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msilenus says

Michigan is another important swing state, and will probably go whichever way Ohio does.

I really don't think Michigan is in play. Romney is more likely to get Colorado, Nevada, or New Hampshire than Michigan.

zzyzzx says

msilenus says

Michigan is another important swing state, and will probably go whichever way Ohio does.

I really don't think Michigan is in play. Romney is more likely to get Colorado, Nevada, or New Hampshire than Michigan.

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I think that's right. But does Ohio go the way Michigan does, which is likely towards Obama? If so, I'd say Romney is getting trounced.

You know, Romney is a really upstanding guy, family man, smart businessman, extremely generous with his time and money ... so why does he scare me so much? Maybe it's the last decade of being screwed over by smart businessmen who do the sort of things that made him rich that's making me shy away from this paragon of capitalism. Not that I don't believe capitalism has its place, it surely does as a motivator for imperfect people to make a society produce while serving individual self interest. This is vital, and most people understand it intuitively, if they haven't had intuition educated out of them yet. But the kind of crooked business we've seen lately has us calling foul and theft, and practically nobody in government seeming to give a rip. Romney fits snugly into the role of the guy who sent our jobs overseas, and so, regardless of his moral superiority over the president, we are scared of what he may do to further consolidate the stranglehold big banks have on our America, that he may actually hand out the jackboots that hedge fund owned business presses down on our necks.
Has the Obama administration failed to help the economy back to its feet? Absolutely! Obama has no clue what he is doing when it comes to the economy, and furthermore is too proud to take suggestions from those who do. I'd like to see him gone for any number of arrogant self serving things he's done with his term.
But, at least in thEory, he's the candidate for the working class, ready to uphold worker rights against big business.
So that's why I'm waivering here. Sometimes the devil you know is less scary than the devil you don't.
I voted Ron Paul, the the Main stream media demonized him effectively and he had no chance.

Quigley says

Has the Obama administration failed to help the economy back to its feet? Absolutely! Obama has no clue what he is doing when it comes to the economy,

What do Presidents do to cure the economy? What role does Congress play in all of that? And most Presidents are not macro-economists. They surround themselves with people who do know, and seek counsel from people their team identify with. Obama has Volcker on his team, praised by Dems, Republicans and Ron Paul. Bush et al have had the troglodyte neocons who got us where we are.

It's too easy to say, "A pox on both your houses".