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		<title>By: Elwood</title>
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		<dc:creator>Elwood</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 19:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@ # 20

You&#039;re gonna love it!]]></description>
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<p>You&#8217;re gonna love it!</p>
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		<title>By: Elwood</title>
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		<dc:creator>Elwood</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 19:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@ # 19

Just more ad hominem
 
Same old same old.]]></description>
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<p>Just more ad hominem</p>
<p>Same old same old.</p>
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		<title>By: JohnW</title>
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		<dc:creator>JohnW</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m bracing for a Romney administration, supported by a GOP Senate and a Tea Party House.  Already went through one Romney administration, as a kid in Michigan.  But that was the good Romney, who built a real company, led the rewrite of the Michigan constitution before he ever ran for office and defied his fellow Mormon elders in supporting civil rights.

It&#039;ll be great.  Cut taxes 20%, boost Defense spending and balance the budget.  Now, that&#039;s a hat trick!  Also Romney promises 6% unemployment by the end of his first term.  Gutsy call, considering CBO projects we are currently tracking toward 5.3% by that time and the average monthly number of new jobs required to hit 6% is less than the monthly average the economy has been adding since the end of 2009.  Of course, Romney previously said Obama should have had it down to 4%.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m bracing for a Romney administration, supported by a GOP Senate and a Tea Party House.  Already went through one Romney administration, as a kid in Michigan.  But that was the good Romney, who built a real company, led the rewrite of the Michigan constitution before he ever ran for office and defied his fellow Mormon elders in supporting civil rights.</p>
<p>It&#8217;ll be great.  Cut taxes 20%, boost Defense spending and balance the budget.  Now, that&#8217;s a hat trick!  Also Romney promises 6% unemployment by the end of his first term.  Gutsy call, considering CBO projects we are currently tracking toward 5.3% by that time and the average monthly number of new jobs required to hit 6% is less than the monthly average the economy has been adding since the end of 2009.  Of course, Romney previously said Obama should have had it down to 4%.</p>
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		<title>By: Truthclubber</title>
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		<dc:creator>Truthclubber</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 05:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@17 --

Yo, Elwood!  I dug into the blog of that &quot;absolutely fabulous, aka Ab-Fab&quot; source you linked to (you know, &quot;The Skeptical Teacher&quot;) and I saw where he makes a complete mockery (well, more than that, but this IS a family hour blog) of people just like you who keep claiming that our current President is a Kenyan -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://skepticalteacher.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/addressing-birthers-turning-the-tables-and-outright-mockery/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;see for yourself!&lt;/a&gt;

Here&#039;s a direct quote:

&quot;...not only did the state of Hawaii address his [Bennetts&#039;s] concerns (by providing solid evidence, yet again, that proves Obama was born in the U.S.), but it did so by turning the tables on Bennett [the sitting Arizona Secretary of State] and his fellow birthers...&quot;

So, yo, yo, -- you gonna cite your source (this marvelous &quot;Skeptical Teacher&quot;) in one post as the authoritative absolute, and then denigrate and repudiate it in another post at the same time so you can continue to debase someone with darker skin than yours?

Let me know if I need to use smaller words, so you can keep up with me...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@17 &#8211;</p>
<p>Yo, Elwood!  I dug into the blog of that &#8220;absolutely fabulous, aka Ab-Fab&#8221; source you linked to (you know, &#8220;The Skeptical Teacher&#8221;) and I saw where he makes a complete mockery (well, more than that, but this IS a family hour blog) of people just like you who keep claiming that our current President is a Kenyan &#8212; <a href="http://skepticalteacher.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/addressing-birthers-turning-the-tables-and-outright-mockery/" rel="nofollow">see for yourself!</a></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a direct quote:</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230;not only did the state of Hawaii address his [Bennetts's] concerns (by providing solid evidence, yet again, that proves Obama was born in the U.S.), but it did so by turning the tables on Bennett [the sitting Arizona Secretary of State] and his fellow birthers&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>So, yo, yo, &#8212; you gonna cite your source (this marvelous &#8220;Skeptical Teacher&#8221;) in one post as the authoritative absolute, and then denigrate and repudiate it in another post at the same time so you can continue to debase someone with darker skin than yours?</p>
<p>Let me know if I need to use smaller words, so you can keep up with me&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Truthclubber</title>
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		<dc:creator>Truthclubber</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 04:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@17 --

I quote Bloomberg (he of the 3 term mayor of a slightly known city, New York, and the founder of a multi-billion dollar financial news organization), and someone who believes our current President is &quot;a Kenyan&quot; quotes &lt;a href=&quot;http://skepticalteacher.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/election-2012-and-a-reminder-that-pollsters-are-b-s/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this crapper of an obscure blog&lt;/a&gt; aka &quot;The Skeptical Teacher&quot; -- whoooooooooooooooooa!  I am sooooooooooo impressed by the depth and rigor of this display of intellect by the author as well as that of your esteemed sources -- NOT!

I suppose there are still people on this planet who believe that the world is flat because it sure looks that way from their front porch, and I suppose there are still people who believe that the moon landing in 1969 was fake because they couldn&#039;t see it from the 4x power telescope on their front porch -- but their numbers, like those who supported slavery, or supported a denial of women to vote, or supported the denial of the right of inter-racial couples to marry, or supported the denial of couples of the right to use bith control, are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/21/politics/gop-census-latino/index.html?iref=allsearch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dying off&lt;/a&gt;, and good riddance to them -- it&#039;s time to move on and move forward.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@17 &#8211;</p>
<p>I quote Bloomberg (he of the 3 term mayor of a slightly known city, New York, and the founder of a multi-billion dollar financial news organization), and someone who believes our current President is &#8220;a Kenyan&#8221; quotes <a href="http://skepticalteacher.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/election-2012-and-a-reminder-that-pollsters-are-b-s/" rel="nofollow">this crapper of an obscure blog</a> aka &#8220;The Skeptical Teacher&#8221; &#8212; whoooooooooooooooooa!  I am sooooooooooo impressed by the depth and rigor of this display of intellect by the author as well as that of your esteemed sources &#8212; NOT!</p>
<p>I suppose there are still people on this planet who believe that the world is flat because it sure looks that way from their front porch, and I suppose there are still people who believe that the moon landing in 1969 was fake because they couldn&#8217;t see it from the 4x power telescope on their front porch &#8212; but their numbers, like those who supported slavery, or supported a denial of women to vote, or supported the denial of the right of inter-racial couples to marry, or supported the denial of couples of the right to use bith control, are <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/21/politics/gop-census-latino/index.html?iref=allsearch" rel="nofollow">dying off</a>, and good riddance to them &#8212; it&#8217;s time to move on and move forward.</p>
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		<title>By: Elwood</title>
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		<dc:creator>Elwood</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 02:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;national polls do not have predictive power at this point in the cycle.&quot;

http://tinyurl.com/cna9bba]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;national polls do not have predictive power at this point in the cycle.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/cna9bba" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/cna9bba</a></p>
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		<title>By: Truthclubber</title>
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		<dc:creator>Truthclubber</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 02:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update to @15 --

It&#039;s not just &quot;me&quot; that &quot;thinks&quot; this way, there are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-23/obama-prospects-improve-as-swing-state-economies-improve.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;some other people&lt;/a&gt;, like Moody&#039;s, for example:

&lt;i&gt;Local economies are “important,” said Xu Cheng, a senior economist at Moody’s Analytics. A model that Moody’s developed based solely on state-by-state economic data and past voting behavior forecast the outcome in 2008, he said. 

A projection Moody’s made May 21 based on the model predicts &lt;b&gt;an Obama victory with 303 electoral voters&lt;/b&gt;, with the Democrat carrying Ohio and Virginia and the Republican winning Florida. The economic data for the remainder of the year comes from Moody’s state-by-state forecasts.&lt;/i&gt;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Update to @15 &#8211;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not just &#8220;me&#8221; that &#8220;thinks&#8221; this way, there are <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-23/obama-prospects-improve-as-swing-state-economies-improve.html" rel="nofollow">some other people</a>, like Moody&#8217;s, for example:</p>
<p><i>Local economies are “important,” said Xu Cheng, a senior economist at Moody’s Analytics. A model that Moody’s developed based solely on state-by-state economic data and past voting behavior forecast the outcome in 2008, he said. </p>
<p>A projection Moody’s made May 21 based on the model predicts <b>an Obama victory with 303 electoral voters</b>, with the Democrat carrying Ohio and Virginia and the Republican winning Florida. The economic data for the remainder of the year comes from Moody’s state-by-state forecasts.</i></p>
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		<title>By: Truthclubber</title>
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		<dc:creator>Truthclubber</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 21:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@14 --

Way too early for some people, perhaps, but not moi -- I called Clinton over Bush the elder back in the fall of 1991, and won a VERY nice dinner for that.  I called Obama over McCain back in January of 2008, and even called Biden as his running mate back in May of that same year - and won quite a bit o&#039; coin over those.

1)  A European meltdown would be unlikely to happen on Merkel&#039;s watch, and would also generate a strong dollar, very low interest rates here in the US, and very low gas prices -- all of which help the American consumer which is 2/3 of the economy, last time I checked.  You forgot the Chinese bubble in real estate that some of us are watching unfold in real time, and that will further strengthen the dollar as the yuan depreciates and cheap Wal-Mart crap gets even cheaper for middle class consumers.

2)  The GOP is going after the &quot;Cheney sez deficits don&#039;t matter&quot; debt issue ONLY because they have already realized that going after Obama on jobs is NOT working, polling-wise -- and using the issue of &quot;debt&quot; can quickly backfire into reminding voters just how much &quot;debt&quot; Bush Jr. saddled us with under two unfunded wars, Medicare Part D, and his wonderful &quot;trickle down (our legs)&quot; tax cuts, as well as the &quot;debt&quot; Romney and Bain saddled companies with, before it sucked the profit out of them and left them for dead -- I would NOT go there if I were Mittens, no sirree, Bob!

3)  As for RealClearPolitics, I use them especially because they are biased toward the Fox side of the Fox/MSNBC spectrum, so I get as conservative a picture as I can -- and let&#039;s see what they currently (5/23/12) show in the only polls that matter here; the &quot;battleground states&quot; polling, thanks to the &quot;Frankenstein&quot; beast that is the electoral college:

AZ: Romney by 4.0%
CO: Obama by 6.5%
FL: Romney by 1.4%
IA: Obama by 4.0%
MI: Obama by 5.3%
MO: Romney by 3.0%
NH: Obama by 6.4%
NC: Romney by 2.7%
OH: Obama by 4.6%
VA: Obama by 3.2%
WI: Obama by 1.6%
PA:  Was a &quot;battleground state&quot;, but has now swung into the &quot;leans Obama&quot; category -- whoops!
NV:  Same as PA -- double whoops!

Plugging that into the map, I get Obama 303, Romney 235, and that&#039;s using polling that shows Romney&#039;s average lead per &quot;battleground state&quot; of 2.76% vs. &quot;the Kenyan&#039;s&quot; average lead per &quot;battleground state&quot; of 4.51% -- so ol&#039; Mittie&#039;s got a LOT of table to run, methinks!

Extra Credit)  If Mittens is such a great candidate for the highest governance office in the country, why is he NOT touting his record in Massachusetts as a one-term Governor?  Answer that, GOPers...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@14 &#8211;</p>
<p>Way too early for some people, perhaps, but not moi &#8212; I called Clinton over Bush the elder back in the fall of 1991, and won a VERY nice dinner for that.  I called Obama over McCain back in January of 2008, and even called Biden as his running mate back in May of that same year &#8211; and won quite a bit o&#8217; coin over those.</p>
<p>1)  A European meltdown would be unlikely to happen on Merkel&#8217;s watch, and would also generate a strong dollar, very low interest rates here in the US, and very low gas prices &#8212; all of which help the American consumer which is 2/3 of the economy, last time I checked.  You forgot the Chinese bubble in real estate that some of us are watching unfold in real time, and that will further strengthen the dollar as the yuan depreciates and cheap Wal-Mart crap gets even cheaper for middle class consumers.</p>
<p>2)  The GOP is going after the &#8220;Cheney sez deficits don&#8217;t matter&#8221; debt issue ONLY because they have already realized that going after Obama on jobs is NOT working, polling-wise &#8212; and using the issue of &#8220;debt&#8221; can quickly backfire into reminding voters just how much &#8220;debt&#8221; Bush Jr. saddled us with under two unfunded wars, Medicare Part D, and his wonderful &#8220;trickle down (our legs)&#8221; tax cuts, as well as the &#8220;debt&#8221; Romney and Bain saddled companies with, before it sucked the profit out of them and left them for dead &#8212; I would NOT go there if I were Mittens, no sirree, Bob!</p>
<p>3)  As for RealClearPolitics, I use them especially because they are biased toward the Fox side of the Fox/MSNBC spectrum, so I get as conservative a picture as I can &#8212; and let&#8217;s see what they currently (5/23/12) show in the only polls that matter here; the &#8220;battleground states&#8221; polling, thanks to the &#8220;Frankenstein&#8221; beast that is the electoral college:</p>
<p>AZ: Romney by 4.0%<br />
CO: Obama by 6.5%<br />
FL: Romney by 1.4%<br />
IA: Obama by 4.0%<br />
MI: Obama by 5.3%<br />
MO: Romney by 3.0%<br />
NH: Obama by 6.4%<br />
NC: Romney by 2.7%<br />
OH: Obama by 4.6%<br />
VA: Obama by 3.2%<br />
WI: Obama by 1.6%<br />
PA:  Was a &#8220;battleground state&#8221;, but has now swung into the &#8220;leans Obama&#8221; category &#8212; whoops!<br />
NV:  Same as PA &#8212; double whoops!</p>
<p>Plugging that into the map, I get Obama 303, Romney 235, and that&#8217;s using polling that shows Romney&#8217;s average lead per &#8220;battleground state&#8221; of 2.76% vs. &#8220;the Kenyan&#8217;s&#8221; average lead per &#8220;battleground state&#8221; of 4.51% &#8212; so ol&#8217; Mittie&#8217;s got a LOT of table to run, methinks!</p>
<p>Extra Credit)  If Mittens is such a great candidate for the highest governance office in the country, why is he NOT touting his record in Massachusetts as a one-term Governor?  Answer that, GOPers&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: JohnW</title>
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		<dc:creator>JohnW</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 04:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not that it&#039;s relevant to the matter of the stupid Safeway legal counsel, but methinks that reading of the RealClearPolitics electoral map is wishful thinking.  Obama has significantly more electoral votes in the &quot;safe&quot; or &quot;leaning&quot; columns, but Romney could run the table on the toss-up states and deny Obama the 270 he needs. Especially if the economy is dragged down by Europe or by Republicans freaking everybody out again over the debt ceiling.  It&#039;s way too early for predictions.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not that it&#8217;s relevant to the matter of the stupid Safeway legal counsel, but methinks that reading of the RealClearPolitics electoral map is wishful thinking.  Obama has significantly more electoral votes in the &#8220;safe&#8221; or &#8220;leaning&#8221; columns, but Romney could run the table on the toss-up states and deny Obama the 270 he needs. Especially if the economy is dragged down by Europe or by Republicans freaking everybody out again over the debt ceiling.  It&#8217;s way too early for predictions.</p>
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		<title>By: Truthclubber</title>
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		<dc:creator>Truthclubber</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 03:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m so glad Elwood doesn&#039;t live in my congressional district -- living in the same state is heartburn enough.

According to RealClearPolitics.com&#039;s latest polling and electoral map, we have Obama at 322 EVs vs Romney at 206; to compare and contrast, we had Obama at 359 EVs vs McCain at 179 -- so it looks likely that we will have a &quot;Kenyan&quot; in the White House for another four years.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m so glad Elwood doesn&#8217;t live in my congressional district &#8212; living in the same state is heartburn enough.</p>
<p>According to RealClearPolitics.com&#8217;s latest polling and electoral map, we have Obama at 322 EVs vs Romney at 206; to compare and contrast, we had Obama at 359 EVs vs McCain at 179 &#8212; so it looks likely that we will have a &#8220;Kenyan&#8221; in the White House for another four years.</p>
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