Keystone: Dead Pipeline Lives On As Election-Year Issue: It's all Politics

I thought there were too many questions for this deal to go through. There was also a huge disparity on the number of real jobs that was going to be created. It is amazing to me how our elected officials are more concerned about big business as opposed to the welfare of the people they serve.

Now that President Obama has made his decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, an obvious question is what will it mean for the 2012 presidential election?

Obviously, no one really knows the answer to that though that won't stop weeks if not months of speculation.

The key to Keystone is, which side will have the most success in framing its case to enough voters for it to make a difference?

The president is clearly hoping he can persuade voters that Republicans made him do it, that they gave him no choice by linking a speedy decision by him on the pipeline to their last-minute agreement in December to extend the payroll tax holiday.

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