Why, would you vote for him? He is probably thinking Rubio would have been a better selection. He is slowly becoming a laughingstock. You can only have the national media call you a liar so many times before people start to notice.

4 more for 44

maybe if Ryan had 20/20 vision he would have declined being Willards VP as this has probably eliminated any chance of Ryan in 2016.... Glad he's blind :)

Yup. You right wingers can toss that toss-up state. Best focus on Colorado. Ryan might want to hang out there after losing the election. He can smoke doobies while living . . . .

IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!!

Paul Ryan is not shy to let us know that he is trying to run for SENATOR in Wisconsin.

He probaly fears that President Obama may win the elections.

IF YOU DON'T VOTE, YOU ARE GIVING YOUR VOTE TO THE REPUBLICANS.

REGISTER AND VOTE!!!!!

Bet Ryan is wishing he could spend more time campaigning for his House seat. He may need it because even Wisconsin voters in his district are likely seeing what a liar he is. Nothing like having FOX News and dozens of other media outlets call his VP nomination acceptance speech an attempt to set a new record for lies in one speech. Guy couldn't even tell the truth about his marathon run time. It's also a new district so he may not be the shoe-in he was before.

I'd love to be able to pop the champagne and declare the GOP run for the presidency over, but the truth is there are still 49 days 'til the election. Lots could still happen between now and then. Flip side is, I don't think Romney can win any of the debates unless he comes out with more substantive policy for this country, and maybe not even then.

So, I'm cautiously hopeful for an Obama win, but with politics you never really know...

THE GOP still can win BY PREVENTING YOU TO VOTE IF YOU DON'T REGISTER AHEAD.

DON'T LET THE REPUBLICANS STEAL AGAIN THE PRSIDENTIAL NOMINATION, JUST LIKE THEY DID WITH AL GORE!!!!

REGISTER AND VOTE!!!!

Now, if you still like him, you're either an Absolute IDIOT or a Communist.

Or option C, you are a rational, educated person who thinks that a handful of exaggerations and conspiracy theories can't tarnish the legacy of the man who lifted us out of recession.

Really, folks, at this point I feel very sorry for poor Mitt, he is a human being after all. He gained some of my respect back in the primaries when he said: "[The Right Base won't support me] because I can't say crazy things". Say all you want about Mr. Etch-a-Sketch, but he did have some "red line" in his head that he wouldn't cross.

Fast-forward to about a week ago, the Libya thing. He did cross that line. What happened between then and before then, the primaries? Oh, he got to draw from the "general election" pool, that was not available to him before. That means, more pressure from the Bat-Sh*t Crazies with all the money who DO want their candidate to say [Bat-Sh*t]"crazy things"! I am thinking he was forced to do it, or, more "elegantly", he was "made an offer he could not resist".

Which makes me think that poor Mitt must've thought already about getting out of this Bat-Sh*t Crazy Race, and he may have even tried, but imagine the Bat-SH*t Crazy Republican Supporters who are H*ll-Bent on getting the Black Man out of the White House: they'd be going: "Uh-uh, Mittney, honey, you can't bail on us now. Yeah, we know you are a pathetic misfit, but it's too late in the game now, can't change our horses. And - that little "red line" in your head? You better cross it now and start saying Bat-Sh*t Crazy Sh*t, or you gonna have a lot of p*ssed off billionaires and their p*ssed off Hillbilly Army come looking for ya, Rep Gabby Gifford Style, if ya know what I mean".

... My husband and I were pondering last night if Mitt is making his preparations for his self-imposed "Mitness Protection Program", like skipping to the Cayman Islands to re-unite withe his money or something. He's certainly a "marked man" here in the US now, poor guy.

Peace, ANV

Now, if you still like him, you're either an Absolute IDIOT or a Communist.

Let's define idiot - F6Z that likes faux talking points from a non-existent book he pretends to have read named something like Dreams of my other brothers fathers.

Oh, and to F6Z talking points - here is just one debunk.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/kithil.asp

Ahhh this is good news!!!

Fox News and Rush Limbaugh are the only ones mentioning Jimmy Carter. Plus, they keep getting the facts wrong. Carter was not ahead of Reagan at this point. He was never more than 3 points ahead in the entire election. It was neck and neck until the only debate just before the election.

Other differences: Carter did not run unopposed for the Democratic nomination as Obama did. He had at least two strong Democrats running against him in the primary, which he barely won. Carter had under 30% approval. Obama's approval is hovering close to 50%.

Fox News viewers are welcome to cling to their version of history if it makes them feel better. The problem is, if they pretend that everything is just fine, they won't make any effort to right the Romney ship before it sinks. I have an IQ of 136 and I voted for Obama. I am planning to vote for him again. I have never received SNAP, unemployment or welfare.

Politifact looked at Romney's statement that voters who support Obama are "people who pay no income tax." Not surprisingly, it was rated false. He offended many of his own supporters (or maybe former supporters):

Romney said that the "48, 49 percent" that supports President Barack Obama are "people who pay no income tax."

But the polls and income tax data don't back this up. Obama gets substantial support from people earning more than $50,000 -- and 90 percent of them, or more, do pay taxes. And Romney gets lots of support from seniors, many of whom have no income tax liability. We rate the claim False.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/sep/18/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-says-voters-who-support-barack-obama-a/

I've never seen anyone with an IQ higher than 125 vote for a Democrat. That should tell you something.

What does it tell you that the states that house Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, UofChicago, Stanford etc all vote Blue, and the states that house colleges with more emphasis on football than academics vote Red?

Both had banks with money that would not lend

As usual Sirie - you are lying and have proven once again, your posts are completely invalid. But then, I don't mind reminding everyone here that it is what you do best.

Polls are a funny thing, you usually can get whatever numbers you want to get, decidedly.

F6Zman you are an embarrassment to America to prefer Hitler to Obama. A through and through embarrassment.

DEMS VOTE!

Polls are a funny thing, you usually can get whatever numbers you want to get, decidedly.

Skepticism is a funny thing too, it only really surfaces when the facts contradict your cause.

link - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/business/banks-flooded-with-cash-they-cant-profitably-use.html?pagewanted=all

There you go RedDV! you're welcome!

Anything else you would like to contradict RedDev?

Jimmy Carter was way ahead at this point too.

No, he wasn't. By mid September, Carter and Reagan were in a dead heat tie.

http://books.google.com/books?id=naQJQVEwUCsC&pg=PA163&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false

Gee Sirie - what does this article have to do with the price of tea in China, or better yet, your claim that money was/is tight under Obama/Carter? Nada, nothing, zip, zilch, zero. Capiche. Again, your posts are full of crap.

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So F6Z - you are claiming you read the book Dreams of My Real Father on Wikipedia? Ever use Wikipedia? Do you know what it is? Maybe you should try the line that you read Dreams Of My Real Father on your Kindle - and you downloaded it from 'the Cloud'. We at least know Kindles and Clouds exist. You are so full of crap, I'm surprised your address isn't Rural Route Outhouse.

Clotho: the Republican party does not want people who think to vote. They know, from experience, that once people think, there is nothing the GOP can say which will convince an intelligent person to vote for the GOP. That is part of the reason behind there two part strategy: part one, prevent college students from voting and part two, cut funding for poor students to get grants and middle class students from getting student loans. If there are no poor and middle class college students, there won't be anyone going to college except the children of the wealthy, who are all the GOP support.

RedDev - ?? Are you serious?? Dig youi bump your head on the way down your mom's basement steps?

A little girl asks her dad how people choose their leaders. Her dad says: People must vote for the person they want to become president. The little girl says: What if more dumber people vote? Her dad says: Then the Republicans win.

As Romney supporters try to push away the free fall they are currently feeling because of Mitt's incompetence they increasingly bring up Carter hoping that will save them. But they forget that in 1980 there was a 3rd party candidate John Anderson that pulled away lots of votes from Carter and that the 1980 election is nothing like 2012... If anything Libertarian Gary Johnson will pull votes away from Romney... This election will be more like the 1996 Clinton-Dole election if anything. With the incumbent Democrat winning again!

God save us in Wisconsin from Mitt and the 1% who want to buy our government! if they haven't all ready!

Save us from Mitt Romney and the republicans in Wisconsin and the buying of America by the corporate and big business interests. If they haven't done so already?

God save us from Mitt Romney and the republicans in Wisconsin and the buying of America by the corporate and big business interests. If they haven't done so already?

Marquette University is where Scott Walker went to college before he allegedly got kicked out for cheating, which pretty much describes the rest of his political career.

The point being that this poll is generally biased Republican. I wonder if the goal is to suppress Democratic vote -- Obama's got it in the bag, so why go to the polls?

I think there was a little of that strategy employed in the recall election as well, as turnout in Milwaukee and Dane Counties never quite matched what all the pundits were predicting.

So no dancing in the streets yet.

F6Zman

Yes, it tells us that you do not associate with any intelligent people, and none of us is surprised !

Romeny votes please google WHEN ROMNEY CAME TO TOWN

ROMNEY has a LOT of MONEY TO TRY TO BUY THIS ELECTION.

DON'T ALLOW BILLIONAIRES TO BUY OUR DEMOCRACY. VOTE!!!

Thumbs up. This is far from over and let's not take anything for granted. Vote like your life depends on it as it very well may.

F6Zman --

@Massachusettz At least Hitler did some good for his Country, Unlike Obama.

I don't know which part of this comment is more despicable, but I do know which is more revealing.

Seriously. Hitler would be SO proud to know you supported him.

F6Zman sounds like he has a man-crush on Hitler. I'm not surprised.

"What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men."- Captain, "Cool Hand Luke"

sounds appropriate to what has happened to Mittenman's campaign

Jimmy Carter was way ahead at this point too.

And then he won the election and became the President.

Yup. You right wingers can toss that toss-up state. Best focus on Colorado. Ryan might want to hang out there after losing the election. He can smoke doobies while living . . . .

If I was a Right-winger, I would be focusing on winning Texas.

"Jimmy Carter was way ahead at this point too."

You Republicans are grabbing at straws when you compare this election to the Carter/Reagan election of 1980. Carter was running against a REAL candidate with REAL ideas. Carter was running against a person who knew what he believed in. Carter was running against a man with character. Romney is NONE of this. Romney has no core, no spine, and no character. He’s for and against then for then against everything. He has no ideas, no solutions, and no answers. He has no base beliefs. Reagan was REAL. Romney is a fraud. Plus – he’s running one of the very worst campaigns of all times.

At least Hitler did some good for his Country

Right, those bombing raids over Berlin really changed the landscape there.

• Mitt Robmey is a clusterf*ck of a candidate in so many ways..
• Now we know he is a greedy and evil (not to mention dishonorable and unpresidential) train wreck of a candidate.
• How easy can the choice be????????????????

Just remember folks; the only poll that counts is the one they take on the first Tuesday in November.

Obama had a lead of almost ten (10) points after the conventions, and now he's leading Romney by just five (5) points nationally.

...and that with all the hoopla over Romney's fundraising comments.

This thing is, and is going to be a lot closer than a good many of you think, and in the end, Romney could (...and just might) win.

DEMOCRATS FOR ROMNEY 2012!

Obama had a lead of almost ten (10) points after the conventions, and now he's leading Romney by just five (5) points nationally.

10 points after the convention?? Said WHO?? You cons live in a fantasy land.

10 points after the convention?? Said WHO?? You cons live in a fantasy land.

It's called believing a repetitive lie. Another old Nazi trick.

How could a party like the GOP stand by for eight years and watch a Jacka$$ like "W" destroy this Nation, this is beyond insanity. Now they are standing behind a flag burning yellow belly draft dodging warmonger coward and a pathological liar, some call this 1% money pimp Mitt RobMeHood, America deserves better, this guy is a Clown !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

irespond: Which count or recount did Gore win? Didn't think so.

You'd think that with ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, etc. all making up news and proclaiming the election all but over, that Obama and all the dems would be leading by double digits. But, fortunately the reality is that most people know that all Obama and the dems have done is drive the country further into the ground. Not one lib can stand up and say what a great job Obama and the dems have been doing. The only thing they do is what Allinsky advocated doing and that is ridiculing and calling the opposition names and avoid answering the real questions. How 8.1% unemployment (after writing off all the people who stopped looking for jobs because they can't find one) is better than the 7.6% that Obama inherited remains a mystery. How never being below 8% unemployment with all the fudgeting of the figures is a mystery.

flag burning? that would be Obama's pal Bill Ayers..../draft dodger? Clinton.../Warmonger? Wait, if one was a warmonger, would they want to dodge the draft? Pathological liar? 'I will close Guantanomo in my first year', 'I Will Cut the Deficit in Half by the end of my first term', 'If we can't turn this around, it'll be a 1 term proposition', 'We shouldn't mandate the purchase of health care', 'The Health Care Act is not a tax', 'I believe marriage is between one man and one woman','When a bill lands on my desk, The American people will have 5 days to review it before I sign it', 'I didn't know Rev. Wright was radical', 'Bill Ayers was just a guy in my neighborhood'.....any of those sound familiar? Oh wait, it was President Hollywood!!! .....~If you're not outraged by the direction of this country, you're just not paying attention!~

"W" was a "Interloper" !!!!!!!!!!!

are these the same pools that predicted Walker wouldn't be re-elected?

• Mitt Romney likely win in presidential election shown by three key polls

September 19th, 2012 by Dean Chambers

Rasmussen Reports has released today, three key polls that show Mitt Romney's likely win in this year's presidential election over President Obama. The Rasmussen Reports Presidential Daily Tracking Poll released today shows Romney leading 47 percent to 46 percent over Obama. Rasmussen's Daily Swing State Tracking Poll of 11 key swing states won by President Obama in 2008 shows Romney leading them by the exact same percentages. The latest Rasmussen poll of New Hampshire released today shows Romney leading there 48 percent to 45 percent.

New Hampshire is a key swing state that could make a difference with its four electoral votes, and George W. Bush would have reached 270 electoral voters in 2000 without having won this state. New Hampshire had narrowly favored Obama in many polls over the last few months and while the analysis conduced here by this columnist has consistently predicted Mitt Romney will win the state (based in part on knowledge of local politics in the state having lived in New England for years), most projected have shaded New Hampshire blue and predicted it will go for Obama. This Rasmussen survey is key in that it likely shows movement in New Hampshire in the direction of Mitt Romney.

In the instance of an incumbent president who enjoys just about 100 percent name recognition and is seeking reelection, most of the undecided voters are likely to swing to the challenger by election day. This is especially true when the challenger remains still less known to the public than the incumbent, as is true with former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. By election day, those other nine percent not favoring Romney or Obama in the Rasmussen Daily Tracking poll are likely include less than one percent voting for third party candidates and five or six percent of those nine will likely vote for Mitt Romney. That would indicate a popular vote win by Romney of about 53 percent to 46 percent, or the reverse of Obama's win in 2008. This would lead to an electoral college total of more than 300 electoral votes for Romney.

The 11 swing states tracked by Rasmussen in it's swing state tracking poll show Romney leading 47 percent to 46 percent, where some weeks ago the two candidates were tied at 45 percent in the Rasmussen tracking poll of these 11 key swing states. President Obama won these same states collectively by a 53 percent to 46 percent margin in 2008. Now he is seven percent behind that finish now in these states. Romney is likely to capture most of the undecided votes and could win these states collectively by at least a 52 percent to 47 percent margin. That would likely lead to Romney winning Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin while having a competitive chance in Michigan and Pennsylvania.

If President Obama can only win Michigan and Pennsylvania among those 11 swing states, he can not be reelected to the presidency. As these polls stand today, the election of Mitt Romney as our next president looks likely.

This picture differs with the perception being created by the results of some media-released national polls of the race that are skewed in favor of Obama because the survey results are realized by over-sampling Democrats. Two Democratic pollsters explained this and exposed how these polls are skewed.

All of this polling data also corroborates the UnSkewedPolls.com UnSkewed Average of Polls which today shows Romney leading 7.8 percent over the president. Additionally, the first QStarNews presidential poll reports a somewhat unexpectedly strong Romney lead of 55 percent to 44 percent. The QstarNews poll is the first national poll to be doubly-weighted by party registration and self-described political views (liberal, conservative and moderate) for increased accuracy.

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I'm against the government spending the wealth of the country on these stupid wars and bailing out the damn thieving banks. I'm against the folks who want to put nude scanners in the airports and trains and buses, and who think it's okay to murder Americans or throw them in prison forever without a trial. I'm against the people who want to make Americans slaves in their own country. And that means I'm against BOTH Obama and Romney. Vote for one of those traitors, and you're doing something worse than wasting a vote -- you're selling out your country.

F6Zman

Really? Non existent? IT'S EVEN ON WIKIPEDIA!

uh.... you do know that anyone can edit Wikipedia..... don't you? Even you can edit Wiki.

wi·ki/ A Web site developed collaboratively by a community of users, allowing any user to add and edit content.

What was your previous comment about others' IQs?

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Anna Molly - I agree with you that I am very skeptical about polls. What the Dems/Libs/Progressives and any independents and Republicans for Obama should do IS NOT BE COMPLACENT. IT IS IMPERATIVE EVERYONE SHOULD MAKE THEIR VOTE COUNT. WHY?? BECAUSE THE Greedy Obstructionist Party of NO under Rove and their teabag lackeys am sure are plotting and planning to steal this election. GOOGLE True The Vote - the radical rightwing that are set to be poll watchers or better yet poll intimidators.

And why is MSNBC NOT putting this in the NEWS? JUST TODAY the GOP ONCE AGAIN BRAZENLY BLOCK ANOTHER BILL. This time it's the Veteran Jobs Bill! One more reason everyone should vote all their Repug representatives OUT OF OFFICE. This is beyond hypocrisy!! Claim you love your country and send our young men and women to war where they could lose their life or be all mangled up??! And not support them to get jobs when they return?! These Rethug politicians are callous and heartless. This is the reason you all should vote Democrat. Vote early. Vote by mail, just vote.

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/g-o-p-blocks-veteran-jobs-bill/

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/09/19/13966931-senate-republicans-kill-veterans-jobs-bill?lite

Anna Molly - I agree with you that I am very skeptical about polls.

Of course. Romney can't really be losing this horse race because he's an idiot, can he? There has to be a conspiracy of lies and subterfuge being used against him. He can't really be as stupid as the media makes him look, can he? Can he???

"We use Ann sparingly right now so people don't get tired of her." —Mitt Romney, referring to his wife while speaking to a room of wealthy donors in Florida, May 17, 2012

"When you give a speech you don't go through a laundry list. You talk about the things you think are important." —Mitt Romney, when asked about failing to mention the troops in his nomination speech at the Republican National Convention, Fox News interview, Sept. 7, 2012

2008 turnout 39% Democrats, 33% Republicans, and 29% Independent.

Obama wins 56-42 over McCain

Marquette University Poll Obama 50 Romney 46 - Used 34% Dem, 26% Rep, 38% Ind

CBS.NYT/Quinnipiac Poll Obama 54 Romney 40 - Used 35% Dem, 27% Rep, 32% Ind

Rasmussen polled there last month and uses the 2008 Partisan mix. Romney was ahead 48%-47%. Public Policy polling agreed 4 days later. If Obama is ahead, it is only by a couple of points - Big Deal, he is leading by less than the 2008 democrat registration advantage.

Jimmy the peanut brain...makes BOZOhussen look good!! How is that Arabspring thing working for ya??!!! HE gave away IRAN, The PANAMA CANAL and let CASTRO empty CUBA’s prisons into the USA.. The MARIEL boat-lift—that was were “SCARFACE” starts.

..He couldn’t even get the lie straight about his employment…claimed he was a Rocket Scientist and a Farmer… NEITHER one is correct. He had a peanut warehouse.

Do NOT forget GAS RATIONING, long lines, gas prices went up 300%,..

INTEREST rate was 22%,….. if you had gas you could only drive 55 mph ( GO SAMMY HAGER)!!!! The summer was HOT..you could NOT set your AC to cool!!

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WORST INFLATION since FDR and the GREAT DEPRESSION!!

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HE started the flow of AMERICAN jobs to CHINA!!

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Created the DEPT. of Education.. shifting control of our children’s teaching to the AFL-CIO!! Very much like a HITLER YOUTH ED PROGRAM!!

PARENTS do NOT count, “ IT takes a village’..of idiots!!

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Formed the Dept. of ENERGY.. to make USA “FREE OF FOREIGN OIL”..

That has been a great success and use of TAX DOLLARS!! NOT!!!

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CARTER DOCTRINE to keep the USA TAXES and MILITARY supporting the

OIL CARTEL of the PERSIAN GULF!!

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Was ON WATCH when ‘ 3 MILE ISLAND’ in PA . nuclear MELTDOWN happened!!

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Kept AMERICAN youth from OLYMPIC gold and dreams!! 1980

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Made sure that our young men could DIE in NON- SUPPORTED WARS—the DRAFT!!!

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WANTED to give away the USA nuclear MILITARY superiority to the SOVIETS

At the same time they INVADED AFGANISTAN—SALT II,

Sounds familiar, doesn’t it??!!

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FEMA was a CARTER prez mandate # 32 in 1979. Do NOT forget the UNCONSTITUTIONAL seizure of law abiding citizens’ guns during KATRINA.

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Is it any wonder the REAGAN gave him such a good old southern style AZKICKEN !!

You Rasmussen fans should get out more. Five Thirty Eight projects a 305.4 - 232.6 electoral college Obama win on Nov. 6.

Obama's Lead Looks Stronger in Polls That Include Cellphones

By NATE SILVER September 19, 2012, 5:24 pm

As I http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/sept-18-obamas-bounce-erodes-in-two-tracking-polls/%E2%80%9D">observed on Tuesday, and as The New Republic's Nate Cohn http://www.tnr.com/blog/electionate/107446/obama-pulling-ahead-in-live-interview-surveys%E2%80%9D">also found, Barack Obama seems to have received a much clearer bounce in some types of polls than others.

Although there are exceptions on either side, like the Gallup national tracking poll, for the most part Mr. Obama seems to be getting stronger results in polls that use live interviewers and that include cellphones in their samples — enough to suggest that he has a clear advantage in the race.

In the polls that use an automated dialing method ("robopolls") or which exclude cellphones, Mr. Obama's bounce has been much harder to discern, and the race looks considerably closer.

The difference seems especially pronounced at the state level. Mr. Obama got very strong results in a series of NBC News/Marist College polls last week in Ohio, Florida and Virginia, which included cellphones and used live interviewers. Likewise, Tuesday morning's series of http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/sept-18-obamas-bounce-erodes-in-two-tracking-polls/%E2%80%9D">New York Times / CBS News / Quinnipiac polls had reasonably good news for Mr. Obama in Virginia and Wisconsin.

By contrast, the automated polling firm Rasmussen Reports has recently released polls showing Mr. Obama two points behind Mitt Romney in New Hampshire and three points behind in Colorado — the worst results that it has shown for him in those states all year. Another automated polling firm, Gravis Marketing, recently put Mr. Obama at a five-point deficit in Virginia, in contrast to three traditional polls that put him ahead by margins ranging from four to eight points there. A third automated polling firm, Public Policy Polling, has shown stronger results for Mr. Obama, but they also had him with good results before the conventions, and so haven't shown him gaining much ground.

These results are consistent with some past research. Read more…

Rasmussen & Gallup use what the voter mix in registration. These are based on history, current registrations, and trends observed. We know from a number of sources, that in the swing states the Democrat registrations are greatly down, Republican Registrations are down slightly (1/10th those of democrats) and that independent registrations are up to the tune of about half what the democrats and Republicans have lost.

Why then are many of these polling companies using sampling that shows the democrats as more than ever and the Republicans down much more that the democrats?

The only real answer is that's because these manipulations they are doing are to create a certain result.

Here is a NY Times report on the unreliability of Rasmussen in the 2008 elections. Rasmussen does not try to be unbiased nor does it make an effort to hide its bias:

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/rasmussen-polls-were-biased-and-inaccurate-quinnipiac-surveyusa-performed-strongly/

F6Z,

You want to know what Obama's real accomplishments are:

Kept Promises: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/rulings/promise-kept/

Compromised Promises: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/rulings/compromise/

That second one is more than Republicans in the House and Senate can ever say.

Here is what you can ding him on:

Broken Promises: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/rulings/promise-broken/

I do not like the fact that he passed the Patriot Act nor the NDAA but listen, be fking real about it. You have to be a moron nor to realize that nearly all of Congress voted for both of these bills. That is way more than enough to override a Presidential veto. And let's be honest even further, if he had vetoed the NDAA and the PA people on the Right would have attacked him for weakening the country against terrorism.

DB,

are you saying Independents never vote Democrat?

All these rightwingnuts bringing up Jimmy Carter is odd considering they didn't even mention their last president at their convention and blast anyone who utters the "B" word.

Now, I know teabaggers want to bring the country back a few decades, but really, do they know Carter is not president now?

witchrunner-How 8.1% unemployment (after writing off all the people who stopped looking for jobs because they can't find one) is better than the 7.6% that Obama inherited remains a mystery. How never being below 8% unemployment with all the fudgeting of the figures is a mystery.

Let's say you're walking along, and someone comes up and stabs you in the leg. They stand there watching the blood gush out for a bit, until someone else comes along. The new person bandages you up as best they can (which takes a few minutes), but can't magically heal you, and the bleeding doesn't completely stop right away. It does eventually stop, and your body starts replenishing your blood supply. It would replenish faster, but unfortunately there's a bit of a food shortage and you can't quite get all the nutrients you need.

Now, at what point were you better off? When the first guy was there and you were actively gushing blood? Or now, when you don't have quite as much blood built back up as when the first guy ran off, but you're slowly healing?

Wisconsin Will Support Obama and Should Reject Ryan as just another GOP phony...

from NPR August 16, 2012

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's running mate, Paul Ryan, has staked out a reputation in Congress as a fiscal conservative. He has spoken out against President Obama's efforts to jump-start the economy with the stimulus law and, after a conversion a few years ago, now opposes earmarks. But when it comes to helping out his district in southern Wisconsin, Ryan's principles have been flexible.

Ryan was never a fan of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, as the stimulus is officially known. He voted against it when it came to the House floor in 2009, as did every other House Republican, and he railed against it in frequent TV appearances.

"Temporary stimulus does not work," he said on CNBC. "It does not give businesses confidence to invest in jobs and capital for the future. It's just sort of sugar-high economics."

But despite his denunciations of the measure, Ryan made sure his constituents were not left out when the money was divvied up. When the Energy Center of Wisconsin, a nonprofit that promotes energy-efficient buildings, sought Ryan's help in obtaining stimulus money, he came through.

Stimulus, TARP, Auto Bailout

"We asked the entire Wisconsin congressional delegation for support of several proposals that we were submitting under that funding, and Rep. Ryan did support a couple of the proposals that we submitted," said Leslie Post, a spokeswoman for the Energy Center.

The Energy Center received nearly $250,000 in stimulus money thanks in part to Ryan's efforts. The Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corp. did even better, receiving a $20 million grant for energy-efficiency projects.

There have been other occasions where Ryan has acted for his constituents in ways that might not please the most ardent Tea Party supporters. He voted for the auto industry bailout, which Romney opposed. Ryan's hometown, Janesville, Wis., was home to a since-shuttered GM plant. He also voted for the Troubled Asset Relief Program to rescue the financial industry, saying during House debate that though it violated his principles, it was necessary to prevent a banking crisis.

"Why does that matter to us? Why does that matter to Janesville, Wis.?" he asked at the time. "If it goes the way it could go, that means credit shuts down, businesses can't get money to pay their payroll to pay their employees, students can't get student loans for next semester, people can't get car loans, seniors may not have access to their savings."

Opposition To Earmarks

Ryan has also worked for his 1st District constituents in less public ways.

John Beckord, president of the economic development group Janesville Forward, says Ryan only has to be asked and he'll pick up the phone to help recruit a new company to the area.

"A call from Paul Ryan to a CEO of that company is, I think, most often accepted, and Paul at the very least, I think, can encourage that CEO to at least take a look," Beckord said

Beckord says Ryan helped Janesville land Shine Medical Technologies, a company that makes radioactive isotopes used to treat melanomas; the company is receiving a multimillion-dollar federal grant.

Still, some in Janesville wish Ryan would do more. Earlier in his congressional career, he delivered more than $5 million in earmarks to his district, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense.

Romney no longer leads in even a single poll:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html

And for those of you chanting "Obama is Carter", let me remind you that the ONLY way Reagan won that election was by stealig Carter's debate prep book and using it to cheat in their single debate - held one week before the election.

Don't you remember?

George Will's approach has been questioned in a few exceptional cases. During the 1980 campaign, he drew fire when it was learned he'd secretly coached Republican candidate Ronald Reagan for a debate with President Jimmy Carter using a debate briefing book stolen from the Carter campaign. Immediately following the debate, Will appeared on Nightline (10/28/80) to praise Reagan's "thoroughbred performance," never disclosing his role in rehearsing that performance (New York Times, 7/9/83).

There's no way in hell Reagan could ever have pulled off that performance without knowing what Carter would say in advance. But Carter made a mistake in scheduling only one debate, held a week before the election.

And the rest is history.

To Republicans:

Sheldon Adelson ($36.5 million and counting) and the Koch brothers (multiple hundreds of millions and counting) are investing in this election. BIG TIME.

Don't you wonder what they expect their return to be?

Did you like the Citizens United ruling? Because it looks to me as though they're trying to buy a couple of more Supreme Court seats.

Jimmy Carter was way ahead at this point too.

So when Rush takes a crap you rush over with a spoon to eat don't you?

Reality of course doesn't always play the same and when some a$$hole tells you a lie.

Here. Take a peak at reality.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/154559/US-Presidential-Election-Center.aspx?ref=interactive

Yep, that's right. At this point in time Carter and Reagan were in a statistical dead heat. Much more than Romney. And worse is now what's shown by the data. Carter had more problems to deal with. Romney is his problem.

God I get sick of morons having to lie to keep Mitt looking viable.

I've never seen anyone with an IQ higher than 125 vote for a Democrat. That should tell you something.

Only morons use straw man enlargements.

How ironic that Obama may get the benefits associated with the Walker Policies in WI. In a poll asking WI. residence if they are better off today than 1 year ago, more people answered in the affirmative. This is a direct result of Governor Walker and the policies implemented in the past 2 years under his and the republican leadership which has put the state on solid financial footing, with no talk or need to increase taxes. The business climate is also improving here. Unfortunately, the latest polling seems to indicate that people failed to associate their improved outlook on conservative policies at the state level as apposed to Obama's policies that have failed miserably across the nation. I'm still optimistic that Romney will carry WI. in November however it will be a hard uphill fight with virtually the entire national media glossing over Obamas major blunders, all the while stories about Romney are overblown to the point of a shameless smear campaign.

it will be a hard uphill fight with virtually the entire national media glossing over Obamas major blunders

With Mitt stuffing both feet in his own mouth at every opportunity, what major news organization has time to talk to President Obama at all?

Honestly, stop whining because your candidate is swirling the drain. He is all you deserve because he is the best your party can offer. Enjoy the election: I know I will!

If we can get all the Dems out to vote on election day, Romney/Ryan will get beat like a Drum. Romney is going to make McCain look like he won. Obama is going to beat him so bad.

It depends on which home state you are talking about. Romney claims New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan and maybe even Mexico as his home state.

Michigan yeah right. Let us not forget he is the one voting for bankrupcty and no auto nation bailout. I guess a couple more million people unemployed though would not matter right?

Starderup,

You left out Utah, his spiritual and for a time actual home. He will win there. He will probably lose in all the other "home" states, which also include California, home of his cars and car elevator.

He left Michigan 45 years ago. We don't claim him even if he thinks the trees are the right height. You will see on Nov. 6 that this is state is solid blue for Obama.

SteveR - I think that is a correct statement. I've known since late July that Mitt would not carry MA and all the polls and the people I know in WI don't think paulie helped his cause much in WI - I think this might be a first for a candidate to lose his home state and that of his running mate! Yippes, that's gotta be a big, big ouchie for the right wingers. Don't blame me, I've never crossed over in a primary in my adult life (even though we could do it in Tennessee and the republicans do it to us all the time).

Don't forget the Caymen Islands- doesn't that saying go 'home is where your money is'?

Tony, I agree. His dad was a good governor and did a good job of consolidating the new American Motors. But Mitt! Mitt was born in Michigan but he isn't of Michigan. He doesn't know what it is like to work 12 hours over molten iron, breathing in soot, and making the cars. He doesn't have a clue what it is like to see your city decline around you and worry that you are sending your children to sub-par schools because the tax base has left and the schools have no money. He doesn't know what it was like to be laid off time and time again in the one industry Michiganders really know...

Growing up in the shadow of the Turnstead plant in Flint, and starting my career at Chevrolet's Nodular Iron foundry in Saginaw, I saw this and more.

I love the bumper sticker: Osama Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive!

And, I have the President to thank for that. Not some, former, native son.

I am tempted to conflate Mitt-Romney-Style the number of Wisconsinites who reaffirmed their Gov. Scott Walker last June and blew up the recall, with the number of Wisconsinites who would vote for Obama today: I am seeing the same percentages: 53% for Walker, 53% for Obama. Umm, what the heck could this mean? Either Wisconsinites are totally oblivious to what's happening around them, or are *true* "Honey-" Badger State kinda people?

Wisconsinites, please explain yourselves!

I think the house with the elevators for the cars is in California. Romney will lose that one, too.

"Osama is dead, GM is ALIVE"

that must have been a freudian slip!

The only thing the GOP can come up with to represent them is: 2 egotistical, arrogant, ignorant, self-serving, flaming liars, thieves, born with a gold and silver spoon in their big trap mouths, have no realistic understanding of what is going on in life or what it is like, shoot first and aim later, guaranteed to insult foreign countries, off-shore accounts to avoid paying their taxes, etc., etc. It's amazing that any state would want this type of thugs for a House or Senate position. I guess the Republicans in their respective states in order to belong to the GOP must have to sign a document declaring that they have not read or seen any documentaries or National News for the past 10 years.

Also, add to those 2 characteristic list: clueless losers, buffoonish clowns, minute by minute manipulators, and flip-floppers. But they are good for late night comedy shows. The U.S. doesn't need such low standards for a Pres. and V.P. There are far better people out there, who are capable of leading all of our Country, and not just the 53% or more accurately the 2% elite.

Don't hold back Independant Thinker, tell us how you feel!

Pretty much sums up all politicians if you ask me...

The GOP said they will give a apology for Romney's Stupidity !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Patriotic but lying, uneducated American U.S.A....they said no such thing, and if they did, they would have said AN apology. I love catching mistakes when someone tries to criticize another person.

Could it be? Not only is Romney going to fail to take the state in which he was governor but now Ryan is going to lose the state in which he was congressman? How could this get any worse for the Republo-nazis' favorite losers?? Oh yeah...the debates are coming up, aren't they?

President Obama by default in November! There doesn't seem to by anyone running against him!

Hey Sal, big deal, you are a big time smarty, go sleep it off !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Sailcat, Romney says Voter ID law is how he will win !!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Pat, fortunately the courts take a dim view of Romney's failed resurrection of Jim Crow. He's toast now.

Mass - F6ZMan doesn't KNOW anyone with an IQ higher than 75 so of course he doesn't know any smart Democrats. He only hangs with the low information voters who are Republicans! (F6Z wants us to believe he knows people's IQ's - yeah, sure he does

More Democrats have advanced degrees than Republicans. Plus, Democrats and a lot of Independents are WAY too smart to vote for Romney - so that says it all.

Obama/Biden 2012

Mr young I live in MI and we were to smart to fall for Romney too. I only wish we would not have elected a Rep governor. But I will say this, Snider didn't drink the Scott Walker kool aid. I don't think he sold out to the Koch Brothers.

but I can tell you that people there are too simple and too smart to not have been completely offended by his latest attack on the common people. Good for you Wisco!

50% of Americans got thrown under the bus, and the Republicans just dump all of us together into a ball of useless garbage that does not pay taxes, lazy, and whiny.

I am not sure about you, but I have worked all my life since I am 16 years old. I am SERIOUSLY OFFENDED BY HIS COMMENTS. IF ANYONE HAS A SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT is the Romney's that think that they worked hard. In reality he inherited his wealth from his father to begin with, and then he swindle from the MIDDLE CLASS.

chuck - Snyder hasn't done squat except repeal the motorcycle helmet law and lift the ban on the sale of formerly illegal fireworks. If it weren't for Obama stepping in to help GM and Chrysler, this state would be in deep do do. But hey, the people wanted less government and they're getting it. The "tough nerd" is a one termer.

tonybeeerm

What is it with the right-wing and fireworks? Legalizing their sale is also our Tea Party governor's greatest accomplishment, so far. That and making it legal for health insurance companies to charge higher premiums for rural seniors in our state.

Obamacare that stop the insurance companies from charge higher premiums for seniors and not the tea bagger.

What is it with the right-wing and fireworks?

Blowing things up is a big deal in their world, I guess.

Dream on! Stick your head back in the sand!

What this election shows is the total disconnect of Romney specifically and the Republican Party in general has from the american people.

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This election shows that no matter how many advantages you start out with it is still possible to snatch

Defeat from the Jaws of Victory...

The challenger is running a campaign for the ages...

"The challenger is running a campaign for the ages..."

Yeah - the Dark Ages, that is. Or as Wiki calls it, "a period of intellectual darkness and economic regression".

What this election shows is that there is still a segment of the population who don't think or research for themselves, and who blindly follow the talking points of the people over at MSNB SeeChrisMatthewsSwoon. Read some newspapers from out of the country, articles by people who don't have their heads jammed firmly up Obama's azz. Go to factcheck and politifact and you'll see that over half of what you're hearing and spreading is false...~~If you're not outraged by the direction of this country, you're just not paying attention~~

TO: Jeff-1592116 who wrote:

"Poor Mittless..."

Mitt Robme has no idea of what the definition of "Poor" is, but I'm sure that even in sympathy for Robme's pathetic situtation, he'd still take exception to be referred to as "Poor".

Obama/Biden 2012

American Girl It has been awhile since I read of you. I always appreciate you posts since you are a woman who thinks for herself.

Hummbird........it is great news, fortunately I think they'll just waste their money as most have decided and after a while, the ads don't work. You may see the money being spent on House and Senate races instead and really the only winners are the media outlets.

Are there any polls on how Mr. Marvelous is doing in his race to retain his congressional seat?...Guess plan B?

There's an old saying - You made your bed; now you have to lie in it.

(No, that wasn't referencing Ryan. At least on purpose.)

There's an old saying - You made your bed; now you have to lie in it.

Would that GOPTP bed me populated with outsourced Russian hookers or good old fashioned American prostitutes.

With an eight-point lead over Mitt Romney among likely voters, Barack Obama holds a bigger September lead than the last three candidates who went on to win in November, including Obama four years ago. In elections since 1988, only Bill Clinton, in 1992 and 1996, entered the fall with a larger advantage.

pewresearch.org

According to RealClearPolitics, here are the 4 most recent national Presidential polls released (based on date of interviews):

Rasmussen: Romney +1

Gallup: Obama +1

Associated Press: Obama +1

Pew Research: Obama +8

Maybe, just maybe that Pew Research poll is an outlier. My best guess is that President Obama is slightly ahead right now, somewhere between even and +3. Not +8.

You forgot a few polls Frank --- Fox News -- Obama +5, Wall Street Journal Obama +5. Also -- Obama is leading in every swing state except North Carolina.

Of course Obama says he wants to be President of all the people. Too bad he has alienated (or dissed, as you so eloquently expressed it) the other 47% with his socialist class warfare bs. ...~~If you're not outraged by the direction of this country, you're just not paying attention~~

I was thinking he was either talking to someone with bad breath or the camera caught him in the middle of an excellent fart.

Honestly, I was thinking how handsome he looks.

And genuine.

What I was thinking actually is that he looks darker than before. And of course that would make me a big ol' racist according to people who don't know me, my political affiliation, or my race. ~~If you're not outraged by the direction of this country, you're just not paying attention~~

49 days till I paste my "O" STILL the President bumpersticker on my truck...Tick..tick...tick...

Maybe your Republican Party heroes need to change their mascot from the elephant to the ostrich, head in the sand and all...

Kate, maybe they are polling all those teachers and government workers that walker screwed? Anger is a very powerful motivator and I think walker will come back to haunt the gop, just like their choice of romney and ryan.

Kate,

"On the dole?" Which dole would that be exactly? Social Security? Medicare? Public schools? Guaranteed student loans? That deduction you take for your mortgage? Medicaid which pays for many of our elders to be cared for in nursing homes? What dole are you talking about exactly?

NHLucky: You forgot to mention those ungrateful people who feel a real sense of entitlement, the ones who truly are moochers who are dependent on a government check to get by, the ones who haven't been paying taxes for the last 10 YEARS, the members of the military serving in Afghanistan and Bush's war in Iraq.

The ones Mitt Romney hates so much that he didn't even mention them once in his acceptance speech.

TO: Kate-782156 who wrote:

"... Obama will never win Wisconsin! Twist it as you may, it is just not in the cards..."

They used to say the same thing in Ohio where I was born, until Ohioans started realizing that Republicans were shipping Ohio jobs overseas to China (Steel Mills), and were leaving Ohioans to go broke.

Obama/Biden 2012

What the heck would you know Kate. I know I pay 10 times what you pay in tax and I would never vote Nazi/Republican. I guess they even have a name for people like me anymore, RINO. Doesn't bother me better than the Klan or the white trailer trash that makes up most of the Grand Old Party. The republicans thought they could co-opt the trailer trash that makes up the tea party and then ended up being it. Then you got Sirie or F6Zman on this site and they make up the rest of the party, men with tiny little penises that just can't handle women with a brain so they hate them and put them down. That Romney is going to get his behind kicked in this race with this unemployment rate and this economy shows just how out of touch the party has become. Kind of like McGovern got beat by Tricky Dickie, yeah I am that old and I pay the max into Social Security and have for years, that is not an entitlement that is owed. I am also from WI and Paul Ryan is thought of as garbage in this state and even in his district. He can't even bring his own state, the wimp he is and as for Sirie and F6Zman, do us all a favor, but the barrel against your forehead and pull the trigger firmly.

"The only reason Obama may be up in some polls, is that the people being polled are on the "dole" and are very afraid they may have to look for a job soon!!!!"

That's a typical moronic statement from a typical moronic teatard. Tell is teatard -- if the Romney campaign is doing so well, why are conservatives all over the nation -- conservatives like Limbaugh, Bill Kristol, Peggy Noonam criticizing him? why are they in such panic??

dirp -- I stand corrected. Of course those soldiers are among the biggest tax evaders and freeloaders around. LOL. Thanks for pointing that out.

The polls are in. Just remember to vote. Romney has no business being leader of this country. Obama/Biden 2012.

Not me. I feel sorry for Mr. Obama and the Democrats. Look at the mess he will inherit should he get re-elected.

Just wait a minute, Thomas; the feeling will pass.

I'm a supporter of President Obama but I wouldn't say the Eisenhower/Reagan Republicans and Reagan Democrats are putting "TRUST" in President Obama. More that they don't trust Mittwit.

Reality has a liberal bias.

NHLucky: my God, you mean we have a government that wants to "promote the general welfare" of the nation and not just increase the net worth of the wealthy ?

Blasphemy, sacrilege, and just plain evil thoughts you have.

:)

Dirp,

Umm, well, you don't mean to tell me that promoting the general welfare isn't Constitutional, do you?

Oops. (Sorry, Rick Perry)

I AM disappointed. I thought that's what it said. Anybody got their pocket Consitution handy? I know you do, Tea Party People. Has that purpose for organizing the country been deleted while I wasn't paying attention or is it still there?

In general, the people opposed to Government spending have no idea how much they have, and do, personally benefit from that spending.. But they think of it as a deserved entitlement rather than a "handout".

That's why Romney has been so afraid to offer up specifics in his plans. His power, like the GOP's is in the abstract IDEA of smaller government. The specifics of who benefits from that spending or stands to lose when that spending is cut is what will be the downfall of the GOP message.

Who benefits most from big government spending? The rich, the retired, the rural (farmers) and veterans. Cutting the budget invariably means cutting spending that benefit one or all of these groups; groups that tend to vote GOP.

So Romney can't win without offering specifics, and he can't win if he does offer them.

They don't oppose government spending so much as they oppose the government spending money on people other than themselves. Oh, and they oppose PAYING for he services they're provided. I know some well off folks who are kind and generous but some of the richest people I know are also the cheapest. And wow! The cheap ones know how to lie!

Irony is that most of the 47% that Romney vilifies are in red states. Romeny is eating his own.

Because Rasmussen is wrong a lot. Please don't respond with one example of them being right. Your gonna say they called 2008 dead on. I will admit they did, but would you like 10 more examples when they were wrong?

CC - I wasn't touting Rasmussen at all (actually I don't completely trust any polls. They are always biased by the way in which questions are asked, and their selection of cohort) - I was just pointing out that NBC was cherry-picking polls to support a left-wing viewpoint.

reality has a liberal bias.

Conservatives have a bias against reality, too. That's what will make the morning after President Obama's reelection so much fun: listening to the shrill squeals of the right wing lunatic fringe as they search for excuses to explain the devastating loss of their imbecilic candidate.

I can hardly wait!

Some "old news": "A November Wisconsin Public Radio survey found that 58 percent of voters supported a recall of the governor"