The Effect of the Third Party Candidates

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Friday October 26, 2012 · 3:17 PM PDT

2012/10/26 · 15:17

I find it pretty amusing that the media keeps talking about the daily poll numbers, the early vote numbers, and how tight this election is going to be. Honestly there are a variety of reasons that the national poll numbers DO NOT matter. 1) Party affiliation, 2) Sample size, 3) Region, 4) The options, and 5) the method (cell v. landline). Whatever the reason, the national polls point one way, but polling in the battleground states point the other way.

One thing that no one wants to do is acknowledge that Obama and Romney are not the only candidates on the ballot, yet the majority of the polls only poll on asking about them. Well in September Gravis Marketing/Capital Correspondent polled the battleground state of Ohio Obama 45.2, Romney 44.3, and Undecided 10.4. The poll then added Libertarian Gary Johnson well Obama 44.5%, Romney 37.8%, Johnson 10.6%, Undecided 7.1%. Well Gary Johnson is not the only third party candidate one the ballot.

While I am not expecting that Gov. Johnson, or any of the other third party candidates are going to get a majority in any state, but their presence on the ballot cannot be taken for granted. In Southern Virginia, Virgil Goode a popular former Representative is expected to take some of the votes in the area of the state Romney is expecting huge wins.

Poll

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If the election was held today who would you vote for?

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If the election was held today who would you vote for?

Barack Obama (Democrat)

62 votes

Willard Romney (Republican)

6 votes

Gary Johnson (Libertarian)

24 votes

Jill Stein (Green)

19 votes

Virgil Goode (Constitution)

1 vote

Rocky Anderson (Justice)

5 votes

Issa's Negligence

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Friday October 19, 2012 · 5:57 PM PDT

2012/10/19 · 17:57

It is no secret that the House GOP has had a plan in place for the past four years doing whatever they can to make the Obama Administration fail. When Darrel Issa (R)CA Chairman of the House Oversight Committee took his position he began a series of witch hunts into anything and everything he could look at. Well Mr. Issa, it looks like your political witch hunting is about to explode in your face.

1) The half assed investigation into the Fast and Furious operation conducted by the Phoenix Field Office of the ATF, was made to look like the US was purchasing guns and allowing them to cross the border into Mexico. Well the FACTS say otherwise, the Operation was the ATF watching people purchase guns (Perfectly Legal) at Arizona Gun Stores, then sell the legally purchased guns to other individuals (Again Perfectly Legal). The ATF was forbidden by Federal Law to stop the sales.

2) The House GOP just began their half assed investigation into the Terrorist Attacks in Libya that occurred on 9/11/12 resulting in the deaths of a US Ambassador and 3 other American workers. In less than a week Mr. Issa and his committee have committed TREASON twice.

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Wednesday October 17, 2012 · 5:37 PM PDT

2012/10/17 · 17:37

Since the Romney campaign likes to cite blog posts written by campaign staffers as legitimate studies I have decided to author my own study on his plan.

We have a very complicated TAX CODE, nobody will deny that, and yes it does need to be reformed if we are going to succeed as a nation. President Obama's tax plan is amusing, but Gov. Romney's plan is a joke. In order to fix our debt crisis serious things have to be done. Sorry Mr. Norquist but what I am about to right will probably cause you to have a seizure.

In order to fix our debt crisis lets take a look at how it all started. First off the United States has always been a nation with a debt. In 1791 the National Debt was $75.4 Million dollars. The lowest debt that the nation has ever had was in 1835 when the debt was only $33,733.00, mind you in 1835 the United States was only 24 States.

Lets fast forward to where our current debt crisis began, in 1981 the Nation just elected an Actor and the future conservative God of the Republican Party, Ronald Reagan. The National Debt on Jan 1 1981 was $997.8 Billion. Our tax brackets were considerably different than they are today. Instead of having the six tax brackets that we have today we had 16 different brackets ranging from 0% to 70% Marginal Tax Rates.

In 1989 when VP George H.W. Bush took office the National Debt was $2.7 trillion and only had 2 tax brackets 15 and 28%. Obviously the changes to our tax code that occurred during the 1980's are responsible for the ballooning of the debt.

In 1993 we the Nation elected Bill Clinton to be the 42nd President of the United States. When President Clinton took office in 1993 the National Debt was $4.3 trillion, and we had three tax brackets 15, 28, and 31%, President Clinton again changed the tax code creating a system similar in bracket style to what we have today 5 different brackets, in addition to the previous brackets he added 36% and a 39% marginal tax rates.

When George W. Bush assumed the job of President on Jan 20, 2001 the National Debt was $5.7 trillion meaning under the 8 years of President Clinton the Debt saw its slowest growth in more than a decade, in 8 years it rose $1.4 trillion. President Bush lowered taxes in 2001 to rates of 10, 15, 27, 30, 35, 38.6%, then again in lower them in 2003 to rates of 10, 15, 27, 30, 33, 35. Mind you the National Debt had already increased by more than $1 trillion between the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.

In 2009 President Obama took office with a debt of $11 trillion dollars. Same tax rates that were last implemented in 2003, with the top tax bracket being 35% for people making incomes over $379,000. To this day the marginal tax rates have not changed since 2003, yet our national debt has ballooned to over $16 trillion

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Friday September 28, 2012 · 9:16 AM PDT

2012/09/28 · 09:16

Yesterday in the news were reports of a Voter Registration Fraud issue caught in Florida where the agency submitted 106 applications to change registration status, voters addresses, party affiliation etc. Well some of the addresses they changed were changed to gas stations, office buildings, etc. Meaning that if not caught by the county elections officials those voters would not have been able to vote, because they would have showed up to their polling precinct and not have been on the rolls. While this was caught how many times has this happened in the past? The company who in this case was being paid by the NRNC was hired to register people in numerous states.

While this unfortunately is the most common form of voter fraud, you can protect yourself from it. Check your registration status before it is too late. The site below give the links to check your voter registration status in every state.
http://www.canivote.org

Mitt Romney to issue mandate to Parents

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Tuesday September 25, 2012 · 12:14 PM PDT

2012/09/25 · 12:14

During an interview with NBC's Brian Williams today at NBC's Education Nation forum in New York, Gov. Romney proposed a SOCIALIZED mandate for all parents and potential parents.

When I was governor of Massachusetts, I fought very hard to insist that parents -- I wanted them to have a training class before they sent their kids to school. I wanted parents to have to go to a class to learn about education, to learn about the culture of education, to support their child. I got some resistance from folks who said, well, the poor don't have time to go to your class.

Interesting how the Presidential Candidate who loves to portray President Obama as some type of Foreign European Socialist proposing not once, but twice that a Romney Presidency would possibly include MANDATORY training for parents

We have to have a collaboration. That's one of the reasons why I proposed in my state that before you could send your child to go to kindergarten, that the parents had to go to a training program to learn about the impact of education.
And again, I wasn't able to get it done. It's something I wanted to do and something, I think that has some merit. We have to got pull the parents into education because they are an essential part of the education experience of their child.

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