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Romney wins first presidential debate on Xbox Live
by Steve Watts, Oct 05, 2012 9:30am PDTWhether for the interest in politics or just wanting free Avatar armor, the Xbox Live airing of the presidential debates drew in plenty of users. Microsoft has revealed a few statistics from its live polls, and just as the reaction from pundits and politicos, Romney came out on top.
IGN reports that 11% of the voters identified themselves as undecided, and 17% said they were leaning toward President Obama or Republican candidate Mitt Romney. In 9 out of 10 questions, Romney exceeded his baseline of support, while Obama suffered the inverse with 8 out of 10 questions losing support. 88% of respondents said they are "likely voters" and 69% said they will "definitely talk" to people about the election. Microsoft said that the daily polls have attracted roughly 10,000 users, and that the debate polls "far exceeded this number."
Three more debates are set for this presidential election, all of which will be similarly streamed on Xbox Live. The vice presidential candidates take the stage on October 11. The presidential candidates will spar town hall-style over foreign and domestic policy on October 16, and then discuss foreign policy alone on October 22.
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Microsoft has released live poll stats from its first streamed presidential debate, and says Romney came out gaining support.
Microsoft has released live poll stats from its first streamed presidential debate, and says Romney came out gaining support. : Shacknews
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As soon as he has a willing Congress? His party had control for 2 years... removing the DADT does one thing... lets you openly serve as a second class citizen. If he wants to do something for LGBT's then give them the same rights/benefits as straight couples. Currently if you're openly gay in the military you can bring your spouse to family functions but you aren't awarded a housing allowance like a straight married couple.
Yes Iran is not part of START and the idea of only being able to blow up the world three times over is better? Excusing missing the big picture that it wouldn't take Russia or the USA to spark the match.. just if we could find some country that openly wants to wipe another off the map.
Libya: relevance... a misguided foreign policy. Apologizing and trying to shift the blame/cover up AQ attacks does not help. There will come a time when people need to understand it doesn't matter if we bomb every Muslim country or simply pull back completely to the CONUS. A sitting President that covers up the killing of a US ambassador should be removed.
If you want a few tips on Afghanistan here ya go: Allow the US to be more aggressive. The troop surge should have been more and also for a longer period, the greatest cost associated with the surge is moving the gear in/out of the country. In Iraq the surge worked because we setup all over the place in COPs, PBs, FOBs that acted like little stations for faster response. In Afghanistan we don't do that in most places. We did in Sangin, we didn't in Washier or other areas that allow the enemy freedom of movement. It's very simple. The people in those villages are not fans of the Taliban/AQ, they aren't fans of us either. However the difference is they know we won't be there every night to protect them and allow them to develop anything and thus are forced to assist the Taliban out of fear of retribution.
Obama's party controlled Congress for two years. If he can't convince his own party then there are certainly problems. He has been ineffective outside of pushing Obamacare through Congress in which they apparently didn't even have time to read it. He has been a grossly ineffective President and that fact is shown that he isn't running off of his own "feats" but rather it's Bush's fault or attacking Romney. If you want to attack Romney that is certainly more than fair however to not be able to show anything great you've done.. that is telling.
Would anyone not spike the football? Well I'd like to think some would have enough sense to wait before doing so to be able to exploit any intel gathered during the raid. That's just a common sense move. The helmet cams they wear aren't sending sat signals, they are recorded. If you believe that all of their helmet cams blacked out for 30 minutes then I don't know what to tell you. Again the WH has fumbled the story to the point it was absurd. Not slight changes but rather huge differences in the stories being told.
Yes I realize globalization isn't going away and shipping jobs overseas is part of business and not by default a terrible thing. However a few small potatoes here and there quickly add up. The stimulus has not created the jobs, not even close, to what was claimed especially for the amount of money spent when it was the reason for it. Extension of unemployment benefits does not create jobs by any means. Tax reductions I do agree help create jobs and is something Obama is against and has actually countered through Obamacare. I believe the last estimates I have heard have 6 million uninsured people (whom I'm guessing are middle/lower class as I don't know many rich people without insurance) getting an additional $700 to $2000 in taxes.
Also bringing up tax reductions are you not aware they are supposed to jump this coming Jan (post election of course). Including cutting the child tax credit in half, return of a potentially brutal "death tax", tax brackets going up in % (the lowest bracket, currently at a 10% rate has the biggest % jump to 15% oddly enough). Investing will get hit by higher taxes, if you save money you're dividends will jump from being taxed at a current 15% to nearly 40%.
The government has proven itself (no matter who is in charge) to be irresponsible with our money. Never mind we are a consumer driven economy and now will have less money to spend to buy things which I am sure will be fantastic for jobs.
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