their paths to office were peculiar. Eisenhower could have won the presidency running as anything, and Nixon required a crack in the Democratic coalition, winning just 43 percent of the vote in 1968. During this period, it simply was not enough for a successful GOP candidate to win independents and self-identified Republicans. Barring a substantial third-party challenge from the Democratic side, a victorious Republican had to pull significant crossover support from the Democratic party. This is why Gerald Ford lost the presidency in 1976, despite winning independent voters by 11 points; Jimmy Carter carried enough Democrats to secure victory. But the New Deal coalition by that point was fractured badly, and it finally broke into pieces in 1980. Democrats had, prior to that, enjoyed a 10-point or greater identification edge over the GOP, but that year it fell to just 4 points. Since 1980, it has averaged about 3 ½ points. And because Republican candidates typically hold their party together better than Democrats (or, put another way, there are almost always more Democratic defectors than Republican defectors), the effective edge has been even smaller. « Last Page 1 \| 2 Next Page »