There's noticeably a bundle to find out about this. I assume you made sure good factors in features also.

"Missing the point"

don't think so. the point right now isn't Republican v Democrat, that's a whole other game, to commence after this hilarious bout of public self-mutilation by the Republican candidates.

whatever swing voters do exist, will have had months of attack ads disseminated via the interwebs. so when POTUS elections come around Democrats can just provide URLs via twitter/facebook/etc etc of Republican paid for attack ads, and general back stabbing/infighting.

that's the point you keep failing to address Cheesers...

"most voters are secure in their side of liberal vs conservative."

that used to be paramount. however, as the attack ads illustrate, some of the front runners have stood on platforms that are anything but conservative. some were/are downright progressive. the united front that was always the strongest suit of the GOP has fragmented ideologically, and even worse news is that there is another conflict, that of Christian allegiance/interpretation. many religious Republicans aren't too keen on Mormons, or have i got that all wrong too...?

http://www.pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/Romneys-Mormon-Faith-Like...

nope, recent research says i am spot on.

(see what i did there Cheesers? i provided evidence rather than make things up)

way to go Newt!

i love this Republican bloodbath, stabbing each other in the back with the exact same venom they normally reserve for the opposition. c'est tres amusant, n'est pas?

@jankle: I've got you at least acknowledging 15.2% US unemployment, loser. Hope you're watching US dollar/euro parity ratio this year- save your pennies big boy..again, the US accepts 1 million "legal" aliens each year, what has Dutch country done, Van der Sloot?

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"I've got you at least acknowledging 15.2% US unemployment"

and do you know how this happened? because we both could review verifiable reliable data. something you failed to do for days. hope you've learned your lesson.

so for your next lesson, this data we agree on shows a change from 16.6% to 15.2% in 1 year.

does that mean;
a) unemployment is getting worse
b) unemployment is getting better
c) unemployment is unchanged
d) dunno man, i am too fucking thick to figure it out

well genius?

@jankosloot: see Jan 15 19:58. I won't do your work for you & you need mucho. Final time, if you honestly think the US economy is in great shape- you're exactly what I thought- a euro with no clue about US economy & politics. You read the legacy media dribble w/your socialist glasses & think you are an expert. Huntsman just endorsed Mittens Romney- all is forgiven there. Mitt looks likely to be the nominee. Your man 0bama-lama may not even agree to any debates b/c he is a teleprompter empty suit & Dem Senate has no budget for -going on 3 years now- stupendous! It's 3 yrs of NO Growth with never before seen levels of printing of money thanks to the Harvard grad. Landslide baby, can't wait!

@jankers: "bloodbath". Most of this is media driven. The Internet is the piece you are missing. Dinosaur TV media is losing viewership. The misery index in US is off the charts. QE3 Fed action will fire it up more as well as summer gasoline prices increase. If a fair election can be had, 0bomania is gone.

"Good post John"
the kiss of death right there...

"you can't argue facts with Jackass."

is that so ButtFucks? ok then, let's hear a couple of 'facts' that i have argued against, denied, or whatever. go on, shouldn't take a brilliant man like you very long. and do make sure you provide the source of your facts, otherwise you might as well just make stuff up.

"Watch the silence in here when the Democrats get going."

you actually think i am a fan of Obama and/or the Democratic party...?!

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ffs you can't even do a bloody multiple choice, you repeat lies about me that i have corrected more than once, and you won't answer where on the globe you are.

done with you.

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"U6 figures (do you know what that is?- look it up) is historically high."

you make the claim, you provide the sources lazy bones. not doing your homework for you young man.

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lol. the lone warrior you link to is on a crusade against bad statistics! he "exposes and analyzes flaws in current U.S. government economic data and reporting".

now that's funny. i'll stick to more conservative proven sources of data, rather than lone nutters. so what does the US Federal agency, charged with matters statistical in the labour force of the US, have to say? predictably enough they published polar opposite findings;

http://www.bls.gov/

the real unemployment figure is 8.5% not the 15.6% you and Don Quixote magic together.

now i understand why you never provide your sources: they are delusional fantasy.

@janksta: your listed site won't track walk-aways & underemployed- it's kind of the reason why the Internet, non-legacy media & individual research is important. Here is the closest your referenced website will say about their lack of coverage on the real U rate: "Because of the difficulty of developing an objective set of criteria which could be readily used in a monthly household survey, no official govt statistics are available on the total # of persons who might be viewed as underemployed. Even if many or most could be identified, it would still be difficult to quantify the loss to the economy of such underemployment". So even though the number is out there (U6), they won't list it or comment on it. I chuckle when I think of you, a Dutch man, trying to tell an American how great our current economy is. Loser...

Well kiss mah grits. Ah knew thar wus somethang shifty bout him. He kaint clame ta be Cajun eirthr. He's dun fer.

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hilarious bit of back peddling;

"your listed site won't track walk-aways & underemployed"

(my site? it's your Federal Government's ffs) yet a few minutes later;

"your referenced website does list U6"

lol

though, mea culpa, i now realise i was wrong to compare 2 different US data sets. what is great though is that now we agree on the correct source for this data. and what can we see from this? here goes;
U6 at end of 2010 16.6%
U6 at end of 2011 15.5%

that's what is called an 'improvement' is it not? good. just like i said then. and as your Federal Agency says in their most recent Employment Situation Summary (same site of course); unemployment is trending down, not up as you wish/dream/imagine/fantasise...

"I chuckle when I think of you, a Dutch man, trying to tell an American how great our current economy is. "

which i have never done, not once. i think your economy stinks, as do both your main political parties. but the current POTUS at least seems to be fixing things incrementally for the better.

and for a fact you could learn an awful lot from the Dutch regarding employment.

http://portalseven.com/employment/unemployment_rate_euro.jsp?region=nl

your Federal Agency shows The Netherlands with an unemployment rate of around 4% where you have a whopping 8% or so. and who did you think the losers were you silly boy..?

@jankeister: Big improvement. I've got you reading & 2. you are now discussing the info you read- keep it going! You now acknowledge & understand U6, a figure you didn't even know about 3 days ago, marvelous.. "improvement in the US economy"? you can't be that galactically stupid, can you? Your man Barry 0 has tripled the spending, QE3 coming soon, snuck in 0bamacare Christmas Eve (which would nationalize 1/6 of US economy) & has a staff of crony crooks & thieves (at least the ones we know of due to un-vetted Czar appointments) & now his end-around the Constitution on forced appointments during a Congressional recess. Your Hollandaize sauce country could get pulled down with the lowering parity of Euro vs US dollar this year- but you still ride the sinking boat idea of MR Messiah over here. US legally accepts 1 million aliens each yr, what have you done? Your typical numbskull thinking is part of the problem.

@jank-sloot: thought you were done- I didn't think so. The absurdity of lecturing a national on what's happening in their own country escapes you I guess...alcoholic, maybe?? Or just hate the cold winters in the Nethers as a senior? I knows it's tough..Curse words make you seem uneducated- empty vocabulary. Again, state your thoughts but make nice.