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Updated 3:11 p.m. - President Barack Obama's campaign manager cautioned Thursday that the election is "far from over," just as polls show GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney gaining on Obama.
"This thing is far from over," campaign manager Jim Messina said on a conference call, "and every single day, across the battleground states, voters are voting and we are able to affect that vote every single day."
Messina was speaking on a call to boast of their campaign's efforts to register voters in key swing states, and, beyond that, encourage early voting where it's allowed.
There are signs that this strategy has paid dividends, too. Almost 1-in-5 respondents in the Thursday NBC News-Wall Street Journal-Marist poll of Ohio said they had voted early; 63 percent of those who had already cast ballots said they had voted for Obama.
At the same time, though, Romney has eaten into Obama's lead in swing states like Ohio, Virginia and Florida on the strength of his debate performance last week against the president. The tightening polls have prompted Democratic nervousness that Romney stands a better-than-expected chance at winning the election.
Messina sent out a clarion call to supporters to warn against complacency.
"The most important think I learned when I was running track was to finish strong," he said. "At the end of a race, you sprint and lean into the tape, you don't let up. And quite simply, we're not going to let up until Election Night when we win this thing. And the ground game we've built up over the past few years will help us drive hard right through that finish line."
Romney political director Rich Beeson said in response: “Since the debate, we’ve seen a 63 percent increase in volunteer hours, a growing enthusiasm gap that continues to favor Governor Romney, a strengthening of our already strong ground game, and we’re seeing the effects of this in polling numbers across the battleground states. What the Obama campaign didn’t tell you is that we are leading or even with them in early vote in key states across the country – FL, NC, CO, NV, and NH. Our early vote numbers are outperforming voter registration in battleground states, demonstrating the strength of our ground game and the excitement for the Romney/Ryan ticket. Not only are we keeping pace with the vaunted Obama machine, but we believe our ground game will put us over the finish line on Election Day.”
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The congress had a 23% approval rating before the right wing radical cracked teanut dopes were elected. Now it is about 11%, the lowest in history.
The first two thing these repuke freaks did when in congress was to try to get two bills passed making Creationism the equal science of evolution and abortion banned. Nothing about jobs.
But of the 22 job and budget bill passed, they are all sitting on Harry Reid's desk. The senate has not passed a budget under the Democrats for almost 4 years and we have trillion dollar deficits. WTF? Isn't that dereliction of duty?
The catholic nuns really helped turn this race around for Obama, in my opinion, when they started their bus tour to explain to people how Lyin Ryan and Lyin Willardo were going to destroy medicare and healthcare as they know it.
When nuns and bishops speak out against the criminal repukes, they should be congratulated for it.
This "Baindead" pick of Ryan is going to cause lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron to lose the nun and bishop votes. They HATE Ryan and his lies.
Any senior or anyone else on medicare who votes for a pathetic, psychotic, facist repuke for president is cutting their own throat. Your medicare costs will go up about $6,000 a year, and your secondary insurance will skyrocket. This is according to the CBO. The National Council of Bishops who support the lying repukes only because of abortion, have highly cr iticized the Ryan voucher plan as being cruel and harsh and can't support it. It gives an average $250,000 tax cut to millionaires while cutting medicare.
There is a group of nuns travelling around the country who call themeselves "Nuns on a Bus". Their goal is to correct all the false information and lies spread by Paul Ryan that his plan is going help anyone but the wealthiest 2%. They also claim the the Ryan plan is a disaster for the poor and needy people in this country and that you should vote against the republicans.
Once the medicare funds get into the hands of the repukes corporate criminal backers, it will be destroyed.
Repukes are typical right wing dunces that listen to Fox Lies with Eric Bowleggs, David Axxwipes and The Sludge. Even Miss Piggy has more brains than these braindead repukes, as she knows that Faux News is only a pretend news channel and is only a poor excuse for a comedy channel.
There had to be a reason that Rick the Dick Sanitarium and Nut Gingerhead, the criminal lobbyist both agreed that lyin Willardo is the worst person to ever run for president in U.S. history, that he can't be trusted and will destroy our country.
They both brought Etch A Sketch boards to their news conferences to prove their points.
Even Ron Paul dumps the repuke freak party as being "criminal, lying and cheating".
This is great news. Gary Johnson may take away some of the Mexican Mormon Moron's votes.
This is great news for Obama. Ron Paul has "washed his hands" of the republican party after 30 years. He claims they are liars, cheats and criminals. His backers will probably not vote for lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader, bankrupter, draft dodger, job outsourcer and Etch a Sketch Champion. This should easily allow Obama to win. His backers are considering drafting Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico to run.
Johnson, in my opinion, is too honest to win. He is truly, the only decent candidate the repuke freaks had, but they shut him out. Repukes - the party of voter supression.
"The irony of the announcement by Congressman Paul is that it was the Republican party who first rejected him, long before Paul's decision to wash his hands of the GOP. During the primary campaign season, multiple Republican committees in states across the country used rule changes and local law enforcement to ensure the Texas Congressman did not succeed in winning primaries. Couple this with the fraudulent attempt to keep Ron Paul from being nominated at the Convention by stealing his delegates in Maine, and in other states, and it is no surprise that the soon to retire Congressman has had enough of the corrupt political party he supported for more than 30 years."
The problem with lyin Willardo is what he owes the government in taxes that he has evaded. He has yet to report one full year of any federal tax return. Once the government found out that he has hidden accounts overseas, he did not release his 2011 returns as it was not reported in there. His accountants are working on it now. When he does release, the last 5 years, he may be arrested for tax evasion.
The only reason people open overseas numbered bank accounts is to evade taxes on unreported income. It is estmated by some, that lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader, bankrupter, draft dodger, job outsourcer and Etch a Sketch champion has hidden about 32 million in numbered accounts in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. Unnamed workers at these banks sent this info to the IRS.
Hopefully, they will arrest this right wing criminal tax evader before the election.
This is why he won't release the last 5 years of his tax returns.
I wonder if that is where he keeps his Mexican birth certficate also
Even totally braindead repuke fruitcakes have to admit that lyin Willardo would be suing Reid if the allegations were not true and showing his tax returns to prove it. He can't, because it is true. Reid really wants the lyin'Mexican Mormon Moron to sue him, so he will have to open up his tax records to the public. Brilliant move. Then off to jail for lyin Willardo. Hopefully, they will send this tax evading criminal back to jail in his birthplace in Tijuana. We don't want to pay for his jail expense here.
"It is not true that all conservative people are stupid; it is true, however, that most stupid people are conservative." - John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873
Even the British people know what lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron is like. After criticizing their olympic preparations when he visited there, the British newspapers essentially said "How could any sane American vote for an oaf like this to be their president".
Hey Jim, Blog much???
Do you really believe that the nasty dribble that spews from your mouth helps win people over to vote for Obama?
Or are you just such a retard it is all that you can do?
Canon. Not too much. But when it comers to outing the lyin Mexican Mormon Moron tax evading draft dodger, there is a lot to say.
It is too bad that a pathetic, psychotic, braindead radical right wing cracked teanut dope like you does not like it.
I could really care less.
I don't argue with morons because when you've beaten a fool what have you really accomplished.
Have a nice day.
Hey Jim, Can you graduate from the 3rd grade and have an adult coversation? And why don't you throw in a couple "I know you are but what am I's". That REALLY keeps them guessing. Grow up
Jim is pretty much media matter fodder, no individual thought.
...he sounds more like a loser than a winner! the campaign manager for a sitting president with a billion dollars to spend should sound confident rather than sniveling.
The base of lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evading draft dodger
The repukes need someone exciting and different, someone like Mark Sanford, the former Governor of South Carolina, who cheated on his wife by going to Argentina to see his soul mate. He told his wife that she should not mind because Jesus said it was okay to do it. Or maybe the head of the Westboro Baptist Church who protests at dead soldiers funerals that they deserved to die, or maybe Senator John Ensign of Nevada, who screwed one of his best friends wives. Then apologized and paid them both off not to say anything about the affair. The he seduced her again. Or maybe you mean "Toe Tappper" in the toilet stall, Senator Larry Craig, who wanted to have sex with someone in a public restroom toilet. This Craig duped his evangelical nutcase followers by telling them that he was a god fearing man. So he tapped the foot of the guy in the next stall several times. Unfortunately for Craig, the guy was an undercover officer and he got arrested. Now we have another evangelical rapist. Dale Richardson, who is a pastor or priest in SC who was supposedly cured by Jesus, has been arrested for raping 3 women. I guess Jesus gave him the wong message.
Or should we look forward to the current Governor of Alabama who said he would not help anyone who is not Christian.
Of course we can't leave out Herman (9Kamph) Cain, the dress slitherer. He claims he never did anything wrong. Another lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader, bankrupter, draft dodger, job outsourcer and Etch A Sketch Champion.. And how can we forget Clarence Thomas, the womanizer, who the repukes put on the supreme court, despite Anita Hill taking a lie detector test saying she was telling the truth.
However, I think the best repuke candidate with excellent morals is Arnie Schwarzenegger. He jumps anyone he can.
The problem with lyin Willardo is what he owes the government in taxes that he has evaded. He has yet to report one full year of any federal tax return. Once the government found out that he has hidden accounts overseas, he did not release his 2011 returns as it was not reported in there. His accountants are working on it now. When he does release, the last 5 years, he may be arrested for tax evasion.
The only reason people open overseas numbered bank accounts is to evade taxes on unreported income. It is estmated by some, that lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader, bankrupter, draft dodger, job outsourcer and Etch a Sketch champion has hidden about 32 million in numbered accounts in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. Unnamed workers at these banks sent this info to the IRS.
Hopefully, they will arrest this right wing criminal tax evader before the election.
This is why he won't release the last 5 years of his tax returns.
I wonder if that is where he keeps his Mexican birth certficate also
Even totally braindead repuke fruitcakes have to admit that lyin Willardo would be suing Reid if the allegations were not true and showing his tax returns to prove it. He can't, because it is true. Reid really wants the lyin'Mexican Mormon Moron to sue him, so he will have to open up his tax records to the public. Brilliant move. Then off to jail for lyin Willardo. Hopefully, they will send this tax evading criminal back to jail in his birthplace in Tijuana. We don't want to pay for his jail expense here.
please don.t go away mad just go a way.
The right wing Taliban evangelical Children of the Corn and the right wing pedophile rapist gay catholic priests backers only goal is to get constitutional amendments to ban abortion and have biblical fairy tale Creationism taught as the true science in all schools. These braindead repukes must never be allowed to get near the White House again.
They could care less about the economy.
This is the only guy that might be able to beat Obama, but when the repukes got done lying about him, you might think he was Satan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udzymvKOyCY&feature=related
Blah, blah,blah, blah. Let us know when you have something intelligent to say
Funny that after tonight's debate, Obama is going to be in so much worse shape. They have not had anyone challenge their country-killing agenda. (Ambassador Killing Agenda too, but that is another story not heard on NBC.)
Can't wait for Obama ads to come out showing clips of what Tom Smith, a repuke senate candidate from PA said. This repuke freak said that if someone gets a girl pregnant and is not married to her, he should be arrested for rape.
This is not going to go over well with the centrists of the repuke dunce party-the abortion clinic bombers, abortion doctor shooters, federal building bombers and the heart of this nut party-the radical right wing southern anthrax spreaders and the rest of the Klan.
Lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader, bankrupter, draft dodger, job outsourcer and Etch A Sketch Champion may have vision of going back home to Mexico.
All braindead pathetic right wing radical cracked teanuts should listen to your leaders.
Rick the Dick Santarium has brainwashed his followers, the evangelicals and the gay rapist, pedophile catholic priests that lyin' Willardo is a member of an evil cult and is the anti-christ. He also told them that lyin Willardo is the worst person in history to ever run for the presidency, can't be trusted and will destroy our country. Groper Nutquist, the boss of the right wing cracked teanuts and Nut Gingerhead, the criminal lobbyist, totally agreed with the last three assessments.
So most of the evangelical sheep will probably stay home on election day or some may even vote for Obama. They are totally scared to death of lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader, bankrupter, job outsourcer, draft dodger and Etch A Sketch champion.
If this repuke draft dodger ever became president, and war broke out in the middle east, he will be putting his dog on the top of his car and fleeing to his birthplace in Tijuana and hide in one of his 4 grandmammy's (pappy's side only) outhouses.
Repuke Party. The aholes of America. They have no backbone. If a war ever broke out in the middle east and lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evading draft dodger was in charge, he would tie his dog to the roof of his car and speed down to his birthplace in Tijuana. He would hide in one of his 8 grandmammies (pappy's side only) outhouses.
The repuke nuts are under the control of the bible freaks now. They must obey them. I would not be surprised if these freaks ever won, that they would put a statue of Jesus on the top of the White House.
Rick the Dick Sanitarium. The king of the Taliban Catholics and Christians. The true Allah of America. Together with Mohammed Mitt they will try to pass a law to have biblical fairy tale Creationism forced on all people as being a true science. I wonder how many of these toothless, backwoods evangelical nuts still believe the earth is flat?
These freaks should be out making crop circles for the rain god.
Jim, you are a pretty f'd up dude with no clue on reality, must be awesome to be in your world, but frankly, wouldn't want to be.
Cannot wait until election night, when MSLSD and Barry Seotoro have that look they had after the Scott Walker recall. Remember that? MSLSD said it was too close to call, gonna be a long night... 40 minutes after the polls closed, it was over.
Remember in 2010 when all you libs said that there was no way they were going to lose, but will gain?
How has all that worked out for ya libs? Sucks being on the wrong side of history AND the wrong side of America. Vladimir Lennin called you right on... useful idiots.
Ambassador Died
Obama Lied
Benghazi Massacre 4 Dead
Obama, when faced with facts during the last debate, you could see on his face his butt hole puckering and sucking up. He is not used to answering questions on his actual performance.
Why would any American citizen want a communist and a liar for a president? Obama continues hiding his true identity, even though we now know who his REAL father was and he sure wasn't a poor sheep herder in Kenya.
Stop voting for the color and vote for thw person best qualified to be our president.
Romney - Ryan 2012
Frank Marshall Davis Bio - Barrack Obama's REAL father
Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987) was a Communist Party USA (CPUSA) propagandist in Chicago and Hawaii, as well as a writer and poet. The FBI had Davis under investigation or surveillance for 19 years, compiling a 600-page FBI file. He was on the FBI's 'Security Index A', meaning he would be arrested in the event of national emergency.
In 1930's Chicago, CPUSA recruited journalists to help spread Soviet influence in American public opinion. Frank Marshall Davis was one of them. A graduate of Kansas State Journalism School, Frank Marshall Davis joined the Communist Party and began writing for The Chicago Star. He was a colleague of journalist Vernon Jarrett, father-in-law of Obama confidant Valerie Jarrett. Davis also taught at Chicago's Abraham Lincoln School, a Communist run training school run by CPUSA. Davis authored three major volumes of poetry, and later an autobiographical sex novel under a pseudonym.
In 1948, the Kremlin ordered CPUSA to facilitate a US withdrawal from the Hawaii as US naval forces were considered an obstacle to Soviet expansion in Asia. CPUSA assigned Frank Marshall Davis to Honolulu where he began writing for the Communist Newspaper, theHonolulu Recordin 1948. In his columns, Davis flawlessly mirrored official Soviet propaganda - he blamed American capitalism for starting World War II, denounced the Marshall Plan, preached wealth redistribution, nationalization of industry and government healthcare, while bashing Wall Street. Davis also helped organize the Communist controlled ILWU (union) in a failed effort to take over the Hawaiian government in 1949. The Hawaii NAACP chapter complained to its national office, "Comrade Frank Marshall Davis suddenly appeared on the scene to propagandize the membership with the purpose of converting it into a front for the Stalinist line." In 1956, Davis was subpoenaed by the Senate Subcommittee on Un-American Activities and pleaded the fifth. Dreams from My Real Fathermakes the case that on August 4, 1961, Frank Marshall Davis became the father of the future 44th President of the United States and indoctrinated him with a Marxist ideology during his formative years.
If Obama is re-elected, he will convert our country into a socialist country.
Save our country and keep it free.
Romney - Ryan 2012
Keep squirming and shifting around Libs, you're history. Funny thing is, you misnamed Obama's granting of a stay of deportation for illegals by labeling it the dream act! Truth is, you should have named Obama's campaign the Dream Act or maybe the Nightmare Act!! Soon to be history and take your place as the worst president ever, Jimmy move over, Obama's coming!
Jim,
I so enjoy the incessant pep rallies on these blogs from you guys! It just sends a chill up my leg, uh oh, sorry Chris, i just plagarized your rally call! Keep rah rahing, you guys are great cheerleaders, too bad you are on the wrong team. Kinda like the Scott Walker recall, all your pundits and other bloggers calling the game when the fat lady hadn't sung yet. It was the most hilarious thing when NBC projected Scott Walker the winner about 30 minutes into MSNBCRAP's broadcast, and Ed Schmuck looked like somebody just ran over his dog! Fear? Really? No fear from the silent part of our party...remember we do not spaek loudly until pushed in a corner. Guess what? We are in a corner and we will speak with our votes. Just like Scott Walker, just like the 2010 elections, should I go on? Chic-fil-A should remind you of what the silent part of our party can do. So fear? The only thing you need to fear, is fear itself.
Oh by the way Jim,
Do you still live with your mother?
Cutter is an idiot! O needs to fire her
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/10/libya-politics-partisan-stephanie-cutter
So the truth is becoming a big problem for the Obama campaign.
The real bigger picture is that it is a problem for every American and will remain so...imagine if you had done this unto yourself...what would transpire?
Our nation is no different...and this admin has had more Exec Orders than all combined not to mentioin spending more than all combined along withuniting our enemies... Hugo Chavez got back in...he will brutally murder all his oponents...too!