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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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"A struggling Massachusetts-based company that makes batteries for electric cars and got $240 million in stimulus money from the Obama Administration is being saved from bankruptcy by a Chinese billionaire who could move operations overseas."
Obama shipping jobs overseas? And using taxpayer money do do it. Say it ain't so!
Yes I'm Mad,
Those men were Brutally Butchered.
And the Obama machine goes into lying mode.
He acts like those 4 men never existed
Wishes it would all go away
This man has No Character
But Jack didn't you hear.
They were not murdered by Al Qeada, it was an angry group of movie critics.
Romney/Ryan 2012
I am so sick of listening to the blaming coming from Obama I could puke. He has not taken any responsibility for anything and all they can do is accuse the opponent of lying and flip flopping. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO MAKE IT BETTER??? Am I the only one that seems to notice that Obama has no answers? The answer is he does not have an answer or an idea or anything. The 20 days cannot get here soon enough. I hope I never have to listen to this bull@!$%# again as long as I live.
He has to be the WORST president in all history. THE WORST! OMG and take that sleaze Stephanie Cutter with you. Ugh...there is the bottom of the barrell of humanity right there.
Come on' Teller. I am no Obama fan... but you HAVE to compare Tricky Dick, Carter, Ford... Let's be real here.
Those of us who lived through these useless presidents... one of them a LIAR and CROOK... have long memories... not good.
No one died in Watergate
4 Brutally Murdered in
Benghazi-gate
Why cover up murders
Obama Lied
Yeah.. well... It's "balls to the wall" time.
far from over for romney, finished for odumbo
It IS far from over, we need to know why Obama lied about Libya and continued to lie over and over again. This is certainly criminal as is all the billions he wasted on green energy companies, all ran by Obama bundlers, who failed and lost all of our money. Anyone who will vote for this loser is mentally challenged.
American Embassy attacked
On 9/11
in a Muslim country
Obama lies for weeks about a movie
Cant say a movie was my first guess
4 Americans dead
Obama lies about it
Why?
We cannot forget that innocent Muslims who had a stupid YouTube video fed to them also died in protests, and attempts on other countries' embassies also took place because of B.O.'s lies. B.O. owes the 4 American's families and friends and the entire world an huge apology!
Keep dreaming B.O. Soon the American people will have spoken, and we will ask you politely to turn over the keys to our White House and our airplane and ask you never to return!
IT IS OVER....and has been for sometime...not that the media will tell You that but have You noticed....all of a sudden every thing is "TIGHT"....all that in just a cpl. of days....The media hsd been blowing smoke for their boy for months...they knew Obama was vehide all this time...but now if they do not look like the fools they are...have to tell it like it really is. Yeh...thats what we now have as the NEWS in America, the real news people are turning over in their graves to learn what now passes as news.
After both conventions were completed, commentators made mention of the fact that at the Democratic convention, attendees and delegates were clearly celebrating their candidate (Obama).
Connversely, at the Republican connvention delegates and attendees were not celebrating Romney, they were simply focused on removing Obama from office.
Has the focus changed drastically? I think not.
Obama/Biden 2012
NO way.
GOP all the way.
Take Back America
Romney/Ryan
The only thing I saw come out of the Democratic convention was people booing God and Israel.
It is over for the LIAR in CHIEF and he knows it, Americans can and will down grade Obama the very same way he earned our America her first down grade in her history when Americans can and will vote the SOCIALIST out of office in a very FAST & FURIOUS WAY.
Take Back America
Romney/Ryan
Are you kidding me, now they are blaming the romney /ryan camp for obamas failed record real smart and now they are blaming them for what happen in the middle east,WOW!
Wow. The lyin Mexican Mormon Moron tax evading draft dodger will have to lie has axx off even more than he has to stay in the race as the economy rebounds. But iit can be expected.
Even lyin Willardo's Mexican daddy knew what he would be like when he grew up So he gave him his first name "Willardo" after the large movie rat. He gave him his middle name after an old baseball glove that they found in the family outhouse that was full of shxt. They shortened lyin Willardo's first name to Willard and their last name from Robberos to Romney when they smuggled little lyin Willardo over here from his birthplace in Tijuana.
He is now known by most people as Mitt Robme.
It is amazing how these right wing nuts believe that lyin Willardo, in any way is going to do anything but destroy our country again. He is going to eliminate regulations so that his corporate criminal masters can rob and steal from us once again as they did under Bush Bin Lyin and his criminal gang led by President Cheney.
Jim
Are you on psychotropic drugs ?
Mr. Romnay has never claimed his father was Mexican. His father however was born in Mexico. Just another Dem lie. And yeah I think Jim is on some kind of Obamashrooms.
Obama and Biden have done more than their fair share of lying and even worse the blaming. It's almost over. Thank god it's almost over. My head hurts from listening Jay Carney lie his arse off. He never said those things even though they have him on tape after tape after tape saying exactly those things. The president has NEVER said it was a terrorist attack. Not once and won't even come out and talk about it. Him and Hillary are hidin' out on this one. Nowhere to be found. Hell blame me. AND SHARE THE OBAMASHROOMS. I need to escape this horrible reality.
" This thing is far from over "
Someone seems worried...
This repuke dunce should not even be running for president. But for a lyin moron, talk is cheap. This clueless moron has no idea how to fix anything. This criminal, repuke bankupts companies and loses jobs. What a joke. The nuts that follow him actually believe that he is going to create 12 million new jobs and these dopes believe him. He does not have to tell them how, that does not matter.
Lyin Willardo is known as the Mexican Mormon Moron for good reason. This complete dunce made himself look even more ignorant than he already is by stating in a campaign clip that if he ever overpaid his taxes, he does not deserve to be your president. Well this repuke dunce overpaid his 2011 taxes by $3,000 to make it look like he was paying a higher tax rate-which he can recover after the election. He has up to 3 years to refile an amended return. Only a pathetic, psychotic, braindead radical right wing cracked teanut dope will vote for him.
Jim, you are insane, should take a test to be able to vote, and probably are on food stamps. God bless.
Droop: Look it up ahole and then go for a free vaginal ultrasound from Rick the Dick Sanitarium to find out what happened to your brain.
How could we possible return the presidency to the Republicans after what they did to the country? It just can't happen. They had 8 years to make a mess. President Obama deserves 4 more years to clean it up.
You mean, what Barney Frank and Chris Dodd did to the country; they were asked 14 TIMES during the last administration if things were well with Fannie and Freddie as they were seeing some issues. They said all was fine. Cannot depend on ANY democrat to be honest nor to do their job. Holy hell, you need to be tested before you should be allowed to vote!!!
And you think it is OKAY for obama to LIE to the families of those that died in Libya, obama KNEW that it had nothing to do with a movie, but was Al Qada. But that is okay with you. Loser.
Another problem is that lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron had money hidden in Cayman Island and Swiss banks during earlier years. This is where he hid a lot of overseas income that he never reported. Look how long it took his accountants to fudge some kind of return for 2011.
He took advantage of an amenesty deal and probably paid a large fine to avoid going to jail. That is why he will never release more returns. He probably closed out some of these accounts in the last few years when he knew he would be running for the presidency.
Even lyin Willardo's Mexican daddy knew what he would be like when he grew up So he gave him his first name "Willardo" after the large movie rat. He gave him his middle name after an old baseball glove that they found in the family outhouse that was full of shxt. They shortened lyin Willardo's first name to Willard and their last name from Robberos to Romney when they smuggled little lyin Willardo over here from his birthplace in Tijuana.
He is now known by most people as Mitt Robme.
It is amazing how these right wing nuts believe that lyin Willardo, in any way is going to do anything but destroy our country again. He is going to eliminate regulations so that his corporate criminal masters can rob and steal from us once again as they did under Bush Bin Lyin and his criminal gang led by President Cheney.
Obama lied, an ambassador died.
How can any braindead, pathetic radical right wing cracked teanut dunce vote for this guy.
The repukes also want to ban invitro fertilization. Yet 3 of Willardo's children had this done to produce children. Now, he wants to outlaw it to get the votes of the evangelical crazies. He will lie and do anything to win. Then the evangelicals will probably get screwed if he is elected. His campaign manager called him an Etch a Sketch player. When he is elected you can't hold him to anything he promised.
His true allegiance is to the criminal corporate masters who are bankrolling his campaign so they get regulations eased to enable them to rob and steal from us once again as was done under Bush Bin Lyin and his criminal gang-led by President Cheney.
Time to rise up and vote out the radical right wing cracked teapots and their oil, insurance and defense contractor owners. At least the people saw the light and realized how idiotic "Juiced Up" Sharron Angle and The Flying Witch Christine O'Donnell, Joe Smith from Alaska and several others were and did not vote them in. Hopefully, people saw what the real helicopter gunship pilot Sarah Palin is and will never allow her to hold any public office. The idiots who voted for these nutcases did not learn from Bush Bin Lyin and his criminal gang what the republicans are really about. They outed two CIA agents, who wanted to tell the truth that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Bush Bin Lyin's bosses the oil companies and defense contractors got wealthy as our society was being brought down. These guys destroyed Iraq and then had to rebuild it using tax payer dollars. At least they got Delay. Scooter Libby was the fall guy for the CIA agents outing. Don't forget the criminal gang's trickle down economics where the money trickled down into their bosses pockets instead of creating jobs. That is why we were losing over 700,000 jobs a month before Obama took over.
The Dow and S&P are close to 5 year highs and the NASDAQ is at a 12 year high. Corporations have more cash on hand than ever before in history, unemployment has gone down for 28 straight months, consumer sentiment is rising and consumer spending is rising. Peoples' IRA's are doing great. Why would anyone want to vote for a lyin repuke tax evading, draft dodging criminal to destroy our economy again like was done under Bush Bin Lyin and his criminal gang-led by President Cheney.
Repuke braindead and brainwashed dopes that are voting for the lyin Mexican Mormon Moron tax evading draft dodger because they think he is against abortion. When are you dopes going to wake up. Lyin Willardo told the Iowa Register newspaper a few days ago that he has NO plans to change any abortion laws.
He lies to whatever group he speaks to. So no one really knows what the liars policies are.
It was too bad that Harold Camping did not succeed in taking away the base of the repuke dunce party.
Harold Camping, the evangelical king, got 500,000 of these pathetic radical right wing braindead evangelical Children of the Corn zombies to give up all of their worldly possessions to go meet and stay with the man in the sky. They are so easily brainwashed. Camping, considered the evangelical king by many because of his 50 year history of bible study, promised to take away these right wing bible nuts on the last Rapture Day on Oct 21, 2011. All of his calculations were based on "biblical facts" When it did not work, he then realized that the bible in most part is "pulp fiction".
Yet these braindead fools continue to believe that there are men and boys with wings on flying around blowing horns.
The only thing to do to cure these zombies is to send them all back to the Garden of Eden on Noah's Ark to start over again, unless of course, they fall off the end of the flat earth.
These braindead idiots would still be believing in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, if their parents did not tell them otherwise. It is unfortunate that they don't believe their leaders, when they tell them how worthless repuke lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader, bankrupter, draft dodger, job outsourcer and Etch A Sketch Champion is.
Many of them still believe that the earth is flat and that dinosaurs never existed. It is all a liberal conspiracy.
Watch out Christians and Catholics. The great satan is lying to you.
The anti Christ is upon us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Repent, all you sinners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Mormon book, The Pearl of Great Price, claims that all other Christian groups are "corrupt" and are an "abomination" in God's sight (Joseph Smith, 2:19). The Mormons deny the Trinity and the existence of a literal burning Hell, yet they promote polytheism (many gods), baptism for the dead, and the notion that Jesus and Satan were originally spirit brothers!
This is what Todd Akin thinks of lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader, bankrupter, job outsourcer, draft dodger and Etch a Sketch Champion.
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.
Ban abortion, Ban contraceptives. Have biblical fairy tale Creationism taught in all schools as a true science, force women to have vaginal ultrasounds.
The true goals of the radical cracked teanuts.
Can you imagine what might have happened if the Pope's boy Rick the Dick Sanitarium or lyin Ryan became V.P. under lyin Willardo, the tax evader, of the right wing radical cracked teanuts, the gay, rapist, pedophile catholic priests and the braindead evangelical nuts that listen to them. Men will no longer have to purchase condoms, as they will no longer be allowed in this country. All mens sperm must be used to create babies. Cameras will be in every bedroom. Catholic priests don't have to worry however, because, according to the testimony of former raped little boys, they don't use them.
The Pope's first order to his boy would be to release all catholic rapist pediophile priests from prison as the Pope is running out of people to continue the process of shearing his sheep. He is running out of collection pot fillers. After all, he needs the money to fight off all of the lawsuits against the church worldwide.
His second order to RickyDickyDo would be to move the White House to Vatican City.
Lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader, bankrupter, Etch A Sketch Champion, job outsourcer and draft dodger may be the worst repuke dunce of all. This guy has yet to provide his tax returns for the last 5 years. It should show how much he has evaded in taxes and how much unreported income he has stashed away in Cayman Island and Swiss bank accounts. He is your typical right wing thief.
There have been many rumors going around that little lyin Willardo was seen in a baby carriage in Tijuana. with a bottle of Corona Light in one hand and an Etch A Sketch in the other. The side of his carriage had the name "Little Lyin Willardo" on it. So when we see the long form of his birth certificate and it says Willardo on it and not Willard, we will know something is wrong.
Isn't it funny, that his new buddy Fox Top Trump never asked lyin Willardo for a copy of it?
What a joke. Less and less of the stupid right wing nuts come out to back lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader and bankrupter and they rave about it. As most people know, the evangelicals consider the mormons an evil anti-christ cult. The mormons have been converting dead jewish people, without their knowledge to become mormons to enhance their religion. They baptise them when they are dead. These sick aholes were caught when they tried to convert Anne Frank to be a mormon. These repuke dunces best bet is to bring back Herman (9Kampf) Cain, the dress slitherer. He can draft Jerry Sandusky for V.P. Who cares what they have done in the past, they are against abortion, that is all that counts.
CAIN/SANDUSKY 2012. The true repuke family values candidates.
Gosh Jim you are such a ray of sunshine.