The latest video in our "Campaign Calculus" series reflects Nate Silver's daily election predictions before and after the first pivotal debate.
In the early part of the week, we saw Mitt Romney trailing in the polls of every battleground state. Republicans from Rush Limbaugh to Charles Krauthammer clamored for Romney to be more aggressive, to go large. Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan also grabbed headlines for brushing off a question about the arithmetic in Romney's tax plan.
"Well, I don't have the time," Ryan said. "It would take me too long to through all of the math."
At the first debate, Romney answered the conservative pundits' call for aggressiveness by prosecuting President Obama on a slow economic recovery. When prompted to explain his own plan, like how he would pay for a $5 trillion tax cut, Romney replied that his plan did not call for such a cut.
"We've been asking for months, how is Mitt Romney going to explain the deduction side of his $5 trillion tax cut," commented MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell. "Who among us anticipated that Mitt Romney's answer would be, 'There is no $5 million tax cut'?"
On the day after the debate, President Obama took to the stump to address this contradiction in Romney's rhetoric.
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Guess you missed the recent statement by Harvey Russo, the Harvard Economist that the Obama Campaign and their loving supporters in the liberal media have been touting endlessly that $5 trillion cut in revenues, most to the rich nonsense. Russo now corrects that saying his studies had been misrepresented, and that such tax reform to get to TAX REVENUE NEUTRALITY as Romney states his TAX RATES CUTS across the board coupled with reduction or removal of tax deductions or credits, mostly for the rich, is accomplish-able without a raising of taxes paid by the working and Middle Class, as is the new untruth told by the Obama Campaign and its ignorant supporters in the liberal media.
So who exactly are the liars here?
Given your less-than-exemplary track record on the Last Word blogs...you. Probably why I equate your antics with those of Mitt...that birds of a feather thing...
Seems a couple of pretty powerful search engines can't find any "Harvey Russo, Harvard economist".
I have to wonder...do you and the truth ever meet, Keith? Your own "opinions", that's fine. Your own "facts", no. And the former will never suffice to take the place of the latter.
But you know the recourse you always have when you're suspected of lying...cite an unbiased factual source to support your claim.
If you don't, well then, there's the answer...once again.
Well,as usual you are only half assed right. My failing hearing did me in, and it was not Harvey Russo, but the Princeton economist Hsrvey Rossen that realeased that statement saying that the Obama campaign misprepresented his analysis of the Romney Tax Reform Plan...try that in "your two powerful search engines", fool! As usual, you are too quick with your charge of liar, liar, pants on fire, you juvenile lightweight, Eyes Wide Shut!
Tsk, tsk, tsk...I really don't think it's only your hearing that's failing. But given your track record with making things up and otherwise lying when it suits you, it was no surprise when multiple searches for "Harvey Russo" turned up empty. A little proof-reading, if that isn't too hard a task for such a self-described "learned man" would be of immense benefit to you. Even a grammar-proficient 4th grader can do it, but a guy with self-professed "multiple degrees" can't seem to figure out how.
Perhaps you should have read up on the subject instead of just listening to a cherry-picked Fox news right-wing story. If you had, you might have tripped over the following that was included in the story:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/08/harvey-rosen-obama-campaign_n_1948615.html
Let's see...it didn't work for Reagan and it didn't work for Bush 2, but the same tactics will work for Romney, if he gets the chance to implement them. Mitt's plan is all based on an assumed bump in economic growth, but that "trickle-down economics theory" of the right has never worked.
The original analysis of Mitt's tax plan came from the Tax Policy Center, not the Obama staff. Had you actually delved into it, you probably would have learned that, not that it would have made any difference to you.