obummer has it made. He just got endorsed by the Communist Party of the United States!!
KS
Since you brought it up KS I thought you'de get a chuckle from this pic.
The Commies have a new uniform!
But seriously:
Romney will have his work cut out for him to get elected in November.
The freeloaders hear Obama promising more free money by making the rich pay
more in taxes.
A small number of rich people pay low taxes but most already pay the full 35% federal rate plus their state taxes which tax capital gains at the full rate.
It's the middle class that needs to pay more in taxes too because there's not enough 1% rich people vs the 150 million middle classers to pay for the sadly pathetic welfare state.
There is no free lunch.
The middle class has to pony up the lion's share if the Bush tax cuts are revoked.
Taxing just the rich more won't do it.
At least Jon Lovitz got it right about this Obama sham appealing to the Duh! voters while he(Lovitz) pays a combined 50% tax rate being a 1%er in California.
It will be very close Communist Party notwithstanding
At least
Romney seems more normal and less despicable than the other frustrado Republican candidates attacking women and darkly thrusting themselves into (the none of their business) people's personal lives, vindictively and desperately (and futily) trying to reverse the personal and sexual revolution that was lost over 40 years ago with the arrival of the Pill and Roe v Wade, RU486, Methotrexate and Mifisterone and decriminalization of homosexuality.
And since he's a Mormon IMO he's less likely to be an ideologically subconsciously mean, self loathing, party pooping, misery spreading, religious hardliner reality denier like the rest of the Usual Suspects (Santorum, Bachmann, Gingrich el al) and may even enjoy having fun.
He even pointedly said he is not running for Pastor in Chief which bodes well for the future.
Hopefully if Romney wins the moral social conservatives will lose influence and go back into their closet to deal with their frustrations of living instead of taking it out on the innocent non self loathing population
Mitt Romney’s road to presidency this fall looks narrow on electoral map
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It’s no secret that
former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has a narrow path to win the presidency this fall. Nowhere is that reality more apparent than when examining the electoral map on which
Romney and
President Obama will battle in November.
A detailed analysis of Romney’s various paths to the 270 electoral votes he would need to claim the presidency suggests he has a ceiling of somewhere right around 290 electoral votes.
While Romney’s team would absolutely take a 290-electoral-vote victory, that means he has only 20 electoral votes to play with — a paper-thin margin for error.
Romney’s relatively low electoral-vote ceiling isn’t unique to him. No Republican presidential nominee has received more than 300 electoral votes in more than two decades. (Vice President George H.W. Bush won 426 electoral votes in his 1988 victory over Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.)
By contrast, Bill Clinton in 1992 (370 electoral votes) and 1996 (379) as well as Obama in 2008 (365) soared well beyond the 300-electoral-vote marker.
Much of that is attributable to the fact that Democrats have near-certain wins in population (and, therefore, electoral-vote) behemoths such as California (55 electoral voters), New York (29) and Illinois (20).
The only major electoral-vote treasure trove that is reliably Republican at the moment is Texas, with its 38 electoral votes. So while George W. Bush won 30 states in 2000 and 31 states in 2004, he never came close to cresting the 300-electoral-vote mark in either race.
Bush’s two successful races, and the map on which he built them, are quite instructive when trying to understand Romney’s narrow margin for error this fall.
In 2000, Bush won 271 electoral votes — one more than he needed to claim the presidency. In eking out that victory, Bush not only carried the South and Plains states with a near sweep but also claimed wins in swing states such as Nevada, Colorado, Missouri and the major electoral-vote prizes of Ohio and Florida.
If Romney was able to duplicate Bush’s 2000 map, he would take 285 electoral votes — thanks to redistricting gains over the past decade.
But to do so, Romney would need not only to win the five swing states mentioned above — with the exception of Missouri, all of them are considered tossups (at worst) for the president at the moment — but also hang on to states such as North Carolina and Virginia where Bush cruised 12 years ago. (Obama carried both states in 2008.)
In 2004, Bush won reelection with 286 electoral votes, losing New Hampshire from his 2000 map but adding wins in Iowa and New Mexico.
Under the 2012 map, Romney would win 292 electoral votes if he replicated the Bush 2004 victory. But New Mexico seems like a very tough place to win — not to mention the fact that he would again need to carry Ohio, Florida, Colorado and Nevada as well as North Carolina and Virginia.
Now, the good(ish) news for Romney is that if he has a low ceiling, he also has a relatively high floor.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) won 173 electoral votes in 2008. If Romney carried those same 22 states under the 2012 map, he would win 180 electoral votes.
Add Indiana, which McCain lost but which will almost certainly go for Romney in 2012, and the former Massachusetts governor’s electoral floor sits at 191.
Given the narrowness of his electoral map window, the key for Romney this fall is to win in places that Bush, McCain and other Republican nominees over the past two decades have struggled to make inroads. No Republican has carried Pennsylvania (20 electoral votes), Michigan (16) or Wisconsin (10) in any of the past five elections, for example.
Win even one of them and Romney has a bit more flexibility when it comes to getting to 270 — and beyond.
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