Better to go to the guy’s door and tell him the problem in America is that poor people don’t pay enough in taxes and the rich pay too much, and the solution is to cut Social Security, lower taxes on the rich, and get rid of any programs that will help that guy’s kids go to college.
Maybe they can track down Joe the Plumber.
Silver is merely saying that unemployment numbers are over rated as their impact in a presidential election. RR believes it is an inescapable political death. But he fails to see many of the voters put a lot of the blame on the unemployment where it belongs, the Repubs and Bush. That takes a lot of the power away. They see the Republican governors throwing people out of work while cutting taxes for corporations. Most people see the Repub economic policies as a disaster for the working man.
Preach all you want about the unemployment rate, but many see through it.
Since he loves looking at history of presidential races, he will not back Palin or Bachmann since history shows no woman has ever been elected president, therefore none can.
And as Silver pointed out, the idea of having a “magic number” that you can watch and say “oh, this is what’ll happen” with any degree of accuracy (not to mention having a number where, if it’s 0.1 above, the incumbent is doomed, but if it’s 0.1 below, he has a shot) is in itself mildly absurd on its face.
They never said the poor don’t pay enough in taxes.
Of course the delusion you guys live under is that when you tax the rich, that cost isn’t passed on to the poor in the form of lower wages and or higher prices.
I think most sensible people look at the politicians riding around in their jets and limos and realize that it isn’t money well spent.
I like how you called us “kooky kids” and then further belittled people below a certain age, by saying that the grownups will fix the mistakes. Dude, we’ve got more than enough of your generation’s mistakes to fix as it is. You don’t have to thank me.
So you’ve never noticed any of those “flat tax” or “fair tax” plans that would raise the taxes on the poor? Advocating for a tax plan that would raise taxes on the poor pretty much is saying that the poor don’t pay enough in tax.
That’s even taking into account that it wasn’t just “kids” that were doing it either. It really was a sight to behold, with people of all sizes, shapes, colors, genders, and economic backgrounds working together.
It’s not really important. He was saying on the one hand that Obama’s young supporters are now unemployed and won’t vote for him, and on the other hand they’re a bunch of crazy kids who will continue to support him but nobody else will listen. I don’t think that kind of attitude is going to win a lot of votes to the GOP candidate.
Well, right. There’s a lot of stuff going on there, but it’s also patently clear that it wasn’t that easy to pigeonhole. There’s a lot of the electorate that’s out there, in the middle somewhere. Obama appeals to those folks.
Your guy has screwed up the country, not us.
He’s the one who brought us the WORST ECONOMY IN 80 YEARS.
If McCain had gotten in, we’d be out of this recession by now.
I think it depends which kid we are talking about.
The true believer who spent 4 years in liberal arts classes listening to commie professors, who really believed in “Hope and Change”, no, that idiot will probably still vote for “The One” and get doors slammed in her face.
The business major who hung out with her because he wanted to get into her panties, but now he’s out there schlubbing about with his resume and can’t get an entry level position because there are ex-supervisors competing for them. Yeah, that guy is having real second thoughts about whether it was worth it if the herpes hasn’t.
Why, that sounds like it would be very hard to prove.
If McCain had gotten in, we’d all be speaking Chinese by now.
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Nobody makes as much stuff up as you do. You win the fantasy award.
Wait, when did the recession start? If it started before Obama took office, then the first two sentences make no sense. And if it started after Obama took office, then the third sentence makes no sense.
And McCain’s plan for fixing the economy was… Oh, wait, he didn’t have one, because he didn’t realize there was a problem in the first place.
Poll today says by a margin of 2 to 1, the people blame Bush for the economic death spiral. Sometimes the masses do understand.
Well, Starvin’ Artist does pretty well; but he’s writing his fantasy version of the 1960’s…
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/14/poll-americans-blame-bush-for-bad-economy-by-wide-margin/
Here is the poll. Two to one, Bush is responsible. The repubs try but they can not rewrite history.