TenuredVulture wrote:Why are we paying so much attention to which polls are right, when we should be paying attention to whether it really makes sense to say up military spending to 4% of GDP or whether government has a role in funding research in green energy? For JH, and to some extent, myself, polling is a professional interest. But the rest of you should be focusing on other things.

Also, I think Ryan is in PA because he's not good at persuading independent voters, but the campaign hide him, so they stick him in a place where he cannot do much harm.

mozartpc27 wrote:I'm disappointed none of the rest of you political hacks took me up on my challenge in the previous thread to predict the election state-by-state two week out. At that time, I had VA going Romney. My drunken confidence has me not so sure.

mozartpc27 wrote:I'm disappointed none of the rest of you political hacks took me up on my challenge in the previous thread to predict the election state-by-state two week out. At that time, I had VA going Romney. My drunken confidence has me not so sure.

gr wrote:Looks like some friends and I will be driving to Ohio tomorrow to do 48 hrs of last-minute Obama boostering.

CalvinBall wrote:I think sept and aug were adjusted upwards too

The Congressional Research Service has withdrawn an economic report that found no correlation between top tax rates and economic growth, a central tenet of conservative economic theory, after Senate Republicans raised concerns about the paper’s findings and wording.

The decision, made in late September against the advice of the agency’s economic team leadership, drew almost no notice at the time. Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, cited the study a week and a half after it was withdrawn in a speech on tax policy at the National Press Club.
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“This has hues of a banana republic,” Mr. Schumer said. “They didn’t like a report, and instead of rebutting it, they had them take it down.”

Don Stewart, a spokesman for the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said Mr. McConnell and other senators “raised concerns about the methodology and other flaws.” Mr. Stewart added that people outside of Congress had also criticized the study and that officials at the research service “decided, on their own, to pull the study pending further review.”

Senate Republican aides said they had protested both the tone of the report and its findings. Aides to Mr. McConnell presented a bill of particulars to the research service that included objections to the use of the term “Bush tax cuts” and the report’s reference to “tax cuts for the rich,” which Republicans contended was politically freighted.

jamiethekiller wrote:Its probably been talked about a little already. What is everyones opinion for the hurricane effect? is any northeast state thats expected to go blue end up going red?

jamiethekiller wrote:Its probably been talked about a little already. What is everyones opinion for the hurricane effect? is any northeast state thats expected to go blue end up going red?

CalvinBall wrote:

jamiethekiller wrote:Its probably been talked about a little already. What is everyones opinion for the hurricane effect? is any northeast state thats expected to go blue end up going red?

Think it's a positive for the president. Won't be much but anything is good at this point.

New Hampshire is a toss up. Republicans think they can win PA all of the sudden. Seems more of a last minute scramble to me.