Yeah.....Supreme Court is winning. They put our democracy on sale and GOP liked it.

Hey Obama -

Greece called. They want their Greco-Roman styrofoam pillars back.

Everyone, here is an example of low information post written by a 15-year-old.

If Romney wins, just change our name to the United Corporations of America.

The new rules: not only do the sons and daughters of the 1% not have to fight our wars, they don't have to pay for them either!

Jody-1593626 - you can pretend to be Jody but you'll never measure up. You're a typical Republican - try to emulate someone clearly better than you and fail every time! Go away - you're just stupid!

Obama/Biden 2012

I think Jody is ADVERTISING - if you agree, mark her comments as such, please.

KJNC

I think Jody is ADVERTISING

she's polluting!

just24 - They put our democracy on sale and GOP liked it.

President Obama and his Buddy "Mr. Corporate America" loved Violating the US Law, Bipartisan McCain Feingold Campaign Reform Act prior to and during the 2008-2009 Elections. Start of the Illegal Unlimited Corporate Campaign Contributions.

Amy B. Portland, ME,

And, President Obama's Buddy, "Mr. Corporate America" Legal Briefed the US Supreme Court, called "Legal Leveraging", to either declare the 2008-2009 Elections Invalid; Or, Rule in Favor of Unlimited Corporate Campaign Contributions before the Citizens United case made it's way thru the US Court System. This was so that President Obama could get his Unlimited Corporate Campaign Contributions from the Insurance Corporations, Medical Device Corporations, Pharmaceuticals Corporation that he gave Billions to by Law, in his ACA. President Obama's Buddy "Mr.Corporate America" was fined (slapped on the wrist for his admited violation of US Law(s)) $200,000, while President Obama got Millions USDs in Unlimited Corporate Campaign Contributions.

President Obama's Campaign Bus on the Road to Greece.............................Bump.....Bump......"What was that"............."Stop the bus"..............."Oh it's only Hillary (Libya)............"Drive on, next stop Greece"............Bump.....Bump........."Don't worry it's only a bump in the Road"................"Sing it, and the wheels on the short bus go round and round, round and round"...............................

bayllie,

Just because you lack cognitive reasoning skills, and everyone else knows that President Obama is driving the US off the Fiscal Cliff, including his Proposal to US Congress for "Across the Board" Budget Cuts of All US Programs, Projects, Agencies, including chopping the Benefits and Entitlements for the "47%", as well as for all the Public Assistance Programs for everyone that NEED this; you believe that people will not get violent when they find out.

WAKE UP Instead of being WORSE than a Islamic Jihadist defending President Obama Wrong or Right to your Death.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6G3nwhPuR4

This ad places Obama deep in the left fringe as much as Akin is at the antiquated far right. Intelligent women want to focus on what's between their ears, not their thighs.

Obama shortsighted again.

Romney/Ryan 2012, classy leadership for a "United" States of America

Independent Thought - Romney/Ryan prove the old adage - all the money in the world can't buy you class!

Obama/Biden 2012

Amy:

Isn't the military volunteer?

Romney/Ryan 2012 for no more bullying "United" States of America

Seeking:

Let the citizens decide.

Romney/Ryan 2012 for a "United" States of America

Independent - We ARE deciding!

Obama/Biden 2012

Hello folks, the insanity that is being displayed by a bankrupt nation should illustrate exactly where we are headed as an empire.

If you would like to come back to earth from the Presidential Reality Show and truly want to improve our country your priorities and concerns will have to change from the ‘Apology Tour” and “Big Bird” rhetoric to the real problems that plague our society. Both parties are the same with the exception of a few social issues.

I’m sure there are many smart people out there that can add to the enclosed list.

We allow a foreign entity (Federal Reserve, neither federal nor a reserve, a group of mostly European banksters) to control our currency! This system is why you, I, economies and nations are in debt and debt slaves! The Fed has just passed QE3 to infinity and subsidiaries of the Fed like the European ECB can print money, but how can they create wealth by letting bankers use it for speculation (derivatives market), greater consolidation, and big bonuses?

We let Wall Street run our government! Wall Street is Washington and Washington is Wall Street! We have a two headed one party system serving their masters Wall Street and the Federal Reserve!

Our presidential politicians in both parties are going to spend approximately 1 billion dollars each on their campaigns this year, yet we are laying off fire fighters, teachers and policemen. Two billion dollars on presidential campaigns, is that insane or what? Then, we allow the Super Pac’s with little regulation and full anonymity to influence our American elections through the sheer volume of money that has been used to mislead the public to elect a corporate candidate or pass a corporate sponsored bill!

Our congress is bought and paid for by lobbyists and are involved with insider trading, doing the bidding for those who put the most money in their pockets! They get rich while we the “freeloaders” get cuts to Medicare and Social Security all the while the congress receive a tax payer salary and health benefits for life for themselves and their family compliments of the “freeloaders”.

We've legalized Corporations (Citizen's United) as people! They can now buy any election they want to, from sheriff to president! They don't even have to be American corporations! Corporations have severed their moral contract with America. It used to be you worked hard and helped them gain success and you shared in their success through better wages and benefits, all you get now is a pink slip. Corporations have evaded at least $34.5 billion in taxes through more than 600 subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands and other offshore tax havens since 2008. Roughly a dozen of their companies did not pay federal income taxes at all in recent years and some received an additional $6.4 billion in tax refunds from the IRS since 2008. Many of the companies were among those who received the $2.5 trillion from the Federal Reserve following the banking industry induced financial crisis.

The BP Corporation will likely not be charged with any criminal malfeasance in the largest natural disaster in history. The oil leak continues to flow and there are reports Corexit is still being used without any oversight by the U.S. - Many scientists claim the gulf loop current has been broken and the gulf sea floor has been permanently cracked. If you want evidence of the leak just talk to the residents and oil spill workers living along the gulf from Texas to Florida.

We invade a different country every year! Killing and displacing millions of people and spending trillions of dollars to enrich the Oil, Banking, and Corporate cartels!

The Census Department of the American Federal Government recently reported that “50% of the nation’s population were living below the poverty line”.

50 million people can't go to a doctor because they don't have health care!

47 million people need food stamps just to feed themselves!

25 million people are unemployed or underemployed!

15 million people's mortgages are worth more than their homes!

Our national debt is 16 trillion dollars! We pay off our debt with more debt! That is like putting gas on the fire! They tell the U.S. citizens it is their fault because they don't live within their means! They fail to mention it has everything to do with corrupt business and political leaders and the Federal Reserve and their fractional reserve banking system! In the U.S. we are injecting 85 billion a month in the economy via QE3 (40 billion a month), Operation Twist (45 billion a month) and guess who is on the hook for this irresponsible fiscal monetary policy?

The international banking elite with tacit approval from Democrats and Republicans has given the world 1.4 Quadrillion in derivatives fraud, the HSBC drug laundering fraud, the MF Global fraud, the PFG fraud, the high frequency trading pilfering and stock market fraud, the manipulation of the precious metals and bond market fraud, the MERS mortgage fraud, nearly countless individual frauds from both Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, and the international 800 trillion LIBOR interest rate fixing banking fraud, just to name but a few recent FRAUDS and breaches of Bankster credibility and trustworthiness and who’s gone to jail? In blind obedience to the plutocrats we bail them out over and over and over again. You know their motto, privatize profits and socialize losses!

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac the flagships of our housing bubble that has burst! The housing market used to be what was fueling the middle class as manufacturing was being outsourced to foreign countries, it got over leveraged like our banks and stock markets and there is no resolution in site! The mortgage settlement just signed is just another small fine and in reality a bailout for the banks for what they are truly liable for.

They tell us social safety nets, Medicare and Social Security that you and I paid into is Socialism when the largest recipients of social welfare in the history of the world are our “Capitalist, Free Market” banking and financial institutions! Remember the bailouts? We keep bailing out the banks to the tune of tens of trillions and we're told it's because they are too big to fail and all the while we allow them to get bigger! We are witnessing the biggest bank robbery in history and the banks and financial institutions are doing the robbing!

Our media (presstitutes) are bought and paid for by corporations and treat us like mushrooms! Reuters and the Associated Press try to tell us what to believe and think, such as unemployment is at 8.3% and falling, freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength, war is peace, they hate us for our freedom, the terrorists are out to get you, the economy is great, borrow and spend! etc…

Our constitution, our most sacred document as a country is meaningless!

We have lost most of our civil liberties through the passage of the Patriot Act, Foreign Investigation and Surveillance Act (FISA) and National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and the new National Defense Resources Preparedness (NDRP)! They have authorized the use of spy drones in American skies! You can be surveilled by any number of Federal agencies, have your phone and computer tapped, bank, medical, and private records accessed! You can be arrested without gaining access to an attorney or a trial. We are molested at the airports or radiated for “security”. And just recently added National Defense Resources Preparedness (NDRP) which comes on the heels of NDAA. This Executive Order allows the government to take pretty much whatever it wants including crops, farm equipment, vehicles, boats, aircraft and fuel to “prepare” for the national defense. This includes making people work for free. You think I’m kidding about the free labor? Here’s a line straight from the EO that says, “. . . to employ persons of outstanding experience and ability without compensation. . .” This is authorized even in peace time!

NYPD’s aggressive street policing program, called “stop-and-frisk,” which predominantly targets low-income minority neighborhoods. In 2011, the program stopped and searched more than 900,000 New Yorkers, 85 percent of them black or Latino. This program is moving to a city near you!

We have created another cartel the “Prison Industrial Complex”! We have outsourced our incarceration of United States citizens which consists of over 6 million prisoners! This exceeds the number of prisoners held in the gulags of the former Soviet Union at any point in history! All objectivity of prison reform has flown out the window in exchange for profits! No prisoners no profits! In some state contracts the conditions of privatization require that states guarantee prisons remain at 90% occupancy! Are there prison lobbyists? You bet and loaded with cash compliments of you and me!

The Military Industrial Complex is King, our defense budget is larger than the rest of the world’s combined! We are the enforcement arm of all the world’s cartels! The policeman of the world! In our countries short history we have bombed over 65 different countries and been at war with the world for 216 of our 236 years! The outsourcing of our security to private military companies like XE (formerly Blackwater) is increasing dramatically!

The phony war on drugs! While our military protect the poppy fields in Afghanistan, the Opium supply produced in Afghanistan went from a modest 185 tons at the start of American intervention in 2001, to a robust 8,200 tons of opium, a remarkable 53 percent of the country’s GDP and 93 percent of global heroin supply; Wells Fargo has been caught laundering money for the Mexican drug cartel in the United States (look it up); The use of drugs in the health care industry is over a 100 billion dollar a year scam. There's no profit in the cure only in the treatment. You are not allowed to buy the same manufactured prescription drugs from other countries at a cheaper price because the drug lobby has had congress pass laws against it to protect their profits.

Fukushima, which still remains stricken over 18 months after the disaster despite the fact that it has disappeared from mainstream news coverage.

The spent fuel pool inside unit number 4 at Fukushima which stores the spent fuel rods is under dire threat of collapse. Scientists have predicted that there is a 98% chance the facility will be hit by a 7.0 magnitude or higher earthquake within the next three years, threatening a disaster that would be worse than three reactor meltdowns combined. We should be made aware of the progress of the cleanup and situation.

We let the elite divide us so that they can keep us in fear, distracted, and divided to the theft going on right in front of our eyes each and every second of the day! The theft of our civil liberties, money and property!

What is wrong with this picture and what does it say about us that we allow this to take place? We have lost our moral compass and our priorities as a country and need to get them back! It is time we concentrate on fixing America for awhile!

Seeking:

I know YOU are deciding, I have witnessed your posts for several years. I sat quietly for a long time, until I realized no-one was representing every day women, mother's, our children, the educational system, and the future of our nation.

We are headed to a fiscal cliff that will take us all down, party affiliation will be the absolute least of our worries.

Romney/Ryan 2012 for a better financial plan

Hello folks, correction to the unemployment rate listed in my statement above which is listed at 8.3% I meant to list 7.8 %.

MSNBC:

How did Jody's posts get DELETED? And you allow Seeking, KJNC, and Baillie responses?

What an absolute suppression of freedom of speech. No shame for you posters. Really a sad state for the incestuousness of this blog.

Romney/Ryan for our nation's citizens to not be so desperate, and our media so blatantly one sided.

No Tonic, he's losing - look at the Portman article . . . Myth & Lyin' Ryan are almost gone, Thank God!

Nate Silver's 538 blog shows the odds of O & Joe winning OH by ~75%!!!

also winning the popular vote, and having a 75+% chance of winning 294+ Electoral College votes.

NOTE TO E COAST DEMS: PLEASE VOTE EARLY - TAKE CARE & STAY SAFE - DON'T LET SANDY KEEP YOU FROM THE POLLS!

O & JOE - 4 MORE . . . .

Trust:

Remember they "forgot" some of California's 55 million unemployed in that number. It will be interesting to see the numbers next week.

Independent Thought

I sat quietly for a long time, until I realized no-one was representing every day women, mother's, our children, the educational system, and the future of our nation.

Romney/Ryan 2012 for a better financial plan

so you decide to support a guy who has no balls to admit that he is either FOR equal pay for women or AGAINST IT? You are supporting a guy who cut funding for schools and towns sticking property owners with higher tax bills? so you decided to support a guy who lied to every woman when he told his 'binder" story during 2nd debate that HE SEEKED WOMEN? Romney didn't seek anyone. He had no choice since he signed a pledge to get the endorsement from MassGAP.

If you were trully for what you said you are, you wouldn't be supporting Romney who failed as a governor of Massachusetts, a job that he got through his own total misrepresentation of what he stood for.

You know what Mass residents think of Romney? That he used them like a cheap whore and dumped them once he got what he wanted.

You are so full of sh*t because you don't even know who Romney is. I don't even think Romney knows who Romney is.

Why the hell the headline on front page saying "$900 Billion" ??

Please correct.

Have a good weekend, everybody :)

And Barry's new add likens voting for him to like loosing your virginity...... Come on now ladies? How many of you lost your virginity to a low-down worthless looser that never called you again (unless he wants sex), told everyone about "rocking you world" (even though the experience for you was left lacking), and when you met him again at the 20 year high school reunion, he'd turned into a good-for-nothing, still living at home with his mother cause he can't keep a decent job, party all the time, irresponsible idiot that you cannot even imagine that you had even known, much less had SEX with for the first time.........

Is THAT the memory Barry is trying to invoke on our country?

Or maybe he really does ONLY see women as SEX OBJECTS? Remember, all he cares about is contraception & his old buddy is Bill Clinton.............

Bayllie:

I find it interesting that no matter what, you can never show class.

Romney/Ryan for the elevation of dialogue and vocabulary.

Steve,

In the new ad, he forgot to call her "sweetie." The gall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIBAjkMC5x4

Romney/Ryan for most of us women who think rationally

@ PJ,

I think the trader who caused the flash crash is now a headline writer for MSNBC/NBC News...but for most of who expect all the stories here to be 90% off, we hardly notice anymore

Isn't the military volunteer?

Yes it is for those who actually have balls, unlike Romney his boys and Ryan.

Ourdoc:

Did you have balls enough to work hard and become a CEO?

Romney/Ryan 2012 and no more class warfare.

And what does Obama give all his campaign donors? The real question feisty is why does Obama have to spend so much to defend his presidency and get another four years? If he did only half the things he promised, he wouldn't have to spend anything to get re-elected! The incumbent has the advantage of his record over the challenger. In this case Obama doesn't have a record of accomplishment to stand on hence the large sums of money spent. The question isn't why somebody threw money done the rabbit whole, but why are you concerned about it?

Ah fact checker here. I believe you meant to say 900 million in the headline, your front page says 900 billion. Now that would be outrageous, so's 900 million however. Dr. Evil spent 900 million billion and still didn't get those figgin lazer beams.

Independate Thought

Remember they "forgot" some of California's 55 million unemployed in that number. It will be interesting to see the numbers next week.

FR would do you a favor it they deleted some of your posts and spare you the embarrassment of people knowing you do not understand unemployment numbers. Oh, and by the way, California only has approx. 38 million residents.

They don't want to pay higher taxes but they will spend much more on an election. It's not about money it's about economic elitism.

President Obama doesn't have much to stand on because of the obstructionist GOP who set a record for the number of fillibusters in a Presidential Term. Everything the President and Democrats tried to put through was blocked by the Party of NO. You Republicans are grasping at straws.

Thank you, Pat - I hope they correct that soon. That $900b is pretty big, but if you think about it, should Romney get elected, he plans to spend $2,000b in increased unnecessary corporate pork (ostensibly for defense projects). That's the motivation for all these billionaires contributing to Romney, and, if Romney is elected, why $2000b is a reasonable price tag to put on the election.

However, it won't be the billionaire's money. It will be ours.

Obama and Biden are trying to prove "All your money in the world can make my cronies happy".

And yet these "job creators" cant seem to find enough money to pay their workers a living wage or give them a raise... treasonous economic terrorists on BOTH sides!

A billion dollars, huh?!
Well, the candidates DID say that they had plans for getting our economy juiced up again... I just never suspected that they meant simply moving the hyper-spending over just a few blocks away...
...from Wall Street to Madison Avenue.

It's hard to write anything about Barry and not have BILLIONS dancing around in your head.......

In overall spending, Team Romney is outpacing Team Obama $531 million to $375 million.

I would like to know the breakdown of this.. Because as of earlier in the week when THIS VERY SITE did a breakdown of spending. Obama vs Romney. DNC vs RNC and all the outside groups added together> Obama has spent more then Romney.

SO like I said above, I would like to see the breakdown please.

Independent Thought

I find it interesting that no matter what, you can never show class.

the word "whore" offends you but not what Romney did in Mass? Don't worry about me. Worry about the fact that you have to write that I have no class instead of coming up with some credible evidence that would support your guy.

SeekingSanity

Keep "Seeking Sanity" you will not find it with "Obama/Biden 2012".

Question: What did President Obama spend $2.1 Trillion on that was not previously Budgeted for, that requires the current and future Cuts to the previously Budgeted for Programs, Projects, Agencies, and the Entitlements and Benefits of the "47%", as stated in President Obama's Presidential Proposal to US Congress.

YOU HAVE 30 MINUTES TO PROVIDE THE CORRECT ANSWER. POST ANSWER BELOW. NO LAME EXCUSES.

TrustVerify - The Military Industrial Complex is King,

President Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Penetta, 2012, "A 10% Defense Budget Cut will result in a Million (US) Civilians to become Unemployed".

How about putting Faces (number of US Civilian Jobs) on the US Military Defense Industrial Complex, as employing directly and indirectly almost a hundred million US Citizens.

That would of, should of, could have, of changing the US Military Defense Industrial Complex to produce other things (especially "Alternative Energy") is Overcome By Events, specifically the Loss of the World's Resources to the Chinese and Russian Federation due to President Obama's Policies. 2010, Chinese placed Restrictions on the Shipments of Resources to the US and US Allies, especially those required for the US Manufacturer of Alternative Energy.

And of course the President Obama insanity being that instead of the 10% and a Million (US) Civilians becoming Unemployed, President Obama is demanding a 11% US Defense Budget Cut.

And sure you can cry about the US Military being used to seize, secure the World's Resources (like what the Chinese and Russian Federation are successfully doing due to President Obama's Policies); just learn the hard way to live like a Fourth World Somalis (zero Resources).

TrustVerify - our defense budget is larger than the rest of the world’s combined!

Do I have to explain this again to you in simplistic terms. The US Military Defense Industrial Complex pays a "Fair and Living Wage" to US Civilians, so Labor of $275 to make a $25 hammer, so the US Taxpayer buys a $300 hammer for the US Military; same with the USAF Toilet Seat. The Chinese and Russian Federation, also take Civilians out and execute them for Manufacturing Delays, Defective Military products, etc., they also pay next to nothing as labor, so they get EVERY non Inflated Chinese Yuan or Russian Rouble worth. While the US Military gets screwed with Obsolete equipment due to manufacturing delays; just so that US Civilians can have overpaid too expensive jobs for a longer amount of time.

TrustVerify - We are the enforcement arm of all the world’s cartels! The policeman of the world!

US would have to get out of the United Nations to stop the US Military being used as the United Nation's Military B!tches.

TrustVerify - The outsourcing of our security to private military companies like XE (formerly Blackwater) is increasing dramatically!

Tell that to the US Department of State. SOS Clinton. US Ambassador Stevens. Once again rant on without taking RESPONSIBILITY and ACCOUNTABILITY. Who do you think the "ex USN SEALs" that died protecting US Ambassador Stevens and the US Consulate worked for. The Idealistic Academic Polticial Appointees do not "like" a US Military presence guarding the US Diplomatic Mission.

Magic Tonic Kills Brain Cells - ROMNEY'S GONNA WIN.

Already decided; just like the President Bush second term, President Bush lost the "popular" November December Votes; but, won the Electoral College Votes. And most Newsviners , especially the Demoncraps want to retain the Electoral College, instead of real Democracy of our November December Votes determining the President and Vice President.

Finally,I can get in. Feisty,and Amy-- In a nut shell,your right!

KevinH - President Obama doesn't have much to stand on because of the obstructionist GOP

blah, blah, blah, dog ate my homework, blah, blah, lame excuses, blah, blah.

PROVEN: President Obama to circumvent the US Congress "Will of the People", keep clicking "Next", see anything Unconstitutional, TOUGH, that is what you voted for:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions

lol it is so funny to come on this liberal siteand read the junk you libs write each other to make each other feel good as you watch it slip away. lol really its too funny I laugh until I am in tears. first msnbc does everything possible to make you all feel good and try to help obummer then you guys write twenty comments each trying to feel better when all of you can see reality and know obummer is done, finished its over. He is unemployed in Nov, thank God lol!!!

And this propaganda site (not a news agency in any way)does not even have any coverage of the facts released today that the ex seals killed in libya was begging for help 3 times while fighting and obummer refused to send back up to help them and just watched them die on camara...thats a coward piece of crap yoou people support and this site wont even cover the truth about these heroes that were killed. You are all sorry as they come and I hope you get your own dose of justice for being such sorry Americans for not caring about the truth. lol nov yoou will get it when obummer is unemployed hahahaha

keep on talking and attacking it sends votes towards Romney every time you all do it...

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012

Updated as of 6:00pm EST on Friday, October 26:

Real Clear Politics (RCP) is consistently cited by both FOXNEWS and NBCNEWS as a current source for reliable averaged polling data at every level of American politics.

RCP yesterday returned North Carolina (NC) to the status of toss-up state, and in so doing, reduced Romney's likely electoral vote tally from 206 to 191. However, Romney still holds a strong although rapidly declining lead of 3.8% in NC and remains the favorite to capture that state in the upcoming election.

In sum, RCP now considers the following eleven states, listed in descending order of electoral votes, as "toss-up": Florida (FL), Pennsylvania (PA), Ohio (OH), Michigan (MI), North Carolina (NC),Virginia (VA), Colorado (CO), Wisconsin (WI), Iowa IO), Nevada (NV) and New Hampshire (NH). With only 11 days left in the 2012 presidential campaign, Obama leads in seven of the toss-ups, Romney leads in three, and in CO as of late this afternoon the candidates are tied.

In descending order of 'percentage of lead' in favor of Obama, followed in ascending order of 'percentage of lead' in favor of Romney, here are the published averaged numbers from RCP as of 6:00pm today:

In PA, with 20 electoral votes, Obama's lead is holding at 4.8%.

In MI, with 16 electoral votes, Obama's lead is holding at 4.0%.

In NV, with 6 electoral votes, Obama's lead has fallen to 2.5%, down from 2.7% yesterday.

In WI, with 10 electoral votes, Obama's lead has fallen to 2.3%, down from 2.7% yesterday.

In OH, with 18 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 2.3%, up from 2.1% this morning.

In IO, with 6 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 2.3%, up from 2.0% yesterday.

In NH, with 4 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 1.1%, up from 0.8% yesterday.

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In CO, with 9 electoral votes, Obama and Romney are now locked in a dead heat with Romney's Thursday lead of 0.4% dissipating late this afternoon to 0.0%.

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In VA, with 13 electoral votes, Romney's lead has fallen to 1.2%, down from 1.5% this morning.

In FL, with 29 electoral votes, Romney's lead has fallen to 1.8%, down from 2.1% overnight.

In NC, with 15 electoral votes, Romney's lead has fallen to 3.8%, down from 5.0% yesterday and affirming the re-designation of this state as toss-up.

So…

For Obama to win re-election, the easiest route still appears to be through maintaining his existing lead in the six toss-up states where his current margins are widest: PA, MI, NV, WI, OH, and IO. Doing so would bring his electoral vote total on Election Day to 277. In this scenario, Obama could still reach 270 while failing to hold either NV or IO.

However, should Obama lose the critically important and highly-contested state of OH, the loss could effectively be neutralized by victories in CO and NH, where Romney's lead in the former, CO, dissipated in its entirety late today, resulting in an electoral vote tally of 272. However, there is some question as to the accuracy of the RCP polling numbers in the latter state, NH, which does include in their average a recent 'outlier' finding from UNH which has Obama leading by an overwhelming 9.0%.

For Romney to unseat Obama, he not only would have to hold the three states in which he presently leads, FL, NC, and VA bringing his electoral vote total to 248, but also steal victories in CO where his lead fell from 0.4% today to that of dead heat, and OH where Obama's lead rose today to 2.1%. By so doing, Romney's electoral vote total would reach 275.

Should Romney take CO but fail to take OH, he could overcome this shortfall by stealing WI and either IO or NH, resulting respectively in an electoral vote total of 273 or 271.

With only eleven days of campaigning left, this one may come down to the wire…. and to the October jobs report.

Let's hope that Election Day is free of both voter fraud and voter intimidation and that eligible voters who have registered in good faith over the past six months are in fact able to vote on November 6; let's also hope that vote tabulation itself is performed honestly and accurately by both the election commissions and private corporations to whom this essential role is being entrusted.

In any case, it will be interesting to watch as election night unfolds.

My only comment is "just think how much food 1 billion dollars would buy starving people. And not buy votes and ads that tell lies...

Media outlets are laughing all the way to the bank. The closer the contest the more profit for them.

Anything MSN says is not reliable.......Hey I just heard that theymay be up for sale! That being said, there will be lots of fraud in this election too. On our news this week, it showed Latino canvassers going into Latino communities and registering people to vote and dropping off a Ballot. Then they are following up to pick up these ballots. Now tell me these people are really verifying that all if these voters are legal to vote in this election. ATTY Eric Holder has brought so many lawsuits against states who were asking for voter registration requirements, saying it would cause voter depression. I presume he does not care if they are legal US citizens. Everyone who is legal to vote needs to get out, no matter what, to vote in this election. It is about a FREE COUNTRY or country more like Russia, China and Europe. VOTE ROMNEY/RYAN

MSNBC, where is that moron article you posted yesterday about SuperPACs not mattering much?

Oh, I see you forgot about that today.

So, let's see here, $900 million? If it didn't matter nobody would spend the money. You can thank your Supreme Court idiots for allowing this nonsense.

It's a disgrace to waste all that money on TV ads just to badmouth your opponent, especially when we here on Newsvine are more that willing to do it all for free!

Derek,

"MSNBC, where is that moron article you posted yesterday about SuperPACs not mattering much?"

It isn't MSNBC anymore. It's just plain old NBC. Microsoft got out of the deal with NBC.

Republicons create the Citizens United plan to let the rich run the country and then they whine when PEOPLE of the United States rallaye against their plan for the rich!

Republicons want more war for profit so Romney hires Bush asdvisers to help him create more war for profits.

Republicons hate it when President Obama killed Bin Laden instead of cheering for the country!

Republicons cheer whenever there is bad news for the country and whine when there is good news for the country.

WHY DO REPUBS HATE AMERICA?

PAUL RYAN AND 14 OTHER REPUB POLITICIANS PLEDGED TO VOTE AGAINST ANY BILLS THAT WOULD MAKE PRESIDENT OBAMA LOOK GOOD 4 YEARS AWAY AT THE 2012 ELECTION.

REPUBLICONS WOULD RATHER THE COUNTRY FAILS JUST TO PUT REPUBS BACK IN POWER!

Vote President Obama/Biden and Team America. VOTE FOR REAL AMERICANS!

charles m-3795303

My only comment is "just think how much food 1 billion dollars would buy starving people. And not buy votes and ads that tell lies...

I agree the sad thing all of the money wasted to basically buy votes could have helped people that needed the help or paid down the national debt. Sad comment on what politics are, and worse yet promises and lies only helped rich companies so both sides are guilty of that.

CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack, sources say

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49570159#.UIsbaGfF2UI

gotcha Mickey. Thanks.

Your welcome, Derek!

“The mere fact that you have a legal power to keep something secret does not mean you should always use it..."

“For a long time now, there's been too much secrecy in this city. The old rules said that if there was a defensible argument for not disclosing something to the American people, then it should not be disclosed. That era is now over. Starting today, every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information but those who seek to make it known.”

“I will also hold myself as president to a new standard of openness.... Information will not be withheld just because I say so."

These quotes are from Barack Obama during his last campaign... too bad his supporters never remember what he's said.....

(1) I hope we can come up with a better way of choosing our leaders someday

(2) as CITIZENS, we should do everything we can to get rid of Citizen's United

(3) I hope all this $$ is going into the economy

(4) Meanwhile, we can VOTE to demonstrate that millionaires & billionaires putting their wealth into secret super-pacs & trying to BUY this election to lower their own taxes on the backs of middle-lower income folks (while also using voter intimidation/suppression tactics) cannot buy the White House!

A VOTE for O & JOE is a VOTE AGAINST CITIZEN'S UNITED!

It's $900 million, not $900 billion. Whoever writes the headlines for NBC can't tell the difference, apparently.

yeahbuhwha?:

I think with the $16 trillion downward spiral: NBC thinks whats a couple more zeros?

Romney/Ryan 2012 for fiscal slavation

KJNC - (2) as CITIZENS, we should do everything we can to get rid of Citizen's United

Not going to happen President Obama and his Buddy "Mr.Corporate America" set a Legal Precedent before that.

President Obama and his Buddy "Mr. Corporate America" loved Violating the US Law, McCain Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act prior to and during the 2008-2009 Elections. Start of the Illegal Unlimited Corporate Campaign Contributions.

President Obama's Buddy, "Mr. Corporate America" Legal Briefed the US Supreme Court, called "Legal Leveraging", to either declare the 2008-2009 Elections Invalid for admitted violation of the McCain Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act; Or, Rule in Favor of Unlimited Corporate Campaign Contributions before the Citizens United case made it's way thru the US Court System. This was so that President Obama could get his Unlimited Corporate Campaign Contributions from the Insurance Corporations, Medical Device Corporations, Pharmaceuticals Corporation that he gave Billions to by Law, in his ACA. President Obama's Buddy "Mr.Corporate America" was fined (slapped on the wrist for his admited violation of US Law(s)) $200,000, while President Obama got Millions USDs in Unlimited Corporate Campaign Contributions.

Its MILLION. I see msnbc still hasn't learned english. Its hard to believe any so called "facts" in a story when the reporters cant even figure out the right word to use. Kinda kills credibility right up front.

Hey, we've got some bi-partisan agreement about that silly 900 Billion figure, which is still up on MSNBC's main page after an hour...

How about a debate whether it was a deliberate attempt to punk us all, and if so, why?

You guys on the right are going to start showing psychiatric symptoms on Election Night when the returns from Virginia come in...

The front page of NBCnews.com still has it as "900 billion".

MSNBC is more of a tabloid. They use shock factor to incite the dummies to come here and mash their keypad while frothing at the mouth. Real low grade op-ed cr@p.

I love this typo from above:

Romney/Ryan 2012 for fiscal slavation

That about sums it up. If you are a subverient, seeking slavery under a masterful leader, then Mitt's the guy for you. No need to think up your own thoughts, Fox News and Frank Luntz will think for you! Perhaps we should change the GDP to the Eloi party.

@ david-475776 - what you wrote makes almost no sense at all, and the little bit that does make any sense is incorrect . . . and before you call me stupid, I didn't graduate from law school by being stupid (and I have advanced degrees beyond my JD)

further, you have gotten totally confused - corporate America hates our President because he has worked to reduce their power;

Anyone who has been paying attention for the past 6 years while Myth Robme has been trying to buy the White House, knows that he is the darling of corporate America, and does not care about 47% of us, only his wealthy friends, Adelson, Trump, et al.

A VOTE FOR O & JOE IS A VOTE AGAINST CITIZEN'S UNITED!

Noncom:

Guess you need the dictionary's definition of "salvation?"

Preservation or deliverance from harm, ruin or loss.

Romney/Ryan 2012

This has become ridiculous... Come 2016 they should just pay the voters directly and do away with all of the media nonsense.

Spin it and call it whatever you want, redistribution of wealth based on party alliance, whatever. It would be a far better use of the Super PAC money than what they're doing with it now. Plus it's a more honest approach in that it's truer to the reality of the capitalist empire that is America today.

Guarantee it would generate the largest turn out at the polls ever!

I highly doubt that Independent Thought as got an independent thought. You see what I did there?

Richard Harrow/Louis C.K. 2012

I feel for you!

Maine is unimportant to the RNC, except for our Senate Race to which they and their Superpacs have poured millions into negative advertizing, attacking our former governor who is a business-friendly, Independent (not a Democrat) *gasp* millionaire.

Angus King for Senate!

As if Democrats aren't pounding the air and TV waves. please....

Glad I don't live in a battleground state. We chased the GOP out two decades ago. And Schwartzenegger insured it will stay that way. By the way, his other gap-toothed kid does look just like him.

Maine is unimportant period. All it is good for is feeding Michelle's Lobster addiction.

This is the Republican Party Today!!!

Romney/Ryan funded by the Kock Brothers "Propaganda Machine"

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!!

Ricardo98

Glad I don't live in a battleground state. We chased the GOP out two decades ago. And Schwartzenegger insured it will stay that way. By the way, his other gap-toothed kid does look just like him.

and exactly how many of your cities have gone bankrupt. Exactly how close is your STATE to being bankrupt.

Trying to play California off as anything but a failure is funny.

dallasff2000:

Beyond new leadership, a complete election overhaul must occur. Insane amount of dollars on each side.

Independent Thought - Beyond new leadership, a complete election overhaul must occur. Insane amount of dollars on each side.

Does not matter, everyone is given two dump truck loads of steaming piles of crap and told to choose. And being that, "The average citizen is too ignorant to determine the Highest Offices of the Land, President and Vice President" according to the Rich Elitist Founding Fathers, they established the Electoral College to determine the President and Vice President of the United States of America.

So they are "too ignorant" to even figure out that they actually do NOT choose which dump truck of steaming crap.

An education about the Electoral College

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50133559n&tag=showDoorFlexGridLeft;flexGridModule

The Price Tag Of Politics

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6228712n&tag=related;photovideo

The irony is that it is the Demoncraps that want to retain the Rich Elitist Electoral College instead of a True Democracy of the Peoples Votes (November December) determining the President and Vice President, instead of the Electoral College Votes (January). see Posts at Newsvine Topic: Recount? Tie? How to navigate the post-electoral process

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/25/14700653-recount-tie-how-to-navigate-the-post-electoral-process

One of the Biggest things that I can think of is Enforcing the McCain Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, including booting out the current incumbent for previously violating US Law prior to and during the 2008-2009 Elections, if not then a Legal Precedent is set. Rule of Succession then Applies.

Anyone that demands a Real Democracy would want: Our Representatives to be selected at Random, like Jury Duty with Vetting as a Civic Duty, no more Professional Politicians (mostly Lawyers trained and experienced to LIE)(end of the Billion USD Campaigns); Paid the National average of the "Middle Class", Term Limits, "Benefits" like the US Military (including payroll deductions for "Benefits") that end upon completion of Civic Duty; Enforced Felony Crime as absolutely no Lobbyists nor Special Interest Groups (end of Bribery of our Representatives); Elimination of the Electoral College; etc. (that I discussed before).

David wants Al Gore to retroactively be President. We all do bro.

Richard Harrow/Louis C.K. 2012

Obama said he was going to raise $1 billion himself. Unfortunately for tax payers that means he needs to give much more in tax payer money back to his cronies.

Chris is taking the Obama playbook and spinning it right back in Obamas FACE! You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Vote for me. I will represent you the sheeple.

Richard Harrow/Louis C.K. 2012

Royal:

You are right, however it will be up to Romney to ensure that he works collectively with the entire team in Washington.

Romney/Ryan 2012 for a "United" States of America

the do nothing democrats are good at doing nothing but spending and blaming the other guy. definitely not fixing the waste in government.

A Romney/Ryan leadership with further divide this country with religious based policy making.

Obama/Biden for true freedom from religious theocracy and true independent thought.

Dark:

If it was going to be "religious theocracy" I would never vote for him, nor promote his presidential run. Let me just tell you what I witness, in our general society, is that we are falling as a nation( morals, values, workmanship, intelligence, leadership, kindness, etc.) which goes far beyond a religious agenda.

Romney/Ryan for a "United" States of America

America "Of the RICH, By the RICH, For the RICH" GREED!! GREED!

Don't invest in America!! the Rich can make more MONEY in CHINA!!

This is not the America I grew up in!!

If the rich make jobs where are the jobs??

Okay, my satire on all of you is done. I am through. I used to enjoy politics. Everyone has turned into a commercial. 1. You call someone out 2. Say something you think is clever okay but when did 3 come into play. Which is 3. Romney/Ryan 2012 or Obama/Biden 2012. This is a discussion, not a commercial. I am waiting for someone to finish with "I approve this message" Please learn to talk like you have got some independant thoughts! Especially you IndependentThought. XD

Richard Harrow/Louis C.K. 2012

I am Richard Harrow and I approve this message

Richard,

Welcome aboard. I sat quietly, until I read this blog for so long, and became disgusted with the aggressive female comments all the while watching our President spend more time in Hollywood, on shows such as Pimp with a Limp, than running our nation or sitting down with Congress. (It takes two!)

I have four children, and I am deeply worried about their futures. I decided it was time to become a voice for the middle, which believe it or not Romney represents for me.

I have explained my moniker a few times, throughout the postings, but I see that you are new on the block(g), and may have missed it. If you look at my Newsvine link you will see I have been an Independent thought long before it was in vogue. Even at one time, feeling a blended presidential ticket of a R:D is what the country needs to bring us together.

Romney:Ryan for bipartisan leadership for the future of my kids

Take a stiff one

look at all the billions Obama gave his cronies after the last election. They can only hope he gets elected so they can fill their bank accounts with tax payer money again.

Amen. Just think of the health insurance that could have paid for. Just think of the seniors on Medicare and Medicaid who could use some help.

Just think of the scholarships that could have paid for.

We're an embarrassment to ourselves.

Go tune in to Fox News. That's all they talk about, you will learn all the 'facts'.

dezhawaii - no it would have been better spent if the Republicans had run a candidate with actual integrity and character. Luckily our President will win a 2nd term and Mitt will leave - FOR GOOO!!!!

Obama/Biden 2012

For four years you have been "seeking sanity". Seems you have not achieved it yet. Maybe its time to stop drinking the kool-aid, take of the obama glasses and see the truth.

Obama wins And only his cronies win. To the tune of billions more hard earned tax payer money.

biden always says what he means at that current moment. but he reserves the right to change his lies next breath.

Who??

Of course the last administration had nothing to do with the housing debacle, plus job and pension losses due to Wall Street's slippery footwork. We had no federal or war debt when Obama was elected, right?

Nobody seems to remember that after WWII, that war debt was paid off by taxes which amounted to 90% from the top wealthiest class. The veterans went to college and the middle class prospered. It doesn't look like that kind of equal opportunity is coming out of Congress anymore.

Obama has a long list of people to blame. Bottom line is if America couldn't keep it's foreign diplomats safe they should have brought them home. But Obama was too afraid of showing Americans the disaster he helped create in Libya.

Why didn't Bush account to the American people on the lack of intelligence of the largest terrorist attack on the United States?

He must be hiding in the same place Bush did when when he declared WMDs in Iraq, invaded Iraq, declaring victory while Sailor, Soldiers, Marines, and Airman still were dying, and took vital military manpower from the PRIMARY OBJECT of finding Osama.

Maybe you can tell us this hiding place since it appears you're there now.

Damn I tired of all this Dem and Repub crap! It goes both ways. Niether party is perfect.