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Subscribe to RSSFAIRVIEW PARK, OH -- Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, the chairman of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's campaign in the Buckeye State, said Friday that it would be tough for Romney to win the election without carrying Ohio.
Al Behrman / AP
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, shakes hands with Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, after Portman introduced Romney at a campaign stop at Jet Machine, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, in Cincinnati.
"I'm feeling the pressure not just because I'm chairing the effort here in Ohio, but mostly because I feel the pressure for our country and what's going to happen over the next four years," Portman told NBC News on Friday while traveling between campaign stops for Romney. "If we don't win Ohio, it's tough to see us winning the election nationally. It's possible, but it's very difficult."
Paul Beck, Ohio State University professor, describes the importance of winning Ohio, a battleground with a large number of electoral votes. It's a diverse state with liberals and conservatives matching a cross section of the nation.
Most of the recent attention the Ohio senator has received has centered on the key role he played in Romney's debate preparation and how close he came to being chosen as the GOP vice presidential nominee. But before he took on any of those roles, he was tapped by Romney to lead the former Massachusetts governor's effort in the key battleground state.
"We're doing better in Cleveland, and Cincinnati and Columbus and Toledo where we have some of the numbers of the absentee and early voting, we're doing better than we expected we would," he told volunteers gathered at the Avon Lake Victory Center. "We're exceeding our targets."
Portman told the crowd that internal Romney polling shows the state is a dead heat with with 11 days to go until Election Day. He's making five stops in North east Ohio today before appearing at a rally with Romney and vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan tonight. At each stop, the man who ran a successful statewide campaign just two years earlier, said the grassroots effort will make the difference in this state.
It's a difference, Portman feels, that will give Romney the edge here on Election Day.
"I believe the Obama campaign probably has a pretty effective grassroots infrastructure, but I dont think you can compete with volunteers who really have their heart in it and are fired up for all the right reasons," he said.
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The zombies are starting to wake up! lol
No matter how you slice & dice it, the math is NOT on their side!
Is it any wonder they fought tooth & nail for voter suppression and the end to early voting?
If you can't beat em... cheat em!
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.
Portman said nothing!......"effective grassroots infrastructure vs heart"
Hey Portman....that 'fired up' thingy....steal it from the Obama Campaign did ya? Of course you did!
HEY FEISTY...aka JEN PSAKI
You gonna spread more racist comments, maybe a little fear mongering to the women of Ohio?
YOU'VE STILL NOT ANSWERED MY QUESTION....
THOSE ASS SWEATS GETTING REAL BAD NOW?
DESPERATION WILL DO THAT TO A PERSON.
IT'S OK...ONLY 11 MORE DAYS AND THEN BYE BYE OBUMBO!!!
...
Today’s WSJ has a Hillaryous picture in page one: it shows Barry handing his driver’s license to a poll worker before he casts his vote.
Does this mean that bluest of blue states, Illinois, has a voter ID law??
As da Rev. Al would say ”Dat’s vota supwession.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In Other Good News:
Mass Senate seat moves to Lean Dem as Warren takes a 6 point lead
RCP (Average of polls) Senate as of 10/26/2012
Tossup: [Tied in 3] + [D leading in 3] + [R leading in 3] = 9
Dems: Not up/Safe 37 + Likely 7 = 44 + Lean 4 = 48
Rpub: Not up/Safe 42 + Likely 1 = 43 + Lean 0 = 43
Feisty, Dennis, chilled - do I hear a bit of fear creeping into Portman's voice as reality begins to set in????
Hopefully this will end early the evening of the 6th with Ohio going to Obama - yet again!
Ticked Off in Ohio - you're really a disgrace to humanity - go away!
Obama/Biden 2012
HEY DENNIS,
IN EVEN BETTER NEWS...
ALL 137 FELLOW OHIOANS THAT VOTED FOR OBUMBO IN 2008, THAT WENT DOWN TO THE ELECTION HALL THIS MORNING TO VOTE EARLY FOR ROMNEY ARE ALL OUT TO A LATE CELEBRATION LUNCH TO COMMEMORATE THE OCCASION!!!
IT FEELS SO GOOD!!!
BYE BYE OBUMBO!!!
ps....I'M ROUNDING UP ANOTHER BUNCH FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK AND GONNA TRY HARD TO GET A THIRD GROUP IN BY ELECTION DAY!!!
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Illinois asks for ID only for early voting Ticked of in Ohio. On election day they do not. It was reported but I guess you weren't listening. Too busy buying the BS from Fox regarding a phantom "Romney momention". So I'm imagining that you will continue to be ticked off for another four years in Ohio and if Hillary runs maybe another 12 years total. Can't wait to see what you'll be posting then.
HEY ANABANANA...
TYPICAL CONFUSED LIBTARD...I DIDNT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT ID
STOP DRINKING THE KOOL-AID!!!
HAHAHAHAHAAAA....
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SeekingSanity,
You've got that right. He's always shouting in bold capitals, large font. Virtually every post is an obscenity. Can you imagine sitting in the same room with this person and trying to have a rational conversation? You'd be shouted down at every turn. Who needs it!
Ticked off in Ohio - we could shorten your moniker to "Off" and it would be the perfect fit!
Obama/Biden 2012
Was that code for get the "rigging" going, we may lose otherwise?
Ticked Off in Ohio! You are such a tool.
You are voting against yourself, so sad and pathetic....Did I mention how pathetic you are?
Vote Right & God Bless Brother!
Obama/Biden 2012 "We Got It Straight In 2008!!!!"
I can't wait until November 6th when we have a President who acts like a President.
Romney/Ryan 2012!
Won't be hard for Romney to win if he uses the voting machine company his family owns, Hart Intercivic, to rig the vote. Yes those machines are in Ohio.
So much for Obama's own call for civility after Gabby Giffords. Obama has denegrated the Office of the President of the United States. At least Obama and Biden will be gone soon. And I can't wait to hear Obama's concession speech on Nov 6th!
Romney/Ryan
This article is all the more reason to have the FBI out in force guarding the flash drives from the voting machines and the servers that process the data. We at least need to know the name of every person who accesses these machines, and video all the interactions.
Buying HART intercivic is called strategic investing. Could be the end of democracy in America.
It's very telling that the only posts from Romney supporters are personal attacks and racist portrayals of Al Sharpton. This really isn't going well for you guys, is it?
SeekingSanity
Are you for real? All that he is saying is that this is a close race. As always you keep asking for everyone approval because of your insecurity.
You could say the same about Obama not wining Ohio. I really which we could all get along even if we had different ideologies.
Jack,
Not me... which is why I scroll right past the little re-reg! ☺
SeekingSanity: This liberal is fearful; no time to ease-up. Over confidences breeds voter laxity. Even small things could make a difference. Make sure that old couple can get out to vote.
Obama/Biden 2012
Exito - I'm not letting up - believe me. We cannot afford another Republican who answers to Grover Norquist running the country into the ground. No overconfident but it definitely sounds like desperation from Portman.
I'm getting everyone I know out to vote - and some who I thought would surely be Republican are voting Obama. Yay!!!!
Magic Tonic Kills Brain Cells - You've been drinking A LOT of that tonic, right????
Obama/Biden 2012
Call out to OHIO! Vote wisely so we don't saddle our children with a massive fiscal debt. Vote for the next generation, the kids future needs us!
If we ALL go over the cliff, no government bailout will help. Unless it is China's. If that happens, we can kiss the Star Spangled Banner goodbye.
Romney/Ryan 2012
romney got caught in a big lie in ohio today,
saying at a rally that jeep was moving to china and romney knew they werent.
scare, lies, hate --the republicans of 2012-the pro rape party
Dear Feisty,
interested in your thoughts because I saw in a previous post you have been commenting for something like 4 years! . . . "Tonic" talks about "paid liberal posters" - my impression is that it's the GOP/TB's that are (at least) spamming, if not paid posters . . . . isn't spamming a kind of "advertising" - and if so . . . . well, I see how smart you are and will let you follow my drift.
Meanwhile,
VOTE EARLY & VOTE DEM! (AND E COASTER'S - STAY SAFE & BEWARE OF SANDY!) :-)
I bet old Mitt wishes he could erase his "Let Detroit fail" article from the memories of all those Ohioans.
Sometimes you can get away with the etch-a-sketch working. Sometimes you can't.
OBAMA 2012....for a fairer, better, more prosperous America.
I agree with Fiesty on this one and I may start scrolling past that Stupid idiot "TickedOffinOhio". That is one silly minded person. But hey, I bet money that fool will be no where near FR on Nov 7th. Obama 12
KJNC,
Yup! It will be 5 years in March since I started posting on First Read!
There are a few things which will allow you to identify the toothless trolls.
1.) Their hatch date - many are re-regs of previously banned posters, with no life and NO desire to play by the rules!
2.) They register multiple accounts in an attempt to make their presence appear larger than it really is.
3.) The indy trolls travel in packs, someone blows the troll whistle, and they swoop & poop!
3.) If they are in FACT being paid by the RNC or someone else, whoever it is, should demand a FULL refund for the crap they post! It is NO coincidence their writing style is identical.
Hope I was able to clear up any confusion!
BTW: We are ALL paid posters on Newsvine, if you go to your earnings tab on your home page it will show you how much you have made! ;o)
Yes it is!
It is also a clear violation of the COH you agree to when you open a Newsvine account...
Going to be interesting to see if obama wins how the libs will react when :
1. ACA taxes hit after the election, along with the rest of ACA that will affect everyone's medical care in a negative way.
2. The EPA mandates obama has approved, but has held off implementing until after the election that will destroy millions of jobs and cost into the trillions.
3. Minority unemployment doesn't go down.
4. Military cutbacks as of Jan 2nd that will affect thousands of defense jobs.
5. Food/gas prices rise due to both the new EPA mandates and the economy in general.
But, I guess all you dems can be happy because illegals will be given citizenship (hurting jobs even more, and raising welfare costs), innocent babies can be killed legally, and the lgbt community can keep asking for more rights. After all, those are the things that really matter....
First thing I'm doing if obama wins is buying a gun...
If Romney wins, I'll buy the RV my wife wants since they're dirt cheap right now :)
If Obama carries Virginia AND Ohio, it's over.
Miami Herald today endorsed President Obama.
I hope President Obama goes to NC. He may not win there, but he has a lot of support in that state. And if time allows, I hope he drops in.
They pulled through for him big time in '08.
Pat:
If endorsements count, I guess we need to post the Detroit paper endorsed Romney.
Romney/Ryan 2012 for no more pettiness
THANKS, FEISTY - won't it be great when our President Obama wins! I hope the haters will then crawl back into hibernation.
O & Joe! :-)
Joe in Albany
you still believe that Republicans are working overtime to fight their imaginary voter fraud, months, weeks, days, before the election to fight voter fraud? Too bad they don't start with the absentee voting since know one knows who's really casting that vote...
"Republicans are working overtime to fight their imaginary voter fraud,"
Go ahead and google "democrat politician caught voter utility bill", and come back about that imaginary voter fraud.
While you're at it, pull your head out of the sand.
AlexM-3929653
let's see, asking people to be responsible and get health insurance so that they don't drain the taxpayers = bad government
preventing women from having access to birth control so they can regulate when, and if have children = good government!
PRIORITIES!
what, the fact that you cannot be discriminated agains pre-ex. conditions? Or the insurance can no longer drop you because you eat into their profits? Those bad things?
Hey, I live in the RomneyCare Land, we've survived.
I do believe that recently fake letters postmarked from Washington were sent to voters in FL (mostly republicans) threatening them that they were not legal to vote. Is this the voter suppression you are talking about folks? It's funny. If some voter laws are violated by someone associated with the GOP, the GOP quickly fires them. If some voter laws are violated by someone associated with the DNC, the DNC claims its really the GOP trying reverse psychology.
AlexM-3929653
that's your smoking gun - some guy????? hahahahahaha
how about the fact that the Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) concluded that there is no evidence of chronic voter fraud.
the number is about 20 cases in 50 states in 10 years. Based on about 200,000,000 registered voters, if my calc is correct, that's about 1 X 10^-8 per year. DNA test to prove patternity is less accurate than that.
But hey, Republicans have millions of dollars of taxpayers' money to waste so who cares right?
KJ,
This place will resemble a ghost town on 11.7.12!
Trust me!
They don't have the balls to show up after a loss...
"let's see, asking people to be responsible and get health insurance so that they don't drain the taxpayers = bad government"
This won't change much with ACA, illegals can't get ACA and will continue to pummel our ERs. As far as citizens, just take a look at some of those on Medicaid currently that continually have non-serious issues taken care of, therapy, unneeded surgeries, etc, etc that drain our tax dollars. Both my wife and I work, both have health insurance (that has gone up severely this fall) and we have issues we can't afford to get fixed that we just have to live with. Why should those not working be better off than those of us trying to earn a living?
"preventing women from having access to birth control so they can regulate when, and if have children = good government!"
I'm not against women having access to birth control pills for medical reasons, my x-wife had to take them for a hormonal imbalance. As far as sex, sex is, and always been, a responsibility. It is not my job to pay for something you should be responsible for. Just like having a child, it's a responsibility. If you choose to have sex, then you and your partner should be very aware of the possible consequences. Sorry, that's just how life is, cause.... and effect.
"what, the fact that you cannot be discriminated agains pre-ex. conditions? Or the insurance can no longer drop you because you eat into their profits? Those bad things?"
I'm not against either of those, but the implementation is completely wrong. Insurance might not be able to drop you, but they will pass the cost on to everyone. My wife works in the medical insurance industry. She just FINALLY got a raise this fall, along with a health premium increase. Her net paycheck is now LESS than it was before the raise.... thank you ACA. Our family doctor is looking at leaving the profession due to ACA and how it will affect his bottom line. Regardless of what people might think about doctors, not all are crapping out money. They have a house payment, kids, car payment, student loans, etc, etc just like some of us. They became a doctor not to be at the beck and call of everyone, not to donate their time to everyone.... but to make living in a profession they excel at and enjoy (helping people). But they still have to make their money to live since it is... after all a job. ACA is hurting that part of it.
ACA in theory is a great ideal... but it's implementation is just horrendous and will cause far more hurt than it will help.
There are many cases that never make the MSM, cases from both sides of the aisle.
With how close some elections are, even one case can make a difference in making sure the honest voters have their vote matter, regardless of political affiliation.
Can you tell me, honestly, that you are so against voter id, that if Romney wins, you would honestly feel better knowing he won honestly? Or if Obama wins... that your presidential selection won honestly and not by someone cheating on his behalf?
For me, whoever wins, wins. I just want to know that the win was honest. Right now.... I don't know that, regardless of who wins.
Voter ID is best way to solve that issue. If the poor are having issues getting voter id, then the state needs to step up and help them at no cost to the citizen. I honestly don't see an issue with voter id, nor do I see what the democrats have against it.
It's logical, it makes sense, the Supreme Court supports it, and any citizen that wants to have faith in their vote.... would support it.
Feisty, will you show up if Obama loses? Or will you rant about how this country will then decline, that everyone needs to vote straight democrat in 2014, and that you will get the next election, and then preach doom and gloom for 4 years?
Magic-
I hope you give the RNC a full refund for what it pays you to post. Nonsense should not be compensated.
Feisty-
You are EXACTLY right about paid Repub posters. Every election cycle they show up en masse and suddenly disappear right after the election.
Not-coincidentally, during the Repub National Convention, they also disappeared--probably having too much of a party time in Tampa to spend time posting.
Better get out and vote for Obama if you want any chance of health care reform before you die. Giving Romney the win will pretty much screw you for another 20 years.
They've lied to you. Made up false conspiracy, many so absurd as to be moronic. They credit others for Obama's acomplishments and now Mitt is even stealing Obama's policies and trying to say they're his own.
IF THIS COUNTRY IS STUPID ENOUGH TO ELECT MITT THEN YOU DESERVE THE MESS YOU'LL GET.
I hope we're not that stupid. Then again Rome elected Caesar as Emperor.
Portman is likely correct. Romney doesn't win Ohio He loses. Hope the people of Ohio remember who had their backs during the Auto bailout. Ohioans, remember, you're not voting for Portman. He represents Mitt Romney, who, if He had His way then, would have allowed the Industry to die, and your livelihoods with it. Although you've had it rough, so many others have had It much worse. Remember too, who screwed our economy up to the point of ruination, had a daring and resolved President Obama not stepped in and worked His ass off to hold it together, and kept us from slipping into a depression. He did this while the republicans hindered and blocked Him at every juncture. Ohioans voting against President Obama have to do so recklessly, and, over the objections of their individual and collective moral convictions. Remember Ohioans. Remember with the same great care, the President, not long ago, extended to all of you.
Sure looks like Magic tonic is a troll since 10/2012, and the stuff has rotted his brain because he listed a bunch of fellow trolls as firends.
of course all those "friends" are other names he has on this site.
Alex,
This whole "why should I pay for someone's medical blah blah blah" statement is so short sighted! That's what group insurance is for! All our premiums go into the pool to help cover the costs of the others in the pool. Practically all medical conditions are caused by choices and behaviors. Many types of cancer, heart desease/attacks, diabetes, high blood pressure, broken bones, pregnancy, etc, is caused by things we have or have not decided to do: sex, physical activity, accidents, drinking, drugs, non-excercise, eating habits, etc. We are all going to have these situations and conditions, so we pool our money into these insurance programs. Women's contraception is more complicated than just buying condoms at the gas station. It requires (at least) annual physicals, procedures, tests, attempts to find the right dosage, type, etc. It can affect women physically with side effects and can sometimes cause serious issues. It is inserted into the woman or taken as a hormone. It's something that must be monitored by a doctor, therefore, it should be covered by insurance! There is also considerable research that shows that free access to birth control drastically reduces abortion rates. Insurance companies love covering birth control as it is way cheaper than pregnancy!
Some idiot said realclearpolitics has romney up +9. Let's hope all the wetoddit Rightwingers are reading the same thing. If you know how to insert a decimal point the actual percent up is +.9 or less than 1 which is Missouri, Arkansas and Texas. And notice the swing state polls. In Ohio, Obama is charging up by the hour. The intrade odds push Romney down day by day and if the election where held TODAY (according to Realclear, Obama wins 7 out of 10 Swing states). You must WIN OHIO and you will NOT!
BTW, follow the money to know the winner. Intrade betters are NEVER wrong!
You can smell them from a mile away! ;o)
Senator Portman, Only in your dream can Romney take Ohio and the road to the White House goes through Ohio. Ohioans know that Obama had their back when they were hurting during 2008-2010. Three independent polls (time magazine, NBC/WSJ and ABC News) are showing that Obama is leading Romney by 5% or more among likely voters and among early voters in Ohio, Obama is leading by 64% to 30% for Romney. Similar stories in the midwest firewall states (Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania) and in Nevada.
It's time to renew Obama's contract for FOUR MORE YEARS for the sake of my children, family, and every American. We will see our troops return home, better governance, renewed economic growth, leaner but modern stronger military, and make the big businesses play by the rules.
Magic,
wishful thinkingon your part. What are you baising your claims on? Polls? Obviously not because the newest state polls do not agree with you. National polls? National polls do not matter, popular vote does not elect the President. Egotistical chest thumping? Now we are getting somewhere. This is the same nonsense of the Romney campaign claiming the still have momentum.
Where is Jody with the incessant "Romney Tide" posts? Turns out the "Romney Tide" is dud. Anyone that has taken a serious, unbiased look at the EC map has agreed that it will be much easier for Obama to win than Romney. Romney has some huge issues that he has to overcome to get to 270 and only a few paths that can get him there whereas the President has options.
Latest Rasmussen poll has Ohio a dead heat, looks like its all over for Odumbo. With regard to Virginia, put that in Romney's column too, especially after Odumbo's smart a$$ remark to Romney with regard to the # of Navy ships we have during the last debate. You guys (Team Odumbo) can have Nevada, Romney won't need it. Guess when its all said and done, despite ABC, CBS, NBC, & CNN's best efforts to spin it otherwise, it will be clear that Romney schooled Odumboin the debates. Oh and then there's that Libya thing, ge how unfortunate that happened when it did. But it did serve to crystallize how inept Odumbo is. One of our consulates has been attacked, I think I'll go to Nevada to campaign. What a dip $hit.
Jed7,
My wife and I are already 'pooling' enough of our paycheck into health insurance, I'm done paying for other peoples decisions. We already do it enough through welfare, foodstamps, etc, etc. Not to say that there aren't people on those services that actually NEED them, I'm just tired of paying for the lazy pieces of $hit that can't make adult decisions.
Ticked off in Ohio...
Obumbo?? Are you 15??
Merry Christmas...
http://cnbcsucks.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/why-are-republicans-such-@!$%#s/
Lyin Robney/Robyan can only win this election by CHEATING and Voter Suppression...
Republican Voter Suppression Nationwide
Arizona: County mails wrong Election Day notice to Spanish-speakers.
Florida: Republicans scam seniors with bogus "vote by phone" calls.
Ohio: Republican defies court order by slashing early voting hours.
Virginia: Republican arrested for illegally trashing registration forms.
Dangerous Mind
Here's the real story and I'll Highlight. First, Tad has .5% stock in the company that bought the voting machine company. Second, Ohio does not use that company.
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2012/10/ohio_voting_machines_are_not_c.html#incart_m-rpt-2
Sorry!
If the President loses Ohio, Romney wins. It all comes to Ohio and we all know it. Romney is still moving ahead with strength, and the Presidents lead can easily vanish here in a day or two.
Here's your new bumper sticker Feisty
Al Qaeda is alive.
Chris Stevens is dead.
Really Alex, do you really believe that just because someone is lazy or makes some bad choices, that he or she deserves to die or to starve to death? Or that their innocent children deserve to die or starve? Is an extra few dollars out of your pay check mean that much to you? I am horrified about the lack of empathy in this country. I work hard, have had some sort of job since I was sixteen years old, and have had zero financial support from my parents since I was forced out at 17. I make enough money to pay my bills, and that's about it (no savings to speak of, as I can't afford to put money away). I have been extremely lucky to find a job that pays for some of my health care (many, many jobs nowadays do not, in case you weren't aware). And yet. And yet. If I have to pay a little more in taxes every year if it means that someone else, regardless of who they are or what choices they've made, get to go to a doctor once in a while, than I will gladly do it. A human life is worth a few hundred dollars.
The first being Mitt Romney. No taxes, no plan for tax cuts, no spine, Romnesia.
Before you vote, you should check to see if the person you are voting for is on this list.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/atrfiles/files/files/072911-federalpledgesigners.pdf
These men and women have signed away their ability to govern fairly and in case of an emergency will not do what is necessary. They are basically being blackmailed by a K Street lobbyist. He has said if they vote wrong, he will marshal great sums of money to defeat them. If they play ball, Citizens United will take care of them. He is the reason we have Richard Mourdock in the race instead of Richard Lugar. Was that a great move or what.
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Tax Pittance Rommel and
Lyin'Ryan out of desperation and hope that these two
MONSTERS will rescue your
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the bush TAX EVASION BONUSES FOR THE EVIL
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the Rich!!!!" Well, Thanks Count, as you 1-10% and Corporate
rich already
pay the Lowest taxes in American History and the taxes are REALLY on the
Backs of working people @37%. And! AND!! AND!!! Gas and Oil Prices???? What
a
Sucker Punch at Voters. The Count and EddiMunster PERSONALLY Dreamed up
the
$4.00p/g at the pump to blame it on Prez O. JUST WHO do you voters think
sets
Gas& Oil prices, "Healthcare" policy prices, Hiring, Job/Career
Outsourcing,
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Perverted the tax laws leaving WE American TaxPayers to Pay HIS Taxes on that
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Here Is a Very VERY Helpful Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og35U0d6WKY&feature=player_detailpage
Really DB??? We're talking about the Hart-InterCivic voting machines, the company out of Austin, TX, correct?
Thought you could just sneak that little pearl past everyone, did you or do you not include Hamilton County as part of Ohio? The same county that's home to Cincinnati? As in O-H-I-O?
Hmmm...well then, perhaps you can explain (away) the contents of the following links that don't agree with your view of Ohio's voting machine usage:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/10/20/romney-family-investment-ties-to-voting-machine-company-that-could-decide-the-election-causes-concern/
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/23/romney_linked_voting_machine_company_to_count_votes_in_ohio/
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/19137
http://www.politicolnews.com/tagg-romney-invested-in-ohio-electronic-voting-machines/
http://seattletimes.com/html/politics/2019515838_votingmachines25.html
Facts are facts, DB. I used to give you credit for being somewhat rational in your responses, but lately, you've been more of a disappointment. Your attempt at #1.61 only furthers that sentiment. You're losing credibility.
So-o-o-o sorry...
POLL: OBAMA TOPS 50 PERCENT IN OHIO, UP FOUR POINTS ON ROMNEY
10/26/12 04:13 PM ET
President Obama hit the crucial 50 percent threshold in the latest poll of Ohio and now leads Mitt Romney by 4 points in the pivotal battleground state, according to a new poll released Friday by CNN.
The slight but significant lead mirrors other recent polling in the state, and should come as a relief to the president's campaign, which has largely staked its reelection hopes on holding the Buckeye State. The poll carried a margin of error of 3.5 percent, just below the president's lead.
The president was boosted in the state by a significant lead among women, leading Romney 56 to 42 percent. Romney posted a smaller advantage among men, leading the president 50 to 44 percent.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/polls/264373-poll-obama-tops-50-percent-in-ohio-up-four-on-romney
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HOW GAMBLERS -- HISTORY'S MOST ACCURATE ELECTION FORECASTERS -- ARE BETTING ON 2012
As of this writing, betting at the three biggest prediction markets is as follows:
Betfair has Obama with a 64 percent chance to win to Romney's 36 percent; Intrade has the president at 58 percent; and the Iowa Electronic Markets have the president at 59 percent. Oddschecker shows bookmakers to be even more bullish on Obama.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-thomson/how-gamblers--historys-mo_b_2011534.html
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...and for a supernatural take on this election:
Blue Aura: Psychics Call It for Obama
Oct 26 2012, 10:35 AM ET
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/10/blue-aura-psychics-call-it-for-obama/264010/
To Jody1593626, Michael1969, and Radical Right Wingers:
Have you stopped and listened to yourselves lately? You sound and act so full of gas and gimmicks that are taken out of context. Go home and read a good book for a change, because we all know by now what candidate we intend to elect. It’s time for you to “man-up, “grow up”, and stop sounding like the typical crass(y) air-head, bigoted good ole’ white boy, whose just another Archie Bunker groupie. By all means continue backing your shrinking ole’ white boys base. Perhaps someday the younger generations coming up will make more sense along with an educated selection for a candidate than what the GOP has come up with this year as the “Flipping, Mitt the Twit”.
It's your choice to electing someone with real leadership, or another Gestapo-ship Regime.
Vote Obama/Biden for 2012 and who do not discriminate against the 47%!!!!
June 2012 - Yahya al Libi killed (senior al Qaeda leader in Pakistan)
September 2011 – Abu Hafs al-Shahri killed (al Qaeda’s chief of Pakistan operations)
August 2011 – Atiyah Abd al-Rahman killed (Al Qaeda No. 2 in Pakistan)
May 2011 – Osama bin Laden killed (Number 1 Al Qaeda, and worlds most wanted)
June 2011 – Fazul Abdullah Mohammed killed (top al-Qaeda operative in Somalia)
June 2011 – Ilyas Kashmiri killed (top al- Qaeda commander in Pakistan)
June 2010 – Hawza al Jawfi killed along with 6 other terrorist (leader in Pakistan)
May 2010 – Mustafa Ahmed Muhammad Uthman Abu al-Yazid killed [aliases Shaikh Sa’id al-Masri and Mustafa Abu al-Yazid] (al Qaeda’s No. 3)
April 2010 – Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Umar al-Baghdadi (Top two Al Qaeda operatives in Iraq)
March 2010 – Qari Mohammad Zafar killed (terrorist leader in Pakistan)
February 2010 – Sirajuddin Haqqani killed (militant commander in Pakistan)
January 2010 – Qassem al-Rimi, Ayed al-Shabwani, Ammar al-Waili, Saleh al-Tais, Ibrahim and Mohammed Saleh al-Banna killed (Al-Qaeda military boss and senior Al-Qaeda figures in the Arabian Peninsula)
December 2009 – Saleh Al-Somali killed (senior al Qaeda operative in Pakistan)
September 2009 – Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan killed (ringleader of an al Qaeda cell in Kenya)
Please join and sign a petition to investigate the voting machines being used in ohio that are tied to the romney family
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/romney_ohio/index_2012.html?utm_expid=16130742-25&rc=fb_ad_4
Rob Portman -- you're right. And you know, Mitt Romney knows, Bob Bennett your State chairman knows, and every Republican who understands reality knows Romney must carry Ohio. Those same people know that Romney is in deep trouble in Ohio. When Rasmussen has you guy ties with Obama -- that's not good. The Columbus Dispatch poll -- historically one of the most accurate in the state -- has Obama ahead by 9 points. Obama is going to win Ohio and with it --- the election.
To all the fine Patriots in Ohio:
Don't let the greed of the wealthy republicans take over your great state!
Help yourselves and help America; paint Ohio blue on Nov 6th.
Bless You All
Romney is in big trouble in Ohio and he knows it. It will be interesting what the election results show on Ohio. Just have to wait and see.
Portman is over-emphasizing the importance of his home state. It's actually not that hard for Romney to get to 271 without Ohio. All he has to do is win that toss-up states where he is currently leading (Colorado, New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida) and then take either Ohio...or Wisconsin -- a state Romney is trailing Obama by less than he is in Ohio. Obviously he can't rely on either of those states, but by focusing on both it is likely not as critical to win Ohio as Portman would like one to believe.
Charlie, when Rasmussen says one candidate is tied with another you damn well better believe it above any other poll. Studies such as this one from Fordham U. show Rasmussen to be the most accurate poll around.
Mike, Rasmussen polling is a joke. It has a 2-point bias. When you compare the average of their polling to the average of all other polls, Rasmussen consistently shows a 2-point bias in favor of Republicans. Get your facts straight, son. And, stay off the drugs, son.
When Obama wins reelection, all the people acting like the world is going to end will drive up gun/ammo prices artificially. So irritating.
As for Ticked Off In Ohio, you'll probably want to change your name to Sad In Ohio.
I will personally enjoy watching the Republican tears.
It's actually not that hard for Romney to get to 271 without Ohio.
Only that no Republican has ever done it.
FEISTY - When Obama goes away in 10 days, will you PLEASE go away too!
So did DENVER's main newspaper. What surprised me was that the Salt Lake Tribune also endorsed Obama -- and, even after being a huge mouthpiece for Mormon Cultist Romney, they called Romney out on all sorts of crap -- including that nasty little fact that HE HAS NO PLAN FOR ANYTHING. NO PLAN AT ALL.
The truth hurts!
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/55019844-82/endorsement-obama-president-romney.html.csp
Where was all your concern for White House Disclosure, and the White House reacting to credible threats, back when Bush ignored everything about Al Qaeda and the WTC was attacked on 9/11, resulting in thousands of Americans dead?
Now, all the sudden, you're concerned?
Disingenuous much? LIE much??
Romney talks like a Skid Row Bum Lying for a Fix, Mitt falsely tells voters in Ohio that Jeep jobs are going overseas to China, Chrysler sent a letter to the Romney camp and told them to stop with the Lies about their Company, this is sad all this Clown can do is Lies. Romney is a total loser getting very desperate for votes in the Buckeye State, wake up America, don't put a Loser in the White House !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
'Charlie, when Rasmussen says one candidate is tied with another you damn well better believe it above any other poll.'
Mike -- are you on drugs? In October 2008 Rasmussen had McCain either tied or leading in Ohio, Indiana, Colorado, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida. He LOST every single one of those states. Rasmussen is the most right leaning poll in the nation. If Rasmussen has a republican tied in late October, that Republican is in deep trouble.
I agree Rasmussen is far right and polls about 70 Republican. Polls won't matter as Obama will win the election anyways and Klee-Nex stock will go up as the GOP will be it's key customer.
What are the right reasons? Half of the info you need to make a decision? Don't show your detailed plans or tax returns? Belief that intrudes into our private lives as citizens? Just what do you have to be fired up about?
They are fired up because they found a guy that is NOT Obama. There are about 270 Million others if they decide to ditch Willard.
This is all a bait and switch show. What they REALLY want is the House and Senate, because every Repub. has endorsed the Ryan-Akin bill that outlaws abortion even for rape, that limits or cuts off healthcare for women, and many other draconian measures, and they want to push this through Congress, or else cut off funding for everything from police to parks. If the House and Senate have a 2/3 majority of Republicans, they will push all their agenda through even if Pres. Obama is in office at the time, and then when there is no more Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid they will tell seniors that it is Obama's fault.
Vote Democrat: President, House of Representatives, Senate, and also state positions.
The Republicans care deeply about winning the election. Unfortunately, they seem to care nothing about the American people.
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Romney 2012
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Obama/Biden 2012
Well said. So well said, it deserves to be repeated.
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The more conservative paper in this state, the Bangor Daily News, just endorsed President Obama's re-election.
Amy -
As I mentioned on an earlier thread, the newspaper for our suburban Philadelphia county reported today that the historic Republican advantage in voter registrations here has dwindled in the last 20 years from about 136,000 in 1992 to just 1,362 as of this week - and despite being outnumbered in registrations, the county has voted Democratic in every presidential election in that time.
I forgot to mention, though, that they too, endorsed President Obama today:
"Perhaps more troubling, however, is Romney's penchant for tailoring his message to whoever he happens to be addressing at the moment. Thus his shift on health care, and now saying he actually likes some aspects of the plan. Or his refusal to identify the specifics in his economic plan, exactly what he would cut in trimming taxes by $5 trillion.
And in his lowest moment, there was the audio of candidate Romney saying he had no use for 47 percent of Americans who don't pay taxes, who were in effect on the government dole.
"I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives," he said. He'll never convince us that type of sentiment should take root in the White House.
If that is not enough, voters need only broaden their perspective, and remember that they decide not only the leader of the United States, but of the free world. Obama's calm, forceful hand is clearly superior to the combustible Romney, and the barbed comments he has lobbed toward Russia, China and Iran.
His detractors like to paint Obama as soft when it comes to foreign relations. We like to think Osama bin Laden would disagree. We will acknowledge that the president's handling of the situation in Libya, first failing to protect American lives, and then offering a muddled, changing explanation, was not his best moment.
As we said, Obama has not enjoyed a perfect four years. But we choose to look ahead. We abhor the thought of going back to the policies that drove this country to its knees. Just as importantly, we implore both Republicans and Democrats to end the bloodsport of gridlock in Washington. You weren't elected to subvert every attempt by the opposition to initiate change. You were elected to get things done for the good of the country, regardless of party. We urge both parties to rediscover the art of compromise.
We believe the president is the clear choice to lead that process.
The Daily Times endorses President Barack Obama for a second term."
http://www.delcotimes.com/articles/2012/10/25/opinion/doc508a0b6781537675337103.txt?viewmode=fullstory
P.S. - The bolding on that one section is mine - I think it's a crucial part of the message.
Thank you, JoAnne.
The Bangor Daily News also said:
We need a grown up in the white house. January 20: The end of an error.
Mitt Romney cannot be trusted as he etch-a-sketches himself from severely conservative Mitt to moderate Mitt. But he'll always believe the rich are the ones he needs to take care of, while the rest of us can fight over the crumbs that fall off the rich's overflowing banquet table.
Will the real Mitt Romney please stand up? No, he won't. He just hides his past statements and policies and pretends he's a new man. A true chameleon? A snake oil salesman? What exactly?
OBAMA 2012...for a fairer, better America.
they probably realized that willard and the tea/nut baggers are wrong for america!!!!!!!
willard will not release his tax returns and i know that he is hiding something!!!!!!!!!!
the attacks against women and others has reached record pitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
willard is done right scary, you can not trust a word he says!!!!!!!! willard will say or do anything that he thinks will win him the election!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it is obvious that he is trying to buy the election!!!!!!!!! why has his family bought the voting machines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
to save america vote a straight democratic ticket!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we have to fight the facist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
google freeport, il this is what willard will do to the rest of our american jobs!!!!!!!!!!!
Obama is far from a choice for a President with interest in reaching across the aisle. He never once mentioned his interest in working with the other party in any of the three debates.
Romney/Ryan 2012 for a "United" States of America
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If Romney was hiding something illegal, wouldn't the IRS already have come after him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
See how moronic that looks when you add so many exclamation points?
http://www.businessinsider.com/romney-investment-in-voting-machines-2012-10
The Salt Lake Tribune endorsed Obama. Now mind you, Utah is the red est state. The head lines was "TO MANY MITT"S" They went on to say that Mitt could Not make up his mind on Where he stood on Any position.
We need a President that won't Twist in the wind. Steady, sure and above all, cares about 100% of our people. If Mitt gets in (doubtful) little Anne will redecorate with all the LDS Temples displayed. Count on it. There is a lot more to his (&mine) than meets the eye. Be careful what you wish for.
You need to remember that mast cities have several major news sources. The SLTRIB is one of the news sources in SLC, and they generally lean left. If Anne Romney put up decorations within the White House of LDS temples, she should be able to. It would be their house to decorate. But why would that bother you? Are you saying there is some conspiracy there? You get mad at people saying Obama is a Muslim and trying to turn the U.S. into an Islamic State, then post exact similar stuff about Romney.
sdmom, your enthusiastic use of bumper-sticker sloganeering shows that you wouldn't know a grown up if one bit you. Credible grown-ups don't think they can lie consistently (latest from R'money: "Jeep is moving to China!") and get away with it. Credible grown-ups don't change position to suck up to whatever audience is in the room. Romney/Ryan don't give two craps for you or your kids or what kind of life you have. They're about their investors -period-
no more,
The IRS gave amnesty to a lot of off-shorers. Apparantly we'll never know. I would think the person who wants to be President of this country wouldn't be trying to get out of paying his taxes by off-shoring money, but apparently that's not the case here. It should be the rule that each candidate puts out a certain number of years of taxes. In this case, Obama has published 10-12 years worth and Romney 2. I see a huge problem there. There is obviously something in there they know will look really bad, even if it is legal.
Republican Voter Suppression Nationwide
Arizona: County mails wrong Election Day notice to Spanish-speakers.
Florida: Republicans scam seniors with bogus "vote by phone" calls.
Ohio: Republican defies court order by slashing early voting hours.
Virginia: Republican arrested for illegally trashing registration forms.
Jed7. There is not doubt. Both Mitt and Ann Romney have said they would be attacked for the items in their tax returns.
Jed,
My wife's boss has a masters of Accounting and 30 years experience. There is no such animal.
DB: I'm in Akron too, and most of Akron is squarely in the Democratic Party.
Most people in Akron try very hard to get along together. That is why Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown is helping veterans to get fracking jobs: he isn't some lib environment nut, but somebody who is trying his hardest to help his constituents.
You see, most of the Republican and Rove's PAC money that is being dumped in Ohio is being dumped into the Senate race. I haven't heard a word coming from Josh Mandel that isn't lies, while Sherrod Brown's statements are backed by facts. Mandel is similar to Romney. When Mandel pretends to be less radical, it isn't true: he signed both the Grover Norquist pledge to never raise taxes on the rich, and also the Ryan-Akins pledge to not allow any abortions no matter what, not even for saving the life of a heart patient or saving the mind of a rape victim.
I am a supporter of President Obama, but I want to remind voters that every single race counts as much as the Presidential race, because it is the acts of Congress that are voted into law.
A part of me wishes this veteran could vote for Obama for the first time in Ohio..
I will have to settle for doing so in VA..
Romney's math does not work and as someone recently retired from the AF, his warhawk bluster scares me after what this country has been through for the laste decade.
that said the real problem is congress and their inability to compromise on a balance of revenue raising and spending cuts to get us in a better longterm fiscal posture
Actually DB, the whole IRS-Switzerland Tax Dodger Amnesty Program was rather loud in the media for a time, if one paid attention. And YES, this appears to be what Romney is trying to hide, since it is well known that he has accounts in Switzerland and Cayman Islands. Consider the number of charges that could one could come up with. Tax Evasion-failure to report/pay taxes on income, is just the start, then one gets into fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud (with other Bain Execs etc.) and, one can easily suppose, if he is using a tax dodge in one place, he would certainly be doing so in all the others he is using... But the main thing is that he was possibly committing a felony, knowingly, and taking the amnesty is just an acknowledgement of that fact. Do we need someone who is a suspected felon in the financial world to be President of the USA?
Prove me wrong, Show Me The Tax Returns!
You want more info from a neutral source on that, Ok: http://www.mlhorwitzlaw.com/Articles/IRS-Amnesty-Program-for-Unreported-Offshore-Bank-Accounts.shtml
OR you can just Google IRS-Switzerland Tax Fraud Amnesty,,,,very easy to do!
Obama on Jay Leno the other night said that he has a had time helping his daughter out in math
Mr President it shows
Romney 2012
Agreed. So, don't pick a WHACKADOO CULT MEMBER who is so OUT OF HIS MIND that he thinks that the god-who-created-the-universe is sitting up there, wringing his hands over every person on earth who isn't wearing MAGIC UNDERWEAR.
That is hardly a reasonable, well-considered adult position. It's goddam WHACK. He is a confirmed member of a BONA FIDE CULT!! So, follow your own advice!! Be adult yoruself, own your crap, and stop supporting a whacky Cult Member!!
Hey B. Honest.
DB Akron says so, so it must be The Facts. Why? Because he claimed that his wife has a credential, and she coaches him on what to say here. WHOA! It must be true, because the Right never misrepresents information!!
Obama campaign has an enormous advantage in Ohio by virtue of their ground game. The President has 131 field offices and Romney has 40. Also many of the Obama field workers never left after the 2008 election, they were instrumental in the recall of 2010 they are extremely well organized and give truth to the old saying money cant buy everything. So no matter how much the GOP and their ancillary outfits pour into the state, the will of the people will be the telling fact.
Gingerbread Mamma,
Obama's advantage in Ohio has a lot more to do with his support of the auto industry than how many workers are on the ground. They remember that Romney wanted to toss them all on the street while he backed the idea of bailing out wall street and the insurance industry. He'll get some votes in New York over it (but not enough), but he blew Ohio 9 months ago.
GBM -
I spent a lot of time in the Obama ground game in 2008 and desperately wish I was able to do so again this year. The volunteers in our office ranged in age from 16 to 88, and their boundless enthusiasm and spirit were exceeded only by their tireless work ethic. The campaign staffers themselves were like the original Terminator - supremely efficient and ruthlessly determined to not stop until the mission was completed, and I'm not sure any of them ever ate or slept. Polls closed here at 8:00pm, and at 7:45, our red-eyed team leader was still shoving us out the door one more time in search of those last couple of votes - and though some of us had been at it since 7:00 that morning, we willingly hit the streets one more time.
You're right - there is no amount of money in the world that can buy that sort of dedication. You have to actually know in your heart that your candidate is the best man for the job and be willing to go to the ends of the earth to see him get elected.
I've yet to see any evidence that his own volunteers actually even LIKE Mitt Romney very much.
Though I'll say this - they're pretty good at cluttering up public property with their tacky lawn signs. But then, I remember being told many times that the Obama campaign valued person-to-person contact much more highly than that version of a "ground game".
To those of you on the ground out in Ohio, keep up the good work! Wish I could be with you!
I live in Ohio and have already voted. I am not stopping there. I have made myself available to anyone who needs tranportation to the polls between now and election day.
Obama/Biden 2012
Hey Jill, come down to Bloomington Illinois and pick me up! Tomorrow is fine, thanks in advance!! I'm voting republican, just so you know, but then you said ANYONE, right?
Jillibean---thanks for doing your part and then some. I think the early voting will be key to an Obama win in Ohio. I also wonder how much of a factor will be your Secretary of State's blatant attempts at voter supression--I'll bet he ticked a lot of people off. Hope they pay the price.
Sirie, are you saying you want to commit voter fraud in Ohio?
Nah, I want to vote here in Bloomington, just be nice to have someone pick me up, and she did say anyone, right?
sirie - walk!
Obama/Biden 2012
Joanne:
Sadly, the 2008 election doesn't hold the slightest resemblance to the divided, deeply in debt, lacking leadership and limited hope, that we have now.
Romney/Ryan 2012
So, seeking sanity is telling people they will only help get out to vote those who vote like them, and screw everyone else, right?
Hey SS, If I vote for Obama you come get me? ;~)
@ Sirie - I don't care what they are voting as long as they vote. Some of my closest friends may be voting for Romney and if they needed a ride I would take them too.
@ Steelers Fan - I don't know how much of a factor that will play but I will tell you I was paying VERY CLOSE ATTENTION to my ballot as it was printing and I am sure most would pay attention since we know the repubs will probably try something fishy.
Inde Thought
Sadly,
Romney/Ryan offer no solutions for America's problems.
Sadly, you choose not to remember the desperate times that existed in Fall 2008 and early 2009. Our economy was shrinking at 8.5% in 4th quarter 2008. At this rate for the full year of 2009 we would have lost a total of 12.75 million jobs in 2009. (150 million employed x 8.5% x 1 year =total of 12.75 million jobs lost).
With the stimulus, the recession ended in 6 months with a total of only 5 million jobs lost in 2009 after losing 5 million jobs in 2008. The stimulus saved 7.75 million jobs in 2009 by improving our growth rate quickly, ending the recession and speeding recovery. Growth would have continued at a rate of nearly 4% with a smaller second round of stimulus Republicans blocked.
Economics and numbers may be hard to understand for some, but the experts say the stimulus worked to save millions of jobs. My simple math shows how it worked to save jobs.
The stimulus was a bargain for all the economic damage it saved us from. Understanding exactly what the stimulus did for our country is important and you should try to understand how it worked to save our economy and people from a much worse fate.
Romney supported the stimilus and bailouts, didn't he?
If only Romney actually has economic, tax, and health care plans.
He doesn't have anything.
Its' just "TRUST ME"
Who is going to vote for the party of Liars and cheaters...
Republican Voter Suppression Nationwide
Arizona: County mails wrong Election Day notice to Spanish-speakers.
Florida: Republicans scam seniors with bogus "vote by phone" calls.
Ohio: Republican defies court order by slashing early voting hours.
Virginia: Republican arrested for illegally trashing registration forms.
I am can't wait, Romney Ryan 2012 and beyond!
Seeking
How generous of you, I though everyone's vote was important to a democrat!
Gingerbread Mama
In 2010, the ground game fizzled.
As far as 2012, I downloaded the 10-25 update from Ohio.
If you take the counties that Obama won in 2008 and add them up and the same for the McCain counties, Obama will have a 58,000 vote advantage built up. The problem with that is that a number of counties he won were won by Bush in 2004. Back those out and put them in Romney's column and Obama only has a 10,000 vote potential advantage. That still includes democrat counties that the Republican rolls have grown significantly in.
This is really anybodies race in Ohio.
Yep - just as I suspected. Another Republican looking for a free handout... What else is new?
From where -- his living room, wearing his Magic Underpants? He did a great job killing a lot of jobs and shipping many more overseas while at Bain. So, yeah, he supported China in that regard....
In other news...
Portman also stated...
Fire, HOT!
Rain, WET!
Night, DARK!
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NOBODY-
Can afford to lose OHIO and still cruise to victory!
HEY DANGERFIELD
BOTH NIXON AND KENNEDY WON THE ELECTIONS WITHOUT WINNING OHIO
MOOT POINT THO...ROMNEY IS GOING TO CRUISE TO WIN IN OHIO!!!
BYE BYE OBUMBO
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Uh, sorry. Kennedy is not a Republican (that is who the Ohio "rule" actually applies to - Republicans) and Nixon carried Ohio all three times he ran. And, seriously, when Kennedy ran against Nixon, one of them had to lose!
I was told there would only be one comedian per thread...
Ticked off in Ohio
Wrong on BOTH counts! IF you're from Ohio, you sure don't know much about our state -- Ohio: the heart of it all!
1) "In recent elections, the Buckeye State has proved itself to be a remarkably good predictor of the election winner. Since 1944, Ohioans have sided with the losing candidate only once – opting for Nixon over Kennedy in 1960." [270towin.com/states/Ohio] That means Nixon did win in Ohio. Duh!
2) The only "cruising" in Romney's future might be on Lake Erie.
Ticked off is a troll. Quit feeding him and he will go away.
Whomever wins Ohio, it's NOT going to be a cruise or a landslide. EVERYONE knows that.
Anyone who uses those terms must be a troll.
Republican will only win by Cheating.... and of course LYING!!!
Republican Voter Suppression Nationwide
Arizona: County mails wrong Election Day notice to Spanish-speakers.
Florida: Republicans scam seniors with bogus "vote by phone" calls.
Ohio: Republican defies court order by slashing early voting hours.
Virginia: Republican arrested for illegally trashing registration forms.
All you libtards are comedians!!!
"BOTH NIXON AND KENNEDY WON THE ELECTIONS WITHOUT WINNING OHIO"
Get your facts straight Ticked Off. Yes -- Nixon won Ohio in 1960 but Kennedy won the election. Nixon won Ohio in 1968 and 1972 and carried Ohio both times. So Kennedy won without carrying Ohio but NO Republican has ever won without carrying Ohio which is why Romney won't win this time. Obama has two backups -- Nevada and Iowa and he's leading in both.
Portman
Portiemouthis confessing. I guess reality is beginning to sink in.VOTE CHARACTER VOTE OBAMA
Yes, vote character.. like the character who let Hillary take the knife for what has been happening. I lost all respect for our current president at that time.
Yes, the other guy has his faults as well...
But given the chance to do better, or taking what we had for the last 4 years?
Character - the advertisement assasination on women that BO has out, about making sure that "the first time should be with someone special, someone like Barack Obama". That advertisement really sickens me...
I don't know who is going to win this election, however I see some big losers for sure!
And, pray, why do you think someone who is a congenital liar and changes his opinions and beliefs as often as his underwear will do better?
Because he is more qualified, and a sincere and caring person... a leader!
@Sirie, I am sure you never had respect for the president in the first place and I don't think Obama threw Hillary under the bus. Hillary laid it on the table for America to know who is responsible for our security but being a TEAM player Obama took sole responsibility in the second debate or did you block that part out? He had Hillary back the whole time. Throwing her under the bus would have been finger pointing and playing the blame game like so many of your fellow conservatives buddies are masters at.
I know Obama had Hillary's back just like I have his for this election. For you all to just take Mitt's word, knowing what this man stands for baffles me. I just don't understand. There is nothing solid or stable about this man. His one and only goal in life is to become President of the United States and nothing more. Just one mark checked off of his bucket list.
I voted for Obama, and wished him to do what he said he would.
character and BO don't belong in the same sentence.
Obama did everything he said he would do, at least as much as he could without the house majority rejecting everything that was going to help us get to a faster recovery. The house has to get off of their asses and help too. I don't see any conservatives calling their bullshyt. Their saying it's all Obama's fault. Well sorry but I don't think the president makes all decisions. What do you think about the house majority (republicans) whose number one goal these past two years was to make the president a one term president? They are part of the presidents team as well but they have been extremely lousy players.
It gets to me when you all blame one man and not the majority that's throwing all types of road blocks in the presidents plan. So explain to me...what do you think about the house majority? I'll wait...
@ Sirie - You think Romney is a sincere and caring person??? Really? There is nothing sincere about that man and the only thing he "cares" about is the 1% (rich people like him "Willard Mitt Romney."
I don't get sincere from someone who blatantly lies to American's every single day. His story and what he believes in changes day to day. How can you trust that? That man can't keep his stories straight. When I think of Romney I think of fake and out of touch with "MY" reality...
sirie - Romney is sincere about doing whatever Grover Norquist tells him to do. He is sincere about not having a position on anything. He is sincere about not giving a damn about our country. He's sincere about himself - nothing else!
Obama/Biden 2012
I for one think that Romney is a sincere person. He took over the Olympics and did so without taking a pay check. He gives to charity, he helps people, and he has offered to help America.
I think he has his faults, as do most people/politicians that have to make promises to get votes. Obama has faults as well, I just think that Obama has failed to be a leader, and failed to focus from day one.
I know Obama has done some good, and I know the economy was in the tank (thanks to BOTH the bank and Wall Street and Auto bailouts, something that we the people should NOT be involved in).
I just KNOW that Romney is the better leader, and will do a better job.
Sweet Post Jilli !! :)
Obama/Biden 2012
$8.00 a gallon gas in 2016
$23 trillion national debt in 2016
Another 10% unemployed in 2016
Average US wages down another 10% in 2016
Food prices up 50% in 2016
Want ALL these things? Check Obama at the Elections.
Sirie,
I will say that he is sincere in giving to charities and I am sure they make for excellent tax write off's. He's offering to help Americans 1%. I think Obama has kept his focus where it should have been and that's on the middle class and the poor? I like that Obama isn't thinking about the 1% because they are very well off. Mitt seems to be focused on looking out for the rich on the middle class back and I can't get with that.
And as a woman...Let's not go there. Mitt and his friends should just stay out of women's health issues ALL together.
Siri
Wrong Buckoo...Mitt Took a Government Bail-out of the Olympics...and lined his "friends" Wink, Wink.
pockets/purses. I was there, were You? And Yea he "donates" (Tithe's) to the Mormon church...which invests in Business's (their OWN), makes money and takes a Church exemption on its Tax's. The LDS church does a lot of good things...but makes a HUGE Profit. Not all goes to charity. They run this state and now want to run the Government.
Siri-
Condi Rice just agreed that Obama isn't lying about Libya. She said uncertainty is usually the rule in these cases.
You hate Condi now too?
So Bart, what exactly was uncertain in this case?
Embassy and CIA staff on the ground asked numerous times for security reinforcements. CERTAIN
Reinforcements were denied numerous times. CERTAIN
The embassy was sacked and 4 Americans including the Ambassador were murdered. CERTAIN
The Whitehouse had information within hours the attack was a terrorist attack. CERTAIN
The Whitehouse claimed it was due to a stupid movie on Youtube. CERTAIN
What exactly was uncertain about the matter apart from the fact it displays if nothing else a failure of the Obama foreign policy where it relates to Libya and the Middle east and poor judgment.
Apparently Obama does not like hearing bad news and those around him fear telling him what he does not want to hear, so it is indeed uncertain if Obama was ever told the facts and thus is uncertain if he has been lying the whole time or if as I suspect is simply not doing his job.
Al Qaeda is alive, and Ambassador Stevens is dead!
Risk....stop trivializing Ambassador Stevens and our other 3 diplomats deaths by tolling that sound bite post.
How dare you keep politicizing their tragic deaths and using their name in the same sentence with Al Qaeda, have you and your right wing friends no shame?
There is an ongoing investigation and from what I have read, there are many pieces to this puzzle which eventually will be solved. Your only interest and those of your ilk is to try to make a case of some sort against our President for purely political reasons.
For the record, no one has claimed Al Qaeda is dead, they have been reduced in number yet factions of them spread throughout most of the mid East and into Africa and will be an ongoing problem for many years. do some independent research and reading and stop relying on others opinions and points of view. Facts are what matter in everything, including what will be discovered about Libya, not conclusions before facts are established.
GHX.......you only know what Fox told you and what you are willing to believe.
For CERTAIN, it was not an embassy that happens to be in Tripoli many miles away. Consulates never warrant the same level of protection as embassies and as Congress had cut the State Department's budget by $296m in 2010 and made other cuts since then that will be a good place to start as to why security was not as strong as it may have been. You can read about it here from the Washington Times, not by any stretch, a liberal newspaper.
www.washingtontimes.com/.../benghazi-attack-followed-deep
.... YOU WANT TO BLAME OBAMA FOR WHAT HAPPENED IN THE MIDDLE EAST? Not to discount the American loss of those four men killed ... May God bless them and their families ....
THIS IS WHAT BUSH DID or DIDN'T DO ON AMERICAN SOIL ....
What Bush Knew Before Sept.11
"We were trying to figure out what they (al Qaeda) would do. We never had specifics about time, place, MO (method of operation)."
U.S. intelligence official, commenting anonymously.
President Bush was told in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might hijack U.S. passenger planes - information which prompted the administration to issue an alert to federal agencies - but not the American public.
CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin says the warning was in a document called the President's Daily Brief, which is considered to be the single most important document that the U.S. intelligence community turns out. The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown
into buildings.
An agent in the FBI's Arizona office did, however, speculate about that, writing in his case notes about Zacarias Moussaoui that Moussaoui seemed like the type of person who was capable of flying an aircraft into the World Trade Center.
It was the observation of an agent taking notes as he thought about his case - an observation whose significance simply did not register at the time.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer says that while President Bush was told last summer that bin Laden's al Qaeda network might hijack planes, he did not receive information suggesting that airplanes might be used as suicide bombs, as they were on Sept. 11.
Fleischer emphasizes that "until the attack took place, I think it's fair to say that no one envisioned that as a possibility."
The revelation about the president's security briefing comes as House and Senate Intelligence Committee investigators prepare for public hearings beginning next month on whether an intelligence community which spends $30 billion a year should have been able to provide a more specific warning in advance of Sept. 11.
The New York Times reports that an FBI agent in Arizona warned his superiors last summer that bin Laden might be sending students to U.S. flight schools.
Investigators have since Sept. 11 suspected bin Laden's al Qaeda network of masterminding the terror attacks on America, which killed more than 3,000 people.
Republicans don't want to see the bigger picture .... the middle east has been at war since forever ... the attacks on the embassy happened in the middle east .... Bush was for-warned too ... and did nothing and they attacked us AMERICAN SOIL .... HUGE DIFFERENCE .....
MIDDLE EAST - 4 KILLED
AMERICAN SOIL - 3000 KILLED .... YES REPUBLICANS EXPLAIN THAT ONE .....
MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA .... AND AMERICA VOTE FOR OBAMA 2012
For a caring and fair country!
Vote for Obama/Biden
They hav our backs
What I can't figure out about theses Romney supporters is which Mitt are they voting for. The guy has been for and against and kind of for and kind of against and for this today and against it later today but for it tomorrow --- on everything.
I was never a Bush supporter bit I'll give him credit -- at least he told people what he was for and what he was against. Everybody knew where he stood. Not so with Romney. Is he a conservative, a tea bagger or a radical liberal? Who knows?? The only thing we know about him is he changes his mind several times per hour.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
........FORWARD.........
Breakfast already??
I smell Romney Toast!!
Obama Biden 2012
The distinction in this election and what makes it so important is that it determines if we follow Greece into bankruptcy or can change course and avert the collapse of the United States.
I am disappointed the Republican party has been overrun with Christian Zealots like many Americans are, but Obama is not and has not been the answer we need. Romney is not a Christian zealot either and appears to have a very moderate approach. That said Obama's 1.6 million a year income hardly makes him a man of the people, as I no more relate to a person at this income level than anyone else hardly. Talk about the 1%
Americans need to feel empowered to make great things happen in their lives, not be resigned to a small government check, a cheap cell phone and cheap food each month.
President Obama, has on many times acknowledge he would \ willing pay more taxes. He has like many of us struggled to educate himself and live a decent life. He and Mrs, Obama just finished paying off their student loans in 2004 mainly from the income he earned from his book sales.
He also allows that they have been very fortunate in life, but wouldn't have achieved so much but for help along the way. In their youth, both know their families struggled to get them educated, but that is the key, education is everything, along with a willingness to work hard and avail of all opportunity that comes one's way. So he can understand what its like to struggle to pay rent, have a sick child, have a lot of debt and work to pay for all of that and more. I've been there too and I can understand how hard it is for so many today and how a little help here and there makes the going a little easier. Try not to be resentful of others success it diminishes you as human being. You surely dont think Mitt Romney, who earns at minimum $57k a DAY and has lived the gilded life since birth, would understand yours or mine circumstances?
The Republicans are already starting to cheat in FL and other states. It will be epidemic.
We have democrat "auto voting" here in North Carolina. Four instances in the same polling place. Glad the women looked before they confirmed and set it. The machines have been "repaired" so all is good now........well they say it is. If it glitches now, why isn't there a chance the glitch will return? Hmmmm.
That is why we need to be VIGILANT, and demand that you can vote!!!!!!!!!!!!! We need to be pushy and not let anyone push you around!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If something looks fishy! Report It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO To the polls together!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vote Straight Democratic!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stop the Facist!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stop The Gop/tea nut baggers War Against Women!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Vote In Droves!!!!!!!!!! Obama/Biden 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then why were fake letters sent from WA to mainly republican voters telling them they were illegally voting and would be arrested?
What Melody is saying is "don't vote based on your research, vote just straight party lines, lets create a one party system"
Soon we will see the American Spring.
no more,
Why is the man who the Republican National Committee hired to organize their voter registration efforts (knowing he had previously been investigated for voter fraud), and has subsequently told us they fired, because voter workers of his in different states have been arrested for voter fraud by throwing away or refusing to register non-conservatives, amongst other things, STILL working for them? Their "we fired him the minute we found out" crap is just that. He's still working for them and the previous GOP head in FL has explained that they have a lot of different accounts they can use to secretly pay him. He was also a voting consultant for Romney. He has made tens of millions from the Repub party.
I agree these voting machines should be outlawed. We need paper ballots and a paper record. If computers are used to tally the results, then both sides should get the results and run their own numbers. If they do not match then humans should intervene until ALL numbers match.
A thumbprint should be placed on each and every ballot. If multiple thumbprints (from either party) are found the ballot should be eliminated from the count and the person found and prosecuted to the fullest possible extent of the law.
YES - A thumbprint and ID is required to go to Disney World, it really, really should be required to vote.
Not to suppress anyone - I'm Canadian and I don't have a horse in your race at all - but it's really, truly not any sort of ''voter suppression'' to ask for ID and to make sure everyone that votes is legally allowed to vote, and that they are voting correctly, and in the right place, and only voting once.
Seems reasonable to me. :)
Doesn't matter who will win.
Business as usual.
That may be the smartest remark that I have ever seen on First Read! Congrats!
In this case it will matter to me since my business works for mostly wealthy clients who are currently not spending a dime in fear. I see a major increase in business if Romney wins and hard times ahead if Obama wins.
Apparently this is true of most very small businesses.
In Ohio Romney is telling citizens that he was always for the auto bailout (before he was against it).
So, if you're not voting, you are leaving this critical decision to others. You're letting your neighbor vote for you. You're letting your grandpa vote for you. You're letting your ex-boyfriend vote for you. You're letting your crazy Uncle Charlie vote for you.
Even if you believe the candidates' differences are not overwhelming, there is always a choice. Even if "you'd rather there was someone else," there is always a choice.
And think about it - who benefits if they can keep you from voting?
I'm not letting that happen with my vote.
You need to check the FACTS, he was against the bailout but said it should be a government controlled bankruptcy to protect the workers and stockholders. BO bailed them out and they still went bankrupt leaving the taxpayers in the hole.
Dotties girl?
Go check your Facts..before you look any more foolish.
Even Mittins is NOW trying to take credit...gheezzz
Mitt specifically said the Government should not write a check to the auto industry. Obama showed that a government check can lead the industry to prosperity, saving 1 million jobs.
Taxpayers AREN'T in the hole. They are getting paid back because of Obama's bail out.
Obama was RIGHT. Romney, with his supposed business sense, WRONG.
Dotties girl,
He said was the government should back lenders with guarantees AFTER the bankruptcy was over, (that's how he's trying to justify he backed govt involvement now) but there weren't any lenders back then willing to help anyone!
I pray the Ohioans come through for President Oama. The middle class Americans needs protection.
Like the protection he has given us in the past four years...You jest.
Are we better off today than we were four years ago....no.
We need a leader that can lead...Romney/Ryan 2012
Uhhhh, No.7, anyone with a 401K, private retirement fund, or pension is about 60% better off then they were 4 years ago.
Um, even if they lost their job, and living off of that 401 k?
Um, 800,000 jobs lost/month in 2008 to 1-200,000 jobs gained/month now. Besides, I would rather be living off a 401K valued at a stock market of 13000 compared to a stock market of about 8000. Just this year, the average gain on a 401K was about $8000. Not bad.
I live in Ohio and I am doing a lot better than I was 4 years ago. I lost my job 3 years ago, went back to college and got my degree. Although it took forever to find work, I didn't give up and just sit around on my butt and wait for handouts. It took me almost 2 years to find a decent paying job and it seems to be getting easier for others to find good paying jobs. Although I used a little assistance with food, medical and childcare when I was unemployed, I felt that going back to school was the better solution so I wouldn't be in the place I was 4 years ago.
Today, I am a college graduate, I work a great job with great pay and I have to thank our president for making sure my kids could at least eat and have some type of health insurance while I was having a hard time financially. So Obama has my support 100%
Obama/Biden 2012
Don't forget No. 7, Obama got Bin Laden and most of the Al Qaeda leadership - that's how he's kept us safe!
Tell that to the 4 murdered Americans family you idiot!
Obama= 4 more
What are we telling the thousand of families of the lives lost in 2001 on American soil?
Dotties girl - you're the idiot that isn't waiting for facts or the complete investigation. You're playing in the gutter even though the families have asked EVERYONE to leave their family members out of politics. But a gutter dweller like you has no integrity or shame - just the lying filth you post every day!
Obama/Biden 2012
Heard from a woman today that is from MA. She said she went to the Willard rally today, and he is more extreme than when he was running for gov there.
Vote For President Obama and a Straight Democratic Ticket!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ SeekingSanity
Beautiful - I couldn't have said it better. Thank you!
Obama/Biden 2012
I love how many on the left here who don't like it when someone post political stuff different than their views suddenly get so viscous with name calling, personal attacks, etc.
The stuff the people from the right is just annoying because it lacks substance and intellegence. You are ALWAYS blaming someone but won't ever call a spade a spade if your side does something wrong. I just wish they would re-open the comments section on Fox so you all would have a place to go and share your mis-information and spew your hate amongst each other. At least I had a place to go when I wanted to see what real ignorance looked like.
no more
It is because all the Teas/GOP don't tell the truth, let facts get in the way and ARE running Scared...grow up.
"Are we better off today than we were four years ago."
YES WE ARE!!!
We are better off, because we no longer are losing 7000 jobs per month, instead creating new jobs.
We are better off because the economy is growing rather than contracting at 6%.
We are better off because the DOW is up over 5,000 points in the last 4 years.
We are better off, because Osama is dead and GM is alive.
We are better off, because we no longer are fighting war in Iraq and spending billions of dollars of US tax payers’ money there.
We are better off because we now have a well defined policy in Afghanistan, and we have dismantled the Al-Quada.
We are better off, because we have a president who is working to build the middle class everyday.
Yes, but more work needs to be done but we are much better off that we were in 2008.
Fuuuugh Obama and his administration. Leaving our own people to die, you can see it here
Not cool at all. I just lost major respect.
Killls
You never had any to begin with. LOL
huh?
.... YOU WANT TO BLAME OBAMA FOR WHAT HAPPENED IN THE MIDDLE EAST? Not to discount the American loss of those four men killed ... May God bless them and their families ....
THIS IS WHAT BUSH DID or DIDN'T DO ON AMERICAN SOIL ....
What Bush Knew Before Sept.11
"We were trying to figure out what they (al Qaeda) would do. We never had specifics about time, place, MO (method of operation)."
U.S. intelligence official, commenting anonymously.
President Bush was told in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might hijack U.S. passenger planes - information which prompted the administration to issue an alert to federal agencies - but not the American public.
CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin says the warning was in a document called the President's Daily Brief, which is considered to be the single most important document that the U.S. intelligence community turns out. The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown
into buildings.
An agent in the FBI's Arizona office did, however, speculate about that, writing in his case notes about Zacarias Moussaoui that Moussaoui seemed like the type of person who was capable of flying an aircraft into the World Trade Center.
It was the observation of an agent taking notes as he thought about his case - an observation whose significance simply did not register at the time.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer says that while President Bush was told last summer that bin Laden's al Qaeda network might hijack planes, he did not receive information suggesting that airplanes might be used as suicide bombs, as they were on Sept. 11.
Fleischer emphasizes that "until the attack took place, I think it's fair to say that no one envisioned that as a possibility."
The revelation about the president's security briefing comes as House and Senate Intelligence Committee investigators prepare for public hearings beginning next month on whether an intelligence community which spends $30 billion a year should have been able to provide a more specific warning in advance of Sept. 11.
The New York Times reports that an FBI agent in Arizona warned his superiors last summer that bin Laden might be sending students to U.S. flight schools.
Investigators have since Sept. 11 suspected bin Laden's al Qaeda network of masterminding the terror attacks on America, which killed more than 3,000 people.
Republicans don't want to see the bigger picture .... the middle east has been at war since forever ... the attacks on the embassy happened in the middle east .... Bush was for-warned too ... and did nothing and they attacked us AMERICAN SOIL .... HUGE DIFFERENCE .....
MIDDLE EAST - 4 KILLED
AMERICAN SOIL - 3000 KILLED .... YES REPUBLICANS EXPLAIN THAT ONE .....
MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA .... AND AMERICA VOTE FOR OBAMA 2012
If you have nothing at all intelligent to say SAY IT IN ALL CAPS WITH BOLD FONT WITH LOTS OF EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!!!!
Why the heck is it always a dead heat? This happened in 2000 and 2004 in some states and I can't believe that somehow things are always EXACTLY split.
PORTMAN: FINALLY, you are right! you, The Myth, & The Lyin' can go home & rest. It's over.
more people have already voted early in OH (with 10+ days left) than voted early in the whole 2008 election, through election day.
Of those who have voted early, 60% voted DEM, 30% Repub.
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 . . . . ObamaCare(s) :-)
Come on Portman and all those helping to get people out their to vote Republican. Voters, if you care about freedom, the economy and the strength of this nation for us and future generations...Help! America is in dire need of new leadership. Vote Romney/Ryan this November 6th. We do not want another four years of Obama; if we give him any more time in office we will be in a hole that we may not be able to get out of. "America's freedom is one generation away from extinction." Abraham Lincoln.
Those who care about the country will be voting to re-elect President Obama.
Obama/Biden 2012
I thought Abraham Lincoln was dead?
Obama Biden 2012
Not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Vote To Stop The War Against Women !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obama/Biden 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stop The Facist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Vote to stop over 50 million+ murders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Vote to stop debt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Vote to stop drone attacks on U.S. citizens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Vote to stop the waste of exclamation points!
How the @!$%# can Romney lose Ohio? He bought the @!$%#ing Voting Machines??
Obama Biden 2012
http://www.businessinsider.com/romney-investment-in-voting-machines-2012-10
Thomas- How the @!$%# can Romney lose Ohio?
The machines are probably his "Plan B"... If your lyin' & flip-flopping can't win, CHEAT!!
Lets hope that we can overcome that very scary possibility...
ALL YOU DEMS GET YOUR BUTTS OUT AND VOTE>>>>NOW!! Don't wait till Nov 6Th!!
"Fuggetabouit"
Come on Ohio, please give us Romney/Ryan 2012.
You can have them! Their Losers!
Love,
Ohio
Obama Biden 2012
Jen - NOPE!
Obama/Biden 2012
@ Jen - Can't do it hun.
Best Regards,
Ohio
Obama/Biden 2012
No way. Obama 4 more in Ohio
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stop The Women Haters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stop The Right Wing Extremist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vote Obama/Biden 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why is it that when someone is pro choice (as in believing that everyone should have a choice for themselves that they want a chance at life) that they are against women? Are you against selfish acts or life?
Jen-
Ahh.. Fuggetabouit, honey, Ohio will send the outsourcer in chief and the Medicare killer crawling back to the hole they came from... Hopefully Mittens will outsource himself to China and stay the hell there, and Lyin' ryan will also lose his congressional seat and get a job at some cheap diner washing dishes.
Obama/Biden 2012,
Biden/Hillary 2016,
"Fuggetabouit"
I knew Abraham Lincoln; and you Mr. President are no Abraham Lincoln
Mitt Romney 2012
Forward 2012
Willard Backwards over a 100 Years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Willard will only represent the Rich!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They Are Trying To Buy The Elections And America!!!!!!!!!
Obama is for the 47% Vote Obama 2012!!!!!!!! Stop The Obstructionist!!!!!!!!!!!!
Attention America, We have found Lincoln's missing jackass.
Republican Voter Suppression Nationwide
Arizona: County mails wrong Election Day notice to Spanish-speakers.
Florida: Republicans scam seniors with bogus "vote by phone" calls.
Ohio: Republican defies court order by slashing early voting hours.
Virginia: Republican arrested for illegally trashing registration forms.
I just heard on MSNBC,Republican Ret. Col. Wilkerson (white) say he was voting for President Obama. And that today's Republican Party was full of racists. That that was fueling the right-wing hatred of Obama,and he wanted to say it outright. Not beat around the bush over this.
Retired Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson made the comment in response to Mitt Romney campaign surrogate John Sununu’s suggestion on Thursday that Powell’s endorsement of President Barack Obama’s re-election was motivated by race. Wilkerson, who served as Powell’s chief of staff when the general was secretary of state during the first George W. Bush term, told Schultz that he respected Sununu “as a Republican, as a member of my party,” but did not “have any respect for the integrity of the position that [Sununu] seemed to codify.”
Wilkerson added:
My party, unfortunately, is the bastion of those people — not all of them, but most of them — who are still basing their positions on race. Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists, and the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander-in-chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin, and that’s despicable.
FINALLY AN HONEST REPUBLICAN .......... OBAMA 2012
for all of you Obama haters @!$%# happens..heck the fat lady is clearing her voice...go obama
im a 100% disable combat veteran
Thank you for your service, Gary.
Gary,
I think that Charles Woods would disagree -
The father of a former Navy SEAL killed in the Libya terror attack last month said Friday that U.S. officials who denied a request for help while the diplomatic compound in Benghazi was under attack "are murderers of my son."
"They refused to pull the trigger," Woods said. "Those people who made the decision and who knew about the decision and lied about it are murderers of my son."
Those that care about our service men & women's safety I wish that the leadership in the White House had the same level of moral courage and heroism that my son displayed.
Thank you Gary for Serving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am Proud of You!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obama 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Straight Democratic Ticket!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Careful, if John Sununu thinks that Colin Powell, you know the Black Guy who was Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff only supports President Obama because those "Ni%%ers" all stick together, you might be construed as a "Ni%%er Lover". I am fed up with all of this hate baiting bigotry, because none of the these hate baiters every served a single day in the military.
A vote for Romney is a vote for that hole we may not be able to get out of. According to the Congressional Budget Office, Romney/Ryan's tax plan will cause a 15-20% increase in the debt. Returning to the Clinton tax rates, will cause a 25% decrease in the debt. Which candidate actually has a plan to sensibly reduce our deficit without eliminating the safety nets we have in place for our veterans, our elderly, our children? Too bad the Republicans that pledged their souls to Norquist upon President Obama's election couldn't have put this country first.
They Pledged to support the Unites States of America!!!!!!!! By making a Pledge To Grover Norquist they committed an Act of Treason!!!!!!!!!
Grover Norquist is Not The United States Of America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obama/Biden 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am starting to see the Norquist List as nothing more than a hunting list. If you find your Congressman or Senator on the Norquist List, just vote for the other person. Good Hunting.
Republican national motto: "If you cant beat em then cheat em."
Buh Bye BARRY!! Sell you social EQUALIZATION PLANS in some 3rd world country
Has romney and ryan signed the grover pledge? Obama did not !
Anne Honey! I think we're going to have to downsize!
Obama Biden 2012
Time to send out letters to Ohio residents telling them the election has been postponed until next year.
Or have the notice that is in Spanish give the date as November 8. Then say "oops."
Very cute, most of us have already voted, Obama 4 more in Ohio
Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Forward Obama 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Women Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All of those buses you see transporting voters to the polls, well we raised the money for the service. We never ask who they plan to vote for, there is not one piece of political propaganda on the buses, just a free ride for anyone who wishes to vote. GOTCHA! We The People!
Yes Paul, I promise to let you give a shout out to Kid Rock before we lose!!
Oh Mitt!
Obama Biden 2012