Whether you're PRObama, NObama, or still undecided, 52 Reasons to Vote for Obama gives you all the information you need to share with friends, debate with relatives and decide for yourself as we head toward one of the most important elections of our lifetime. I'll post a new reason in random order every Monday through Friday from now 'til the election.
There are so many reasons not to vote for Mitt Romney.
Here are my top seven:
1. His Economic Plan
Mitt Romney believes the best way to grow the economy is from the top down. Cut taxes for the wealthy and eliminate regulations on banks, polluters and insurance and oil companies. Romney wants to keep all of the Bush tax cuts, and then add another $5 trillion on top of that, with 70 percent of those tax cuts going to people making $200,000 or more a year, according to the White House. Folks making over a million dollars a year would get a 25 percent tax cut, on average. To pay for this, the White House says, Romney would need to cut nearly a trillion dollars from the part of the budget that includes everything from education and job training to medical research and clean energy, the deepest cuts in modern times.
If that cut was spread evenly across the budget, White House calculations show, ten million college students would lose about $1,000 each in financial aid and two hundred thousand children would get kicked out of Head Start programs. There would be sixteen hundred fewer medical research grants for things like Alzheimer's, cancer and AIDS, and forty-eight thousand researchers would lose their grants. Over fifty million Americans would lose their health insurance, including millions of nursing home patients, as well as families who have children with autism and other disabilities.
According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, Mitt Romney would give those in the top 20 percent an average tax cut of more than $16,000 while raising taxes on the bottom 20 percent of workers. The top 1 percent would get a cut of almost $150,000 per year, and the top 0.1 percent would receive a whopping $725,000 reduction, on average. The Tax Policy Center confirmed that Romney's plan would add at least $4 trillion to the deficit.
Moody's said the following about Mr. Romney's plan: "On net, all of these policies would do more harm in the short term. If we implemented all of his policies, it would push us deeper into recession and make the recovery slower."
Cut taxes for the rich and create a deficit that our grandchildren will have to pay for? No thanks, I think we tried that one before.
2. His Record at Bain Capital
Romney spent fifteen years at Bain Capital, where he succeeded at piling debt on companies, outsourcing jobs to China and India, firing American workers, and leaving many companies in bankruptcy. There's nothing wrong with private equity, whose goal is to maximize profit above all else, but it is hardly a training ground for job creation.
Trying to take credit for jobs created by entrepreneurs he advised or through deals he was tangentially involved in doesn't "pass the laugh test," says Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler, who awards Romney three Pinocchios for his job creation claims. As governor of Massachusetts, he ranked forty-seventh out of fifty in job creation.
Even putting aside his record at Bain Capital, Romney places way too much stock in his business experience as preparation for the White House. Bill Clinton, who created the most jobs of any president, had no prior business experience. Ronald Reagan, an actor, presided over a very powerful economic expansion. The two presidents with the most business experience? Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush... hardly models for economic prosperity.
3. He's a Flip-Flopper
Where does this guy stand on the issues? He was for a woman's right to choose, now he wants to overturn Roe v. Wade and block the government from funding Planned Parenthood. He supported equality for gays and lesbians and now wants to write discrimination into the Constitution and allow states to ban gays from adopting children or visiting their partners in the hospital. He's even against civil unions. He was against all forms of no tax pledges and now can't wait to sign them. He used to think humans caused global warming, but now he's not so sure. He used to be for gun control, now he's against it. How can you vote for someone when you don't even know what he really believes?
4. He Can't Relate to the 99 Percent
Poll after poll shows that when it comes to likability, Obama wins in a landslide. Likability, or favorability, another common political metric on which Romney trails miserably, is a gut-check measure of how people relate to an individual. Likability and favorability are critically important qualities that presidents use to attract voters, marshal support, and lead the nation. These qualities lead to trust and confidence, which help generate optimism in a nation and create a sense of strength. In a divided government -- and a divided nation facing tough choices -- the ability to persuade and bring people over to your side is an extraordinary asset to effective governance. Just look at the three past presidents who have been reelected -- Reagan, Clinton, George W. Bush -- all extremely likable. Romney's favorability ratings have consistently been under water, with more Americans viewing him unfavorably than favorably. No candidate in the modern polling era with personal favorability ratings as low as his has ever won the presidency. Romney is on track to be the most unpopular presidential nominee on record.
Then there's the enthusiasm gap. People just aren't psyched about supporting Romney: 93 percent of those who support Obama are excited about supporting him, while only 75 percent of Romney supporters are enthusiastic about their candidate. To put that in perspective, in June 2008, Obama's enthusiasm rating was 91 percent and McCain's was 74 percent... and we all know how that election turned out.
People voting for Romney don't even like him, they just dislike Obama. Of those who would vote for Romney in an April 2012 poll, 63 percent were voting against Obama and only 35 percent were voting for Romney. Among Obama voters, 76 percent were voting for Obama, while only 23 percent were voting against Romney.
5. He's Committed to Inequality
6. He's Become Ultraconservative to Appeal to the Far Right
Compared to George W. Bush, Mitt Romney is an ultraconservative.
7. He Would Be a Foreign Policy and National Security Nightmare
Wait, aren't we supposed to be cutting spending?
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| Obama | Romney | |
|---|---|---|
| Electoral Votes (270 to win) |
332 | 206 |
| Obama | Romney | |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 65,899,660 | 60,932,152 |
| Percent | 51.1% | 47.2% |
| Democrats* | Republicans | |
|---|---|---|
| Current Senate | 53 | 47 |
| Seats gained or lost | +2 | -2 |
| New Total | 55 | 45 |
| Democrats | Republicans | |
|---|---|---|
| Seats won | 201 | 234 |
TRANSLATES TO: We HATE what Obama has done to America and
will vote pretty much for ANYONE other than Obama!
So translates: OBAMA IS WORSE!
Why is that so hard for you to understand?
I mean SERIOUSLY ROMNEY RYAN CAMP. Do something different....as ALL of us AMERICANS have been digesting for so long now...is the largess group of 'a*holes that DO go down in history as jerks.......
Maybe, just maybe 2 good looking guys that really 'are good at certain things'...and yea...it did damage. so....now IS The opportunity to go into a HUGE OFFICE...and actually....
be 'a man of the people...' really for the people....that would be the BEST Laugh you could have on the A**&holes that financed you.....
I mean...YOU ALREADY TOOK THEIR MONEY, so..give it back to the people...do something for the people...and prove that ALL along your lying skills were a red herring to a greater purpose in mind....
to be a beloved, great leader for a devoted country that NEEDS that right now....for the people, ALL THose amazing people that can 'really adore you'...
I say go for it...Romney and Ryan....just do it. Be TRULY great....for a change.
2008 voted Obama, 2012 vote goes to Romney
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BTW, could you please highlight the fact in your sentence?
Answer: Virtually nothing. You fell for the hype. You still know very little about him. You just know that he's promising you free stuff.
You sure make a lot of assumptions about Obama supporters. Do you really believe that more than half of your fellow Americans are on welfare- and don't pay taxes or work? Ya probably do...
I do not fit into that category- and neither does a single member of my Obama voting family. If you want to understand the other sides point of view- you are gonna need to disabuse yourself of that false notion.
What , "Free stuff" are you talking about? Public schools? Roads? Highways? Bridges ? Fireman and Police?
Or perhaps you are talking about our Medicare and SS benefits- into which we have paid all our working lives. [35 years for me}.
Should I assume that you are an angry old white Man , who already "got yours" and don't care if the rest of us have health care in our old age? Are you planning on collecting way more money from the system then you paid in?
I would be wrong to assume that- right?
Romney has sold his soul to the extreme right wing of the Republican party.