by Sandy » Wed Oct 22, 2014 9:01 am
Since Warner is leading by 11, and the GOP pulled their corporate money from underneath Gillespie, I think Warner's probably got that one. Virginia and North Carolina were two of the "targets" the GOP "had to have" to get the number they needed to control the Senate. But it is looking like they're losing both. Gillespie sort of made a faux paus by running Anti-Obama ads in the Washington, DC television market. Oops.
Worth noting:
The US has now had 63 consecutive months of economic expansion, and the longest period of private sector job creation in American history.
Unemployment has fallen in five years from 10.1% to 5.9% and at the current rate of job creation, will fall to about 4.9% by summer.
The stock market has set growth records in the past five years, unsurpassed in any other period of time since it has been in existence.
The federal budget deficit is down by 2/3 since 2009.
95% of all American taxpayers have lower taxes and lower tax rates over the past five years.
Dependence on foreign oil is lower than it has been at any time since the mid 1980's, and domestic drilling is up to the point where American production is now affecting the world price of crude, accounting for the recent drop in gas prices, a trend that will continue through at least 2016.
7 million more Americans now have health insurance than before.
Health insurance premiums have increased, of course, but at a lower rate than at any time since 1960.
We have fewer soldiers in war zones than at any time in the past decade, a fact that Americans approve of at a rate of about 65%.
There have been zero terrorist attacks on US soil in five years.
Osama Bin Laden, the number one most wanted man, is dead.
The US catches and deports more illegals crossing the border in one year than we did during the entire period from 2000-2008.
The banks and financial institutions now have protections in place that provide major protection against collapse.
Senior adults have saved $1.3 billion on prescription drugs since 2008.
In the past five years, twice as many jobs were created as in the entire eight years of the Bush administration.
80% of the premiums you pay for health care must be spent on your health care, as opposed to less than 60% prior to Obamacare.
You can verify those statements any way you want to, they were already run through fact checker before I posted them. They're not mine originally. And yet, with all of that on the table, we're watching the news media try to blame Obama for ebola, and for ISIL, even as the government develops plans for dealing with both in a rational and effective manner. The corporations that are trying to buy the election don't want it to be issue focused, because they know that if it goes there, and if there is no sustained voter suppression, they lose. I'm pretty well convinced, by what I am seeing, that if the GOP comes out ahead in the midterms, it will be the result of widespread voter suppression and fraud. Look for Republican secretaries of states in places like Florida, Georgia, Ohio and North Carolina to try to toss out batches of provisional ballots. In Georgia, there's already a question of "losing" registrations in large numbers turned in by Democrats. In Ohio, there was an attempt to stall voting machine installation at early voting locations, or limit the number in the hopes that long lines will discourage Democrats and they'll go home. The draconian, tea party restrictions to suppress the Democrat vote in PA were overturned by the court.