A Romney Rubio ticket may beat Obama in 2012. Romney understands the Global market and the economics. Rubio would take enough of the Hispanic vote to make an Obama victory very difficult. Romney should carry NH and MI. Rubio should carry FL. The biggest problem is Romney's delivery style. When Palin speaks you either love her or hate her but you know what she said and it resonates. When Romney speaks he sounds good for sound bites but he does not connect with the Thompson voters. Get Romney in a heated debate and he connects. Hand his a well memorized script and he creates a plate of plexiglass between him and key blocks of voters. Romney knows how to fix the economy. He needs to change his delivery style.

Congress needs to pass a national law requiring identification of all voters for national office. Washington and Oregon vote by mail and that allows dramatic voter fraud potential.

have this as essentially a dead heat with major upward movement for Brown. The election will be decided by turnout.

Opposition to Obama is motivated. I am not sure how good the GOTV is.

Brown has a chance. Romney actually did win. If this seat goes Rep the whole country could go.

This is one reason why Obama care is a tough sell. This chart shows the projected costs and the cost over runs for the past government health care programs.

http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/expenditures-for-health-pr ograms-always-outpace-early-estimates/

In the past the costs have been double to 17 times more expensive than the original projections.

If the Dems can't run Medicare cost effectively, why would we believe they could run the whole health care system any better?

This is one reason why Obama care is a tough sell. This chart shows the projected costs and the cost over runs for the past government health care programs.

http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/expenditures-for-health-pr ograms-always-outpace-early-estimates/

In the past the costs have been double to 17 times more expensive than the original projections.

If the Dems can't run Medicare cost effectively, why would we believe they could run the whole health care system any better?

24 hours slow. I said the same thing earlier. He is the general who finally made the Katrina disaster run properly.

The US government is just not prepared well enough at this point to respond rapidly and effectively enough.

A lot of people are dying while relief is in transit or bottle necked.

A speedier response and anticipation/solution of the logistic problems are necessary.

If this were a Northern Metro area in the dead of winter the US response would be inadequate.

this quake had hit one of our northern cites like Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburg, Boston or New York in the dead of winter, do you think Homeland security is ready to deal with such a disaster?

Quakes take out the freeways, the electrical grid, the gas lines, the water system, the gas station pumps, the food supply not to mention the medical response. They give no warning. There is no lead time like with a hurricane.

Some states are better prepared than others but I feel there needs to be a quick mobile Federal response team that is capable of dealing with such a disaster as a major quake in a major metro area.

It is not just CA that is vulnerable.

If the Republicans were smart they would go right at the under 30 voters. Most of them think they will get free health care from Obama.

They are really shocked when they realize that they will have to pay, they will not have a choice to pay, it will be mandatory, and they could be jailed for tax evasion is they don't pay.

It becomes a freedom issue with most of them. Many of them do not have health care by choice as they do not want to pay.

They also do not realize that Obamacare would force them to pay 5 times more than the market rate to subsidize old sick people.

The Reps could totally destroy the Dems chance to pass anything if they could peel of the young vote.

The health care issue is the...

to raise the Death Squad issue. There will be rationing of care and service quality in any government run health care program. That rationing is obvious in Europe and Canada.

Sarah you have done well to directly attack the Dems on this issue. However, there is a better way to attack them. It will have a lot more traction.

Both SS and Medicare are nearly bankrupt. If Socialized Medicine is put in place, money that would have gone to bail out those programs will not be available.

Pretending to fund Socialized Medicine by taxing the rich will cause cuts in both SS and Medicare benefits.

The Obama plan is a direct threat to the current benefit levels of both SS and especially Medicare.

The Seniors...

Tne Dems are losing the independent voters in drove during the last 2 weeks. Obama's fav rating has gone negative. The Dems lose the generic ballot.

The Rep brand is in shambles. The Rep Party needs someone who can speak to the independents. That is not Palin. She revs up the base, all 23% of the voters.

If Romney can remove the plexiglass between him and the voters he might be able to reach them. Huckabee might also.

Someone needs to step up and seize the moment.