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Evan Vucci / AP
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures during a campaign stop at Production Products, Thursday, June 7, 2012, in St. Louis, Mo.
The trees may be the right height after all.
An EPIC/MRA poll out today shows Mitt Romney and Barack Obama in a statistical tie in Michigan, with Romney edging the president 46-45 percent.
The numbers are a reversal from April when the same poll had Obama up 47-43 percent.
"EPIC co-founder John Cavanagh said the softening in support for Obama is likely related to a robust TV advertising campaign by pro-Romney PACs which have been critical of his handling of the economy," the Detroit Free Press writes.
Conservative outside groups have spent a combined total of $3.4 million so far in Michigan.
The Obama and Romney campaigns have spent nothing. All that's been spent there on the Democratic side is $10,000 from Priorities USA.
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This is one of Willard's dozen of home state(s) after all...
President Obama hasn't even begun to campaign there yet!
Do you seriously think the auto-workers are going to forget who it was that said let; "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt"?
Feisty, isn't it odd that the party represented by an elephant would have such a terrible memory? Selective amnesia and then some! yeah, "the trees are the right height"-maybe Romney was thinking of selling off the logging rights of the state parks!
Since any success Mitt has seems to involve carpet bombing the airwaves with negative ads, maybe Mitt & Ann will donate some more money to their campaign. In May they sacrificed THREE days' income---hope they can muddle through.
Reminds me to ask WHERE ARE MITT's TAX RETURNS?
Isn't that the truth!
I read some of the stuff the RWNJ's toss out here & shake my head at how many contradictions they can squeeze into just one comment! lol
The best ones are where they're all poutraged about name-calling while doing nothing but calling names!
You really cannot make this stuff up!
Are these the same people who gave us two terms of George W. Bush? Why, yes, I believe they are. You might say, they brought the economic disaster on themselves, and now they want to be lead right back to the same policies. Tax cuts for the rich, spending cuts for the middleclass.
really? Why? because more people are happier in Michigan because of all the jobs still there due to auto bailout that Romney opposed?
Yawn....................
This will change several times before November - with Obama coming out the victor in the end. Those car manufacturers are not about to forget "let them fail," Romney!
Obama/Biden 2012
I've given up. Anyone who can be swayed by ads they see on TV shouldn't have the right to vote.
Sorry libbies, you all need to get used to it.
The preference cascade has begun.
Obama's numbers will continue to dwindle.
Plus more dire economic reports and more reports of him out fundraising.
Forget memory Cynthia - people are looking at current conditions. And they are piss poor.
No real Americans want Obama any more ....
His record is disgusting ....
We can't afford another day under Obama ....
bigbenalaska - Real Americans will vote President Obama in for a 2nd term. Get used to it!
Obama/Biden 2012
Trends. Not going in the right direction for Team Obama. And lots of union folks in Michigan let down by Obama ignoring the same in Wisconsin, but that fact probably hasn't been factored into the numbers, . . . yet.
Even the democrats are jumping over to the Romney camp ....
Obama's getting the boot ....
Bigbenalaska
You are correct. Real thinking people with a love for Country will never vote for Obama. Only die hard koolaid drinkers can stomach the sight of him.
I'm dumping miracle grow on all the trees in southwest Michigan so robme won't know where he is when he returns to campaign. What's he gonna do when the trees are too tall???
It's almost getting impossible to watch TV the last few weeks here. All we see are rwnj super pac commercials.
I hope my state isn't for sale like WI was. I still believe the President will win MI
GO Obaaaahhhhhma 2012!
Go Obama alright ....
He can't go fast enough ....
Obama out in 2012 ....
To save what's left of America ....
Judge just ordered a block on NDAA's ability to detain indefinitely nationwide. Another bright idea shot down. And with good reason.
Makes one wonder if he also impersonates MI. police officers and pulls people over 'for fun'. Hmmm, I could swear their was a serial killer that used the same M.O.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/did-young-mitt-romney-impersonate-a-police-officer-another-witness-says-yes/
What a merry prankster that Willard is...
Bullying & intimidation - anyone notice a pattern here?
Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL
Michigan is one of the luckier "home states" because Williard didn't f*ck it up by being its governor.
The White House cannot use the NDAA to indefinitely detain American citizens. Judge ruled it unconstitutional.
This is too easy.
So we have the bots that told us how Scott Walker was going to be recalled in WI telling us now that bammy will be re-elected in Nov. This is such a great year the unions are dying a nasty death as a result of thw WI fiasco. The healthcare farce in 2009 gave us a Republican House of Representatives and will be overturned by the SCOTUS this month. Hey least you forget moonbats Scott Walker won by seven points in WI, can you year me bots you lost. And now you are telling me bammy and biden are going to win. Get real, we don't need seven points only one, the Tea Party is taking care of business from now till Nov. you are going to continue to lose and lose and lose. Then fiesty, amy, ginny mommy, and JoAnne are going to have to get off their fat asses and go to work, hit the streets girls and work hard for the money. Do what it is you homely moonbat women do when times are tough. BaWaaaaaaaaHaHaHaHaHA
thetotas,
President Obama wrote a "signing statement" saying that he would not use it.
I believe the WH will be happy with the ruling.
It was added to the NDAA against the wishes of the President but he signed it with the signing statement because the military would run out of funding if he vetoed it (time limited).
It begs the question .. what are his other pastimes? Raiding pension funds and pocketing the proceeds? Oh, that's right, that was his day time job while at Bain. Seems he has a penchant for playing 'cops and robbers' - both roles. What a flexible guy.
If they haven't learned any lessons from Wisconsin -- Start running those ads right now with Romney saying "let Detroit go bankrupt." Also, run ads with Bain Capital's refusal to provide capital for the auto industry. And it's not like Gov. Rick Snyder hasn't turned Michigan into a dictatorship with Emergency Managers or anything.
Any state with Teapublican over-reach, whether Wisconsin, or Florida, or Virginia, etc., these states should not even be in play. I hope protests are being organized as we go into November to remind people of the erosion of their basic rights and democracy in this country. It's mind-bending!
rukidding47 -- That was too f*****g funny. That has to win first prize as a "I'm rubber, you're glue" example.
To Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL
Seriously, President Obama hasn't started campaigning? You might want to wake up to the fact that GM, Chryler and Ford did file for Bankruptcy protection. Ford came out just fine even without the Government Bailout! If you look at the value of the GM stock the Federal Government is holding as a result of the bailout, we have suffered a huge loss that will never be recovered. So much for another Obama loan.
The last time a Republican took Michigan is Bush over Dukakis in 1988 and really what choice did they have? So Michigan moving to Romney is a HUGE deal! In 2008, Obama to 57.4% of the vote in Michigan and now he is down to 45%.
So you preferred the option of GM and Chrysler closing shop, laying off all its employees, and liquidating its assets, of which it is estimated that over 1m people would have lost their jobs. Why on earth would anyone support a million plus people losing their jobs?
Bigbutben, rukidding47, so who is it that is divisive? You get to determine who is or is not an American, I suggest you take your communist voice and head home to the motherland. In this country we are Free Americans and not bound to your narrow vision of this country. I for one an tired of Republicans telling anyone they are not Americans because they choose to support Obama. This my way or the highway is getting pretty damn old. I suggest if you really to not like anyone but you having rights and freedoms please do leave and if you stay long enough you just might get a little help leaving.
Bob Jones: "Then fiesty, amy, ginny mommy, and JoAnne are going to have to get off their fat asses and go to work, hit the streets girls and work hard for the money. Do what it is you homely moonbat women do when times are tough."
Aww, Bob.....you're such a sweetheart! Your mother must be so proud. By the way, how much do you usually pay?
And since you are such an expert and all on this issue - hate to tell you but Ford did NOT file for bankruptcy protection.
That Bob Jones is such a charmer.......goes nicely with that moniker of his. I'm with JoAnne, if the pay is good, may consider, gee I might even come out of retirement.
But then again, I'd rather post here knowing it gets him all hot and bothered.
MI has not went for a Republican candidate since 1988. That means it has been a blue state for OVER 10 YEARS. You can poo poo it all you want but if there is any truth to this article the president is going to have a rough time in this election.
Obama hasn't begun to campaign in Michigan yet, now that is a good one. Obama has never stopped campaigning, which is part of the problem, he was elected to be commander in chief not campaigner in chief. Obama is losing the confidence of the American people by the day, because all he has done for 3.5 years is blame everyone else for his failures. Yes we can is now why we couldn't, and people are growing weary of the endless parade of excuses. If Obama had a record to run on, he would. Who in their right mind wants to vote for division, hatred, partisanship, blame, and excuses again?
Yeah, the pattern is pretty evident to all but the leftylibdems. How many "bad" weeks has BO had lately? His vaulted advantage in buying elections in 2008 is increasingly shrinking in 2012. BOCare is close to demise. Unemployment numbers tick up. Corruption and scandal disclosures are popping up faster than spring weeds...Solyndra, Fast n Furious, WH leaks. Public becoming educated about the threat from debt and BO's unrelenting contributions, unions compulsory membership dues and the revolving door to leftylibdem campaign contributions, Syria on the brink of civil war and Arab spring turning into a long, cold winter. Dividing blacks over gay marriages, dividing leftylibdems over venture capital, dividing America along wages and level of economic success, dividing women over faux health care issues. And the equal wage issue has been around forever.
Predictable, forecast-able from an inexperienced, community organizing socialist.
3.4 million and Romney is ahead by 1 point. It seems even with unlimited support Mitt Romney has a hard mountain to climb in Michigan. Team Obama has accumulated 204 million dollars thus far. Team O'bama can easily commit $4.08 million in every state, and if its just 6 or 7 battle ground states, $29.14 million. What is more Team O'bama will continue to raise funds between now and November.
He hasn't stopped campaigning since he got in office so that's a given. I will be happy if he just stops doing it on the taxpayers dime.
It was okay for GWB to campaign with tax payer money? I guess it's okay if Bush did it but dead wrong for O'bama to enjoy the perks that come with his elected office.
Reddev,
I guess you don't understand bankruptcy law, but then why should you understand anything in regards to business? You're happy as long as your welfare check cashes.
Blah blah blah Bush did it blah blah blah.
is there anyone even left in Michigan?
Wade, Obama does almost nothing but campaign and that's been going on for months. Having a president that spends more than 50% of his time campaigning (and that's a low ball time estimate) is not a good thing in my mind. This is not about Bush. This is about the current President that has failed miserably in getting this country back on it's feet. The partisan politics started with the Democrats when they closed the doors and pushed their agenda through without concern for anybody else. Can't you still hear Pelosi saying we've got to pass it before we know what is in it? I understand exactly why Obama has to campaign so much. He knows there is no way he will win another term based on his leadership or accomplishments.
Has Michigan forgotten that it was President Obama that saved their auto industry?
Michigan is one of the U.S. states that has many blue-collar workers and which direly continues to economically struggle. If Romney lands in the White House, Michigan will sink further down the well of economic blight. Mitt might be a "favorite son." However, this is not a reason to run to the polls and vote for this corporate king. Why does the American voter keep voting against their best interests? Is it due to political naivety?
Obama/Biden 2012!
Bill,
One factor that caused Detroit's economic plight, is that the auto designers did not plan for the future.
While foreign automobile manufacturers invested in fuel-efficient vehicles, Detroit kept building gas guzzlers.
In spite of the above fact, Romney's position of being willing to let Detroit fail should be considered non-patriotic. Without a viable auto/transportation industry, no major world nation can survive. Yet, Romney was more than willing to let Detroit sink. It is self-defeating that Michigan voters want to vote for Mitt.
Michigan voters rooting for Mitt? This is bewildering and leaves a person shaking his or her head.
I'd have preferred the auto industry go bankrupt rather than corrupt with the President...
Yeah, Detroit is in great shape? Michigan. just another domino to fall.
Buh Bye Obama/Biden in 2012
JOhnson funded single pregnant women-result =2 generations of fatherless kids
Carter increased benefits-more of the dame results + fatherless kids turned mainly into drug users and peddlers. Yea Demoncrats we have to reward illicit sex and irresponsibility
Bill bob Clinton + janet Reno threatened bans if they didn't give sub prime loans+ housing crisis
Mow Obama is destroying economic system that made this country great
All of the above are the so nice Democrats helping people!
What a joke. Spread the truth around. tis is historical fact!!!
Ed - why would anyone spread your ignorant lies? Only low information voters (Republicans) will believe your garbage.
Obama/Biden 2012
I think you mean this is hysterical fact. I haven't laughed this hard over a sack of lies in quite a long time.
One fact we can all count on is Obama has failed this country miserably.
I am a michigan resident. Independent and yes most people i know wont support Obama because the national medai tries to paint this picture about the recovery of auto and yes its happening, But since obama most of the plants in Michigan have been closed down demolished , you make the same money working at walmart or costco than at the plant these days, Also Detroit is going Bankrupt and every agrees that they should so when they hear let detroit go bankrupt they agree even though we know what was meant by that. Democrats are in for a surprise come november and it will not be goog
And you think will Romney will change that?....how?
Auto workers must've lost their collective bargaining rights if they can't make more than a Walmart greeter. And here I thought it was the unions that made out like bandits with the auto bailout!
Mike, you have to start coordinating with the rest of the gang. You see, it is hard to argue that Obama is in the pocket of those money hungry union guys when you're saying that most of the auto workers jobs are paying Wal-Mart wages.
campdog -- I think Mike makes a good point about the suffering that's still going on in Michigan. But folks need to connect the dots as to why that is.
As others above have pointed out, how is voting for Romney the plutocrat, or for that matter losing the right for labor to organize going to make things better? The same failed voodoo economics? Austerity? Not. Don't vote for Romney and jump from the frying pan into the fire.
At least the president and the Dems have a real Jobs Bill and solutions for growth to offer. Obama/Biden - 2012!
No they did not loose their collective bargaining rights and Unions DID make out like bandits. What has changed is that these workers are starting to wake up to the fact that if they put their own employer out of business they won't have a job. Now that the Union owns most of Chrysler and part of GM things have changed. The singes that said "report violations to your Union boss" Have been replaced by "take pride in your work" You see, it is no longer an "us against them" situation like it used to be and the funny part is that now the Unions are doing all the things the Auto manufacturers have been asking them to do for the past 10 years! The Union can no longer hide and twist the facts to get back to the "us against them" mentality any more. They finally get it. They are part of a company and if their job is to survive they must keep the company alive.
BTW the "Walmart employees make as much" comment is not true. Even entry level auto workers still start at $15 and hour and still have way better benefits.
this got tripple posted for some reason
,
Ignorant Dems know nothing about the auto industry. Or any industry. Or even the businesses they work for. They only understand "I want what THAT guy has," and "It's not FAIR," and "I need entitlements," and "I don't believe we need a military," and "rich people are mean," and "free everything for everybody, but especially for ME ME ME."
I say, "F#ck it." I'll be off this planet in fifteen years. All you suckling babies, do whatever you want. Crash and burn.
Once again big money talks.
Fatty Deadhead...............The hacker gotcha.
You got your deadhead so far up Odumbo's a$$ you look like you're wearing a Buckwheat hat.
I don't get it. What is a Buckwheat hat?
campdog - it's a word ignorant and illiterate Republicans use to show how totally behind the rest of the world they are.
Same as a Buckwheat mask. Insanity looks like she is wearing one too.
Now that's funny! The shame of it, is that it's true!
Advertising ratio of 340:1 - yep, that'll do it for sure. Walker only had to do 8:1 to beat Bennett.
Yeah, too bad Obama refused public financing back in '08.
Set the tone he did.
Made his bed, really.
Choices.
At least Walker's spending got him more than 1%.
But I'm curious about your comment that Obama set the tone for campaign spending - do you think he influenced the SCOTUS in their Citizens United decision?
"Conservative outside groups have spent a combined total of $3.4 million so far in Michigan.
The Obama and Romney campaigns have spent nothing. All that's been spent there on the Democratic side is $10,000 from Priorities USA."
$3.4 million vs. $10,000 to be up by one point? Not much of a return on investment, is it?
I think Mitt's gonna need some even bigger wallets.....
Romney is going to beat Obama easier now ....
Obama's record is looking worse and worse every day ....
Obama's done now ....
Pretty clear ....
The Citizens United decision in action. Has nothing to do with public financing---and everything to do with special interest groups and the 1%.
I am sure that Walker winning again had nothing at all to do with the fact that they ran the same idiot against him that lost in 2010.... WHO LOST AGAIN BY THE SAME MARGIN. (see a pattern here?) Why do the same thing over again and expect different results? Isn't there a word for that?
96ws6,
Yeah. Democrat.
, you make the same money working at walmart or costco than at the plant these days
Thats exactly what the GOP wants. Their payed to make sure that the profits go up, and if that means wages go down, well tough @!$%#...
Obama will take Mich. with ease. The polls will change as soon as the Dems start campaigning there.
Obama/Biden 2012
Not gonna happen ....
Democrats are running to the Romney camp fast ....
Try to keep up ....
Obama's done ....
True. Mitt will stick his foot in his mouth before then. And so much for MSNBC being one sided liars, like Fux is.
I see you have a fetish with jackasses humping elephants. Into bestiality much, GT?
Your Libtard revisionist history just will not work. All of the at least half intelligent Americans, including some of the higher-functioning Libtards, have known for over 2 years that the stimulous package was and is a dismal failure (the rest of you libtards can go back to coloring in your books). You can't change that just because it is an election year. Also the same is true with the BS employment crap. There have been more people leave the work force than have joined it. The work force is smaller, therefore no jobs have been "created". For the higher-functioning Libtards, maybe you can understand this. If you have 10 apples and you take away 2, you have less apples (no growth in apples). If you add one apple, you still have less than 10 (still no growth in apples).
If you can't understand this, then maybe you can understand You Just Can't Fix Stupid. Really, just ask your moms and dads.
Repeat after me, "spell-checker is good!"
Mitt Romney 12/19/2008: What is Washington waiting for? The inauguration is less than five weeks away: At the rate we've been going, another 500,000 jobs will be lost by then. The downward spiral is deepening and accelerating: Congress and the president (Bush) must act now.
So this is surely the time for economic stimulus. The Fed should continue to expand the money supply (QE). And, it should confirm that it will not tolerate deflation — the pain of inflation pales in comparison.
That being said, a stimulus plan is needed without further delay, and there are some things that Republicans should insist on.
Repeat after me, "get a job."
Jerry40..... - First, we all know you were NEVER a Democrat so cut the bull! And, the Libtard thing - makes your post not worth reading. I stopped at that "word." Idiotcy - the best the GOP can do!
Obama/Biden 2012
Get a job Libtard.
Are you sure you didn't stop at the phrase "the rest of you libtards can go back to coloring in your books". You should have.
Jerry40 - actually I didn't read that far and won't be reading any more of your illiterate and ignorant posts. People like you are a total waste of good time.
Obama/Biden
It was nice of you to try, Ursula. But take it from Jerry, "You can't fix stupid".
Tell that to JAS1.
Obama supporters = : (
Romney supporters = : )
Obama out in 2012 ....
Without question ....
campdog, my man! She really is that obviously stupid. isn't she. Too stupid to even keep her mouth shut to avoid removing all doubt.
You cannot put together coherent sentences with the aid of spell checking software, and you call others stupid?
Just checking.
Well....actually Jerry........
Jerry - repeat after me - "grow a brain" - oh wait, guess it's too late for you to do that! Never mind!
Romney must be referring to himself out of touch and his fellow Republicans.Listen people who is the one paying much less than half of our tax rate compare to us hardworking middle class americans . Who believes that hardworking middle class will be tax much more than the very rich? Who hides millions to overseas? America must be insane,idiot and all the @!$%# if they vote Romney and Republicans. I and my family used to be a big Republican supporter but not after Romney destruction in our state of Massachusetts and most of all not after the calamitous that Bush and Cheney administration did in our country. Why would you vote for a man that did not governed effectively from one state he used to be a governor? (not to mention yet of Romney being a flip plop, Pathologic liar,paying less than half of middle class because he would pay more than 5 million of additional tax and so other millionaires and billionaires which of course he would never let that happen). This time we are talking about a whole country. Are you really that stupid? Please do not be a sloth and lazy getting the facts. People should condemn Fox channel because they were being lobbied by Republicans. Republicans will block everything what president Obama will do and proposed to help poor and middle class americans so that he will not be reelected. Republicans don`t care about those in the bottom and in the middle because they will not prosper from us except to those very rich that can lobbied them, we don`t. Republicans have connivance with their fellow politicians and lobbyist supporters to block everything what the Obama Administration will proposed so that nothing will prosper and people will be dismay, disappointed and turned into blame to President Obama and will lead him not to be reelected.This is common sense, Republicans doesn`t care our country to be totally cripple because of their very selfish ideology that power and prosperity stays with them and to the very rich who'd will lobby them. And maybe you can ask yourself,what Republicans have positively accomplished and contributed in this country ? and I should say a disaster , just like what Romney did in our state of Massachusetts and of course to those employees who lost their income and lives because of Bain Capital that Romney leads hides and taking away all the profit and put the business into bankrupt. So, the bottom line is this really the kind of people you want to lead in our country? Do you want our country to be in a darkness and live like hell? Then you vote for Republicans because no one will prosper in our country except the very rich become far more richer, the people in the bottom and in the middle class will have no power in this world anymore.Americans must be insane,idiot and all @!$%# if they vote Romney and Republicans. I and my family used to be a big Republican supporter but not after Romney destruction in our state of Massachusetts and most of all not after the calamitous that Bush and Cheney administration did in our country. Why would you vote for a man that did not governed effectively from one state he used to be a governor? (not to mention yet of Romney being a flip plop, Pathologic liar,paying less than half of middle class because he would pay more than 5 million of additional tax and so other millionaires and billionaires which of course he would never let that happen). This time we are talking about a whole country. Are you really that stupid? Please do not be a sloth and lazy getting the facts. People should condemn Fox channel because they were being lobbied by Republicans. Republicans will block everything what president Obama will do and proposed to help poor and middle class americans so that he will not be reelected. Republicans don`t care about those in the bottom and in the middle because they will not prosper from us except to those very rich that can lobbied them, we don`t. Republicans have connivance with their fellow politicians and lobbyist supporters to block everything what the Obama Administration will proposed so that nothing will prosper and people will be dismay, disappointed and turned into blame to President Obama and will lead him not to be reelected.This is common sense, Republicans doesn`t care our country to be totally cripple because of their very selfish ideology that power and prosperity stays with them and to the very rich who'd will lobby them. And maybe you can ask yourself,what Republicans have positively accomplished and contributed in this country ? and I should say a disaster , just like what Romney did in our state of Massachusetts and of course to those employees who lost their income and lives because of Bain Capital that Romney leads hides and taking away all the profit and put the business into bankrupt. So, the bottom line is this really the kind of people you want to lead in our country? Do you want our country to be in a darkness and live like hell? then you vote for Republicans because no one will prosper in our country except the very rich become far more richer, the people in the bottom and in the middle class will have no power in this world anymore.
Back to the corporations again, are we? And, who made these corporations rich? The consumer. That means that YOU played a vital part in their wealth. Funny how you hate the corporations, but you sure as hell have no problem buying the latest gadgets-do you? Incidentally, the richest man in this country, Bill Gates, is a registered Democrat. So, with your asinine logic, the Republicans are making sure the Democrats stay rich? Like I said, ASININE. By the way, I find it ironic that the left bitches about corporations, and yet has no problem with the corporations getting bail outs from Obama. It just doesn't make any damned sense!
how does a statistical tie result in headline that Romeny leads?
Because America wants it that way.
Jerry you and the rest of the right still determining who are and what all Americans want I see. It must be hell being you, with all that power. Hate to say this but you do not rule me or anyone else you do not speak for me and until you can part the red sea sit down and shut up.
face it folks obama is running scared....let him spend his campaign war chest and he is still done...what will be the excuse then? bottom line most ineffective president this great country ever elected...at least carter tried to work with both sides... lmfao
His excuse will be "It's Bush's fault".
Jimmy Carter now comes in black.
Buh Bye Obama/Biden in 2012
See you later Obamanator .... "LOL"
Obama's getting the boot ....
His polls are showing that he'll loose now ....
Loose? You talking to JAS1 there or what?
Romney's election strategy - IT'S ALL OBAMA'S FAULT!!
Romney is living proof we could do worse than GW Bush.
Romney - the new and improved GW Bush - now available in plastic!
bcplus3,
Your an idiot. Obama tried to work with the Retards and they just voted down everything he asked for even if they were for it before. If Romeny wins the stupid and bigots are the only ones who win. If he wins and economy tanks further I will sit back and laugh my butt off.
tbenn0791 - unfortunately if Romney wins it will be no laughing matter. He'll destroy the rest of the middle class and frankly doens't give a da*n about anyone but his cronies. That's a laugh we can't afford!
Obama/Biden 2012
Anyone watching what has been happening in the political arena since 2010 can't help but get the sense that there is a clear ground swell coming in favor of Mr. Romney's campaign. And as more and more every day voters come to know the issues and Mr. Obama's failing record and ill fated plans, the ground swell will continue to grow. Mr. Obama's only hope is for stunning debate performances against Mr. Romney, but that is not likely given that much of the debates will consist of Mr. Obama trying to explain why he has pursued policies and practices that are exactly the opposite of what he campaigned on in 2008.
Anyone with intelligence watching knows the "groundswell" for Romney will be short-lived. The more people learn about his "record" and his "plans" (hint -he has none) the more people will flock to Obama.
And, hopefully, after losing 3 times Romney will face the facts that no one wants him in any office!
Obama/Biden 2012
Ground swell for Romney?
Let's see, exactly how many Republican candidates were favored during the primaries?
Cain, Perry, Santorum, Gingrich...yeah, there's a real love-fest for Romney all right!
Yeah, and they all could beat Odumbo.
Buh Bye Obama/Biden 2012
Adios , Obamos ....
KingK -
The rest of the debates should then consist of Romney trying to explain why we should return to the failed policies that caused the problems in the first place.
If Romney is such a smart businessman, why doesn't he have ANY new ideas - only the same old "trickle-down, voodoo" economics of tax-cut and spend.
Pretty lame excuse for the poll results, that a few conservative groups have spent a little money...if that is all it takes, Obama's support is pretty weak.
Gee, according to the airhead lefties, Obama waved his magic wand and saved the entire auto industry..if that was the case, Obama would be aheadin Michigan 90-10, wouldnt he?
Clearly Michigan and Wisconsin are now battleground states...not good for Obama.Pennsylvania is next .
Bob, stop leaving your hair on my desk. It's gross.
Better then on your can of Coke...
Obama's done ....
And he knows it ....
Feisty - I'm tryin to guess - bigbenalaska - 10, maybe 12?
Bob---don't get mad at them...just consider the source......and then laugh your ass off!
I drink Diet Pepsi. Coke tastes like wood chips.
I think 6 SeekingSanity, and bigbenalaska will be a bad winner or loser however the election turns out.
Feisty, you've got the nerve to even speculate? Look at your home state, which is run by Dems, and doesn't have one dime in their coffers. I wouldn't say anything, since the politicians in your state don't seem to be doing a very good job.
This polling firm or whatever it is always has Romney about 2 to 3 pts higher then he actually is. They had Romney doing better than Obama I think last November and last July when no polling firms had Romney in the lead at all.
Yeah, you got them figured out. That Libtard reasoning never lets you down, does it?
Obama has to go ASAP ....
It's pretty clear at this point ....
Less than mediocre just doesn't cut it as president of the United States ....
Boot Obama out in 2012 ....
Behind in MI? Didnt the Boy Wonder "save" the Auto Industry? :)~
Yea ....
And how much is still owed back to the tax payers for that one .... ??
Yeah, Biden wants their BS slogan to be "GM is alive, Bin Laden is not". They are stupid enough to think we are dumb enough to believe the POS had much of anything to do with it. Probably would nab some Libtards though.
Not much.. 50 billion, which is chump change to obama since it isn't his money.
proudamericanveteran - what, and you think Romney is spending his own money? He's for sale to Koch brothers and the overseas crowd. Get real!
I think you mean the "messiah".
Seeking Sanity
When George Soros, a liberal billionaire (extremely liberal), is backing Romney over Obama, you know you've got serious problems!
IT'S BUSH'S FAULT!!! Just like everything else that goes wrong for Hussein Obama.
So let's see bob,
In Sept of 2007 the Iraq war was costing $500,000.00 a minute. $340,000.00 of that was unpaid long term costs. ( read borrowed from China ) $720 million a day. Enough money to buy homes for 6,500 families, health care for over 420,000 children or provide renewable electricity for 1.27 million homes. All for a search for WMDs that didn't exist and to chase Saddam's sorry ass around Iraq.
Bob -
Romney's election strategy: IT'S OBAMA'S FAULT!! Gas Prices, Unemployment, Euro Debt Crisis, etc.
Romney's entire platform is "whatever Obama did, I will undo"
That will not be good enough to get Willard "Mitt" Romney elected.
Hey, Jesus
Bush couldn't just go in there without Congress' approval. So, that means he would have had gotten Democrat approval. And, guess what-he did! Perhaps you should look a little more into your party, to see who approved it!
2008 Hope and Change
2012 Lie and Deny
In 2012 it is Hope TO Change.
Buh Bye Obama/Biden 2012
As a result of the wisconsin re-call, not only have on-the-fence voters gone to the right, but it also ignited a spark in many apathetic voters as well. Romney's roll will continue...
As we all sung Tuesday night: "Turn Out The Lights, The Party's Over............"
Just like in Wisconsin, the excuses the Dems are going to use are very predictable:
A. We were outspent.....despite the fact that a dollar bill never voted.
B. The turnout was low.....Why do Democrats think only Dems stay home? And if that IS true, what does that really say about the Democrats?
C. The voters were stupid and/or misinformed.....despite being "educated" by a majority of very liberal teachers.
D. We didn't explain our positions well enough....despite the fact that PresiDEBT Obama has never stopped campaigning.
E. My personal favorite....ALL OF THE ABOVE.
and yet Romney's answer to EVERYTHING is it's Obama's fault, I will undo everything he has done. That would put us right back to 2007-2008 when the economy crashed.
Romney has no new ideas or plans of his own, no "path to prosperity", no vision for the future. Romney is not running FOR anything he is running AGAINST Obama.
Money won't buy you love. Eastern Michigan won't buy any more lies. The wicked west is made up of right wing Republicans and Republicans on their right. They would vote for a Republican door knob and are soaked in political mythology and Amway soap. Gerald Ford got his start by opposing the Republican establishment that was so enthusiastic that it had committed murder.
I don't believe this poll for a second. If you look back over the past year they have had Romney leading almost every poll when no other pollster has shown it even that close. PPP had Obama up 14 only10 day ago. I assume epic leans right or are using a bad likely voter model.
I hope all of you Obama-haters are enjoying this moment. Polls in June don't really matter much, do they? Voters have obviously taken a hard look at Obama due to recent events, and right now to some Romney may look like a decent alternative.
Let's wait and see how things look after the economy continues to improve, Romney has to actally say something besides "Obama is bad", and the debates are over. Voters in Massachusetts quickly regretted their decison to elect Romney, I am confident independent voters will come to the same decision.
Face it, Romney supporters - Romney ran for the Senate and lost, was elected as governor and didn't run for re-election because he was disliked, lost in the 2008 primary to John McCain, and barely won the nomination this year against a field of liars and quacks. Do you really think he will make to November without scewing it up again?
At some point the intelligent voters will say "okay, I get it, things are be bad. How will you make them better"? Hoping voters would vote against a unpopular incumbent didn't get John Kerry elected, and it will not be enough to get Romney elected.
Surely ad money helps, but you need a message that resonates. The public is becoming aware of just how much of a disaster President Obama has been for our economy. If Michigan, where the auto bale outs occurred is in play, the public is really catching on.
You mean catching stupid. Maybe Obama should have just let many people in Michigan lose their job then? No one is buying into Romney's lies...except the far right loons and folks who don't like Obama anyway.
GM and Chrysler could've followed the same path as ford, bankruptcy, and had been better off. GM stock sucks. They're STILL not selling cars. Ford and Chrysler stocks have recovered. The Ford Focus is a huge success, along with many other models. Chrysler is healthy and moving forward. GM is still owned by the US government.
Sad.
Never new Obama was part of the New Party. Interesting.
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