With just 28 days to go until the election, the latest Gallup tracking poll shows Mitt Romney's post-debate bounce ebbing. President Obama is back with a three-point lead among registered voters. Will this stop Obama supporters from freaking out? At 10 pm ET, we'll discuss why they should back away from the ledge. Here are the stories shaping tonight's rundown:
- President Obama encourages supporters to be 'obsessive'
- Mitt Romney defends tax math in Iowa
- Romney declines Nickelodeon's invitation for 'Kids Pick the President' special
- Nate Silver: A great poll for Romney, in perspective
- Sen. Chuck Schumer tells Dems to grow a spine in tax negotiations with GOP
- Why Obama supporters should not freak out
- EJ Dionne on conservatives, liberals and polls
- Arkansas rep: 'If Slavery were so god-awful why didn't Jesus or Paul condemn It?’
- Sesame Street asks Team Obama to pull ad
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Whistling past the graveyard, O'Donnell? Seems that is appropriate with Halloween coming at the end of the month, no?
Guess you don't think it significant to show the spread of enthusiasm of the registered voters nationally, with the registered Democrats coming in some 20 points short with 73% only compared to the fired up Republicans responding, and the registered and likely Republican voters in swing state after swing state far more enthusiastic to get out to vote than are the registered Democrats after the first debate. Sorry you are missing out on your old tactic of filtering out Romney's message as before he had the chance to speak directly to 70 million debate viewers. Sorry the Obama campaign and the liberal media's caricature of Mitt Romney wasn't the candidate of the Republican Party that showed up to be mocked, but the real deal, who beat the pants off your guy Wednesday night!
Guess you missed the recent statement of Harvey Russo, the Harvard Economist whose analysis of Romney's Tax Reform Plan was, as he stated, misrepresented by the Obama campaign and therefore, the echo chamber of the liberal media. Seems he corrected the record by stating that there is no reason to believe Romney's Tax Reform package of cuts in Tax Rates balanced by lessening or removal of tax deductions and credits, mostly for the well off tax payers, does not mean that working class and middle class tax payers will pay higher taxes, as is the current lie being postulated by the Obama campaign and its surrogates, which you are one of, O'Donnell. Time to let the truth shine in, fool!
Sorry, that latter point was misstated. That was Princton economist Harvey Rossen that the Obama campaign misrepresented on the Romney Tax Reform plan, not a Harvey Russo.
The numbers for Republicans "fired up" is 77%, compared with that 73%, and Democrats outnumber Repugs by a fair margin.
Now one of those advanced math problems for Fuzzy (call it his karma for borrowing yet another metaphor I've popularized here; be nice if he'd try some originality at some point):
If the Romney/Ryan plan is "revenue neutral," how does his group plan to address the deficit you folks are always hollering about?
My guess is they'll adopt the same tactics the Cheney administration did in regard to Osama Bin Laden... Lots of rhetoric, but no action.
And Grandpa, no less than the NY Times and Andrea Mitchell have identified how the Romney/Ryan plan will add 4.8 trillion to that deficit.
Romney's whole plan is predicated on the right-wings' undying faith in "trickle-down" economics...you know, that conservative theory that has never worked.
Tax cuts under Reagan and Bush 2 actually did nothing to stimulate economic growth.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/08/harvey-rosen-obama-campaign_n_1948615.html
The original analysis of Romney's "plan" came from the Tax Policy Center who estimated that Mitt's folly would cost $360B it's first year with a decade total of a mite less than $5T. But Mitt won't detail exactly HOW he'd pay for it. He's stated that he won't cut taxes on the highest wage earners, so it isn't hard to figure out who's left.
Attacking the deficit come from cutting unneccesary spending, growing the econmy to produce a wider tax base, and being diligent in working forward to a balanced budget. Thats pretty obvious....but you fools are so lost in the mumbo jumbo of Washington DC accounting gimmicks that you still believe you can improve services to seniors under Medicare by making abritrary cuts to providers of services in the amount of $716 billion over 10 years, and then take that money to apply to the (Un)affordabile Care Act bills. Get real!
Perhaps you'd have some credibility (assuming you can stay on topic) if you could cite a single supported example of how those Republican-led tax cuts for the wealthy from the era of Reagan to Bush 2 triggered any substantive economic growth...in THIS country.
I think I'll take the word of the Tax Policy Center over someone who only "synthesizes" the news he hears.
What's that smell? Oh...just another Keith Longey straw man going up in flames.
Ho-hum...
Let's ask Romney would he release his taxes if were to win. America deserves better
Sorry Lawrence I am freaking out. All of the simple opportuntities and he did not take them. I stand behind the President 1000% but what happened?????????? It seems Romney will say anything on the spur of the moment and my position is whenever he says something different here is the President Obama "Reagan moment" (since people are always quoting and praising Reagan) "THERE YOU GO AGAIN". Let me see last year you said this, 2 weeks ago you said something different and now you are saying something different from you previous positions. How many more positions do you have Mr. Romney and then the President can state and explain his 1 ongoing position. He is even now using the dead Navy Seal who he did NOT remember until the sister called to further his bid. HE DOES NOT REMEMBER THE MAN PLAIN AND SIMPLE. Although the sister gave the OK he should have had some pride about himself and not use the Navy Seal story. Here is another version of the SOLD MAN.
Romney paid a lot more homage to that fallen warrior than did Obama with his "simply Bumps in the Road" statement on the killings in Libya, and the rash of protestations at our embassies, before rushing off to another fund raising event while our dead were still yet to be burried Gladys. Get a life!
Keith I guess both of us need to get a life. No he did not. He did not pay homage to the man until the man's sister contacted him and made him remember the Navy Seal. How's that for paying homage. And in the beginning he was too much into being political by putting out wrong information. Obviously you heard Romney express sympathy when this tragedy first happened but I only heard him when the bodies came back to the United States and now the man is his best friend and he did not even remember his best friend. You are right Keith Get a life.