I didn't even have to watch video to know from your response that it didn't have good news for you Obamabots.

You are so transparent!!

Feisty,

If the GOP monied aristocracy is is STILL, still spending time and money to lie through their teeth about the President's birthplace and religion,

Then, going after Romney at Bain Capital is superdoubleplus - more than fair game.

And a no-brainer. Because Romney's record at Bain is not about taking care of all the people, all of the time -- far from it. He decimated communities, took folks's jobs and hopes for a future. He only took care of investors and his wee self.

I agree Feisty.

Many people remain on the fence up to the last minute.

A candidate can say or do something in the coming months that will bring a person to one side or the other.

We have already seen differing results in the past month. Some have had one leading, then the other.

Simply put, it is way to early to start believing what will transpire in November.

The only poll which counts is the one on 11.6.12

Feisty,

So true!

You would agree with her if she said the sky is purple so what else is new?

Many people remain on the fence up to the last minute.

Brian,

You said it - most normal people are not paying attention at this point, they're planning summer vacations, graduations and so on.

It's only us political junkies who are hooked on this.

Mark my words, the debates are going to be a HUGE turning point when it comes to polling & it will not be in favor of Willard! ☺

You would agree with her if she said the sky is purple so what else is new?

LOL. Poor Reb. Maybe you could find someone that you share a thought with if you search long enough.

My agreeing with Feisty who states a perfectly sensible statement should be easy for you to understand. But maybe I'm giving you too much credit to arrive at a reasonable conclusion to a practical concept.

Mark my words, the debates are going to be a HUGE turning point when it comes to polling & it will not be in favor of Willard! ☺

I am very anxious for the time when the debates start. If there is any doubt in anyone's mind who should be leading this nation, it will be changed once President Obama makes Mr. Romney look like a person lost in the wilderness.

nomoresameo

I agree Feisty.

Many people remain on the fence up to the last minute

I do too.

If Governor Romney would like to give back all the money he’s earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years, then I would be glad to then listen to him” — Newt Gingrich [Mediaite, 12/14/11]

Critics note that the state government of Indiana also subsidized the company with millions of taxpayer dollars, a point that Romney doesn't mention.

I must say as a life long Reg., Republican Mitt Romney is not the person we need as President of the United States.

The only poll which counts is the one on 11.6.12

With approximately 5 months to go... I'm not concerning myself with what 1,000 or so people have to say!

Get back to me in the fall, after the long hot summer...

The electoral map is, by far, more interesting.

Would that be the electoral map based on current polling?

Romney is a very dangerous man who lied and deceived his way through life, also Mitt has a split personality, that's why he flip flops, Mitt Romney needs to step to the side and get help !

You mean the sky ISN'T purple?

But Feisty, you said ......................

But Feisty, you said ......................

Darn it Anna Molly - what I said was it's plaid!

Doesn't anyone pay attention around here anymore? lol

President Obama still leads but it is close. That should come as no suprprise to anyone who follows politics on a regular basis. It is typical for voters to give the opponent a "look, see". Romney is the presumptive candidate but there are still some primaries to go and he still must campaign to the GOP base. The problem for Romney will come when both sides are in full, general election mode; he cannot move back to center because if he does, the far-right conservatives might stay home. If he doesn't head back to center, he loses the middle. Despite the 5 years of Romney campaigning, he has yet to define what a Romney presidency would like look beyond a few hints at tax cuts for the rich and Ryan's plan is "marvelous". He has flip flopped his views so much that he and voters have whiplash. Who is Mitt Romney? That's the question the "give him a look-see voters" wait to have answered.

Jan #1.10, is the only Repub that's got it right !

Anna Molly - Actually, on certain days in Chicago, the sky IS purple - absolutely gorgeous!!! Just sayin...

Seeking Sanity --

Anna Molly - Actually, on certain days in Chicago, the sky IS purple - absolutely gorgeous!!! Just sayin...

"'Scuse me while I kiss the sky." ;-)

Beverley,

"Sen. Obama's insistence on repeating attacks that have been demonstrated to be false by independent entities proves once and for all that his speeches about the new politics are just words." Hillary Clinton

The electoral map looks better for the GOP every day

Hmmm... I asked someone earlier to prove this & so far he doesn't have the balls!

Do YOU?

Here is a one that covers them all, and updated daily.

http://nationalpolls.com/

Do YOU?

Didn't think so... ;p

Thanks for the link Job!

Here is another one that is great.

http://www1.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/2012_elections_electoral_college_map.html

You can also (Create Your Own Electoral Map)

Bob in VA - you're totally insane. Neither IN nor NC are locked for the GOP and, come November, Romney will lose both. PA is definitely blue (too bad you're too ignorant to know that.)

WI, FL and OH will go blue.

But, you keep believing in your make believe numbers. It will make you happy - until November!

Job1 - clearly Bob in Va is already using the "create your own" map!

Obama/Biden 2012

Bob, All trending in our direction is a Flip Flop !

It seems only right that bob is using the "create your own" map.

I mean after all the republicans are running against an imaginary President Obama. You know the communist, the socialist, the Nazi, the Muslim, the bad christian, the most radical left wing president ever, christian hating, religious hating, gay loving left wing radical that hangs with terrorist.

Then they run the President Obama imaginary character against their right wing imaginary character of Romney the job creator. Just because Romney never created any jobs on purpose and was 47th out of 50 when governor in job creation. Republicans never let the truth get in the way of a good lie.

Just because Romney the one supposed to have economic knowledge, he looked at the Ryan budget and said it was marvelous. Never mind that the same policies created another recession in England. Never mind the fact that the Ryan budget increases the deficit while punishing our veterans for their service and starving our children and killing education for our countries future. All to drive up the deficit to give more tax cuts to Romney and his rich friends.

If you talk about the real Romney and not their imaginary republican candidate, then the republicans call it character assassination.

VOTE FOR AMERICA...VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT 2012

I live in IN, wouldn't be to sure of that. It is normally red!! Can't wait till NOV. In fact I have lived here my whole life, very certain it is hardly ever blue.

Rick. One point you mentioned in your post was about people who failed to vote in the last election. I have exercised my right to vote in every election since I was legally able to do so. All the while I have wondered why so many others fail to do so. Some fail to even register. This defies all logic in my opinion. Then there are other's who register then fail to vote. I have thought about this many times and asked questions to many about their reason for not voting. The majority of the people have said that they decided not to vote because the outcome wouldn't be changed because of their vote. Again, this logic is mind boggling to me because it would simply be a matter of many of these people colectively voting that would change an election.

But i want to ask those of you who come here everyday with a passion about our country and how we govern it.

My question is this:

Because of the way political districts are mapped, technology that incorporates almost instant results through exit polling, national news sources that want to be the first to report the winner/loser and a country divided by several time zones, what if we changed WHEN the votes were counted?

Living west of the Rockies we are three hours behind the east coast. National election results are already being stated before most people on the west coast have voted. We can't thwart free press. They have the right to report the news as they want. But because of this, many people fail to vote because they feel their single vote won't get their candidate elected or that their candidate is so far ahead it also wouldn't matter.

If we really want more people to vote it is my thought that we make it unlawful for anyone from the press to come within 100 yards of a polling place on election day to conduct interviews. Second, votes are not counted until the following day. This would, in my opinion promote more people to vote without distraction of what may be an obvious outcome.

Mitt Romney is a Flip Flopping fool and a loser that's going down with his nutty TeaBaggers !

you said it!! This is all funny stuff. It is nice to see all the smoke and mirrors that are put up. I find these vines very entertaining. It makes me sad that people are so true to their parties that they don't see the big picture. Oh well, can't fix it!!

This is for RICK,KY

Romney is too much of a Nervous Nelly. That Nervous Nelly laugh comes out especially when someone gets in his face. So, can you image what will happen when the President gets into his face during the debates?

If the Republicans could coach Sarah Palin into sounding like a Vice President for the duration of a debate, I'm sure they can make Romney look pretty slick as well.

What they will struggle to do, however, is to keep Romney under wraps, like they had to do with Bush, because off the cuff, Romney is apt to blurt out things like "don't you see? don't you see? Corporations are people too!"

To know Romney is to not want to vote for him. Believe me, I've seen him speak in person.

I think Obama wants to talk about anything but the economy. He said if he couldnt get it fixed in 4 years he didnt deserve a second term, and he doesnt.

NoBama in November.

Actually, he did get it fixed and we are doing better every day. So, it's time to re-elect President Obama.

Amy - I think I missed the debate where Palin looked anything but ridiculous. I only saw the ones where she kept talking about things she wasn't asked and had notes on her hand. She actually looked like a VP in one? Were you drinking heavily that night?

Steve nobody thought the republicans would block the recovery of America.

Until recently we didn't know a group of republicans met and decided on the day that President Obama was inaugurated that destroying President Obama and any good he wanted to do for America was their goal.

The republicans did not care that their hate would cause the by-product of many, many America's suffering. The republicans with the Ryan budget voted for a recession here in America to give more to the rich while increasing the deficit and more suffering for the poor.

As usual blame our president for what the republicans have done. While you are just a patsy for the republican party, you probably think you are smart. You have not figured out that the Romney puppet is the same as the Bush puppet and will be pushing the same American destroying policies that nearly destroyed our country the last time the republicans were in power.

VOTE FOR AMERICA...VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT 2012

Romney will pull a Pawlenty when he debates President Obama one on one. ObamneyCare on the campaign trail, silence on the GOP debate stage. Whenever Romney is asked a question that doesn't fit his narrative, or contradicts his previous statements, he becomes defensive and huffy. Romney spouts lies every day on the campaign stage but he can't do that on the debate stage. No doubt the Obama Team has a big card file on Mitt's utterances of ignorance on domestic and foreign policy--I remember Candidate Obama throwing "bomb, bomb, bomb....bomb, bomb Iran" in McCain's face.

SeekingSanity

Yes, I saw her debate Joe Biden (First thing, she asked if she could call him "Joe." We later found out it was because she kept referring to him as "Mr. O'Biden" in debate rehearsals, so she asked to call him Joe to avoid making that mistake.)

Are you sure, how will Obama react when asked about the auto dealership closing forced by the government under the restructuring? These were dealerships that were for the most part profitable. Many did good things in their communities; yet, they were forced to close and lay off thousands as part of a government oversight. These layoffs are directly Obama's and were unnecessary. The dealerships should have had a right to compete and succeed or fail rather than having their franchise rights pulled.

American First

Steve nobody thought the republicans would block the recovery of America.

Is this the newest excuse de jour? All Obama ever has is excuses, and we are getting tired of them.

Republicans have a strange definition of "failure" vs "success."

George W. Bush took the surplus Clinton left and turned it into a deficit.

Bush left a financial crisis to Obama, plus two wars and a cratering employment rate.

Under Obama, the economy has improved, employment has improved, one war is finished and the other is winding down, all three American car companies are profitable for the first time in six years, Osama bin Laden is dead...and why are we even talking about replacing our current President?

Your post should be highlighted for everyone to see more readily Amy.

Your post has stated just a handful of reasons why we need to re-elect President Obama. He has the ability to bring America back to or even beyond the point where we once enjoyed being positioned; at the top of the heap in every aspect of prosperity.

Actually, President Obama has a GREAT record and the facts back this up.

Borrowed From:

Charlie-1915998

“Facts Republicans Hate:

• Job losses per month in January 2008: 700,000
• Job gains last month: 120,000
• 25 straight months of private sector gob growth
• GDP growth in 2008: negative 6%
• GDP growth last year 2.9%
• Dow Jones Average in January 2008: Under 8000
• Dow Jones Average today: 12,500+
• Record domestic oil production
• GM – all time record profits
• Near record corporate profits across the board
• Osama Bin Laden --- dead
• Iraq war --- over “

Also, there is a lot more, or pages more of the good accomplishments for our Nation that our President Obama has achieved.

Unfortunately Gary is in bad health because his party fail him !

Hizzoner does not like Obama or is jealous of the President--whatever it is, it sure is hostile.

$565,000 worth of campaign contributions from Bain Capital can make someone say some crazy things!

Then, there's him being BFF's with Governor Krispy Cream!

Fancy This Too

One of my messages to Mr. Booker was going to be that he needs to run in future elections as an independent.

With surrogates like that, who needs Karl Rove?

He said on Rachel last night he was an Independent Democrat. Me-thinks he is a blue dog.

Why Booker Attacked Obama: The REAL Cory [Updated With New Romney Ad/Think Progress]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/21/1093259/-Why-Booker-Attacked-Obama-The-REAL-Cory

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I appperciate the way our President stood firm and tall and told the truth about being a president and what it entails. He did not critize Corey either.

Jersey boys are not like politicians in the rest of the country. I'm just sayin'.

Bev/Feisty

You guys are so fast to throw one of your own under the bus for disagreeing with you it makes me wonder why anybody would want to be associated with your crowd.

Even poor Brian had to beg forgiveness the other day when he didn't fully toe the line to your way of thinking. Guess that is a good definition of a bully!!

Just saying.....

Amy, Neither are the thugs from Chicago. I'm just sayin'.

the armpit of america is no longer new jersey, its now california

cory booker has done an amazing job in newark, I've lived aprox an hour away from Newark for over 40 years and have seen its unbelievable transformation. if the independents were smart they would recruit booker. his track record so far is outstanding. its a shame he got such backlash for telling it like it is.

GermanGem - nah, the armpit is still New Jersey. But, nice try.

SS

In your mind. Not fact however.

REB - nope - fact!

Personally, I think Cory Booker is being subjected to excessive criticism by both sides. One thing I like about democrats is they are not parrots. He deserves some criticism because he failed to remember his appearance on MTP was to speak for democrats and President Obama, and obviously he failed to do some homework before his appearance. His biggest mistake was forgetting that even the slightest criticism would be pounced on by the GOP and the media to fuel the fires of division. He expressed his opinion about venture capitalists in general and most of us agree with that. His problem was he failed to express that Romney's record at Bain is fair game because Romney is running on that business experience just as was President Obama's public and private experience. I think Booker expressed what many people feel when they see the flood of vicious character attack ads leveled at candidates from both sides. The Romney attack ads on Newt Gingrich in Iowa were viscious and "nauseating". The Obama Bain ad is not a vicious, character attack on Romney--it merely points out the side of Bain that Romney doesn't want to talk about. The ad does not attack Mitt Romney's character, it merely points out what Bain Capital and Romney did to 22% of the businesses they bought; it wasn't pretty. That's fair game.

Corey Booker does, to my knowledge, a great job as mayor. We should be talking about what Mitt Romney would do as president compared to President Obama instead of what Corey Booker said, how he said it and adding fuel to the feeding frenzy the media loves--Booker isn't running for president.

Good points. Haven't heard any Bain Capital folks out pushing Romney's credentials either; they neither confirm nor deny Mitt's claims.

Thanks for the reminders, Dragon.

SandieLove, great points. The KS steel plant Romney touts as a success for Bain received multi-millions in state and local government money; Bain invested a small amount in comparison. While the KS plant is a success, most likely that success was because of the state and local government investment.

Romney reminds me of Edward Lewis, the fictional character in Pretty Woman who was a venture/vulture capitalist who bought struggling companies or companies that hit hard times and tore them apart to sell off the assets piece by piece destroying the business and the employees lives--that is until he met Vivian who humanized him, reminded him there was more to life and business than creative destruction for profit.

Just a fairy tale, the romney is a real life whore.

Obama & Company DESTROYED the livelihood of potentially tens of thousands of families when GM & Chrysler dealerships were closed.

As has been widely reported, the Inspector General's study skewered the Obama Gang for strong-arming the companies into closing 2,000 dealerships, costing an estimated 100,000 people their jobs during a recession.

But the news media has ignored key elements of Barofsky's report -- elements that are far more damaging, if possible, to Obama. As reported, a top Obama official, manufacturing czar and "Auto Team" leader Ron Bloom admitted that the dealerships could have been kept open, saving those jobs, "but that doing so would have been inconsistent with the President's mandate for 'shared sacrifice.'"

Barofsky says the administration insisted on the closings even though a GM official told him

that GM would usually save 'not one damn cent' by closing any particular dealership. ... Furthermore, a GM official stated that removing a dealership from the network does not save money for GM -- it might even cost GM money -- and that savings cannot be attributed or assigned to any one dealership.

Either way....As we find out more and more of the true qualities that make the candidate Romney who he is.....I can not identify with any.

He's one of the priveleged few who prey upon weaker entities....whether it's a classmate, a simple dog or destroying peoples lives with abandon.

Also.... can we really take a man seriously that believes in "magic" underwear.

ssmithlg, your boy "W" threw this Country under the bus !

After nearly 4 years of a FAILED presidency Dims like Patriotic UnAmerican STILL can't bring themselves to admit they elected a "community organizer" to do a CEO's job!

NOBAMA2012, the Marxist/Socialist Experiment IS A FAILURE!

ssmithlg - again with the stupid "marxist/socialist" garbage. You DO know that makes you look like the moron your rantings say you are, right?

Sending American jobs overseas....yeah Romney's record speaks clearly.

Actually I heard teaching Constitutional Law is stretch. I would like to see the syllabus. I heard the class only concentrated on the 14th Amendment and no other parts of the Constitution.

dal,

Obama's auto bailout really saved American jobs. I understand both are building a lot of new plants offshore. This is not bad, it is just hypocritical to say Obama has been better.