NBC's Mark Murray and Domenico Montanaro discuss the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist battleground polls that show President Obama leading Mitt Romney in Ohio, Florida and Virginia.
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Ssshhhhh Liberal Media Guys! ;o)
The right wing nuts, are weaving every conspiracy theory known to man, that these results are skewed!
Denial... is a river in Egypt when you live in ConservatiVille! lol
Oh my! The Mittster is falliing behind in the most important swing states! :)
Let's be careful not to get too complacent here, folks. We still have to duke it out for another 53 days...and then we can send him packing for good!
VOTE OBAMA/ BIDEN NOVEMBER 6
The impressive number of facts and numbers being thrown around at the DNC was bound to swing polls to Obama's favor, particularly among independents.
Jon Stewart played a video of Clinton's DNC speech and Paul Ryan's rebuttal iterating back and forth. The difference was so astounding it was downright pathetic.
But then again, the only poll that counts is the one they take on the first Tuesday in November.
:-)
DEMOCRATS FOR ROMNEY, 2012!
So what did they really said.
Same old spin. It looks, like it, but is withing the 4% margin of error. Summarizing it, is still too close to call. You too guys are really an eye opener.
Surprise coming next week.
Me and a lot of other Vietnam, Vets would not even consider voting for Romney who demonstrated IN FAVOR! of the Vietnam war. Many of us were against it, but served our country when we were called up. Talk about being out of step. And then, in the great tradition of his family, he weasels out of service with some phony deferment (religious mission?- in France?). In my opinion he is a hypocritical scumbag.
Stop, with, the excessive, use of, commas.
CC,
OH = 50 / 43, VA = 49 / 44, FL = 49 / 44
Slightly larger than 4 points especially here in Ohio.
It's the whole "three words" mentality at work. Sometimes you have to cut it a little slack.
concerned citizen Surprise coming next week.
Could that surprise be that Rmoney will show his tax's?
You going to awe us with a stealth 3-word SQL statement?
keybeetoys: Let's be careful not to get too complacent here
I agree 100%. ☺
Obama/Biden 2012
Or quit the race..?
Maybe they'll replace Romney with the guy from Oz with a brain - doubtful but maybe.
Or maybe they'll begin a federal investigation into Grover Norquist and the Republicans who sign an oath to him. Since he's supported by factions outside the US this could prove to be treasonous activity on the part of the GOP!
Obama/Biden 2012
Is that surprise coming next week Concern Citizen, anything like Romney saying we'll tell you next week what our plans are, like with your surprise, next week never comes.
Or maybe Romney will reveal who's hand is up his azz pulling the strings?
Mitt "R-money's" big surprises next week...
!!! Republicans will introduce a measure to make Switzerland and the Cayman Islands the 51st and 52nd states, with a total of 83 electoral votes, thus making it possible for Mitt "R-money" to actually win the electoral vote !!! (Assuming most of the citizens of those countries don't realize that they can vote for US President).
Yeah!
4 more years....
I have always argued that Obama should have been way ahead when polls showed a close race in the last few weeks.
Go ahead and cling to Your fantasies, but, as the image of burning American Embassies across the Middle East continues to be shown in living rooms, night after night, and the thought of a U.S. Ambassador, raped , murdered, and drug through the streets, sinks into the American psyche, and people remember that it was Comrade Obama who bypassed Congress to overthrow the Governments of those countries, putting them in their current state of chaos, and then they find out the White House was forwarned of the current Libya attack and did nothing!and they think about Comrade Obama going on to bed, to get a good nights sleep, so the Noble Leader could be well rested for something really important, HIS fund raising junket to Las Vegas the next day, without even knowing or caring about the fate of our Embassies or Our People there!,and then They think about the Dems bragging about Foreign Policy being the Comrades STRONG SUIT !,while offering NO solutions for Them, during the Dems recent little feel good pep rally, as THEY, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE desperately continue to look for jobs that aren't there and worry about losing THEIR homes,(thanks Dodd-Frank),.....They will come to the only logical conclusion They can, there is no hope with this man and party, and change needs to be made.
On hard-hitting "Kelly and Michael" this morning......
Hmmm....yes, Mitt, I can see it happening........LOL. At least he didn't insult any more foreign countries.
Now there's a fantasy for you. Was it drug-induced, or are you out of your mind naturally?
That explains a lot.... :)
Haven't Romney's advisors told him to keep a lid on it until AFTER the election?!
I was also opposed to t he Vietnam war but served at that time too. I read that there weren't any Mormon's in France at the time Romney was there. The Morman faith wasn't even legal in France at the time.
Yes, hypocritical scumbag does describe him well with regard to his younger days.
J.D. Still - rewind the tape a little bit further back to Bush's invasion of Iraq. How did that work out? Especially after he landed on a carrier in a fighter jet to the banner that read "Mission Accomplished" Then what followed was 8 years of insurgent attacks that killed or maimed over 10's of thousands of our soldiers. And you have the nerve to call Obama a bad Commander in Chief?
oh and btw, Iraq had a dictator much like Libya. Didn't see you clamoring to keep him in power.
KB and Tony
KB, A disappointingly weak response, typical of many on this site, but, if You ever do have anything of actual substance to contribute to a mature adult exchange of ideas and opinions, please feel free.
Tony,O.K., How far back do You want to rewind? Back to Carter abandoning the Shah, and the results of that, Sweet Willie Clinton's bombing of an aspirin factory and one of Osama's training camps and what that started,Saddams invasion of Kuwait, his defeat, and agreement to a cessesstion of hostilities,(not an end to the war, a cease fire only, with hostilities to be resumed if the agreement was violated), in exchange for Saddams promises to stop his agression, disarm, stop his nuclear program and respect a no fly zone all of which he did violate , thus the resumption of hostilities. As to the ship's banner, that was put up by the crew of the ship talking about the return of the ship from their mission,not the end of the war, as I believe You already knew. Now as to Comrade Obama as our Commander in Chief, He has destroyed our relationships with Our traditional European allies, betrayed Our new Eastern European allies, got caught on an open mike plotting with the Russians as to what they are going to do after the election,(and it doesn't even bother You lefties as to what that might be),got caught smuggling weapons to anti government forces in Mexico and Honduras, then refuses to say why, shuts down our space program,(not that space will be of any importance to Our future security or anything), making us have to beg the Russians for rides to the space station,(what would happen if they ever said no?), the Mid East is in flames,Iraq and Afghanistan have been given their abandonment dates so the enemy now knows how long they have to wait, China owns us because of this administrations irresponsible spending with absolutely nothing to show for it, threatening our economic stability, and at the same time Obama has sucked up to every tin horn socialist dictator he can while planning cuts that will decimate our armed forces leaving us with Our smallest Air Force Ever and Our smallest Army and Navy since before World War Two, just as Americans and American interests are increasingly being attacked around the globe.So,would I call Obama a bad Commander in Chief? No, I would never let him off that easily, no one could do that many things to harm the nation out of simple incompetence, I just cant believe that You would dare to even try to defend his actions.
OK, J.D... let's take it point by point (although your comment was so ridiculous it hardly seems worth going into):
Where did you read that Chris Stevens was raped?
He was not ''drug through the streets''. Libyan rescuers were taking him to the hospital. He had suffered smoke inhalation and he died in the hospital.
First, you insult the President by calling him 'comrade'... and then you blame him for overthrowing the governments of Middle Eastern countries?? And yet you want us to respect your lunacy? HA!!
Are you done with your rant now? Do you feel better? I think a cold beer would have achieved a better effect... but some people might want to avoid alcohol...
We are all entitled to an opinion. We are not entitled to blatant lies.
Have a nice day.
KB
Very Good! Now We can have a discussion:
"U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens was reportedly sodomized and raped before his death and then displayed in a manner similar to what happened with Ghaddafi" according to Tayyar.org, a Lebanese media publication and AFP,(Agence France-Presse),who received the information from Wanis al-Sharif a senior Libyan Interior Ministry Official in Benghazi.
Why would I call Obama"'Comrade"?From the Article,"Newspaper Shows Obama belonged to Socialist Party" by Aaron Klein,which uncovers in the Democratic Socialist for America's own newspaper, "The New Ground", an article, with photos of Obama with other New Party members, showing Obama belonged to the Marxist-Socialist New Party, with Obama thanking them for Their support when he ran for the Illinois State House in 1996.(You can google the article Yourself).
As far as Obama overthrowing the Governments of Libya and Egypt without Congressional approval, that is common knowledge, I'm not going to spoon feed that to You, but I would encourage You to do some research Yourself, You might be surprised at the things the Main Stream Media does not tell You, and You might start to ask Yourself ,Why? while having a good stiff drink.
Opinions are like anusses everyone has one, but, facts are facts, and they will eventually be discovered.
Even deaf, mute and blind voters can see Romney is not presidential material, after his shoot first, aim later response to Libya.
President Obama is basically the only adult in the room, when it comes to the national and international scene. Unless Hillary is by the President's side, in which case, there are two adults.
Ya gotta love it, don't ya? President Obama doesn't have to say a word against the GOP ticket. Mitt's mouth is bringing him down lower every day.
Talk about self-defeating!! At least Romney is good at something. :)
What's presidential in a liar, flip flopper, nerveless man who can't stand up to the far right or stand up for what he believes in, and above someone without a CORE. You keep hearing people like Joe Scarborough saying he should change and become something he's not.....really? If he changes, do we then erase his past? I just don't get it. This man has laid all he's got out there and the people have seen it all and making their judgment. He's not for US.
Obama/Biden 2012
I think it was Rachel Maddow who reminded us last night of the "3 AM call"---who do we want to get that call? I wouldn't want Mitt to be the one getting the call and having to respond instantaneously. He needs several days to flip flop his position and test it for political impact. I sleep well knowing that President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton are on the job.
I highly doubt he would even answer the phone!
After all, that what he & Queen Annie have hired help for... to take a message!
Hey Kaybee toys - did you see the article about Romeny in RollingStone? He wiped out the real KB toys - another one of his more money for his investors and of course more money for Romney. Who cares about the employees at KB Toys.
Amy B. Portland, ME
It didn't stop you from voting for Obama.
From this morning...
On October 22, 1988, 13 people were injured including 4 with severe burns when a fundamentalist Christian group launched molotov cocktails into a movie theater in Paris that was showing The Last Temptation of Christ.
Baylie (sp?) followed up with a nice list of attacks on mosques in the USA by Christians just in the month of August.
Da Noid - does this count as Christian violence or do you think this is No Jo's idea of no equivalency?
Or this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition
Bosnia and the Spanish Inquisition are nice, but I think we had best stick to the claim that Christians have never reacted violently to a film.
Congrats to Chuck for his win on Jeopardy last night-when I won my games on the show I got to keep the money!
We'll see.....we'll see.
:-)
I agree....we can't get complacent...we know the Repubs will use every dirty trick in the book to try to steal the election. Let's make sure they don't succeed, get out and vote and get every Dem you know to the voting booth....show the GOP that money and dirty tricks can't stop Americans from electing a president that represents them.
I believe we are up to somewhere over 10 million voters stopped from voting by GOPTP Voter ID laws. You are damn right they are using every dirty trick in the book and may very well win as a result.
red: Repbus will NOT win, Americans will not allow their vote to be stolened....we have to make sure everyone has their correct voter ID and votes.
Yep, I guess you all will be going out to vote at least three times if not four.
Did FR give up on the written transcripts? I never see the videos, this one nor the video about the Spanish ads with Sotomayor.
From what I know the Pres. is up in Virginia, Florida and Ohio - saw CNN's magic electoral wall. However, not to throw a damper on things does this include polling about the middle east troubles; I hope the middle east attacks die down. Least of all for political reasons, I'm concerned about safety.
By the way I think that Obama's calling out Egypt on air was pretty bold. It looks that it may pay benefits if the Egyptians bolster their riot police to protect against the flood of "day of prayer protestors/attackers".
Man isn't it amazing how everybody was putting the last nails in the coffin of the Preisdent before Mr. Romney had to start talking about what he would do. And in reality he has nothing to say except trust me. And then he also provides his clumsiness on foreign policy to make you realize well this guy just doesn't have the ability to be President.
Dennis, Columbus, Ohio
Just got the latest number for you Dennis and they are allot more closer than where you gotten from. They were just updated.
Pollster Estimate Ohio
HuffPost Model Estimate Virginia
HuffPost Model Estimate Florida
You can fact check at http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2012-florida-president-romney-vs-obama?gem
CC,
You cannot even understand what they were talking about in the video. It had to do with one poll and one poll only.
But if you want to look at several polls at once then look at Real Clear Politics average of polls.
Average of 10 polls: Obama 48.6, Romney 45.5 (-3.1)
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html
RCP (Average of polls) as of 9/12/2012 After Conventions, before 1st Debate
9 Tossup States: Tied in two (VA=13, IA= 6), Obama leads in 6, Romney leads in 1.
Delegates: Obama = Solid(142)+Likely(30)+Lean(65) = 237 +Tossup(76) = 313
Delegates: Romney = Solid(76)+Likely(58)+Lean(57) = 191 +Tossup(15) = 206
Total Delegates: [313+206+19 = 538] Win = 270
http://www1.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/2012_elections_electoral_college_map.html
Only an oversample of 5% for Democrats.....c'mon NBC, you can do better than that!
Thats not what my poll tracker shows' Romney is 7 to 9 points behind no matter how you spin it.Three swing states have already leaned to Obama plus Ohio,Virginia and Romney cannot win without those states and that is a FACT.
Post middle east policy failure is more important then the post convention polls.
Osama Bin Laden is dead, General Motors is alive, and Obama must explain his “choice” to God.
The American Communist Party has released their endorsement list of 2012 candidates - visit their web sites.
who else but ovomit. Hes the only communist in the race!
NBC on 09/11-another day that will live on in infany in America - their featured story is Karadishian/Jenner family breast size. 09/12 - on a day where we learn of the death of the embassy employees - their featured story is a model who has turned to meth and ruined her career-oh and a lady who got a ticket because her 2 year old wet in public.
President OBAMA said it best............"Let the PEOPLE decide".....not MONEY.....!
I love it.........CASH...CHECK...DEBIT....COD....CREDIT.....don't mean a damn thing
get your ASS in line like everybody else and VOTE!
Right bowel movement in these useless polls!
POLLS are rigged and purchased. It is to EASY for CORRUPTION in this FIELD of NONSENSE. Their are NO LAWS that govern HOW and WHO they or anybody can set-up a POLL. There is NO TRANSPANCY
It should be OUTLAWED. It is more CORRUPTION than TRUTH !!!!!
this is from nbc,one of ovomits pals,of coarse they would say he is ahead.all you ovomit lovers keep drinking the koo-aide the only way he will win is by fraud like the first time! you really are zoombies:)
... ... a must see clip .... on the flip flopping candidate mitt romney - its not the news, reporters, people ... in mitts own words ...... hehehehehehe .... how can u not see the idiotic man for what he is .. or is not .. or is .. or is not as romney would say.... come on humour and ole man .... go watch - its only 5 minutes of your time ... u will get a good laugh if nothing else ...
- YOUTUBE VIDEO'S - "STILL VOTING FOR MITT ROMNEY?" its hilarious and undeniable .... even republicans can't deny this one ..... if he looks like .. sounds like an idiot ... he is one !!!!! people get the message ....
.... i would really enjoy the republican view on that video ..........