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Iran Strikes Mod

Obama winning now: post-convention swing-state surge

Nate Silver, NYT, "Sept 13: After convention bounce, holding Obama’s polls to a higher standard" 9/14 com/

On Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time, there was
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. But the consensus of the data ought to quite strong for him.

The plan will be portrayed as another Solynda, regardless of effectiveness—green energy failures resonate with the public

Fried ’11 Rona Fried, "Oversight Hearing: How Obama’s Green Energy Agenda is Killing Jobs%21" Sustainable Business, 9/22/2011, http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.feature/id/1898/page/1
How Obama’s Green Energy Agenda is Killing Jobs is the title of Darrell Issa’s (
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a simple message repeated over and over and over again in multiple venues. 

Independent voters are the largest voting bloc —- spending kills support

Douglas Schoen, pollster for President Clinton, 2-8-2012, The Forgotten Swing Voter, Politico, p. http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=7ED8592F-2122-4A55-AA3B-C5460134BE4A
Neither party focuses on issues that matter most to people: reviving the economy,
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their concerns will almost certainly promise four more years of the same gridlock.

Romney win causes Iran strikes—causes escalating conflict

Hussain 9-12 Murtaza Hussain, Toronto-based writer and analyst focused on issues related to Middle Eastern politics, "Why war with Iran would spell disaster," Al-Jazeera, 9/12/2012, http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/09/201291194236970294.html
Leading members of the House and Congress from both parties as well as the closest
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already begun to tout the inevitability of this action in a Romney presidency.

Iran strikes cause global nuclear war

Daigneault ’10 Todd Daigneault, "Wars And Rumors of War—-A Strategic View of Any Possible Future Western/israeli Military Strike in The Middle East," Bukisa, 10/8/10, http://www.bukisa.com/articles/369915_wars-and-rumors-of-war-a-strategic-view-of-any-possible-future-westernisraeli-military-strike-in-the-middle-east
Looking at any potential future strike against Iran by the West and Israel. This
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had; Hezbollah and Syria would become dragged in as Iran’s strategic partners.

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Global Warming Mod

Obama winning now: post-convention swing-state surge

Nate Silver, NYT, "Sept 13: After convention bounce, holding Obama’s polls to a higher standard" 9/14 com/

On Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time, there was
AND
. But the consensus of the data ought to quite strong for him.

The plan will be portrayed as another Solynda, regardless of effectiveness—green energy failures resonate with the public

Fried ’11 Rona Fried, "Oversight Hearing: How Obama’s Green Energy Agenda is Killing Jobs%21" Sustainable Business, 9/22/2011, http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.feature/id/1898/page/1
How Obama’s Green Energy Agenda is Killing Jobs is the title of Darrell Issa’s (
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a simple message repeated over and over and over again in multiple venues. 

Independent voters are the largest voting bloc —- spending kills support

Douglas Schoen, pollster for President Clinton, 2-8-2012, The Forgotten Swing Voter, Politico, p. http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=7ED8592F-2122-4A55-AA3B-C5460134BE4A
Neither party focuses on issues that matter most to people: reviving the economy,
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their concerns will almost certainly promise four more years of the same gridlock.

Independent voters are uniquely key in this polarized atmosphere —- most partisan voters have made up their mind

Judy Woodruff, 2-29-2012,  "Woodruff: Will Independents Return to Obama in 2012?, The Rundown," p. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/02/woodruff-will-independents-return-to-obama-2012.html-http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/02/woodruff-will-independents-return-to-obama-2012.html
There’s a lot of talk thrown around in every election about the influence of independents
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voting group is one story we plan to watch throughout this exciting election.

Election is key to solving global warming - extinction

Stevenson 9/11 Aiko is a freelance writer from Hong Kong who used to work for BBC World News, Bloomberg, CNBC Europe, CNN and Time magazine. She went to the University of Edinburgh in the UK and recently completed a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Hong Kong. "U.S. Election 2012: Battle for the Soul of America" 9/11/12. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aiko-stevenson/us-elections-the-battle_b_1866617.html-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aiko-stevenson/us-elections-the-battle_b_1866617.html
In approximately eight weeks, Americans will go to the polls to vote for their
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And, in eight weeks time, you can do something about it.

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1NC

Debt ceiling agreement now—Obama capital key

Dorning 1-3 Mike Dorning, "Obama Fights Republicans on Debt as Investors Seek Growth," Bloomberg, 1/3/2013, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-03/obama-fights-republicans-on-debt-as-investors-seek-growth.html
The next chapter in the skirmishing over the nation’s finances plays out during a phase
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to turn around and create an even bigger crisis on the debt limit?"

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Default causes global economic collapse—on brink now

Goldfarb 1/1 (Zach, WaPost, "’Fiscal cliff’ deal does little to tame threats from debt ceiling, high unemployment rates http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/fiscal-cliff/fiscal-cliff-deal-does-little-to-tame-threats-from-debt-ceiling-high-unemployment-rates/2013/01/01/8e4c14aa-5393-11e2-bf3e-76c0a789346f_print.html)
The deal fell somewhere in between. But by gaining the support of both sides
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policy offsetting much of the robust recovery being experienced in the private sector.

Economic collapse causes global wars

Royal ’10 director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense (Jedediah, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, pg 213-215)
Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict
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not featured prominently in the economic-security debate and deserves more attention.

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Rare earth market is stable in the long term but remains vulnerable in the short term

Martyn 12
Paul is a VP of Supply Strategy at BravoSolution, "Rare Earth Minerals: An End To China’s Monopoly Is In Sight" 6/8/12. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/06/08/rare-earth-minerals-an-end-to-chinas-monopoly-is-in-sight/

Rare earth minerals aren’t as rare as you think. The mining of rare earth
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time when they no longer are at the mercy of China for supplies. 

A drop in REE collapses the global economy, heg, and causes global instability

Vorona 12
Yaron is Executive Director of IAGs TREM Center, "Why Rare Metals are Essential to Global Economic Growth:" 2012 edition. http://www.kwrintl.com/library/2012/voronainterview.html-http://www.kwrintl.com/library/2012/voronainterview.html

My expertise in strategy really drives my activity in the critical materials space. After
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and to influence policy to make our world a safer, cleaner place. 

Economic collapse causes global wars

Royal ’10 director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense (Jedediah, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, pg 213-215)
Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict
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not featured prominently in the economic-security debate and deserves more attention.

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CIR will pass – Obama key
News Observer 2/22 McCain guardedly optimistic on immigration reform http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/02/22/2699275/mccain-guardedly-optimistic-on.html~~%23storylink=cpy

 U.S. Sen. John McCain says he is guardedly optimistic about
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be made before I can assure you that we will have a resolution."

Wind incites massive Congressional controversy

Carney ’12 (Timothy P., senior political columnist at the Washington Examiner, "Wind lobby strives to adapt to Tea Party era," 2012, ~washingtonexaminer.com/article/1273946~, jam)
The Tea Party has weakened the clout of the wind lobby, and imperiled the
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fuels and coal have spent so much time and money programming these Staffers."

PC will be key in coming fights—political resolve is crucial for a final reform package
Shear and Landler 1/31 (Michael and Mark, NYT, "On immigration, Obama assumes upper hand" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/us/politics/on-immigration-obama-acts-as-if-he-has-the-upper-hand.html?nl=todaysheadlines%26emc=edit_th_20130131%26pagewanted=all-http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/us/politics/on-immigration-obama-acts-as-if-he-has-the-upper-hand.html?nl=todaysheadlines%26emc=edit_th_20130131%26pagewanted=all)
In legislative fights over health care and stimulus spending in his first term, the
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of the show of bipartisan spirit on display in the Senate this week.

Key to the economy
Reuters 1-29 "Immigration Reform To Provide Net Benefit To U.S. Economy: Experts," 1/29/2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/29/immigration-reform-economic-boost_n_2571414.html?utm_hp_ref=business
NEW YORK, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The sluggish U.S.
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points to the economic growth rate, currently stuck at about 2 percent.