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It might be but it will also underscore policy differences. Obama has lowered taxes on the middle-class and wants to raise them on higher income Americans; keep Social Security and Medicare as the programs they are currently.
(1) Obama passed a regressive tax on low and middle-income Americans.
(2) Raising taxes on higher income Americans plays well but does nothing for the debt/deficit/entitlement crisis.
(3) Keeping SS and Medicare the way they are currently means letting them go bankrupt/insolvent/unprotected in the next decade or so (Medicare anyways - Social Security is less certain what will happen with that).
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Romney's plan is to lower taxes on the high earners; raise them on the middle-class;
Not true. The income tax rate falls for all Americans. Tax exemptions and 'loopholes' will be closed, which increases revenue. Now, you can argue that middle class Americans will lose some of those exemptions - that's true. But both plans - lower the rate and remove loopholes - are being applied. Plus, who is the one that signed into law the renewal of the Bush tax cuts in 2010?
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cut programs for the poor;
Name one program for the poor that Romney wants to eliminate.
It might be but it will also underscore policy differences. Obama has lowered taxes on the middle-class and wants to raise them on higher income Americans; keep Social Security and Medicare as the programs they are currently.
Romney's plan is to lower taxes on the high earners; raise them on the middle-class; cut programs for the poor; increase defense spending and privatize Medicare -- all while not increasing the deficit -- which has been calculated as mathematically impossible. Oh, I forgot, Romney will give everyone a pony.
Obama just ushered in the largest tax increase in US history and robbed medicare of $750 billion. And you think that is a good thing?
Again- this election is about the economy and Obama has already lost.
As for the $750 billion, it's $716 billion, and that "robbed" is a reduction by eliminating the boondoggle Medicare Advantage. Oh, this is the same $716 billion that Romney and Ryan take in their plans. So, if Obama is robbing Medicare, so is R&R.
Obama will CRUSH Romney!! Sorry neocons and hateful racists, the Republicans picked yet another stinker. Deep down you all know it. Although in Mitts defense, his competition for the nomination was beyond laughable. Still, Romney will never be president.
That aside, this polling stuff is mostly nonsense. I've never been polled. My friends have never been polled. We've been voting for decades. We are all voting for Obama in November.
That would only be 2 votes then.....
Obama is a joke..... so is Romney
VOTE 3RD PARTY...... NEVER HAVE WE NEEDED IT MORE DESPERATELY!!!
Time is running out (early voting has ALREADY started). If Romney is going to make his move he needs to do it NOW, instead Obamas' lead in nearly ALL of the swing states is GROWING (and he only needs to win a couple of them to be re-elected). All in all it's looking increasingly good for Obama and increasingly bad for Romney
Even those big projected GOP Senate gains look like they may be evaporating:
new polls just came out which shows that Romney didn't get a bump out of his convention. Obama leads in almost all the battleground states. The only battleground state Romney leads in is North Carolina.
Great news for this country. Pubs, get those sour grapes ready.
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Excellent news!
