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About that whole makers v. takers argument...

President Obama won 8 out of 10 of the richest counties in the country... 8 out of 10. Would anyone argue that the counties with the highest per capita income are populated with takers?

Look at it another way. If 53% of the country are Makers, and makers are aligned with Romney, how did he lose the popular vote?

Look folks, if you can't find someone to give you a "valid" explanation about why they voted for Obama, you haven't talked to the right person. There are plenty of highly educated, intelligent, hard-working, employed Americans who voted for the President. I also don't think that Clinton-era tax rates are the apocalypse.

And not for nothing, the President is fighting to keep tax rates low for all but the 1%. That means 99% of Americans (which includes 52 of the "53%").

And let's not forget that the Dow has nearly DOUBLED. And US companies are sitting on TRILLIONS in cash reserves. What kind of communism is that?

Obama's signature achievement is not a Socialist take-over of healthcare. It was a 1994 REPUBLICAN initiative instituted by a REPUBLICAN governor in his state.

Reasonable people can disagree on some of the social planks of the President's platform, but it's the height of cognitive dissonance to insist that the government keep its hands off one's guns and medicare while insisting that the government insert itself into a woman's body... or the bedroom of two American citizens... Does Loving v. Virginia ring any bells?

Imagine what this country could do if the GOP Senate minority decided to work for the country instead of leading their party into a third consecutive cycle of disappointment.

This country is strong and we will be stronger still. We have BIG challenges ahead, but we will overcome them. We will wake up on January 21st, 2013 and continue that hard work together.

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