Romney 2012?

Analysis: Candidates' deficit plans don't add up
By ANDREW TAYLOR | Associated Press – 8 hrs ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Here's the rap on the presidential candidates' plans for cutting federal deficits: Mitt Romney's is too bold and the numbers don't add up, while President Barack Obama's is too timid and his numbers don't add up, either.
As the government closes the books Sunday with a $1.1 trillion deficit for the year, which required borrowing 32 cents for every dollar it spent, budget analysts have little confidence in either man's plan to address the accumulating debt, now at about $16 trillion.
The Republican nominee promises to balance the budget in eight years to 10 years, but he also offers a mix of budgetary contradictions: higher Pentagon spending, restoring cuts that Democrats made in Medicare and an absolute refusal to consider tax increases.
To fulfill his promise, Romney would require cuts to other programs so deep — under one calculation requiring cutting many areas of the domestic budget by one-third within four years — that they could never get through Congress.
In other words, it wouldn't work.

Would you do me a favor and just put hawkass on ignore, trust me it works, makes the forum seem like such a fabulous place

We’re getting to the point in the campaign where a day on which the polls are in line with expectations is a winning one for Mr. Obama, since Mr. Romney trails in the race and now has just five full weeks to make the deficit up. Mr. Obama’s forecast rose slightly, to an 83.8 percent chance of winning the Electoral College, from 82.7 percent on Friday.

parados wrote:

I guess I wouldn't fire management if the only candidate to replace them is worse.

the assertion was that we should feel good about Obama sitting in the chair, that we should feel proud of him.

****. THAT!

We should be mad as hell, and we should be ashamed of ourselves for letting things get so bad that the last three choices we have had are McCain, Obama and Romney, none of the three of them are good enough to warrant even serious consideration for the job. these guys are the best that America has to offer? No way, they are not even part of the best million we have.

I demand better

Chris Christie: Wednesday night's debate is 'the restart of this campaign']
"Governor Romney has a vision for the direction of this country," Christie said. "He's not an accountant. He's not going to go line by line, as much as you'd like him to do, through the budget."
Christie then pivoted to President Obama. "Let's hold the president to the same standard and criticize him as well," Christie said. "How's he going to create a million new manufacturing jobs? He hasn't told anybody the specifics of that. How's he going to reduce $4 trillion in debt? We're still waiting to hear what he thinks about Simpson-Bowles, which he commissioned. I mean, he's been the president, and hasn't given us specifics. So let's be fair here."

Even before debates, electoral map appears largely written in stone
By David Rothschild, Yahoo! News | The Signal – 2 hrs 10 mins ago
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Many see potential for Wednesday's presidential debate to be a deciding moment in the 2012 election. From the Signal's perch here on Forecasting Mountain, we don't see a whole lot left to be decided.
Since we posted our first forecast of the state-by-state presidential election on Feb. 16, 2012, six months before the Republican Party even had an official nominee, only three states have flipped camps at any point in time. Virginia pointed toward the Republican nominee for several months during the summer, while both Florida and North Carolina have recently shifted to President Barack Obama's column. Almost all of the other 47 states have moved further in whichever direction they were leaning in February as the game clock has ticked down from more than 250 days to fewer than 40 until the election.

In February, we predicted that Obama would win re-election with 303 electoral votes. That estimate fell to 290 when Virginia flipped to the Republican column, and now stands at 347 with the restoration of Virginia and the addition of Florida and North Carolina.