I think Obama by a hair, but who cares. One candidate will savage the economy, the other will continue to savege our civil rights. I don't feel like I can pick the lesser of two evils, except that there is no evidence that Romney will turn back any of the advances in the trimming down of our civil liberties, so maybe Obama is the better terrible candidate. On the other hand, who knows maybe Romney could do alright on the economy. He has certainly not said what he intends to do yet and maybe he could push some decent subtle improvements through. I think that lowering the corporate tax rate, getting rid of loopholes and simplifying the tax code would be great. I don't think that we need more tax cuts unless we are aggressively cutting the deficit, I certainly don't think that investment income needs to be more sheltered from taxes which are policies that he seems to embrace.
Yes, I recall in 2008 when he was asked if water-boarding was torture, he said he'd have to consult Erik Prince, the head of Blackwater about it. I don't think he's worried about Obama's erosion of civil liberties. But, I'm just looking for predictions. It's interesting to me how people see the same race differently.I don't feel like I can pick the lesser of two evils, except that there is no evidence that Romney will turn back any of the advances in the trimming down of our civil liberties, so maybe Obama is the better terrible candidate.