it's over.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

obama wins.

the senate is looking a lot more secure for democrats. the house is still unlikely to flip but is more in play than it was 3 weeks ago.

i'm surprised that romney's campaign was so unprepared to answer the obvious attack that he was a heartless plutocrat. it's like they saw the punch coming so threw their jaw at it. they keep doubling down on positions that alienate yet another segment of the voting population.

demographics will beat economics this election. and i wonder about the long term viability of a party that now seems more interested in being an insurgency as opposed to a governing coalition.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/spitzer/2...e_senate_.html

Nobody in the media wants to say it—because we have too much fun calling the play-by-play—but the presidential race is over. After more than a year of watching Mitt Romney, very few undecided voters remain. Despite the significant dissatisfaction with where we are and where we are heading, Romney simply cannot sell the public that he is the guy to move us forward. His missteps and awkward moments are too many to catalog here, but suffice to say that an empty vessel cannot be elected president of the United States.



and you're spot on about the republican party. they had four years to get a viable slate of people to run for the nominee...

and they gave us newt gingrich and michelle bachman, and a retread from four years ago who managed to win the nomination-and he's awful, just awful.

they have managed to shift further and further to the right, and now they're about to fall off the edge.

[rpncaine]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

obama wins.

the senate is looking a lot more secure for democrats. the house is still unlikely to flip but is more in play than it was 3 weeks ago.

i'm surprised that romney's campaign was so unprepared to answer the obvious attack that he was a heartless plutocrat. it's like they saw the punch coming so threw their jaw at it. they keep doubling down on positions that alienate yet another segment of the voting population.

demographics will beat economics this election. and i wonder about the long term viability of a party that now seems more interested in being an insurgency as opposed to a governing coalition.

Someone or some faction of this party needs to step up and take this party back or there will be years of Democrat control. The demographics are just not there and its not gonna get any better.

[Danzig]

http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d28...27cf0906225ed7

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney has given Democrats plenty of support for their claim he manipulated his deductions to keep his overall 2011 federal income tax rate above a certain threshold for political purposes.

The Republican presidential nominee, whose wealth is estimated as high as $250 million, seems hemmed in by a comment to reporters in August that he had never paid less than 13 percent in taxes in any single year over the past 10. Had he taken the full charitable deduction last year, it would have pushed his tax liability below 13 percent.

The former Massachusetts governor and his wife, Ann, could have claimed more in deductions, the trustee of Romney's blind trust said when the candidate's 2011 tax returns were released.
But, Brad Malt acknowledged, the couple "limited their deductions of charitable contributions to conform to the governor's statement in August, based on the January estimate of income, that he paid at least 13 percent in income taxes in each of the last 10 years."

Romney probably also will be reminded by the Democrats by something else he said in August. Defending his right to pay no more taxes than he owed, he said, "I don't pay more than are legally due, and frankly if I had paid more than are legally due I don't think I'd be qualified to become president."



nothing worse than your own words coming back to haunt you.

[Riot]

Don't worry, Danzig. Romney will file an amended tax return November 7, and claim those deductions to get his excessively-paid-to-the-IRS-so-he's-not-clearly-a-liar-about-his-tax-rate money back.