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Analysis: Four More Years

usmcpgw Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 3:42 PM
remember congress controls the purse strings and who control the house in congress? but when obama has gone FOUR YEARS with NO BUDGET and spends, spends, spends without a Constitutional budget required by law he can spend and the next admin will have the bill come due
PhdisReality Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 3:45 PM
Your ignorance is only exceeded by your hatred and vitriol. Congrats.

A few stray thoughts and observations in the aftermath of the 2012 election -- on substance, process, and tactics:

(1) The polls were broadly right, both at the state and national levels -- a dichotomy that I believed to be unlikely in the extreme as recently as yesterday morning.  The electorate ended up being D+6, nearly on par with 2008, and six points better than the 2010 midterms.  I was wrong about this, as were a good number of other observers.  The 2012 party ID figures from Gallup and Rasmussen upon which my assumptions were based were...

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