Pundits say undecided voters will determine the election, but little is said about those who aren?t voting. Using social media, we reached out and heard back 50 nonvoters who gave different reasons. Said one: ?I?m just a simple girl. Dumb it down for us.?
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Supporters with their faces painted in the colors of the U.S. flag cheer for Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at Comfort Dental Amphitheater in Englewood, Colo. on Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Supporters with their faces painted in the colors of the U.S. flag cheer for Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at Comfort Dental Amphitheater in Englewood, Colo. on Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
In the final hours of a four-state campaign day, President Barack Obama speaks at a rally at Jiffy Lube Live arena, late Saturday night, Nov. 3, 2012, in Bristow, Va. Virginia is one of the most closely contested battleground states. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, speaks during a campaign rally in Greenwood Village, Colo. in south Denver on Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Mitt Romney has a ton of promises to keep if he becomes president, and that's on his first day alone, never mind the other 1,460 days. Barack Obama was similarly full of beans in his first presidential campaign, racking up will-do's by the hundreds, big and small.
He's more restrained now. That's typical of an incumbent who's built a record, suffered rope burns from the tug of war with Congress and seeks to be judged on leadership that the country has already seen, instead of a list that may get lost in the wind.
The election is about economic revival on both sides, and that means a lot of nuts and bolts along with competing visions of how to achieve it.
So there are promises of training programs here, a Department of Business there, tax cuts galore, a powered-up armed forces, energy initiatives at every turn and more, all improbably paired up with pledges from both men to tackle the national debt.
Almost everything they promise hinges on the makeup of Congress after the election, their skill at twisting arms in those halls and postelection judgments about whether some things are really worth the fight. Romney's promised repeal of "Obamacare" can't happen without enough like-minded lawmakers, just as Obama's promised steps on climate change didn't happen ? and that was with fellow Democrats in control.
Obama achieved the big health care law against tough odds, but an immigration overhaul eluded him and those George W. Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy that he swore he'd end are still around, for him to go after again. That's why, despite the shortage of new promises from him in this campaign, he's got plenty outstanding.
A glimpse at a dozen promises from each candidate, with some handicapping:
OBAMA:
1. Roll back Bush tax cuts for upper-income people. He compromised with the GOP and went along with renewing the expiring across-the-board tax cuts begun by his Republican predecessor, even though he wanted to revert to higher rates for couples making over $250,000 and individuals making over $200,000. Obama is still promising to raise those rates and more ? and pretty much needs to, because much of his agenda depends on getting more tax revenue from wealthier people.
2. Put government on a path to cutting deficits by $4 trillion over 10 years. A tall order, and his performance on it over the next four years would help shape his legacy for better or worse. He failed in his first-term promise to cut deficits by half, instead running trillion-dollar deficits for four straight years due largely to the recession he inherited, a halting comeback and big spending to spur the recovery.
3. Cut imports of foreign oil by half by 2020. For generations, presidents have fruitlessly held out the dream of making the U.S. self-sufficient in energy. But the boom in domestic production may at last be nudging the nation toward that goal.
4. End subsidies to the oil industry. A leftover promise that went nowhere in the last four years.
5. Prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. The U.S. has imposed painful oil and financial penalties on Iran to persuade it to cease uranium enrichment activity, so far without apparent success. Obama has left open the possibility of military action if that's what it takes to stop Iranian nuclear development.
6. "Take away tax breaks for companies shipping jobs overseas" as part of a plan to invigorate domestic manufacturing. A tougher slog than it might sound. U.S. corporations don't pay U.S. taxes on overseas profits unless they bring that cash back to the United States. Obama says this encourages outsourcing. Republicans say taxing such profits would make U.S. companies move headquarters overseas, not just production.
7. "I want to make sure that we get comprehensive immigration reform that gives young people who've been raised here a chance to live out their own American dream." This failed before. Obama would try again, and counts it as the first thing he would do next year after a deficit-cutting deal. Without needing congressional action, he decided on a temporary measure in June letting up to 1.7 million young illegal immigrants stay and work for up to two years.
8. Make higher education affordable for everyone, in part by halving the growth in college tuition over 10 years. Ensure by the end of the decade that the U.S. has more people with college degrees than any other country, recruit 100,000 math and science teachers in 10 years, help 2 million workers attend community college.
9. "My plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet? because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke." From his convention speech, this was a rare reference to climate change from a president who pledged strong action in a first term, then fell mostly silent about it after promised legislation to cap emissions failed. Even so, Obama has come at the issue in other ways, treating carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the law and steering billions of dollars into cleaner energy.
10. Strengthen Medicare by reducing the cost of health care. Steps already taken under the health care law improve benefits while cutting payments to hospitals and other providers by more than $700 billion over a decade ? cuts used to help working-age Americans get insurance.
11. "We can help big factories and small businesses double their exports, and if we choose this path, we can create a million new manufacturing jobs in the next four years. You can make that happen. You can choose that future." In October, manufacturers added 13,000 jobs after shedding 27,000 the previous two months ? not the makings of a renaissance. Obama has set an ambitious target, considering that manufacturing jobs have been steadily declining for nearly two decades.
12. Consolidate a "whole bunch" of federal agencies dealing with business issues into one new department led by a secretary of business.
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ROMNEY:
1. Create 12 million jobs in four years. Romney sets a modest bar with this oft-heard pledge; economists think about that many jobs or more will be created regardless of the outcome Tuesday. To add 12 million, the workforce would have to grow by an average of 250,000 a month, a reasonable prospect when there is no recession. Since July, the economy has created an average of 173,000 jobs a month.
2. "I'm not going to raise taxes on anyone," a pledge also rendered as, "I will not raise taxes on the middle class." Romney promises not only to keep the Bush tax cuts for all but to bring down rates a further 20 percent. He'd also eliminate the capital gains tax for families making below $200,000 and cut the corporate tax to 25 percent from 35 percent. Although the promised cuts are clear enough, just how he would pay for them is a mystery. He's talked about reducing some deductions and exemptions in the tax code but won't say which.
3. Repeal Obama's health care law, his clarion call since the GOP primaries. Rolling back the massive overhaul, now that it has had more than two years to sprout roots, could be a massive undertaking of its own. Some of his promises in this area are showmanship, such as his pledge to issue waivers from the law to all 50 states on the first day of his presidency. Many states don't want out of the law, and it can't be dismantled with the mere stroke of his pen anyway. In any event, the law's repeal is one big promise he will be judged on, especially by the tea party activists who were suspicious early on about his conservative credentials.
4. Balance the budget by 2020. Vital specifics are lacking from this pledge, such as which big federal programs he'd cut and how else he would save money when also wants to cut taxes, increase military spending and restore more than $700 billion in Medicare cuts over 10 years.
5. "We will achieve North American energy independence by 2020." By that, he means the U.S. would have its energy needs completely met by its own resources and those of Canada and Mexico. As with Obama's pledge to cut oil imports by half, Romney's promise has become conceivable ? if still a steep climb ? thanks to technology and market forces that have brought vast reserves of natural gas, along with other energy sources, within reach.
6. Quickly approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada, delayed by Obama because of environmental concerns, as part of the push for more energy supply.
7. Label China a currency manipulator. Central to Romney's pledge to get tougher with unfair trade practices. The move would set the stage for broad trade penalties and could lead to a trade war between the two huge economies.
8. Overhaul immigration laws. The features of Romney's plan are foggier than Obama's, but he favors a strengthened system of tracking illegal immigrants through their U.S. employers, supports completion of the U.S.-Mexico border fence and opposes any broad-based move to establish a path to citizenship except for those who served in the armed forces. He promises to achieve this overhaul before the two-year work permits granted by Obama expire, and he would honor those in the meantime. Promises those who study legally in the U.S. that "if you get an advanced degree here, we want you to stay here? so we will staple a green card to your diploma."
9. Protect Medicare for those in or near retirement, change it for future retirees. Starting in 2022, retirees could choose to buy their own health insurance, with voucher-like payments from the government, or stay with traditional Medicare. Questions persist about whether the payments would be sufficient and whether traditional Medicare would remain as comprehensive as now.
10. Turn Medicaid over to the states with block grants, a huge change to a major program. Sure to cause a donnybrook in Congress ? and an important step for conservatives who want states overall to gain more authority and flexibility from Washington.
11. Seek freer trade with Latin America and other parts of the world, a leading element of Romney's job-creation pledge.
12. Day One alone: "Start the process of repealing Obamacare" with waivers, cut off federal money for Planned Parenthood and the U.N. Population Fund, reinstate the policy banning federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information, designate China a currency manipulator, "reverse every single Obama regulation that attacks our religious liberty and threatens innocent life," take "bold action" to create jobs, and ? perhaps after lunch?? "do everything in my power to end these days of drift and disappointment."
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On November 10, our organization will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a full day of activities capped by a free concert Saturday evening by locally renowned country band ?Still kickin?.
The day will begin early with our regular Saturday research hours from 10 a.m. ? 3 p.m.
At 4 p.m., an anniversary reception will begin, followed by a 5 p.m. dinner.
We are currently taking reservations for dinner, which is expected to be catered.
?Still Kickin? will begin to entertain after 7 p.m.
Contact President Doyle?s home 298-3620 to reserve a seat for dinner, or for more information.
The public is invited to the free concert!
Half-Shire was actually founded with a meeting on November 15, 1972 following a meeting that night at the Sandy Creek Home of Floyd Kent and daughter Marie Kent (later Parsons).
Now as we reach our 40th anniversary the idea of an Eastern Shore Historical Society covering at least seven townships has grown to reach into two other counties with eleven townships tied together to preserve, protect and present the rich history of the region.
2012 has been a very busy 39th year.
Sometimes in trying to juggle messy building renovations, regular hours and meetings along with a burgeoning membership, we?ve gotten behind in research requests.
The good news is, with our two new furnaces installed and running we are not planning to close for the season as we have for most of our history.
We will examine the weather daily and for the time being will continue Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 11 a.m. ? 3 p.m. or by appointment.
Our dedicated volunteers led by Erma Schroeder and Sharon Turo will keep an eye on the weather as they plan their work days.
Call President Doyle ahead to ensure we will be staffed if planning on coming from out of
town.
315-298-3620 or spdinpul@hotmail.com
We look forward to seeing as many friends from past and present on the 10th!
Half-Shire can be found on the web at www.halfshire.com
Our site has wireless internet service and a phone at 298-2986.
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With the election on Tuesday, you're likely sick of campaign commercials. Perhaps you change the channel when they come on, or you start watching shows after you've been recording for a few minutes so you can fast forward, or you start singing Spice Girls songs really loudly over the ads so you don't hear them. (Maybe that's just me.)
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There's been no shortage of before-and-after imagery portraying the coast in Sandy's wake. One of the more impressive ways to see the storm's impact is by exploring this map assembled by NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).
We took a few screen grabs of the destruction around Seaside Heights, N.J., to create these sliding previews ? but you can see much more if you zoom in on NOAA's interactive map.
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Last night, we released an important set of enhancements to Knowledge Mosaic. This one has been a long time coming, and has involved a lot of foundation and infrastructure work that will allow us to do exciting things on every page of the website in the near future. In addition to this subterranean foundation work, we have implemented new features that give you a broader and more enhanced toolset for working with both language and information inside documents. How will these changes improve your research workflow? Let?s roll the tape.
Model Business Documents
Drafting really good legal documents just got easier. Search from an abundance of industry-specific agreements, commitment letters, indentures, credit facilities, leases, covenants, charters, bylaws, opinions, and more. We are generally moving toward the creation of a broad Business Law platform that extends well beyond SEC Filings. Document drafting will be an important component of that platform. The happy irony is that the exhibits to the SEC filings themselves contain great examples of just about every conceivable kind of business document.
In the new Model Business Documents section of the Knowledge Mosaic website, we have culled and cleaned the documents for you ? more than 4 million ? and given you tools for filtering them by Document Title (we list more than 300 sample titles for you), Filer Name or CIK, Date Range, Industry, and Index Membership. So if you?re looking for a great Purchase and Sale Agreement for large companies, drafted in the last 3 years, and with language specifically pertaining to the ?post-closing adjustment?,? you can find 7 of these documents (filtered down from an initial set of 5,296 Purchase and Sale Agreement documents) in about 30 seconds. Model Business Documents is a great new addition to Knowledge Mosaic, and in coming releases it will only get better as we do more to extract document sections and add new facets for filtering your searches.
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We?ve always loved the Document Cart on Knowledge Mosaic. It?s just a really handy little utility for storing, annotating, emailing, creating custom documents, and batch downloading documents you?ve collected for particular projects or simply over time. And now the Document Cart is even better. We?ve boosted its capacity from 25 documents to 100 documents, which really gives you freedom to do some exciting things with filings, exhibits, and subdocuments across the full spectrum of your research.
Let?s say you want to quickly assemble all documents from the Consumer Protection Financial Board published in the last 30 days. In moments, you can select them from the Laws, Rules & Agency Materials page (there are 35 documents); upload them to the Document Cart, and then combine them into a single PDF (303 pages) that you can read at your leisure or distribute to others who may share your interests. With its increased capacity, the Document Cart is, among other things, like your own personal publishing platform.
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This is a tricky change on our SEC Filings page to explain, but one that you and your attorneys will appreciate. Previously, the SEC Filings page did not give you the flexibility to select the Base Filing with any combination of exhibits. We also used to require you to view a filing as a single ? perhaps very long ? document, even though you may only be interested in specific sections. In the new release, we have deployed our clever little ?Everything Box? (presently used on the Lobbying page) to give you that freedom. Simply click in the box and a menu of options will appear, including the base filing and all exhibits. You can select them in any order you choose, and they will display as separate subdocuments ? the base filing and the exhibits are all separate records in your results page.
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Over time, we?ve systematically added new dimensions to your Research Workflow. The next two Knowledge Mosaic enhancements illustrate new ways you can make your research part of the Social Web. With?Share This Search, you can send your SEC Filings query parameters to a colleague, who can load your search with a single click. For librarians, in particular, this is gold. When you run a query that will benefit one of your attorneys, you can simply share the search with the attorney rather than copy the parameters and require them to recreate the search, or send them results via email.
RSS Alerting
One of the things we?re most proud of at Knowledge Mosaic is our query alerting platform. This cutting-edge technology allows you to turn any search query on our SEC filings, federal regulations or law firm memos databases into an email alert, delivered to you on your schedule ? in real time, in a daily digest, or compiled into one email per week. We call them ?real-time query alerts.? Like magic, they transform our fast, fixed research platform into an agile mobile alerting environment.
Now you can also turn your search query into an RSS feed instead of a conventional email alert. This format allows you to deliver or receive real-time information in widgets, dashboards, and mobile apps. We?re very excited about RSS query alerts because they free you! For years, we?ve received requests for widgets or RSS feeds from libraries and always faced the problem of scale ? it is difficult to build widgets or create feeds based on individual requests and it is also difficult to anticipate broader needs by building a library of widgets or feeds that will satisfy everyone.
Now, every library can take any query from our SEC Filings, LRAM, and Law Firm Memos pages and instantly transform it into an RSS URL. You can create custom feed or widget libraries for any page of your SharePoint portal, and change them on the fly, merely by adjusting the query parameters.
Hit Highlighting & Relevance Boosting
We?ve done a lot of work on the underpinnings of our SEC filings page. We?ve enhanced our text search hit highlighting on both the results page and in the documents. We capture hits from complex queries (and you would not believe how complex some of them can be) more accurately. We capture spans between proximity searches and highlight them, too. We display hit highlight snippets by default in your search results, so when you return to your results page, you don?t lose the highlights. And we?ve supplemented full Boolean text searching on the SEC Filing search page with Relevance boosting in the search results, which means that the results that best match your text search criteria will rise to the top.
There are two minor changes to how you must search. Literal text strings now require quotation marks. And while wildcards will continue to work if you use them, stemming is now the preferred method to find words that share the same root. Over the next few months, we will roll out our new hit highlighting and other text search changes to every other text search page on Knowledge Mosaic (and adding it to some pages that do not currently support text search).
Where Did Lobbying Go?
Good question. We love our Lobbying page, but needed room on the top level of the Navigation Bar for Model Business Documents. Because our lobbying data is disclosure data, we have moved the Lobbying page to Disclosure & Transactions section of the Knowledge Mosaic website, right next to Law Firm Relationships.
We?re excited about this new release and hope you will be, too. We are available at all times to answer questions and provide training. By the way, because of the infrastructure improvements I mentioned at the beginning of this email, we are poised to unveil an additional series of improvements over the next six months. Stay tuned.
Sincerely Yours,
Peter Schwartz, President
Knowledge Mosaic Inc.
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Frank and Nancy Barnett run their business out of their basement in rural Virginia.
Industrial Maintenance Solutions distributes products to repair and protect practically anything, from holes in Navy vessels to leaky pipes in power plants.
Their growing business could use more full-time workers, but there's a problem.
"Everything is uncertain. Nobody knows what's going to happen tomorrow," the company's owner, Frank Barnett, told CBN News.?
"We would love to be in a situation where we could hire more full-time people," Barnett's wife, Nancy, said. "The difficulty is -- at what cost?"
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Small businesses employ more than half of the nation's private sector. Their health is vital to America's economic recovery, but many small business owners say instead of making their path to prosperity smoother, the federal government is building barriers.
Like the Barnetts, 67 percent of small business owners believe there's too much uncertainty for growing their businesses.
What's causing this hand wringing? Taxes, government regulations, and red tape.
Even with only five employees, the Barnetts spend four to six hours a week going through regulations, often consulting with their accountant and attorney to make sure they're in compliance.
"It forces all of us to look at staying right around nine or 10 employees so that we don't have to run into a full-time compliance officer?we're not having to face these massive fines and we're having to do business -- and we can't hire," Nancy Barnett said.
Dan Bosch reviews regulatory policies at the National Federation of Independent Businesses.
"Right now there are more than 4,100 regulations in the pipeline that are due to come out over the next several years and they're uncertain as to how that's going to affect their business," Bosch said.
"Do you have to be a lawyer basically to know everything that you're supposed to do and not to do?" he asked. "The thing is, even if you are a lawyer, you probably don't know everything."
According to Bosch's group, nearly 70 percent of small business owners blame Obama administration policies for stifling their growth.
At a recent press conference, CBN News White House Correspondent Jennifer Wishon asked if the administration's regulations are stifling small business growth.
"This President is committed to helping small business, as evidenced by the fact that he has signed into law -- proposed and signed into law -- 18 small business tax cuts," White House spokesman Jay Carney responded. "He understands clearly that small businesses are the engine of economic growth in this country."
But Frank Barnett said they haven't seen any of the cuts Carney referred to.
"Maybe he can send me something to show me how those tax cuts impact my business because I'm not sure that we've seen any that would help us," Barnett told CBN News.
At a time when more than 12 million Americans desperately need work, 55 percent of small business owners say they would not start their company today.
"Today if you were sitting down with your husband thinking about starting this business, would you do it?" Wishon asked.
"We've never discussed this," Nancy Barnett said. "If we were making that evaluation now I don't think the business plan would prove out -- whether we wanted to do it or had the skills -- I just don't think the business plan would be there in today's world."
Although the Obama administration has taken heat, Bosch said eliminating federal regulations would be tough for whoever sits in the White House.
"Regulations are so entrenched in the agency that it's hard to get them out, and when you have agencies going through their own books to undo work that they've done in the past, they're pretty reluctant to do that," Bosch said.
Like many small business owners, government regulations, taxes, and red tape are stifling their company's growth.
"We have the ability to hire if we could get rid of the uncertainty related to affordable care and taxes and get some long-range planning opportunities, this economy could really take off again," Nancy Barnett concluded.
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Intel has been among the most critical tech companies in the U.S. that have consistently and strongly criticized the U.S. education system.
The company has immersed itself into the discussion by privately funding specific education branches, institutions and projects for more than a decade.
Craig Barrett, former chief executive offer and chairman of the board, has long led the charge to impact education and continues even after his retirement to change the existing education structure. Barrett, who stepped down from his career at Intel in 2009, was appointed chairman of the Arizona Ready Education Council.
During a recent discussion, Barrett discussed the recently implemented Common Core Standards for math and English, which he described as "the biggest transformation of K-12 education" in Arizona history. The approach is based on an international benchmark system to find out how U.S. kids have to perform to be competitive and integrate those findings in the curriculum. According to Barrett, U.S. kids are "kind of mediocre in reading, [and] below average in mathematics and science."
Barrett also believes that a portion of salary increases for teachers needs to be performance-based. To accomplish that he suggested a performance monitoring system that tracks kids and how their performance increases over a certain period.
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