Fight Night (The Debates): C-SPAN: CO GOV LIVE, HI GOV, IL GOV, NH SEN + AK SEN

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Who knew illegal immigration was such a hot topic in Delaware?

There's a small but significant Hispanic presence in Sussex County, mostly due to chicken processing.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

I counted about six or seven crazed/ignorant statements be one of the candidates (I watched it while working out at the gym in the hotel I am staying at, until about an hour into it, some other dude came in, and asked if he could change the channel about into the "debate," and I said OK. I had had enough).

I particular liked the bit about repealing the capital gains tax.  That way, I could sell some of my assets that I have owned since rocks cooled, get a huge step up in basis, and as to real estate, replace it with other real estate, and re-commence to depreciate it, and get a deduction against my income, a second time.  Just how cool is that?

And then there was the bit about the pizza parlor guy making $300,000 a year, who should not get a tax increase.  One of the candidates noted in a rejoinder that the 300K figure was before the pizza guy had to pay all his employees.  I didn't know until this was pointed out to me, that apparently, employee expenses cannot be deducted against income.  No wonder employers are reluctant to hire anyone! Who knew?

Why wouldn't payroll be deductible from income? That doesn't make any sense.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

"man up, Harry Reid"

what the heck Sharron, that's a ridic intro for a response on social security

He needs to put his MAN PANTS on!

[JohnnyLongtorso]

John Faso stuck the knife into Paladino right after the debate on Capital Tonight. He basically said he barely noticed him while watching and didn't even understand why he was up there.

So did anyone actually watch the West Virginia shindig? It's kind of funny how seemingly everyone here chose to watch a debate in a basically non-competitive gubernatorial race over a debate for one of the most competitive and important US Senate seats.

I can pretty much guess how it went:

Raese: Rubber-stamp Obamacare tax cuts cap and trade job-killer.
Manchin: Florida millionaire elitist. Also, not a rubber stamp.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Talking about other debates... have you seen perriello vs. hurt debate?? perrielllo really crushed him. He will be president some day if he survives in november, and today's debate has helped him a lot.

If he's interested in remaining in politics, I expect Perriello will either run for the State Senate next year (Creigh Deeds is likely retiring) or for statewide office in 2013. He's a very likable guy, and certainly has plenty of time to rebound from a loss early in his career.