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Subscribe to RSSWhile stumping in Cincinnati, Ohio, GOP candidate Mitt Romney stressed that his campaign was about 'big things' and promised he was going to bring the 'big changes' that Americans want.
CINCINNATI, OH -- Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said he was the candidate of "big change" at the outset of three-event bus tour of battleground Ohio on Thursday.
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The former Massachusetts governor cast President Barack Obama as a figure of the "status quo," and made clear that the Republican ticket represented "big change" by contrast -- repeating that phrase throughout his speech.
"This is a critical time for our country and the choice of paths we chose will have an enormous impact. We have huge challenges," Romney said, ticking off issues ranging from job creation to education. "These challenges are big challenges. This election is therefore a big choice. And America wants to see big changes and we’re gonna bring big changes to get America stronger again.”
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Romney repeated his mantra of "big change" more than 10 times in his roughly 30 minute remarks, hammering the point home again and again and melding it into his broader critique of Obama.
"The Obama campaign doesn't have a plan," Romney said. "The Obama campaign is slipping because he's talking about smaller and smaller things despite the fact that America has such huge challenges and that this is such an opportunity for America, and that's why on November 6th I'm counting on Ohio to vote for big change!"
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop at Jet Machine, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, in Cincinnati.
A senior Romney adviser said that the focus on "big change" would continue in the race's final days.
"Highlighting our campaign's focus on big issues and contrasting that with the smallness of President Obama's campaign will be something we make clear with voters today and through the rest of the campaign," Romney senior adviser Kevin Madden told NBC.
“Here’s the ‘big change’ Mitt Romney is offering: going back to the same failed policies that caused the economic crisis and empowering the extreme voices in his party like Richard Mourdock," Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith said in a statement.
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Romney also continued to highlight how his policies might be better for individual families than Obama's,
Thursday's Deep Dive featured a look at Ohio's key counties and their election histories in 2004 and 2008. Which way will they vote this year? The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd reports.
"This election is not about me. It’s not about the Republican party. It’s about America. And it’s about your family," Romney said after running through a series of scenarios like caring for an aging relative or getting a good education for a child, and how those experiences would differ under a second Obama term or a Romney presidency.
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The GOP standard-bearer also launched into an extended riff this morning about how a voter's hypothetical daughter -- a play toward prized women swing voters -- might suffer from Obama's proposals.
Interviews with female voters at Romney's event suggested this strategy could be part of the right prescription to close the gender gap with women in Ohio.
"I don't think that women are any different from any other voters in particular, and I think that what women are concerned about is they have a dual concern," explained Romney supporter Emilia Pater, a homemaker from Cincinnati who attended this morning's rally. "They're concerned about the economy and their families, because most women are caretakers of their families and they are the ones that are looking toward the future and saying what's going to be left for my children?"
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In another potential blow for the president's Ohio reelection campaign, Jeep, the rugged brand President Obama once said symbolized American freedom, is considering giving up on the United States and shifting production to China.
Such a move would crash the economy in towns like Toledo, Ohio, where Jeeps are made and supplied, and rob the community of the economic security they thought Obama's auto bailout assured them.
No, jeep is not moving to china. Your just falling for another Romney lie.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/10/26/jeep-china-romney-offshoring-wrong-false-gm/
Like the lie that 50% of the stimulus money for green energy was a failure. The actual number is more like 8%. Which is a whole lot better than Romney's investment record of 33% failed business investments.
(CNSNews.com) - The number of American workers collecting federal disability insurance benefits hit yet another record high in October, according to the Social Security Administration.
This month 8,803,335 disabled workers are collecting benefits, up from the previous record of 8,786,049 set in September.
Maybe the companies they work for should have provided insurance. Just a thought.
It's also interesting that a vast majority of those folk live in red states.
vote for me , cause i'm rich , white , hate the 47% entitlement hobos , love firing people , i even fired JESUS , and put '' MORONI '' in his stead. i'll take away from the poor and struggling in our great country , and give more tax loop-holes to the filthy rich blessed of GOD. i'll send your kids and relatives to war at the drop of a hat , all it takes is a little WALL STREET INSPIRATION. but as for me and my boys , we'll just sit on the side lines '' counting our war investments !!!!!!!
It's amazing to me how this guy can continue to say things like he's going to create 12million jobs, He's going to cut taxes by 20%, He's going to raise peoples incomes, and has yet to tell anyone how he will do it. And so many people believe him astonishing.
If Obama really cared about people he would take Trump up on
his offer. That money could go to a charity that would SAVE LIVES.
What are you hiding this time Mr. President?
I got to wonder what Mitt is going to change into next. His big change is going back to the policies of GW Bush. That certainly is a BIG Change from where we are, but I don't think this country can endure 4 years of Bush/Romney policies. We already did the big tax cuts for the rich. And see where that put us.
"Big change" for the worse. Romney will rake in cash for himself and ship it offshore.
Mitt Romney says he is the candidate of "big change". This is probably the one and only statement in this whole election process where Romney has actually spoken the truth. You can take that statement to the bank. He'll change on a dime. He'll change at the drop of a hat. He'll change depending on the size of the room and whether it has the required security. He'll change when the cameras and recorders are turned on. He'll change when the cameras and recorders are turned off. He'll change when he figures no one is listening. He'll change when he figures someone is listening. He'll change depending on the crowd that he is addressing. He'll change when he is talking about his taxes. He'll change when he is talking about where he lives. He'll change change when discussing his amazing ability to create jobs (in China). He'll change when there is supposed to be an honest debate. I'm sure by now that you get the idea. I could go on and on though. There is is no area where this lying, conniving, soulless, empty suit will not use this tactic to further his political cause.
President Barack Obama campaigned in 2008 on the promise of change. He also made clear to the voting public that sometimes that change can be hard. He clearly underestimated the disastrous mess that the republicans left him after eight years of governing. But change has come. We are slowly going in the right direction if you believe all the economic indicators (and I do). These changes are not coming fast enough. Everyone agrees on that point. But are these slow changes more a testament to the uncanny ability of these republicans to f-ck up this country or is it that this President has needed more time to build a sound foundation with difficult, meaningful changes to get this great country back on track for the twenty first century. F-cking up things, while not easy, takes a whole lot less time than the effort to fix things in a meaningful way.
There are changes involved in this election. Romney is right. Look at Romney's changes if you can. They are both at the same time difficult to see and easy to see. It is easy to see how this man reconstructs himself and his policies on an almost hourly basis. What is difficult to see and understand is what this man actually believes in and the serious consequences that a vote for Mitt Romney on November 6 could have for your life and the lives of your family and friends. As Clint Eastwood would say (when he isn't talking to an empty chair) - do you feel lucky? Are you willing to take the chance?
Here is a P.S. to my earlier statement. Mitt Romney has spoken the truth before. I was wrong on that point and I apologize. He spoke his truth in that closed, quiet room with $50,000 - a plate - dinner with his forty-seven per cent remark.
Mitt Romney’s theme has been consistent and simple: States’ Rights. He has defined the election as a battle between States Rights and Big Federal Government. And he means it. That plays well for him in the individual Swing States. As a Mormon, Romney idolizes States’ Rights.
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It will be change but it won't be for the PEOPLE of AMERICA!!
Kock Brothers "PROPAGANDA MACHINE" THE 3%
The Republican Reformist Party!!
Romney/Ryan are the founder and leader of the Republican Reformist Party!! and the most influential voice in the organization, the systematic extermination of the belief in America!! and the destruction of 50% of the American population by all means!!! Including the 47% who have no VOICE in POLITICS!!
REPUBLICANS WILL KICK GRANDMA FROM THE TRAIN FOR SURE!!
President Obama/Biden 4 for 44
The only "Big Change" the republicans gave me was the big change in my retirement account leaving me with "loose change".
Be honest folks, the only change we got from this President was chump change and very little hope. He has taken us to the brink of total bankruptcy with bad policies and too many failed promises.
Record welfare participants, record debt, doubled the deficit, highest unemployment, disastrous Middle East policies and nothing but lies and cover ups in the Benghazi terrorist attack.
We don't want, need or can afford another 4 more years of this failed non leadership.
Romney/Ryan for 2012, real change and much more hope than what we got from Obama.