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Subscribe to RSSRomney said yesterday: “We’ve got to make sure we win here in Ohio, and when we do, we’re going to take back the White House.”
“Mitt Romney's campaign announced [yesterday] that the GOP ticket and the Republican National Committee raised $111.8 million between Oct. 1 and Oct. 17,” Politico reports.
“Mitt Romney's running as far as he can from George W. Bush,” Politico writes. “In all three presidential debates, Romney's raced from the last Republican president's policies — claiming he's got new ideas for foreign policy, the deficit and energy. But for all of Romney's efforts to divorce himself from Bush, behind the scenes there's one critical way he's given the era a full embrace: its people. Romney's brought on a cadre of Bush officials to serve as his senior policy advisers, lead his presidential transition effort and help him raise millions to fuel his run — the pillars of his campaign and a potential administration.”
The Boston Globe: “Mitt Romney testified under oath in 1991 that the ex-wife of Staples founder Tom Stemberg got a fair deal in the couple’s 1988 divorce, even though the company shares Maureen Sullivan Stemberg received were valued at a tenth of Staples’ stock price on the day of its initial public offering only a year later. At the time the Stembergs split, Romney suggested, there was little indication that Staples’ value would soon skyrocket.”
The Globe also writes: “The president of the nation’s largest gay-rights advocacy group criticized Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney Thursday after the Globe reported how, as governor of Massachusetts, he blocked routine recording of births to same-sex parents.”
That story from yesterday: “Romney rejected new birth certificates for gay parents.”
AP: “Republican Mitt Romney is renewing his focus on the nation’s economy while facing continued pressure to break his silence on a GOP Senate candidate’s statement that any pregnancy resulting from rape is ‘something God intended.’ As Election Day looms less than two weeks away, the Republican presidential contender is also trying to move past new questions about his role in a key supporter’s divorce. Court documents released Thursday reveal that Romney created a special class of company stock for Staples founder Tom Stemberg’s then-wife as a ‘favor.’ Romney has so far ignored the criticism and is instead accusing President Barack Obama of playing partisan politics in an ‘incredibly shrinking campaign.’”
Romney bought ad time in Minnesota.
Keep it classy… maybe it’s actually about foreign policy: “Former White House Chief of Staff John Sununu, a co-chair of GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's campaign, said in an interview Thursday night that retired Gen. Colin Powell's decision to endorse President Barack Obama's re-election bid appeared to have been driven by race,” Politico writes. “However, Sununu later seemed to reverse himself. Sununu said on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight last night: "Frankly, when you take a look at Colin Powell, you have to wonder if that's an endorsement based on issues, or whether he's got a slightly different reason for preferring President Obama?" Morgan asked, "What reason would that be?" Sununu replied, "Well, I think when you have somebody of your own race that you're proud of being President of the United States, I applaud Colin for standing with him.”
Sununu walked it back hours later: "Colin Powell is a friend and I respect the endorsement decision he made and I do not doubt that it was based on anything but his support of the president’s policies. Piers Morgan’s question was whether Colin Powell should leave the party, and I don’t think he should.”
John McCain’s not happy that Powell endorsed, making a hot statement yesterday. Powell didn’t endorse McCain in 2008.
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Wow, just 11 days before the election and nearly on the eve of Halloween. So the only potential "game changers" left may be if one camp employs one of these 10 funny trick-or-treat pranks on the other campaign to throw them off their preferred messages of the day. Enjoy:
I would say a flaming bag of dog crap on Romneys front porch, but the question is which of his 5 house should I hit? Since he doesn't sully himself with menial tasks like answering the door, it would fall to his "legal" <snicker> immigrant household staff. Maybe if I could get some Redbull into his juice, it would be fun to watch him do a press conference wired out...
Mormon missionary Mitt Romney and Ryan and the men of the Republican Party. GO F YOURSELF! So you know, Rape in the United States today. stop this madness! By fixing the man like a dog. That would make him think before doing the crime. You do the crime, you pay for that crime. Woman are not a thing! They are a real person.
World English Dictionary RAPE:
1. forcing of somebody into sex: the crime of using force somebody to have sexual intercourse with somebody
2. instance of rape: an instance of the crime of rape
Somewhere in America, a woman is raped every 2 minutes, 72 of every 100,000 females in the United States were raped last year. 6.7 million pregnancies in the United States every year. Other research has found that about 80,000 American female children are sexually abused or raped each year. From the age 1 years old and up. It has been estimated that one in six American women has been or will be raped during her life.
When a viable sperm penetrates a viable egg inside a woman's reproductive tract, the result is a fertilized egg that can then implant in the uterus. That fact of life is consistent regardless of how that sperm and egg met up, including whether or not the sperm was ejaculated during rape.
That may be news to Rep. Todd Akin from Missouri who told a local television station, in explaining his stance that abortion should not be allowed even in the case of rape: "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
"Physiologically, if the sperm is in the vagina, a pregnancy can occur, regardless of the circumstances of how that sperm got there," said Dr. Melisa Holmes, an ob-gyn and founder of Girlology, an organization that promotes healthy sexuality and communication in families.
And though the anti-abortion Republican says he "misspoke," Holmes says that Akin's remark also suggests that some rapes are not "legitimate," and this continues a harmful misconception about violence against women.
"A rape is a rape, and a woman has the same physical and emotional consequences whether she's raped by a stranger in a dark alley or someone she's known for five years," Holmes told LiveScience. "That's one of those misperceptions that gets perpetuated and unfortunately affects women in a bad way — 'Were you really raped, or were you at fault for part of it?'"
Perhaps Akin is correct in thinking it's not the easiest of tasks to get pregnant; that's why men don't ejaculate just one sperm and instead release nearly 100 million sperm. (Men who have fewer than 20 million sperm per milliliter of semen may have difficulty conceiving, according to a WebMD article.) That's because few sperm survive the grueling journey from the vagina to the fallopian tubes where they can meet up with an egg. Even for those that make it, only the healthiest will penetrate, and fertilize, the egg. [11 Odd Facts About the Pregnant Body]
Still, of the 6.7 million pregnancies in the United States every year, about half are unintended, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
The chance of getting pregnant from one event of unprotected sexual intercourse is 5 percent on average, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN).
And according to research by Holmes and her colleagues published in 1996 in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, that same rate applies to rape victims, though it's tricky to compare these different populations.
"Rape-related pregnancy occurs with significant frequency," the study researchers wrote in their journal article. "It is a cause of many unwanted pregnancies, and is closely linked with family and domestic violence."
In the study, Holmes and her colleagues, followed more than 4,000 American adults over a three-year period. Nationally, they found rape-related pregnancy rate was 5 percent among women of reproductive age, 12 to 45, meaning about 32,000 pregnancies result from rape each year, they concluded. Among 34 cases of rape-related pregnancy that they looked at closely, 32 percent of women maintained the pregnancy and kept the infant, 50 percent underwent an abortion, nearly 6 percent placed the baby up for adoption and nearly 12 percent had a miscarriage.
At the end of the day, Holmes said of Akin's comments, "It's just simple lack of education into the human body," adding that "the reproductive system is going to respond in the same way whether it's rape, or you're madly in love with someone. It's tubes and pipes and sperm and eggs, and there's nothing that will stop that process."
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49570159#.UIsbaGfF2UI
ROMNEY FTW!!!!
WAPO/ABC POLL: INDEPENDENT VOTERS MOVING TO ROMNEY
The latest Washington Post/ABC tracking poll shows voters moving toward Romney since the third debate:
As Romney hits 50, the president stands at 47 percent, his lowest tally in Post-ABC polling since before the national party conventions. A three-point edge gives Romney his first apparent advantage in the national popular vote, but it is not one that is statistically significant with a conventional level of 95 percent confidence.
Results from the tracking poll were first released Monday evening, and had Obama at 49 percent, and Romney at 48. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the results were flipped, with Romney at 49 and the president at 48. All of the results are among likely voters.
Two of the four nights reported here include interviews conducted entirely after Monday's debate in Boca Raton
THE POLL SHOWS ROMNEY WINNING INDEPENDENTS BY 19 PERCENTAGE POINTS!!!
Should that advantage stick, it would be the sharpest tilt among independents in a presidential election since Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide win. (Reagan won independent and other unaffiliated voters 63 to 36 percent, according to the exit poll). Obama won them by eight in 2008.
BYE BYE OBUMBO!!!!
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Hate to burst your bubble too, dumbo, but , if the election were held today...Romney would lose the election with the President securing 294 Electoral Votes. Romney has not closed the gap in Ohio. The President continues to lead by five points in an NBC poll. The popular vote seems close, but the truth is , the bulk of Romney's support is in the racist South, in the large metro areas , President Obama has the lead. So long pathological liar and Sociopath Mitt Romney.
Ohioans will not support Willard Myth Romney (a four-time draft-dodger) for Commander-in-Chief! It's that simple!
Ticked,
In the 10 most recent polls in Ohio between 10/12 and 10/24 including Rasmussen and Fox, Romney leads in ZERO. The last time Romney had more than a 1 point lead in any Ohio poll was 09/02/2012, almost 7 weeks ago.
Guys don't pay any attention to Ticked. I think he's trying to convince himself that what he posts is true, sad thing is, it's not working. He's still not convinced.
Come election day "Ticked" is going to be more ticked off because his guy will lose.
HEY DENNIS...OBUMBO HAD A 6 POINT LEAD IN OHIO JUST 30 DAYS AGO...WHAT HAPPENED???
OH YEAH... WHAT HAPPENED IN FLORIDA, NORTH CAROLINA, AND VIRGINIA TOO???
HAAAHAHAHAAA!!!
BYE BYE OBUMBO!!!
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RCP (Average of polls) President as of 10/25/2012
**NC Moved from Lean Romney back to Tossup.
11 Tossup States: Tied in 2 (NH=4, CO=9), Obama leads in 6, Romney leads in 3.
Delegates: Obama = Solid(142)+Likely(41)+Lean(18) = 201 +Tossup(76) = 277
Delegates: Romney = Solid(75)+Likely(102)+Lean(14) = 191 +Tossup(57) = 248
Total Delegates: [277+248+13 = 538] Win = 270
Tossup lead by state: (FL29=MR+1) , (NC15=MR+5) , (VA13=MR+1) , (WI10=BO+2) , (IA6=BO+2) , (NV6=BO+2) , (PA20=BO+4) , (MI16=BO+4) , (OH18=BO+2)
HEY LEROY...
I HAVE NEWS FOR YA BUDDY...
THERE ARE 137 FELLOW OHIOANS THAT VOTED FOR OBUMBO IN 2008, THAT ARE GOING DOWN TO THE ELECTION HALL TODAY TO VOTE EARLY FOR ROMNEY
IF I CAN ROUND THAT MANY UP, JUST IMAGINE HOW MANY THOUSANDS MORE ARE GOING TO BE VOTING FOR ROMNEY!!!
HAAHAAAAHAHAAA!!!!!
BYE BYE OBUMBO!!!
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The question is Ticked off in Ohio, is will they vote for Romney when they get in the booth? Or will they vote for President Obama? What a quandary you've put yourself in.
ROMNEY FTW!!!!!
You have your letters switched (dyslexia ?)
You obviously meant to write: Romney: WTF ????
I don't think he really knows what he means dirp.
Hate to burst your bubble Romney , but you are not going to win Ohio. You are going down to defeat in the Presidency in a little more than a week. We will be glad to see your pathological lying removed from the press along with that of your sociopathic partner Ryan. It is looking as if Ryan will not only lose the vice president job but also his congressional seat. He trails in both areas in Wisc. It is called justice. God hates a lying Tongue.
I think you're right Pwayne. Ryan sold his career to the devil, Know as Willard Romney.
This is about Mitt's character. Manipulating the stock in such a way as it ultimately cheats a woman out of her fair share of marital assets may be have been legal but was it the right thing to do?
"Some folks can rob you with a pistol...others use a fountain pen."
"You can steal more money with a briefcase than a gun" - Don Henley
The story that will effectively end the race is poised to break later this week. The public will finally learn that Mitt Romney has 4 other wives, and that one of them is Donald Trump! When this story breaks Romney will have no choice but to withdraw from the race. I read yesterday that 48 of the 50 states are already preparing new ballots with no Republican selection for President. You can read the facts here: http:midwestasylum.com/cell48/straightjacket.htm
(Man that was fun! No wonder the right-wing nut jobs post stuff like this all the time...)
Trouble is Doug, they actually believe the crap they post.
and probably some rwnj will come back and say the link doesn't work.....
GNOP - we don't need no fact checkers...we make up the facts..GNOP - CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
C'mon Mythe - show us the 1040'2 - What ARE you hiding?!
Doug, if I could, I'd vote for your post over and over again ....
Willard Myth Romney is trailing and losing in his home states of Michigan and Massachusetts where he is well known. His chances of winning Ohio are slim and none!
Court documents released Thursday reveal that Romney created a special class of company stock for Staples founder Tom Stemberg’s then-wife as a ‘favor.’
Romney is an a--hole.
Fox News is RIGHT! obummer is a kenyan born radical muslim socialist waging a racist jihad against America from our WHITE House!
Mourdock is right as well, many of these so called victims are really tramps who get pregnant then "claim" rape! Even if it was a legitimate rape and the women's body could not shut down the preganancy in time, she needs to appreciate that the man is not a rapist, but is delivering from God, the gift of life to her. It is God's decison to bless her with the gift of life, she needs to embace God's will and the man / lover she has bedded with. With time, and a Tea Party Congress and Mitt as President, we can reverse this feminist notion of rape as a so called "violation" of a womans body.
Join Mitt and our Tea Party Patriots and DEMAND additonal tax cuts for the Job Creator class - lets get help to those who deserve it, not the lazy poor and "entitled" middle class who wont take responsibility for their personal lives!
Hello and good morning crazy!
I hope you enjoy being irrelevant and insignificant because you embrace stupidity at every turn. You will probably not live long enough to understand or regret being on the wrong side of history.
You can tell, all he does all day is sit and watch Fox, twenty four hours a day seven days a week.
Uummm... Dan and Mo... i kinda-sorta got the idea that Impeach is actually indulging in what our British cousins like to call "satire".
Either this person is doing a spot-on imitation of the corn-fed, brain-dead, in- bred dipsticks I used to work with in places like Florida and South Dakota, or he's sincere, and is just providing a look at the Typical Republican Voter, for the edification of those of us who actually passed 8th grade and went on to "grown-up school" from there.
Either way, Impeach- you're HILARIOUS! Keep it coming- love your act!
You're kinda sorta wrong Foxy. This dude believes everything he posts. There's nothing hilarious about hate and lies.
Mitt 'Let Detroit Go Bankrupt' Romney isn't going to win Ohio and, as a result, he'll lose the election.
WOW - This just in "I heard that Romney intends to convert Food Stamps into a Voucher"!!
Think of the implications - ;)
Obama/Biden 2012
It appears from the right-tilted posters comments that they aren't totally buying into the Romney campaign's "Feined momentum"!
Let me shed one of Mitt's croc-tears for ya'll!
You don't have to worry about what Romney would do if elected. What everybody needs to worry about is who he will turn the White House over to on inauguration day. Romney doesn't want to be President he just wants the title of President.
CNN: Not Only Is Obama's Plan Old But It Doesn't Add Up
http://realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/10/24/cnn_not_only_is_obamas_plan_old_but_it_doesnt_add_up.html
This race is so important for the future of our great country. The Romney/Ryan ticket is based upon lies and misrepresentation. The men that have emerged these last few weeks are not the men that won their party's nomination. Their efforts to move towards the middle to reap votes is deceiving, to be kind. The true agenda of this ticket is based upon their tax policy. Romney/Ryan have every intention of keeping the Bush tax cuts and even expanding them by another $4.8 trillion of tax cuts for the top wage earners. The Tax Policy Center and the Congressonal Budget Office have both concurred that the math does not add up. The CBO has projected the effect of Romney/Ryan's tax plan on the national debt. If the tax cuts are extended the debt/share of the economy increases from approx. 35% to 50% by 2020. If the tax cuts are allowed to expire this ratio drops from 35% to 10+% by 2020.
Romney wants to increase the tax gap between the wealthy and the working class. President Obama wants to improve educaton and technology to make the United States more competitive. Romney/Ryan's plan proposes eliminating the Dept of Education; cutting education grants, cutting job-training programs, etc. With 2 - 3 Supreme Court appointments likely under the next president, workers' rights, human rights, environmental rights, and women's right are at risk. Look at who is backing the Romney/Ryan ticket and it is obvious whose interests will be served under a Romney/Ryan administration.
President Obama has taken our country from a financial catastrophy brought on by the same economic policies that Romney/Ryan propose but on an even larger scale. We have seen what "trickle down" economics has done to this country. Gaps between company executives and their workers are at an all-time high. How much do these "job creators" have to make before they are willing to pass on their good fortune to the hard-working people who actually brought about their success? Instead, these "job creators" off-shore their labor force to those countries where labor is cheap, worker safety is nonexistent, working conditions are intolerable because they can make an extra $. This Republican ticket does not have the best interest of the working class of America in mind.
Please vote Obama/Biden; do not sell out the American working class.
The repukes aren't interested in truth or facts except there own.
Romney is not going to win Ohio no more than he will win Cal. So keep dreaming and making yourselves feel good.
my only coment for the people of this country............New York State is a Democractic state............also it is one of the highest taxed states in the country, and yes i live here, born here..........think about that..........high taxes in a state run by the democratic party.........and PEOPLE BELIEVE OBAMA IS THE WAY TO GO.........New York was a great state moons ago........then the democrates got hold of it............it's a complete mess and only gets worse. so go ahead and give Obama another 4 yrs.............and watch the middle class disapear into poverty.
Since you can't make it there, I guess you can't make it anywhere.
MABY you should move to Texas
MODERATE MYTH ROMNEY'S MYTHMENTUM:
The Romney Con of America is in high gear. The most fraudulent Presidential campaign in American history is in its final closing days, which has only provided the shape-shifter, ‘the man without a soul’, the ‘Manchurian Mormon with three faces’, which is even ‘Too many Mitts’ for the Salt Lake Tribune, to etch a sketch the timely return of ‘Moderate Mitt’; a not so veiled effort to play the likability card to seize the center and dupe women. It says a great deal that Utah’s largest newspaper in a red state which should be firmly behind Romney, endorsed President Obama instead of the GOP’s ’shape-shifting nominee’, in effect turning away from the ‘biggest hypocrite in the history of hypocrisy’. You don’t need to be six years old or be struck with Romnesia to know that Romney is a bullsh**tter on so many levels. But you were wrong if you expected the ‘hollow man’ and his Little Munster to deviate and do something other than close this campaign out with more of the same sketchy policy proposals, political shape-shifting et al etc that has become the hallmark of the most fraudulent, deceptive and hollow criminal campaign in American history. It is in that regard only that Romney/Ryan are consistent.
THE ROMNEY CON OF AMERICA: Know the Truth Before it is too late!
MODERATE MYTH ROMNEY'S MYTHMENTUM:
MITT ROMNEY - THE MOST FRAUDULENT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN AMERICAN HISTORY (& His Little Munster):
ROMNEY THE RACKETEER: Romney & Priebus Led RNC Are Engaged in Election Fraud, Voter Suppression & Other Criminal Acts:
THREE FACES OF THE ROMNEY CON – ILLUMINATI’S MANCHURIAN MORMON ROBOT:
FINALLY LIBERATED FROM FACTS, MITT ROMNEY THE PURE BULL ARTIST TAKES FLIGHT: #ixzz2A2hSN5CQ
MITT ROMNEY: THE MORMON MADOFF:
THE RISE OF MITT ROMNEY & THE MORMON MAFIA: ILLUMINATI'S FINAL SOLUTION:
MITT "The Republi-CON" ROMNEY - HIGH PRIEST IN UTAH BASED MORMON CULT:
MITT ROMNEY: Conservative Trojan Horse or Political Chameleon?
PAUL RYAN: The New “Emily Post” or a Satanic Munster?
PHILANTHROPIC PROPAGANDA: Paul Ryan’s “Giving Back”:
MITT ROMNEY & BAIN CAPITAL:
OPEN YOUR EYES AMERICA
Did The Bishop mean he will depend on his son Tagger's voting machines in Ohio will come through? Will Tagger take a punch at someone if The Bishop loses?
I'd just be happy if people could look to Bush's final years, with all the same people that Romney has on his staff, and say, "yeah, let's get back on that track".
They won't. It's just bluster. Maybe hate and fear can win a lot of people, but when it comes right don't to it, the guy isn't doing a bad job and Mitt's people (THE EXACT SAME GUYS) f-ed it up worse than anyone since hoover.
Maybe if he had different supporters, I'd have more faith in him, but he's got Bush's same team! WTF???
... NOT GONNA HAPPEN ROMNEY ..... GIVE IT UP ~
OBAMA 2012
Maby Romney will take a trip and figure out why you can't open the windows on a jet plane or maby he will open a Geography book and find that Iran is already on the sea DO WE REALLY want a dunce for president??????