(Link) Of note: Of North Carolina's 603,000 new voters this year, 48 percent are Democrats and 21 percent Republicans. Nearly a third are independents. By comparison, in 2004, Democrats made up 39 percent of new voters and Republicans, 34 percent. Among the trends: African Americans, who make up about 22 percent of the state's population, account for more than 30 percent of new voters. Five counties – Mecklenburg, Durham, Forsyth, Guilford and Wake – account for more than a third of all ...

I about jumped out of my chair when he said that in the debate last night - sneaking in the revenue piece and misrepresenting it as half of all of small businesses would see their taxes go up. :mad: What is his definition of small business? I guarantee that no more than 10% (and that is being gracious) of the "small businesses" are the ones that bring in that 50% of the revenue. It is probably closer to 5, or even less. Someone needs to bring this one up.

and won't get fixed by McCain's little $5000 crock of shit plan. This is my personal example, and is a very minor one, but puts everything into perfect perspective about the system. This summer, my son got sick and was coughing a lot for 2 weeks, so we took him to the doctor. After paying the copay, the doc said he wanted to make sure he didn't have pneumonia (or some such) and wanted a chest Xray. Well, he doesn't do that in his office, so refers it out. We take him to get the XRay, and the ...