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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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Obamacare does not address the problem. Healthcare costs way too much and these 30 million people you cite being added, it's going to cost them money as you pointed out it's an individual mandate... or a tax if you will. Do you think these 30 million people are considered rich? Probably not. They need to look at what we can do to make drugs cheaper, what we can do to make college more affordable so more people are actually able to become doctors. Obamacare does not address any of this, it simply is a band aid over a gaping wound that doesn't bring the actual cost of health care down.
Well I'm not sure how much of the news you monitor but the VA has been in the news for years now and it's 9 out of 10 times not for a good reason. Canada/France, they ration care. They also don't have the rates of grossly overweight people we have. One of the big problems I see with these single payer systems is that you will be paying in and if you're outside the group they believe is worth the treatment then you are SOL.
I understand you don't like them costing you money by abusing the ER but do you think for a second ER abuse would change? That now you're forced to pay a higher premium because they have to insure someone 200lbs overweight, requiring special medical care because they never made an attempt to lose the weight.
"Vietor did not dispute the numbers, but said the fact that the president, during a time of war, does not attend his daily intelligence meeting on a daily basis is “not particularly interesting or useful.”"
http://www.independentsentinel.com/2012/09/president-obama-community-organizer-doesnt-bother-with-intel-briefings/
"During his first 1,225 days in office, Obama attended his PDB just 536 times — or 43.8 percent of the time. During 2011 and the first half of 2012, his attendance became even less frequent — falling to just over 38 percent."
Of course we are now seeing them paint an entirely different story about the killing of our ambassador. So do you think the President is being an effective President by going to all these glamorous parties, doing weak interviews and skipping intel briefings? I'm not sure if he wants to be President or wants to just be popular.
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