Romney Looks Like the Next Pres

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More to the point, those dissecting Obama’s performance are also ignoring the fact that the president’s bigger problem is that his challenger has turned out to be more formidable than even many Republicans thought him to be. So long as Romney was viewed as merely a gaffe-prone tackling dummy, Obama could get away with not running on his record. But faced with a smart, confident opponent who is prepared to harp on his failings, it was the messiah of 2008 who looked like the empty suit.

The conundrum for Democrats is that the president has very little to say for himself or his record. Shorn of the demonization of the GOP, Obama is left with nothing. While such attacks work well on the campaign trail and in television ads, they are not likely to help in a face-to-face debate. Looking ahead to the next encounter, it won’t be hard for the president to better his Denver performance, but what last night might have exposed is not so much fatigue or overconfidence as it is the emptiness at the core of his re-election campaign.
 
Obama's Re-Election Case Rests On 5 Phony Claims
By JOHN MERLINE, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 10/03/2012 05:06 PM ET
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In making his case for re-election in the face of historically high unemployment and sluggish growth, President Obama has a simple and straightforward argument.

Things were terrible when I arrived, he says, thanks to Bush-era policies of tax cuts and deregulation. We stopped the decline, but the ditch was so deep that it will take time to get out. Still, we are making progress, even if it isn't as fast as everyone would like.

So the last thing we want to do is return to the failed Bush policies that, he says, drove us into the ditch.


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That argument appears to be working. More people continue to blame Bush than Obama for the current poor state of affairs, and some surveys show that consumer confidence has recently increased.

But each part of Obama's argument is based on claims that are not accurate:

• Bush tax cuts and deregulation caused the recession.

At a campaign rally, Obama said Romney is "just churning out the same ideas that we saw in the decade before I took office . . . the same tax cuts and deregulation agenda that helped get us into this mess in the first place."

It's a standard Obama talking point. But it's not true. Bush's tax cuts did not cause the last recession.

In fact, once they were fully in effect in 2003, they sparked stronger growth — generating more than 8 million new jobs over the next four years, and GDP growth averaging close to 3%.

Those tax cuts didn't explode the deficit, either, as Obama frequently claims. Deficits steadily declined after 2003, until the recession hit.

Nor was Bush a deregulator. Conservative Heritage Foundation's regulation expert James Gattuso concluded, after reviewing Bush's record, that "regulation grew substantially during the Bush years."

Even the Washington Post's fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, gave Obama's claim three out of four "Pinocchios," saying "it is time for the Obama campaign to retire this talking point, no matter how much it seems to resonate with voters."

What did cause the economic crisis? The housing bubble. And that, in turn, was the result of a determined federal effort to boost homeownership by, among other things, pressuring banks to lower lending standards.

• I stopped a second Great Depression.

Another frequent Obama claim is that "we did all the right things to prevent a Great Depression." But this, too, is false.

The economy had pretty much hit bottom by the time Obama took office, and long before his policies were in place. The worst declines in monthly GDP and employment, in fact, occurred before he was even sworn in.

What's more, the recovery officially started less than four months after Obama signed the stimulus into effect, when only a small fraction of the stimulus money was actually in the economy. Plus, other Obama economic interventions came either after the recession had ended — including his GM (GM) bailout — or have been widely judged to be failures.

When economists Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi tried to determine what ended the so-called Great Recession, they said President Bush's TARP program and actions by the Federal Reserve were "substantially more effective" than anything Obama had done.

• My policies are working.



Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/100312-62...s-on-five-claims-all-phony.aspx#ixzz28MiyQXbu
 
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Starting with the polling today, the polls are going to take at least 3 to 4 days to report the debate bump if any.

I believe even the the daily polls have a 3 or 7 day rolling average.

But we do know the CBS instant poll of undecideds showed that they had turned for Romney in a big way.... 35 to 18 or something like that.
 
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Starting with the polling today, the polls are going to take at least 3 to 4 days to report the debate bump if any.

I believe even the the daily polls have a 3 or 7 day rolling average.

But we do know the CBS instant poll of undecideds showed that they had turned for Romney in a big way.... 35 to 18 or something like that.
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Intrade is a real time poll,the rest of the polls will catch up with them
 
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October 5, 2012

SouthAmerica: I just posted this info at the Charlie Rose Show website at:

Analysis of the Presidential Debate with Norah O'Donnell – October 3, 2012
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12583#comment_92281

...October 5, 2012

@SharkswithfrikingLazers – You wrote: “Romney says 50% of recent college graduates can NOT find employment.”

By the way, Mitt Romney has a plan to solve this unemployment problem for the kids age 18 to 30 years old – it is called the “DRAFT”.

Mitt Romney said that if he is elected president he would start a war against Iran ASAP.

Since the US Armed Forces has been decimated by over 10-years of constant wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and all kinds of covert operations around the world – today the US Army is a basket case that can't keep up even with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

If you vote for Mitt Romney he will take care of your children, and grandchildren, and he will keep them busy in the Middle East and North Africa where your loved ones will have the opportunity of being blown up into little pieces, or if they can survive the experience they will become mental cases like the other over 100,000 young Americans who returned home from Iraq and Afghanistan in the last 10 years.

The good news for the American people is that they changed the rules since the Vietnam War, and this time around the woman also will be drafted and they will be sent to be slaughtered in some foreign land with the boys.

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Obama has a major dilemma or two. He is incredibly out of step with the typical American voter and his record stinks. He can't really say what his agenda is. He's gotten by so far by telling people that Romney is an idiot but the debate showed a different Romney than the picture the Lamestream Media has painted.. So what is he doing now? Calling Romney a liar! Makes sense to me... it's zoo politics: if you can't win then throw sh^t at 'em...
 
wow obama gained 5% today. romney bottom pickers taking profits?

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