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TalkingDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 02:14 PM Original message |
82% of Obama Voters Will Vote To Reelect Him If He Raises Taxes On The Rich |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
1. and how does he do that since it needs to pass the (R)s in Congress? |
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HappyMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 02:19 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Pretty much what I was thinking. |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 02:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Not quite. The Bush tax cuts are dead: they were killed by the debt deal, actually. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 08:49 PM Response to Reply #6 |
33. Indeed, the debt deal, which many people still don't get, assumes Bush tax cuts. |
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TalkingDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 02:23 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Ask the pollsters who created a misleading question |
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Pab Sungenis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 02:34 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. It doesn't have to. |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 05:30 PM Response to Reply #10 |
22. they are extended through 2012 |
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Pab Sungenis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 07:52 PM Response to Reply #22 |
27. But not afterward. |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 08:11 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Exactly, both sides want to run on this issue in 2012 |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 08:48 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Exactly. He'll be reelected in a landslide. |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 02:37 PM Response to Reply #1 |
12. Remember how efficiently he built support for himself to get elected? He was a genius at it. |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 02:44 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Any time he speaks this place explodes with "pretty speeches" blah blah blah. |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 03:16 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. That's fine. Nothing wrong with admiring the president, but he needs to grow a pair |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 02:40 PM Response to Reply #1 |
15. Not to mention that he has to rally us against the Democrats-in-name-only. AGAINST them. |
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jaxx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 02:46 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. LOL that is the most asinine remark I've read. |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 03:15 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. The Republicans on our side have to go to the other side, since they sabotage us every time nt |
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jaxx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 03:26 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. There are no republicans on our side. |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 08:42 PM Response to Reply #21 |
29. Some have changed their label and call themselves Democrats |
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RandomKoolzip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
2. It'll never happen. The employee never gets to dictate what his employers do with their money. |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
4. Too bad all he has is the "bully pulpit" |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
7. President Obama can't raise taxes on anyone. |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 02:38 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. He can go to Congress and ask them to. |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 06:45 PM Response to Reply #13 |
25. He has done that already more than once. Congress refused. |
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HappyMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 08:48 PM Response to Reply #13 |
32. Ask the repukes what? Raise taxes on their rich asses? |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
8. He has said on many occasions that he intends to raise taxes on the rich |
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BulletproofLandshark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 03:19 PM Response to Reply #8 |
20. It could have happened at the end of last year if not for the Bush tax cuts being extended. |
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Pab Sungenis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
9. It's one way he can lock down my vote |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
11. Count me among those. nt |
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HockeyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
14. MIDDLE CLASS Republicans |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 05:32 PM Response to Original message |
23. he can't, not as long as the GOP controls the house. As others have noted. |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 05:39 PM Response to Original message |
24. K&R. Yes please! |
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gordianot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 07:16 PM Response to Original message |
26. Republicans appear to have made their choice perhaps for all time, now it is Obama's turn. |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
30. uh YEAH! |
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pa28 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-03-11 09:35 PM Response to Original message |
34. They might be in a for rude shock. |
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Kablooie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-04-11 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
35. I won't be surprised if he champions lowering taxes for the rich. |
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