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Published Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008 | 1:03 p.m.
Updated Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008 | 1:04 p.m.
Here's the Early Line from your Carson City correspondent, where Cliff (from Cheers) will be stumping for Republican presidential nominee John McCain.
It's a poll heavy day, and the question is not whether it's good news in Nevada for Democratic nominee Barack Obama, it's a question of how good.
At one extreme is a poll that has Obama up 52 to 40 in Nevada.
More modestly, the Reno Gazette-Journal has Obama up by 5, 50 to 45 percent, with a margin of error of 4 percent.
Confused about the polls and which one to believe -- or whether you should believe any of them?
There are some poll aggregators out there. Real Clear Politics puts the average for Nevada at Obama +7.5 percent.
Or, you can just argue that maybe the polls are all wrong.
-- Even with the good news the polls suggest for Obama, Molly Ball has a story that reveals that three demographic groups conventional wisdom says are Obama supporters -- new voters, young voters and Hispanic voters -- lag in early voting turnout compared to overall totals.
-- Rep. Dean Heller is sued for using the Broadway song "Big Spender" in campaign ads attacking Democrat Jill Derby. While the campaign insists it did nothing wrong, it has pulled the background music for some weeks now, at least according to my TV watching observations.
-- The Reno Gazette-Journal looks at union efforts in Northern Nevada to turn out the vote.
-- Lisa Mascaro looks at the $5 million the Republican party is borrowing to help Nevada Sen. John Ensign's efforts to elect Republican senators. Ensign's failure would, of course, seem to be a benefit for Nevada's other senator, Majority Leader Harry Reid.
-- Jon Ralston writes about whether Democrats -- possibly strengthened in Carson City with the Democratic tide -- will step up and talk about taxes, or will continue to cut the state's budget.
The voters will protect themselves on election day. They know with Casino profits down 67% layoffs are coming and raising taxes on these employers will just layoff that many more. If we want to keep a job we cannot raise taxes. Turning a recession into a Depression will not help us fell better. Save your job, reject higher taxes.
Feel, Think, & Rock the Vote -
Don't vote away your Rights of Freedom!
*Some tax plans will take away your opportunity to be free to achieve, taxing achiever zoners at almost 40%, + state tax & SS.
*Low-No Income Zoners will get help with bits & crumbs of Free Stuff.
*Once you Move up out of Low-No Zone, you again lost your opp to be free to achieve. The more you succeed, the more a target for higher taxes you will become.
DON'T VOTE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS TO FREEDOM! You will NOT be able to get them back.
I, personally, will move my businesses to Ireland, if OB gets in.
Others will be stuck here under OB's plans.
Good luck!
Vote for Change!
Borrow and spend Republicans need to be voted out.
It's time to reclaim the American dream and the "can do" attitude this Nation was built on.
Vote for Change!
TeriT: "I, personally, will move my businesses to Ireland, if OB gets in."
Get packing racist. Enjoy the white people and crappy weather in Ireland, land of achievers.
yeah, not to mention the fact that the UK/European Union are SUPER socialist compared to the US/Barack Obama. Have fun having all your "profits" taken for completely socialized health care. Have fun with that buddy.
Before you drink the koolaid and vote, you should read this:
On the Supreme Court, six of the current nine justices will be 70 years old or older on January 20, 2009. There is a widespread expectation that the next president could make four appointments in just his first term, with maybe two more in a second term. Here too we are poised for heavy change.
These numbers ought to raise serious concern because of Mr. Obama's extreme left-wing views about the role of judges. He believes -- and he is quite open about this -- that judges ought to decide cases in light of the empathy they ought to feel for the little guy in any lawsuit.
Speaking in July 2007 at a conference of Planned Parenthood, he said: "[W]e need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that's the criteria by which I'm going to be selecting my judges."
On this view, plaintiffs should usually win against defendants in civil cases; criminals in cases against the police; consumers, employees and stockholders in suits brought against corporations; and citizens in suits brought against the government. Empathy, not justice, ought to be the mission of the federal courts, and the redistribution of wealth should be their mantra.
In a Sept. 6, 2001, interview with Chicago Public Radio station WBEZ-FM, Mr. Obama noted that the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren "never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society," and "to that extent as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical."
He also noted that the Court "didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it has been interpreted." That is to say, he noted that the U.S. Constitution as written is only a guarantee of negative liberties from government -- and not an entitlement to a right to welfare or economic justice.
This raises the question of whether Mr. Obama can in good faith take the presidential oath to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution" as he must do if he is to take office. Does Mr. Obama support the Constitution as it is written, or does he support amendments to guarantee welfare? Is his provision of a "tax cut" to millions of Americans who currently pay no taxes merely a foreshadowing of constitutional rights to welfare, health care, Social Security, vacation time and the redistribution of wealth? Perhaps the candidate ought to be asked to answer these questions before the election rather than after.
youshudknow - "Before you drink the koolaid and vote, you should read this."
I don't drink koolaid. I drink like an adult and I voted for Obama, like an adult. I would rather have someone with a clear head in office than someone whose getting Alzheimers disease.
So you are against women's rights then? How childish of you. You must drink koolaid.
Additionally, this guy fails to realize that the two oldest (therefor ripe for retirement) justices are the two liberals on the court. In essence if McCain gets in, HE would skew the court to the right. Obama would keep it roughly balanced.
Also if Palin became president, she would do her gosh-darnedest to outlaw abortion even in the cases of rape and incest. Yeah great move guys.
Obama says he will appoint judges that will vote like the 5 to 4 judges did in the recent Gun Rights case.
I wonder how quickly he will break that promise.
juanita: it's "who's or "who is," not "whose." Perhaps you should consider taking a remedial course in English at Nevada State College.
mikegino: juanita? Excellent combination of homophobia and racism in one. My congratulations at expressing your intolerance efficiently.
John: does that accolade allow me to enter the realm of diversity? By the way, I am an ethnic minority. What are you?
"does that accolade allow me to enter the realm of diversity?"
You're so good with words, why don't you explain what your use of "juanita" to address me?
Which ethnic minority are you? Someone "whose" intellect is superior to Mexicans I'm guessing?
"What am I?" So now I am "what"? Well, trusting your perfect grammar, I am a human being. If you meant which minority am I, you will need to state it that way. I can't understand you otherwise.
The latest is Obama's support for the abolishment of secret voting on union votes. This will lead to harassment of anyone who opposes union action. That's un-American. Everything about Obama/Pelosi is heavy handed government intrusion into our freedoms. And terrible.
The more I learn about this guy the more I don't like him. No Obama.
The first loophole was easy to find: Senator Obama doesn't "count" allowing the Bush tax cuts to lapse as a tax increase. Unless the cuts are re-enacted, rates will automatically return to the 2000 level. Senator Obama claims that letting a tax cut lapse -- allowing the rates to return to a higher levels -- is not actually a "tax increase." It's just the lapsing of a tax cut.
See the difference?
Neither do I.
No matter what Senator Obama calls it, requiring us to pay more taxes amounts to a tax increase. This got me wondering what other Americans will have to pay when the tax cuts lapse.
For a married family, filing jointly and earning $75,000 a year, this increase will be $3,074. For those making just $50,000, this increase will be $1,512. Despite Senator Obama's claim, even struggling American families making just $25,000 a year will see a tax increase -- they'll pay $715 more in 2010 than they did in 2007. Across the board, when the tax cuts lapse, working Americans will see significant increases in their taxes, even if their household income is as low as $25,000. See the tables at the end of this article.
Check this for yourself. Go to http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/ and pull up the 1040 instructions for 2000 and 2007 and go to the tax tables. Based on your 2007 income, check your taxes rates for 2000 and 2007, and apply them to your taxable income for 2007. In 2000 -- Senator Obama's benchmark year -- you would have paid significantly more taxes for the income you earned in 2007. The Bush Tax Cuts, which Senator Obama has said he will allow to lapse, saved you money, and without those cuts, your taxes will go back up to the 2000 level. Senator Obama doesn't call it a "tax increase," but your taxes under "President" Obama will increase -- significantly."
2. The next loophole involves the payroll tax that you pay to support the Social Security system. Currently, there is an inflation-adjusted cap, and according to the non-profit Tax Foundation, in 2006 -- the most recent year for which tax data is available -- only the first $94,700 of an unmarried individual's earnings were subject to the 12.4 percent payroll tax. However, Senator Obama has proposed lifting that cap, adding an additional 12.4 percent tax on every dollar earned above that cap -- and in spite of his promise, impacting all those who earn between $94,700 and $249,999.
By doing this, he plans to raise an additional $1 trillion dollars (another $662.50 out of my pocket -- and how much out of yours?) to help fund Social Security. Half of this tax would be paid by employees and half by employers -- but employers will either cut the payroll or pass along this tax to their customers through higher prices. Either way, some individual will pay the price for the employer's share of the tax increase.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/s...
Guankung - You didn't write this. You ripped every word in your post directly from ultra right-wing blogs. Don't you think it's the slightest bit deceiving to post things as if they are your own comments when in fact none of them are?
Notice the name of the section "Comments". What is your comment? That you like to cut and paste right wing propaganda?
Johne, they're just scared. Can McCain overcome a 5-8 point deficit? I'm not sure, but I don't think so. They are thrashing and flailing.
Wow, johnevegas, just because someone doesn't like BO for his policies doesn't make him racist. Ireland has a low tax policy on business and is benifiting for it. You better have something to back up your claim.
On Oct. 29 2008, Bill Clinton introduced Barack Obama at a rally near Orlando, Florida. Clinton urged voters to consider Four Points in choosing a President:
Philosophy - Obama's organizing philosophy is that America works from the ground up, not from the top down.
Policy - Obama's policy ideas on the economy, education, health care, and energy are right for America now.
Decision - Obama has demonstrated superior decision-making skills, e.g., his choice of Biden for VP, and his careful informed response to the financial crisis.
Execution - In organizing and conducting an historically successful election campaign, Obama has demonstrated key talents as an executive.
... Clinton asked people to present these four ideas to voters nationwide until Election Day.
vote for change yea small change because thats whats going to be in your pocket if obama gets in
desertrat76 - "You better have something to back up your claim."
I made no claim. Nonetheless, TeriT, whom I was addressing, claimed [in a recent post] a move to Ireland if Obama wins, because Obama would take from the "land of the haves" and "give to the have nots" or some nonsense like that.
I'm encouraging the move anyway. I think once you reveal that you are really only in it for the money and don't give a damn about the country or anyone else, you should leave and follow your profits. I hope that clears it up.
Coming up on the last weekend of campaigning (thank goodness), it's irrelevant to note how 'low' Ireland's business tax rates are without doing an inquiry as to the rest of their tax structure. So many numbers have been thrown out there, they've become meaningless. The victors in these elections have a nightmare ahead of them, locally and nationally. They will be damned if they do and damned if they don't; with the other side more than happy to scream recriminations. Longing for the days of civility to return, when saner heads prevailed.
Democratic held Congress run by Nancy Pelosi has had two years to pass so called "Change" and what have they done? Nothing! People wake up and think before you vote for Obama. He is a Socialist who rants on like Castro.
Journalists from three major newspapers, The Washington Times, New York Post and Dallas Morning News have each having endorsed John McCain -- reportedly have been booted from the Barack Obama campaign plane for the final leg of the presidential campaign. http://www.drudgereport.com/
It is time for all people of good will to decide to look to the future and act with vision and boldness and energy and to remember youthful dreams. It is time to quit driving by looking in the rear view mirror and relying on the experience of old age and the past. Make up your minds and quit this quibbling!
Obama's position that people who work should get a fair shake so capitalism can work is a lot more like Henry Ford's than Marx.
GMAB
The Spanish speakers should listen to Tito the builder. He knows first had what a leader promising to share the wealth does to a nation. He knows how the same rhetoric destroyed Cuba and stole freedom and he knows Chavez is doing the same to Venezula. Learn from history and listen to a man that has seen it. Tito the builder is on the campaign trail now for McCain every day as it's that important to him and his other immigrant builders. Vote for John McCain and save our freedom!