Michelle Goldberg’s video essay, produced for the Daily Beast website, gets at one of the big questions of the 2012 campaigns. Will miffed progressives pack their bags and bag Obama? Will lefty dissatisfaction with this administration tip the White House to a far more conservative president? Check out her arguments and chime in below.
“You might have heard that the Social Security system currently takes in more money than it pays out in order to try to handle the baby boomer problem. What happens with the excess money the system collects? The Social Security system buys U.S. Treasury bonds with the surplus. Essentially, the government (in the form of the Social Security Administration) loans the surplus to itself”
It looks like other voting blocs may be more important than the youth vote in 2012. What will independent voters do this time around? A poll in the last couple days shows this group souring on the current Republican field.Will Ron Paul run as a third party candidate? And, what happens if America Elect finds a credible candidate.
In NYS, like you say, it makes no difference at all. But in states that decide elections, Colorado for example, this is a big deal.
“You might have heard that the Social Security system currently takes in more money than it pays out in order to try to handle the baby boomer problem. What happens with the excess money the system collects? The Social Security system buys U.S. Treasury bonds with the surplus. Essentially, the government (in the form of the Social Security Administration) loans the surplus to itself”
From “how stuff works”
It looks like other voting blocs may be more important than the youth vote in 2012. What will independent voters do this time around? A poll in the last couple days shows this group souring on the current Republican field.Will Ron Paul run as a third party candidate? And, what happens if America Elect finds a credible candidate.