Nevada not a sure bet for Obama
By Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times
RENO — Women are bowling in the middle of a downtown street. Men are climbing the sides of a high-rise hotel. As necks crane and bowling balls skitter into pins, a loudspeaker blares Bruce Springsteen’s “Glory Days.”
There is, it would seem, almost nothing this town wouldn’t do to revive a moribund gambling economy and bring back its glory days. For decades, casinos were the golden key to prosperity, luring in tourists, cranking out jobs around the clock and flooding the state treasury with a perpetual stream of cash.
Those days are over, and all the outdoor bowling championships and climbing walls installed to attract visitors probably won’t change that. The local economy is in shambles, done in by the double whammy of the national recession and the rise of Indian casinos in California. Unemployment is rampant.
That presents a serious challenge to President Obama as he tries to repeat his 2008 victory in Nevada, a key swing state then and now.
OBAMA BY 6-8 POINTS IN NOVEMBER!
It will be a Carter like landslide victory for Romney and the GOP. Under the breaths of American’s they are whispering “get this President out of office”. That’s the real
“bigerpicture”.
Rmoney’s main campaign strategy is comprised of “Cut taxes and I’m white.” That is very appealing to the dullard(I’m $mitten with Mitten$) foxwatcher GOP base. What we certainly do not need is a bush on steroids fool like the embarrassing Willard the Rich.
to those who hate government, realize that to a large degree, government is all there is between you and the oligarchy. all that is between you and the big brother of the mega rich.
It is hard to understand how people could vote a person into the presidency that had absolutely no experience other than writing an auto-biography.
Now, when you consider how bad things have become since the collapse of the housing market in 2008, which to stave off the ‘it’s all Bushes fault’ comments in advance, was caused by the liberal government regulations. Since then we now we’ve realized it was just the start of so many problems with America.
Of course I don’t think it’s all Obama’s fault either. He is arguably the most liberal and inexperienced person ever voted into the Presidency but America has been on a liberal death spiral for decades.
As we slip into the next wave of decline, oh yes it’s coming now, I hope that the people of Nevada, California and America start to wake up to how much our Country is declining under the extremist liberals Obama, Reid, Pelosi et. al. and start voting for conservatives and the Constitution.
Business, there is one thing for sure. You have absolutely no clue what caused the housing market collapse. There are at least a dozen interdependent causes and they are as large as international monetary systems. The money that fueled the bubble was real money. Where did it come from? The answer is Nigeria, China, India, Brazil, Russia. So how did a couple laws in the U.S. force Brazilians to invest in collateralized debt obligations?
John, then you agree, it wasn’t “all Bush’s fault”
Thanks for confirming that.
As for the rest of what I said;
“Since then we’ve realized it was just the start of so many problems with America”.
Do you agree with that too?
And the part about;
“the extremist liberals Obama, Reid, Pelosi et. al” being a cornerstone of the cause, surely you agree with that John.
Business, it was not Bush’s fault. That is true. But then you dive straight into the same thing as the anti-Bush crowd. If we have to blame a person then Alan Greenspan comes close because he killed rules that would have required to valuation and disclosure of derivative positions on the financial statements of publicly heald corporations. But even blaming him is stupid really.
Business there were $58 trillion in credit default swaps outstanding on June 30, 2007. How is that Reid or Pelosi’s fault. None of those credit default swaps were disclosed on a single financial statement.
Obama is by no means an extreme liberal.
*I’m* an extreme liberal and I disagree with him all the time.
But he’s still a better choice than Mittens who among other things can’t stop embarrassing himself when visiting other countries.