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White voters are a critical group for Mitt Romney, given the ongoing decline in the percentage of white non-Hispanic voters in the electorate and the strong support for Obama among non-white voters. But Romney is doing somewhat better than McCain among younger white voters.
While Romney is winning the white working class vote, it is by a smaller margin than four years ago. The question of how attitudes about racial and ethnic minorities would affect voter support for Barack Obama has been asked ever since he first appeared as a viable candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in Analysis conducted in found that voters who expressed conservative attitudes on questions dealing with race and ethnicity were less likely to say they would vote for Obama in the general election.
This was especially true during the presidential primary amidst the controversy over statements about race by Rev. Attitudes about race and ethnicity remain associated with the vote in But after taking into account partisan affiliation and demographic characteristics, the independent impact of these attitudes on the vote is modest, and no greater now than it was four years ago.
Corporations would see their taxes reduced from 35 percent to 28 percent. Obama added he'd close loopholes and, in doing so, provide an incentive for companies to keep their profits at home, thus broadening the tax base and government revenue.
Mitt Romney -- In the short term, Romney wants to make permanent the "Bush tax cuts," which lowered the top marginal rate from He would maintain the current rates on interest, capital gains and stock dividends. Going forward, Romney is pushing an "across-the-board 20 percent cut" for everyone. He promises the cuts would be deficit neutral, but has yet to offer details about how he would offset the lost revenue, only suggesting that certain deductions like for giving to charity could be capped.
Romney would also eliminate the estate tax, which conservatives refer to as the "death tax. Among the controversial law's many provisions, some of which have already gone into effect, insurers are required to allow children to stay on their parent's plan until age 26; insurers can no longer put a "cap" on lifetime reimbursements; insurers must accept customers with "pre-existing conditions"; insurers are required to spend at least 80 to 85 percent of premiums on patients; and states must set up "exchanges," a sort of supermarket for people who are not covered to find, ideally, the most cost-effective plans for them.
Insurers are also now compelled to provide preventive care services, including contraceptive care for women, without co-payments or additional charges. Romney -- Pledged to begin work to repeal "Obamacare" from "day one. Romney has, at times, said he would like to keep some of the more popular provisions of the president's reform, but has offered no firm commitment. Benefits guaranteed under the program are not altered by the law.
Obama has also added money to close the so-called prescription drug "donut hole. Romney -- First, no change in benefits for beneficiaries or anyone nearing retirement age 55 or older. After that, it gets a bit murky. Romney has promised to "preserve Medicare" for future generations, but he'd do it by pushing a "premium support" plan, which means that instead of Medicare paying doctors, as it does now, the program would give money to seniors, who would then use that stipend to pick and purchase their own plans.
Like Romney, he has distanced himself from past support of stricter legislation, including a mailer in which he indicated support for a possible ban on "the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns. Romney -- Despite signing a ban on assault weapons while governor of Massachusetts — saying at the time, "These guns are not made for recreation or self defense.
They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people" — Romney has no plans to change gun control laws at the federal level. Has long said he opposes the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal law that defines marriage as being between one man and one woman, and has called for its repeal. His Justice Department ceased defending the law in legal battles, an unprecedented move.
Despite his stated support, Obama says he has no plans to push federal legislation compelling the states to recognize same-sex marriages. Romney -- Says he will "champion" a constitutional amendment "defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman.
Romney -- Does not explicitly oppose it, but his initial support has wavered. Now, he "acknowledges" the right of same-sex couples to adopt, but would, it seems, defer to states on the issue. Internationally, Obama unleashed more drone attacks in one year than Bush did in eight years. None of this is to argue that voting for Romney would be a step forward. Romney offers a shit sandwich. Obama asks if you want fries with it. The two candidates are part of the plutocracy governing America, and that the alternative is to build struggles to force them to adopt pro-people not pro-profit policies.
Out of that might arise a challenge to both the parties of US capitalism, one that expresses the anger and frustration many Americans have with policies as usual and ultimately challenges the rule of capital. There is something else in all of this. US politics, like Australian politics, has swung far to the Right over the last few decades.
Hey Tea Party, looking for a fight? Step from your Right to your really far Right!
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