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NORTH LAS VEGAS, NV -- The Secret Service requires people attending events with a president or first lady to be in place hours before the main attraction arrives. So organizers are forced to cope with the question of keeping people engaged for that time.
Senate Majority Harry Reid's campaign came up a solution today for the large crowd that jammed a high school gymnasium here to wait nearly two hours for First Lady Michelle Obama -- they turned it into a campaign phone bank.
Speakers, including Congresswoman Dina Titus (D), who faces an uphill battle for re-election, and Congresswoman Shelley Berkley (D), who doesn't, asked people to pull out their cell phones and call friends, neighbors, and co-workers to remind them to vote. To show them how it's done, Titus and Berkley made calls themselves, even holding their phones up so the recipients of the calls could hear the crowd, and holding the earpiece to the microphone so the crowd could hear them.
When Michelle Obama -- whom Reid introduced as "the closer" -- spoke, she received the most enthusiastic and energetic responses of the three speeches I've seen her give this fall. And Mrs. Obama seemed energized by the crown. Using a prompter to deliver essentially the same speech she's given since for more than two weeks now, she spoke with more feeling and emotion than those earlier stops.
A big reason why Nevada -- where one-quarter of the population is Hispanic -- is on her Election Eve itinerary can be found in the results of the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll: While only 45% of registered voters say they have a favorable opinion of President Obama, his approval rating among Hispanics is 55%.
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Peter 530030: it was Ben Franklin who said "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety,deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
I hope the people of Nevada carefully watch and read about Angle outside what Fox News parses out to you-edited and carefully filtered. She has refused to answer questions and says she will do so "after I am elected Senator". What the hell??? Who gets away with that kind of campaign? Do you buy a car not knowing what is under the hood, how old it is, how it drives and what the cost is? If you do, then I guess you will probably vote for Angle. Please, study this woman carefully. She can't think without handlers prompting her. We don't need someone like that in the Senate.
Who gets away with that kind of campaign?
Ummm... Obama did! And Obama can't speak without prompters handling him.
minnesota warm................you remember pelosi saying "we will just have to pass the bill to see whats in it"? yes it is fine that Angle has decided not to play the game with the media and people like you................they can't misquate her if she won't talk to them!!!!!! ha ha I love when repubs play by dem rules and then left wing loons complain
starve a liberal.............hide his welfare check under his work boots
Oh, what did Pelosi say? "You've got to pass the bill to know what is in the bill" and 'food stamps is a good job creator" GIVE ME A BREAK Minn. Warm!
The first time the first "lady" became proud to be an American was when they elected her husband as president.
The hispanics vote democrat because they believe that the party will give amnesty to the illegals and they might if the voting situation serves them. They probably would have already if they thought they had the power.
Reid is on the side of the illegals and the crooks in DC that do not listen to the voters.
Vote Dem out along with all the other career politicians.
Coolhand gets it exactly right!
John Stephens you made my day and made me smile. I need to tell a relative, a staunch Texas Republican, who is 100% on the Federal dole that we are going to hide his Federal checks under his work boots. Thank you.
amazed...you are welcome.............laziness can run deep no matter which party affiliation
although a staunch republican wants govt out of the equation so the real people who create jobs can get cranked up..............no one is creating jobs while this left wing loon who despises people with wealth (except for his family and friends) is demonizing wealt and job creeation
starve a liberal...............hide their welfare check under their work boots
So now we have a first lady that cannot deliver a speech without a teleprompter. Change is coming and it cannot get here fast enough.
Phase one of real change comes tomorrow. Phase 2 in 2012 when we finish getting rid of the Liberal idiot that's detroying America.
Yeah, I'm sure HER MAJESTY is "energized by the crown."
I have asked this question and had no answer - who pays the bill for the traveling that the president and first lady do for campaigning? Jet fuel isn't cheap - plus extra law enforcement on duty and who knows what else is needed.
American tax payers are paying for Obama and his bitch to fly all over trying to get this bunch of losers re-elected.
First 6 years of George Bush 5.4% average unemployment.. Democrats took control in 2006 and everything went to hell.
Class act?????????????? I'm speechless............
bye bye Harry
Screw that elitest bitch. You people forget she wrote the legal way to throw poor people out in the street when she worked for the Chicago University NON-PROFIT Hospital. I often wonder how many poor people died because of this person. Also she got a huge raise after her husband got a million dollars for the hospital in pork money. They both belong in hell.
Frank,
It is documented that she got paid hundreds of thousand and hardly ever showed up. It was just a pay off at taxpayer's expense. That is how the elite work.
NO MATTER WHO WINS…
TEA PARTY !!
We are NOT GOING AWAY !
I AM part of the TEA Party.
We know that tomorrow is just a Milestone.
Nov. 2,2012 is merely a stepping stone, and THERE AIN’T NO FINISH LINE !!!
We have gotten our foot in the door and we are here to stay.
Move over liberals, and make room for 1 more group.
The TEA Party is permanent in the outcome of future elections.
Message to those who hate us. We are NOT part of the Republican party, we are part of the conservative movement no matter what party they label themselves with.
If the Democrats want our support, they only need to change their agenda, and change the direction they want to take our country. Anyone who wants to embrace Conservative values, will be embraced by the TEA PARTY. A word of caution to all politicians, what you say during your campaign you MUST adhere to while you hold office, otherwise, we will remember and hold you accountable. All Liars and back room dealers will be fired.
But the tea party is going away. These demented old rednecks are dying off by the thousands every day. They have to hope that their ignorance is contagious.
howitzer8.....you scared aren't you. Thats okay. You should be. Tea part movement is not going away. And I am young and educated and a successful business person who started with nothing and I support the Tea Party because it holds all political hacks accountable.
howitzer8, responsibility and accountability scares you....don't worry you've got Alan Grayson and crew, you should have great comfort in that and your liberal media that will lie to keep the liars in office.
Community Organizer, think how upset sore loser Tea Partier/Republicans will be that you're a successful business person with President Obama in the Oval Office. That's exactly the opposite of what they want Americans to believe.
Bush is out of office, so people should stop talking about him and his policies??? STOP the hypocracy, PLEASE!!!! Your beloved Ronald Reagan is dead and has been out of office for over 20 years, yet you can't finish a sentence without speaking his name!!! Of course most right-winged nuts can't debate facts because they usually have a hidden agenda. FACT: 10% of individuals retain 80% of the countrys wealth. What have they done for YOU??? They wouldn't even drive down your street, let alone spit on you!!! To keep you loyal, they give you fear and racism. FACT: Bush and Chaney gave you a false war. FACT: Our sons and daughters lay in the ground BECAUSE of the lies. FACT: You are not marching or chopping at the bit to have hearings to hold them accountable for the death of your children. Yet, you are about to have a duck to drum up an impeachment charge on Obama??? And after they trick you out of your vote, you will still be left with your dreams of racial superiorty. And if the rich right-winged scum were really against immigration those like Meg Whiteman should not hire them. Companies like Wal-Mart, Tyson food, etc should be the first voice advocating for real document checks prior to hiring these people. We know why they don't.
Oh, and after the election, please let us know how you enjoyed your neighborhood visit from the right-winged folks YOU voted for. To ride through your neighborhood and wave is the least they can do to thank you for your support.
zro.....................you should know all about "neighborhood organizing" right? haha
how did a neighborhood organizer with no success become a multi-millionaire ????????????? hmmmmmmmmmmm who writes books about themselves when they are a nobody? you suppose Soros has been grooming the boy for awhile
social experiment failed.............tomorrow it ends
starve a liberal............hide their welfare check under their work boots
I Thank God George Bush attacked after the muslims attacked America. I suppose we should have thank them and kissed their butt! The United Nations asked George to intervene in Iraq. Your really uninformed.
Also FYI Democrats hold most the wealth in the United States. They keep telling the faithful it's the Republicans but it is not so.
Obama has already given several huge corporations free passes on Obamacare. Who's the sell out?
Also George Soros own Haliburton and a huge amount of stock in Petrobra.
George Soros is Obamas boss and when Obama stopped US off shore drilling it made George Soros billions of dollars by sending the rigs to Brazil. Haliburton?? Oh Yeah thats the guys cleaning up the mess.
Get educated about the people you support. Their actually a bunch of theives.
Frank- You're right. Most republicans live in trailor parks and love to watch pretty colored cars race around in circles.
Yes howitzer, just like Dems love to force institutions to loan money based on food stamps as income. They love to take from the workers and give it to the lazy ass freeloaders so that the republicans will be forced to move out of their home and into a trailer park and replaced with the non-working nothings who will vote for them because they depend on them to live. And I would rather watch colored cars drive around a track than to watch our Commander in Theif lie to the people just like his telepromptor tells him to. You think Obama is any better than Bush? Kinda funny that the "evil" Bush era practices seem to be just fine for the anointed one to continue?
How about Gitmo, last I saw it was still being used. http://www.gitmoclock.com/about.html
Those wiretaps, must not be too bad. http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/tilted-politics/146710-obama-continues-warrantless-wiretaps.html
Why are our troops still overseas because of a supposed "illegal war"? With no help from the other foreign nations of the area, we have every right to bring our troops home, yet they are still there dying.
Oh, here's a good one. Ever hear of Posse Comitatus? Yeah, your illustrious leader is doing the same thing Bush did yet again. http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/2195-barack-obama-continues-bush-administration-policy-regarding-posse-comitatus
Union people are ignorant scum. I say we outsource far more jobs so that these people will be out of work completely until they settle for an honest decent lower wage and stop expecting everyone to subsidize them by having to pay higher prices for their unskilled work. If they want more money, then let them get training which will make them valuable in the market. Instead, they want everything for nothing. They do not deserve more for less.
Unions were good many years ago but today they just want the most money for the least amount of work. They spend millions electing those who will give them just that. And that's mostly the Dems. It's called buying votes and it works even at the state level.
Bill Clinton, Barnara Boxer, Harry Reid and Noncy Pelosi have already outsourced over 5 million jobs since they started Free Trade. Boxer has the balls to point a finger at Fiorina over the 30,000 people she had to let go after Free Trade became law. I wonder if we should hold Barbara Boxer responsable for the 5 million American jobs she helped send overseas?
How quickly the Obama's forget Reid's racist comments.
She is closing your career Harry!!!!!!
This is it!!!! That is the best that the dems can come up with for a "closer"? What a joke that whole party of loosers is!!!!!!
what are all you loser, liberals going to do after tomorrow? you are going to have to get a job because I am not taking care of you or your children any longer
this is "recovery summer" according to Biden and according to all you left wing loons things are getting better under hussein obama so that will be beneficial when your welfare and lifetime unemployment is cut off
starve a liberal.............hide their welfare check under their work boots
John, we all know where Rand Paul, Sharron Angle, Miller, and other right-winged nuts will NOT be doing tomorrow: In YOUR neighboorhood talking or doing anything for YOU!!! Stop being mean. Others need their checks just like you. Oh, I forgot, YOU just don't want "them" to get one.
zro..............you are absolutely correct..............I don't want THEM or YOU getting a check from the govt. (which means from my taxes) I am PROUD to absolutely state I want all welfare, unemployment, food stamps, free lunches, etc. ENDED in their present form
I want people to need to prove they meet current requirements.............that alone may end our deficit
starve a liberal.................hide his welfare check under his work boots
Stephens, Relax!. We're on to you. Those pisspot taxes that you pay don't pay for everything that others get. We know you'll have your grubby hand outstretched for 'socialist' benefits i.e. Social Security, medicaid, medicare. So will your kids.
I'm proud to say that Americans will not allow socialist programs to end.
they all suck get them out and that joy bay whatever her name is she is a piece of u know what
LOL these comments are too funny seriously hell I say let the republicans take the majority lets see what they can actually do this time around...seeing that we had a republican president for 8 years that drug us through hell on earth but hey all this talk has to mean something...I want to see the republicans do something great for this country this should be so entertaining...all this talk with facts and extra bull@!$%# how about when you do win all that talk about what the democratic congress didnt do how about you do it? You guys are really good at @!$%# talking lets see if you are good at actually getting the job done...like I said this should be VERY entertaining!!!
The corporate owned Republicon's(not a spelling error) Love to keep up the lies about the budjet deficit is all the Dem's fault' It is unfortunate that they only listen to faux News and the dopester, limbaugh, and not research what these liars are feeding them.
Reagan, Mr. trickledown economics, raised the federal deficit four trillion dollars in eight years in office.
George HW Bush, S&L Baikout, raised it 4 trillion in four years.
Bill Clinton, NAFTA: the ruin of American jobs, Raised it another one trillion dollars.
George H Bush, War is the answer and election fraud and the bank bailout, raised it another $4.75 trillion. Now with some simple arithmetic, it has to be simple for the Repubs, By adding those numbers you will find the real damage was done by the so called conservatives. You can check this out on Congressional Budget Office a non-partisen arm of the government.
don..............let's say you are correct...............you aren't but let's pretend you are
it must REALLY piss you off that your boys and girls are getting their heads handed to them tomorrow.................this social experiment is over!!!!! It failed miserably!!!!!!
starve a liberal.............hide his welfare check under his work boots
According to the polls obama's liberal socialist bus gets the breaks put on it tomorrow, Then we will use it start hauling illegals out of the country.
And not a day too soon. In case everyone forgot, illegal immigration is just that, illegal.
Sure. About 12 million illegals came to the US before Obama was President.
Another mess left for him to deal with.
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Voting in any democrat is a vote to legalize the robbery of our children's future. On the other hand, we can only see how bad they are by letting destroy this great Country.
if anyone knows don ...give him a slap
Harry Reid calls Michele Obama "his closer"? That tells it all.....he is not a Finisher!!!