Obama is losing The Average White Guy Vote

[WillowTree]

There are more safety nets than welfare. I am not saying you are on all or any of them, but they are there to assist millions of people who DO need them. People in very similar situations to yourself who are still struggling. Yet, you want to support a party who has blamed the woes of the country on people like you and help the rich get even richer.

If Obama "killed the dollar", then why are the rich getting richer? Why aren't you doing what the rich are doing to increase their wealth?

Your comment about why he's not doing what they are doing is pathetic - and exceptionally stupid. If one needs all one's income to pay bills, mortgage, rent, whatever... then it's harder to invest like the wealthy do. Twit.

And thank you for proving my point. If the poor and middle class aren't making anymore than what they need to get by, does increasing their tax burden, decreasing their safety net and cutting taxes for the rich sound like it would be the best way to help improve the lives of those who are already struggling. This country is geared towards the rich and you just proved it for me. You're a bigger idiot than you let on.

And you call me a twit. You prove my point without even realizing it. Go back to your world of make believe oh clueless one.

Pathetic.

My suggestion for the 50% of you who don't want to pay taxes,,, quite screaming for tax increases on those who pay the lion's share.. it makes you look greedy.

 

[RDD_1210]

Your comment about why he's not doing what they are doing is pathetic - and exceptionally stupid. If one needs all one's income to pay bills, mortgage, rent, whatever... then it's harder to invest like the wealthy do. Twit.

And thank you for proving my point. If the poor and middle class aren't making anymore than what they need to get by, does increasing their tax burden, decreasing their safety net and cutting taxes for the rich sound like it would be the best way to help improve the lives of those who are already struggling. This country is geared towards the rich and you just proved it for me. You're a bigger idiot than you let on.

And you call me a twit. You prove my point without even realizing it. Go back to your world of make believe oh clueless one.

Pathetic.

My suggestion for the 50% of you who don't want to pay taxes,,, quite screaming for tax increases on those who pay the lion's share.. it makes you look greedy.

My suggestion for those of you who complain about those who "don't pay any taxes" but who themselves "don't pay any taxes". Keep being hypocrites it makes you look....well, like hypocrites.

 

[Valerie]

The men who love Mitt Romney

There has been a lot of talk about Mitt Romney's difficulty connecting with voters, but that can't be true everywhere. Who are the voters he does connect with? I spent a morning recently in Columbus, Ohio, with small-business owners Phillip Derrow and Rick Malir. They aren't anti-Obama zealots, but nor do they begrudgingly accept the Republican nominee. They like Mitt Romney. They praise his smarts and his experience. Most important, they feel that he gets them--what they're going through and what they're trying to do. Their feeling can be summed up by twisting a phrase the Obama team likes to use to describe the president's supporters: They think Mitt Romney has their back.

In the battleground state of Ohio, the National Federation of Independent Business, a small business lobby, says 49 percent of Ohioans are employed by companies with fewer than 100 employees . Derrow and Malir are part of this demographic, and they have three obsessions: their employees, red tape, and the fear that they might lose what they've built.

Malir owns a string of 20 barbecue restaurants in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky. He started the business with his wife in his garage. "When a politician stands up and says I created 40,000 jobs, now I'm just a dumb farm kid from Kansas, going really? I don't remember that politician standing with me in my garage when I am worried to death I'm going to lose the house as I'm trying to smoke brisket. I don't remember them standing there. If anything, they were giving me more forms to fill out."

That is the only mildly heated thing either man says all day. Both men say they've "won the lottery," as Malir puts it, by being born in the United States and having the success they've had. But it highlights two themes that run through our nearly two-hour conversation: They are nervous they'll lose what they've got. And they think the people in charge of making health care, labor, and tax laws have no idea what people like them are trying to do--which is take risks, grow their businesses, and create jobs. "I learned recently that I'm a HENRY," says Malir. "A High-Earner-Not-Rich-Yet. If you look at my 1040 what you'd say is, 'that son of a buck is one rich dude!' But what they don't get is that because that money flows to personal income. I pour all of my profits back into the company, risking the money to create a better company and create more jobs."

Often in conversation they retreat to first principles--reciting maxims about capital, risk, and productivity--as if the country has lost the most basic understanding of how to solve the problem of joblessness. That's just how Mitt Romney talks. And it's not how any of the other Republican presidential candidates did, which is why Derrow says he "stayed as far away as I could" from the other GOP contenders. "He gets the economy. He gets business," says Malir. Later he marvels about Romney's r» sum», saying its details alone prove that he would be a great president: "Do you realize what a brainiac you have to be to get your MBA and your JD at the same time from Harvard? Then he founded Bain capital. He ran the Olympics."


The men who love Mitt Romney - Political Hotsheet - CBS News


Perhaps the greatest cultural disconnect they see with Washington is the charge that businessmen like themselves are only out to protect their profits. "We are not ruthless people. We care about our parents and our families," says Derrow, voicing his support for Medicare and Social Security. "And yet, the math doesn't work and so our political class talks about things that make no sense."

 

[Toro]

There was an article in the WSJ over the weekend about how Obama's environmental policies are alienating union workers in the energy industry.

 

[RightWingFerret]

its thanks to Obama that white men cant get dates cause obama made most of them poor!!

 

[SniperFire]

Obama lost the white guy vote long ago.

Remember that 10 point lead he had over women about a month ago?

Gone. The CBS/NYT poll even has Romney up 2% with women.

Obama's strategy is imploding, and he has nowhere he can go with it.

 

[RightWingFerret]

not only that, Obama has lost the dog vote too,,,,,thanks to obama, 78.5% of all American dogs are afraid to go for a walk.