Regardless of tonight's outcome all Americans are starting to wake-up to the fact that by any objective standard Obama is a failure. He has failed all Americans. He has lied to all Americans. He has destroyed the American dream. Romney/Ryan will have their work cut out for them - yet they have the plan and brainpower to restore America to her greatness. Romney is a leader / Obama is a loser.

UAWPleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee it's bad news for the country if Romney is elected. Bad news for the middle class, bad news for unions, bad news for all of us.

wrong zipcode, the rotten GOP has failed this country, obstructing every piece of legislation on the table, bringing no new ideas to the table, inciting hatred, bigotry, division in this country.

Obama will show the nation tonight what a fraud Romney is and the destruction that will occur if this bozo buys his way into the oval office.

Thank God America's is finally waking up.The novelty of this mixed race President is over.He still hasn't a plan for the next four years but don't worry things will work out he says.He never even ran a lemondade stand let alone be qualified to run this country.What did the country expect.I mean really.The only good thing about the past Obama presidency is that it willbe another 200 years before someone as his likes will be elected.

The voters will see the real Flopney tonight. He has not outlined any specifics how he will lower the deficit. Just talks in sound bites. He was huge failure as Gov. of Massachusetts.

What a totally misleading headline. Nearly twice as many democrats have returned ballots compared to republicans. This is journalism??

gjn, hey moron, what difference does it matter what color his skin is? To people in the GOP party, a political group who still believes this country is lilly white. If it talks like a moron then it must be one. Isn't that right, gjn, you racist pig!!!

Media controlled by the twisted GOP party!!! They run a corrupt political machine just like in the movie, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." Wake up America, we need to take this country back from these criminals masquerading as politicians.

In Iowa, the GOP is in the hands of hypocritical catholics who scream about gay marriage but say nothing about their own churches ongoing evil against children. In Iowa, the GOP is in favor of allowing Iowa companies to close, while giving $100's of millions of dollars in welfare to companies from terrorist nations. In Iowa, the republican senate leader is also one of the biggest welfare recipients in his county.

Seriously, unless you're a sniveling religious hypocrite who would sell his daughter to a pimp for a buck, you're probably trying to get out of the god forsaken hole. Seriously, we have GOP leaders who are alcoholic stalkers and they;re hailed as moral leaders.

By the way, someone needs to tell Pat Wards family the tax payers want the money they spent on her cancer treatment back. While milking her tax payer provided health insurance for her cancer treatment, she was slamming Obamacare and welfare to the working poor.

Good thoughts being sent to Romney for the debate tonight!

Romney/Ryan 2012

Lyin Willardo 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.

Doesn't matter the G.O.P will never carry Iowa...nice try though. The ONLY way it's possible is through FRAUD....plain and simple.

Obama is once again looking like a mumbling novice in the debate..Iowa vote for Romney and get rid of this Obama idiot.

I'm watching this and obama is walking up to the camera bow legged.

This guy cannot think for himself!

Voter fraud and Voter Suppression are being conducted by the GOP !!

The same party that falsely claims to be so involved with preventing voter fraud.

In 2004 the Bush campaign hired a firm run by Nathan Sprouls. It was paid $4 million for registering voters. It registered voters, both Republican and Democrat. But it was caught destroying the Democrat registration forms

In 2012 The Republican Party hired the same firm, but advised it to change its name, and is now called Strategic Allied Consultants. It is now being investigated for registering dead people, having bad addresses and names with similar hand writing. Florida found the evidence of fraud in one county and has since found the same scam in five more counties. Since the Florida finds, Colorado, Virginia, Nevada, and North Carolina have found the same evidence

The GOP has fired the firm. The GOP had paid it $3 million. This is the second actual voter fraud found, conducted by the GOP ! The same party that falsely claims to be so involved with preventing voter fraud.

Ohio GOP Admits Early Voting Cutbacks Are Racially Motivated

This month Ohio Republicans were limiting early voting hours in Democratic counties, while expanding them on nights and weekends in Republican counties.

In response to the public outcry, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, who intervened in favor of limiting early voting hours in Democratic counties, issued a statewide directive mandating uniform early voting hours in all eighty-eight Ohio counties. Husted kept early voting hours from 8 am to 5 pm on weekdays from October 2 to 19 and broadened hours from 8 am to 7 pm from October 22 to November 2. But he refused to expand early voting hours beyond 7 pm during the week, on weekends or three days prior to the election (which is being challenged in court by the Obama campaign)—when it is most convenient for many working Ohioans to vote. Rather than expanding early voting hours across the state, Husted limited them for everybody. Voter suppression for all!

Montgomery County, Ohio—which includes Dayton—is now at the center of the early voting fight. (Obama won Montgomery County by 6 percent in 2008). On two separate occasions, December 28, 2011, and August 6, 2012, the four-member county board of elections unanimously approved expanded weekday and weekend early voting hours. But in a meeting on August 17, the two Republicans on the board reversed their position and opposed expanding early voting hours. With the committee deadlocked between Democratic and Republican members, Husted broke the tie in favor of the GOP, like he’s done in Cleveland, Columbus, Akron and Toledo.

Yet before breaking the tie, Husted ordered Democratic board members Tom Ritchie Sr. and Dennis Lieberman to hold a new meeting and rescind their votes in favor of early voting. When they refused, arguing that Husted’s directive did not apply to weekend voting, Husted suspended them from the county board of elections. (A third of the 28,000 in-person early voters in Montgomery County in 2008 voted on the weekend.)

“There’s no reason in the world for him to do what he’s doing to us other than to suppress the vote,” Ritchie, who’s served on the board of elections since 1995, told me. At a hearing in Columbus today, Husted’s office will decide whether Ritchie and Lieberman will be permanently suspended. “I fully expect that me and my fellow board member will be removed,” says Ritchie. (UPDATE: a ruling is expected later this week.) If that’s the case, Ritchie and Lieberman plan to appeal their suspension to the Ohio Supreme Court. (He also believes that Husted’s order that the board hold a second meeting on August 17 violated Ohio’s Sunshine Laws, which requires that a government body give twenty-four-hour notice to the media and general public in advance of a public meeting.)

Llyn McCoy, president of the Ohio Association of Election Officials, says she was not consulted about Husted’s directive—despite his claim that he sought the input of local election officials before making his decision—and was “surprised” by the suspension of Ritchie and Lieberman. “I don’t see why Husted got into this ‘you voted, now you’re suspended’ kind of thing,” McCoy says. “The secretary of state was trying to send a message that he wasn’t going to tolerate any extended hours.”

Husted’s drastic action marks a dark day for democracy in Ohio. “Historically, the Montgomery County Board of Elections has been very well-run and is widely viewed as one of the best board of elections in the state,” says Ellis Jacobs, an attorney with the nonpartisan Miami Valley Voter Protection Coalition. “The board of elections planned ahead to maximize voters’ access to the polls and now they’re being punished by the secretary of state for doing their job so well.”

Why do Ohio Republicans suddenly feel so strongly about limiting early voting hours in Democratic counties? Franklin County (Columbus) GOP Chair Doug Preisse gave a surprisingly blunt answer to the Columbus Dispatch on Sunday: “I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban—read African-American—voter-turnout machine.” Preisse is not some rogue operative but the chairman of the Republican Party in Ohio’s second-largest county and a close adviser to Ohio Governor John Kasich.

Like Pennsylvania House majority leader Mike Turzai, who said his state’s voter ID law “is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania,” Preisse said publicly what many Republicans believe privately—keeping turnout down among Obama supporters is the best way for the GOP to win the 2012 election. That’s why, since the 2010 election, Republicans have devoted so much energy to voter-suppression efforts like limiting early voting hours, restricting voter registration drives, passing voter ID laws, disenfranchising ex-felons and purging the voter rolls.

Cutbacks to early voting disproportionately disenfranchise African-American voters in Ohio. African-Americans comprise 21 percent of the population in Franklin and Montgomery counties and 28 percent in Cleveland’s Cuyahoga County but accounted for 31 percent, 52 percent and 56 percent of early voters in the respective counties in 2008. (Nearly half of early voters in Franklin County in 2008 did so on nights or weekends.)

Now it’ll be harder for voters across Ohio, particularly in the most populous, heavily Democratic cities, to find a convenient time to vote before Election Day in order to avoid the long lines that plagued the state in 2004 and may have cost John Kerry the election. “In the hours and days now eliminated by legislative and Sec. of State restrictions, an estimated 197,000 Early In-Person votes were cast, constituting about 3.4% of all votes cast statewide in 2008,” according to a new report by Norman Robbins, research director for Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates. “This is very significant in Ohio where major elections have often been decided by a 2% margin of victory.”

Republicans were for reforms like early voting until Democrats started using them. “It just so happened that [2008] was the first time that early voting had been used in large numbers to mobilize African American and Latino voters," Wendy Weiser, director of the democracy program at the Brennan Center for Justice, told the Huffington Post. A federal court ruled on Thursday that early voting cutbacks in Florida—where blacks outnumbered whites by two to one among early voters in 2008—violated the Voting Rights Act. As Doug Preisse admitted on Sunday, Republicans are doing everything in their power to make sure 2012 isn’t a repeat of 2008.

The Fleecing of Florida : Romney and Nathan Sprouls Suppressing Votes in Florida

Along with it, a criminal election fraud complaint has now reportedly been filed with law enforcement in the state of Florida against a Republican firm, owned by a paid Mitt Romney consultant, which was hired by the GOP to carry out partisan voter registration operations in at least five battleground states.

Millions of dollars were spent on the aborted effort by the GOP over the last two months — their largest single expenditure in several of the states where the scheme was in full tilt — to seek out Romney supporters only, and sign them up to vote.

The strategy resulted in (or included) fraudulent registration forms collected by the firm and then submitted in Florida by the state GOP with voter addresses, signatures and party affiliations changed.

the scheme could result in the disenfranchisement of a still-unknown number of otherwise legal voters, and they are taking extraordinary measures to try and contain the potential damage as they attempt to work through more than 45,000 new and updated registrations submitted by the GOP and verify their legitimacy.

Another CEO Suggests Jobs At Stake Unless Employees Vote Romney

Just last week, billionaire Westgate CEO David Siegel came under fire after it was revealed he demanded his employees vote for Mitt Romney in November, even threatening to downsize the company if they did not oblige.

Arthur Allen of ASG Software Solutions, a Florida-based software firm, reportedly urged more than 1,000 employees to cast their ballot for the GOP ticket, even suggesting their jobs would be at stake if Romney does not win.

According to a report from MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, who obtained a copy of the email, Allen says massive cuts and layoffs would occur if President Barack Obama is reelected. The reelection would ostensibly cause the business to downsize or be purchased by a larger company.

Google Arthur Allen of ASG Software Solutions, if you wish to read the actual e-mail he sent to his employees

Why Ohio Republicans Are So Determined To Restrict Early Voting

Two federal courts have blocked an Ohio law cutting back opportunities for voters to cast an early ballot during this year’s election, yet Ohio’s Republican officials continue to fight tooth and nail to keep voters from voting early. Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted and Attorney General Mike DeWine plan to appeal the most recent decision blocking the anti-voting law to the Supreme Court, and Husted even openly defied a court order permitting early voting until the judge who issued that order demanded that Husted appear in court.

Despite Court Order, At Least Five Pennsylvania Counties Still Telling Voters They Need ID To Vote

Last week, a Pennsylvania court mostly suspended that state’s voter ID law for the upcoming election. Under the court’s order, voters will still be asked for ID at the polls, but they will still be able to cast a regular ballot — not a provisional ballot — if they are unable to show it.

Yet, despite this court order, at least five Pennsylvania county websites still falsely inform voters that they need to show ID in order to cast a regular ballot:

Butler County: Butler County’s website still tells voters that “[s]tarting with the November 2012 general election, Pennsylvania requires voters to show an acceptable photo identification to vote at the polls.”

Bucks County: Bucks County’s website falsely claims that “[i]f you do not have a photo ID or are indigent and unable to obtain one without payment of a fee, you may cast a provisional ballot, and will have six days to provide your photo ID and/or an affirmation to your county elections office to have your ballot count.”

Perry County: Perry County echoes Bucks County’s false statement that voters without IDs will only be able to cast provisional ballots.

Luzerne County: Luzerne County’s website is similarly incorrect, also falsely claiming that “ALL voters will be required to show a photo ID before voting at a polling place.”

Delaware County: Delaware County’s website falsely claims that “Pennsylvania law now requires voters to show approved photo ID to vote at the polls.”

In addition to these five county websites, at least one state university — West Chester University — falsely informs its students that they “MUST present one of the following forms of PHOTO ID when [they] go to their poll place to vote in the General Election this November 6, 2012.”

Well, the second debate is over, and soon this nightmare of the last four years will be over too. President Obama, you still have not stated anything worth listening to, you still have not given any specifics, you still continue to put blame where it clearly does not belong. You sir, are a fraud and a hoax and I look forward to the day with anticipation when I wake up in the morning with a new leader residing in the White House. P.S. Chicago is my hometown. You resided there a short while and did nothing but collect a paycheck for not accomplishing anything positive for blacks or whites.

Wow Iowa must be stupid stupid stupid... Are you ok with the last four years??? Not me....