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[avengingtitan]

Because everything that happens in the US affects Canada.

Then they should just become another couple of states. Its either us or the evil British empire. We can get them some money that doesnt look like it came from a monopoly game.

[mrorangesoda]

I see some bullshit SOPA type bill getting rammed through after the elections.

Really? I see internet and tech companies realizing they have more money and power than hollywood, lobbying congress to pass the DCMA again just with a different name- protecting copyright while not really put them out in order to table the whole issue for another 5 years.

[David Bird]

That's what I mean. It's been decent. He's done some good. He hasn't done anything that would make me go against him.

The economy has been stagnant for five years and there’s no sign of a turn around. People need leadership and he isn’t delivering. Lots of people have been comparing his State of the Union address to Occupy movement, but that wouldn’t have happened if the man had been more proactive.

Brother I say this with nothing but respect for you. Why do you care? You live in Canada right?

America is our biggest trading partner and our next door neighbor. What you do affects us and the policies you adopt often end up being adopted here in some form as well.

I see an Obama win too. I see the country continuing to decline. I see some bullshit SOPA type bill getting rammed through after the elections.

Absolutely. It was shelved so it wouldn’t become an election issue. It’ll be back.

[KingPagla]

Really? I see internet and tech companies realizing they have more money and power than hollywood, lobbying congress to pass the DCMA again just with a different name- protecting copyright while not really put them out in order to table the whole issue for another 5 years.

They should form a super pac and threaten to launch smear campaigns against anyone supporting anything SOPA-like.

[David Bird]

An interesting article on Gingrinch and the Republican party leadership.

[achilles]

The man's the worst President in modern history, and that's saying something. He even beats out the likes of Nixon and Carter. He's made Bush the Lesser look like a rabid defender of Constitutional liberties in his mad dash to trample on the document he styled himself, (falsely), as a professor of at the university of Chicago. He's destroyed the economy, gravely and very stupidly misjudged our enemies with his attempts at "resetting" relations, only to have them take this rightly as a sign of weakness and walk all over us, and kept his campaign promise to make energy costs for the average American skyrocket.

He took a chance to deliver meaningful health care reform, and turned it into an incredibly costly fiasco that utterly fails to deliver anything it promised because he was so incompetent or disinterested that he couldn't pass anything other than a bill written by the insurance companies even when he had large majorities in both houses of Congress.

Essentially, he took an economic disaster he both inherited and helped cause, and turned it far worse, while destroying many other aspects of this country, perhaps beyond repair.

And this is the man who might possibly be reelected anyway because the Republicans are stupidly doing his job for him by savaging one another instead of pointing out his record to the people.

[DMM]

Alchemic's got me on super ignore again. What a prick.

[Spidey-Man]

I think the president will squeak by to a victory by playing class warfare but it will be closer than before. Real close. Probably a 2 or 3 percentage win at bestHe’s done nothing on the economy and people know it, but incumbency has its advantages. Romeny Is not charismatic enough to make for the rare incumbent defeat (ala Reagan and Clinton beating the incumbent in bad economic times). Plus Gingrich’s snit will turn this into a bloody primary for Romney, who will still win.

The GOP will keep the house and increase their numbers there and take the senate. That seems very likely to me. The president has no coattails anymore. He's just not well liked (except with one demographic). He's completely lost whites and white men in particular.

Gridlock will continue but obama will get 2 more supreme court picks, making half the court his appointees. He will not be remembered well domestically, especially when his health Care plan's key provision is struck down this year by the court and the economy doesn't really recover and continues to sputter for 3 more yrs. The warmth people felt for him is gone and will never come back (except among black americans who will continue to admire him).

[Spidey-Man]

and we will all go down together

[Chesscub]

When doesn't he in the last three years?

When he cries. Boehner cries more than a teenage girl.

[David Bird]

Swing States poll: Romney and Obama tied; Gingrich trails

WASHINGTON – Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney essentially ties Barack Obama in the nation's key battlegrounds, a USA TODAY/Gallup Swing States survey finds, while rival Newt Gingrich now trails the president by a decisive 14 percentage points.

That reflects a significant decline by the former House speaker since early December, when he led Obama by three points.

The poll of the dozen states likely to determine the outcome of November's election addresses the electability argument that has driven many Republicans: Which GOP contender has the best chance of denying Obama a second term? ...

[David Bird]

Unemployment report: January job gains have economists rethinking outlooks

An unexpectedly rosy jobs report set off a chain reaction Friday, upending economists’ gloomy predictions for the coming year, leading to a surge on Wall Street and potentially boggling the political calculus of the 2012 presidential campaigns...

BTW, from my days as a poli sci major I recall that there is no stronger indicator of an incumbent's re-election than the strength of the economy. As the article says, there is no magic number will ensure re-election, but if voters think things are getting better, then they'll vote Obama.

[David Bird]

Santorum Upsets G.O.P. Race With Three Victories

His candidacy all but dismissed just days ago, Rick Santorum won the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses and a nonbinding primary in Missouri on Tuesday, an unexpected trifecta that raised fresh questions about Mitt Romney’s ability to corral conservative support.

With his triumphs, Mr. Santorum was also suddenly presenting new competition to Newt Gingrich as the chief alternative to Mr. Romney, the front-runner. Where Mr. Gingrich has won one state, South Carolina, Mr. Santorum has now won four, including Iowa...

[David Bird]

Santorum's Elite Problem.

[achilles]

The economy has been stagnant for five years and there’s no sign of a turn around. People need leadership and he isn’t delivering. Lots of people have been comparing his State of the Union address to Occupy movement, but that wouldn’t have happened if the man had been more proactive.



America is our biggest trading partner and our next door neighbor. What you do affects us and the policies you adopt often end up being adopted here in some form as well.


Absolutely. It was shelved so it wouldn’t become an election issue. It’ll be back.

We love you Canadians too. Especially your women. Well, the hot ones anyway.