Besides the election, there is another event occurring on
November 6, 2012 for that is the day one of my favorite Christian rock bands is
releasing their new CD. The title of the
CD is Miracle, a title I think is appropriate for what is about to occur on
Tuesday. I believe in miracles and
believe we will see a miracle on Tuesday with the election of Mitt Romney as
our 45th President and we can begin liberating our nation from the
statist juggernaut we have been under the last four years.
I remember the sinking feeling I had four years ago when
Obama was elected President. I did not
fall for the message of hope and change offered by candidate Obama because I
knew that with Obama’s statist philosophy, he intended to change the very
structure and foundations of our republic.
Now four years later, we have seen the results of Obama’s
change. $6 trillion in additional debt,
unemployment stuck at near 8%, more people dependent on food stamps than at any
other time in our nation’s history, inept foreign policy that leaves American
citizens vulnerable to foreign attack, and a blotted federal bureaucracy that
is unable to respond to a natural disaster.
This is the legacy of change delivered by the first four years of the
Obama Presidency. On Tuesday, we the
American People get to go to the polls and decide whether we want four more
years of Obama’s version of hope and change or a change in direction for our
nation.
Mitt Romney has a proven record of turning organizations
around from disaster. This includes the
many businesses he rescued while working for Bain Capital as well as his work
turning around the Salt Lake City Olympics.
Granted, this will be Mitt Romney’s greatest turn around challenge but I
believe Romney will surround himself with good people who are up to the
challenge. He demonstrated his ability
to do that when he picked Paul Ryan, an expert on balancing budgets and working
with the legislature.
The polls are definitely trending in Romney’s direction so I
sense the nation is ready to make a change in its chief executive. However, I have concerns about the
Senate. 67 Senate seats are not up for
election this year. Republicans hold 37
of these seats and Democrats hold 30. Of
the 33 seats up for election this year, Rasmussen expects 9 to be safely won by
Republicans and 17 to be safely won by Democrats. This leaves Democrats with a 47 to 46 seat
advantage leaving 7 seats in the toss up category. This means that Republicans must win 5 of the
7 toss up races to have a 51 to 49 majority in the Senate. Unfortunately, Rasmussen shows the Democrat
is leading in 6 of the 7 toss up states.
(1)
The toss up states are Florida, Indiana, Montana, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
The only one of these seven states where the Republican currently has a
lead according to Rasmussen is Indiana. (1) With Harry Reid vowing not to work with Romney,
(2) it is imperative that we give Romney a Republican
Senate, otherwise any hopes of repealing Obamacare will be dashed.
However, I do believe in miracles and will be praying that
our hard work in these toss up states will result in republican victories in at
least 5 of these states, relegating Harry Reid to the position of minority
leader of the Senate.
1. Rasmussen Reports. 2012 Senate Balance of
Power. www.rasmussenreports.com. [Online] Rasmussen Reports. [Cited:
November 3, 2012.]
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/archive/2012_senate_balance_of_power.
2. Shapiro, Ben.
REID: WE WON'T WORK WITH ROMNEY. www.breitbart.com. [Online] Breitbart,
November 2, 2012. [Cited: November 3, 2012.]
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/02/Harry-Reid-will-not-work-with-Romney.
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