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More Than the Debate

I think Molly Ball is on to something here. I’ve been thinking the same – the debate, the Univision Interview and the convention speech, though she points to the 60 Minutes interview too. It wasn’t just the debate. Obama had had a few similar outings in the month or so before Denver. They just got less attention.

I don’t agree that those events were already dragging Obama down. In themselves they didn’t matter. But they do tell me Obama just hadn’t prepped the way he should have for the high stakes live event.

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Scared? Get Scared

It’s looking like a Romney victory – inter alia – would mean Medicare abolished and replaced with a voucher program this Spring.

From Jon Chait …

Let’s first imagine that, on January 20, Romney takes the oath of office. Of the many secret post-victory plans floating around in the inner circles of the campaigns, the least secret is Romney’s intention to implement Paul Ryan’s budget. The Ryan budget has come to be almost synonymous with the Republican Party agenda, and Romney has embraced it with only slight variations. It would repeal Obamacare, cut income-tax rates, turn Medicare for people under 55 years old into subsidized private insurance, increase defense spending, and cut domestic spending, with especially large cuts for Medicaid, food stamps, and other programs targeted to the very poor.

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