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Subscribe to RSSRomney picks up an endorsement from the Orlando Sentinel, which backed Obama in ‘08:
The New York Times: Romney “is expected to tout the endorsement on Friday when he arrives for a campaign visit in Daytona Beach. He will stay in Florida until Monday, when he meets Mr. Obama for the third presidential debate in Boca Raton.”
Lee Iacocca, former CEO of Chrysler, also endorsed Mitt Romney.
“Ann Romney said on Thursday that she did not want her husband, Mitt, the Republican nominee for president, to seek the White House again this year and added that if he loses on Nov. 6, the former Massachusetts governor will retire from politics,” the Boston Globe reports. She said on The View: “He will not run again -- nor will I do anything like that. This was a very hard thing for me to decide to go forward again … for the family to have to go through this. The children have a hard time with it. I have a hard time with it. And yet I felt as though there was something my husband could offer this country that was uniquely his, that he could bring better economic hope and prosperity to women and men and all Americans.”
On Leno in September, she recounted this story: “Four years ago I made a videotape, and on the videotape I looked in the camera and I said, ‘Mitt, this is for you sweetheart. I’m never doing this again.’ I showed it to him and he said, ‘You know Ann, you say that after every pregnancy.’ Which is true!”
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Romney is winning by a landslide, he's locked up Florida and has Ohio locked up as well. The polls in Ohio show Obama barely ahead, but they are polling more in Cleveland, which has a higher percentage of Dems, than in Cincinnati by a 40% to 14% margin. The problem is Cincinnati metro area is larger than Cleveland and has a much higher percentage of Republicans. So, tell me why do they poll areas that are higher concentration of Dems??
See for yourself, it breaks down areas polled: http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=9fe706c7-86ef-4698-b0d3-15ec2d79d203
I'm calling the election now, get used to calling him President Romney.
If there was a single poll anywhere that showed a significant lead for Romney in Ohio, I'd find your argument more persuasive. You are sort of clinging to the notion that every single polling agency is polling only Cleveland. Rasmussen, hardly a left wing polling agency, had Obama up yesterday. Here's the basic problem with your premise... most polls that show Obama with a lead, (other than Rasmussen), show him with a healthy lead. The two polls that show Romney with a lead, show him with the smallest lead one can have. Out of the 7 polls RCP is using to compute the Ohio average, the leads for Obama are +6, +5, +4, +3, and +1. Both that show Romney with a lead show that lead as +1.
So if you run a probability based on the polling trend based on nothing but that polling set, the percentage chance that Obama carries Ohio is much, much higher.
Michael you're confusing RationalOne with facts. He's only comfortable in his delusional world.
@Michael - You are missing the point, the poll I show (SurveyUSA) has Romney LEADING the state if you change the weighting. Independents are breaking +5 to Romney in that poll, even weighting the dem's stronghold of Cleveland so high (again 40%). So, you can minus that +3 on the RCP average and put it in Romney's column. Yes, it's a single poll, and Rasmussen is within the margin of error, but it's the MOMENTUM that is going to put Ohio firmly in Romney's camp. All the new polls show Obama's lead dissipating.
@Mo - Chew on those facts, not my problem that you don't like them...
rationalone, how did you stray from your name. it will be close and the winner will be the one who gets out the vote, the ground game. and if women and seniors are paying attention, and i certainly hope they are, then your perdiction will stall and fail.
I cannot understand why anyone would believe someone who has switched his position so many times. Florida is nearly tied and Ohio has been and will be Obama's all the way to the election as far as Real Clear Politics is concerned. But what bothers me is the simple stupidity of voters who believe in Romney at all. This guy would leave your grandmother in the street as he cuts medicare and medicaid--just as he used the same ruthless tatics at Bain, killing hundreds of thousands of American Jobs. Past is Prologue! After the second debate it is clear, that Romney will say and to anything to gain power. He will appease his billion dollar supporters (they did not invest all that money in him for nothing--they want paid.) All I can assume is there is a lack of intellegience among Romney voters, people who will believe anything they are told rather than do a little research. Obama has done much to restore the great damage done by those who have appeased the rich on wallstreet. I stands up for those who make less than 250000 thousand a year, for the sick, for those unable to take care of themselves. Obama also has been ruthless against terrorist, hunting and killing them where they live without starting new wars. By the way Romney is not a govenor any more; call Silver spoon Willard by his first name. Fellow Americans--how can you judge a man's character--look at his past.
The Orlando Sentinel endorsed Obama, the worst President in recent memory, in 2008. They've got about as much credibility left as the Nobel Peace Committee.
Did you forget about George Bush II.
On, my, surprising headline: Rich CEOs endorse Romney. What IS surprising is that all these 1%-2%-ers have so little vision. They just don't get it that the rest of us are becoming increasingly hostile toward their increasing and increasing and increasing wealth made on the backs of us middle class. If Romney wins and his retread trickle-down economics doesn't produce jobs and any increase in the middle class--which, of course, it didn't do with Reagan and didn't do with Bush 1 and didn't do with Dubya and won't do with Romney--expect protests in the streets. And they probably will come even sooner than that if the Republicans vote to take away people's healthcare, as they have promised to do, or try to make it harder for women to get contraception, as they have promised to do, or make life more difficult for undocumented immigrants to our country, as they have promised to do. The Republican Party seems unwilling to moderate, and so, it is clearly on its way out of existence. The question is, Do they fade away or go out with a bang?
Well, it certainly is endorsement season, with everyone from Honey Boo Boo and those long-winded newspaper editorial boards weighing in. But they should all know that the Fluffington Post has beat them all to the punch with its funny endorsement. Is it who you expect? Read and find out. Enjoy:
Veterans Today has an article that points out an earlier article in the LA Times where they claim that Romney and Bain Capitol made tons of money helping launder drug cartel money. It seems Bain paid dividends of almost 200%. That is obscene, if true. It doesn't even seem real that a company could make a legitimate investment and yield that much unless some shenanigans are happening. So maybe those Latin American Drug Cartel leaders will endorse Romney, or have they already done so in a more serupticious way?