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Romney tacks to the center, Obama silent on 47 percent
U.S. President Barack Obama (L) listens as Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) speaks during the Presidential Debate on October 3, 2012 in Denver, Colorado.
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Last night's debate brought a number of what seem -- at first blush -- like novel developments: Pivots on critical issues by Romney; the president leaving out seemingly obvious talking points.
"It is not surprising, and the third element where Romney tacked to the center was compromise," says Frank Newport, editor-in-cheif of Gallup. Also, not so surprising was the president's choice leave out Romney's 47 percent comments. "Our polling shows that Americans are actually sympathetic to the themes that Romney was making with the 47 percent," says Newport, with almost two-thirds stating that Americans are too dependent on the government.
Looking forward to the vice presidential debate next week, American's favorability of Biden and Ryan are about equal. Newport says not to statke too much on the face-off though, "hard to say based on history that the VEEP debate is going to make much difference in the overall outcome."
The American people overwhelmingly want the current income inequity reversed and a return to a strong middle-class. Both inequity and the killing of the middle-class happened with free-market globalization.....we know that. So, for media not to question both candidates about how a profit-driven market that seeks to minimize all costs....labor being one, service quality the other with each adversely affecting 95% of the public is to miss the point of election politics. The people set the issues and the politicians are elected by their willingness to do the will of the people. If media keep letting the politicians set the issues.....'this is what will give people what they want'.....then we do not have elections in America. All people know that and this is why polls show media down with politicians and banks at 13% for trust.
You need to state clearly that the issues being put forward by Obama and Romney favor corporations and why and then put out issues that really do favor the people and ask these politicians why they are not addressing them. To allow these two to state they are for the middle-class is hypocrisy; to allow them to say they support a safety net even as it is being dismantled is hypocrisy.
