The Dinosaur Election

Ann and Phelim Media : In this five minute documentary, we show how Ohio and Pennsylvania — two significant swing states in the election — are currently experiencing localized economic booms due to fracking. Fracking is a method of extracting oil and natural gas from previously inaccessible shale rock. Incumbent Presidents always do well when voters feel optimistic about the economy, so this feel-good factor sweeping OH and PA could swing the elections in an unexpected way.

Thus, the 2012 election may come down to two swing states: Ohio and Pennsylvania. Both states are in the midst of an economic boom brought by increased natural gas production. Does President Obama deserve praise for this boom? Will he get credit anyway?

But the prospect of President Obama getting re-elected because of fracking drips with irony, because Obama may use the flexibility of his second term to over-regulate fracking to please the environmental wing of the Democratic Party.

Comments by Viewers of the documentary:
"A person in either of these two states would have to be extremely inattentive to not know that Obama is about as anti-fracking as you can get, for any number of reasons. Are there really enough of these inattentive people in these two states to hand the election to Obama?"

"This is the most important election in years. You can choose more intense liberal destruction of America; or you can help preserve America and work to increase her greatness."

"Most electric power is generated by coal (i.e., fossil-fuel) plants. Lacking new or expanded nuclear power facilities; given that you can't build a hydroelectric dam in the U.S. without being accused of driving a fungus to the brink of extinction; and given the inefficiencies and prohibitive costs of solar, wind, and bio-fuels, how do you propose that we attain your hydrogen-and-electric-powered utopia without increasing our access to our own fossil fuel reserves?"

"Europe is backing away from nuclear power: Germany wants to be nuke-power-free within five years; France will shut down about 20 nuke plants in the next year or two (about half of their total); and Japan is also planning on reducing their dependence on nuke power (understandable, in their case). They're not going to be able to replace that lost electrical-generating capacity with wind, solar, or bio-fuels: they're gonna have to increase their consumption of fossil fuels."

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