Entry 9

Obama says he has lead, as poll shows Romney a head and gaining among women

Fox News, October 25, 2012

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/25/after-obama-claims-has-lead-new-poll-again-shows-romney-ahead/

 

Summary

The President's popularity rate has been declined from last month's. During the interview with NBC, the President said that he outweighs the governor Romney among women voters. However, according to the poll held by Associated Press-GfK, Mitt Romney is practically leading Obama among women voters. Although the Romney made an indiscrete remark that implies abortion issues as a part of rape and incest, he still keeps higher approval of women voters than Obama does. Furthermore, in economic realm, women voters tend to trust Romney more than Obama, an situation that was just an opposite in the last month. In order to pull up the popularity rates, both candidate is putting enormous efforts on political campaigns. 

My thought

Actually, I believe that the changes in popularity trend is extremely significant in this period as the election is coming up closer. Even though it is the slim difference, this slight difference would determine what candidate will be the 45th President of the United States. As a matter of fact, this situation would be tough for both candidates. Since the President was used to outweigh Romney among women voters, it would be desperate for him to attract women supporters that Romney has taken. On the other hand, Romney would also have a hard time pulling up the popularity rate among women voters and making a significant gap between the President. For the most part, the campaign for October and November would determine the winner, and it is obvious they should make a spurt until the last minute.  

Entry 8

Ohio Appealing to Supreme Court on Early Voting

Fox News, October 09, 2012

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/09/ohio-appealing-to-supreme-court-on-early-voting/

Summary

In Ohio, state and Democratic Party are in controversies over setting state election law that limited early vote of residents for Friday evening before Tuesday's election while only excepting military personnel and oversee residents. Secretary of State Jon Husted appealed to the Supreme Court that it is state's rights and authority to settle exceptional election laws that offers various options for Ohio voters and insist state legislature is in charge of setting state election laws, while Democratic Party claim that state law giving unequal voting rights to the people is unconstitutional and outweighs state's authority. While this controversial election law is becoming the issue in election this year, it is the Supreme Court's decision to make an acceptable decision.

My thought

Even though it is state's authority to set election laws for the state, it is not proper to make laws that differentiate the voting rights of people. In fact, there are about 93,000 people who voted before election day 2008, a statistic that shows many people cast vote during that period. However, limiting votes of vast majority of Ohio resident during such an imperative period is unconstitutional and beyond the authority of state. For the most part, Supreme Court would also decide the law as unconstitutional and prevent Ohio to implement such a improper laws.

Entry 7

Mitt Romney begins to open mouth about taxation plan

Romney gets specific on tax plan

http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/10/03/romney-gets-specific-tax-plan

Fox News, October 3, 2012

Summary
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney was hit hard by Obama for not adequately preparing for the taxation plan, but he finally brought something to the debate about tax. To reduce across-the-board tax rate while maintaining deficit neutral, all the people would have $17,000 reductio or they can choose another reduction in either charity, healthcare, or mortgage. Though he did not specifically defined what will it be about, he laid the table for debate about taxation policy

Romney signals limits on tax breaks

http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/03/news/economy/romney-tax-plan/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

CNN, October 3, 2012

Summary
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney finally suggested something about taxation policy, which is reducing income tax for 20 percent. He mentioned that there are another option instead of $17,000 deduction and there would be small numbers in higher income earners who would gain benefits from this policy. Besides capping tax rates, it is assumed that Romney would have more agendas about taxation policy, but Policy Tax Center speculates that his plan would reduce around $500 billion of revenue per year. Still, there is no clearly defined policy for taxation plan, and it is too early to estimate the impact of policy that are not even defined properly.

My thoughts

Even though both articles deal with the same issue that Romney finally opened his mouth about taxation plan, the attitude the the Fox News and CNN were quite different. While Fox News seems to imply that there would be some kind of big debate about taxation policy in near future, CNN pessimistically states that there are not much done for taxation policy, so it is too fast to make speculations about the estimated impact of Romney's ambiguous plan that is subject to change. For the most part, it was really interesting to see different perspective each press takes on the same issue, and I agree with CNN's opinion since Romney did not actually do anything about taxation policy yet.