Trying to Bring Down Romney

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/17/election-oracle-non-mitts-land-hits.html

Jan 17th, 2012

Election Oracle

Romney's position in the race was 7 points over the past week to 66%. Now his rating is a negative 36. This decrease was caused by the four people he is running against. 

The online conversation about Romney has been more negative than anybody, including Obama, since his New Hampshire win last week. He is the first republican to open the primary season with back-to-back wins

The Oracle recieve 40,000 new sites, blogs, message boards, twitter feeds, and other media sources. They convey how people feel about candidates, whether it is positive or negative. Like most general elections, your opponent's loss is your gain. That is one of the reasons why Romney's lead has grown, his opponent's lead has lessen. 

Gingrich's Suggestions

Jan 17th,12

Shana Shepard

Gingrich urges Santorum and Perry to drop out of the race so they all can come together and be in the anti-Romney campaign. Gingrich said that he will be delighted if they want to endorse him but it is still their decision  to make. 

Gingrich basically wants to come together with Perry and Santorum so they can beat Mitt Romney on Saturday. Gingirch needs to win South Carolina's primary in order to stay in the race. Santorum's opinion on Gingrich is that he is his friend but he think he will hurt him in this campaign. 

 Gingrich spent the day at multiple events in Florence and Columbia trying to convince voters he is the best GOP candidate to go up against President Barack Obama in the general election. He comments that Santorum doesn't  have knowledge to set up a conservative alternative to Obama that will be effective and strategic. 

Romney's Victories

http://www.freep.com/article/20120110/NEWS15/120110072/Mitt-Romney-s-victory-speech-Tonight-we-made-history-?odyssey=nav|head

Martha Moore

Jan 10, 2012

Mitt Romney is the definitely the big man on campus now that he has won both Iowa and New Hampshire. He is the first to do so since Iowa took the leadoff role in 1976. He made a little reference to this when he said "Tonight we made history."

 

Mitt goes on a rant or what some would call a speech, after the final results showing that he won New Hampshire, he went on to just attack President Obama by saying that in 2008 he made a lot of promise that he didn't end up keeping, and also so accused him and the other GOP Rivals of putting free enterprise on trial. 

In his first presidential run in 2008, Romney finished second in the state to eventual GOP presidential candidate John McCain. He is off in a great lead this nomination. 

ECON professor for Pres?

Laurence Kotlikoff is an enconomics professor at Boston University. He is planning to run for president as a third-party candidate. "I think I may be the first economist to run for president," Kotlikoff said. "We see economists now running Greece and Italy. It's not everyday that an economist decides to work this way for his country -- but I'm one of those cases."


He has never ran for public office and he wants a secure place on the 2012 ballot as an independent. He plans on doing this through a new online nomination, website: AmericansElect.org.


He is the author of 15 books and a regular columnist for Bloomberg.com. He also served as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, central banks and international agencies. 


He is centering on his plan called the "Purple Plan" and is hoping it will appeal to both parties. (Blue Democrats and Red Republicans). People are questioning whether a nonpartisan candidate could have a serious change of winning. There at 165 other people that are on file with the Federal Election Commission as presidential candidates.  

Slipping in Econ 101

http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/09/news/economy/presidential_candidates_economics/index.htm
Charles Riley
Nov 9th, 2012

Every candidate in the 2012 Election went to college and graduated. However, its has been decades since they stepped onto campuses. This article was questioning whether or not it is time for an Econ 101 refresher course. Colleges students say yes. They say that the ideas and policies that candidates have been offering would not go far in Econ 101 because there are many economic misstatements being made.

A Econ 101 teacher at Swarthmore College said ideas that these candidates offer would earn a failing grade in his class. Some ideas are Bachmann's promise to bring back $2 gas, Tim Pawlenty wanted to sustained 5% of GDP growth, and Rick Perry's balance of lower tax revenues.

Their ideas are irresponsible according to the economics class. They are said to be promising things that are impossible to deliver.

Santorum's Tax Plan

http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/05/news/economy/santorum_taxes/
Jeanne Sahadi
Jan 5th, 2012

Santorum's tax plan should awaken more people since he has risen in the race. He said he will reduce the number of income tax brackets for 10% to 28%. He will also triple what his campaign identifies as the personal deduction that parents can claim for their children.

He is also willing to eliminate the so-called marriage penalty, which usually causes two-earner couples to owe more in federal income taxes than if they filed as individuals. He will eliminate the Alternative Mininum Tax and the Estate Tax. Santorum wants to reduce the capital gains rate from 15% to 12%.


For businesses, he would cut the corporate income tax rate in half to 17.5% and eliminate it entirely for manufacturers. Santorum proposes to simplify the tax code but he wants to simultaneously focus on the most popular deductions (health insurance, retirement savings and mortgage interest).

Gingrich hopes for a ballot push from Virginia

December 20, 2012
Katharine Q Seelye


Newt Gingrich is getting a head start on the election ballot, deciding to veer off the campaign trail and head there on Wednesday. On Tuesday, he hastily added two events in Virginia to his schedule, to meet and greet with the volunteers early in the morning.

In order to get on Virgina's Republican presidential primary ballot, he needed a total amount of at least 10,000 signatures. The signature-gathering exercise is where Mr. Gingrich’s lack of field organization shows whereas Mitt Romney had already tackled the challenge.

Mr. Gingrich expresses his worry for not getting the signatures fast enough by Thursday. If he is close to the needed number and reaches it, his last-minute push could serve as a heartening sign of strength.