I guess we’ll see how it unfolds; too many people who voted for Obama in 2008 are desperate to send him packing, and are not going to stay home. They are desperate, and don’t have the luxury of indifference. A few years of unemployment, rising prices of staples, foreclosures, insovency, etc. will do that to people. Reagan won with that...
This is a special thing for a very wealthy man ~ to reveal his income and the broad outlines of his personal affairs ~ just like he were one of us trying to get a home mortgage.
I think he can do it but he doesn't wanna' ~
Harry Reid's guess, using inside Mormon circle connections, is that Mitt loves his money too much to cut anybody else in on it ~ even at the cost of NOT getting to be President.
Remember, this has hit a really sore spot with the guy. He ran in 2008 as if he were going to be President and showed Mc Cain 23 years worth of tax returns ~ which 23 years we don't know, but since then he's made money in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. He's revealed 2010 and a preliminary on 2011 (rich people's returns are far more complex than ours you know).
When he campaigned in 2008 he was presumably prepared to publish a final on 2007 AND 2008. So, tell us, what happened to 1997 and maybe 2008? And what happened to 2009?
As the world economy collapsed how much money did this guy make? That's the only question I can come up with for why he was presumably prepared to reveal a year ~ to wit: 2007, just 4 years ago, but now he's not!