Most people are aware that the tax system is complicated. The more complicated something is, the more room for mistakes there are. For this reason, I think it ought to be simplified, and believe that it can be done to a great degree.
My ideal tax system would have the following properties:
In ninth grade, geometry was a problem. There was talk of golden sections, golden ratios, golden rectangles, bricks in Fort Knox, but there may as well have been a golden goose writing on the black board behind the teacher's chair
because I couldn't see them. I couldn't see anything on the blackboard that wavered for me like an overheated blacktopped road. I saw only vague blurs, the possibility that something had been there, a mirage of math, reduction to ghosts and apparitions. I saw only residue. Compromised seeing still proliferates. Some Americans, some world citizens and their struggles are invisible to others.
The solution was a trip to the optometrist's office where I was outfitted with corrective lenses that rewarded me with resolution and clarity the next time that I was in class. I was no longer deadlocked in an unethical nearsightedness that had excused me from having to care about what was too far away from me to matter.
Our nation needs corrective lenses so that we can see clearly in order to behave responsibly instead of operating recklessly. No license to operate the political vehicle that drives the nation art home and abroad without corrective lenses.
Obama is a welcomed new pair of spectacles in which to be seen differently and from which to see both differently and correctly.
I received this via email and I thought that I would share...
Five Stunning facts that could not only change the outcome of this election, but with regard to the first two points, they could change the results of every election for years to come if we make enough people aware of them.
I encourage you to share this information with as many people as you can 1) Over 70% of our National Debt was created by just 3Republican presidents.
Go ahead, get out your calculator and add up debt by the party that claims fiscally responsibility thinks it's ok to borrow massive amounts of money from foreign countries like China. Consider that we spend hundreds of billions of dollars in interest payments on this debt each year. That means more and more of your hard earned money is going to make interest only payments on what is basically a Giant National Credit Card. Not to mention the fact our debt/deficits are largely behind the weakness of our dollar, which in turns makes gas moreexpensive and creates other serious problems. If you want to learn more about the National Debt, check out these links:> http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock /> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...> http://zfacts.com/p/447.html (A running clock with the> cost of the war)> http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/business... 2) According to new research from Larry Bartels out of Princeton, real middle class wage growth is double when a Democrat is president compared to when a Republican is president.
Qoute:"...Even more remarkable, the real incomes of working-poor families...grew six times as fast when Democrats held the White House. Only the incomes of affluent families were relatively impervious to partisan politics, growing robustly under Democrats and Republicans alike...": http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/magazine/27wwln-ideal... Here is a short summary of this research: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008... And here is a good, short audio interview with Larry Bartels:> http://youngturks.wmod.llnwd.net/a591/o1/4-25-08Bartels... 3) 90% of Americans would pay less taxes under Obama's proposed tax plan compared to McCain's. This is according to the non-partisan Tax Policy Institute.as reported by CNN:> http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/11/news/economy/candidates... People making under $112,000 a year in individual (not household) income would pay less taxes under Obama's plan. By contrast, John McCain's tax cuts mostly benefit the top 10% of Americans. Under McCain's plan, people makingover 2.9 million dollars in individual annual income would get almost a million dollar tax break.
4) Last week, the Center for American Progress Action Fund released a new report by Michael Ettlinger estimating that under McCain's tax plan, he and his wife, Cindy, would save $373,429. That's nearly $400,000 -- per year, not over the course of their lifetimes. (Under Barack Obama's plan, the McCains would save less than $6,000. The Obamas would save nearly $50,000 under McCain's plan, and slightly more than $6,000 under Obama's plan own plan.)> http://mediamatters.org/items/200806270008
5) A running clock showing the cost of the war in Iraq: http://zfacts.com/p/447.html
Conclusion: Countless millions of Americans vote Republican because they believe they'll pay less taxes and that they'll have their money spent more responsibly. As you can see, those beliefs are directly contradicted by the facts. Of course we can choose to ignore the facts andinstead focus on which candidate is wearing a flag pin (you ever notice that Hillary and McCain don't wear them? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi5nbZvS9cg ) but I think we're a smarter country than that.
*Also take some time to reserach who owns the federal reserve....public and private.
For the latest full count of how the Obama campaign is counting the delegates,
go to:
www.Americans-Away-From-Home.com
Carole
Last night on Nightline, Jake Tapper gave an overview of the delegate math including the popular vote argument. I respectfully urge supporters of Hillary Clinton to watch this video and try to understand why Obama supporters would be outraged if he was denied the nomination. Imagine if Clinton was in Obama's current position. How would you feel if Obama made the case that he should win based on the popular vote and would take his case all the way to the convention?
Here's the link to watch the video: http://www.abcnews.go.com/video/playerindex?id=4908669
Here is the popular vote math from the video:
Popular vote (no Fla./Mich.) = Obama +570K
Popular vote (with Fla.) = Obama +270K
Popular vote (with Fla. & *Mich.) = Clinton +52K
*Michigan Total: Clinton = 328,309 votes, Obama = zero votes
(All this data can be verified by going here, though they break down the numbers as 564K for Obama without FL & MI and 58K for Clinton with FL & MI)
Hello Students ...
It's time for some Democratic Math Education ...First, the nominee for the democratic party is the one with the most delegates. Delegates are earned in two ways ... pledged, that is, delegates awarded by the vote of the people, and super delegates, people can vote for whoever they want and should vote for me because I say so an because I deserve this nomination ... because ... well ... I'm a Clinton, shall I say more? Imagine ... a Past President holding socials for the wives of visiting dignitaries ... Bill and a bunch of women ... how fitting and ironic!
Now ... back to the math. For the pledged delegates, we should count ALL the votes! Well, except for the "caucus" voters who voted for Obama ... they shouldn't be counted. Furthermore, we should especially count ALL the votes in Michigan. Not my fault that Obama followed the party rules that most of my supporters created and agreed to ... heck, I agreed to them at the time, but that was before I knew I would need those votes to gain a false majority. So ... don't count the caucus votes, count the Michigan votes and ask people to believe that "if" Barack was on the ballot he would have received ZERO votes, count Florida (we know what happened when some of the hanging chads didn't get counted there) and finally, encourage the Supers to vote for me because I am the only candidate that can get the "hard-working white" voters. Oh ... and did I mention that the only reason that Barack has gotten any votes at all is because he gets the black vote. Are they even allowed to vote in the General election?
Questions? No... Oregon doesn't count as "white voters" because they are highly educated! Remember, highly educated whites don't count either! Obviously, highly educated white men convince the women to vote for Barack instead of me ... hey folks, remember ... I'm a woman!
Isn't reinventing math fun? Remember, if for some reason I'm still not winning after this lesson, then we'll use the "it was just like the Zimbabwe vote" card.
YES WE CAN!
14.5 to a majority of pledged delegates110 to secure the nomination That avalanche that's coming - it's here. Obama gained 9 superdelegate votes and 3 pledged delegate votes over the weekend and Monday. What does that mean? Obama needs 14.5 pledged delegates to win a majority of pledged delegates, and 110 delegates to secure the nomination. Here's the list of new superdelegates voting for Obama: Cindy Spanyers and Blake Johnson from Alaska Larry Gates from Kansas Greg Pecoraro from Maryland Dwight Pelz from Washington State Senator Robert Byrd from West Virginia 1 add-on delegate in Kansas (Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson) 2 add-on delegates in California Plus the new pledged delegates voting for Obama: New pledged delegates:1 pledged delegate in Nevada reallocated because of the state convention 2 additional delegates previously pledged to John Edwards (for a total of 9 Edwards pledged delegates now supporting Obama)
Full Math here.
On March 28, over at Chris Weigant's blog, Chris asked his readers to place their bets (in quatloos) when Clinton would drop out of the Presidential race. Well, I've done pretty well so far. I predicted that Obama would surpass Clinton in Superdelegates before the West Virginia primary (got it right) and several of my delegate totals from the primaries were darn close (I didn't do so well on my original delegate estimate for Indiana). Also, I was only 1 day off for the John Edwards endorsement of Obama. My final prediction is Clinton drops out on June 16, just 31 days from now.
27. This is the magic number.
The blog editor won't allow tables ... so the rest of the post is over at The Dead Guy
Yesterday, Obama secured the support of 4 superdelegates (Reps. Henry Wexler, Jim McDermott and Howard Berman and Larry Cohen (CWA DNC)), 1 pledged delegate in North Carolina (because of updated vote tallies in the state) and 7 pledged delegates that had previously supported John Edwards. That means that the number for Obama to secure a majority of pledged delegates has gone down from 25 to 17. And the number Obama needs to secure the nomination is 121.5.
The Math
Total Pledged Delegates: 3,253
Pledged Delegates needed for a majority of pledged delegates: 1,627
Total delegates needed for nomination: 2,025
Edwards Pledged Delegates who are now Obama Delegates:7
Obama Pledged Delegates:1,603
Obama Super Delegates: 293.5
Obama Total Delegates:1,903.5
Delegates Obama needs for a majority of pledged delegates: 17
Obama need to secure the Democratic nomination: 121.5
Please make some calls and make a donation today http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/maingroup/newsmyrnaforobama and continue the momentum. We're getting close, but we need everyone to continue to be involved if we want to make this thing happen.
Tuesday, May 6th was another uplifting and depressing day, all at the same time. In Washington state, we have been struggling with standardized tests these last few weeks. As a teacher, I am glad to be through that period of time and move on. Just as I am glad to continue moving on through this eternal nominating campaign season.
I have done some math this evening that I would like to share for anyone interested since Senator Clinton has suggested that the delegates of Michigan and Florida should just be seated at the convention. At first, I was upset at the inequity of this concept since Senator Obama did not have his name on the ballot in Michigan. However, take a look at the following math that I have done and see if you agree with my conclusion that follows:
I have taken all the data to create these numbers from CNN.com therefore you can read all these numbers as "According to CNN's numbers...":
May 7, 2008
Senator Clinton has 1,685 delegates.
Senator Obama has 1,845 delegates.
Michigan has 128 delegates:
Senator Clinton earned only 55% of the vote for only 70 delegates.
Uncommitted and other candidates would receive the other 58 (potentially Obama delegates)
Florida has 185 delegates:
Senator Clinton earned only 50% of the vote for a maximum of 93 delegates.
Senator Obama earned 33% of the vote for 61 delegates.
Senator Edwards earned 14% for approx. 26 delegates.
Adding the Clinton delegates and the Obama delegates to the current totals would produce these new totals:
Senator Clinton would have 1,848 delegates.
Senator Obama would still lead with 1,906 delegates (and potentially many of the uncommitted and maybe even several of the Edwards in Florida).
Therefore, my conclusion is that if this is what makes peace in the Democratic party, let them be seated. Senator Obama will STILL be the candidate for the Democratic Party!
I know the MSM likes to make fun of Obama supporters because we LOVE math. I guess that's what happens when you are a reality-based campaign. But, as with the Pennsylvania primary, the numbers that are being reported by the media are a little off because they don't seem to know how to round correctly.
If you start with the raw numbers of votes you get the following in Indiana: Obama has 49.44% of the vote, Clinton has 50.56% of the vote. If you -- like the media -- round these first and then subtract (which is wrong) it looks like Clinton has a 2% lead. But if you subtract first (which is correct) then you see that Clinton has a 1.11% lead, which rounds to 1%. So correctly, Clinton won by 1% of the vote in Indiana.
Hardly a lead at all.
As for North Carolina, the same thing happens. Obama has 57.3% of the vote, and Clinton has 42.7% of the vote. If you round then subtract (wrong) it looks like Obama leads by 14%. But if you subtract and then round (correct) then Obama leads by 15%.
And if you haven't had enough numbers yet, consider also that Clinton just had to loan her campaign $6.4 million, on top of the $5 million she lent them a few months ago, plus the money she owes other people (last time she released a number for this, it was just under $10 million, half of which was owed to Mark Penn). If you assume she owes over $20 million (and it could be much higher) no wonder she started out her "victory" speech last night by begging for money.
Talk about deficit spending.
Expect to see new math this week from the Clinton Camp. It's been consistent since Super Tuesday when their poor planning and assumption that they had the nomination gave Obama the opportunity to show the American people that he is our candidate.
Every time it becomes clear that Obama has the nomination, Hillary tries to move the goal posts. Well, in the General Election she won't be able to change the rules to win. Maybe we should be supporting the candidate the can win honestly and without gimmicks and political trickery.
RawStory.com has a stpry about a North Carolina Super Delegate saying that the Clintons tried to buy her vote - link below.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Pressure_Mounting_on_IN_and_NC_0506.html
We now have the Presumptive Nominee of the Democratic Party - Barack Obama.
Stephanie Marushia, Virginia Beach, VA
After I saw this AP story at Yahoo, I decided to take a quick look at the delegates.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/campaign_delegates;_ylt=Apo5gJ6l1LlSUsiv85lNtd6s0NUEhttp://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Obama_takes_early_lead_in_race_for_delegates
What happens to Hillary's populist argument when she can't pass the Gas Tax Holiday in a Democratic Congress? How will she convince people that she can reach across the aisle and end gridlock when she can't even get her own party to rally behind her.
This will be the headline in November if people don't get behind Barack Obama. The Gas Tax promises Hillary made, but can't keep by any stretch of the imagination will end our hopes for an end to the Bush era. Hillary won Indiana by claiming she could give people a break on the gas tax - polls show that Rev Wright did not impact Obama much, if at all with white voters - his numbers remained steady, which says to me that once we have a nominee he won't have much trouble swaying white voters in the General once Hillary is no longer an option.
We need a Democrat in office and if a backroom deal takes the nomination away, one of the biggest wild cards no one is talking about for the general election is what will happen when Hillary's Gas Tax Stunt fails. McCain will say that even in a Democratic Congress and Senate Hillary did not keep her promise. He will say that it is even more proof that she is a politician that will say anything to get elected, but fail to deliver to the people that got her elected. McCain can simply blame the Democrats for a failure to pass the Gas Tax, saying it's further proof that Democrats don't care about the working class voter.
If Obama is the nominee he can simply show what happened in the past with Gas Tax Holidays. In the end they benefit Big Oil and Obama will use this as proof to the American people that McCain was pandering for votes. He can also say that with all of his experience McCain knew from the start who this "Holiday" would benefit and it will be more evidence that he is loyal to Big Business and Special Interests over all else. Over the past 8 years we have learned just how dangerous it is when Big Business essentially runs the government.
Even if you support Hillary or are undecided, tonights primaries have proven that she simply can't get the delegates to win. It's time to back the only viable candidate for the nomination before the Democratic Party self-destructs. If the Super Delegates have to decide this at the convention, we will have no time to come together to defeat McCain.
Hillary has to discount states or change rules to even make the argument that she can win the nomination. Obama has the math (any way you slice it), the money, the delegates, and the popular vote. Now Hillary is trying to change the number of delegates needed to win because she knows she can't reach the target currently set. It seems that if she can't win within the rules - change them again and again until she figures out a way to win.
So please, vote for the good of the American people and the Democratic Party. We can't win if the black community and voters under 40 stay home in November. We also need the Independents and Republicans that will vote for Obama but not Clinton. Many conservative voters will stay home rather than vote for McCain if Obama is the nominee, but the antipathy they have for the Clintons will cause them to come out en mass to defeat her if she somehow got the nomination.
Many Independents are upset with McCain for going so far to the right appease the extremist Jerry Fallwell/Pat Robertson contingent in the GOP. There are many that are sick of Bush and have left the GOP or gone a bit to the left because of a disasterous 8 years and the hold the extreme Christian Right now exerts on the party. Many have gone independent because of the war in Iraq and Obama has a much better shot of getting their votes than Hillary does. I have spoken to many of them when making phone calls for Senator Obama's campaign and I have changed quite a few minds and have swayed even more that were leaning towards Obama but still undecided to get behind him.
My final argument is that Hillary has not been "battle tested" as she claims. Obama has not stooped to Rovian tactics to get elected and McCain thus far has focused on Obama. In this election no one has not gone after her on any of her financial scandals. They have barely touched on her exaggeration of her foreign policy experience, neither has the main stream media. That will change drastically once this is a Democrat vs. Republican race instead of and intraparty struggle. If McCain and the GOP "Swiftboat" 527 organizations get to run against her in the General Election. They will also go after all of Bill Clintons pardons, Lincoln Bedroom "rentals," and Bill's Chinese business deals. This is going to get nasty, but Hillary has already dragged out anything she could get on Obama, and frankly all she can find is a couple of people he knows - nothing on the man himself.
Barack Obama only needs 277 delegates to become the Democratic nominee for President. Three delegates were added to Obama's delegate count today: Superdelegate Brian Colon, Chair of New Mexico's Democratic Party, and two delegates who were added-on from other contests. Here's the math!!
I was watching “The Daily Show” the other day where Jon presented the Pennsylvania primary results. I must say, as a Pennsylvanian and as an Obama supporter/volunteer that I absolutely loved the way Jon Stewart presented the results. It was almost as if he had read my mind. I could really relate with the video clip of the correspondents giving interviews in PA after the primary. Now that PA has NOT decided anything we are no longer important, nobody cares what we think. I find it amusing we got all this attention but after the party we woke up alone and forgotten. Tossed away like a piece of trash.
I was under no illusion that Barrack was going to win. I knew he would lose PA but I didn’t know by how much. The thing that is really driving me mad is how Hilary is doing this song and dance about how she amazingly won PA, acting as if she were the underdog in that state or something. She was predicted to win PA by a huge margin, why is she acting so shocked that she won, that she has turned the tide. Barack did what he could, his volunteers did what they could to try to cut into Hilary’s margin and make it a closer race but the odds of us actually winning were highly unlikely. The cable news networks have been going on an on about how much of a margin there would need to be for either of the candidates for them to consider it a win. Double digits was the magical number needed by Hillary to stay in the race as if she would actually drop out regardless of how awful the result could have been. Everybody has been going on about how she pulled it off and go her double digit lead in PA. I did the math and the margin was a 9.2 lead. Back when I was in Elementary school we were taught that if you are going to round a number to the next whole number, you take the last digit and if it is greater than 5 than you round the number up and if it less that five you round down, then there is this grey area about which direction you round if that digit is equal to 5 but that was not the case here. 9.2 clearly rounds down to 9. Jon was right – there are two digits in 9.2 – doesn’t seem to matter what side of them decimal point they fall on as long as there are two digits.
Hilary has some crazy new math she invented to prove that she’s winning the popular vote. First she doesn’t bother to count caucus states because she claims they don’t represent the real electorate (of course this has nothing to do with the fact that she loses in caucus states), then she goes on to include the popular vote from both Florida and Michigan even though these states had their delegates stripped because the broke the rules. Neither candidate campaigned in Florida which is a disservice to Obama because he has often gone into states with these huge margins in Clintons favor but he has managed to cut into her leads and often does better than expected in states that Strongly favored Clinton.
To make matters worse Obama wasn’t even on the ticket in Michigan because all the candidates were asked to remove their names from the ballot because the vote here wasn’t going to count. Everybody removed their names except Hillary which works out very conveniently for her in her new math system. She gets all the poplar votes from that state and just ignores the fact that some of those uncommitted votes would have gone to Obama had his name stayed on….but we will never know. It wouldn’t be fair to give him all the uncommitted votes either because I’m sure there were individuals that wanted to vote for Edwards in that mix of uncommitted. She couldn’t even win a state where he name was the only one on the ballot. Her math gets even more complex when she starts declaring that she has won all the big states, all the states that are important in the general election. Basically she is stepping on and trash talking all the states that didn’t’ vote for her, saying they aren’t important. The only states that matter are the big ones that she has won. Lets not forget that Obama did walk away from Texas with more delegates even though many of the media networks still give the win in Texas to Clinton.
I’m just sick and tired of the cable news networks rehashing the same old shit day after day. Watching The Daily Show is like a breath of fresh air in the midst of all this indecision insanity and cable news bullshit.
Turn that frown upside down! Accoding to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Election Results page, Senator Obama received 45% of the vote to Senator Clinton's 54%. There are 158 pledged delegates to be awarded in the contest.
Some are awarded based on the state's breakdown and others are awarded by congressional seat vote count. But even if Senator Clinton picked up 90 delegates and Senator Obama received 68, Senator Obama would still be ahead 1588 to 1339, and with 30 state wins to her 15.
And over 10,000 new donors added their support to Senator Obama after the PA primary.
So, don't dispare! There are still 9 primaries to go...
JillS - One Hopeful Mom
THERE WILL NOT BE A RE-VOTE. NEVER HAPPEN.
Mark these words: There will NOT ever be a re-vote in MI & FL. No way. Not politically or legally possible. Too dangerous to touch. Can't be made to fly. This was my opinion in posts made a month ago. Hillary and all the insiders knew this all along. The thing is, Hillary's kicking up dust about these two states for use as a consideration bargaining chip with the DNC. AND, no one want's to touch this very hot potato (or more acurately, be on record opposing a revote), because that of course, would be politically lethal. So everyone is posturing and tap dancing, with half-hearted gestures, whistling and looking at their shoes, waiting for the clock to run out, so the subject can then finally die a natural death. Insidiously, every time we participate in this debate, we play into Hillary's plan.
Frankly, this is all silly. Those paying close attention knew that Hillary was toast somewhere between Wisconsin and Texas. I believe the Clinton team knows the game is lost. I'm guessing they're either waiting to see if something left-field blows up on Barack, or they're otherwise going to fold soon. Anyone want to guess the date? I get dibbs on May 10th. I think they're giving themselves till then, to see if the winds change. The only Clinton friendly state after PA is Puerto Rico, and maybe WV. She's toast folks! Everyone knows she simply can't overcome the math, and everyone is watching way too closely, for anyone to get away with underhanded back-room manipulations.
Make no mistake, media is business, that business is sponsors, and sponsors are happy when people tune in, and people tune in when a race is neck and neck. So they knock the winner down a peg, boost the loser up a peg, and if one side dies, like the movie Weekend At Bernies, they'll prop up the dead corpse for as long as possible. In short, it's in the media's best interest for this thing to go on into the sunset. Hoping and carrying on for Hillary to win, means one hasn't done their homework, or doesn't have the integrity to face facts.
THE NUTS AND BOLTS
Yes, we all feel bad for disenfranchised Michigan & Florida voters. Voting is a snapshot in time. And timelines should not be corrupted. If you break a cherished glass, you can repair it or replace it, but it's not the same. The original is irreplaceable. A revote would be tainted, because voters would be influenced by different dynamics, with different understandings and consequences that did not exist in January. For one thing, Edwards is no longer the factor that he was. Independents & Republicans who wanted to vote blue, but voted red cause a blue vote wouldn't count, are now locked in and stuck. The Limbaugh plan of vote tampering, Republicans disingenuously voting for Hillary, did not exist before. Those who were able to vote before, because they planned for it, particularly "snowbirds", may not be able to vote now. People who knew their vote would not count, responded a certain way to that. Collectively, they would clearly respond differently if they know their vote WOULD count.
As they stand, Michigan's results will never be counted. With Barack & Edwards not on the ballot, it'd be WW III and everyone knows it.
All the good boys and girls knew the rules going in, and were treated equally. Now the loser wants to wangle a change of the rules. The entire blame lies with the party officials in those two states. They wanted the power of a higher voting date profile so bad, that they gambled people's votes, and lost. Trying to rig something else up now, one way or another, would just be wrong, prolong the nomination nightmare, incur insurmountable legal hurdles, and leave one faction feeling cheated. As the phrase goes "No good can come from this". It would insure what the DNC was trying to stop, initiating an endless pattern of states leap-frogging primary dates for a higher profile.
The right thing is to let it go. Seat those delegates 50/50 out of respect and deference to the voters, and otherwise drop it. Chalk it up to lessons learned. You can be sure that all the states WILL obey the rules next time.
Let's take a look at the upcoming primary calendar shall we.
Apr 22 - Pennsylvania 158 (Probably Clinton by 8 to 10 points)May 3 - Guam 4 (tough call, I'm guessin Obama)May 6 - Indiana 72 (I figure a tie, or Obama by a point or two) - North Carolina 115 (need you ask, OK, Obama 61, Clinton 39)May 13 - West Virginia 28 (Probably Clinton by 10 to 12 points)May 20 - Kentucky 51 (Obama for sure, by 8 or 10 points) - Oregon 52 (you guessed it, way Obama, by say 10 points)Jun 1 - Puerto Rico 55 (probably Clinton, by say 14 points)Jun 3 - Montana 16 (Obamarama, by 15 points) - South Dakota 15 (Obamaville, by 12 points)
Things look good! To better days!
