thephan wrote:On Tax reform, reeling in deductions really hits people below ~$250K. Above $250K you start seriously curtailing, if not completely losing, deductions on your tax forms. Who is left? The rest of us. So this approach, assuming that is what is being described because it is not public information from Romney, just sticks it to what is left of the middle class. Closing those loopholes is like tightening a rope around the neck.

Moreover, the housing market is starting to recover, but if the mortgage deduction is removed (to the cheers of Europe FWIW), then the housing recovery smashes the down elevator button and returns us to, if not puts the nation in, a worse place.

RNC chair Reince Priebus said on Monday that Mitt Romney is not tacking to the center in the last leg of the presidential campaign. Priebus chalked up Romney's bump in the polls to the fact that voters are getting to know the candidate better.

"People are liking what they are seeing with Mitt Romney," Priebus told MSNBC. "That's why we're having a lasting bump through the debates. People are seeing Mitt Romney for who he is, which is a reasonable, intelligent guy."

td11 wrote:

RNC chair Reince Priebus said on Monday that Mitt Romney is not tacking to the center in the last leg of the presidential campaign. Priebus chalked up Romney's bump in the polls to the fact that voters are getting to know the candidate better.

"People are liking what they are seeing with Mitt Romney," Priebus told MSNBC. "That's why we're having a lasting bump through the debates. People are seeing Mitt Romney for who he is, which is a reasonable, intelligent guy...who has shifted substantially toward the middle on pretty much every major issue middle class voters care about."

ok, rancid pubies

Bucky wrote:what was the most poll-defiant presidential election?

Conflicting, false and misleading statements on oil production and gasoline prices have become the currency of politicians lately, as oil tops $100 per barrel and gasoline hovers near $4 per gallon. Among some of the claims that got our attention:

. Top Republicans blame President Obama’s moratorium on deepwater drilling for rising gasoline prices. The moratorium delayed drilling of some new wells, but did not affect the output of wells already in production. A projected drop in total domestic oil production this year should amount to six-tenths of 1 percent of all U.S. consumption of liquid fuels. A Wall Street oil analyst told us the moratorium has had “zero” effect on prices.
. Obama said domestic oil production last year was its highest since 2003. That’s true — but U.S. oil production is projected to drop this year.
. Rep. Kevin McCarthy said “under this administration our output has gone down 13 percent.” McCarthy is wrong — U.S. oil production was up in 2009 and 2010, and is projected to decline only 2 percent this year.
. Sarah Palin said Obama is “allowing America to remain increasingly dependent on imports” from unstable countries. But there has been a decline — not an increase — in total oil imports from Middle Eastern and African countries, as well as countries identified by the State Department as “dangerous or unstable,” since Obama took office.

jerseyhoya wrote:If the electorate is anything like what that poll says, Mitt can't win Ohio

Gonna just operate under the assumption that the poll is garbage because it makes me happier to do so

slugsrbad wrote:Why do you call the President "Barry"? I know that's what he was called as a child, but now it seems a derisive nickname akin to calling President Bush "Dubyah".

TomatoPie wrote:It really looks like winning Ohio is the key. Mitten looks good in FL and hopeful in VA.

RCP has Barry up 2.2% in Ohio.