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CBSNews.com Analysis: Inside The Numbers Of Barack Obama's Victory Are Signals About What It Could Mean In The Future
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- I would be perfectly happy to be wrong in my assessment of Obama as I have absolutely no vested interest in being right. I particularly hope that he is able to withstand a tough international challenge and act competently and in our best interests. That one scares me, but I have faith that I could be needlessly worried on that front. However, I am completely certain that his tax policy is baloney because the math just doesn''t work. The middle class people who voted for him mainly because they believe that more money will end up in their pockets are going to find themselves paying higher taxes when the Bush tax cuts expire. Unemployment is going to continue to rise, small businesses will be hit and they are a central component of our economy. I would like to see Obama more interested in helping small businesses, where he has heretofore not shown any interest, rather than in creating more union jobs. I mean I understand that Democrats promote unions because it buys them the votes, but unions are not the backbone of this country. In any case, I have no choice but to keep an open mind and to work hard on the midterm elections. God bless America.
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- Support from Hispanic voters keyed victories in several swing states in the sunbelt. In Nevada, Obama was able to trump McCain%u2019s 56 percent to 42 percent advantage among white voters by winning 75 percent of the Hispanic vote. In New Mexico, Obama%u2019s 69 percent support among Hispanics was able to offset McCain%u2019s 56 percent to 44 percent victory among white voters. And in Florida, Obama%u2019s fifteen point advantage among Hispanics diminished the impact of McCain%u2019s fourteen point advantage among white voters.
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The Democrats can retain the Hispanic support by passing a realistic immigration control plan that does include border control. The Republicans never will.
Folks have to understand something about campaign promises made by McCain and/or Obama. It is mandatory that they go on the back shelf for an indefinite time. The current economic crisis will demand all of the new administration''s attention for most if not all of the four years. - Reply to this comment
- America feels so clean today!!!! Eight years of slime has been washed away!!!
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- It will be interesting to watch the faces of those who elected Barack Obama - they will rapidly change from their wide-eyed wonder - to confusion, then to apprehension, then to disbelief, and finally to horror as they discover their new leader is as hollow as the promises he has made.
Joe Biden is right - Barack Obama will be tested, and the entire Democrat-controlled Congress will be tested - and they will not have the luxury of blaming anyone else for their own failures.
And fail, the Democrats will.
And fail, Barack Obama will.
And then comes the judgement of the American people.
And it will be severe.
No more whining, Democrats - now you get to be the punching bag.
Posted by CBSisPravda at 10:12 AM : Nov 05, 2008
Cool, you can see the future. Obama fails even before he is president. - Reply to this comment
- The people cried out for a king and God gave them Saul. Read 1st Samuel 8 in it''s entirety...
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- I hope and pray that I was wrong because if I wasn''t wrong all of us, even the one''s that voted against Obama, will suffer.
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- I have been reading your comments and you talk about unity, but all you are doing is showing strife and devision. If you want unity, it doesn''t come from one man, rather from many working together for a common good. I did not vote for Oboma, however, he is the man the majority of the country wants. Just as every other president entered into office. We need to unite and work together instead of bicker like a bunch of kindergardner''s about who''s dodgeball team won. I am disappointed in my countries choice, but its my country and I love it. So, regardless of what''s ahead we must enter into it with carefull prayer and consideration.
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- The American People have spoken, WE THE PEOPLE have made our choice. Hopefully we were not lied to, again.
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- likeitis5050, I didn''t hear a single person leaving the voting booth saying the *** your talking about. AM Radio is rotting your brain and destroying our country. What happened to COUNTRY FIRST?!!!
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- likeitis5050, Every recession and every depression in modern American history has come at the hands of wingnuts like you blindly following thre G.O.P. As usual, in the tradition of FDR and Clinton, The DEMOCRATS will have to clean up your mess...
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- Obama''s win means that hope and integrity are alive and well in this Country! It will not be an easy road we have to travel but we can overcome all of the failures of the past 8 years as a united Country.There is no more white America or Black America, there is the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!
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- ...with two brain cells not out on search and destroy mission for each other. But yuck it up. It was an election worth every penny it took to purchase it. Reality is coming right at you....
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Posted by likeitis5050 at 09:23 AM : Nov 05, 2008
Did you get all or just part of your education from AM Radio? "Every penny to purchase the election..." -So sorry America didn''t donate to your Party of failures. Jealousy is ugly... - Reply to this comment
- Pt. II
Only Mr. Obama offers us a chance to achieve this. Even if we fail to achieve it, however, I am proud to be in a nation that can at least try to achieve it. This wasn''t just a historical election. It was an election of GOOD historical relevance. Hurray for the citizens for choosing the right man. - Reply to this comment
- What Obama''s victory means to me is that even if he can''t clean up Bush the second''s mess right away, even if there are slip-ups and gaffs, even if the change is difficult, we will not be run by arrogant and barely competent trickle down economists(read: con artists). We don''t want to be a country that tortures its prisoners. We don''t want to be a country that ignores its own citizens because of their income level, race, sexual orientation, ***, or place of birth. We don''t want to be a nation where less than 1% of the population is incubated from life''s reality because they have the bucks. We don''t want to be a nation where people die because they can''t afford the health care denied them by big corporate medical and insurance entities.
We want to be a nation that thinks of its own people as citizens, therefore deserving of our best. We want to be a nation of people who work and pay taxes and who then get fair representation in the government. We want to be a nation that does not decide good and bad based on what we''ve got in our wallet, but by what we know is the right thing to do. We want to be a nation that has hope, believes in the positive possibilities of life, and who are willing to share that view with not only all of our citizens but with the citizens of the world. - Reply to this comment
- After 8 years of G.O.P. failure, America needs patriots to come forward and put themselves last...
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Posted by joezap5
Are you that stupid to think when BO starts tapping the payrolls of all these small businesses that ''patriots'' will be born?
The money needed to run this super-size government that wipes away all the worries of people who don''t even pay taxes now has to come from some place and if you think it will be the billion dollar corporations and billionairs in this country you are mentally challenged, and I apologize for being so blunt with you. When you have people leaving voting booths saying, ''no more worries about putting gas in the car...no more worries about paying my mortgage...I helped and now he gonna help me..'' the honeymoon is set to expire immediately for anyone with two brain cells not out on search and destroy mission for each other. But yuck it up. It was an election worth every penny it took to purchase it. Reality is coming right at you.... - Reply to this comment
- What it means: The Exxon Mobil sign above this article isn''t going to be calling the shots anymore.
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- HawkSprings, Try to be an American for once, AMERICA FIRST!!! COUNTRY FIRST!!! You NeoCons are still trying to destroy this country, even in defeat...
Instead of Patriots you guys sound like a whining puss who, if he can''t be quarterback, is going to take his football home.
After 8 years of G.O.P. failure, America needs patriots to come forward and put themselves last... - Reply to this comment
- libsRcrooks.....you''re clearly a bigot and a poor example of an American. If you''re *** scared of what Obama will do in the white house here''s a simple solution ...MOVE! Your pesimistic attitude will do nothing but inspire and eventually get you killed by all the ANGRY LIBERALS THAT YOU CALL CROOKS...NOW...go tell that.
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- Here''s the "Change" that is coming:
The last time a Democrat President had this big of a majority in Congress was Jimmy Carter.
And we all know how that turned out... record high taxes, double digit inflation, double digit unemployment, severe military cutbacks, and a military that couldn''t tie it''s own shoes.
You''ve already seen how Peloozi and Reed lead.
Now they have Obama to help them.
They''ve promised to let the Bush tax cuts expire, and to raise taxes on top of that, which will be the biggest tax increase in US history.
Obama has promised to ''spread the wealth around.''
It''s going to be the 70''s all over agian.
History tends to repeat itself. - Reply to this comment
- helenahandb, you wrote: "Although blacks still quote MLK they seem to always and only focus on the color of their skin." What a great example you set. You are clearly not focused on skin color . . . are you?
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