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View Poll Results: If your candidate of choice loses, how bad will it get?
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Terrible - I may emigrate
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Business as usual - nothing happens in Washington
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Wait and see - it could get bad, though
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11-06-2012, 10:48 AM
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2012 Election - the wrong candidate wins
Saw this on local news and it made me laugh,
Too late to enter now, but Jet Blue was offering a free international flight out of the country to the winning contestant whose candidate of choice loses the election today.
If your choice loses, how bad will the next four years be?
http://www.foxbusiness.com/industrie...ndidate-loses/
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11-06-2012, 11:13 AM
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It's going to be difficult, no matter which man wins, H4C.
If Obama wins, the Congress will still be Republican and the Senate will still be just barely, Democratic.
If Romney wins, the Congress will be Republican and probably the Senate will still be Democratic.
Fast forward to 2014.
If Obama wins, the Congress will be even more Conservative and the Senate will go Republican.
If Romney wins, the Congress will probably stay in the Republican majority, but not as much as it is now, and could switch back to Democrats.
The Senate will be more Democratic controlled.
So, this means.......no problems will be really solved....... 
Sorry to be so negative, and I hope I am wrong, but this is what I think.
The good news is, most of the PA board will survive no matter what! 
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11-06-2012, 11:19 AM
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the problems will be there no matter who wins, and the problems are enormous.
the question is who better to handle these problems, a practical businessman who specializes in management and problem solving, or an incompetent egotistical marxist who specializes in deception and finger pointing?
pretty simple choice.
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11-06-2012, 11:32 AM
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No matter who wins, the last thing I want is the WH and both houses of Congress to be controlled by the same party.
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11-06-2012, 11:37 AM
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I just voted for Romney, AJ. I think he will do better at attacking the problems, but............yes, they are enormous. I will pray for their courage.
We are all obviously hoping for the best, no matter what.
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11-06-2012, 11:52 AM
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Originally Posted by GameTheory
No matter who wins, the last thing I want is the WH and both houses of Congress to be controlled by the same party.
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in my view it's our only hope to undo the damage that has been done. normally I'm a fan of gridlock thinking that at least it means they can't make things any worse, but there is some heavy lifting needed right now and you're not going to get that from a divided gov. we can't continue to muddle forward.
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11-06-2012, 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted by ArlJim78
in my view it's our only hope to undo the damage that has been done. normally I'm a fan of gridlock thinking that at least it means they can't make things any worse, but there is some heavy lifting needed right now and you're not going to get that from a divided gov. we can't continue to muddle forward.
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Well, Obamacare does need to go, but generally it is a spending spree for special interests with one-party control. Don't think Republicans have much chance to take the senate, but we'll see...
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11-06-2012, 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by GameTheory
No matter who wins, the last thing I want is the WH and both houses of Congress to be controlled by the same party.
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I'm thinking it might be fun to have Obama win, but we take both houses, and have a veto-proof majority so that we can stop him cold, run our own agenda, and impeach the bastard eventually. 
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11-06-2012, 01:47 PM
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I'm thinking it might be fun to have Obama win, but we take both houses, and have a veto-proof majority so that we can stop him cold, run our own agenda, and impeach the bastard eventually. |
A veto-proof majority, eh? That would be entertaining anyway...
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11-06-2012, 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom
I'm thinking it might be fun to have Obama win, but we take both houses, and have a veto-proof majority so that we can stop him cold, run our own agenda, and impeach the bastard eventually. |
I would anticipate an onslaught of new executive orders from Obama changing so many things if he wins. Who is in the house will be irrelevant. Just my gut feeling about this guy.
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11-06-2012, 03:55 PM
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I am looking forward, hopefully, to watching "The Tingler" cry on the air tonight!
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11-06-2012, 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by wisconsin
I would anticipate an onslaught of new executive orders from Obama changing so many things if he wins. Who is in the house will be irrelevant. Just my gut feeling about this guy.
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But with both houses, they could all be changed, and we could impeach him.
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11-06-2012, 04:09 PM
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The only real thing that worries very much about Romney is that he says he will deregulate the banking industry. If he is elected and is able to do that, the country will living the edge. We saw in 2008 what lightly regulated banks do and how their gambling effects the ecomony. If that happens you need to keep your money buried in the backyard. I don't think Romney will bail you out if banks start failing right and left. FDIC doesn't have enough money to cover the loses if 3 of the biggest banks fail, let alone all the big ones go under.
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11-06-2012, 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Robert Goren
The only real thing that worries very much about Romney is that he says he will deregulate the banking industry. If he is elected and is able to do that, the country will living the edge. We saw in 2008 what lightly regulated banks do and how their gambling effects the ecomony. If that happens you need to keep your money buried in the backyard. I don't think Romney will bail you out if banks start failing right and left. FDIC doesn't have enough money to cover the loses if 3 of the biggest banks fail, let alone all the big ones go under.
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How do you go from Romney saying he wants to dial-back SOME of Dodd/Funky Frank, to NO regulation, banks closing left & right, the three top financial institutions going belly-up and the country living on the edge?
OH, it's laughable hyperbole? Good one. 
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11-06-2012, 04:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Robert Goren
The only real thing that worries very much about Romney is that he says he will deregulate the banking industry. If he is elected and is able to do that, the country will living the edge. We saw in 2008 what lightly regulated banks do and how their gambling effects the ecomony. If that happens you need to keep your money buried in the backyard. I don't think Romney will bail you out if banks start failing right and left. FDIC doesn't have enough money to cover the loses if 3 of the biggest banks fail, let alone all the big ones go under.
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Sounds like the wealthy are screwed under Romney.
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