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Ryan may "defeat" Biden in a debate, but you guys are still dead wrong about an Obama-Romney debate. Easy "win" for Obama there.

The bar I was at last night will basically let you stay there until after 6 in the morning. I love it there. They turn off most of the lights, and lock the doors. People can smoke in there and everything.

Just got on to PPP now. Sorry, I was out drinking last night and woke up at 5pm today! Lol. Agreed. ROE and ROI are pretty important IMO. I still think that measuring aggregate investment is a very good measuring stick to start with. As pointed out, there are unique qualities to each recession so some numbers can be misleading. Maybe I'll try to do some more research on this and look for other data to see the effects of the "over-regulation" of this administration.

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Wooo! I get a shout out! I guess I will attempt a serious response before being called stupid, clueless, and whatever other insults you guys prefer. In order to make a choice for President, a comparison between both candidates must be done. Although I disagree with Obama on various issues like some tax policy, foreign policy, and lack of leadership, I believe he has done enough to get my vote...again. I do not believe Mitt Romney has the right plan for the future either. Here are some my main points. 1. Obamacare. I like most of it. I am in favor of a complete single payer but I knew that was never happening. It does some good things and we will all get used to it. Repealing it is the worst possible thing at this point. It actually wouldn't even be possible until at least 2014 anyways when most of it is implemented by then. Politicians talking about repealing Obamacare is just politics and a waste of time. Republicans talk about what they want to replace it. They speak of provisions that are already in the bill! Why not work to add some things to it? 2. Economic Policy. I don't agree fully with either candidate. However, I think Romney's plan is much more harmful to the economy. Slashing taxes even more is outrageous. Why do we need rates to drop to 28%? Revenues will fall dramatically with his plan. We do no need that all at this time. Cutting too much spending too quickly could also hurt the economy quite a bit. I actually trust Romney more than most other Republicans on this front though and hope that he will rethink some of his proposals. With Obama, I think some of his budget proposals when it comes to taxes is also all wrong. The capital gains tax is going to be brutal in 2013. I am fine with going up to around 20% when the economy is stronger, but not this year or the next. Income inequality is a HUGE problem and this does address it a little, but not now. I am fine with the estate tax proposal for the most part. 3. Foreign policy is a push because I am pretty much in the Ron Paul camp when it comes down to it. No Presidential candidate is close to that. 4. Social Issues. I know most you probably think it's dumb to vote on certain social issues. But, they do matter. I would never vote based on them alone, but they go into the complete package. Things like defunding Planned Parenthood, very strong talk against immigrants, refusing to take a stances on the Fair Pay act, etc. I usually always agree with the Democrat in these areas so this isn't a huge deal. 5. Romney VP pick. Now that Paul Ryan has been selected, that is the nail in the coffin for me. (I'm still wondering if it was great pick by Romney politically, or one that destroy his chances)

Only correct answer here.

IS that article serious? Lol. I guess I don't have to worry since I live in the city...

Who are you? I don't think they were generalizing it to that point at all. What types of data/numbers should we look at to see the impact of regulation in your opinion. Investment by businesses should definitely be a factor.

Seems like PPP is stumped. Three replies? It sucks when data doesn't back up your main claim.

Fixed for you.

Yeah, because the President writes the source code for his website. Wow.

I agree with most of what you said. However, Mitt Romney still has to make the case that he is going to do a better job than the current President. And I don't think he has even come close to making that case. He is not specific at all on what exactly he will do to get the economy jumpstarted again. James Carville has said that the candidate who starts to talk about the future and a vision for the country will win this election. The President has started this process with his ad released a couple weeks ago. Mitt has to do the same. Maybe when he selects a VP, he will go this route because he isn't out of this thing yet.

You Romney backers are delusional. The Romney campaign and Mitt himself have been BRUTAL over the summer. This is a debate over policy, it's about politics and Romney is no good at it. It seems like Mitt is taking punch after punch without ever returning fire. He's need a very strong finish to win this thing.

I actually went to high school with this guy's wife. He is like 24 years old and he now lives in Delaware. He has no connections and this write-up is pretty much baloney. Lol.

Nice read - http://www.epi.org/b...s-belie-claims/ Excerpt: Click the link at the top so you can get the full write-up with a fancy graph included. If regulation is so overbearing on businesses, why are they investing more in this recovery compared to the past? The article also goes on to talk about the growth of the private sector in this recovery and how it is very comparable or even better than the numbers from the early 90's and 2000's. The difference of course is the shrinking of the public sector.

I see people work everyday for their benefits at my place of employment...

I just did this recently so I'm going to redo it. My results were something like Economic: -4.0, Libertarian -4.5

Look at Federal tax revenues and get back to us.

Pretty much a lie.

Here is a link to his explanation of "house effects" of polling firms. Lays out how each polling agency leans. http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/calculating-house-effects-of-polling-firms/

538 does this...

This article blows. Run the simulation on 270toWin or look at 538's model. Obama wins fairly easily. The swing state polls out this morning also look very bad for Romney.

One poll by Rasmussen in July. Not a big deal.

No, it was a winning message.

On one hand, Romney needs to be more specific and promote HIMSELF. But, elections are mostly popularity contests where the best message and/or slogan win.