Rocky Ground

National Journal:

Andrew Koplitz is the sort of voter who could make this election very difficult for President Obama. Katie McKinney is the sort who could allow him to survive, nonetheless.

Read the whole story at National Journal

Comments

[2012 No Mo Bo]

11:27 PM on 07/13/2012

I was too young to even care about world happenings when Reagan was President ,however learning history of his term he was a great president ,also from reading about him it was an awesome guy .

[Rollin McKim]

11:24 PM on 07/13/2012

Horsefeathers! The question remains, ARE WE BETTER OFF........

Vote RIGHT in November.

[1differentdrummer]

08:43 AM on 07/13/2012

Boehner and McConnell told you what their priority was for this term, it was to block Obama. No progress, no way. They've been a roadblock since telling us that's their goal. I'd as soon vote for a tree that fell into the road.

[aacme]

08:41 AM on 07/13/2012

The reason Reagan's famous question doesn't matter any more is that we all know the answer. Except for the "1%" nobody is better off than than they were the day he took office and started us down the disastrous road we have followed. The Reagan Revolution has delivered 33 years of diminishing expectations, disappearing democracy, a Republican party gone off the rails into criminal enterprise, and a Democratic party in such perpetual disarray they have no idea how to deal with their erstwhile "partner" gone rogue in an iron-clad 2-party system.

[chance1946]

08:26 AM on 07/13/2012

The reason the liberal media says it does not matter is that the economy has been so bad for the last 4 years the Pres can not winn the argument. I'ts that simple.

the lib media just wish it would just go away.

[Lemmy]

10:23 AM on 07/13/2012

Bingo!

[MrsGreebers]

08:05 AM on 07/13/2012

"Has the president made as much progress as reasonably could be expected, given the mess he inherited -- AND given the historically unprecedented obstruction from a party who'll prolong the country's agony just to score political points?"

There, fixed it.

The real question, though, is "will you be better off four years from now, if we hand the country back to the guys who left the mess Obama inherited?"

[knotsofast]

07:38 AM on 07/13/2012

Liberals do not want this question to be asked in any way...obama is not to held accountable. Poor littel affirmative action obama...kid gloves all the way.

[Dirty Sanchez]

07:45 AM on 07/13/2012

Is reagan really the best you rep's can do? Sadly..yes

[chance1946]

08:28 AM on 07/13/2012

Yes and here is the source . Compare the presidents for yourself.

source: www.miseryindex.us Libs please do not cry.

romney/rice 2012

[bby328]

07:47 AM on 07/13/2012

I'll take kid gloves over mitt gloves any day.

[Dirty Sanchez]

07:12 AM on 07/13/2012

When Reagan was President he didn't know what he was doing, but he did what he did best and acted. He acted like he did.

[chance1946]

08:30 AM on 07/13/2012

Yes Regans policies created 16 million jobs in 8 years, and the 80 's were a great time for us.

[aacme]

09:00 AM on 07/13/2012

I'm not sure you are remember correctly, and are certainly forgetting that whatever Reagan may have accomplished, including making it ok for Republicans to go rogue and radical, if it makes the rich richer and guts the middle class, was done at the price of doubling the national debt, setting the pattern for Republican president's since who have exponentially increased the debt.
http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

[Dirty Sanchez]

11:11 AM on 07/13/2012

In your reality

[Kiri the Unicorn]

06:46 AM on 07/13/2012

Why yes, I AM better off now than I was four years ago.

I now have health insurance.

I live in a bigger house.

I traded up from a Ford Escort to a classic Mercedes-Benz.

Inside the next year, I will return to Oregon and start a business.

No thanks, Republicans. Ya losers....

[knotsofast]

07:40 AM on 07/13/2012

So you were too poor to have insurnace before, but you can now have a bigger house...hmm....than welfare card and SNAP card helped...i doubt your post...

[aacme]

09:01 AM on 07/13/2012

No problem. I doubt your integrity.

[Kiri the Unicorn]

05:16 PM on 07/13/2012

Doubt me all you want. It won't change what's going to happen in November.

Obama/Biden 2012- Four more GOOD years!

[madkoz]

06:34 AM on 07/13/2012

I never understood a righty who hates Hollywood but somehow loved and revered Reagan. But they sure have been entertaining.

[Rollin McKim]

11:22 PM on 07/13/2012

Remember Reagan was not just Hollywood but also a Democrat........

Then he saw the error of his ways.

[madkoz]

03:55 PM on 07/14/2012

He raised taxes 11 times.  He always was a Democrat.  Reagan was successful because he put country before party.  Why can't you do the same?

[rray]

06:17 AM on 07/13/2012

Ronald Reagan's brain was never violated by an intellectual concept, the American people feel a kinship with him -- Norman Mailer

[HURRICANEPAUL]

03:47 AM on 07/13/2012

** Instead, for most people I met, the choice between Obama and Mitt Romney pivots on a different question: Has the president made as much progress as reasonably could be expected, given the mess he inherited? **

If Obama couldn't deal with the "mess" he inherited from 8 years of Bush, how in GOD'S NAME will he ever deal with the MUCH LARGER MESS he will be inheriting from the damage HE has caused over the last 4 years?

[madkoz]

06:33 AM on 07/13/2012

My business is doing much better under Obama, The Bush years almost put me under. I credit myself for saving it. Of course it took hard work and sacrifice but you wouldn't know anything about that by the quality of your post. Stop blaming Obama and get to work making your own life better or vote Republican and hope you get rich. The choice is yours.

[CountLeo]

03:35 AM on 07/13/2012

C'mon. What other answer would a dem, progressive, or lib give? Anything other than a diversion is incriminating.

[Rantibus]

02:57 AM on 07/13/2012

The most terrifying thing I ever heard was right after Reagan was elected and he was asked what kind of president he would be and he replied, and I quote, "I don't know - I've never played a president before."

[Rollin McKim]

11:23 PM on 07/13/2012

But it's OK when Obama leaves it unsaid?

I prefer Reagan's humor to Obama's "transparencies".

[Rantibus]

11:59 PM on 07/13/2012

Loved that Ronny - here are a few more quotes that typify his character and mindset:
"Facts are stupid things."
"A faceless mass waiting for handouts..."(describing recipients of Medicaid)
"Because Viet Nam wasn't a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G.I. Bill of Rights."
"Trees cause more pollution that automobiles."
"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Yep ... there was a leader. Did we mention how many times he raised taxes?

[malgal]

02:22 AM on 07/13/2012

Reagan was an actor. Not a very good one. He was not a good politician either. To most of the world he was a joke. Maggie Thatcher liked him. Which says it all.

[Rantibus]

02:52 AM on 07/13/2012

Actually, Thatcher was quoted off-mike as saying.." "Ronny - dear boy... hasn't a clue."