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A couple of national polls released Monday provided a snapshot of the general election between President Obama and Mitt Romney at its infancy.
One poll by CNN/ORC showed a healthy advantage nationally for the incumbent Democratic president over the former Massachusetts governor.
NBC's Domenico Montanaro joins the Daily Rundown to discuss the latest polls, which clarifies the matchup between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney heading into the general election.
In that poll, 52 percent of registered voters said they would choose Obama if the election were held today, versus 43 percent who would vote for Romney.
Two other polls -- one by Reuters/Ipsos, the other the new Gallup daily tracking poll -- suggested a much closer race.
Obama leads, 47 to 43 percent, among registered voters in the Reuters/Ipsos poll. The Gallup number, which uses a slightly different methodology that relies on a continuous daily sample of voters in the past five days, found Romney leading among registered voters, 47 to 45 percent.
At the same time, a different poll released Monday by the Washington Post and ABC suggested Romney has a disadvantage versus Obama in terms of how voters view the two men.
Just 35 percent of Americans had a favorable opinion of Romney in that poll, versus 47 percent who expressed an unfavorable opinion of the presumptive GOP nominee. By contrast, Obama is in positive territory in the poll, with a 56-40 favorable/unfavorable rating.
The CNN/ORC poll was conducted April 13-15 and has a 3.5 percent margin of error. The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted April 12-15 and has a 3.3 percent margin of error. The Gallup sample represents the pollster's sample from April 11-15 and has a maximum margin of error of 3 percent. And the Washington Post/ABC poll was conducted April 11-15, and has a 3.5 percent margin of error.
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Now that Obama has an opponent those polls will close up rapidly. This country is hungry for better leadership than we have seen the last 3.4 years.....
"Now that Obama has an opponent"? Romney's been the opponent for the last four years - did you ever honestly think Perry or Cain or Gingrich or Santorum had a realistic chance? He was up against one of the weakest primary fields in history and his favorability ratings have still done nothing but drop, without President Obama having to so much as break a sweat.
Even if the country WAS as hungry for leadership as you'd like to believe, when it comes to satisfying that hunger, President Obama is a hot fudge sundae and Mitt Romney is a stale rice cake.
In a new CNN national poll (April 13-15, 2012)
Obama leads Romney by 9 points (52/43) among registered voters.
Can get the economy moving: Obama 44%, Romney 42%
Agrees with you on issues important to you: Obama 49%, Romney 37%
In touch with middle class problems: Obama 51%, Romney 33%
In touch with problems facing women: Obama 55%, Romney 27%
Can best handle the responsibilities of CIC: Obama 52%, Romney 36%
Is a strong and decisive leader: Obama 50%, Romney 34%
Honest and trustworthy: Obama 44%, Romney 33%
Stands up for what he believes: Obama 50%, Romney 29%
There are dozens more areas where our President leads Mitt Romney.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2012/images/04/16/rel4a.pdf
Social engineers believe in Obama. It's early in the election cycle, a lot can happen between now and then.
The vote will be the final arbitrator of this presidency.
Wine - The vote will be the final arbitrator of this presidency.
I agree with you 100%. However, Polls are good snapshots of present thinking.
Obama/Biden - 2012
Oops, I spoke too soon, and I was wrong - according to the ABC poll:
"Nonetheless it’s been a long rut for Romney; his favorability rating among all adults has remained between 31 and 39 percent steadily since fall, never yet cracking 40 percent. Its average across this time is 35 percent - exactly where it is today".
So his favorability hasn't been dropping. It's been stuck at 35% since the fall. I apologize for depriving the GOP of that wonderful news.
The more reliable poll results are Obama 49, Romney 40, Obama +9. But as already pointed out above, this is at the present. Wait until the nasty Crossroads ads hit. And then the many other unknowns...
Dennis, Columbus, Ohio -- Very telling break-down.
I suspect the gender gap after the Hilary Rosen manufactured controversy will be the same, because only conservative women who will vote Republican no matter what would fall for that crap from the Romneys.
Just look at historic RCP polls for the 2008 elections ... they tracked the election pretty well. So folks who dismiss these polls as too far out to read are fooling only themselves:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html#polls
Dennis,
By far my favorite...
After the Hillary Rosen brouhaha, Willard looses even more ground with women voters... lmao
You call that an opponent? I call it a victim. This flip flopping foney will get owned once the real campaigning starts. Dude, you ain't seen nothing yet. It's taken Mitt six months to wrap up the rwnj's. He's in way, way over his head. By July, I predict double digit leads by every major poll (except FOX).
So to put it mildly, you're scared as hell. When I played football in high school, my team really wasn't that good. Our coach used to tell us that "they put their pants on one leg at a time" which really meant we were about to get our asses kicked.
Really! How prophetic. And how many women who claim to be republicans and stand by their man are gonna close that curtain and vote Obama? I suspect a whole bunch. Granted, you got the angry white man vote sewn up, but that ain't gonna get the job done, son.
Keep that wish alive, because it will never happen. President Obama is still head and shoulders above someone who is constantly putting his own foot in mouth and changing the good things he has done to appeal to a Red Meat Bigoted Crowd.
So to put it mildly, you're scared as hell. When I played football in high school, my team really wasn't that good. Our coach used to tell us that "they put their pants on one leg at a time" which really meant we were about to get our asses kicked.
tonybeeerm - Best analogy I've heard all day.......
Obama/Biden - 2012
Wow, Dennis, when you dive deeper into that CNN poll the results are jaw dropping. Regardless of whom they personally support, 63% think Obama will win relection.
By historically high levels, most people voting for Romney are voting to defeat Obama, not because they personally support Romney. That's staggering.
thanks for the compliment, friend :)
63% of what population, Amy. I do not believe over half of this nation believes BarryO is favored to win. How gross a thought.
I believe the people have had enough of the black man's run at President. And I believe they find him incompetent to do the job. He was handed the presidency on his race, but he hasn't proven to be any better than anyone else before him.
Patricia,
Please see question #12 on page 6 – only 35% believe Romney will win
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2012/images/04/16/rel4a.pdf
Patricia didn't even bother to put on her white sheet!
Other then him being BLACK - would you care to elaborate?
Run along Patty, and burn a cross or two will ya? Oh, and, make sure to cut a couple of holes in your sheet so you can see where you're going without tripping over your sorry ass!
PS: I will give you KUDOS for actually saying what the rest of the right wing racists believe but don't have the balls to come out & say it!
Sorry honey - the BLACK man will continue to occupy the WHITE House for another 4 years - deal with it!
Good lord, here come the trolls.
Beware black men. No more running for President. I guess Herman Cain didn't count.
You sure? I could swear you have to win the most votes, which he did overwhelmingly.
There it is folks...Particia Larsen, the racist!
One thing the polls don't track is the number of registered voters who will not get off of their duffs to cast their ballots during the election. Clearly, the near-record low turnout of registered Republicans during the hotly contested GOP primary race isn't going to be overcome by the less-than-inspiring Etch-A-Sketch during the general election. President Obama, by contrast, has a strong, motivated voter base who are eagerly anticipating the opportunity to cast their ballots for his reelection. Mitt won't inspire anyone to lift his or her duff off of the couch to waste his or her vote on a loser like him, but President Obama will bring out the best in his constituency and lead them to another landslide victory!
President Obama in November! He is clearly our only rational choice!
OPPONENT ? Romney and his wife are total scumbag's ! America just saw them them for who they really are !
T.P.M. polling aggregates shows...(drum roll)...the envelope please;
President Barack Obama-341 electoral votes,
Republican Willard Mitt Romney-197 electoral votes.
Your winner and still champion for the middle class, working class and those aspiring to the American Dream:
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA II
Good thing the Rasmussen polling was left in or it would be a total Rombot face plant! Long time 'til November though, but it is not looking good Republicans. HA!
You folks sure play those old democrat cards,race cards and class cards here a plenty.
People are going to look around and see all the boarded up buildings and no jobs. Were in dept like never before and blaming GB isnt cutting it.
People arent all fired up for Romney because his voting record isnt that different from Obamas.He does seem more optimistic and his energy thinking,if real sounds much better.He at least talks about our dept.
I dont care what color or race Obama is.He sucks.
Polls are for every taste. The left have their numbers and the right too. So this poll is meaningless, considering that Romney just starting his Presidential campaign, and Obama never stop for the last 6 years. However according with Gallup Romney 47% beat Obama 45 % . This is not good for the incumbent candidate. We can have better numbers starting in August , it is too early right now. Chill-up guys.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/04/16/gallup_romney_47_obama_45
Romney has been running for President as long as Obama has and Romney hasn’t had any other job or distraction in all that time !!
Obamney 2012! The illusion of choice is paper thin; how do you people argue over these two?
Democrats are desperate to bring back the enthusiasm that Obama brought in 2008 with the Hope and Change mantra, is message of transparency, his anti-lobbyist message, his message to bring Americans together and many other promises he never fulfill. There is no enthusiasm anymore " no se puede" because American know who is. Obama can't run with his records or mere Hope and Change , the change you can not believe, he show that he is nothing better than the others politicians, noting special , he is not the Messiah and the kool-aid won't be enough this time.
oskar,
Republicans have an enthusiasm problem.
(April 9, 2012) Romney has won some; Santorum has won fewer. Gingrich and Paul hardly won at all. But win or lose, the contests were notable in one way: the lack of voter participation.
With the exception of South Carolina, the primary turnout in every state has been much lower than the primaries of 2008.
http://www.bu.edu/professorvoices/2012/04/09/campaign-2012-the-enthusiasm-gap/
I am so sick of Republican- ism, I could even vote Greenpeace, and that is taking me way over to the exteme left. Obama to win.
Here's what I Know: My 401k is back. I still have a job (thankfully). The country is adding jobs and not shedding them. We are out of Iraq. OSB is dead. Leaving Afghanistan. Gun laws have EXPANDED. Got a kid heading to college and need the grant money. Don't want another kid so wife uses birth control. I just don't see all the doom and gloom being spouted by Conservatives. I do, however, hear what they want to do.....and that scares me. Scott Walker is a prime example. Don't say anything about what you really want to do, til you get power. Sounds pretty scary to me.
And the Republicans know....................Duhh stupidity
This thread is pretty much dead but in case anyone else visits... Liberals paint a picture of conservatives as if they are unenthusiastic and horsewhipped because Romney seems to be the inevitable GOP choice. The liberals are working with illusions. While they tout what they think are Obama's positives, they never mention his negatives because while they know negatives exist, they are afraid of them.
In the liberal mind, Obama is the only choice. Might I remind liberals that democrats are only 1/3 of the voting public. They forget there is another 2/3's of voters that have as much a stake in this election as they do. Undoubtedly Obama was the campaigner of choice in 2008. Not so much this time around... and the liberals will continually beat the drum that Romney is no good. What else is new? Not a thing.
I noticed that liberals are saying things are improving... the job situation is improving... not so much... unemployment is still very high. The economy sucks... meaning the cost of goods and services are rising... been to the grocery store lately? Ribeye steaks are running close to $13.00 a pound... Milk is nearing $5.00 a gallon... and gasoline is $4.09 in south Florida. These are things people will remember because they deal with them every day of the week. We have record numbers of people on food stamps. Who sets the policy for money control? It's Obama... since he is the chief executive of this country... and the blame falls squarely on his shoulders... things are not improving... in fact in many arenas they are getting worse.
A change is needed... Not sure what difference Romney can make, but at least he has business experience and knows how to read an economic chart. The only thing Obama knows how to read is the teleprompter and he's force fed words to say. Ummmm, Ahhhhh.... Let me make this perfectly clear. Obama is by far, outgunned and out manned. Liberal polls will tell their story, but they never take into account reality... they feed the masses of useless idiots exactly what they want them to eat.
You cannot blame a president for gas prices. Blame the speculators. And thats why you pay more at the groc. I do deal with these things every day. But the programs Republicans are talking about cutting will quite possibly starve people to death or freeze them to death in winter. I don't care what political mindset a person has, there is right and wrong. And while I agree Obama has not been perfect. His vision is a lot closer to an America I like to live in. I like smaller gov't. But you can not just cut stuff out just because its good politics. Smart gov't is even better. Red tape. Sure. Streamline things. Everything. I like efficent goverment. I like opening a can of green beans and not having a grasshopper in it. I like flying on airplanes that don't have cracks in them. I like it when I need the fire dept. or police they can drive on paved roads to get to my house. I like it that the local chemical company can't pump tons of heavy metals into the enviroment. I won't like it when its time to retire, to take a coupon to an insurance company to have them laugh in my face because I have high blood pressure. And I damn sure won't like it if everything I've mentioned gets slashed to the bone, While these Millionaire and Billionaire "job creators" sit on thier stash. If they create so many jobs, WTF are they? WTF are those jobs. All I hear in DC is partisan talk on both sides and nothing getting done. Republicans had 8 years to build on what they had and squandered it. Obama has had a little over 3 and has met road blocks every step. Its obvious. Turning a battleship around takes a minute. This recession could take another 3 years to straighten out. And the flat out lies. These clowns will lie to your face. LIE TO YOUR FACE. Or change the subject. Mitt Romney had better put out some policy ideas that don't screw people. And stick to it. Which he can't. He'll campaign in vagaries until he happens to win, then enact all this BS nobody ever heard about......and let me tell you, buy stock in KY Jelly now, cause it'll be flyin' off shelves.
OPPONENT ? Romney and his wife are total scum bags ! America just saw them them for who they really are !
@In Palm Springs Ca
You summed it up in one word....'scumbags'! (maybe two words)
Two very wealthy people who played the victim card concerning Ms. Ann, then got a good laugh out of how successful they were.....
The entire episode fueled by the media and the Democratic rapid response team to throw Hilary under the bus.
No Palm Springs, only you libs believe that statement to be true.
winemaker - read 'em and weep.
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It is simple:
The liberal media deliberately creates a poll sample skewed with a disproproportionately high percentage of Democrats.
You're delusional.
Bob -
Could you please point us to which page in which of those multiple polls linked to above confirms that?
V-Bob, Why is it that when you righties hear something in the press you don't like, its always the "liberal media" conspiring to get you. Christ, its a independent poll. Would you feel better if Sean Hannity personally did a poll for you. Now that would be "unbiased" journalism!!
Obama/ Biden - 2012
bob, likes his conservative talking points that hears on the radio. Or simply the voices in his head.
how about this conservative poll. favorable vs unfavorable. Note the trend downward (even the FOX poll).
www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/romney_favorableunfavorable-1134.html
www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/From-the-Wires/2012/0125/Mitt-Romney-favorable-ratings-take-a-dive-says-poll
Oh, I forget it's all the liberal media.
bob, likes his conservative talking points that hears on the radio. Or simply the voices in his head.
Chris@SLC - The voices in V-Bobs head are echoeing off his tin-foil hat.....
By the way: I love your Avatar...
Obama/Biden - 2012
He picks them up from the mercury fillings in his teeth! ☺
right back at-ya, love your avatar! You too Feisty.
Thanks Hon! Ditto what GT said!
Nothing like a pic of 'W' and his I don't have a freakin clue stare... lmao!
Reminds me of when he was reading "My Pet Goat" when informed our country was under attack!
He picks them up from the mercury fillings in his teeth!
Feisty - Its the foil hat that does it. I don't think V-Bob has enough teeth to generate much reception. Its kind of like a dental dead battery
Now come on... in all fairness to vaginal probe Bob - the two he has can communicate with one another...
the two he has can communicate with one another...
Feisty - Two teeth. Wow, he has "Stereo"? LOL
Complete with 'woofers'...
Bob from Virginny - u been hittin' that shine again, pardner?
I have picked up quite a moonbat fan club.....must have hit a nerve at Soros-paid-blogger central...
nah, don't flatter yerself there, bobby. You're just a ball of yarn we're batting around.
Someone mentioned "boarded up buildings". Those building were "boarded up" long before Obama took office. And Dick Cheney is still running his mouth......
Likely voters vs. registered voters is a big wild card this year. In some important states being registered and wanting to vote will not necessarily equal you will be able to vote. I am also concerned about the Rasmussen polls. Rasmussen polls so often and in so many more states than many of the others AND because they are demonstrated to be GOP leaning - the polls tend to create their own news/momentum.
Well, Mitt, so much for your comment to Diane Sawyer indicating the Obama's "should start packing, he he he". It's a long way to election, plenty can happen but there is one big flaw in Mitt Romney, well maybe two; shoot there's probably dozens. First, who trusts him and who knows what he really believes; he talks about President Obama hiding his agenda yet Mitt refuses to discuss specifics about his plans, has flip flopped on nearly every issue and when he gets caught on a hot mic, his specifics become "just discussing ideas". Second, Mitt's approval rating is 37%, the lowest for any nonincumbent candidate for decades. Romney lacks a core, he really his an empty suit; independents and swing voters understand that about him and they don't like it.
jody -- by your definition when any politician changes a position is it a flip-flop?
Women to Mitt Romney "hit the road, Mitt, and don't you come back no more."
Let’s see……
I have the right to vote. I could choose to be a stay-at-home mom or stay-at-home wife. I could choose to be single or married. I can go to night school or day school and pursue a degree. I work on commission so I make as much money as I want to work for and currently earn the same or more than many of the men in my industry. I could choose to do charity work.
I can go to any of the drug stores in my area and purchase a wide variety of birth control. I can get an abortion if I needed or wanted to. I can have one or two or three or four or five or six children or more. Or I can choose to have none.
Regardless of who the President is ---- none of this will change.
If I were a single - or married - mom I think I would rather have a job than collect welfare. I would appreciate a break on day care costs so that instead of my entire paycheck going to sitters, I could take care of my family, save a little money, and not live such a stressful life. I do not require pay to work for my favorite charities. I don’t expect anyone to buy my prescriptions. If I make a mistake, I will learn from it and pay the price for my errors on my own.
I am no different than any other woman in this glorious country. Some women seem to be told they can be nothing more than they are. It seems to me Democrats are strong supporters of this philosophy. With the obsession over the non-war on women, the rhetoric becomes more insulting every day. I am not a victim. I am not oppressed. I am not more vulnerable than many other groups.
The woman-victim-persecuted-boo-hoo hoohah shoved at us through politics and news is disgraceful and a poor reflection on all women. Women should be better than to fall for that. I’m better than that. I do not need to be taken care of. I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself. I am insulted politicians think otherwise.
Kindly do not speak for me. When making generalizations, please don’t put me in the female victim box.
So forcing women to have an unnecessary vaginal probe or ultra sound she has to pay for to access her constitutional rights is just fine with you? In Texas where the republicans are closing planned parenthood clinics that do 98% or more health care and a small percentage of abortions. But, all women need to suffer just in case a few might get abortions for illness or because a woman could not afford another child or afford the time to take off work.
Believe it or not women have to consider her already born children first. Republican men all over our country are trying to pass the person-hood amendments where the egg has more rights than the mother. A bill so radical they could not even get it passed in ultra conservative Mississippi when the people were allowed to vote on it.
Still Romney has signed the person-hood amendment with the vow to overturn Roe v Wade. But that is not a war on women, right? Some women think that right will never be taken away, but the republicans are working hard to take that right and many forms of birth control from women.
I am not a victim, I am angry that the republicans think women are so stupid. We are so stupid all the republicans have to say is their is no war it is just in your little women's imagination. You know how women are, wink, wink.
Since 2010 when the republicans took power in many states they have passed over 1100 laws restricting women's rights. If that is not a war on women, I don't know what is. After they control our bodies, do they take our vote next?
VOTE FOR WOMEN'S FREEDOM....VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
I think you're falling for hyperbole and rhetoric and you're allowing yourself to get all riled up. No one is banning birth control. No one will force you to raise unwanted children. Can you tell me the laws that are pending that say otherwise? Doesn't the fate of the bill in Mississippi give you an idea that such radical laws are unlikely?
Someone is telling you you are a victim and you're believing it, Americans First. You're in charge of your life and in charge of your choices. Life as a woman in this country is pretty great if you think about it. Take control and be happy.
Unfortunately, you are most likely correct. As much as I disagree with our current administration and where our nation is headed we have no other choice but to stick it out another four years with Obama.
Our economy continues to remain weak...Gas prices are ridiculous and there seems to be no fix to the mess we are in because neither party knows how to work together for the benefit of the American people.
I worry for our children...I worry for our Nation and do pray that things will eventually turn around, but honestly I don't think they ever will, no matter who is serving as our president.
Candace, I was referring to the numbers in the CNN polls that show female voters supporting Obama by double digits acoss the board. Who's better on foreign policy? Obama. Who fights for the middleclass? Obama. Who is better on issues concerning women? Obama. Who is more likeable? Obama.
I guess you are an outlier, Candace.
Oh, and Candace. Those freedoms you enjoy didn't just happen. Thet were fought for over the years, most likely by a liberal. So, if you appreciate your right to vote, thank a liberal. If you appreciate earning equal pay for equal work, thank a liberal. If you appreciate protections from domestic abuse, thank a liberal. If you appreciate having unemployment compensation to fall back on if you or spouse lose a job, thank a liberal. Your elderly parents having Social Security to retire on? That was fought for by a liberal President. Fire escapes at your workplace? Frances Perkins, liberal activist, worked to require to have them installed. following the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. The forty hour work week? Liberal initiative. Do you think American workers always got a mandated half hour lunch break and two fifteen? Nope. Thank a liberal activist. Really, Candace, you should read up on American history and see who fought for the rights you enjoy. Hint: Republicans fought against each of these initiatives.
PS
Sorry I misspelled your name, Candice!
Poor Mitt Romney, if he gets elected, what will he do with all of his multi-million dollar mansions? And what about that brand new car lift he just built in his 3,600 square foot beach house? It will really go to waste if he has to live in the silly White House!
Romney has been among the super rich for so long, he is now totally out of touch with middle and lower class americans. He probably watches Mad Men and thinks it's the evening news.
President Obama will clean Mitts Clock. It is not even a contest No matter how much the Rights wants it to be by ROOTING FOR THE COUNTRY TO FAIL.
Romney made a statement that paul ryan was brilliant, thats says it
all to me, ryan is a cold hearted little rich kid who doesnt know his arse from a hole in the
ground. romney would suck up to anybody that he thinks would help him, why he bragged on
that extremist beats me.
Paul Ryan used his father's social security death benefits to pay for college. Typical rightwing hypocrite - when it comes to their benefits, well, the government owes them, but everybody else is a moocher.
It is hypocritical to decry a system and then take advantage of it.
Like millionaires and billionaires and the tax system.....(Mr. Buffett, Mr. Obama, Mr. Kerry.....)
Don't you agree?
Kerry has money?Has Mrs. Kerry-Heinz provided him an allowance?
The tax system has always been a complex, dismal mess - just ask Charlie Rangle the guy who chaired the committee on taxes, or Tiny Tim at the Fed.
The rich who acquire wealth through investments will still pay the lower rate, while those who earn ordinary income will have their tax rate increased by Obie. Who's next, those earning under $1M? Of course there is a segment of the population who will continue NOT to pay taxes.
So liberals, is it fair to tax us to death while government grows and as the GSA does, have great parties at taxpayer expense?
President Obama talks about the Buffett rule and taxing those who earn over a million. But he also slips a lot and refers to that $250,000 number he seems to be stuck on.
Candice. 98% of Americans earn less than $250,000. That's why President Obama is "stuck on" that number.
The sicko-phant(om)s of the two penny opera that this msnbc comment blog has become, day in and day out, it's all just a bunch of trash talk, and like my two cents worth here-in, not worth much.
I don't trust any of the polls from the git-go. I think they are as padded as the Electoral College. What a shame that this election thing can't get over the Electoral College and elect a president on the "most popular vote".
Since the polls are put together and reported by the media, I think they stink. Will just have to wait to see what happens come November.
Polls are conducted by independant parties! It is a telling of how people are leaning, and or thinking at this given time!
Yea, what a shame Patricia Larsen. Just think, if that's the case George W wouldn't have stolen the 2000 election. But it's okay if it's against the 'darkie' right?
@Patricia Larsen,
Not a hint of racism in your comment, eh? Revealing... but hardly surprising. Also interesting how you edited out the "black man" bit. No one else will see it- but at least a couple of us did.
Bali Bob - check out Patty's comment #1.15 if you want to see a really RACIST comment!
YAY for team NAZI with Patty as their*pom pom girl*
What a shame that this election thing can't get over the Electoral College and elect a president on the "most popular vote".
Patricia - If that were the case, then Al Gore would have been the president, and we wouldn't be in this mess.....
Obama/Biden - 2012
@Feisty,
Saw it. That's the comment I meant to reply to. Shameful.
Jesus Christ - the year is 2012 & yet somehow we get these racists...
Thankfully - they still are a DYING breed....
Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL, aka, Ed Schultz of MSNBC:
Perhaps you should go look into the mirror? You are the person that always seems to be filled with hate. What positive input do you have?
The blatant racism evident in the posts of conservatives on this site helps to explain, but not to justify, their deep, irrational hatred for our president.
There is a saying in casual, social tennis where the competitors are supposed to call each others shots either in or out. "Call them as you need them". This refers to those who call the shots in their own favor. Everybody get it? Two days ago more than one poll had Mitt beating Barry in the general election. It's all nonsense at this point as we do not even have a Republican nominee. I think Feisty Redhead should show it's tax returns, by the way! Are we having fun yet?
Poor Mittenzie! He cant get a lead in any poll. Part of that, i think, is because he let his wife run off at the ass-err mouth! Had she not claimed it an early b-day gift, she might have been ok? How the hell does she lie to working women like that? Or to the mothers who stay home to actually RAISE their children? She has never held a job, or stayed at home to raise the kids! She has been pampered all her life! When i asked if she knew what a pamper was, she replied that it was the day she spent at the spa, being pampered by those who work for a living. She had nanny's and maids take care of her kids. She wouldn't even hold them until they came straight from the bath. No nasty chockolate fingers on her $10.000 suits!
Whats the one true deffinition of snob===Mitt and Ann Rummey! Completely out of touch!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Dfrom . You actually have the gall to include Biden in your pep rally cheer? It says it all about your ticket, don't you think?
hhmmm I wonder how hard john kerry's wife worked.
Two days ago more than one poll had Mitt beating Barry in the general election
Blamo - Which poles? Site them.
Play that class game!
harder than you, cracker with the racist avatar. Hopefully the mods have good sense and kick you outta here
@tonybeeerm,
trico77 and Patricia Larsen would make a great couple, don't you think?
Wow.
maybe, but please don't let them reproduce.
I would like to see both of 'em nominated for the Darwin Award.
The tea party declared war on democracy in 2010 which has proven itself out, especially in Wi., Mi. and Ohio. Every bill passed in those states hurt the working class and I don't consider Romney will rock that boat, if he gets elected. If I can figure out that the Ronald Reagan's school of Destroy the Middle Class and embellished the Rich doesn't work. It doesn't trickle down but rather, knocks down prosperity for almost every one. When the only shinning light in the last 32 years was a president that ran the country into prosperity, only to have it run down by Bush. Romney is no different then Bush and we know those results.
Obama/Biden 2012
John in Battle Creek....I am the working middle class....You are 100% incorrect in your analysis. Upholding our Democratic Republic is not a declaration of war on democracy; quite the opposite. From a personal perspective, and of many of the people that I know, the most prosperous years experienced were the Reagan years. Been there, done that. The most foreboding years....the Obama years....hands down, no comparison.
John, you can add Maine to the states who got a Tea Party governor and a Republican legislature and the following happened: initiatives to lower the minimum wage, tax breaks for millionaires, thousands of people cut from the only healthcare available for them, attempts to roll back environment protections, attacks on public unions, attempts to send public money to religious schools. All done in an atmosphere of witch hunting, bullying and fear mongering. Yup, all earmarks of the national Tea Party agenda.
I love it, cnn (liberal) reuters (left-wing) gaulop (left-wing) have their canidate slightly ahead, wooo-hoooo!!!
You know S. Ulmer, I do not normally comment on spelling & grammatical errors... however, in your case I will make an exception...
Thank YOU for proving the stuck on stupid crowd is alive & well... thank you for proving the reason the right wing nut jobs are anti-education!
You may now resume playing with your 'sticker' books & finger painting... ;o)
hey feisty,
I know you libs and progressives ALL know how to spell, too bad you don't know anything about politics. your pres. the obamanation, is and will always be a socialist failure. and too bad YOUR education fell short in civics class, you probably don't know the difference between our constitution and the writings of Karl Marx.
But maybe you can answer one question for everyone, what did the obamanation win the nobel peace prize for?
We all know, NOTHING!
S.Ulmer
You can teach a pig to sing easier then you can teach a liberal the truth. They do not have the ability to think or reason. Just take and demand more.
"Unbiased" Fox News has got a censorship "moderator" that would make Joseph Goebbels proud. They refused to enter my comment:
Romney will lose in Nov. This is what independents think of him:
*You can fool some of the people some of the time and Romney is a great speechifier but he won’t fool me.
*With 1% Romney, expect cuts in your Social Security checks and Medicare to pay for his tax-cuts for the rich.
*As Governor, flip-flop Romney was for Romneycare and pro-choice. Now he is anti-health and anti all abortions. If President, what will he be for?
*Windshield-wiper Romney will be for anything as long as he’ll make money. Pro or anti-abortion, pro or anti-Health Plan. Typical opportunist politician.
*Thanks to the Bush’s tax cuts for the rich, Romney’s profited $100 extra billion. That’s why he wants to extend them forever.
*By Freedom for America, Romney means more freedom for his billionaire pals that they can make more money.
*By Less Regulation, Romney means zero or less taxes to the rich 1%.
*Watch Romney go from liberal as governor to conservative in the primaries to centrist as candidate to whoknowswhat if President.
*I wouldn’t buy a used car from Mr Romney.
Mike,
I'm curious why the NewsforDumbFux blog shut down their comment section...
Gee... I wonder why?
fiesty,
It was due to the liberal owner demand. I am sure that someone as "smart" as you already knows that fox is controlled like all the other media outlets, by foreign owners.
But your huge brain already assimilated that pertinant information, then being the good little sheep you are, dicounted it as fiction. Because you want to be on the right side so much, you should be a republican.
Are you trying to tell us that Rupert Murdock is a liberal? How dumb do you think we are?
I don't know who washed your brain, but they did a good job of it.
mike morell:
Do you even vote? I doubt it...
The debates will tell the real story! Can't wait to watch Obama destroy Flip flopping Romney.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Don't hold your breath. If his teleprompter goes out he's done.
I sure hope mtblond doesn't use an ipod or computer as it seems anyone who has moved in this century is to be degraded for using the tools of today.
Maybe if Romney was smart enough to write an intelligent speech he could read the speech he wrote off a teleprompter instead of singing so much off key and sounding stupid talking about how the trees are the right height.
The right likes to pretend President Obama is just some dummy because it suits their stereo-type.
VOTE FOR WOMEN'S FREEDOM.....VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
I can't wait to see the lag time when Romney's speeches are handed to him on an Etch-A-Sketch.
The right knows Obama is a dummy. We do not have to prove it because he does every time he speaks. Why the so called smart lefties can't see it is the real problem. This President is a stuttering idiot who just repeats his own babble and you loons eat it up.
Wake up
The Wahington Post is an independant party?
the sitting pres. must be very nervous with these tight numbers so far away from the election. Remeber there are going to be debt ceilng talks again before the election b/c the drowngrade pres. is still spending money like a drunken sailor...
tight numbers, really? You must be that drunken sailor. Oh wait, I don't want to put down our proud Navy by associating a racist like you with those fine men and women. You wouldn't make it one day in boot camp.
must be very nervous with these tight numbers so far away from the election.
Trico - 9, 10, + 15%(Women) are not tight numbers. Your "Boy" Mittens, is in for the Ass kicking of his life...
Obama/Biden - 2012
If Obama wins, this country is gonna see a big change all right, not for the good, but for the bad, has he done one thing that has helped the homeless, the elderly, or anything of value jobs, are future is in some serous trouble, come on people open your eyes this guy is destroying this country and the rest of these crooked politicians need to go. Look we each must make a stand are right are being taken away, and we see more of it since 911 happen this was an excuse to take the constitution and do away with it, yea what ever happen when we had new roads and great schools and had jobs, they all left and went over seas for what? MONEY and POWER thats what they want enough is never enough.
they started to disappear in earnest under St. Ronald of Raygun's watch. Do the research and you'll see. By the way, you must of missed one of those great schools since your grammar is horrific.
One Big A$$ Mistake America......
Aww, look! Idiot got him a bumper sticker!
I'm so glad to hear that it's decided who will run for this election. The only sure runner we have is Obummer and he's busy running marathons. And who said Biden will run with him.
Hey Dfrom.....the Washington Post is an independant party???????
Where the hell did you come up with that??? Is that more of that moronic thinkin of your'n???
I guess they polled people who lived in caves.Look around,the country is a mess.We need fresh ideas and some leadership! Term limits in wasington for the congress also!
Geez roni - even people who live in caves know Romney isn't the answer....think most of the GOP primary voters felt the same way, eh?
OPPONENT ? Romney and his wife are total scumbag's ! America just saw them them for who they really are !
Those "scumbags" are supporting a whole lot of deadbeats with the taxes they pay.
He didn't pay Jack ...if you think he paid taxes your a bigger fool then his wife !
In Palm Springs Ca:
He paid a great deal more money in federal income tax than most make in one (1) year.