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Speaking of bakeries and math...
A nice explanation of the Health Insurance Tax (HIT) that will be implemented, as part of Obamacare, in 2014.
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Speaking of bakeries and math...
A nice explanation of the Health Insurance Tax (HIT) that will be implemented, as part of Obamacare, in 2014.
Speaking of important centered youtubes...
right, Yoni PROVING the Dems are anti-small-business by Fox Repug Propaganda quote-twisting.
deNIGRAting? Go Yoni!
It's Gecko/Repugs who want to kill wind/solar tax incentives (mostly small businesses as installars/maintainers). eg, windy Iowa's Repug gov said Gecko stabs him in the back with Gecko's killing tax breaks.
Just use the swingometer
http://unlikelyvoter.com/swingometer...e-swingometer/
Tactics.
They are seeing now, what is effective and what isn't. Next month, they will stop using the tactics that aren't working and focus on the tactics that work. Most the people who pay little attention to politics will forget the things said months past by election day.
I didn't know there was a concept to explain what we're witnessing...three and counting
"Preference Cascade"
How does this relate to the Obama regime?Such regimes have little legitimacy, but they spend a lot of effort making sure that citizens don’t realize the extent to which their fellow-citizens dislike the regime. If the secret police and the censors are doing their job, 99% of the populace can hate the regime and be ready to revolt against it – but no revolt will occur because no one realizes that everyone else feels the same way.
This works until something breaks the spell, and the discontented realize that their feelings are widely shared, at which point the collapse of the regime may seem very sudden to outside observers – or even to the citizens themselves. Claims after the fact that many people who seemed like loyal apparatchiks really loathed the regime are often self-serving, of course. But they’re also often true: Even if one loathes the regime, few people have the force of will to stage one-man revolutions, and when preferences are sufficiently falsified, each dissident may feel that he or she is the only one, or at least part of a minority too small to make any difference.
Well, over the past couple of months, people have discovered, it's okay to strongly disapprove of Barack Obama.
And, the media is beginning to catch the wave...His popularity has always been buttressed by the conviction – very aggressively pushed by his supporters – that disapproval of his personal or official conduct is immoral. You’re presumptively “racist” if you disagree with him, or at least a greedy tool of the Evil Rich, or a “Tea Party extremist.”
A negative mirror image of this narrative was installed around Mitt Romney, who is supposedly a fat-cat extremist (and, thanks to the insidious War On Mormons, a religious nut) who nobody likes… even though large numbers of people in many different states voted for him in the primaries. Of course he has his critics, and I’m not seeking to dismiss the intensity or sincerity of that criticism… but the idea was to make Romney supporters feel isolated going into the general election, particularly the people who don’t really get involved in primary elections.
Both of those convergent narratives began crumbling this week: Obama is deeply vulnerable, and his campaign has no real answer to criticism of his record – they’ve even tried floating an outright fraud, the now-infamous Rex Nutting charts that presented Obama as some kind of fiscal hawk. (Stop laughing – major media figures took this garbage seriously for a couple of days, and Team Obama did push it.) Major Democrats, beginning with Newark mayor Cory Booker, expressed criticism of the Obama campaign… and the Left reacted with shrieking hysteria and vows of personal destruction for the “traitors.”
Meanwhile, Mitt Romney effectively presented both substantive criticism of Obama, and a positive agenda. Attacks on his business record that were supposed to destroy him through class-warfare tactics failed to draw blood. The idea that he can win became widely accepted. That doesn’t mean he won the 2012 argument… but unlike Barack Obama, he is offering one.
It happened fast, as preference cascades always do.
Faster please.It’s best not to extrapolate too much from a few examples, but it’s fair to say that Washington insiders are reading the tea leaves and increasingly preparing for a Romney victory — especially following Friday’s bad economic news. The danger for Obama is that in political campaigns perception can quickly become reality. If influential liberals such as Dowd suddenly have no problem saying Obama appears to be in over his head, pretty soon everyone will be pointing out the obvious. Thus far, Obama’s meteoric rise has been largely dependent on a press that went straight from beat sweeteners to beatification. If the press turns on the president, the Obama campaign may not know what to do.
Panic?
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
DC conservatives, sucking up to the fraud Ryan as some kind of economic guru, and Gecko's transition team are counting on a Gecko win, but they need a LOT MORE electoral votes.
“Gallup’s daily tracking poll shows the number of undecided voters hovering between 6 percent and 8 percent —compared with 11 percent at this point in 2008. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll put the percentage of undecided voters at 3 percent, down from 12 percent in late July 2008. A Pew survey found 5 percent didn’t know who they’d vote for, half of the number at this point in 2008.”
http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2012/08...-disappearing/
that means the $B the 1% is gonna spend on Gecko/Ryan has the extremely difficult job of getting the tiny undecided remaining, and much worse, getting enough of the Obama majority to switch to Gecko/Ryan.
Yoni, you're F U C K E D !
P A N I C much ?
Why Romney's Panicked Campaign May Pander Even Harder to the Far Right
Mitt Romney, a corporate takeover executive in the private sector, is now in full political makeover mode as he campaigns for president, starting with his attention-deflecting choice of radical U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate.
Washington insiders recognize the symptoms of a panicked campaign and see that the attempted makeover is not complete—and won’t be until the Republican National Convention adjourns and the fall campaign begins. And so we are seeing seemingly bizarre musings from known GOP ideologues trying to fill in Romney’s blank pages.
Fast-forward to today, when the Romney campaign emerged weakened from a bruising primary, where right-wingers correctly knew that his record as Massachusetts governor was even more liberal than anyone in the GOP establishment wanted to admit—pro-choice, anti-guns, pro-gay, raising taxes, and more, according to McCain’s research [5].
Romney, the corporate takeover executive, was smart enough to know that his campaign needed a makeover. Enter Ryan as the vice-presidential choice. But the GOP’s vacuous and detail-averse nominee also telegraphed to insiders that his campaign wasn’t just troubled, but susceptible to pressure and lobbying.
Thus, within 48 hours of naming Ryan, one of DC’s most opportunistic Republicans smelled blood and made a calculated move to push Romney toward a more isolationist foreign policy by breaking from the GOP orthodoxy of never cutting the defense budget.
But will Romney’s need for a makeover lead to a full-blown takeover by arch right-wingers, such as Norquist? Such behavior, though it seems like political inside ball, is even more reason to keep this contingent of Republicans away from any lever of power.
http://www.alternet.org/print/why-ro...rder-far-right
yes, Gecko, and his PAC of Swift Boaters, will run a very different, extremely nasty campaign after the convention. It will make his whine to Obama to raise the level of the campaign as slimey and dishonest as his tax evasions, residency shenaigans, sicko secretiveness, and predatory capitalism.
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