From Fox News, a surprising metric from exit polls. They write:
Many analysts felt that the arrival of Hurricane Sandy gave the president a boost last week by allowing him to display leadership in front of the American people, as well as taking away valuable campaigning days from Gov. Romney.
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Chris Christie’s bear hug didn’t help either.
President Obama in his acceptance speech:
“We want our children to live in an America that isn’t burdened by debt, that isn’t weakened by inequality, that isn’t threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet,”
Looks like “dirty weather” is here to stay because the public just can’t see past this monstrous fabrication. “Tabloid climatology” may be a new career path for many.
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I wonder if this sounds familiar:
Wendell Willkie 1940 presidential election
“Uploaded by bj615 on Jul 6, 2007”
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“Wendell Willkie is speaking in this 1940 spot against Roosevelt as the Republican nomination.”
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President Hoover, (1929-1933) like President Bush was widely portrayed as causing the Great Depression by allowing ‘Big Business’ to run wild. Thus, no Republican was elected president for twenty years, (1952) even though unemployment remained quite high until World War II. I note that some economic scholars have taken the controversial position that some of President Roosevelt’s well-meaning policies may have unintentionally prolonged the problem.
Of course, there are those now, who are saying that our current recession was really caused by insufficient discovery of new sources of *cheap* energy and that is why our economy is root-bound and not growing. By that rational, our former and current president may only be culpable to the extent that they have not recognized peak cheap energy as a fact of life.
Mark A. says “I don’t believe that Obama is a socialist”
Agreed. It would be extremely naive to underestimate him as being a mere socialist, as America is about to find out.
Keith AB says:
November 7, 2012 at 7:47 am
I know quite a few people in your situation. Most are from Europe but some from South America. The problem that all of them share is that they want to emigrate legally. They own businesses that they would like to move to the US. They would be great contributors to US productivity and culture. None of them get a break. Some of them own quite a bit in the US and visit within the legal restrictions. The US immigration system is insane.
The poor from Central America via Mexico are desired because powerful Democrats believe that they can get them to vote for Democrats and powerful Republicans believe that the cheap labor is needed. Of course the labor is cheap only for the first generation because the second generation is as American as any other American.
Sandy certainly came at the right time for Obama but in the end Romney had acquired too much of a patina of being perceived to be saying whatever people wanted to hear. Nevertheless, he put up a good showing in my opinion and much can be learned from his efforts. Obama-style government is going to lead the US down the slippery slope of Greek style economics (with China as the banker in this case). An alternative must be found in four years time.
Regardless of how anyone feels about Romney as a candidate or about his campaign, don’t assume that he was actually defeated in the election. Evidence is mounting which indicates the number of votes Romney was supposeed to have lost by in the critical battleground states is greatly smaller than the number of pro-Romney votes that have not been and will not be counted in this election and the number of fraudulent votes given to Obama.
In Ohio for example, Romney supposedly lost by only 100,763 out of a total of 5,243,841 votes or slightly less than 2% of the vote. What the MSM chose not to report when they projected Obama the winner of the election was how there are 205,422 provisional ballots which are not scheduled to be counted until November 17th-18th at the earliest, if at all. Supposedly, those provisional ballots may be expected to be ballots for Romney by a large percentage. Supposedly the Democrat poll workers are taking Republican ballots which did not make a selection for a contest where there was no Republican candidate to oppose the Democrat candidate and putting those ballots in the pile of provisional ballots. Also, ballots with a write-in candidate are in some states automatically put into the pile of provisional ballots to be counted much later or not at all. A county recorder was arrested in Ohio on charges of changing ballots to votes for Democrats. More than 30,000 votes were to be examined for evidence of vote fraud. A nespaper reported in September that one in five voter registrations in Ohio were invalid due to death, change of address, or illegal registrations. It was also reported how some of the Ohio counties have more voter registrations than there are voting age population in the county. Despite the efforts of the Ohio Secretary of State to obtain Federal approval to remove the illegitimate voter registrations from the voter rolls, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has ignored all such requests.
Then there is the Obama Administration’s failure to comply with the laws requiring military voters overseas be given the opportunity to vote in the election. The ballots were conveniently misrouted and/or destroyed before they could be delivered to the members of the military. Then hundreds of thousands of ballots which were completed and sent back to the United States to be counted were diverted into a warehouse in Bahrain for a month, so the ballots would arrive just a few hours too late to be counted. These hundreds of thousands of ballots grossly favored Romney, and it has been reported they would have given Romney the votes necessary to win the election.
Then there are the thousands of vote fraud incidents being reported., ranging from Republican poll workers being violently thrown out of Philadelphia polling places despite court orders putting them there, assault by pistol and badge, busloads of fraudulent non-English speaking voters beeing pushedd by Republican poll officials with impunity, Republican voters denied the right to vote because Democrat identity thives stole their identities to vote for Obama, tweets bragging on the Obama campaign website about how they voted four and five times, and on and on and on the reports are pouring in.
In Florida, the margin of defeat was only 46,039 votes out of a total of 8,212,681 or less than half of one percent of the total vote. The missing military votes and disqualification of illegitimate votes would easily have won Florida’s electorla votes for Romney.
In Las Vegas, Nevada, illegal immigrants working for the unions were ordered by the unions to illegally register to vote and weree given sample ballots filled out for Obama and other Democrats. They were told they could expect to lose their jobs if they didn’t cooperate.
The extent of criminality being carelessly perpetrated in this election begs the question how the opposition candidate can get a fair election and how a scientist can expect to get a fair hearing of scientific evidence in opposition to the Climate Change policies?
Phil. says:
November 7, 2012 at 3:18 pm
Obama’s ignored the rest of the constitution, why shouldn’t he ignore the 22nd as well.
Michael J Alexander says:
November 7, 2012 at 3:44 pm
No, Gingrich did not have the kind of message that would drive thousands of college students to give up their summer vacations and work for free.
Neither did Romney, but that didn’t matter since the RNC was willing to provide all the paid staffers that Romney needed.
Like I said, they wrote the rules to ensure that only govt approved candidates could get on the ballot, and it worked.
Jeef says:
November 7, 2012 at 5:03 pm
Romney never proposed any top end tax cuts. He proposed a reduction in rates, to be compensated for by an elimination tax deductions.
The claim that Romney wanted to decrease taxes paid by the wealthy was just one more of the many lies told by Obama and his syncophants.
Spector says:
November 7, 2012 at 7:02 pm
First off, it’s pretty much all economists who recognize that FDR’s policies created the Depression. Heck, even FDR’s economists recognized and stated as much.
Anyone who thinks Hoover “let businesses run wild” has no knowledge of history. Hoover took a run of the mill recession, and made it worse by dramatically increasing taxes.
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Phil. says:
November 7, 2012 at 2:19 pm
huffingtonpost.com/nick-penniman/fox-news-curious-black-ou_b_2065004.html
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The huff-and-puffington post? ROFLMFAO!
D. Patterson says:
November 8, 2012 at 5:48 am
Voting fraud even during the last election was off the chart. Recently some of the people that did it in 2008 have been jailed. However of course even when proven that an election result was only because of voting fraud such was the case with al franken when they proved that illegal votes were what won it for him the election was not reversed.
Romney like mccain has no interest in fighting voter fraud… they are after all center left/leftwingers who generally don’t care about it. They also generally approve of obama. Its also why they love having the illegals come in. An easily controlled slave labor force thats can be cattle carred to get to vote for democrats.
Tuesday: Obama wins reelection.
Wednesday: As reported on local TV news, American Suzuki Motor Corporation files for Chap. 11 bankruptcy protection. Reasons cited for ending auto sales were low sales, tough regulations, and high production costs.
Except the story was originally reported by the AP on Monday.
Did it “just happen” that a US automaker going bankrupt due to an unfavorable business climate in the US wasn’t important enough to make the national TV news on Monday,
Or was it suppressed?
The linked AP piece also cited “unfavorable foreign exchange rates”. As the Treasury’s qualitative easing continues, the worth of the US dollar internationally keeps dropping. It would have been inconvenient to the Obama campaign to have this be given national recognition before the voting.
I’m not going to blame the loss (or credit Obama’s victory) on Sandy as it was just the last thing and had Romney played his hand better, he could have won.
Once again, we see the victory of imagery and presentation over reality and facts. The facts are, first responders are not federal employees, FEMA only has a few thousand employees and FEMA doesn’t work any better under Obama than it did under Bush. People in the afflicted areas lack food, water, gas, electricity, etc., for days and many still are. Presidents don’t have anything to really do when these disasters strike except be to sign executive orders and make a few phone calls.
Sandy did give Obama one last chance to look and act presidential. It took the news away from the campaign, away from the economy and off Obama’s dismal record.
Them’s the breaks. If Romney had done things better earlier, than the bounce from Sandy wouldn’t have mattered.
Harding was president when the post WWI recession of 1920-1921 hit. What did Harding do about it? Harding implemented austerity — cut spending, raised interest rates, reduced debt and balanced the budget.
When the next recession hit, Hoover tried to do something about. Government intervention turned the recession of 1929 into the Great Depression. Everything he did just made it worse. Enter FDR, who likewise made things worse every time he tried to do something to fix the economy.
Anybody who looks at the Great Depression objectively can readily conclude that government policy created the bubble that led to the 1929 recession. Likewise, with the 2008 recession.
more soylent green! says:
November 8, 2012 at 9:48 am
“Anybody who looks at the Great Depression objectively can readily conclude that government policy created the bubble that led to the 1929 recession. Likewise, with the 2008 recession.”
Not sure if you typed thats correctly, what you had was the government messing around with the economy. Normal economies have ups and downs its just reality nothing goes up forever. If they had simply cut spending, taxes and so forth again the economy would have stabilized and returned to “normal”.
As you correctly point out though they did not do this they instead choose to go for the central planning “fix” and assume that they are smarter then everyone else… which the government never is. Obama is in every way taking the FDR approach and it has and will keep failing.
Republicans need to learn that elections are about being young, pretty, energetic and saying as little as possible of any substance and being likeable. Obama is an empty suit, has been from day one and still is. Old man cannot beat young man in the popularity contest that elections have become. Marco Rubio would have beat Obama. Period. Qualified? Not yet but so what. He’s prettier and has the right instincts. This may sound stupid but so are 50% or more of the voters. I liked Mitt and if he had been 20 years younger he would have won in spite of the media being in the bag for Obama. All the monday morning claptrap about demographics is BS. Young, good looking, good speaker, a little sexy for the 67% of single women who voted for Obama and you win. It’s all about marketing, not politics. Bush was better looking than Gore or Kerry and came across as “nicer” till the media bashed him for 8 years and he did not fight back, because he was nicer. Nice is not necessarily a good thing in politics. Looking nice is, however, important.
Anthony’s post inspired to compose this graphical illustration of how “an ill wind blew and the fat man sang”…
Election Day 2012: An ill wind blew and the fat man sang!
Acting like the president for four days out of the last four years turned the tide… And a good Envirostatist never lets a “serious crisis to go to waste”…
Never minding the fact that extra-tropical cyclone Sandy was anything but unprecedented; nor was it the new normal, the storm and President Obama’s appearance of competence were apparently enough to sway about 3% of the electorate. So, no doubt, Mr. Obama and his merry band of Envirostatists will be repeating this page from their playbook…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4&feature=player_embedded]
While I am in deep mourning for the profoundly poor choices made by 51% of the US electorate and the nearly unrecoverable damage they are doing to our nation, I refuse to yield to their barackward socialist agenda. On Nov 7th, I attended at political activist meeting for targeted resistance to the socialists 2nd term agenda and to begin preparations for the new elections cycle. No quits! No way!!!
To all of the folks who state ‘It’s over!’, I can assure you it is, if you are so craven that you lay down and refuse to fight! That is exactly the response our socialist democrat opponents desire… to become yet another subservient bum, grasping for their handouts.
To all others who share the philosophical touch stones of a constitutionally limited federal government, fiscal discipline, and free markets, heed these words: “Nil Desperandum – Invictus Maneo! Never Despair – I Remain Unvanquished!” We need all of you to get engaged in the grass roots preparations for the next elections and the resistance to ‘four more years’ of ineptitude in national economics and international relations! Start now! It is the only way to real victory. You must get engaged…. or our nation will continue it’s barackward slide.
MtK
D. Patterson says:
November 8, 2012 at 5:48 am
Thanks DP!
No Quits!,
MtK
Mac the Knife says:
Mac, I’m with you but think we need to look at our “market” when we float a candidate out there. Unfortunately, all the idiots get to vote so we need to maitain our constitutional goal while pandering to the market in today’s TV ad society. The dems have it figured out. Changing our philosophy is not the answer and that is what many of the talking heads are selling right now.
RE: MarkW: (November 8, 2012 at 6:04 am)
“Anyone who thinks Hoover “let businesses run wild” has no knowledge of history.
That may well be true as a matter of fact; however the many voters were convinced that it was all President Hoovers fault, just as many voters are now convinced that current recession was caused by President Bush and the policies of the Republican Party. In the 1930’s, many of the unemployed were reduced to living in clusters of tents commonly called “Hoovervilles.” This impression was so strong that it took twenty years before another Republican President was elected. History may repeat itself unless a more convincing cause for the recession can be found.
Bushvilles: The new Hoovervilles
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“The new tent cities popping up all over the country. This segment covers the tent city, now being called Bushvilles, in Sacramento, California.