[Impala64ssa]

Well he wanted to shut down the coal industry and it looks like for once he's going to deliver on a promise.

[Viennacon]

Obama’s war on coal may cost him. I considered PA a safe state for Obama, but this may change things. Many a suffering.

[patriot08]

Obama, 2008: ‘I’ll Bankrupt the Coal Industry. – 2012: Coal Mines Laying Off Workers.’

http://www.libertynews.com/2012/07/24/obama-2008-ill-bankrupt-the-coal-industry-2012-coal-mines-laying-off-workers/

[Red in Blue PA]

But it’s okay for the rest of the world to use coal.....just not us.

Effing POS.

[nascarnation]

Actually it’s cheap nat gas that’s killing coal.
Those crazy frackers at it again....

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443696604577645713658834228.html

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

And 0bama’s war on generations of white families continues..

[Mr. Wright]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpTIhyMa-Nw

[MarkL]

Election in November, things start getting really cold in December, when electrical rates will really sky-rocket.

Obama timed things as best he could so that the true costs of his policies don’t hit us until after the election. For instance, the true costs of Obamacare won’t be realized until late 2013/2014.

Mark

[tennmountainman]

Hurt Obama? Not really. The unemployed will soon be trapped.
Having to go on food stamps, unemployment and welfare checks.
They will have to vote for for Obama to continue feeding themselves and their families.
They will now have to become part of the 49% of free loaders.
Not by choice, but by survival.

[griswold3]

non union job losses

[sargon]

Everytime something like this happens, Romney should immediately produce a devastating ad hammering 0bama.

If Romney has half a brain, he'll win this election running away...

[Intolerant in NJ]

Is this the hope and change Obama was talking about? Or was it his promise a few years back that coal regulations would cause energy prices to “necessarily sky-rocket”?...not either - it's his promise to "bankrupt the coal companies" - just another part of his agenda that's destroying the middle class, like his refusal to extend the Bush taxcuts and his defiance of two court orders to resume drilling in the Gulf after the BP spill - his claims that he's trying to defend the middle class cynical BS.......

[jmaroneps37]

For the first time ever the coal miner's union did NOT endorse anyone in this election. I believe these closings as were the layoffs at Miami airport were purposely timed to stop Obama.

[tomkat]

If you'll pardon the presumption of quoting myself . . .

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For your consideration, here are four reasons that, acting in concert, will cause Pennsylvania will go R this election, imho:

1) Our new Voter ID law IS going to have an impact. No one with any sense assumes it will completely stop the fraud/theft, but barring wholesale (criminal) non-compliance at the polls, it should negate several tens of thousands of bogus ballots.

2) PA's nascent energy boom, having brought much good employment/wages to rural areas that previously offered few opportunities, and with more hiring to follow, is under threat of attack by the marxist watermelons in particular, and Ø's anti-business regime generally. Folks who've finally found some work that pays worth a damn, knowing the Dhimms will try to take it away from them, should be turning out in droves with their votes to see that that doesn't happen.

3) Gas prices are once again within spitting distance of $4/gal as a result of Ø's deliberate Luddite attack on our energy industries. Not only are peoples' wallets being raped when filling their vehicles, the winter heating season will soon be ushering in concomitantly absurd bills for heating oil and electrity. Coupled with grocery prices spiraling ever upward as a result of artificially usurious energy costs, folks bringing in less than $100k/yr are being slowly strangled, while those trying to make do with less are effectively being written off. Political maxim #1 = it's the ECONOMY !

4) Though things have yet to reach quite the levels of anarchy currently present in Chicago, American citizens in PA's urban areas are doubtless feeling the fear and outrage caused by Ø's tacitly condoning the untouchable entitlement attitudes and general lawlessness of feral urban barbarians, overwhelmingly of the black variety. In the part of their minds that hold those things that are thought about as rarely as possible, most rational people know that there's very likely a big storm coming, and that there's no way the cops will be able to deal with it. They also know that, while things weren't rosy, the situation four years ago seemed much less dire. Average moms and dads don't like to be made to think those thoughts and feel those fears in a state that used to be a reasonably safe place to raise their kids. And in that same seldom-visited mind corner lurks the dark realization that, given the enormous disparity in numbers between city cops and bangers, if widespread urban violence/rioting breaks out following this election, it will almost necessarily have to be met with massive and deadly citizen resistance - which means THEM - if their families and property are to be protected.

Given all the above, and with a moderate PR drive by the R/R team to crystallize what's at stake, Pennsylvania should deliver 20 EVs to the saner side of the equation this year.

Finally.

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30 posted on Saturday, September 08, 2012 8:59:45 AM