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Subscribe to RSS“Mitt Romney isn’t the only Massachusetts resident to recently clinch his party’s nomination for president,” the Boston Globe writes. “Jill Stein – a Lexington resident who actually has experience debating Romney before a televised audience – on Tuesday in California secured the delegates needed to win the Green Party nomination. One of her chief rivals for the nomination was comedian Roseanne Barr.”
FLORIDA: “Gov. Rick Scott's elections chief on Wednesday defiantly refused a federal demand to stop purging noncitizens from Florida's voter rolls, intensifying an election-year confrontation with President Barack Obama's administration as each side accuses the other of breaking federal law,” the Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times write.
“Veteran League of Women Voters volunteer Mary Berglund had been registering voters since 1986, until the civic group a year ago abruptly halted its 72-year practice in the face of a new Florida law restricting voter registration campaigns,” the Tampa Bay Times writes. “But Berglund and her civic-minded colleagues gathered in front of a Pinellas elections office Wednesday to announce they are getting back in the game. After a federal judge last week temporarily blocked parts of that new elections law as violations of the First Amendment, the League of Women Voters and other groups are resuming their nonpartisan registration efforts.”
Scott also cut off funding for Innocence Commission, the Huffington Post reports. The state Supreme Court formed the commission in 2009 after 23 death row inmates, 12 others convicted of “serious crimes” and other rape and murder convictions since 1973 with the advent of DNA. “Scott vetoed the $200,000 the legislature had budgeted for the commission to continue.”
Connie Mack refused a debate with George Lemieux. "It’s clear the race for the U.S. Senate in Florida is now between Connie Mack, the Republican, and Bill Nelson, the Democrat," Mack campaign manager Jeff Cohen wrote in a letter to Jeanne Grinstead, deputy managing editor of the Tampa Bay Times. The primary is Aug. 14.
MONTANA: There will be Senate debates June 16 and 24.
VIRGINIA: The president leads 47%-42% in Virginia in the latest Quinnipiac poll. That’s slightly narrower than the 50-42% margin in the poll in March. But there’s still this vulnerability for the president. “On who would do a better job on the economy, 46 percent say Romney and 44 percent say Obama,” the Richmond Times-Dispatch writes.
There continues to be a gender gap, with Obama winning women 51-35%, and Romney winning men 49-44%. For context, Obama won Virginia women 53-46% - AND men 51-47% in 2008.
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League of Women Voters...now that's what I call patriotism. The Republican Party...now that's what I call fascism.
From the news - 'FLORIDA: "Gov. Rick Scott's elections chief on Wednesday defiantly refused a federal demand to stop purging noncitizens from Florida's voter rolls'
Their FL data is outdated. Many got their citizenship after they had applied for driver's license. But the outdated data still shows they are non-citizen. Thus, many potential democratic voters will be purged by GOP Gov Dick Scott.
FL is up for something familiar, something devious, something unconstitutional - remember Jeeb Bush's illegal helping hand in 2000?
A message to white men, especially those in blue collar or less educated fields. You feel threatened by minorities, you feel threatened by a supposed "liberal elite," you even feel threatened by your own government.
The real threat is the rich and powerful oligarchy of the rightwing, people like Romney -- this is the true "elite." Multinational Corporations will not protect your rights, and do not care about the general good of society. They aren't supposed to. Governments are supposed to do those things. The 1% who run FOX Noise, or those who rely on outrageous incomes like Limbaugh tell you government should only provide military protections. Not. Have you heard of the social contract? And if you don't like what a company does, the most you can do is boycott it. But you can't vote an Enron, or Worldcom, or Goldman Sachs out of office.
Corporations want you and everyone to work for slave wages, because they mistakenly think this will increase their profits. Corporations are risk adverse, they are lemmings, they are run by people who don't know economics or public policy. If they did, they would know that good paying jobs create customers with disposable income to buy their goods and services. They would actually favor the minimum wage being increased to a living wage, ensuring they can't be undercut by a ruthless competitor, and thereby creating a tide that lifts all boats.
A Race to the Bottom -- How does this help you? Instead of attacking union wages that force all companies to compete with those wages, ask why not you too? Why not you too?
That is the NBC propaganda lets go to the real facts.The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the Old Dominion shows both President Obama and Mitt Romney picking up 47% support. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and another three percent (3%) are undecided.
Looks like motherland1 has trouble swallowing the truth. If it isn't a lie the tea people Koch republicans have trouble swallowing it.
motherland1, looking at a single poll is like looking for a silver lining. That's why RCP tracks a running average of polls - and they generally are very predictive.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html
Rasmussen is the worst poll in the world!! It is a pure Republican poll and everyone knows it is worthless!
Has there been one true statement out of Mitt Romney in the entire time he's been running for the office? He's managed to break down the very possibility of the truth, about anything, emitting from his mouth. The mealy mouth of this chicken hawk, draft dodging, high school bully turned vulture capitalist, tax dodger, neo-con divider, mouthpiece for fascism should be making the entire world physically ill. He must be one of the most despicable American politicians since George W. Bush.
Mitt Romney is one of the most cowardly and spineless men to ever run for office.
Romney said this about a healthcare mandate on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Dec. 16, 2007: “I think it’s a good model for other states.” Moderator Tim Russert responded: “So if a state chose a mandate, it wouldn’t bother you?” “I think it’s a terrific idea,”
Now Romney the coward hates that RomneyCare turned into ObamaCare? Figures..eh?
How about fighting in the Vietnam War? In 2007, Romney — a supporter of the war in Vietnam said:
“I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there, and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam.”
Opps!
That this isn’t what Romney said back in 1994 during his campaign to represent Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate: “I was not planning on signing up for the military.It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam, but nor did I take any actions to remove myself from the pool of young men who were eligible for the draft,”
Liar!
Mitt Romney sought and was granted 4 deferments to remove himself from the draft. Really, something only rich people were granted. Vietnam was a war that the poor and the people who couldn't afford to go to college had to go to. That figures eh?
Romney is a coward and I don’t vote for cowards.
The Republican plan is to keep Romney "in a bubble," the same way they kept George W. away from situations where it would become clear how dim he was. I didn't even realize how inarticulate Bush was until well into his second term when he started giving more one on one interviews, and rambling, incoherent press conferences.
Romney has trouble keeping up with all his lies when he's out of his bubble. That's why he stumbles and stutters in a one on one interview, even with Fox (aka tea people Koch republican propaganda machine).
Romney is following the tea people Koch republicans play book getcentered, lie and when you are called on your lie, lie some more. That's all their supporters will listen to, LIES. It's to bad the media doesn't have the guts to call Romney and the tea people Koch republicans out on their lies.
“President Barack Obama remains ahead in Virginia, but he is hearing Gov. Mitt Romney’s footsteps,’’ said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
Romney will take Virginia.
Romney needs to go to Virginia and tell residents that their trees are all the right size and that he, just like George Washington, never told a lie - which of course would be a lie.
Obama needs to come to Virginia and tell residents what he has previously said: he never was a member of the openly socialist "New Party" in Chicago in the 1990s...which of course would be a lie, since there is now solid proof that he was a member of this Party...he has tried to hide his radical roots.
HAHAHA!
Speaking from personal experience there bob?
Guess YOU were a card carrying member in the 90's - heck, to make the statement you made with such authority, you must have been Secretary or maybe even President of the Chicago socialist New Party.
Amazing you know so much about them....
(Better be careful. Your RWNJ friends on here will catch on to you being a DNC troll if you keep this up!)
ROTFLOL
What MSNBC rarely mentions about all these Presidential polls is that when an incumbent is under 50%, the undecided vote almost always goes to the challenger...
Obama rarely has come close to 50% in any swing state, he is at serious risk.
President Obama will win Virginia! Here in Loudoun County we are working hard to keep Virginia Blue!!
President Obama 2012
just to give you a little history on the Rasmussen poll Bob. I got a call from the Rasmussen pollsters last week. They said they had a short political survey it would take about 6 or 7 minutes. They first ask if I was affiliated with any political campaign I told them I wasn't, them they ask if I considered myself a Democrat, Republican, Independent or other, I said I was a Democrat they said that was the end of the survey and they had no more questions, it took about 1 minute I guess they only wanted to survey Republicans. That's why most polls don't mean anything, they keep calling till they get the answers they want.