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Predefinito Re: "No Mo For Joe: VP Struggles Attract 1K At CO Events", Obamacarried MN by 10 points 2008, now statistically tied as "Paul Ryan DrawsBiggest Solo Crowd in Liberal Minnesota"

On Nov 5, 8:01*am, "PJ O'D" <gapa...@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> "No Mo For Joe: VP Struggles Attract 1K At CO Events", Obama carried
> MN by 10 points 2008, now statistically tied as * "Paul Ryan Draws
> Biggest Solo Crowd in Liberal Minnesota"
>
> google: "No Mo for Joe:
>
> About 407 results (0.13 seconds)
>
> google: "poll showing Mitt Romney with a one-point lead in liberal
> Minnesota,"
>
> Hmmm... 11 point swing in MN poll from 08. Don't I recall polls
> indicating 13 point swing in WI, same in NH? How 'bout poll swings in
> PA & OH?[/color]

i am getting sick of red state/red district parasites: 70% of counties
with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid during the last 4 years
voted for the Republican presidential candidate in 08: there are 47%
who are dependent on government.” They “believe that they are entitled
to health care, to food, to housing.” they are "CONSERVATIVES"


[url]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-05/republican-heavy-counties-eat-up-most-food-stamp-growth.html[/url]
Republican-Heavy Counties Eat Up Most Food-Stamp Growth
By Frank Bass - Nov 4, 2012 11:00 PM CT

Obama, Romney Both See Good News on Election Eve
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said in May that he’d
written off votes from 47 percent of Americans who are collecting
government aid. Turns out many of them are part of his political base.
Republican Counties Defy Romney in Leading Food-Stamp Growth

Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Newport News
International Airport, on Nov. 4, 2012, in Newport News, Va.
Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Newport News
International Airport, on Nov. 4, 2012, in Newport News, Va.
Photographer: David Goldman/AP Photo
Seventy percent of counties with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid
during the last four years voted for the Republican presidential
candidate in 2008, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data
compiled by Bloomberg. They include Republican strongholds like King
County, Texas, which in 2008 backed Republican John McCain by 92.6
percent, his largest share in the nation; and fast-growing Douglas
County, Colorado.
That means Romney is counting on votes from areas where lower-income
people have become more reliant on the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program, known as food stamps. Mark Baisley, who heads
Douglas County’s Republican Party, said many recipients will back
Romney in hopes he’ll improve the economy.
“Would you rather be sitting at home wishing you had a job and relying
upon the kindness of neighbors?” Baisley said in a telephone interview
from Colorado, one of the swing states that Romney and President
Barack Obama are battling over. “Or would you rather be self-
supporting, with a job that sustains your family?”
In a video from a May fundraiser, Romney said “there are 47 percent
who are with him,” referring to Obama, “who are dependent on
government.” They “believe that they are entitled to health care, to
food, to housing.”
Feeding Families
In an August report, Nicholas Colas, ***** market strategist at
ConvergEx Group LLC in New York, predicted that risk-averse voters in
competitive states may side with the presidential candidate who would
extend benefits, even if it means a slower recovery from the worst
economic downturn since the Great Depression.
“You have a lot of people who are relying upon the government to put
food on the table for themselves or their families,” Colas said in an
interview. “That’s going to have to inform a lot of decisions.”
Romney has suggested transferring control of food stamps and other
federal programs to states. The change would save money and make the
programs more effective, the former Massachusetts governor argues.
“If the question is what is best for low-income Ohioans, shouldn’t we
let Ohioans make that call?” Paul Ryan, Romney’s running mate, said in
an Oct. 24 speech in Cleveland.
Democrats and hunger-relief groups say the Republican plan would
deprive millions of Americans of the food aid.
$80 Billion
More than 16 million additional people have gone on food stamps in the
last four years, according to the USDA. The $80 billion program has
grown from an initial 2.9 million beneficiaries in 1969 to 46.7
million at the end of July, the latest month for which figures are
available.
It now provides food to one in every five U.S. households, largely as
a result of 2009 economic-stimulus legislation backed by Obama that
waived limits on program benefits and opened food- stamp participation
to people without children.
The number of food-stamp recipients in Pitkin County, which includes
the Aspen Ski Resort, has increased faster than any other reported
county in the nation during the last four years. It climbed to 270
households, a 463 percent increase over the 48 that received food
stamps in 2008.
Downhill Industry
LIFT-UP, a 30-year-old interfaith humanitarian program in Rifle,
Colorado, about 70 miles northwest of Aspen, helped provide food to
more than 5,100 families this year after a poor ski season hurt
tourism-industry workers and the collapse of natural-gas prices
devastated the region’s energy sector, said Mike Powell, LIFT-UP’s
executive director.
Powell said he doubts people struggling to put food on the table are
paying too much attention to politics. The number of families asking
for help has actually fallen slightly over the first nine months of
the year for the first time in three years, he said.
Countering the national trend, food-stamp participation rates have
increased fastest in Colorado counties that voted for Obama in 2008.
Still, those rates have doubled in Douglas, which gave 58 percent of
its 2008 vote to McCain even as Obama won the state by almost 9
points. Located between Denver and Colorado Springs, Douglas reported
6,014 households getting nutritional help in 2011, a 102 percent
increase from 2008.
Temporary Hand-Up
The increase in food-stamp recipients also was pronounced in
Republican bastions such as Collin County, Texas, which registered a
128 percent increase to 47,102 households in 2011, and Gwinnett
County, Georgia, where usage climbed 117 percent to 101,815
households. Collin County, a Dallas suburb, gave McCain 62 percent of
its 2008 vote. Gwinnett, part of the Atlanta metro area, supported the
Republican with 55 percent of its ballots.
The increase in food stamps in those strongholds doesn’t mean Romney
will lose votes, said Michael Franc, vice president for governmental
studies at the Heritage Foundation, a Republican-leaning research
organization in Washington.
“We’re talking about people who got pretty hammered by the economic
meltdown,” he said. “It’s a temporary hand-up, not a permanent
condition of life. They’ve gotten help, but it’s been something
they’ve requested very reluctantly.”


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Predefinito Re: "No Mo For Joe: VP Struggles Attract 1K At CO Events", Obamacarried MN by 10 points 2008, now statistically tied as "Paul Ryan DrawsBiggest Solo Crowd in Liberal Minnesota"

On Nov 5, 8:01*am, "PJ O'D" <gapa...@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> "No Mo For Joe: VP Struggles Attract 1K At CO Events", Obama carried
> MN by 10 points 2008, now statistically tied as * "Paul Ryan Draws
> Biggest Solo Crowd in Liberal Minnesota"
>
> google: "No Mo for Joe:
>
> About 407 results (0.13 seconds)
>
> google: "poll showing Mitt Romney with a one-point lead in liberal
> Minnesota,"
>
> Hmmm... 11 point swing in MN poll from 08. Don't I recall polls
> indicating 13 point swing in WI, same in NH? How 'bout poll swings in
> PA & OH?[/color]

i am getting sick of red state/red district parasites: 70% of counties
with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid during the last 4 years
voted for the Republican presidential candidate in 08: there are 47%
who are dependent on government.” They “believe that they are entitled
to health care, to food, to housing.” they are "CONSERVATIVES"


[url]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-05/republican-heavy-counties-eat-up-most-food-stamp-growth.html[/url]
Republican-Heavy Counties Eat Up Most Food-Stamp Growth
By Frank Bass - Nov 4, 2012 11:00 PM CT

Obama, Romney Both See Good News on Election Eve
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said in May that he’d
written off votes from 47 percent of Americans who are collecting
government aid. Turns out many of them are part of his political base.
Republican Counties Defy Romney in Leading Food-Stamp Growth

Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Newport News
International Airport, on Nov. 4, 2012, in Newport News, Va.
Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Newport News
International Airport, on Nov. 4, 2012, in Newport News, Va.
Photographer: David Goldman/AP Photo
Seventy percent of counties with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid
during the last four years voted for the Republican presidential
candidate in 2008, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data
compiled by Bloomberg. They include Republican strongholds like King
County, Texas, which in 2008 backed Republican John McCain by 92.6
percent, his largest share in the nation; and fast-growing Douglas
County, Colorado.
That means Romney is counting on votes from areas where lower-income
people have become more reliant on the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program, known as food stamps. Mark Baisley, who heads
Douglas County’s Republican Party, said many recipients will back
Romney in hopes he’ll improve the economy.
“Would you rather be sitting at home wishing you had a job and relying
upon the kindness of neighbors?” Baisley said in a telephone interview
from Colorado, one of the swing states that Romney and President
Barack Obama are battling over. “Or would you rather be self-
supporting, with a job that sustains your family?”
In a video from a May fundraiser, Romney said “there are 47 percent
who are with him,” referring to Obama, “who are dependent on
government.” They “believe that they are entitled to health care, to
food, to housing.”
Feeding Families
In an August report, Nicholas Colas, ***** market strategist at
ConvergEx Group LLC in New York, predicted that risk-averse voters in
competitive states may side with the presidential candidate who would
extend benefits, even if it means a slower recovery from the worst
economic downturn since the Great Depression.
“You have a lot of people who are relying upon the government to put
food on the table for themselves or their families,” Colas said in an
interview. “That’s going to have to inform a lot of decisions.”
Romney has suggested transferring control of food stamps and other
federal programs to states. The change would save money and make the
programs more effective, the former Massachusetts governor argues.
“If the question is what is best for low-income Ohioans, shouldn’t we
let Ohioans make that call?” Paul Ryan, Romney’s running mate, said in
an Oct. 24 speech in Cleveland.
Democrats and hunger-relief groups say the Republican plan would
deprive millions of Americans of the food aid.
$80 Billion
More than 16 million additional people have gone on food stamps in the
last four years, according to the USDA. The $80 billion program has
grown from an initial 2.9 million beneficiaries in 1969 to 46.7
million at the end of July, the latest month for which figures are
available.
It now provides food to one in every five U.S. households, largely as
a result of 2009 economic-stimulus legislation backed by Obama that
waived limits on program benefits and opened food- stamp participation
to people without children.
The number of food-stamp recipients in Pitkin County, which includes
the Aspen Ski Resort, has increased faster than any other reported
county in the nation during the last four years. It climbed to 270
households, a 463 percent increase over the 48 that received food
stamps in 2008.
Downhill Industry
LIFT-UP, a 30-year-old interfaith humanitarian program in Rifle,
Colorado, about 70 miles northwest of Aspen, helped provide food to
more than 5,100 families this year after a poor ski season hurt
tourism-industry workers and the collapse of natural-gas prices
devastated the region’s energy sector, said Mike Powell, LIFT-UP’s
executive director.
Powell said he doubts people struggling to put food on the table are
paying too much attention to politics. The number of families asking
for help has actually fallen slightly over the first nine months of
the year for the first time in three years, he said.
Countering the national trend, food-stamp participation rates have
increased fastest in Colorado counties that voted for Obama in 2008.
Still, those rates have doubled in Douglas, which gave 58 percent of
its 2008 vote to McCain even as Obama won the state by almost 9
points. Located between Denver and Colorado Springs, Douglas reported
6,014 households getting nutritional help in 2011, a 102 percent
increase from 2008.
Temporary Hand-Up
The increase in food-stamp recipients also was pronounced in
Republican bastions such as Collin County, Texas, which registered a
128 percent increase to 47,102 households in 2011, and Gwinnett
County, Georgia, where usage climbed 117 percent to 101,815
households. Collin County, a Dallas suburb, gave McCain 62 percent of
its 2008 vote. Gwinnett, part of the Atlanta metro area, supported the
Republican with 55 percent of its ballots.
The increase in food stamps in those strongholds doesn’t mean Romney
will lose votes, said Michael Franc, vice president for governmental
studies at the Heritage Foundation, a Republican-leaning research
organization in Washington.
“We’re talking about people who got pretty hammered by the economic
meltdown,” he said. “It’s a temporary hand-up, not a permanent
condition of life. They’ve gotten help, but it’s been something
they’ve requested very reluctantly.”


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Predefinito Re: "No Mo For Joe: VP Struggles Attract 1K At CO Events", Obamacarried MN by 10 points 2008, now statistically tied as "Paul Ryan DrawsBiggest Solo Crowd in Liberal Minnesota"

On Nov 5, 8:01*am, "PJ O'D" <gapa...@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> "No Mo For Joe: VP Struggles Attract 1K At CO Events", Obama carried
> MN by 10 points 2008, now statistically tied as * "Paul Ryan Draws
> Biggest Solo Crowd in Liberal Minnesota"
>
> google: "No Mo for Joe:
>
> About 407 results (0.13 seconds)
>
> google: "poll showing Mitt Romney with a one-point lead in liberal
> Minnesota,"
>
> Hmmm... 11 point swing in MN poll from 08. Don't I recall polls
> indicating 13 point swing in WI, same in NH? How 'bout poll swings in
> PA & OH?[/color]

i am getting sick of red state/red district parasites: 70% of counties
with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid during the last 4 years
voted for the Republican presidential candidate in 08: there are 47%
who are dependent on government.” They “believe that they are entitled
to health care, to food, to housing.” they are "CONSERVATIVES"


[url]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-05/republican-heavy-counties-eat-up-most-food-stamp-growth.html[/url]
Republican-Heavy Counties Eat Up Most Food-Stamp Growth
By Frank Bass - Nov 4, 2012 11:00 PM CT

Obama, Romney Both See Good News on Election Eve
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said in May that he’d
written off votes from 47 percent of Americans who are collecting
government aid. Turns out many of them are part of his political base.
Republican Counties Defy Romney in Leading Food-Stamp Growth

Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Newport News
International Airport, on Nov. 4, 2012, in Newport News, Va.
Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Newport News
International Airport, on Nov. 4, 2012, in Newport News, Va.
Photographer: David Goldman/AP Photo
Seventy percent of counties with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid
during the last four years voted for the Republican presidential
candidate in 2008, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data
compiled by Bloomberg. They include Republican strongholds like King
County, Texas, which in 2008 backed Republican John McCain by 92.6
percent, his largest share in the nation; and fast-growing Douglas
County, Colorado.
That means Romney is counting on votes from areas where lower-income
people have become more reliant on the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program, known as food stamps. Mark Baisley, who heads
Douglas County’s Republican Party, said many recipients will back
Romney in hopes he’ll improve the economy.
“Would you rather be sitting at home wishing you had a job and relying
upon the kindness of neighbors?” Baisley said in a telephone interview
from Colorado, one of the swing states that Romney and President
Barack Obama are battling over. “Or would you rather be self-
supporting, with a job that sustains your family?”
In a video from a May fundraiser, Romney said “there are 47 percent
who are with him,” referring to Obama, “who are dependent on
government.” They “believe that they are entitled to health care, to
food, to housing.”
Feeding Families
In an August report, Nicholas Colas, ***** market strategist at
ConvergEx Group LLC in New York, predicted that risk-averse voters in
competitive states may side with the presidential candidate who would
extend benefits, even if it means a slower recovery from the worst
economic downturn since the Great Depression.
“You have a lot of people who are relying upon the government to put
food on the table for themselves or their families,” Colas said in an
interview. “That’s going to have to inform a lot of decisions.”
Romney has suggested transferring control of food stamps and other
federal programs to states. The change would save money and make the
programs more effective, the former Massachusetts governor argues.
“If the question is what is best for low-income Ohioans, shouldn’t we
let Ohioans make that call?” Paul Ryan, Romney’s running mate, said in
an Oct. 24 speech in Cleveland.
Democrats and hunger-relief groups say the Republican plan would
deprive millions of Americans of the food aid.
$80 Billion
More than 16 million additional people have gone on food stamps in the
last four years, according to the USDA. The $80 billion program has
grown from an initial 2.9 million beneficiaries in 1969 to 46.7
million at the end of July, the latest month for which figures are
available.
It now provides food to one in every five U.S. households, largely as
a result of 2009 economic-stimulus legislation backed by Obama that
waived limits on program benefits and opened food- stamp participation
to people without children.
The number of food-stamp recipients in Pitkin County, which includes
the Aspen Ski Resort, has increased faster than any other reported
county in the nation during the last four years. It climbed to 270
households, a 463 percent increase over the 48 that received food
stamps in 2008.
Downhill Industry
LIFT-UP, a 30-year-old interfaith humanitarian program in Rifle,
Colorado, about 70 miles northwest of Aspen, helped provide food to
more than 5,100 families this year after a poor ski season hurt
tourism-industry workers and the collapse of natural-gas prices
devastated the region’s energy sector, said Mike Powell, LIFT-UP’s
executive director.
Powell said he doubts people struggling to put food on the table are
paying too much attention to politics. The number of families asking
for help has actually fallen slightly over the first nine months of
the year for the first time in three years, he said.
Countering the national trend, food-stamp participation rates have
increased fastest in Colorado counties that voted for Obama in 2008.
Still, those rates have doubled in Douglas, which gave 58 percent of
its 2008 vote to McCain even as Obama won the state by almost 9
points. Located between Denver and Colorado Springs, Douglas reported
6,014 households getting nutritional help in 2011, a 102 percent
increase from 2008.
Temporary Hand-Up
The increase in food-stamp recipients also was pronounced in
Republican bastions such as Collin County, Texas, which registered a
128 percent increase to 47,102 households in 2011, and Gwinnett
County, Georgia, where usage climbed 117 percent to 101,815
households. Collin County, a Dallas suburb, gave McCain 62 percent of
its 2008 vote. Gwinnett, part of the Atlanta metro area, supported the
Republican with 55 percent of its ballots.
The increase in food stamps in those strongholds doesn’t mean Romney
will lose votes, said Michael Franc, vice president for governmental
studies at the Heritage Foundation, a Republican-leaning research
organization in Washington.
“We’re talking about people who got pretty hammered by the economic
meltdown,” he said. “It’s a temporary hand-up, not a permanent
condition of life. They’ve gotten help, but it’s been something
they’ve requested very reluctantly.”


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  #24  
Vecchio 05-11-2012, 23.59.33
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Predefinito Re: "No Mo For Joe: VP Struggles Attract 1K At CO Events", Obamacarried MN by 10 points 2008, now statistically tied as "Paul Ryan DrawsBiggest Solo Crowd in Liberal Minnesota"

On Nov 5, 8:01*am, "PJ O'D" <gapa...@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> "No Mo For Joe: VP Struggles Attract 1K At CO Events", Obama carried
> MN by 10 points 2008, now statistically tied as * "Paul Ryan Draws
> Biggest Solo Crowd in Liberal Minnesota"
>
> google: "No Mo for Joe:
>
> About 407 results (0.13 seconds)
>
> google: "poll showing Mitt Romney with a one-point lead in liberal
> Minnesota,"
>
> Hmmm... 11 point swing in MN poll from 08. Don't I recall polls
> indicating 13 point swing in WI, same in NH? How 'bout poll swings in
> PA & OH?[/color]

i am getting sick of red state/red district parasites: 70% of counties
with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid during the last 4 years
voted for the Republican presidential candidate in 08: there are 47%
who are dependent on government.” They “believe that they are entitled
to health care, to food, to housing.” they are "CONSERVATIVES"


[url]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-05/republican-heavy-counties-eat-up-most-food-stamp-growth.html[/url]
Republican-Heavy Counties Eat Up Most Food-Stamp Growth
By Frank Bass - Nov 4, 2012 11:00 PM CT

Obama, Romney Both See Good News on Election Eve
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said in May that he’d
written off votes from 47 percent of Americans who are collecting
government aid. Turns out many of them are part of his political base.
Republican Counties Defy Romney in Leading Food-Stamp Growth

Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Newport News
International Airport, on Nov. 4, 2012, in Newport News, Va.
Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Newport News
International Airport, on Nov. 4, 2012, in Newport News, Va.
Photographer: David Goldman/AP Photo
Seventy percent of counties with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid
during the last four years voted for the Republican presidential
candidate in 2008, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data
compiled by Bloomberg. They include Republican strongholds like King
County, Texas, which in 2008 backed Republican John McCain by 92.6
percent, his largest share in the nation; and fast-growing Douglas
County, Colorado.
That means Romney is counting on votes from areas where lower-income
people have become more reliant on the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program, known as food stamps. Mark Baisley, who heads
Douglas County’s Republican Party, said many recipients will back
Romney in hopes he’ll improve the economy.
“Would you rather be sitting at home wishing you had a job and relying
upon the kindness of neighbors?” Baisley said in a telephone interview
from Colorado, one of the swing states that Romney and President
Barack Obama are battling over. “Or would you rather be self-
supporting, with a job that sustains your family?”
In a video from a May fundraiser, Romney said “there are 47 percent
who are with him,” referring to Obama, “who are dependent on
government.” They “believe that they are entitled to health care, to
food, to housing.”
Feeding Families
In an August report, Nicholas Colas, ***** market strategist at
ConvergEx Group LLC in New York, predicted that risk-averse voters in
competitive states may side with the presidential candidate who would
extend benefits, even if it means a slower recovery from the worst
economic downturn since the Great Depression.
“You have a lot of people who are relying upon the government to put
food on the table for themselves or their families,” Colas said in an
interview. “That’s going to have to inform a lot of decisions.”
Romney has suggested transferring control of food stamps and other
federal programs to states. The change would save money and make the
programs more effective, the former Massachusetts governor argues.
“If the question is what is best for low-income Ohioans, shouldn’t we
let Ohioans make that call?” Paul Ryan, Romney’s running mate, said in
an Oct. 24 speech in Cleveland.
Democrats and hunger-relief groups say the Republican plan would
deprive millions of Americans of the food aid.
$80 Billion
More than 16 million additional people have gone on food stamps in the
last four years, according to the USDA. The $80 billion program has
grown from an initial 2.9 million beneficiaries in 1969 to 46.7
million at the end of July, the latest month for which figures are
available.
It now provides food to one in every five U.S. households, largely as
a result of 2009 economic-stimulus legislation backed by Obama that
waived limits on program benefits and opened food- stamp participation
to people without children.
The number of food-stamp recipients in Pitkin County, which includes
the Aspen Ski Resort, has increased faster than any other reported
county in the nation during the last four years. It climbed to 270
households, a 463 percent increase over the 48 that received food
stamps in 2008.
Downhill Industry
LIFT-UP, a 30-year-old interfaith humanitarian program in Rifle,
Colorado, about 70 miles northwest of Aspen, helped provide food to
more than 5,100 families this year after a poor ski season hurt
tourism-industry workers and the collapse of natural-gas prices
devastated the region’s energy sector, said Mike Powell, LIFT-UP’s
executive director.
Powell said he doubts people struggling to put food on the table are
paying too much attention to politics. The number of families asking
for help has actually fallen slightly over the first nine months of
the year for the first time in three years, he said.
Countering the national trend, food-stamp participation rates have
increased fastest in Colorado counties that voted for Obama in 2008.
Still, those rates have doubled in Douglas, which gave 58 percent of
its 2008 vote to McCain even as Obama won the state by almost 9
points. Located between Denver and Colorado Springs, Douglas reported
6,014 households getting nutritional help in 2011, a 102 percent
increase from 2008.
Temporary Hand-Up
The increase in food-stamp recipients also was pronounced in
Republican bastions such as Collin County, Texas, which registered a
128 percent increase to 47,102 households in 2011, and Gwinnett
County, Georgia, where usage climbed 117 percent to 101,815
households. Collin County, a Dallas suburb, gave McCain 62 percent of
its 2008 vote. Gwinnett, part of the Atlanta metro area, supported the
Republican with 55 percent of its ballots.
The increase in food stamps in those strongholds doesn’t mean Romney
will lose votes, said Michael Franc, vice president for governmental
studies at the Heritage Foundation, a Republican-leaning research
organization in Washington.
“We’re talking about people who got pretty hammered by the economic
meltdown,” he said. “It’s a temporary hand-up, not a permanent
condition of life. They’ve gotten help, but it’s been something
they’ve requested very reluctantly.”


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Predefinito Re: "No Mo For Joe: VP Struggles Attract 1K At CO Events", Obamacarried MN by 10 points 2008, now statistically tied as "Paul Ryan DrawsBiggest Solo Crowd in Liberal Minnesota"

On Nov 5, 8:01*am, "PJ O'D" <gapa...@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> "No Mo For Joe: VP Struggles Attract 1K At CO Events", Obama carried
> MN by 10 points 2008, now statistically tied as * "Paul Ryan Draws
> Biggest Solo Crowd in Liberal Minnesota"
>
> google: "No Mo for Joe:
>
> About 407 results (0.13 seconds)
>
> google: "poll showing Mitt Romney with a one-point lead in liberal
> Minnesota,"
>
> Hmmm... 11 point swing in MN poll from 08. Don't I recall polls
> indicating 13 point swing in WI, same in NH? How 'bout poll swings in
> PA & OH?[/color]

i am getting sick of red state/red district parasites: 70% of counties
with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid during the last 4 years
voted for the Republican presidential candidate in 08: there are 47%
who are dependent on government.” They “believe that they are entitled
to health care, to food, to housing.” they are "CONSERVATIVES"


[url]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-05/republican-heavy-counties-eat-up-most-food-stamp-growth.html[/url]
Republican-Heavy Counties Eat Up Most Food-Stamp Growth
By Frank Bass - Nov 4, 2012 11:00 PM CT

Obama, Romney Both See Good News on Election Eve
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said in May that he’d
written off votes from 47 percent of Americans who are collecting
government aid. Turns out many of them are part of his political base.
Republican Counties Defy Romney in Leading Food-Stamp Growth

Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Newport News
International Airport, on Nov. 4, 2012, in Newport News, Va.
Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Newport News
International Airport, on Nov. 4, 2012, in Newport News, Va.
Photographer: David Goldman/AP Photo
Seventy percent of counties with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid
during the last four years voted for the Republican presidential
candidate in 2008, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data
compiled by Bloomberg. They include Republican strongholds like King
County, Texas, which in 2008 backed Republican John McCain by 92.6
percent, his largest share in the nation; and fast-growing Douglas
County, Colorado.
That means Romney is counting on votes from areas where lower-income
people have become more reliant on the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program, known as food stamps. Mark Baisley, who heads
Douglas County’s Republican Party, said many recipients will back
Romney in hopes he’ll improve the economy.
“Would you rather be sitting at home wishing you had a job and relying
upon the kindness of neighbors?” Baisley said in a telephone interview
from Colorado, one of the swing states that Romney and President
Barack Obama are battling over. “Or would you rather be self-
supporting, with a job that sustains your family?”
In a video from a May fundraiser, Romney said “there are 47 percent
who are with him,” referring to Obama, “who are dependent on
government.” They “believe that they are entitled to health care, to
food, to housing.”
Feeding Families
In an August report, Nicholas Colas, ***** market strategist at
ConvergEx Group LLC in New York, predicted that risk-averse voters in
competitive states may side with the presidential candidate who would
extend benefits, even if it means a slower recovery from the worst
economic downturn since the Great Depression.
“You have a lot of people who are relying upon the government to put
food on the table for themselves or their families,” Colas said in an
interview. “That’s going to have to inform a lot of decisions.”
Romney has suggested transferring control of food stamps and other
federal programs to states. The change would save money and make the
programs more effective, the former Massachusetts governor argues.
“If the question is what is best for low-income Ohioans, shouldn’t we
let Ohioans make that call?” Paul Ryan, Romney’s running mate, said in
an Oct. 24 speech in Cleveland.
Democrats and hunger-relief groups say the Republican plan would
deprive millions of Americans of the food aid.
$80 Billion
More than 16 million additional people have gone on food stamps in the
last four years, according to the USDA. The $80 billion program has
grown from an initial 2.9 million beneficiaries in 1969 to 46.7
million at the end of July, the latest month for which figures are
available.
It now provides food to one in every five U.S. households, largely as
a result of 2009 economic-stimulus legislation backed by Obama that
waived limits on program benefits and opened food- stamp participation
to people without children.
The number of food-stamp recipients in Pitkin County, which includes
the Aspen Ski Resort, has increased faster than any other reported
county in the nation during the last four years. It climbed to 270
households, a 463 percent increase over the 48 that received food
stamps in 2008.
Downhill Industry
LIFT-UP, a 30-year-old interfaith humanitarian program in Rifle,
Colorado, about 70 miles northwest of Aspen, helped provide food to
more than 5,100 families this year after a poor ski season hurt
tourism-industry workers and the collapse of natural-gas prices
devastated the region’s energy sector, said Mike Powell, LIFT-UP’s
executive director.
Powell said he doubts people struggling to put food on the table are
paying too much attention to politics. The number of families asking
for help has actually fallen slightly over the first nine months of
the year for the first time in three years, he said.
Countering the national trend, food-stamp participation rates have
increased fastest in Colorado counties that voted for Obama in 2008.
Still, those rates have doubled in Douglas, which gave 58 percent of
its 2008 vote to McCain even as Obama won the state by almost 9
points. Located between Denver and Colorado Springs, Douglas reported
6,014 households getting nutritional help in 2011, a 102 percent
increase from 2008.
Temporary Hand-Up
The increase in food-stamp recipients also was pronounced in
Republican bastions such as Collin County, Texas, which registered a
128 percent increase to 47,102 households in 2011, and Gwinnett
County, Georgia, where usage climbed 117 percent to 101,815
households. Collin County, a Dallas suburb, gave McCain 62 percent of
its 2008 vote. Gwinnett, part of the Atlanta metro area, supported the
Republican with 55 percent of its ballots.
The increase in food stamps in those strongholds doesn’t mean Romney
will lose votes, said Michael Franc, vice president for governmental
studies at the Heritage Foundation, a Republican-leaning research
organization in Washington.
“We’re talking about people who got pretty hammered by the economic
meltdown,” he said. “It’s a temporary hand-up, not a permanent
condition of life. They’ve gotten help, but it’s been something
they’ve requested very reluctantly.”


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Predefinito Re: "No Mo For Joe: VP Struggles Attract 1K At CO Events", Obamacarried MN by 10 points 2008, now statistically tied as "Paul Ryan DrawsBiggest Solo Crowd in Liberal Minnesota"

On Nov 5, 8:01*am, "PJ O'D" <gapa...@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> "No Mo For Joe: VP Struggles Attract 1K At CO Events", Obama carried
> MN by 10 points 2008, now statistically tied as * "Paul Ryan Draws
> Biggest Solo Crowd in Liberal Minnesota"
>
> google: "No Mo for Joe:
>
> About 407 results (0.13 seconds)
>
> google: "poll showing Mitt Romney with a one-point lead in liberal
> Minnesota,"
>
> Hmmm... 11 point swing in MN poll from 08. Don't I recall polls
> indicating 13 point swing in WI, same in NH? How 'bout poll swings in
> PA & OH?[/color]

i am getting sick of red state/red district parasites: 70% of counties
with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid during the last 4 years
voted for the Republican presidential candidate in 08: there are 47%
who are dependent on government.” They “believe that they are entitled
to health care, to food, to housing.” they are "CONSERVATIVES"


[url]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-05/republican-heavy-counties-eat-up-most-food-stamp-growth.html[/url]
Republican-Heavy Counties Eat Up Most Food-Stamp Growth
By Frank Bass - Nov 4, 2012 11:00 PM CT

Obama, Romney Both See Good News on Election Eve
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said in May that he’d
written off votes from 47 percent of Americans who are collecting
government aid. Turns out many of them are part of his political base.
Republican Counties Defy Romney in Leading Food-Stamp Growth

Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Newport News
International Airport, on Nov. 4, 2012, in Newport News, Va.
Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Newport News
International Airport, on Nov. 4, 2012, in Newport News, Va.
Photographer: David Goldman/AP Photo
Seventy percent of counties with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid
during the last four years voted for the Republican presidential
candidate in 2008, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data
compiled by Bloomberg. They include Republican strongholds like King
County, Texas, which in 2008 backed Republican John McCain by 92.6
percent, his largest share in the nation; and fast-growing Douglas
County, Colorado.
That means Romney is counting on votes from areas where lower-income
people have become more reliant on the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program, known as food stamps. Mark Baisley, who heads
Douglas County’s Republican Party, said many recipients will back
Romney in hopes he’ll improve the economy.
“Would you rather be sitting at home wishing you had a job and relying
upon the kindness of neighbors?” Baisley said in a telephone interview
from Colorado, one of the swing states that Romney and President
Barack Obama are battling over. “Or would you rather be self-
supporting, with a job that sustains your family?”
In a video from a May fundraiser, Romney said “there are 47 percent
who are with him,” referring to Obama, “who are dependent on
government.” They “believe that they are entitled to health care, to
food, to housing.”
Feeding Families
In an August report, Nicholas Colas, ***** market strategist at
ConvergEx Group LLC in New York, predicted that risk-averse voters in
competitive states may side with the presidential candidate who would
extend benefits, even if it means a slower recovery from the worst
economic downturn since the Great Depression.
“You have a lot of people who are relying upon the government to put
food on the table for themselves or their families,” Colas said in an
interview. “That’s going to have to inform a lot of decisions.”
Romney has suggested transferring control of food stamps and other
federal programs to states. The change would save money and make the
programs more effective, the former Massachusetts governor argues.
“If the question is what is best for low-income Ohioans, shouldn’t we
let Ohioans make that call?” Paul Ryan, Romney’s running mate, said in
an Oct. 24 speech in Cleveland.
Democrats and hunger-relief groups say the Republican plan would
deprive millions of Americans of the food aid.
$80 Billion
More than 16 million additional people have gone on food stamps in the
last four years, according to the USDA. The $80 billion program has
grown from an initial 2.9 million beneficiaries in 1969 to 46.7
million at the end of July, the latest month for which figures are
available.
It now provides food to one in every five U.S. households, largely as
a result of 2009 economic-stimulus legislation backed by Obama that
waived limits on program benefits and opened food- stamp participation
to people without children.
The number of food-stamp recipients in Pitkin County, which includes
the Aspen Ski Resort, has increased faster than any other reported
county in the nation during the last four years. It climbed to 270
households, a 463 percent increase over the 48 that received food
stamps in 2008.
Downhill Industry
LIFT-UP, a 30-year-old interfaith humanitarian program in Rifle,
Colorado, about 70 miles northwest of Aspen, helped provide food to
more than 5,100 families this year after a poor ski season hurt
tourism-industry workers and the collapse of natural-gas prices
devastated the region’s energy sector, said Mike Powell, LIFT-UP’s
executive director.
Powell said he doubts people struggling to put food on the table are
paying too much attention to politics. The number of families asking
for help has actually fallen slightly over the first nine months of
the year for the first time in three years, he said.
Countering the national trend, food-stamp participation rates have
increased fastest in Colorado counties that voted for Obama in 2008.
Still, those rates have doubled in Douglas, which gave 58 percent of
its 2008 vote to McCain even as Obama won the state by almost 9
points. Located between Denver and Colorado Springs, Douglas reported
6,014 households getting nutritional help in 2011, a 102 percent
increase from 2008.
Temporary Hand-Up
The increase in food-stamp recipients also was pronounced in
Republican bastions such as Collin County, Texas, which registered a
128 percent increase to 47,102 households in 2011, and Gwinnett
County, Georgia, where usage climbed 117 percent to 101,815
households. Collin County, a Dallas suburb, gave McCain 62 percent of
its 2008 vote. Gwinnett, part of the Atlanta metro area, supported the
Republican with 55 percent of its ballots.
The increase in food stamps in those strongholds doesn’t mean Romney
will lose votes, said Michael Franc, vice president for governmental
studies at the Heritage Foundation, a Republican-leaning research
organization in Washington.
“We’re talking about people who got pretty hammered by the economic
meltdown,” he said. “It’s a temporary hand-up, not a permanent
condition of life. They’ve gotten help, but it’s been something
they’ve requested very reluctantly.”


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Predefinito Re: "No Mo For Joe: VP Struggles Attract 1K At CO Events", Obamacarried MN by 10 points 2008, now statistically tied as "Paul Ryan DrawsBiggest Solo Crowd in Liberal Minnesota"

On Nov 5, 8:01*am, "PJ O'D" <gapa...@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> "No Mo For Joe: VP Struggles Attract 1K At CO Events", Obama carried
> MN by 10 points 2008, now statistically tied as * "Paul Ryan Draws
> Biggest Solo Crowd in Liberal Minnesota"
>
> google: "No Mo for Joe:
>
> About 407 results (0.13 seconds)
>
> google: "poll showing Mitt Romney with a one-point lead in liberal
> Minnesota,"
>
> Hmmm... 11 point swing in MN poll from 08. Don't I recall polls
> indicating 13 point swing in WI, same in NH? How 'bout poll swings in
> PA & OH?[/color]

i am getting sick of red state/red district parasites: 70% of counties
with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid during the last 4 years
voted for the Republican presidential candidate in 08: there are 47%
who are dependent on government.” They “believe that they are entitled
to health care, to food, to housing.” they are "CONSERVATIVES"


[url]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-05/republican-heavy-counties-eat-up-most-food-stamp-growth.html[/url]
Republican-Heavy Counties Eat Up Most Food-Stamp Growth
By Frank Bass - Nov 4, 2012 11:00 PM CT

Obama, Romney Both See Good News on Election Eve
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said in May that he’d
written off votes from 47 percent of Americans who are collecting
government aid. Turns out many of them are part of his political base.
Republican Counties Defy Romney in Leading Food-Stamp Growth

Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Newport News
International Airport, on Nov. 4, 2012, in Newport News, Va.
Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Newport News
International Airport, on Nov. 4, 2012, in Newport News, Va.
Photographer: David Goldman/AP Photo
Seventy percent of counties with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid
during the last four years voted for the Republican presidential
candidate in 2008, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data
compiled by Bloomberg. They include Republican strongholds like King
County, Texas, which in 2008 backed Republican John McCain by 92.6
percent, his largest share in the nation; and fast-growing Douglas
County, Colorado.
That means Romney is counting on votes from areas where lower-income
people have become more reliant on the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program, known as food stamps. Mark Baisley, who heads
Douglas County’s Republican Party, said many recipients will back
Romney in hopes he’ll improve the economy.
“Would you rather be sitting at home wishing you had a job and relying
upon the kindness of neighbors?” Baisley said in a telephone interview
from Colorado, one of the swing states that Romney and President
Barack Obama are battling over. “Or would you rather be self-
supporting, with a job that sustains your family?”
In a video from a May fundraiser, Romney said “there are 47 percent
who are with him,” referring to Obama, “who are dependent on
government.” They “believe that they are entitled to health care, to
food, to housing.”
Feeding Families
In an August report, Nicholas Colas, ***** market strategist at
ConvergEx Group LLC in New York, predicted that risk-averse voters in
competitive states may side with the presidential candidate who would
extend benefits, even if it means a slower recovery from the worst
economic downturn since the Great Depression.
“You have a lot of people who are relying upon the government to put
food on the table for themselves or their families,” Colas said in an
interview. “That’s going to have to inform a lot of decisions.”
Romney has suggested transferring control of food stamps and other
federal programs to states. The change would save money and make the
programs more effective, the former Massachusetts governor argues.
“If the question is what is best for low-income Ohioans, shouldn’t we
let Ohioans make that call?” Paul Ryan, Romney’s running mate, said in
an Oct. 24 speech in Cleveland.
Democrats and hunger-relief groups say the Republican plan would
deprive millions of Americans of the food aid.
$80 Billion
More than 16 million additional people have gone on food stamps in the
last four years, according to the USDA. The $80 billion program has
grown from an initial 2.9 million beneficiaries in 1969 to 46.7
million at the end of July, the latest month for which figures are
available.
It now provides food to one in every five U.S. households, largely as
a result of 2009 economic-stimulus legislation backed by Obama that
waived limits on program benefits and opened food- stamp participation
to people without children.
The number of food-stamp recipients in Pitkin County, which includes
the Aspen Ski Resort, has increased faster than any other reported
county in the nation during the last four years. It climbed to 270
households, a 463 percent increase over the 48 that received food
stamps in 2008.
Downhill Industry
LIFT-UP, a 30-year-old interfaith humanitarian program in Rifle,
Colorado, about 70 miles northwest of Aspen, helped provide food to
more than 5,100 families this year after a poor ski season hurt
tourism-industry workers and the collapse of natural-gas prices
devastated the region’s energy sector, said Mike Powell, LIFT-UP’s
executive director.
Powell said he doubts people struggling to put food on the table are
paying too much attention to politics. The number of families asking
for help has actually fallen slightly over the first nine months of
the year for the first time in three years, he said.
Countering the national trend, food-stamp participation rates have
increased fastest in Colorado counties that voted for Obama in 2008.
Still, those rates have doubled in Douglas, which gave 58 percent of
its 2008 vote to McCain even as Obama won the state by almost 9
points. Located between Denver and Colorado Springs, Douglas reported
6,014 households getting nutritional help in 2011, a 102 percent
increase from 2008.
Temporary Hand-Up
The increase in food-stamp recipients also was pronounced in
Republican bastions such as Collin County, Texas, which registered a
128 percent increase to 47,102 households in 2011, and Gwinnett
County, Georgia, where usage climbed 117 percent to 101,815
households. Collin County, a Dallas suburb, gave McCain 62 percent of
its 2008 vote. Gwinnett, part of the Atlanta metro area, supported the
Republican with 55 percent of its ballots.
The increase in food stamps in those strongholds doesn’t mean Romney
will lose votes, said Michael Franc, vice president for governmental
studies at the Heritage Foundation, a Republican-leaning research
organization in Washington.
“We’re talking about people who got pretty hammered by the economic
meltdown,” he said. “It’s a temporary hand-up, not a permanent
condition of life. They’ve gotten help, but it’s been something
they’ve requested very reluctantly.”


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Predefinito Re: "No Mo For Joe: VP Struggles Attract 1K At CO Events", Obamacarried MN by 10 points 2008, now statistically tied as "Paul Ryan DrawsBiggest Solo Crowd in Liberal Minnesota"

On Nov 5, 8:01*am, "PJ O'D" <gapa...@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> "No Mo For Joe: VP Struggles Attract 1K At CO Events", Obama carried
> MN by 10 points 2008, now statistically tied as * "Paul Ryan Draws
> Biggest Solo Crowd in Liberal Minnesota"
>
> google: "No Mo for Joe:
>
> About 407 results (0.13 seconds)
>
> google: "poll showing Mitt Romney with a one-point lead in liberal
> Minnesota,"
>
> Hmmm... 11 point swing in MN poll from 08. Don't I recall polls
> indicating 13 point swing in WI, same in NH? How 'bout poll swings in
> PA & OH?[/color]

i am getting sick of red state/red district parasites: 70% of counties
with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid during the last 4 years
voted for the Republican presidential candidate in 08: there are 47%
who are dependent on government.” They “believe that they are entitled
to health care, to food, to housing.” they are "CONSERVATIVES"


[url]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-05/republican-heavy-counties-eat-up-most-food-stamp-growth.html[/url]
Republican-Heavy Counties Eat Up Most Food-Stamp Growth
By Frank Bass - Nov 4, 2012 11:00 PM CT

Obama, Romney Both See Good News on Election Eve
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said in May that he’d
written off votes from 47 percent of Americans who are collecting
government aid. Turns out many of them are part of his political base.
Republican Counties Defy Romney in Leading Food-Stamp Growth

Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Newport News
International Airport, on Nov. 4, 2012, in Newport News, Va.
Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Newport News
International Airport, on Nov. 4, 2012, in Newport News, Va.
Photographer: David Goldman/AP Photo
Seventy percent of counties with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid
during the last four years voted for the Republican presidential
candidate in 2008, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data
compiled by Bloomberg. They include Republican strongholds like King
County, Texas, which in 2008 backed Republican John McCain by 92.6
percent, his largest share in the nation; and fast-growing Douglas
County, Colorado.
That means Romney is counting on votes from areas where lower-income
people have become more reliant on the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program, known as food stamps. Mark Baisley, who heads
Douglas County’s Republican Party, said many recipients will back
Romney in hopes he’ll improve the economy.
“Would you rather be sitting at home wishing you had a job and relying
upon the kindness of neighbors?” Baisley said in a telephone interview
from Colorado, one of the swing states that Romney and President
Barack Obama are battling over. “Or would you rather be self-
supporting, with a job that sustains your family?”
In a video from a May fundraiser, Romney said “there are 47 percent
who are with him,” referring to Obama, “who are dependent on
government.” They “believe that they are entitled to health care, to
food, to housing.”
Feeding Families
In an August report, Nicholas Colas, ***** market strategist at
ConvergEx Group LLC in New York, predicted that risk-averse voters in
competitive states may side with the presidential candidate who would
extend benefits, even if it means a slower recovery from the worst
economic downturn since the Great Depression.
“You have a lot of people who are relying upon the government to put
food on the table for themselves or their families,” Colas said in an
interview. “That’s going to have to inform a lot of decisions.”
Romney has suggested transferring control of food stamps and other
federal programs to states. The change would save money and make the
programs more effective, the former Massachusetts governor argues.
“If the question is what is best for low-income Ohioans, shouldn’t we
let Ohioans make that call?” Paul Ryan, Romney’s running mate, said in
an Oct. 24 speech in Cleveland.
Democrats and hunger-relief groups say the Republican plan would
deprive millions of Americans of the food aid.
$80 Billion
More than 16 million additional people have gone on food stamps in the
last four years, according to the USDA. The $80 billion program has
grown from an initial 2.9 million beneficiaries in 1969 to 46.7
million at the end of July, the latest month for which figures are
available.
It now provides food to one in every five U.S. households, largely as
a result of 2009 economic-stimulus legislation backed by Obama that
waived limits on program benefits and opened food- stamp participation
to people without children.
The number of food-stamp recipients in Pitkin County, which includes
the Aspen Ski Resort, has increased faster than any other reported
county in the nation during the last four years. It climbed to 270
households, a 463 percent increase over the 48 that received food
stamps in 2008.
Downhill Industry
LIFT-UP, a 30-year-old interfaith humanitarian program in Rifle,
Colorado, about 70 miles northwest of Aspen, helped provide food to
more than 5,100 families this year after a poor ski season hurt
tourism-industry workers and the collapse of natural-gas prices
devastated the region’s energy sector, said Mike Powell, LIFT-UP’s
executive director.
Powell said he doubts people struggling to put food on the table are
paying too much attention to politics. The number of families asking
for help has actually fallen slightly over the first nine months of
the year for the first time in three years, he said.
Countering the national trend, food-stamp participation rates have
increased fastest in Colorado counties that voted for Obama in 2008.
Still, those rates have doubled in Douglas, which gave 58 percent of
its 2008 vote to McCain even as Obama won the state by almost 9
points. Located between Denver and Colorado Springs, Douglas reported
6,014 households getting nutritional help in 2011, a 102 percent
increase from 2008.
Temporary Hand-Up
The increase in food-stamp recipients also was pronounced in
Republican bastions such as Collin County, Texas, which registered a
128 percent increase to 47,102 households in 2011, and Gwinnett
County, Georgia, where usage climbed 117 percent to 101,815
households. Collin County, a Dallas suburb, gave McCain 62 percent of
its 2008 vote. Gwinnett, part of the Atlanta metro area, supported the
Republican with 55 percent of its ballots.
The increase in food stamps in those strongholds doesn’t mean Romney
will lose votes, said Michael Franc, vice president for governmental
studies at the Heritage Foundation, a Republican-leaning research
organization in Washington.
“We’re talking about people who got pretty hammered by the economic
meltdown,” he said. “It’s a temporary hand-up, not a permanent
condition of life. They’ve gotten help, but it’s been something
they’ve requested very reluctantly.”


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Predefinito Re: "No Mo For Joe: VP Struggles Attract 1K At CO Events", Obamacarried MN by 10 points 2008, now statistically tied as "Paul Ryan DrawsBiggest Solo Crowd in Liberal Minnesota"

On Nov 5, 8:01*am, "PJ O'D" <gapa...@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> "No Mo For Joe: VP Struggles Attract 1K At CO Events", Obama carried
> MN by 10 points 2008, now statistically tied as * "Paul Ryan Draws
> Biggest Solo Crowd in Liberal Minnesota"
>
> google: "No Mo for Joe:
>
> About 407 results (0.13 seconds)
>
> google: "poll showing Mitt Romney with a one-point lead in liberal
> Minnesota,"
>
> Hmmm... 11 point swing in MN poll from 08. Don't I recall polls
> indicating 13 point swing in WI, same in NH? How 'bout poll swings in
> PA & OH?[/color]

i am getting sick of red state/red district parasites: 70% of counties
with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid during the last 4 years
voted for the Republican presidential candidate in 08: there are 47%
who are dependent on government.” They “believe that they are entitled
to health care, to food, to housing.” they are "CONSERVATIVES"


[url]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-05/republican-heavy-counties-eat-up-most-food-stamp-growth.html[/url]
Republican-Heavy Counties Eat Up Most Food-Stamp Growth
By Frank Bass - Nov 4, 2012 11:00 PM CT

Obama, Romney Both See Good News on Election Eve
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said in May that he’d
written off votes from 47 percent of Americans who are collecting
government aid. Turns out many of them are part of his political base.
Republican Counties Defy Romney in Leading Food-Stamp Growth

Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Newport News
International Airport, on Nov. 4, 2012, in Newport News, Va.
Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Newport News
International Airport, on Nov. 4, 2012, in Newport News, Va.
Photographer: David Goldman/AP Photo
Seventy percent of counties with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid
during the last four years voted for the Republican presidential
candidate in 2008, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data
compiled by Bloomberg. They include Republican strongholds like King
County, Texas, which in 2008 backed Republican John McCain by 92.6
percent, his largest share in the nation; and fast-growing Douglas
County, Colorado.
That means Romney is counting on votes from areas where lower-income
people have become more reliant on the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program, known as food stamps. Mark Baisley, who heads
Douglas County’s Republican Party, said many recipients will back
Romney in hopes he’ll improve the economy.
“Would you rather be sitting at home wishing you had a job and relying
upon the kindness of neighbors?” Baisley said in a telephone interview
from Colorado, one of the swing states that Romney and President
Barack Obama are battling over. “Or would you rather be self-
supporting, with a job that sustains your family?”
In a video from a May fundraiser, Romney said “there are 47 percent
who are with him,” referring to Obama, “who are dependent on
government.” They “believe that they are entitled to health care, to
food, to housing.”
Feeding Families
In an August report, Nicholas Colas, ***** market strategist at
ConvergEx Group LLC in New York, predicted that risk-averse voters in
competitive states may side with the presidential candidate who would
extend benefits, even if it means a slower recovery from the worst
economic downturn since the Great Depression.
“You have a lot of people who are relying upon the government to put
food on the table for themselves or their families,” Colas said in an
interview. “That’s going to have to inform a lot of decisions.”
Romney has suggested transferring control of food stamps and other
federal programs to states. The change would save money and make the
programs more effective, the former Massachusetts governor argues.
“If the question is what is best for low-income Ohioans, shouldn’t we
let Ohioans make that call?” Paul Ryan, Romney’s running mate, said in
an Oct. 24 speech in Cleveland.
Democrats and hunger-relief groups say the Republican plan would
deprive millions of Americans of the food aid.
$80 Billion
More than 16 million additional people have gone on food stamps in the
last four years, according to the USDA. The $80 billion program has
grown from an initial 2.9 million beneficiaries in 1969 to 46.7
million at the end of July, the latest month for which figures are
available.
It now provides food to one in every five U.S. households, largely as
a result of 2009 economic-stimulus legislation backed by Obama that
waived limits on program benefits and opened food- stamp participation
to people without children.
The number of food-stamp recipients in Pitkin County, which includes
the Aspen Ski Resort, has increased faster than any other reported
county in the nation during the last four years. It climbed to 270
households, a 463 percent increase over the 48 that received food
stamps in 2008.
Downhill Industry
LIFT-UP, a 30-year-old interfaith humanitarian program in Rifle,
Colorado, about 70 miles northwest of Aspen, helped provide food to
more than 5,100 families this year after a poor ski season hurt
tourism-industry workers and the collapse of natural-gas prices
devastated the region’s energy sector, said Mike Powell, LIFT-UP’s
executive director.
Powell said he doubts people struggling to put food on the table are
paying too much attention to politics. The number of families asking
for help has actually fallen slightly over the first nine months of
the year for the first time in three years, he said.
Countering the national trend, food-stamp participation rates have
increased fastest in Colorado counties that voted for Obama in 2008.
Still, those rates have doubled in Douglas, which gave 58 percent of
its 2008 vote to McCain even as Obama won the state by almost 9
points. Located between Denver and Colorado Springs, Douglas reported
6,014 households getting nutritional help in 2011, a 102 percent
increase from 2008.
Temporary Hand-Up
The increase in food-stamp recipients also was pronounced in
Republican bastions such as Collin County, Texas, which registered a
128 percent increase to 47,102 households in 2011, and Gwinnett
County, Georgia, where usage climbed 117 percent to 101,815
households. Collin County, a Dallas suburb, gave McCain 62 percent of
its 2008 vote. Gwinnett, part of the Atlanta metro area, supported the
Republican with 55 percent of its ballots.
The increase in food stamps in those strongholds doesn’t mean Romney
will lose votes, said Michael Franc, vice president for governmental
studies at the Heritage Foundation, a Republican-leaning research
organization in Washington.
“We’re talking about people who got pretty hammered by the economic
meltdown,” he said. “It’s a temporary hand-up, not a permanent
condition of life. They’ve gotten help, but it’s been something
they’ve requested very reluctantly.”


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On Nov 5, 8:01*am, "PJ O'D" <gapa...@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> "No Mo For Joe: VP Struggles Attract 1K At CO Events", Obama carried
> MN by 10 points 2008, now statistically tied as * "Paul Ryan Draws
> Biggest Solo Crowd in Liberal Minnesota"
>
> google: "No Mo for Joe:
>
> About 407 results (0.13 seconds)
>
> google: "poll showing Mitt Romney with a one-point lead in liberal
> Minnesota,"
>
> Hmmm... 11 point swing in MN poll from 08. Don't I recall polls
> indicating 13 point swing in WI, same in NH? How 'bout poll swings in
> PA & OH?[/color]

i am getting sick of red state/red district parasites: 70% of counties
with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid during the last 4 years
voted for the Republican presidential candidate in 08: there are 47%
who are dependent on government.” They “believe that they are entitled
to health care, to food, to housing.” they are "CONSERVATIVES"


[url]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-05/republican-heavy-counties-eat-up-most-food-stamp-growth.html[/url]
Republican-Heavy Counties Eat Up Most Food-Stamp Growth
By Frank Bass - Nov 4, 2012 11:00 PM CT

Obama, Romney Both See Good News on Election Eve
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said in May that he’d
written off votes from 47 percent of Americans who are collecting
government aid. Turns out many of them are part of his political base.
Republican Counties Defy Romney in Leading Food-Stamp Growth

Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Newport News
International Airport, on Nov. 4, 2012, in Newport News, Va.
Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Newport News
International Airport, on Nov. 4, 2012, in Newport News, Va.
Photographer: David Goldman/AP Photo
Seventy percent of counties with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid
during the last four years voted for the Republican presidential
candidate in 2008, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data
compiled by Bloomberg. They include Republican strongholds like King
County, Texas, which in 2008 backed Republican John McCain by 92.6
percent, his largest share in the nation; and fast-growing Douglas
County, Colorado.
That means Romney is counting on votes from areas where lower-income
people have become more reliant on the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program, known as food stamps. Mark Baisley, who heads
Douglas County’s Republican Party, said many recipients will back
Romney in hopes he’ll improve the economy.
“Would you rather be sitting at home wishing you had a job and relying
upon the kindness of neighbors?” Baisley said in a telephone interview
from Colorado, one of the swing states that Romney and President
Barack Obama are battling over. “Or would you rather be self-
supporting, with a job that sustains your family?”
In a video from a May fundraiser, Romney said “there are 47 percent
who are with him,” referring to Obama, “who are dependent on
government.” They “believe that they are entitled to health care, to
food, to housing.”
Feeding Families
In an August report, Nicholas Colas, ***** market strategist at
ConvergEx Group LLC in New York, predicted that risk-averse voters in
competitive states may side with the presidential candidate who would
extend benefits, even if it means a slower recovery from the worst
economic downturn since the Great Depression.
“You have a lot of people who are relying upon the government to put
food on the table for themselves or their families,” Colas said in an
interview. “That’s going to have to inform a lot of decisions.”
Romney has suggested transferring control of food stamps and other
federal programs to states. The change would save money and make the
programs more effective, the former Massachusetts governor argues.
“If the question is what is best for low-income Ohioans, shouldn’t we
let Ohioans make that call?” Paul Ryan, Romney’s running mate, said in
an Oct. 24 speech in Cleveland.
Democrats and hunger-relief groups say the Republican plan would
deprive millions of Americans of the food aid.
$80 Billion
More than 16 million additional people have gone on food stamps in the
last four years, according to the USDA. The $80 billion program has
grown from an initial 2.9 million beneficiaries in 1969 to 46.7
million at the end of July, the latest month for which figures are
available.
It now provides food to one in every five U.S. households, largely as
a result of 2009 economic-stimulus legislation backed by Obama that
waived limits on program benefits and opened food- stamp participation
to people without children.
The number of food-stamp recipients in Pitkin County, which includes
the Aspen Ski Resort, has increased faster than any other reported
county in the nation during the last four years. It climbed to 270
households, a 463 percent increase over the 48 that received food
stamps in 2008.
Downhill Industry
LIFT-UP, a 30-year-old interfaith humanitarian program in Rifle,
Colorado, about 70 miles northwest of Aspen, helped provide food to
more than 5,100 families this year after a poor ski season hurt
tourism-industry workers and the collapse of natural-gas prices
devastated the region’s energy sector, said Mike Powell, LIFT-UP’s
executive director.
Powell said he doubts people struggling to put food on the table are
paying too much attention to politics. The number of families asking
for help has actually fallen slightly over the first nine months of
the year for the first time in three years, he said.
Countering the national trend, food-stamp participation rates have
increased fastest in Colorado counties that voted for Obama in 2008.
Still, those rates have doubled in Douglas, which gave 58 percent of
its 2008 vote to McCain even as Obama won the state by almost 9
points. Located between Denver and Colorado Springs, Douglas reported
6,014 households getting nutritional help in 2011, a 102 percent
increase from 2008.
Temporary Hand-Up
The increase in food-stamp recipients also was pronounced in
Republican bastions such as Collin County, Texas, which registered a
128 percent increase to 47,102 households in 2011, and Gwinnett
County, Georgia, where usage climbed 117 percent to 101,815
households. Collin County, a Dallas suburb, gave McCain 62 percent of
its 2008 vote. Gwinnett, part of the Atlanta metro area, supported the
Republican with 55 percent of its ballots.
The increase in food stamps in those strongholds doesn’t mean Romney
will lose votes, said Michael Franc, vice president for governmental
studies at the Heritage Foundation, a Republican-leaning research
organization in Washington.
“We’re talking about people who got pretty hammered by the economic
meltdown,” he said. “It’s a temporary hand-up, not a permanent
condition of life. They’ve gotten help, but it’s been something
they’ve requested very reluctantly.”


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