Analysis Topic: Election Oracle
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Friday, October 05, 2012
Did Romney Cheat in the First Presidential Debate, Does Video Show Hidden Notes or Hanky? / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Mitt Romney was declared by over 80% of viewers to have won the first presidential debate as he managed to successfully go on the offensive against an seemingly tired and distant Barack Obama who both failed to defend himself or attack Romney or many of the inaccurate statements Romney made such as that 23 million workers were unemployed (counting part-timers).
Friday, October 05, 2012
US Presidential Debate: Defending Vultures / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012
By: Michael_T_Bucci
The 2012 American election will be seen as a watershed event, but not so much for defining any future outline for the United States, but in illustrating the absolute unwillingness of both political parties to openly admit hard and ugly facts that underlie the enormous problems engulfing most Americans and their democracy.
Thursday, October 04, 2012
Don't Cry For Us, Mitt Romney / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012
By: Ron_Holland
Mitt Romney and the GOP establishment desperately need a few million votes in order to beat Obama in the 2012 General Election. The GOP could have had most of the Ron Paul voter support if Romney had named either Ron Paul or Rand Paul as his VP running mate.
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012
Five Tough Questions That Need to be Asked at Tonight's Obama-Romney Election Debate / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
I hate to break it to Ben Affleck, but he is wrong about the election. With just 34 days left until voters head to the polls, the election 2012 race is still completely up for grabs.
Even still, in a recent interview with the AP, Affleck lumped Romney comfortably in with the likes of such memorable losers as Michael Dukakis, Al Gore and Bob Dole.
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Tuesday, October 02, 2012
Will Spain Economic Collapse Put Romney In The White House? / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012
By: Raul_I_Meijer
Let’s be clear about this: Mitt Romney can only win the election if the American economy numbers plummet - significantly - in the next 30 days. Mitt's op-eds about the Middle East are not going to cut it. That is, of course, major caveat, unless Mitt has Diebold firmly in his pocket. But that for us is a known unknown.
Friday, September 28, 2012
Obama and Romney on China: Who’s Lying? / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012
By: Ian_Fletcher
Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have both been upping the ante on international trade issues lately, especially America's big trade flashpoint, China.
Romney recently picked up an unintended reverse endorsement, of a sort, from the Club for Growth, a millionaires' club super PAC that would normally be a natural friend to the likes of him. Citing his threats to impose a tariff on China if that nation doesn't end its currency manipulation, they deemed him insufficiently enthusiastic about free trade and refused to endorse him. Perversely, this is good news from the point of view of trade reform, as it suggests that these consummate political insiders, who may know a thing or two we peasants don't, may just have tipped us off that his tough line on China trade is authentic.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Will Obama Keep Power By Any Means Necessary? / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012
By: LewRockwell
Jack D. Douglas writes: This question has been raised a vast number of times since LBJ.
It misses the crucial reality of power at the top of the U.S.
The "Presidents" have long been front men for the vast military, secret police, government bureaucracies, big corps.....Reagan was the beginning of the obvious Actor-Lip-Synching-Presidents. [JFK and Nixon were probably eliminated by the CIA et al. because they insisted on pursuing Detente with the Soviets in reality, rather than as mere rhetoric for the Mass-Mediated Dunces. That enraged the CIA and other Brass. Ford went along. Carter was kind of out of it and irrelevant.] Since Reagan, all have been acting their parts, Clinton and Obama brilliantly, except Bush 1 who was the Director of the CIA and all the Secret Government in the White House. Iran-Contra was a tip of the iceberg of the Secret Coup In The White House, in that case obviously run by admirals and colonels under Bush 1.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
The Obama-Romney Energy Crisis Show / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012
By: Andrew_McKillop
HOW WE ASSASSINATE THE ECONOMY
What crisis? Much like any failed but sincere attempt at assassination, Romney fully intends carrying on and carrying out the Obama plan for using energy of all and any kinds - expensive or not, fossil or not - to further wreck the US economy. Even in the Romney camp, not too far below the surface, we can find bright advocates of energy apocalypse theory that date from Clinton and Bush times. This is all-party political business as usual, preening and posturing. A typical one-liner is: "fossil fuels burned by industrialized civilization have gravely damaged the ecosystem". That is of course when insufficient fossil fuel production is not ruining the economy. Take your pick.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Will Mitt Romney Fulfill the Mormon White Horse Prophecy? / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012
By: Ron_Holland
As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney could become the first Mormon president of the United States. Questions about how a candidate's religious faith may impact his presidency are always a topic of discussion during campaign season but when the candidate belongs to something other than an established mainstream American Church, people are more curious.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
The 47%, Could Romney Be Right? / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012
By: LewRockwell
Mitt Romney has conceded that his thoughts, expressed at that Boca Raton, Fla., fundraiser, were "not elegantly" stated. Those mocking him might concede he has tabled one of the mega-issues of our time.
Can America continue down the path President Obama is taking us on, to a time soon and certain when a majority of wage-earners pay no income taxes but a majority of citizens receive federal benefits?
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Saturday, September 22, 2012
America Wake Up and Reject the Two-Party Plutocracy / ElectionOracle / US Politics
By: Joel_S_Hirschhorn
Here we go again. Millions of Americans will soon vote for either the Republican or Democratic presidential candidate not because they deeply believe that he is absolutely the best possible president the country needs and can have. No, they will know that they are compromising and choosing the lesser of two evils, mainly because most people know that both major parties and their candidates stink. The lesser evil is still a loser.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, September 20, 2012
QE3 Delivers Fresh Ammo for Both Romney and Obama / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke never intended his latest stimulus program, QE3, to become an issue in the 2012 presidential election, but he had to know what would happen.
"We have tried very, very hard, and I think we've been successful...to be nonpartisan and apolitical," Bernanke said at a news conference Thursday after the official Fed announcement of QE3. "We make our decisions based entirely on the state of the economy....So we just don't take those [political] factors into account. And we think that's the best way to maintain our independence and maintain the trust of the public."
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
Will the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election Be Stolen? / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012
By: Global_Research
David Swanson writes: Why would I even ask that question? I’ve been trying (with virtually no success) to get everyone to drop the election obsession and focus on activism designed around policy changes, not personality changes. I want those policy changes to include stripping presidents of imperial powers. I don’t see as much difference between the two available choices as most people; I see each as a different shade of disaster. I don’t get distressed by the thought of people “spoiling” an election by voting for a legitimately good candidate like Jill Stein. Besides, won’t Romney lose by a landslide if he doesn’t tape his mouth shut during the coming weeks? And yet . . .
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The Day Mitt Romney Lost the U.S. Presidential Election 2012, Youtube Fund Raising Video / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Up until Monday, depending on which poll you referred to, the incumbent Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney were virtually neck and neck in the lead up to the Presidential debates. However Mitt Romney has now blown his chances of winning by having let his mask slip in a youtube video that reveals his true face to the electorate, gone was the wooden Romney of slow painfully delivered lines, instead replaced by rapid fire commentary of what he actually thinks of near half the american voting public (47%).
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
U.S. Presidential Election 2012, Is It Time For an “October Surprise? / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012
By: Danny_Schechter
New York New York: The term “October Surprise” is one that always triggers speculation in political circles.
It refers to some covert initiative that a candidates take in the month before the election to try to win an election.
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Sunday, September 16, 2012
Obama’s Dumb Criticism of Romney on China Currency / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012
By: Ian_Fletcher
Mitt Romney, as I've noted, has been heating up the issue of Obama's failure to stop China's currency manipulation.
This currency manipulation is a big distorter of our trade with China, and therefore a big driver of America's trade deficit, which makes it a big driver of job loss and deindustrialization.
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Sunday, September 16, 2012
Liberty’s Voice Silenced / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012
By: Stephen_Merrill
There is not enough difference between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to make any difference of great consequence. Both candidates preach the welfare-warfare-counterfeit state forever. Both serve our failed elite without limit. Both fail to admit the financial Armageddon the world is facing.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Why Dividend Investors Should Worry About an Obama Election Victory / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
I don't have to tell you there is a lot at stake for dividend investors in November.
In fact, an Obama victory could hit income investors with something of a double whammy.
You see, for dividend investors it isn't simply just a matter of higher tax rates, the changes President Obama has in mind may result in fewer dividends paid altogether.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Republican Party Convention Platform, Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012
By: LewRockwell
Laurence M. Vance writes: At a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor held just before the Republican National Convention began, House Speaker John Boehner, when asked about the new Republican Party Platform, said: "If it were up to me I would have the platform on one sheet of paper. Have you ever met anybody who read the party platform? I’ve not met ever anybody."
This must have been disheartening to the Republican activists from around the country who worked for months just to earn the right to attend the convention in order to have a chance of contributing to the party platform. Each state delegation assigns two of its members to a special committee that works on the platform and then presents it to the full convention for approval.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Republican and Democrat Conventions: It's My Party and I'll Lie If I Want To / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012
By: Money_Morning
By David Zeiler writes:
Now that both the Republican and Democratic national conventions are over, one key question remains: Which side has the best liars?
If America's two major political parties have anything in common, it's the ability to fold, twist and mutilate the facts of any given subject.
Almost every speaker at both national conventions did their utmost to uphold this ignoble tradition of American politics.
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