>>... It was pretty clear to me during the debates that Romney and Obama hate each other. Their body language said it all.
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>During the first debate I viewed the first part with german translation, later on switched to original version - interesting expirience.
>Then I followed up with again viewing original with picture and sound, then only listening and then only watching without sound
>From that my gut reaction was strong conviction that Mit was lying on a much grander scale - posted that back then,
>even though I think myself to be more in line with republican theory on debt reduction, small government and similar issues
>- although in some issues I hope to be pragmatic.
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>I also check facts and realize that the fiscal numbers during rep presidency don't always show better debt control -
>except for Obama the Rep presidents hiked the deficit more than the Dems in my lifetime. I am not strong enough on the subject
>to decide if Dem presidents only reaped the fruits from Rep presidents having corrected the course of the oil tanker gov spending is
>- but Bush jun. IMO was as bad as Carter was for the US with financing 2 wars purely on credit.
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>>... A few weeks ago, I took one of those online surveys that is supposed to predict who you will vote for based on your answers to a few questions. As with the country as a whole, it came out split, Romney and Obama tied in the survey.
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>Same here with a link Charles provided - and as Charles predicted,
>my views were most correlated with the independant Brandon will vote for,
>even if that is only for kicks... Obama and Romney not tied but close.

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