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Romney is very, very much on the wrong side of the prevailing mood, on both sides (and globally). Obama is not doing great, but my bet is he takes Romney fairly easily in the end.
Romney is very, very much on the wrong side of the prevailing mood, on both sides (and globally). Obama is not doing great, but my bet is he takes Romney fairly easily in the end.
Perhaps in part because of the misspelling, I initially read this as "he would have made a terrorist Liberace."he would have made a terriffice Liberal
Romney is very, very much on the wrong side of the prevailing mood, on both sides (and globally). Obama is not doing great, but my bet is he takes Romney fairly easily in the end.
economic signs, at least on this side of the Atlantic, are much improving.
no, it's not 1983, or 1996, but it isn't 2009 or 1979 either.
Paul: libertarian-ish people who don't want Hillary to tell them what to do, also the Black Helicopter conspiracy crowd
Obama and Paul are easily the two favorite candidates of people my age, no doubt.
I know this is going to sound awfully arrogant seeing as I don't even live in the US...but, according to my sources, well, you're just flat wrong here. I am seeing no signs. Where are the green shoots?
The Economic Collapse
Are You Prepared For The Coming Economic Collapse And The Next Great Depression?
i am hardly an economist. i just know what i read in the news.
Consumer Comfort in U.S. Climbs to Five-Month High: Economy - BusinessWeek
i know conspiracies and doomsday scenarios involving the overhaul of modern life are sexy, but it really doesn't seem as if capitalism is over just yet.
i.e.
financeguy said:Really? That's very interesting.
what would you have expected? i am curious.
If there were to be a Ron Paul type of leader that would emerge in the future, but without Paul's crazy baggage, I believe he/ she would solitify the "youth" and win with an overwhelming landslide.
financeguy said:If they reduced the voting age he'd be a shoe-in with the 12-15 demographic with his "abolish the Department of Education" thing:
Obviously liberals are going to be pro-Obama or apathetic entirely (I'm somewhere in between), but yes, most people my age who lean conservative have been very pro-Paul so far in this season. He's the only one I'd ever expect to see in a random Twitter or Facebook post from my conservative friends.Well, I don't really know what I would have expected. It probably confirms an impression I had, but being a bit of a Paul fan I feared I might have over-estimated his support among "the youth", plus on here there are plenty of Americans, most of them youngish, and yet support for Paulite policy gains no traction.
All I know about him is that some on the right seem to revere him as some kind of intellectual powerhouse, a point of view I cannot understand.
Paul had a ton of support from Internet communities in 2008 as well.This year I've come across many young voters between 18-30, and they kept gushing about Ron Paul. Surprisingly, most of them were either independents or non-committed liberals.
I have yet to understand Paul's appeal to young people. Yes, he has that anti-Washington machine aura. And he tells it like it is. But no one sees him as "electable".
Still, I find it odd how Obama had a majority of the young voters behind him in 2008, and now Paul seems to have captured that type of demographic.
And Obama was "electable" back then.
BREAKING: Boston Globe backs Huntsman – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs
wow, this is huge
wasn't Romney the governor of MA?
Pro drug legalization
Pro prostitution legalization.
Anti war candidate at any cost-would have stayed out off WWII if he were President in 1940s.: his words.