I just logged in today so I want to than you for the information about this being the B-Day for Feisty.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FEISTY!!!!!

As far as Feisty sharing her B-Day with Palin, it just goes to show that there is little merit in associating personalities with the day a person is born.

Here we have a very level headed person up to date with every pertinent political aspect of our landscape in Feisty and a clueless has been with Palin.

Just curious Joe, does anyone famous share your B-Day?

Bristol Palin - OMG! that is too funny!!

Gallup Romney 51, Obama 45 Romney +6

Rasmussen Romney 49, Obama 47 Romney +2

RCP National Average Romney 47.4 Obama 46.9 Romney +0.5

More states turning Red, more women and hispanics moving to Replublican side! +PRICELESS

I was bored so I googled "famous birthdays 10/18" to see who she shares her birthday with and guess who came up number one on HuffPo??

So, the idiot from Albany still has his Feisty fixation going on! lol

LMFAO!!!!!

Doesn't take much to entertain our resident hyena!

To the Jackass who sent me the personal email below - you are truly a vile person but a definite Republican!

Name: RURIGHT
Email: highnoonusa@gmail.com

Message:
Why don't you get your head out of your socialist Jackass's ass and see that Obama has treated women with distain and contempt. Check the facts ahd you will see that the GOP Presidents have given more high positions in their cabinet than all the asso's in the Marxist Democratic Party combinded. Spew your damn lies you low bred Jackass. You're probably on welfare,smoking dope and haven't had a real job like that asso in the WH!!

Your ignorance shows you clearly listen to Fox and are a low information voter. President Obama has treated women with respect and has done more for women than any President in modern time. When you spew the "Maxist" insanity - it shows how totally ridiculous you are.

I work every day and have since I was 21. Never done welfare but I wouldn't put anyone down who is going through hard times and needs it to survive.

The fact that our President has been an attorney; taught Constitutional Law at University of Chicago; been an Illinois Senator as well as a US Senator shows you know nothing about him.

Now, crawl back under your rock and don't contact me again.

Obama/Biden 2012 for those with actual sense!

Thanks so much for the B-Day wishes Brian!

This year my present will be delayed until 11.7.12, it's worth the wait! ;o)

Just curious Joe, does anyone famous share your B-Day?

Adolph Hitler!

To the Jackass who sent me the personal email below - you are truly a vile person but a definite Republican!

Seeking,

Good for you girl!

We need to publish these cockroaches e-mails every time we receive one!

Light is the best disinfectant in the world!

Gee Joe in Asylum, you left out Chuck Berry ... here's another gift Feisty

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzY28Unb3v0

I was bored so I googled "famous birthdays 10/18" to see who she shares her birthday with and guess who came up number one on HuffPo??

So, the idiot from Albany still has his Feisty fixation going on!

___________________________

Nasty DumbFux: What part of "I was bored....." has you so confused??

LMFAO@U DumbFux!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Joe,

You are making fun of the offspiring of the moron who the Republicans wanted to elect as one-heartbeat-away-from-presidency VP?

@ Seeking - what a jerk that guy is! and I don't usually call people names!

Are there any Obama campaign staffers that seem to share that same birthday?

What part of "I was bored....." has you so confused??

Sure you were *wink wink*

I know one thing for sure, if it were YOUR B-Day and I was bored, I sure as hell wouldn't waste my time "googling" YOU!

Your time might be better spent choking down some of your filet & salmon, than obsessing over me!

But hey... that's just how I roll! ;o)

Seeking Sanity, glad you posted another of the rants many of us receive. Nothing like sunlight to expose the vile creatures who claim to be the Christian, family values, holier than thou crowd.

Jody - I get them off and on but thought it was time to expose a few. We all know they are part of the "Christian" majority. Funny, that isn't the way I was taught in Church.

sirie - thank you!

Obama/Biden 2012

Why did Billy Grahm scrub Mormonism from its list of religious cults?

The association dropped the label after Romney visited Graham and his son Franklin Graham.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57535071/billy-grahams-organization-removes-mormonism-its-list-of-cults/

ROFL, can you spell HYPOCRITE? I suppose that went into a binder too.

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Seeking ... I get stuff like this ... illiterate, but still a threat ...

Subject: religion
Name: john null
Email: nulpop@msn.com

Message:
you know its real easy to talk about someones faith but if i were you i would watchwhoyou that type of thing to you just might haveyour teeth aruound your neck instead of your mouth

bcbw - WOW! Not only threatening but almost undecipherable! Isn't it amazing how many on the far right are almost illiterate????

Obama/Biden 2012

Sirie, thanks for saying that in 1.10. Many of the liberals who post here, including me, have been sent emails similar to what Seeking received. They are often even more vile and sometimes threaten bodily harm.

Seeking, I receive them off/on as well. Like everyone else, I intend to put them on FR from now on.

You have to thank all of the wacky Obama supporting posters for helping to convince many why they should vote for Romney .

Jody - true! That is one reason I would never let my real name out there. There are some true nuts who think nothing of threatening people.

I think sirie is one of the good guys - on the wrong side - but maybe we can convince him to see the light!!!

ONTOR - anyone who votes for Romney, knowing how little he stands for is really lost anyway!

Obama/Biden 2012

BCWC, another vile right-winger exposed to sunlight. Despite the rambling, disjointed, bad grammar, the message is there--a threat.

ONTOR, huh?

Sandra Fluke didn't help much Obama, woman are leaving the Obama camps , they don't see the light at the end of the tunnel with Obama. With the gas double than 4 years ago, food rising, tuition rising, medicine rising , woman are leaving the social issues to a lower priority, focusing more in economy , were Romney have a big advantage according to recent polls. Obama is in a big risk to lose the election because his failure as a president.

President Barack Obama falsely criticized Mitt Romney's record of hiring and promoting women. However, his White House pays women less than men. Worse, The White House has been described as a "hostile workplace," by his own female debate coach -- Anita Dunn, who used to be the White House Communications Director.

This is not a good record for Obama.

Woman for Mitt 2012

Why did Billy Grahm scrub Mormonism from its list of religious cults?

The association dropped the label after Romney visited Graham and his son Franklin Graham.

Fascinating...see, because I was commenting on that very issue last week when Mr. Romney was meeting with Billy Graham last week...see post #2.24 by me here...

firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/11/14374849-obama-severely-conservative-romney-says-he-was-severely-kidding

Now the article I cited has been deleted from BGEA's web site...it said the following...

www.billygraham.org/articlepage.asp?articleid=2072

A cult is any group which teaches doctrines or beliefs that deviate from the biblical message of the Christian faith. It is very important that we recognize cults and avoid any involvement with them. Cults often teach some Christian truth mixed with error, which may be difficult to detect.

There are some features common to most cults:

•They do not adhere solely to the sixty-six books of the Bible as the inspired Word of God. They add their "special revelations" to the Bible and view them as equally authoritative.

•They do not accept that our relationship to Jesus Christ is a reality "by grace through faith" alone, but promote instead a salvation by works.

•They do not give Jesus Christ, the divine Son of God, full recognition as the second Person of the Trinity, composed of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

Some of these groups are Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, the Unification Church, Unitarians, Spiritists, Scientologists, and others.

And jobless claims rose again this week .

That's just great .

Joe in Albany. Today is also Lee Havey Oswalds B-day. HAHAHA!

Happy Birthday again, Feisty.

Have you accepted your birthday gift from Gov Bob McDonnell and I ?

The state of Virginia, solidly giftwrapped in the Romney column on election day.

And to think of all those nasty comments about our Governor, and your bragging over phony polls in August ..... we will forgive you since you are getting up there in years ....

See, Romney is NOT the evil monster the left so desperately NEEDS to paint him as... He is not anti-woman, and he is NOT anti-Latino, etc...

But keep up the FIGHT. Seems like your FIGHT is causing your numbers to fall & Romney's to climb...

Romney / Ryan 2012

The state of Virginia, soldily giftwrapped in the Romney column on election day.

You are the very last one who should be making predictions probe-boy!

You also swore & up and Governor Vaginal Probe was going to be the VP pick! lmao!

I see where ONTOR Harley Chic has graced us with his presence!

There is absolutely nothing to indicate women are moving from supporting Obama to supporting Romney. In fact, just the opposite. More women are laughing at the Romney "binder" blunder and seeing facts about his Mass leadership that had women losing ground in their high level positions during the time he was Governor.

Obama/Biden 2012

.....and ah, that great champion of woman's rights, Barrack Obama, was oh-so-cordial and polite to BOTH Hillary Clinton, and Sarah Palin back in 2008, right?

Any woman who votes for Barrack Obama, and thinks that he gives a damn about them is fooling them self.

Think about it for a second; if he didn't give a damn about the lives of those diplomats, then he sure as hell doesn't give a damn about you!

What LIE will he tell to cover his tracks when your job is eliminated, or the company you work for goes bankrupt?

People are leaving the Obama camp left and right. You have to ask yourself why......

DEMOCRATS FOR ROMNEY 2012!!!!!

you have proof seeking or do you think just because you speak it makes it correct? Im thinking the latter.

Fiesty

I'm from Virginia and I see the wind blowing away from Obama. We have a Republican Governor and Republicans have majority in the State House, no surprise if Romney swipeObama. And the kind of comment from people like you doesn't help much. If you are already celebrating the victory yop must stop now, look up the polls first.

In the swing states, the power of women
A new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of the Swing States shows Mitt Romney with a lead among likely voters as he strengthens his standing with women in the nation's top battlegrounds.

SeekingSanity

There is absolutely nothing to indicate women are moving from supporting Obama to supporting Romney. In fact, just the opposite. More women are laughing at the Romney "binder" blunder and seeing facts about his Mass leadership that had women losing ground in their high level positions during the time he was Governor.

SeekingSanity,

I'm laughing at Romney not being able to face Whoopi and the other ladies on the view. Too bad, he could have at least kicked it with Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Romney is a coward, a female abuser, a vulture capitalistic, and an empty suit. However, as I've said before after President Obama annihilates MYTH in the Foreign Debates, some how Sensata, the IL company MYTH is sending to China, should shine a bright light on the undecided and women.

Obama/Biden 2012

Romney has shown a distinct lack of interest in fairness. He tried to break rules designed for "fair play" in first two debates, trying to get the last word in a segment of debate when it was not his turn to do so. He succeeded at this "cheater" tactic with Lehrer, but Crowley stood her ground and would not allow Romney to get away with cheating. Getting the last word in a segment of debate is a huge advantage and Romney showed that winning to him is more important than any darn rules.

In last debate, Romney avoided answering question about "fair" pay for women. Why? Because he had said he opposed it. Now, we know his #1 priority is winning, not fairness, and equal pay for women costs business money. He looks at the bottom line because to him profits matter more than fairness.

His career at Bain involved buying companies and turning around and selling them at a profit. He says he enjoys firing people. In fact, he and his associates at Bain fired many people so they could stuff their pockets with cash. To those workers who lost their jobs, this just was not fair. To Mitt Romney fairness doesn't matter if he cannot gain some advantage from it.

This is because Mitt Romney is a "winner" and every other value he has is subordinate to that. His career as a "ruthless" businessman was never governed by any sense of fairness.

As President, Romney will certainly not become fair-minded. He will be a ruthless cost-cutter in his quest to help the rich run this country. The minimum wage, a "fair" minimum wage, will only be an obstacle to be overcome for Romney to allow his rich friends to compete with Chinese for all those jobs he promises. $7.50 per hour can't compete with $.75 per hour, so he will seek to lower it.

A fair solution to competing with Chinese for jobs would be to tax the incomes of the rich business and stock owners at a higher rate. The cost of a business includes the labor cost and the profit. Profits are at record levels and wages are stagnant. Profits do not need to be so high since they are simply not needed for reinvestment in a time of low sales and low interest rates. Higher wages for workers would increase consumer spending and business sales. Often, the fairer solution is the best solution. That is our current situation and we should choose the fair solution. And it is the best solution.

OBAMA 2012......for a fairer solution to our problems.

Hey bev, the black helicopters are circling

The opening is with Americans. Men, women, White Black anyone with children and anyone who cares about America.

Anyone who cares about their children or grand children or their country will not Vote for Obama again. It is really that simple.

Neera Taden, a former aid to Obama said in a interview"People say the reason Obama wouldn't call Clinton is because he doesn't like him. The truth is, Obama doesn't call anyone, and he's not close to almost anyone. It's stunning that he's in politics, because he really doesn't like people."

Later she walked it back and said -

I was trying to say how President Obama, who I admire greatly, is a private person, but I deeply regret how I said it. I apologize.

rukidding - in your demented mind, perhaps.

People who care about this country and our progress for the future will not support Romney who basically cares about nothing and no one. He runs so he can say he did one better than his Dad. He has no specific plans for anything but knows that some fools will vote for him anyway!

Obama/Biden 2012

Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL

Light is the best disinfectant in the world!

And from that we can infer that 'dark' is a breeding ground for disease ;-)

Take from that what you will and Thanks for the setup Fisty!

-------------------------------------------------------------

Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL
But hey... that's just how I roll! ;o)

I'll bet you really do roll don't you... all 500 lbs of you rolling all around... hahahahah!!!!!

(clown nose... show it fisty! :o)

(now show me the clown nose! :o)

He runs so he can say he did one better than his Dad.

the new excuse from DDI talking points Memo. yeah NDD and Feisty were parroting that garbage yesterday. Obama only runs because he is a narcissist and more concerned with his place in history. Think Obama will ride his chariot over the bay of Baiae

DEMOCRATS FOR ROMNEY 2012!!!!!

Would you post your website please to prove you are not shady republicans?

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Feisty, Have a very Happy Birthday.

SS

Obviously my mind is not the demented one here.

Job outlook for College grads-Dismal at best.

Gas prices doubled in 4 years-Horrific

Foreign policy- A joke under Obama

I still want to know where these tax breaks were for the middle class he is talking about. My taxes went up and my wages have been frozen for two years due to the P-Poor economy.

Anyone who cares about America and her citizens will not vote for Obama. I stand by my statement. There really is only two camps. Those who want better and those who don't. I want better so I am voting for Romney. What camp are you in SS?

Amazon is having a field day with Mitt's stupid "binder" comment. Just a few TeeHee's below:

"I used to think women were beyond organization till I discovered these binders," writes Martha H. Saltzman about an Avery Durable View Binder (with 2 Inch EZ-Turn Ring). "Now those pesky women are lined up, organized and orderly."

"The binders are very sturdy so the women didn't fall out or get wrinkled," Willard from Massachusetts says about a TOPS Cardinal XtraValue D-Ring Binder.

"Warning: these binders only fit one woman, not multiple," cautions a user named Mari in a review of a Filexec 3 Ring Binder.

Romney - the bad joke that just goes on and on and.....

Obama/Biden 2012 No Joke!

Caesar Augustus-

Hey bev, the black helicopters are circling

Little Caesar

Then leave your house. Don't forget you tin foil helmet. Glen Beck is selling them for you and all the others in Team Uterati

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Yep Seeking, cause like everyone has been saying since day one - this election is all about women's issues.

The economy? Why 'the private sector is doing just fine.'

And it had better cause we now spend over $1 trillion on welfare.

Oh and by the way - one of my female associates gets considerably less than her contemporary male associate.

Of course it was her choice - she asked to cut back on her hours after she had her first child.All about a woman's choice right Sanity?

Hell since Day 1 Seeking et al have said Game Over man Game Over for Romney.

Now Spanky we know you are now going to be called a sexist or misogynist. cant 'pick' on the poor defenseless women in FR member

No it all good - Seeking Sanity is a "strong, highly intelligent" woman.

Her words, so of course she can take it.

rukidding - if you believe Romney will do anything to help this country you are ignoring his clear lack of plans and history showing that businessmen make horrible Presidents. One only has to look back at George W. Bush (I know you Republicans hate to admit he's yours - don't blame you) to see how badly businessmen have performed as President.

This country is moving forward - the stock market has done MUCH better and that puts money into people's pockets and their retirement funds.

It has been explained over and over and over that the President does not control gas prices. If you continue to post your nonsense about gas prices - we know you don't have a clue.

The housing market is coming back - and much stronger than we anticipated it would, sooner than we thought.

I am one of those who want better - for everyone but especially the middle class - so I am voting for Obama. You clearly don't have a clue!

Obama/Biden 2012

Sanity - gosh wasn't it just last week you all were touting the jobs number as a sign all was good?

So, Sanity - how about those jobs numbers today?

They went up. Whereas, and despite being in this recovery about which you speak, median incomes have gone down.

So SS - we all know you are super smart, so how can it be a recovery if income is down, as is GDP, job growth, but costs are up?

What you got SS?

So, Sanity - how about those jobs numbers today?

WHere's Dennis at. so unexpected

So SS - we all know you are super smart, so how can it be a recovery if income is down, as is GDP, job growth, but costs are up?

heck, she's in business surely she can edumacate us Hillbillies right? Serves on two boards, you must have all the answers. Tell us Oracle of Delphi, pretty please

Feisty ...

I see where ONTOR Harley Chic has graced us with his presence!

I was thinking the same thing ... by the way ... you share a birthday with Mike Ditka!!!

10/18/2012 - Gallop 52 - Romney 45 - Obama

I will say now I think this is an outlier but if this number does not trend back towards Obama by the next debate it does not look good for the incumbent. This is now the second day that Romney has been above 50.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/157817/election-2012-likely-voters-trial-heat-obama-romney.aspx

Also, Chuck Todd's analysis this morning on where the ad buys are in October was enlightening. If they were in the new south, FL, NC, VA then good news for Obama. If they are in the mid-west, WI, IA, OH then good news for Romney. Turns out they are in the mid-west.

Spanky

Where in the world do you get your "facts"?

What we normally think of as welfare is the "Temporary Assistance for Needy Families" program which cost $30.6 billion in 2009. It has not had increased funding, so this figure likely reflects current cost of program. This is the program (TANF) that replaced welfare in 1996 welfare reform. It is the program that gives "cash" assistance to families averaging about $400 per month per family.

Welfare program costs us about $31 billion per year ,not over $1 trillion.

Sanity - When was that "summer of recovery" - 2009, 2010, 2011, or 2012?

Speaking specifically of the housing market and the value of my existing home... The fall in prices has stopped - even slightly ticked up a bit... But the nominal rise has not begun to offset the fall from the 2008 value...

When was it BHO said the "summer of recovery" was again? 2013?

The housing market is coming back - and much stronger than we anticipated it would, sooner than we thought.

Why is it that Federal Law requires Equal pay for equal work and some employers still are not required to give it??!! If Holder & BOZOhussen really cared about women, minority or whatever they call it today, Why did they NOT enforce that law in the last 4 Years?!!! I am one pissed off little Mexican that will NOT vote for BOZohusen again!! Fool me once...///Why are the leftiess so afraid of the Movie 2016!!?? Just prove each point wrong, if you can!!

Shaak, welfare comes in many forms including the earned income tax credit in which the taxpayer receives a refund of money characterized as taxes but such person never paid any in the first place. If you add up all government assistance to individuals it now is over $1 trillion under 70 government programs based on the presidents budget that will end this month. That is an increase of over 100% since he took office. Kind of hard to have those statistics and also try to say your economic plans are working. Nice try though.

SS I will claim him. That business man was still better then a Community Organizer. That still sounds like a made up title but hey you own him. I just call him failure.

The Country is not doing better. The only bright spot is this project is about over. After November I believe you will see a boost in the Economy and the Country if Romney is elected as he should be. If not there is nothing too be hopeful about.

I know you would be in the American destruction camp. I was just wondering if you would admit it.

A birthday present for you gal ... Mitt sings America the Beautiful ...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6viw-TnLXM&feature=relmfu

Happy Birthday, Feisty and many more.

That delusional thinking of Romney's is funny to watch. You know that they rehearsed his "women in binders" remark and he still couldn't deliver it well plus it didn't answer the question plus he added the part where we all have to go home and cook dinner. That alone would stop many women from voting for him!

A birthday present for you gal ... Mitt sings God Bless America ...

BCWC,

That was just plain mean! lol

Can I return it for President Obama singing "Let's Stay Together"? ;op

PS: Can't wait to hear the "Boss" today!

Well there are 4 professional women in my household who are more concerned with their economic futures and clearly understand that 4 more years of Obama's economic policies will just reduce the standard of living for their kids and grandkids. See they know that trickle down government doesnt work and as two of them are lawyers, they better understand how ineffective the war on women and they are actually upset as to how condescending the Obama approach is to women. They understand that conservative social policies that they disagree with are primarily a state and local issue and the national platform that Obama/Romney would have is powerful but mostly ineffective at creating any real change in these policies. They also understand that the war on women is the classic smoke screen and is just pandering to them for votes. You see they actually believe in John F Kennedy's famous comment "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country". Seriously, could Obama make that statement without getting laughed out of the debate or room? His policies are the complete opposite and his first thought on any issue, is what can the government do for you? They understand we have limited financial resources and giving free stuff to women just to pander to them is wrong when there are plenty of worthy areas that need government funding. Do you really need free birth control if you are Sandra Fluke making $200,000 a year for your lifestyle choice?

Feisty, failed to mention it on Thoughts today but you share the same birthday as my Mom who is a feisty liberal and 84 today!!!

Kirk, misguided rants aimed at women such as Sandra Fluke, who you haver never met and only know through Rush Limbaugh's ugly hate speech , only point out your own failures as a man. Think about it.

Feisty - I thought BCBW LIKED you! I'm pretty sure listening to Mitt sing is considered torture!

Have a GREAT day!

Obama/Biden 2012

Happy Birthday, Miss Feisty!

Kirk,

While I appreciate the fact that you listen to the women in your life, and as usual with most of the Republican voters that post here, I see NOTHING promoting why someone should vote for Romney just more of the same BS against the President. With all of the strong professional women living in your household, I wonder how many of them remember the policies of Bush and how we got into the mess we were handed in 2009.

As a strong professional woman, I have to disagree. Just knowing that they want to go back to the Bush policies and what they have in mind for Medicare scares me to death.

I believe in slow, steady growth for this country.

I believe in moving forward with President Obama.

Obama/Biden 2012

Jody, I have never not even once listened to Rush Limbaugh and I dont hate Sandra Fluke (which you see that is the difference between you progressives) as I disagree with her policy views. She and I could be great friends so nothing I say is misguided--just different. So because I believe that people should live and pay for their own personal choices in life, I am a failure as a man and you want me to think about it? Wow--and you wonder why people read these posts and just laugh. I suppose my wife and daughters might disagree with you on those failures along with I would bet virtually every woman I have worked with. Now some of my old girlfriends now maybe they would agree with you.

Thanks for the B-Day wishes SF!

You know that they rehearsed his "women in binders" remark and he still couldn't deliver it

On top of it, Willard once again lied through his polished teeth about requesting the "binder"!

The TRUTH is, is was given to him!

Feisty, failed to mention it on Thoughts today but you share the same birthday as my Mom who is a feisty liberal and 84 today!!!

Jody,

You mean she also shares the same birthday as Bristal Palin? The idiot from Albany sure is in a tizzy over it! lol

Make sure to give her a {{{hug}}} from this feisty liberal - birds of a feather and all! ;o)

Happy Birthday, Miss Feisty!

Thanks Layton,

Big party tomorrow night at the Dew Drop Inn... be there or be square! lol

PS: Will someone lay down some ***KIRKY repellent*** I don't like steaming piles of crap on my porch!

Just knowing that they want to go back to the Bush policies

What Bush policies are no longer in affect under Obama?

Jody, Iowa

Feisty, failed to mention it on Thoughts today but you share the same birthday as my Mom who is a feisty liberal and 84 today!!

Send your mom the best Birthday wishes from me. Tell her I hope I live as long as has.

Layton, slow and steady are economic losers when you have the worst recession since Reagan fixed the Carter recession. The current economic mess cant be fixed with slow and steady. I dont understand your aversion to looking at new policies that could fix medicare given you probably had no problem looking at new solutions to fix our current health care and medical insurance morass. Just because its a GOP policy initiative doesnt necessarily make it bad, only during campaigns do they become bad. Acting as if Romney is the equivalent to Bush is silly and saying you want to vote for Obama because of that is like saying you wanted to vote for Bush not Gore after the economic mess that Clinton left Bush with the bust of the internet bubble in 2001. Neither candidate can deliver on their obvious campaign lies and pandering they make during the debates and campaign but I do believe that providing more economic incentives in the private sector will grow our economy faster and longer than using the failed trickle down government and providing everyone free stuff of the obama principles.

Happy Birthday Feisty......

I can't really imagine any 'legitimate woman' voting for Willard/Ryan.

It makes no sense considering their positions on Planned Parenthood, the Personhood Amendment, the ACA, childrens healthcare, Roe v Wade, pay equity, etc.

Their stances DO NOT give women equal rights to make personal decisions that affect them directly.

Obama/Biden 2012!

Didn't billybob Clinton also continually look for an opening with women?

Kirk,

Sandra Fluke testified in front of Congress, to advocate for health insurance coverage of contraception. Rush Limbaugh called her a slut and no Republican leader denounced him. Say this for Pakistan: their leaders vowed to execute those responsible for shooting a teenage girl who stood up for her right to an education. Republicans in this country do not stand up for women.

Kirk and Talk, then please inform me what part of Mitt's plan is going to work? I would really like to hear the specifics.

Talk to the Hand

Just knowing that they want to go back to the Bush policies

What Bush policies are no longer in affect under Obama?

Talk to the Hand,

Bush wanted to change Social Security to partially privatize the system during his second term. So does Romney/Ryan.

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Feisty, yes, same as Bristol. Bev, I'll do that.

Kirk, odd then that you repeated the exact words Limbaugh spoke and clearly lack any comprehension of why Fluke advocated for religious public-served institutions with many non-Catholic employees and students to be required to provide the same coverage as all other businesses and public institutions. You repeated the garbage the right-wing spewed because that is what you choose to believe. So please, spare me the faux outrage as well as the accusations of your side being different from progressives, more gentile, more open minded because that is "pious baloney." I have followed politics for decades, watched parties shift and change but never have I seen a party so full of hatred, so paranoid, so angry, so fearful, so incredibly anti-American as the GOPTP is today; never have I seen a party that cannot accept reality and fact as reality but instead live in some alternate world of denial. Maybe that isn't you but it is your party.

more identity politics -- now we have "legitimate women".

Rush Limbaugh called her a slut and no Republican leader denounced him.

Bill MAHER called Sarah Palin a c*nt Amy, you know those caring Democrat men. Just partisan hack.

Republicans in this country do not stand up for women.

You have proof? This is so old Amy, then if these Democrat men of yours are so wonderful how come your lot in life hasn't improved. Im sure it has. Only in Maine YES SIR

Being in business, I run into and network with professional women all the time. I know women who are executives as well as women who own their own businesss. Not a single business woman I know is voting Romney. We all know he is the kiss of death for women and would take us back 100 years, if given the chance.

He doesn't value, respect or appreciate women in any capacity outside of the home - as he has often proved.

His "women binders" remark showed how out of touch he is with women in the workplace. He would be a disaster for women's issues - as well as the economy which of course he has these great plans for - he just can't articulate them. Oh yeah! Right!

Obama/Biden 2012

They understand we have limited financial resources and giving free stuff to women just to pander to them is wrong

Well, here comes Kirk still stuck on his 'free stuff' from the government for women campaign. How does no co-pay equate to free stuff provided by government?

Notice Mitty's new strategy about women's issues? Ignore them. Pretend they don't exist. Why, it is NASTY to talk about contraceptives, it might lead to talking about (GASP!) SEX! And Queen Ann, cold as ice, will NEVER permit people to think about, well, modesty forbids me saying the word again!

As if any woman with an IQ over 70 is going to vote for Mittens.

He will get the Stepford Wife vote.

RedDev - whenever anyone touts that "free stuff" we all know they are full of it and have no real arguments. And what's really sad, they know they're lying when they post it but they don't have a good argument to support Romney so they fall back on that tired lie. How sad when you stoop that low because it's all you've got to support your candidate.

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As if any woman with an IQ over 70 is going to vote for Mittens.

why do you hate women NDD? what a sexist remark. whats next the race card?

Too Priceless - not one woman SS knows is voting for Mitt.

And yet somehow SS doesn't see the problem with that statement.

Hey Sanity - google "no one I know voted for Reagan" and see how that turned out for the speaker.

Astonishing.

Caesar Augustus-

Rush Limbaugh called her a slut and no Republican leader denounced him.

Bill MAHER called Sarah Palin a c*nt Amy, you know those caring Democrat men. Just partisan hack.

Little Caesar

There really are not any intelligent words to describe the nervous lip smacking hilly billy from Wasilla

There really are not any intelligent words to describe the nervous lip smacking hilly billy from Wasilla

thanks Bev the racist, the same can be said of you and your little flock of low info friends but Im glad you think its ok to call a woman a c*nt as long as a democrat does it. Great logic.

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Too Priceless - not one woman SS knows is voting for Mitt.

anecdotal evidence always trumps reality

Wow, SeekingSanity, keep seeking because you sound like you're still insane. I, too, am in business and network with all kinds of business women up and down the corporate ladder. There are a mixture of pro-Hussein vs. pro-Romney. Mostly for Romney. So, keep living in your insulated little world where ONLY your opinion matters and only YOUR small group of contacts matter.

Oscar - sure there are! You just keep telling yourself that! Our President is Barack Obama - not Hussein - except for the ignorant like you who keep hoping referring to him that way will scare low information voters.

Obama/Biden 2012

So, InsaneOne, your personal anecdote is "fact" while mine is "fantasy?" Wow. At least I acknowledge that there are differing opinions and back that up with a personal experience. Whereas, you take one little insulated anecdote from your tiny little life and spout that to the world as fact??? WOW.

still......

trying.....

to......

muster up.....

empathy.....

4 U.....

trying.......trying......

SS,

Being in business, I run into and network with professional women all the time. I know women who are executives as well as women who own their own businesss. Not a single business woman I know is voting Romney.

Suggest you and your "associates" come out of the ivory tower long enough to see what the serfs think. You, being in business, need to get in touch with those that work FOR you rather than just hanging with the upper echelon and patting each other on the back and swapping notes on how intellectually superior you are. You are NOT the average American woman. Exceptional in your own way I am sure but I think far from the heartbeat of America.

Sorry but got to call then like I see them.

Great posts Kirk!

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Caesar Augustus-

Rush Limbaugh called her a slut and no Republican leader denounced him.

Bill MAHER called Sarah Palin a c*nt Amy, you know those caring Democrat men. Just partisan hack.

Little Caesar

There really are not any intelligent words to describe the nervous lip smacking hilly billy from Wasilla

Bev, please admit you are a professional comedian. LOL on this post. Nobody could be this stupid. Please admit you are droll, ironic comedian.

Bush wanted to change Social Security to partially privatize the system during his second term. So does Romney/Ryan.

Bev, that wasn't the question. I asked: What Bush policies are no longer in affect under Obama? Keyword in your response is "wanted". It is not a policy that can be carried out. So........do you have an answer to the actual question?

Jody, what words did I use that were offensive? Where is access to contraceptives not available? She is asking employers and the government to eliminate copays from employer and government provided contraceptives. Why should that be eliminated? In the name of allowing gender freedom for issues like abortion why are you against those same freedoms for religion? Why should they be forced to adopt policy adverse to their tenets? What prevents their employees from leaving and finding employment that has benefits they find better? I never said anything offensive about Sandra Fluke, I just disagree with her give me mentality. I dont have faux outrage because I have no outrage at all. I just disagree. And its not my party, I voted for Clinton and Kerry and think Clinton was a great president. However, if you were so worried about women's rights at all costs, were you first in line protesting Clinton's treatment of women? His predatory behavior towards subordinates puts woman's rights backwards far more than worrying about paying a copay for a lifestyle choice. But my guess is you swallowed your voice because Clinton supported more global policy positions you supported. Dont label all Romney supporters as far right nuts no different than I labeling Obama supporters as all far left looneys because some of his supporters are economic terrorists or socialists etc. Romney will not set woman's rights back one iota and silly attempts to persuade woman otherwise is condescending to their intelligence.

I am not sure why any of you bother arguing with Seeking Sanity as she is an admitted Obama campaign team member so she wouldnt tell you the truth if it hit her in the face. We both live and work in Chicago and if she clearly does not have any exposure to real professional women because the support cuts both ways. There are plenty of Obama supporters and plenty of Romney supporters. In my experience, as the women get older they tend to lean more Romney as the economic issues tend to be a higher priority and the younger more idealistic professional women lean towards Obama as issues other than the economy dominate their thoughts including social policy. If Seeking Sanity cant at least admit that, then she truly doesnt work with woman outside Obama's campaign office.

Layton, lets start with what we know. We know that Obama claims to be the champion of the poor, middle class, african american and latino in addition to his biggest campaign contributors the Trial Lawyers and Unions. Now compare those specific groups with their counterparts economically over the last 4 years and see how they have done. No winners in his group right? So if you thought his specific economic policies were or are intended to benefit those groups you would be sorely mistaken. How have African Americans fared in comparison to whites? So we know his policies dont work.

As for Romney, he isnt Bush and isnt close. He intends to create more incentives for the private market to allow businesses to invest, expand and hire and compete more effectively globally so all boats can be lifted. Is he a panacea? No but neither is Obama. Take for example, Obama talking in the last debate how he wants to lower corporate tax rates in the US but punish or raise rates on corporations who do business overseas in order to bring jobs back home. Sounds great politically doesnt it? Now explain to me how that will help GM sell cars in Brazil? If they have to pay 35% tax in the US with a tax credit for the taxes paid in Brazil but Toyota only has to pay the local much lower Brazilian tax and can bring the profits back to Japan to hire more workers as their sales increase, who do you think will sell cars cheaper and more effectively? Obama's tax proposal will dramatically impact companies like GM, Coca Cola, Caterpillar, Boeing, Apple, Cisco who generate close to 50% of their sales in foreign countries and they will lay off employees. So I know it feels good to believe the pandering talking points of people like Fiesty and David Walker and others but Obama just isnt the right president for our current economic times.

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Romney sees opening with women

Unfortunately, his buddies think they should control all womens' openings

Or would that be the ones he treats as disrespectfully as he treated Candy Crowley because he didn't get his way?

I understand that Seamus isn't around to kick anymore. I hope Ann was wearing a helmet when Romney got home from his 'bad day in the office' debate.

RedDev, I'm guessing Ann left for another of their homes.

Jody, Iowa

Would that be the "binders full of women" Mitt thinks he can "woo"? Or the ones he will allow to work flexible hours so they can get home to cook dinner? Or would it be the ones he will deny contraception to? Or would that be the ones he treats as disrespectfully as he treated Candy Crowley because he didn't get his way?

Jody,

Many In Romney's "Binder Full Of Women" Were Campaign Donors

The former Massachusetts Governor touted hiring "binders full of women" for his cabinet, but many were donors to his gubernatorial campaign.

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Maybe the "binders of women" were Mitt's secret stash of Playboy magazines.

Sorry, I couldn't resist either.

Okay, the first thing I thought of when Romney said that was the scene in the old Hayley Mills movie "The Trouble With Angels" where the Mother Superior sends one of the nuns to a department store with the girls to purchase, ummm, "binders". And yep, I see somebody on YouTube had the same thought!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-6dKFlBdgM

My mother always called bras binders!!!

My grandmother did too, Sueb1: she would lower her voice and whisper "binders" as if it were a shameful thing!

JoAnne, that was PRICELESS!

I still think the person on Huff post had it right. Women should start sending "binders" to Romney.

My mother always called bras binders!!!

My German Grama called bras - "keepsthemfromflopping" lol

HA, Feisty! Good for Gramma!

you are neither "funny" nor, I suspect, "a girl." More like some old dude getting a rise out of living out his feminine side.

Jen, Dean Moronity is looking for you

Amy, it's only been posting since Tuesday. Pretty sure it will be gone soon. Amazing to me that so many that post spend the majority of their time insulting other posters. Talk about anger issues!

Layton, I know: "don't feed the trolls."

Clearly, IT isn't worthy of any response.

Layton, I know: "don't feed the trolls."

Or the re-regs Ames! ☺

Amy B. Portland, ME

you are neither "funny" nor, I suspect, "a girl." More like some old dude getting a rise out of living out his feminine side.

WOW Amy! What a great comment! Truly inspirational. All about the important topics of the campaign. Way to focus! Way to take the high road!

Actually, it's just another (typical) liberal personal attack. Standard Operating Procedure when you have nothing of value to contribute (which is ALWAYS)!

Now crawl back into your hole.

Layton-3733410

Amazing to me that so many that post spend the majority of their time insulting other posters.

Layton... were you talking about Amy's post? If not you too have reading comprehension issue! Either that or you are simply a hypocrite. READ THE HATE AND ANGER IN AMY'S POST. My God... how do you people sleep at night?

(show that big clown nose, fisty! :o)

Reading Romney supporter posts makes me wish more people would have seriously considered a Prochoice decision until our education system could guarantee better results.

Who really doesn't have a choice now ?

Dan Austin, TX, good one. ONTOR keeps repeating itself this morning.

ONTOR keeps repeating itself this morning.

And it is a repeating re-reg, on top of that. Much like gonorrhea, they are both undesirable social diseases that you just can't get rid of.

Baloney..I don't have a problem with giving the Black dude 4 more years because of romneittes like you will not say how you really feel

RedDevPS

ONTOR keeps repeating itself this morning.

And it is a repeating re-reg, on top of that. Much like gonorrhea, they are both undesirable social diseases that you just can't get rid of.

AGAIN! Class act these libbies! Can't you just feel the love?

HAHAHAH!

FR liberals are barbarians. of course they have a terrorist known as Guy Fawkes as their mascot. Perhaps Attila or Gengis would be more fitting

CA .....

who peed in your coffee?

FR liberals are barbarians

Thanks for that, again coming from you pumpkin, it's a compliment . . .

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Thanks for that, again coming from you pumpkin, it's a compliment . . .

better a pumpkin than a vandal. I assure more people like pumpkins than barbarians. Now back to your 'save the women crusade'

Some type of drug addiction ?

nah...the crazy put me off....

Obama's fiscal cliff will be crazy .

Don't you think ?

I am a Libertarian type...I say pay our bills now. Blame is not going to pay them.

Such that I say let all the taxes go up, and the sequestrations go through. All of them.

Pea eating time.

Noble Savage via Facebook

The Supreme Court is one pick away from voting to make Abortion illegal.

A Romney Victory would thus make a women's body Property of the State.

Pregnant women could wear 'Property of the United States Government' hoodies, so that we citizens could monitor them.

A vote for Romney is a vote for making women State owned property within 4 years.

Anybody wonder why I quit the GOP?

Noble,

You made an intelligent choice.Isn't that ironic the GOP talks of keeping government out their lives; yet this does just the opposite.

Just, heard OBAMA SURROGATE say Romney does not support Lilly Leadbetter Act

I have faith in the real women of America that recognize the current occupant of the White House is NOT addressing the BIG Issues.... JOBS & The ECONOMY.

They will vote with their "lady smarts", NOT their "lady parts".

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012..... Believe in AMERICA!

A Dem grasping at straws and trying to incite fear.......getting nervous?

Let's educate you.

1. Roe Vs Wade has been "One vote away" basically since its inception.

2. Republicans put people on the court who will uphold the constitution. If it was all about towing the conservative line, Obamacare would have been tossed out.

3. In the end, it doesnt matter who is on the court. What matters is the case before the court and how its presented.

4. Roe vs Wade will only be overturned if some damning new evidence is presented. Heard of anything new? Yeah, didnt think so.

5. IF Roe vs Wade were overturned, abortion would STILL be legal. It would simply fall out of the Federal hands and into the individual states. EVERY state currently has an abortion law on the books.

I believe you were a GOP member as much as I believe in the Boogyman.

Vote the way you want, thats America. Spare us the BS though please.

I have faith in the real women of America that recognize the current occupant of the White House is NOT addressing the BIG Issues.... JOBS & The ECONOMY.

They will vote with their "lady smarts", NOT their "lady parts".

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012..... Believe in AMERICA!

ssmithlg

I have faith in the real women of America that recognize the current occupant of the White House is NOT addressing the BIG Issues.... JOBS & The ECONOMY.

They will vote with their "lady smarts", NOT their "lady parts".

Amen to that sister. The Liberal women here on FR and you know who you are, Idolize Obama to a point that I bet they even fantasize with him.

"Those who Idolize a mere human will crumble upon the lost of his demise" by Blatina.

Dragon - Maybe Obama's close personal confidant and advisor Bill Clinton can give Romney a few tips....he saw lotsa of women....and held them all in "high esteem" too!

Latest Polls Show Obama's Pa. Lead Slipping

President Obama's once significant lead over Gov. Mitt Romney in the Keystone State has slipped, according to the latest polls.

New polls out this week show Gov. Mitt Romney has substantially narrowed what once seemed like an insurmountable lead for President Barack Obama in Pennsylvania.

The polls were taken after the first presidential debate but before Tuesday's second town hall-style debate at Hofstra University.

Bloomberg News reported that a Quinnipiac University poll of 1,519 likely Pa. voters favored Obama by just four percentage points over Romney. The poll was conducted between Oct. 12 and Oct. 14. Just one month ago, Obama held a 12 point lead in the state, and some news reports indicated that the Romney campaign had begun to focus its resources elsewhere. Obama carried the state by more than 10 percentage points in the 2008 election.

Obama is still under 50 percent and Pennsylvania is still in play according to the latest poll from the Allentown Morning Call and Muhlenberg College.

The latest Public Policy Polling shows Obama above 50 percent and leading Mitt Romney by 7 points in Pennsylvania.

"President Obama continues to disappoint voters here by breaking the promises he made as a candidate, and failing to offer a legitimate case for four more years of the last four years," said Billy Pitman, director of communications for the Republican National Committee in Pennsylvania, in an email message to media outlets. "Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan offer a clear choice for leadership and a new direction that will create jobs, fix our economy and strengthen the middle class."

Male voters in the poll substantially favored Romney, while Obama held a commanding lead among women. Voters who described themselves as independent reportedly favored Obama, 50 percent to 43 percent.

The President's lead nationally has been slipping since his widely-criticized performance in the first presidential debate on Oct. 3. Tuesday evening's debate will take the form of a town meeting, in which citizens will ask questions of the candidates on foreign and domestic issues. Candidates each will have two minutes to respond, and an additional minute for the moderator to facilitate a discussion.

new tape, Romney urges bosses to tell their workers how to vote

One month after Mitt Romney’s infamous 47% comments sent his campaign into shock, another revealing recording of the former Massachusetts governor has surfaced.

On a conference call with small business owners back in June, hosted by the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), Romney encourages employers to “make it very clear” to their workers that their jobs are dependent on the outcome of the election.

“I hope you make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in the best interest of your enterprise and therefore their job and their future in the upcoming elections. And whether you agree with me or you agree with President Obama, or or whatever your political view, I hope, I hope you pass those along to your employees. Nothing illegal about you talking to your employees about what you believe is best for the business, because I think that will figure in to their election decision, their voting decision.”

soundbite video posted on you tube

Sueb1...... so it's different when union leaders tell their members who to vote for?

ROMNEY/RYAN2012...... Believe in AMERICA!

"A rising tide, raises ALL ships." It's obvious Obama has NO Clue how to Create Jobs & GROW the Economy.

ROMNEY/RYAN2012..... Believe in AMERICA!

It's interesting to note that extremest-leftist-liberals chortle and crow about the tax rates that the wealthy in this country pay.

However, it was their messiah, Barrack Obama, who suggested that we keep the Bush tax rates from 2002 in place, and did nothing to change the rates that the upper class pay.

He had a Democratic Congress for the first two years of his administration, so I don't want to hear the "republicans in congress" excuse anymore, either.

What's more Obama tells you he wants the wealthy to pay more.

But, never says how much more, and doesn't tell you where the money will go.

He also invokes Bill Clinton's name every time he talks about where he wants to put the tax rates for the middle class.

Clinton was a good economic President.

But, shouldn't we have a President who can stand up on his own, without his hand being held by a predecessor whom Obama's handlers once labled "a racist" in North and South Carolina? It's funny how much Obama hated Bill Clinton during the primaries in 2008 vs. how much help from Bill and how much Clinton name-dropping he's invoked four years later.

People need to wake up, Obama doesn't have an economic plan. We would be out of this mess by now if he did.

Romney didn't become wealthy by being unsuccessful. We need him to get us back on track economically, and kick start the economy once again.

We cannot afford 4 more years of Barrackonomics. He double the defecfit in four years, and he'll do it again if you let him.

DEMOCRATS FOR ROMNEY 2012!!!!!

Yes, especially since President Obama has such a wonderful Congress who will support him. LOL. How can anything get accomplished in Washington? When you have filabustering and obstructionism going on. They are really setting a good example for the american people and have our backs right? NOT. I wish that the President actually had a working Congress and Senate. It would be great and maybe the American people would not have to suffer any longer. There is too much that is at stake and too little that actually care.

ssmithlg

loose lips sink ships just so you know

Obama/Bide 2012

Alder.... your desparation is showing. "Middle East Mitt", "sociopath"??? That's just laughable.

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012..... Believe in AMERICA

I have to agree, I am beginning to suspect that Romney really is a sociopath. His tendencies lean that way, and after watching the debate on Tuesday, it appears that Mr. Romney has such disdain and contempt for the President. He acted like a petulant egotistical rich bratty child. He was obnoxious and disrespectful to the President. He was so pissed off when he couldn't filabuster Obama that I thought he was going to throw a tantrum and stomp his feet at Candy. And today, even today, he is still whining that he was right and the President was not specific enough with the "act of terror" statement. I cannot believe the ego.

Another pro rape/pro breeding young women/ pro Romney fanatic. Unfortunately for you women don't have to vote as their husbands do. I would love to see how many Republican women sneak out to vote.....the audacity! and for Obama! I will never allow you or Romney to make decisions for my body and implement tyranny. It wont happen so says 99%

Miliahm.... your desparation is showing. "pro rape/pro breeding young women"??? That's just idiotic.

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012..... Believe in AMERICA

....... is THAT the best you've got?

ROMNEY/RYAN2012...... Believe in AMERICA!

We DO believe in America. That is why we will return your President to office.

No Obama taking the White House again is what we've got. You have a pro-rape candidate who would like to do just that to America.

sorry Miliahm Affinity & newday..... Obama's LOOSING!
Gallup poll: Romney opens up 7-point lead among likely voters

Mitt Romney has a 7-point lead over President Obama among likely voters, according to Gallup’s latest daily tracking poll.

Romney takes 52 percent support to 45 percent for Obama, and also leads 48 to 47 among registered voters.

Silly vs Serious.........

I have faith in the real women of America that recognize the current occupant of the White House is NOT addressing the BIG Issues.... JOBS & The ECONOMY.

They will vote with their "lady smarts", NOT their "lady parts".

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012..... Believe in AMERICA!

ssmithlg - yes we wil vote with our "smarts" and will vote overwhelmingly for President Obama. He clearly has plans to move the economy forward while protecting and growing the middle class. All Romney has plans for is decimating the middle class in order to grown the top 1%; another war on the ground in Syria and perhaps one in Iran; deleting any and all program to help those less fortunate. Oh wait - I forgot - he's going to grow jobs just can't say how. Yeah we know - they haven't told him yet! But wait, he's signed his loyalty oath to Grover Norquist so not to worry!

And, we have a President in the White House - not an occupant!

Obama/Biden 2012 because I actually DO believe in the United States of America

I KNEW IT WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRue! Despite our best efforts, Governor Romney has lost the election. It comes down to simple mathematics:

Latest Presidential Polls: Obama Holds Insurmountable Lead in the Electoral College

• Peter Dawson
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• 11 hours ago

Latest Presidential Polls Obama Holds Insurmountable Lead in the Electoral College

Despite the best efforts of Mitt Romney's campaign to close the gap, it may be impossible for the Republican challenger to overcome what has become a numbers game in the Electoral College. Understanding how the Electoral College works, particularly in light of conflicting daily polling results, is a task that is even more daunting than predicting the election itself. With 17 days until the election, the combination of confusing polling data and the memory of Obama's margin of victory in swing states in 2008, make it very difficult to bet on a Republican candidate. The deck just seems stacked.

Let's start by looking at a swing state that is not in play. Michigan, a state in which Romney would have undoubtedly liked to mount a serious challenge, was abandoned by the McCain campaign in 2008. The Obama campaign has deftly pushed the perception that its administration has saved the auto industry in Detroit. Given that in the latest Rasmussen Poll has Romney trailing by 7 points, even the most adamant Romney supporter would have a hard time arguing the campaign is really competing in the state.

Looking at the broader picture, Real Clear Politics currently puts 10 swing states in play for the 2012 Presidential Election. Excluding Michigan, the states (in order of electoral size) are Florida (27), Pennsylvania (20), Ohio (18), North Carolina (15), Virginia (13), Wisconsin (10), Colorado (9), Nevada, (6), Iowa (6) and New Hampshire (4).

273towin.com is a very useful site that shows electoral maps for all U.S. Presidential elections, as well as providing an interactive map that predicts the electoral college for the 2012 election. If the October 15 polls become a reality in the forty non-swing states, Obama holds a 217 to 191 edge over Romney in the Electoral College, thus leaving 130 electoral votes from the remaining ten swing states up for grabs.

273towin.com also has the latest polling for then ten swing states listed above. If the election were held today, and those polling numbers became a reality, President Obama would defeat Mitt Romney 270 to 268 in what would be the closest presidential election ever. Even with the ever-changing polls, the intricacies of the Electoral College, and the unpredictability of elections in the United States, where is Mitt Romney going to get the votes necessary to drastically change the outcome of this electoral map?

Lets start in Paul Ryan's home state of Wisconsin. While the Republicans have been quick to point Ryan's congressional record, as well as the re-election of Scott Walker after a recall, the state has not voted for a Republican in the general election since Ronald Reagan won his first term in 1984. In the 2008 election, Obama had a 13.91% margin of victory, winning the state by 412,293 votes. Combine this number with the fact that Obama is up 4 points in the latest American Research Group Poll (270towin.com), and the Romney campaign might have to look elsewhere for those ten electoral votes.

The hottest state in which the Obama camp seems to be losing ground is Pennsylvania. Forget the fact that the state hasn't voted for a Republican to take the oval office since 1988, or the fact that Romney is trailing Obama by roughly four points according to The Morning Call Muhlenberg. In 2008 Obama's margin of victory was 10.4%. With the number of Democrats in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, that margin of victory was 405,820 in actual votes.

While Republicans have cited possible voter fraud in the state of Pennsylvania, studies have proven that there is no credible evidence that upholds the idea that conclusive voter fraud cases have affected recent election results in the state. The new voter registration laws upheld in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will make it difficult for some citizens to register to vote, and will help to decrease Obama's stronghold over the state. Yet, it is still unlikely to definitively swing the state in Romney's favor.

While pundits waste their time talking about how no Republican has won the White House without Ohio, this election's most important state is easily Florida. According to the latest Public Policy Poll, Romney holds a one-point edge in the state. While Obama only won the state by a mere 2.5% margin, the Romney camp faces two critical issues in the state.

First, according to the latest ImpreMedia & Latino Decisions Poll, 67% of Latino voters are fairly certain they will vote for Obama. That number compares to only 23% of Latinos who are fairly certain they will vote for Romney.

According to the U.S. Census, in 2011, nearly 23% of the population of Florida is of Hispanic or Latino origin. If the national trend translates over to the state level, coupled with the fact that 16.5% of the population in Florida is African-American, then you could estimate nearly 31.4% of the population are highly likely to vote for Obama (assuming they vote).

Paul Ryan's Catholicism should bring back some independent Hispanics back into the fold, but his threatening views on Medicare create a second problem. According to the Office of Economic and Demographic Research, Florida has 4,720,799 people between the ages of 45 and 64. Medicare is clearly a cause for concern among these voters. According to The Sun-Sentinel "Florida's fast-growing Medicaid program — which cares for the state's impoverished children and for most senior citizens in nursing homes — would lose roughly a third of its federal money under budget plans embraced by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan." If Romney is polling less favorably with Hispanics than John McCain (who also lost Florida), and his vice president is driving away arguably the state's most important voting block, where does his campaign hope to make up ground?

Romney also needs to close the 11% gap (Gallup polling) that Obama held over McCain in winning independent voters. Given the state of the economy, the Obama administration's handling of Libya, and Obama's performance in the first debate, the Romney campaign has swiftly seized the opportunity to reduce the overall seven point lead Obama held in most polls as late as the month of July.

In 2004, Democratic challenger John Kerry missed out on the Presidency by losing the state of Ohio. For Kerry to prevail in that election, he would have only needed twenty states plus the District of Columbia to do so.

For Romney, the ideal Republican victory map would have him winning a whopping seven of the ten swing states, with Obama holding onto just Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Colorado. That means, that counting the last election, Romney would need to win back those seven states plus Indiana (which went for Obama in 2008), thus marking more than a one hundred point swing in the electoral college.

It is clear that Romney's campaign, for numerous reasons, has gained ground in this election season. It is equally transparent that the Obama campaign is a shadow of a 2008 campaign that was supposed to be a paradigm for future presidential campaigns. Will this combination of factors be enough?

The blame for Romney's plight extends further back than just the previous Republican administration. The electoral strategy of cementing the socially conservative southern and mid-western base voters is not a new concept. That idea was started by Ronald Reagan's presidential campaigns and further solidified by both Bushes and John McCain. While successful in the short term, the strategy will limit this Republican candidate's ability to win this election.

Couple the Republican's limited strategy with Obama's electoral domination in 2008, which increased the number of target states (North Carolina, Iowa, Colorado, and Indiana) for the Democrats, and you are left with a Republican campaign that is exponentially more challenging.

Is it possible, that voter turnout (a number that has gone up at least fifteen million votes since 2000) could negatively affect Obama? Is it also possible that economic hardships knock out Obama just as they did with the re-election campaigns of Presidents' Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush? Is it possible that thousands of independent voters in ten very different swing states see Mitt Romney as the moderate who was Governor of Massachusetts, rather that the right wing-pleasing Republican that has muddled his message? The answer to all of these questions is, yes, it is possible.

Yet, given the state of the electoral map, the current volume of polls, the remaining political issues facing his campaign, and the path that was forced on him since the Reagan era, it is difficult to imagine a Romney victory. The fact is, in this election, the results are not about what is fair, possible, or even right, but rather what the numbers gap says is almost certain.

I KNEW IT WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRue! Despite our best efforts, Governor Romney has lost the election. It comes down to simple mathematics:

Latest Presidential Polls: Obama Holds Insurmountable Lead in the Electoral College

• Peter Dawson
• in
• Politics,
• 2012 Elections
• 11 hours ago

Latest Presidential Polls Obama Holds Insurmountable Lead in the Electoral College

Despite the best efforts of Mitt Romney's campaign to close the gap, it may be impossible for the Republican challenger to overcome what has become a numbers game in the Electoral College. Understanding how the Electoral College works, particularly in light of conflicting daily polling results, is a task that is even more daunting than predicting the election itself. With 17 days until the election, the combination of confusing polling data and the memory of Obama's margin of victory in swing states in 2008, make it very difficult to bet on a Republican candidate. The deck just seems stacked.

Let's start by looking at a swing state that is not in play. Michigan, a state in which Romney would have undoubtedly liked to mount a serious challenge, was abandoned by the McCain campaign in 2008. The Obama campaign has deftly pushed the perception that its administration has saved the auto industry in Detroit. Given that in the latest Rasmussen Poll has Romney trailing by 7 points, even the most adamant Romney supporter would have a hard time arguing the campaign is really competing in the state.

Looking at the broader picture, Real Clear Politics currently puts 10 swing states in play for the 2012 Presidential Election. Excluding Michigan, the states (in order of electoral size) are Florida (27), Pennsylvania (20), Ohio (18), North Carolina (15), Virginia (13), Wisconsin (10), Colorado (9), Nevada, (6), Iowa (6) and New Hampshire (4).

273towin.com is a very useful site that shows electoral maps for all U.S. Presidential elections, as well as providing an interactive map that predicts the electoral college for the 2012 election. If the October 15 polls become a reality in the forty non-swing states, Obama holds a 217 to 191 edge over Romney in the Electoral College, thus leaving 130 electoral votes from the remaining ten swing states up for grabs.

273towin.com also has the latest polling for then ten swing states listed above. If the election were held today, and those polling numbers became a reality, President Obama would defeat Mitt Romney 270 to 268 in what would be the closest presidential election ever. Even with the ever-changing polls, the intricacies of the Electoral College, and the unpredictability of elections in the United States, where is Mitt Romney going to get the votes necessary to drastically change the outcome of this electoral map?

Lets start in Paul Ryan's home state of Wisconsin. While the Republicans have been quick to point Ryan's congressional record, as well as the re-election of Scott Walker after a recall, the state has not voted for a Republican in the general election since Ronald Reagan won his first term in 1984. In the 2008 election, Obama had a 13.91% margin of victory, winning the state by 412,293 votes. Combine this number with the fact that Obama is up 4 points in the latest American Research Group Poll (270towin.com), and the Romney campaign might have to look elsewhere for those ten electoral votes.

The hottest state in which the Obama camp seems to be losing ground is Pennsylvania. Forget the fact that the state hasn't voted for a Republican to take the oval office since 1988, or the fact that Romney is trailing Obama by roughly four points according to The Morning Call Muhlenberg. In 2008 Obama's margin of victory was 10.4%. With the number of Democrats in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, that margin of victory was 405,820 in actual votes.

While Republicans have cited possible voter fraud in the state of Pennsylvania, studies have proven that there is no credible evidence that upholds the idea that conclusive voter fraud cases have affected recent election results in the state. The new voter registration laws upheld in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will make it difficult for some citizens to register to vote, and will help to decrease Obama's stronghold over the state. Yet, it is still unlikely to definitively swing the state in Romney's favor.

While pundits waste their time talking about how no Republican has won the White House without Ohio, this election's most important state is easily Florida. According to the latest Public Policy Poll, Romney holds a one-point edge in the state. While Obama only won the state by a mere 2.5% margin, the Romney camp faces two critical issues in the state.

First, according to the latest ImpreMedia & Latino Decisions Poll, 67% of Latino voters are fairly certain they will vote for Obama. That number compares to only 23% of Latinos who are fairly certain they will vote for Romney.

According to the U.S. Census, in 2011, nearly 23% of the population of Florida is of Hispanic or Latino origin. If the national trend translates over to the state level, coupled with the fact that 16.5% of the population in Florida is African-American, then you could estimate nearly 31.4% of the population are highly likely to vote for Obama (assuming they vote).

Paul Ryan's Catholicism should bring back some independent Hispanics back into the fold, but his threatening views on Medicare create a second problem. According to the Office of Economic and Demographic Research, Florida has 4,720,799 people between the ages of 45 and 64. Medicare is clearly a cause for concern among these voters. According to The Sun-Sentinel "Florida's fast-growing Medicaid program — which cares for the state's impoverished children and for most senior citizens in nursing homes — would lose roughly a third of its federal money under budget plans embraced by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan." If Romney is polling less favorably with Hispanics than John McCain (who also lost Florida), and his vice president is driving away arguably the state's most important voting block, where does his campaign hope to make up ground?

Romney also needs to close the 11% gap (Gallup polling) that Obama held over McCain in winning independent voters. Given the state of the economy, the Obama administration's handling of Libya, and Obama's performance in the first debate, the Romney campaign has swiftly seized the opportunity to reduce the overall seven point lead Obama held in most polls as late as the month of July.

In 2004, Democratic challenger John Kerry missed out on the Presidency by losing the state of Ohio. For Kerry to prevail in that election, he would have only needed twenty states plus the District of Columbia to do so.

For Romney, the ideal Republican victory map would have him winning a whopping seven of the ten swing states, with Obama holding onto just Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Colorado. That means, that counting the last election, Romney would need to win back those seven states plus Indiana (which went for Obama in 2008), thus marking more than a one hundred point swing in the electoral college.

It is clear that Romney's campaign, for numerous reasons, has gained ground in this election season. It is equally transparent that the Obama campaign is a shadow of a 2008 campaign that was supposed to be a paradigm for future presidential campaigns. Will this combination of factors be enough?

The blame for Romney's plight extends further back than just the previous Republican administration. The electoral strategy of cementing the socially conservative southern and mid-western base voters is not a new concept. That idea was started by Ronald Reagan's presidential campaigns and further solidified by both Bushes and John McCain. While successful in the short term, the strategy will limit this Republican candidate's ability to win this election.

Couple the Republican's limited strategy with Obama's electoral domination in 2008, which increased the number of target states (North Carolina, Iowa, Colorado, and Indiana) for the Democrats, and you are left with a Republican campaign that is exponentially more challenging.

Is it possible, that voter turnout (a number that has gone up at least fifteen million votes since 2000) could negatively affect Obama? Is it also possible that economic hardships knock out Obama just as they did with the re-election campaigns of Presidents' Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush? Is it possible that thousands of independent voters in ten very different swing states see Mitt Romney as the moderate who was Governor of Massachusetts, rather that the right wing-pleasing Republican that has muddled his message? The answer to all of these questions is, yes, it is possible.

Yet, given the state of the electoral map, the current volume of polls, the remaining political issues facing his campaign, and the path that was forced on him since the Reagan era, it is difficult to imagine a Romney victory. The fact is, in this election, the results are not about what is fair, possible, or even right, but rather what the numbers gap says is almost certain.

Very Good Point... I agree.

10 Reasons Obama Will Lose Easily in Election 2012

In recent days, the president has managed to divert national attention away from his administration and dismal performance to an absurd debate about when Mitt Romney stopped managing Bain Capital and about capitalism in general. I think it is time we returned to issues that are relevant to the election.

In this regard, I created a list of 10 things that Barack Obama has botched during his time in office, and which we should focus on instead.

1. Health Care: Obamacare, which seemingly began the day the president assumed office, was the beginning of the end. Obama set aside all of the crushing economic problems facing Americans and made a bid for immortality. He thought, by reforming health care, he would solidify his legacy. It was his “FDR moment.”

Unfortunately, the gambit failed miserably, not because this country does not need universal health care, but because America could not afford it; the law required participation by many Americans who did not want it; the entire effort diverted resources and congressional attention away from the economic crisis; the process created a huge and unresolvable schism between the two major political parties; and Obama promised reduced health care costs that very few people believe will come to pass.

2. Fighting Off the Tea Party: Obamacare was the principal reason why the Tea Party gained power and has turned our political system upside down. Obama created this monster and now it is his worst enemy. Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) was elected in response to the health care debate effectively stealing away the Democratic super majority in the Senate. Since then, America has seen nothing but partisanship and obstruction in the nation's capital.

3. Jobs: While the political parties fought over Obamacare, millions of Americans lost their jobs, went on welfare, lost their homes and cut back spending dramatically. Just think of what effect a $1 trillion stimulus, in place of a $1 trillion health care law, would have done for our economy.

4. Leadership: Obama has not been able to effectively lead this country. Many presidents have had to negotiate with hostile Congresses throughout the history of our country. Rarely has a president been so ineffective and so inept at finding compromise. Given that Obama campaigned on a promise to bring the two sides together, his performance is that much more disappointing. I stipulate that Republicans are obstructionists and that they indicated they wanted to unseat the president after one term. So what. What opposition party feels differently?

5. Class Warfare: I did not vote for Obama but was hopeful he would bring civility to Washington, amity between the races and improve the reputation of America globally. He did none of the above. In fact, he made a few million new enemies; affluent Americans who he denigrated, badgered and persecuted for political gains.

His theory is that 1% of the population equals 3 million people ... if you initiate class warfare, 99%, or 297 million people will side with you against the minority. The math did not work out that way for the president. The affluent must be co-opted into the economic process as they really do have a large impact on new jobs and are the backbone of the economy.

6. The Economy: In the same vein, Obama has been ineffective when it comes to economic revitalization. His go-to issue is increasing taxes on the wealthy. Actually, that is his only strategy. The president has resisted spending cuts even if they are targeted at unproductive programs.

Although he gives lip service to the scourge of entitlements, they will be sacrosanct so long as he is president. This attitude prevails even though the vast majority of economists believe that entitlements are bankrupting our country.

7. Super PACs: Obama eschewed campaign finance reform by shunning public financing when he ran against John McCain (thereby breaking a campaign promise). The result: a takeover of our electoral process by super PACs, upwards of $4 billion will be frittered away during the 2012 election, aggressive TV ads that are full of lies and spin and greater influence of the wealthy on our leaders.

8. Europe: The reputation of America globally is best exhibited by how much the European Union has relied upon our country during its economic crisis. Our economy is the largest in the world. Yet, the Europeans have not consulted with the U.S. to any great extent. I wonder why. Is it because they believe Obama brings nothing to the table?

9. Obama's Own Problems: When will America’s problems be Obama’s problems, rather than George Bush’s or a hostile Republican House of Representatives or anyone else? Sure, Obama inherited a mess, but it has gotten worse in nearly every regard on his watch.

10. Squashing Other Opinions: I think Barack Obama thinks most Americans are idiots and fools incapable of managing their lives. I think the president hates Congress, Republicans and Democrats alike. He wishes the U.S. were a monarchy so he could govern by fiat. The president’s swagger is disquieting. His inane speeches that affords audiences no new information are disappointing. His disregard of other opinions is shameful.

The thought of another four years of this administration is a nightmare that may happen.

Policymic.com

new tape, Romney urges bosses to tell their workers how to vote

One month after Mitt Romney’s infamous 47% comments sent his campaign into shock, another revealing recording of the former Massachusetts governor has surfaced.

On a conference call with small business owners back in June, hosted by the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), Romney encourages employers to “make it very clear” to their workers that their jobs are dependent on the outcome of the election.

“I hope you make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in the best interest of your enterprise and therefore their job and their future in the upcoming elections. And whether you agree with me or you agree with President Obama, or or whatever your political view, I hope, I hope you pass those along to your employees. Nothing illegal about you talking to your employees about what you believe is best for the business, because I think that will figure in to their election decision, their voting decision.”

soundbite video posted on you tube

Jody-1593626, while you may find the caption: "Vote like your lady parts depend on it" offensive, I find more offensive the notion that in 2012, my lady parts are actually in danger of a hostile takeover, by virtue of the right wing's zealot campaign to outlaw all abortion, redefine rape, enforce ultrasounds (ie: the wand), and enact personhood amendments.

I say we on the left start a grassroots campaign to bring back that slogan, because apparently, people like Jody-1593626 still fail to understand that the danger to our lady parts remains a real possibility.

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