Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "I don't think Josh is interested in watching, reading or considering anything at all negative about Romney. He's tuned out to all of that at this point." Yup. Nothing else matters. It's simply because he's Mormon. Period. End of story.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder What just floors me is touting ANYTHING Glenn Beck says to prove your point. Talk about tone deaf.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>Tone deaf describes 98% of the posters in WE.<< That's not an answer to the questions I listed.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox Josh is too vested in his religious fanaticism to risk self-exploration by answering your questions, ecdc. He desperately wants a Mormon in the White House to further validate his acceptance of LDS as the only true path to salvation. If he allows himself to question Romney's behaviors and Mitt's actual motivation in seeking the Presidency, then he runs the risk of questioning everything about his religion. Which is something Josh is obviously desperate to avoid.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I don't know that one really has to delve a whole lot deeper than asking what Romney is hiding in his tax returns. His father set the modern standard of releasing a number of years' worth because he knew it was too easy to hide a lot of nonsense in any single year or two. And yet Romney won't do it for some reason. He's a smart guy. So he must know how damning those tax returns will be. He hopes that issue goes away, but voters have a right to know how our presidents made their money -- and that they paid there taxes early, too. The question Romney supporters must ask themselves is "If Obama refused to release his tax returns, would I be okay with that?" Of course, the only honest answer is ABSOLUTELY NOT. What is Romney ashamed of? What's he hiding? Why is Ryan so eager for power that he, too, will fall on the sword of only releasing 2 year's worth so as not to make the boss look bad?
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Effin' spell check. "and that they paid there taxes early, too." Should have been: and that they paid their taxes fairly, too.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer It's weird to be applying for a job in charge of an organization that you may have defrauded. Romney needs to come clean about his taxes. The American people need to know whether or not he is trustworthy.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance I'm just curious what excuse he is giving in defense of him not releasing them? Everyone knows how guilty a person looks who refuses to release info like tax returns. It must be really bad to make this huge deal out of it and have everyone think you're hiding something by refusing to release them. What a sleezeball.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>What a sleezeball. << And Romney was the best the GOP could come up with.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I don't know a ton about Jon Huntsman, but he seemed to be a reasonable fellow. And yet, he had no chance at serious consideration among a field that included Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and whatever other nuts I've already forgotten.
Originally Posted By SuperDry As I've mentioned before, the website I like best is 270towin.com. From previous elections, it seems that they use a wide variety of polls and are non-partisan. Not only does it give you a breakdown by state, it shows the undecided/swing states and allows you to conduct your own "what if" scenarios by picking how each swing state will go, or even by switching one of the states that's not considered swing. In any event, they also crunch all of the numbers from the swing states, and make a probabilistic guess as to what the final outcome will be. When I started looking at this a couple of weeks ago, the state tallies were the same, with the same 11 swing states. But, the calculated likelihood of an Obama victory has risen from 87% to today's 96%. I guess this means that the polls in swing states are moving more toward Obama in the aggregate, even if they are individually still too close to call.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I like 270towin also. I prefer fivethirtyeight on balance - Silver is more small-c-conservative in his forecasts which, (believe it or not, large-C-conservatives) is more my style.
