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Vote your conscience.

Posted: Aug 22, 2012

I urge everyone to try to forget party for a while and actually ask yourself . . Am I better off now than I was 3-1/2 years ago? Is our country better off now than it was 3-1/2 years ago? Do I have hope for the future, for my children's future, for my grandchildren's future? Do I believe America is still the land of opportunity, peace, and prosperity? If you answered "yes" to those questions, then vote for Obama. If, however, your answer is "no," you owe it to yourself and your loved ones to at least give Romney a try. I have been a registered dem for all of my adult life, and have voted for both pubs and dems in presidential elections. I am tired of feeling like this depressing hopeless state is just the new norm. I am voting Romney/Ryan.

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You are exactly right. I have voted for both Democratic (sm) - LM

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and Republican candidates in my lifetime and am a registered independent. Your questions are very good. Everyone should ask themselves these questions and answer honestly. The part that really hits home for me since I'm no youngster is my children's and grandchildren's future. We have gotten so far off track, I'm afraid if someone doesn't put a stop to it, our great grandchildren will be paying for our mistakes.

Amen. - SK

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I would love to see political party names exterminated entirely. Let the candidates stand solely on their word and actions rather than party affiliation.

As evidenced by countless statements on this board and others, too many people automatically ascribe "all things Republican" or "all things Democrat" as "bad" or "wrong." How different would it be if people actually had to speak to a politician's actions rather than political party?

I'll bet there would better informed voters... Not to mention more careful candidates who can't fall back on the party line and less "circling of the wagons" as is currently so popular in both political parties.

Same here. We HAVE gotten way off track, and the - only Hope and Change for me is Romney-Ryan.nm

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nm

This election - Anyone But Obama.

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No brainer.

That's who is voting for him. The No Brainers. LOL - nm

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nm

Hmmmm.... - SK

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Way to minimize the viewpoint of someone else. But what does it gain?

You're right. I apologize. - nm

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nm

A valid opinion. - SK

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People may or may not agree with it, but it's your choice and a valid option.

My conscience tells me...sm - JTBB

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that considering what Obama started with, along with the hassle of the obstructionist pub party, he hasn't done so bad. My consience also tells me that I can't vote for a guy who would privitize Medicare, cut funds for education, end planned parenthood, overturn Roe v Wade, pick fights in the middle east, have no deadline in Afghanistan, give more tax cuts to the rich and make the underlings pay for it...and the list goes on. Did you really think Obama was going to wave a magic wand and be able to fix the mess he was left with? You do realize that with the R/R budget the estimated time it will take to balance the budget is 3 decades?

If you really think Romney would do better, you need to really look at what he has done as gov.

1. Ranked 47th in job growth: Despite Romney’s professed expertise in creating jobs, Massachusetts ranked 47th in job growth during his time as governor. The state’s total job growth was just 0.9 percent, well behind other high-wage, high-skill economies in New York (2.7), California (4.7), and North Carolina (7.6). The national average, meanwhile, was better than 5 percent.

2. Suffered the second-largest labor force decline in the nation: Only Louisiana, which was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, saw a bigger decline in its labor force than Massachusetts during Romney’s tenure as governor. The US Census Bureau estimated that between July 2002 and July 2006, 222,000 more residents left Massachusetts for other states than came to it. That decline largely explains the state’s decreasing unemployment rate (from 5.6 to 4.7 percent) while Romney was in office, according to Northeastern University economics professor Andrew Sum. At the same time, the nation as a whole added 8 million people to the labor force.

3. Lost 14 percent of its manufacturing jobs: Massachusetts lost 14 percent of its manufacturing jobs during Romney’s time in office, according to Sum. The loss was double the rate that the nation as a whole lost manufacturing jobs. In 2004, Romney vetoed legislation that would have banned companies doing business with the state from outsourcing jobs to other countries.

4. Experienced “below average” economic growth and was “often near the bottom”: “There was not one measure where the state did well under his term in office. We were below average and often near the bottom,” Sum told the Washington Post in February. As a result, the state was more comparable to Rust Belt states like Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio than it was to other high-tech economies it typically competes with.

5. Piled on more debt than any other state: Romney left Massachusetts residents with $10,504 in per capita bond debt, the highest of any state in the nation when he left office in 2007. The state ranked second in debt as a percentage of personal income. Romney regularly omits those statistics from his Massachusetts record, instead touting the fact that he balanced the state’s budget (he was constitutionally required to do so). He wouldn’t be much different as president: his proposed tax plan adds more than $10 trillion to the national debt.

Do you think we have not looked these facts up? (sm) - We're not idiots. Don't believe Bozo.

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nm

not the op... - sm

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but I personally believe that people who engage in name-calling ARE idiots.

Romney debt....sm - JTBB

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Over 2.6 billion in debt was added while Romney was gov.

2003: 694 million
2004: 653 million
2005: 1.028 billion
2006: 257 million

Source: Massachusetts treasurer

Factcheck.org speaks to those figures. - SK

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Gives insight to the numbers.....

http://factcheck.org/2012/06/spinning-romneys-debt/

Thank you. It is really laughable anyone would pick - on Romney regarding Debt... Hello !!

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Obama has tanked everything and has no solution other than spend spend spend and take from the rich... sounds like a 5-year-old, but what do you expect from a community organizer with NO experience. I cannot believe this is even close. Common sense would tell you that Obama is nothing but a disaster. I will take my chance on Romney any day!

Try to stay on task...sm - JTBB

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my post had nothing to do with an Obama ad. What I provided were the numbers from the Mass Treasurer, so your factcheck expedition is slightly off base. However, while we're on the subject, did you use that site to find out the truth about "you didn't build that" and "taking work out of welfare?" Or is this site one of those that is only acceptable when it says what you want it to say?

On topic.... - SK

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Looking at one set of numbers to sum up a political successful/failure record is akin to looking at one's BMI to assess one's overall physical health. Unless one looks at the numbers in context to the entire picture, it is nothing more than cherry picking the numbers to state the case one wishes to make, a common occurrence in political debates.

As for the site they were taken from, the sources are available to check independently at leisure. I'm sure that everyone here is intelligent enough to do their own research.

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