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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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4)Iran doesn't have to attack Israel with a nuclear weapon, they can merely give one (or a dirty bomb) to their sponsored terrorist groups. Apparently you're worried about Russian/US nuclear weapons getting into the hands of terrorists since you brought that up but not Iran? It's also very easy to say oh Iran isn't going to do it. It's far too late to act on anything if there is a mushroom cloud over Israel. Also let's not forget who is running Iran. While the President of Iran is obviously full of hate for Israel, the Ayatollah is no fan by any stretch and he's 73 years old, he's supposed to be a devoted Muslim. That could quite easily spell disaster if he thinks by creating WW3 it will push along what he thinks his religion teaches.
5) Iran/Iraq are two very different places is the first thing to address. The second part was, yes there as a timetable for Iraq established under Bush of which Obama allowed to lapse to leave the country. That was not the intention of the US military to leave Iraq completely like we did. What was left of the insurgency did not expect us to leave like we did either. Of course like I mentioned above the Taliban and the Sunnis are a completely different enemy. Versus the Russians we gave them weapons to knock down their helos and attack their convoys. However what is not common knowledge was that Russian was absolutely slaughtering them near the end of the war by switching to faster tactics and utilizing the Spetz Naz. We have complete supremacy when it comes to firepower over there but we have are Rules of Engagement (ROEs) that are in many cases so strict units are not able to properly decimate the enemy. The problem is we are playing politics in Afghanistan, not fighting a war. I'm not advocating killing civilians mindlessly and obviously we need to avoid that as much as possible, however a little known fact about Afghanistan is that we actually pay the people that attack us. They attack from a compound, we return fire and they flee. They come back to collect payment for the damage. You cannot negotiate with these people. To think otherwise is a complete lack of understanding of the enemy we fight. They slaughter fellow Afghanis for dancing, if they are seen talking to us they will literally cut off their heads. I recall seeing an old man crying coming out to our patrol because the Taliban had beat the hell out of him and his family the night before to make an example of them. He hadn't even spoken with us prior to their beating.
6) Then explain the estimated 6 million people paying what the supreme court called a tax, Obama calls a penalty, for not having health insurance or not having an insurance plans that qualifies per Obamacare? Again I don't think that will be 6 million rich people.
$60 billion annual fee on health insurance providers... Where are those insurance providers going to get $60 billion dollars? I'm going to guess you and me.
7) The CBO states Obamecare will result in 6 million people paying a minimum of $695.
8) Why would people stop using/abusing the ER just because they have insurance? I understand what you are saying but have a hard time believing that will be the actual case. I'm glad that they ended the fee for service with Medicare. Like I've said earlier in this thread Obamacare has some genuinely good parts. However even taking that out isn't the source of the problem. Even without that, even with people abusing the ER, health care is very costly. Also adding all of these people to the system, are they going to instantly add a bunch of doctors?
9) I didn't get "upset" about cuts to Medicare, I did point it out he's cutting it because he likes to claim Romney wants to cut more which certainly doesn't appear to be the case. However there will be a rationing of care under Obamacare.
10) How else can you explain him missing 62% of his Presidential Daily Briefs from 2011 to mid 2012? He has time for Jay-Z, the View, etc but not enough time for foreign leaders? I know he has to campaign and I know he has to get out there but his choice in where he spends his time appears very one sided... and not on the side of being the President.
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