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• On 30 Oct 2012 in Which states have non-recourse mortgages?, rootvg said:

  lostand confused says
  

  I also heard that if you have a HELOC loan in CA, the bank can come after you for that portion of the loan?

  That is my understanding.

  You'd better never walk away from a house in Ohio. Those bastards will chase you to the end of the earth.

• On 29 Oct 2012 in Romney lies about Jeep outsourcing. Chrysler says BS. Romney keeps lying., rootvg said:

  CL says
  

  rootvg says

  This isn't 2008. What it is, is 1980...or worse.

  But a lot of people learned from their 1980s mistakes. This isn't 1980.

  The percentage of white voters has shrunk, and the fascist GOP has driven Hispanics and other minorities right into the hands of the Democrats.

  The difference is, nobody LIKES Republican policies, except partisan Republicans.

  They were drawn to Reagan, whereas Mittens is lackluster, even in his own Party.

  Just because you say that, doesn't make it true. Ohio will be down to sixteen districts in the new Congress and only four of them will be represented by a Democrat. It sure doesn't sound to me as though Republicans are unpopular there.

  The same goes for most of the south and much of the midwest. Republicans run basically all of Texas and most of Florida. Democrats in Florida are a damn sight more moderate than the ones here in California. They have to be, or they wouldn't exist.

  It's not the United States of California and Massachusetts.

• On 29 Oct 2012 in Romney lies about Jeep outsourcing. Chrysler says BS. Romney keeps lying., rootvg said:

  dublin hillz says
  

  rootvg says

  Obama's party lost 63 seats at his 2010 midterms and is setting up to get the living shit knocked out of him a week from tomorrow. It can't be stopped. It's too late.

  The group of people that votes in the general election is way broader than the group of people who vote in the midterms. The people who religiously vote in the midterms are typically the hardliners and political junkies. They will have plenty of competition from regular folks in the general election and that's why your theory will not materialize. It is basically the same thing that you see in sports - superbowl attracts way more viewers than your typical NFL sunday in the regular season.

  Here again, let's see what the big boys think:

  http://www.gallup.com/poll/141812/avg-midterm-seat-loss-presidents-below-approval.aspx

  Obama's positives have only been above fifty percent for one week of his presidency, the week after Bin Laden was killed.

  Bush 43 had the same problem but his positives edged into the fifties for the week of the election and he was able to pick off Ohio and win. That's why Kerry conceded so quickly. His people knew what Bush had done in Columbus and Franklin County. There wasn't any way to fight it.

  If Obama had only lost 10-15 seats (Carter lost 11 as you can see from the table) I could see your point but the history is what it is. His party lost 63 SEATS !! Common sense dictates that next Tuesday will be a bloodbath. Bush's Republicans lost 30 in 2006 and McCain got fed into the wood chipper two years later. Why would this time be any different? Answer? IT ISN'T.

  You think Obama is Truman and Romney is Dewey? I can play that game. Romney's crowds are getting larger and larger especially in Ohio. The supposedly all crucial Virginia, North Carolina and Florida are gone. There's no longer a huge blue collar vote to carry the Democratic candidate through this and THEN we have the issue of Ohio not packing the Electoral punch it did even thirty years ago for Reagan.

  This isn't 2008. What it is, is 1980...or worse.