People have no clue what will be affected by Obamacare rules. My dentist told me yesterday that the new tax on medical devices (3%) includes crowns, for example. And the new guidelines for doctors tell me Pap smears are only every 3 years, mammograms 2 years… Not a big improvement in my book.

He didnt his first 4 years, so why do you expect him to this time? 

I know one thing.  My medical reimbursement account maximum has been lowered due to new healthcare legislation (Obamacare) which means I can no longer put away as much pretax money as I used to for medical care.

THAT i’m not happy about.

Interesting set of statistics, Sassycatz.

According to the pundits, the economy was the leading concern…but that seems to be not quite true across the board…as always, people have different sets of priorities, and look for the candidate who reflects their interests the most.

Even if someone could show through his policies and his remarks or quotes that Romney cared about or understood women’s concerns, and I’ve never even ‘seen’ anyone make that highly unlikely claim, he couldn’t sell it. The stats show that that a great many women voters didn’t care about him, across the board…and voted accordingly. 

So (((yeah))) for a participatory democracy.

Ah well, there will be plenty of post mortems to come…future candidates can study up – see where Mitt went wrong. And then go off and make their own mistakes. Heh.

I don’t agree with making it mandatory for people to vote, but I do think that making it easier will lead to better elections.  I never understood why one party was interested in suppressing the vote instead of just going out and trying to sign up new voters, and recruiting more people to their party.

Being able to vote on the weekends, allowing people to vote three to four weeks before election day, and coming up with a system where we wouldn’t have to worry about hanging chads or voting machines that don’t allow you to document your vote, would result in fairer elections that more people would participate in.

Try to come up with something original that hasnt been ran into the ground about a thousand times.

Like the phrase liberal media, especially in light of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.  Or, saying that those who don’t think the same way that you do, or who aren’t concerned about the same things that you are, don’t think for themselves?  The fact is that we all vote for the things and the people who we think will benefit us.  After Mitt Romney’s 47% comment, it’s hard to say that people’s fears about him were unwarranted.   That was a real situation, not one where the candidate was using filters.  Some people may have been concerned about his changing attitudes on important issues, or his inability to give specifics about his economic plan.  And I’m sure that others were afraid that he was surrounding  himself with too many people from the Bush era, birthers, and tea party people.  

These are concrete concerns.  They might not mean anything to you, but they do to other people. And they are a lot more specific and policy related than name calling or blaming everything on the media.

ha ha, so wow. You got a lot of likes on that response. :) Holy smokes! I totally agree with you and I’m in one of the categories you stated. I guess I rubbed you wrong… lol… I just meant that America is America and when it comes right down to it, I love the USA. I don’t care who is the president, I love the USA.  Good Grief!!! I’m so in favor of moving on past the election. It is small beans to the people suffering on the East Coast and people in need everywhere!!!

 I’m only saying what my doctors are telling me. I’m turning 65 shortly and am already on Medicare due to disability, and I can tell you from experience that all I’ve gotten from Medicare is extra paperwork and 1 no-copay doctor visit a year (my HMO already covers labs & mammograms without copays), for a grand savings of $15/yr. For this I pay roughly $80/mo more than without Medicare (paying for Medicare B and getting approx $13/mo discount on group premium). This is a “benefit” I’d love to be able to refuse.

Doesn’t sound good.

Holding elections on Tuesdays goes back to the horse and buggy days. Because that mode of travel was so slow, it took a long time for farmers to get to the polls, and they didn’t want to travel on the Sabbath, so Monday was out because they’d have to start out the day before. Saturday would also be out since that would involve returning from voting on Sunday. Wednesday was market day, so farmers didn’t want to vote on that day. Finally it was decided that Tuesday would be the most convenient day for everyone. Many people think it’s time we changed that tradition–and of course, with early voting and mail-in ballots, it has changed to a great degree.

Thank you Taylor for the explanation about Tuesday voting.The original idea does make sense but is way past making sense these days. I’m glad they are making it easier for people to vote .