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Mayor_McCheese writes:

in response to MrBreeze:

The problem is we are all trying to find another Ronald Regan. Romney is not that guy. As hard as he might try he comes across as phoney.

The country is divided between the "haves" and the "havenots" and a new group the "haveless" which is the middle class. This recession has made many well off people broke. Many have been forced onto goverment programs and do not want to take the chance with Romney to risk total loss. So they will vote Obama in hope things will get better in the next 4 years.

Wealth has been divided in this country. People with true wealth have survived but people who thought they were wealthy found out they were not.

I agree with most of what you said, although I would rather replace your Reagan and Romney with Clinton and Obama, but I agree with the general tone of your comment.

You are spot on when you say that there are many people who are a lot less affluent than they thought there were and this will take many years to rectify. If they are still working, then they may be able to make up some of it over time, but if they are already retired or near retirement, then the fear of eliminating or substantially curtailing SS or Medicaid is very real. Particularly after the turmoil of the last four years since the economy tanked, the certainty of SS and Medicare is viscerally important to most Americans over the age of 40.

Since the trend of the US economy is positive - although anemically so - and stock markets are up and housing prices are beginning to rise, there is legitimate reason for many people to feel that things will continue to improve over the next four years.

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