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AP’s Electoral College analysis: “President Barack Obama faces new warning signs in a once-promising Southern state and typically Democratic-voting Midwestern states roughly five months before the election even as he benefits nationally from encouraging economic news. Obama's new worries about North Carolina and Wisconsin offer opportunities for Republican Mitt Romney, who must peel off states Obama won in 2008 if he's to cobble together the 270 electoral votes needed to oust the incumbent in November.”
“The financial firepower that fueled the rise of a network of conservative advocacy groups now pummeling Democrats with television ads can be traced, in part, to Box 72465 in the Boulder Hills post office, on a desert road on the northern outskirts of Phoenix,” the L.A. Times reports. “That's the address for the Center to Protect Patient Rights, an organization with ties to Charles and David H. Koch, the billionaire brothers who bankroll a number of conservative organizations. During the 2010 midterm election, the center sent more than $55 million to 26 GOP-allied groups, tax filings show, funding opaque outfits such as American Future Fund, 60 Plus and Americans for Job Security that were behind a coordinated campaign against Democratic congressional candidates.” Here’s a helpful interactive.
“Bill Clinton is going to bat for President Obama, bashing Mitt Romney as ‘extreme,’ in e-mails touting a blockbuster June fund-raiser in Manhattan with the current and former presidents,” the New York Post writes.
Paging Chicago Cubs fans… Political Wire: “Billionaire investor Joe Ricketts, who dropped plans for a $10 million advertising blitz linking President Obama with the fiery race-based rhetoric of the Rev. Jeremia Wright, ‘is involved in another effort slated for this summer, a documentary film based on a widely criticized book, The Roots of Obama's Rage by Dinesh D'Souza, which asserts that Mr. Obama is carrying out the 'anticolonial' agenda of his Kenyan father,’ the New York Times reports.”
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2012 is NOT a Republican year! Period....regardless of what the Cock (Koch?) bros do.
The Republican superPACs may have money on their side, but the Democrats have people (and history) on their side.
To Pig:
As an observer this weekend, I was surprised at the response from the people that attended a viewing of the movie Battleship. This gives me a temperature as to how the our President is doing. Towards the middle of the movie when the aliens where attacking earth, a snipped of the President was played and to my surprised a big "OH NO! not again" came from the audience. The crowd was a mixture and the area was dominated by Dems.
I believe that for 2012 people are ready for a change and when Mitt gets elected. I will give hime 4 years to turn it around or he will be out also.
I don't doubt there are people who dislike President Obama, as I don't doubt there arre people who drive drunk, molest children, beat their wives, and shoplift.
I don't doubt there are people that are blind because they do not want to see, as I don't doubt there are people that drink to much Koolaid, and people that love dogs more than children, and people that misspelled words.
But must of all, there are people that think they are always right and never wrong. lol (left of left).
not really a misspelling, more like a typo. although I am certainly capable of making both. :)
Kind of like you Concern Citizen.
he wont need 4 yrs tto bury us, just one, and then you will have wished you never ever voted for romney!
Concern Citizen-856329
Since you are a self-proclaimed Mitt Romney expert, please educate us on Romney's past accomplishments - besides making lots of money by sucking the blood out of them and then dumping the corpses, and besides taking Massachusetts from the 10th place to 47th place in job growth.
Amy B. Portland, ME
As a chronic "typo-er" (I don't proof read, and my fingers tend to be quicker than my keyboard), I can tell you one thing: people who point out other people's typos usually don't have much to say otherwise.
Hey bayllie, I'm also a chronic typo-er, my point here is that someone from your team made a big thing about my spelling and that my second language was English. I was just trying to make a point to Amy that we all make mistakes, especially when posting is not our livelihood. I have I stated prior I'm an independent and the reason I'm voting for Romney is as follows:
1. Romney was a governor longer than Obama was a senator.
2. Ronmey knows about business and Obama never ran one.
3. Ronmey was successful on 80% of making business successful while at Bain.
4. I do not like Obama's experience as a child, teenager or adult or the people associated with. This tells you something about the person.
5. I read his book .
6. He pins people against people to create a common enemy.
7. I voted for him, because he promised change, hope, transparency in Govn and we got nothing, nothing and nothing.
8. This is not the Democratic party of my Father.
9. Republicans might be the party of NO, Dems are the party of lies.
Did I read you right Amy?? People who molest children and drive drunk will vote for Obama??
Time to ditch this dog-eater. Obama...one and done.
Concern Citizen-856329
Then you ignore them like I ignore JoAnnaSmith1 who loves to point out typos.
About you Obama vs Romney points: Romney won't talk about his record as Gov. of Mass so scratch off any public job record of your list.
Romney will not talk about the bad side of Bain - he wants to only concentrate on the happy clouds and blue skies - so cross his private job record of you list.
What do you have left? A guy who has to lie about everything all the time - that is who Romney is to me.
the president should worry about wisconsin and the fact that he needs to be there and support barret and debbie needs to write that check!
this recall will be the turning point in politics.
Wisconsin is another step toward Plutocracy if the citizens vote for Walker because of all the money Citizens United is spending.
Someone answer me one simple question. Does anyone want to live in a country ruled by the rich?
Mo,
The entire takeover of the Wisconsin State Capital thing was funded by unions with much of the money coming from out of state. Now that the playing field has been leveled, you are complaining.
Answer to your question. YES ! If you are not happy here, feel free to leave at anytime and take Alec Baldwin with you !!
Actually, at the showing of movie Battleship on the first night I saw it, people clapped and cheered when they showed the President.
However, he carried my city by 62% to 38%.
I'm looking forward to the Navy Seal movie due out before the election.
Job1, I can't believe you took my previous post and you turned it around. While in my version most of the people yield, "oh no not again". Of course I had to put my two cents and asked where was President Chavez. Most South American residing in the US claim that he speaks more than Chavez. that is allot in any measure.
Because they are BOTH puppets!
Did Obama know about anti-colonialism when he was two years old or did he develop an affinity for it when his father visited him when he was eight years old? Perhaps Hawaii is anti-colonial or the story is a "swift-boat" lie. If it is Republican it is, of course, a lie. They gave up deception years ago. Lying is a strategy improvement.