Claiming momentum, Romney launches ad in Pennsylvania

Four years ago, Barack Obama said building a coal-powered plant will bankrupt you. Now, 22 Pennsylvania coal facilities will close or convert. Mitt Romney will support coal and get North America energy independent.

 

DAYTON, OH — Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney will launch ads in Pennsylvania before the election to bolster what the GOP calls an effort to build upon momentum in the Democratic-leaning state. 

NBC News ad-tracking sources report the Romney campaign has bought only $120,000 in ad time, which the Republican National Committee said covers only Nov 5-6 — next Monday and Election Day itself. But the new effort is Romney's first foray into Pennsylvania since GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan held an airport rally near Pittsburgh on Oct. 20. Romney last campaigned in Pennsylvania in late Sept.

The Romney campaign said Tuesday that this effort marked an expanded capacity for the former Massachusetts governor to win a more reliably blue state. But the buy, for now, is only for Johnstown-Altoona (central PA) and Philadelphia, which is a small buy given the expensive Philly TV market. 

Romney joins Restore Our Future, a supportive super PAC, in advertising in Pennsylvania. The super PAC's move prompted President Barack Obama's campaign to make its own ad buy in the state, spending at least $1.3 million on broadcast and cable in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh from Wednesday through Election Day. The size of that ad buy could expand. 

The Romney campaign released a copy of a new ad, entitled "Crushed by your policies," which focuses on coal miners in western Pennsylvania. That spot could have crossover appeal into swing territory in eastern Ohio, where the economy also relies on coal.

The Romney campaign's released a memo accompanying news of its ad buy, arguing that the new ad was evidence that Romney would be going on offense in the Keystone State, which last voted for a Republican in 1988.

"With one week to go, and 96 percent of the vote on the table on Election Day in Pennsylvania, this expansion of the electoral map demonstrates that Governor Romney’s momentum has jumped containment from the usual target states and has spread to deeper blue states that Chicago never anticipated defending," Romney campaign political director Rich Beeson wrote in the memo.

The Obama campaign quickly fired back with a memo of their own, and arguing that the late game effort by the Romney campaign to compete in traditionally blue states indicated fear in Boston that Romney would lose Ohio, a state he's campaigned in more than any other, and in which many independent analysts agree his political fortunes may yet rest.

“Three things are now absolutely clear in this race – we have a significant early vote advantage in states from North Carolina to Nevada, there is no Romney momentum in the battleground states, and the Romney campaign has found itself with a tremendously narrow and improbable path to 270 electoral votes," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina wrote. "Now, like Republicans did in 2008, they are throwing money at states where they never built an organization and have been losing for two years.  Let’s be very clear, the Romney campaign and its allies decision to go up with advertising in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Minnesota is a decision made out of weakness, not strength."

Vice President Joe Biden was set to campaign in Pennsylvania this week, but the trip was cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy.

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Let’s be very clear, the Romney campaign and its allies decision to go up with advertising in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Minnesota is a decision made out of weakness, not strength."

When has the Romney campaign ever done a thing out of strength?

Obama/Biden 2012

  • 27 votes
#1 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:33 PM EDT

Position of weakness?

So where prey tell is O going into hard red states?

You libbies really are silly.

And just remember it's going to be +3 republican.

Oh My!

  • 11 votes
#1.1 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:36 PM EDT

"I will not let a small event like Hurricane Sandy get in my way!" Mitt Romney.

  • 21 votes
#1.2 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:40 PM EDT

momentum? Is Mitt talking about Halloween - his day has come, a day for vultures and ghouls.

Is he claiming momentum because of FrankenStorm-Bad Girl Sandy...his secret Mistress of the Dark?

  • 26 votes
#1.3 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:41 PM EDT

Spanky,

So where prey tell is O going into hard red states?

He spends a little cash here now and then. He just doesn't advertise it as it doesn't reek of desperation and speaking of "preying" that's more up your party's line.

Obama/Biden 2012

  • 25 votes
#1.4 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:43 PM EDT

His campaign has extra cash for ads with no air time
available before the election in key swing states.

  • 18 votes
#1.5 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:45 PM EDT
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AlaskaGirl,

I will not let a small event like Benghazi get in my way! Las Vegas awaits.

  • 11 votes
#1.6 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:47 PM EDT

Poor MYTH he is grasping for straws

  • 18 votes
#1.7 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:49 PM EDT

Great ad and great strategy. PA is in play and every vote counts. Obama has hurt the coal industry. The coal industry and its millions of employees and beneficiaries can't afford four more years.

Nah Bev -- the Obama campaign is being sucked down a straw. Ain't it great!!!!

  • 10 votes
#1.8 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:49 PM EDT

Hey, thetotas, that wrote:

  • AlaskaGirl,
  • I will not let a small event like Benghazi get in my way! Las Vegas awaits.

So, Mitt is going to Vegas after his loss?...me too. I will meet him there. I know Mitt will need to recover from his loss after Nov. 6. Vegas has all the-rapist for him, I mean therapist, the best for Mitt.

  • 19 votes
#1.9 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:50 PM EDT

This "ploy" is a classic straight from the Turdblossom's 2000 playbook! lmao

*grasp meet straw*

  • 21 votes
#1.10 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:52 PM EDT

Yesterday (I wonder why) a Romney campaign official said that Romney would not abolish FEMA.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/83001.html#ixzz2AnNF6iL0

  • 19 votes
#1.11 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:53 PM EDT

Hey Theotas -- don't forget that they got him and AF One all the way to Florida and said "OH sh!T this doesn't look good for us. We already screwed the pooch in Vegas. Let's get the hell out a here!!!! There is more photo ops for us in the Situation Room." Then Obama could be heard to say "What's the Situation Room? I can't remember."

I wonder what this country did before FEMA (Carter's invention for big government)? Why we all pitched in and gave disaster relief and the federal government helped the states without a bureaucracy that ended up in Homeland Security. And guess what it worked!!!! Check our Galveston at the turn of the century.

  • 10 votes
#1.12 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:57 PM EDT

Do the Romney's own the voting machines in PA? The ad is a great cover story to explain how votes flip-flopped from Obama to Romney on election night.

  • 12 votes
#1.13 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:58 PM EDT

Apples and oranges, thetoad.

Obama/Biden 2012!!

  • 18 votes
#1.14 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:59 PM EDT

Craaaaazy Romney supporter holding up Tee- shirt and can goods. Wouldn't you rather have a donation from Red Cross than an expired can good MYTH gives?

MYTH should donate some of his millions.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A6d8X0iCMAAxubz.jpg

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So glad to see our President @RED Cross. I know our President has to take care of all the victims of Hurricane Sandy; but I was pinning for him. Love our President. Thank you Mr President for taking care of those victims and America's economy

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Obama/Biden 2012

  • 15 votes
#1.15 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:01 PM EDT

Las Vegas awaits.

Here I thought that was becuase Adelson would be asking for his money back!

Obama/Biden 2012

  • 15 votes
#1.16 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:01 PM EDT

AG,

How do you figure?

  • 5 votes
#1.17 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:02 PM EDT

In a campaign that has spent $1 billion, $120,000 on 2 days of ads in 2 markets (one of which is a slam dunk for Romney) is a drop in the bucket. Done only so they can pretend to be competitive here. Ain't going to happen. Very grateful that they won't be on in SW Pa.

  • 14 votes
#1.18 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:03 PM EDT

How do you figure?

pure irrational emotion.

  • 7 votes
#1.19 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:04 PM EDT

For decades conservatives have chased the mirage that is a red Pennsylvania. Everything Romney's campaign does smacks of desperation. Next he'll run an ad in his old stomping grounds, Massachusetts. Isn't it odd that he doesn't have the ear of the state he served as governor? Let's all look to the Bay State's example instead of experiencing buyer's remorse.

  • 15 votes
#1.20 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:06 PM EDT

Exactly Wayne. Claiming momentum and actually having it are two different things. He's desperate.

  • 15 votes
#1.21 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:09 PM EDT

Hey - Let Myth Robme waste $$ donated to his campaign (he hasn't spent a dime of his own) - it's good for the economy.

But NO, Myth, you have NO Mittmentum!! other than your doors, who do you think you're kidding!!!

Nate Siler gives President Obama a 94.5% chance of winning PA!!!

Myth is just pandering - trying to take advantage of the disaster.

Myth Robe IS a disaster, and if he cared about the victims of Sandy, he would go home & send a check . . .

Oh. Wait. he only cares about 47% of the victims of Sandy ( YES, Myth, these actually are REAL VICTIMS!)

O & JOE! because ObamaCare(s)!

  • 18 votes
#1.22 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:09 PM EDT

Wayne - he is smart to not even show his face in Massachusetts. They absolutely HATE him there! He was a dismal failure as governor which explains why he didn't run for a 2nd term - knew he wouldn't be re-elected. I'd say the people of Mass know a lot about Mitt!

Obama/Biden 2012

  • 20 votes
#1.23 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:10 PM EDT

New Documents Reveal Romney Stole From Charity, Avoided Taxes

For awhile now, people have talked about how Romney donates a sizable part of his earnings to charity. Talked up by the right-wing as a sign of nobility, that Romney is a good person for it, they use it as a measuring stick against Obama.

Unfortunately for Romney, the truth about at least some of his charitable giving is not so noble. It makes one wonder if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) was right this summer when he said, “I was told by an extremely credible source that Romney has not paid taxes for ten years.No wonder Romney refuses to release his tax returns.

Bloomberg is now reporting that due to a grandfathered in charitable trust, the Romney family is able to effectively launder millions of dollars through what is listed on their tax returns as “charitable donations.” This form of tax deduction loophole was closed some years ago, but this trust is allowed to operate due to a loophole which makes trusts put in place before the new law was put in to place exempt.


http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/30/new-documents-reveal-romney-stole-from-charity-avoided-taxes/

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The choice should be "CLEAR" now for the undecided. MYTH is a crook. Who wants a crook in the Oval Office?


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Obama/Biden 2012

  • 16 votes
#1.24 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:11 PM EDT

Dennis - how them polls looking?

You catch the NPR poll?

How about Gallup polling a +3 Rep. turnout?

Dennis, could you kindly point me to a poll done in the last few weeks with a R+3 sample?

It is so interesting that you libbies cannot see that you are losing.

It like Walker and Wisc. all over again.

Or is it like the '010 elections all over again?

You guys are super amusing.

Man is next week gonna be fun.

  • 8 votes
#1.25 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:15 PM EDT

Now that Romney is ahead in Ohio and picking up steam, it's time to take PA too!!!

BYE BYE OBAMA!!!

NAH NAH NAH NAH......NAH NAH NAH NAH.....HEY HEY HEY.......GOODBYE!

....and good riddance!

...

  • 8 votes
#1.26 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:23 PM EDT

New documents reveal Michelle Robinson Obama has ties to the best known black Marxist -- Manning Marable. Involved in the racist Third World Center.

The choice should be "CLEAR" now for the undecided. Obama's are racists and radicals. Who wants a racist/radical in the Oval Office?

In November 1984, TWC’s board demanded that non-white students should have the right to bar whites from their meetings on campus. They also demanded minorities-only meetings with the deans. (John Hurley, “Black students, university debate closed meeting policy,” The Daily Princetonian, November 29, 1984). The ban was frankly unnecessary, since whites were made to feel unwelcome at the meetings if they were invited at all, but the TWC continued to press for it, arguing, too, that blacks ought to be able to bar whites from attending events aimed at discussion of “sensitive” racial issues.

“The administration, by denying us these [blacks-only] meetings, is saying that we don’t have specific needs that have to be addressed this way,” David Jackson, ’87, a fellow TWC member, told the Daily Princetonian after the university officials finally rejected its proposal to hold racially limited meetings.

But despite the radical and racialist character of the TWC, Michelle Robinson was an active participant and may have been attracted by that very radicalism.

“The Third World Center was our life,” Angela Acree, her best friend at Princeton, told The Boston Globe in June 2008. “We hung out there, we partied there, we studied there [in Liberation Hall].”

“Not a day went by that I did not see Michelle at the Center,” Czerni Brasuelle, TWC’s director at the time, told the Daily Princetonian in its November 5, 2008 issue.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/a-detailed-look-at-obamas-radical-college-past-and-were-not-talking-about-barack/

  • 3 votes
#1.27 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:51 PM EDT

Barrack Hussein is not allowing himself to be outdone by Romney.

The White House reports he changed into his "mom jeans" and said he is ready lead from behind once again.

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 FOR REAL AMERICANS©

NOTE: Liberals/Progressives remember to vote on November 7th.

  • 3 votes
#1.28 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:13 PM EDT

Ben

You show your desperation. Nowhere in your post do you ever say that Michelle Robinson ever participated in any policy decisions of TWC. You imply guilt by association. Where did you hang out in high school or college? Could I go back to your hangout and find that there was someone you knew there that may have an association with some radical element or criminal activity? I bet I could.

Better stock up on your tissues. You will need them next Tuesday night, Nov. 6, 2012, election day.

  • 7 votes
#1.29 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:17 PM EDT

Uh, Dennis? I found the poll that showed Minnesota within the margin of error hardly credible-

Then, it was announced that Bill Clinton was going up there to campaign. Geez- you mean Obama might, actually, lose Minnesota?

If the fear was not real, Clinton would not be there- so, yeah, there must be a very real chance that Romney can, in fact, take the state.

In the same vein, if Romney had no prayer in Pennsy, no amount of ad spending by Romney would faze Obama's team. Funny thing- every time Romney makes an ad buy, Chicago follows.

I guess Romney is already leading- from ahead, not behind.

  • 3 votes
#1.30 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:57 PM EDT

What I have seen this election season is one candidate that has based on lies confused enough people to make it close. However I have more faith in the American people then that. I see an Obama win. Obama is the only sane choice in this race. Romney would lead this nation backward into the dark days of George W. Bush and we as a country cannot afford any more republicans. Do the math. Romney is going to give a 5 trillion dollar tax cut, and going to spend 2 trillion more to a defense dept which they have said that don't want nor need the money and has no plan to pay for it. He has failed to explain how he is going to pay for this 7 trillion dollar debt. You righty's need to think what kind of man you are voting for, Not a very wise choice. Obama has led this country out of the worst recession since the great depression that was caused by the same economic posistion that Romney endorses.

  • 6 votes
#1.31 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:15 PM EDT

Jinspence,

Not in jail for voter fraud yet? tick tock.

The Election is Nov. 6, Not Nov. 7

Everyone who thinks voter fraud is not OK, report JimSpence to newsvine and or the FBI.

  • 4 votes
#1.32 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:34 PM EDT

One thing you won't see in the ad, the coal plants are closing or converting because gas is cleaner, cheaper to run, and more efficient. Nothing like another lie to sell the public.

Are there any Mitt Romney ads that don't contain a stretch of the truth or, like the last several ones, outright lies ?

  • 8 votes
#1.33 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:55 PM EDT

I think Pennsylvania is ready to get back to work. Obama wants windmills which are dangerous to aviation, cause noise pollution, kills endangered species of birds, and generally employs, foreign parts, foreign technology, and construction crews.

Coal puts Americans back on the job. New clean coal technology reduces our carbon footprint, and is sustainable for decades to come until green technology is more feasible and less objectionable.

Come on Pennsylvania; you have a choice here. Obama, or jobs.

  • 2 votes
#1.34 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:18 PM EDT

66 year old Independent voter. After watching the commentary on MSNBC attacking Romney and the rally he held to encourage people to donate cash and supplies to aid hurricane survivors in the north-east I have decided to vote a straight Republican Ticket. I have never done that in any election before. I don't care if someone is donating fig leaves if they think it would help. The way Romney was berated is just not humane. I watch MSNBC every day....until now. Your commentators are shallow, disrespectful and small minded. I have gone through 4 hurricanes, had the eye go over our house 2 times and would have appreciated a kind word or a nice card, let alone a flashlight with batteries when the electricity went out for 5 days. Hosts of little minds, SHUT UP. Have to go now, but it won't take long to fill out that absentee ballot.

    #1.35 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:50 PM EDT

    Hey George,

    I watch MSNBC all the time. They didn't say anything bad about your boyfriend telling folks to donate money to the hurricane survivors. They did though point out that your boyfriend will not answer questions about dismantling FEMA. If you want to see someone being berated, watch Fox News (which I suspect you do) and see how they berate President Obama ALL THE TIME. You and that goofball "Spanky" can call us libs, libbys, or whatever other idiotic names you come up with, but regardless of the outcome of this election, Barack Obama will in fact be known and called PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA for the rest of his life.

    By the way, I am assuming you are receiving a social security check and are on medicare. Unless you are returning the checks and refusing medicare, you believe in socialism to some degree, as do I, a liberal. Welcome aboard fellow liberal.

    • 6 votes
    #1.36 - Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:08 AM EDT

    Georg: If you base your decision to vote on MSNBC's reporting then maybe you should base your retirement planning on the divorce rate in Berlin. Who are you kidding my friend? Your mind was made up all along.

    • 3 votes
    #1.37 - Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:15 AM EDT

    Spamming spamming spamming, keep those liberals spamming.

    BTW, read up. Do you love or hate FEMA? make up your minds!

    http://johndoe2241225.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/31/14817434-fema-a-love-hate-relationship

    • 1 vote
    #1.38 - Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:44 AM EDT

    George aint no damn Independent, just look at what he post talking all that smack about MSNBC. He sound just like them idiots on Fox News.

    Independent, yeah right. Go back to Fox News George, you'll fit right in over there.

    • 2 votes
    #1.39 - Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:55 AM EDT
    Reply

    Was he standing still when he made that claim, or headed towards the exit?

    • 12 votes
    #2 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:33 PM EDT

    Seems like he's headed to a pretty big win.

    Those Gallup numbers are fantastic.

    Golly, seems like just yesterday it was all about FLA, NC, and Virginia.

    Now it's all about Ohio, Mich., and Wisc.

    • 11 votes
    #2.1 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:37 PM EDT

    Spanky-

    Seems like he's headed to a pretty big win.

    Seems like we a headed for a close call. Hope your riding a covered bandwagon ... it might just rain on the parade.

    • 11 votes
    #2.2 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:51 PM EDT

    Yes because Romney possess direction as well as magnitude.

    • 10 votes
    #2.3 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:54 PM EDT

    http://www.gallup.com/poll/150743/Obama-Romney.aspx

    48-48 with registered voters...

    The combination of wishful thinking, trash talk, and "whistling through the graveyard" practices by the partisans here is truly funnier than anything I can come up with...

    It is still 2004 to me...

    The unpopular incumbent is still the electoral college leader...

    The Flip-Flopping Patrician guy with the Massachusetts political background has a math problem...

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/obama_vs_romney_compared_to_bush_vs_kerry.html

    The largest margin of error is between the two conflicting claims of certain victory...

    • 7 votes
    #2.4 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:00 PM EDT

    Its a record! Obama give update twice in one day .

    • 5 votes
    #2.5 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:00 PM EDT

    Magnitude? Did the Earth move?

    one of these days I must rid myself of the stupid your - you're typo

    • 5 votes
    #2.6 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:01 PM EDT

    The combination of wishful thinking, trash talk, and "whistling through the graveyard" practices by the partisans here is truly funnier than anything I can come up with...

    i was hoping someone would see my momentum definition. momentum is a vector possessing both magnitude and direction. What no physists or engineers here. bummer. one polynomial to another, rats FOIL'ed again

    • 9 votes
    #2.7 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:03 PM EDT

    LOL...it's such a tiny sub set isn't it?

    NOBODY-

    Got the Edgar Cayce reference...

    • 2 votes
    #2.8 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:08 PM EDT

    Seen but ignored ... far to much talk here about the 'coming' seismic event to resist.

    • 3 votes
    #2.9 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:12 PM EDT

    BCWC-

    Those contained within subset are not eligible for the contest, but do get a copy of the home game and a bottle of Glenlivet...

    • 3 votes
    #2.10 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:15 PM EDT

    I'll go with NPR [Yikes!] and the overwhelming white and independent vote.

    Plus here in bluest of the blue Cali, the only cars sporting O stickers are Priuses.

    And of course O is only at 47% in frigging Oregon.

    Oh and the libbies were just so certain Walker was toast, up to the moment it was called.

    Ride the wave.

    • 8 votes
    #2.11 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:18 PM EDT

    long live Caesar-like your posts,keep them coming. Render unto caesar!!

    • 3 votes
    #2.12 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:19 PM EDT

    Seen but ignored ... far to much talk here about the 'coming' seismic event to resist.

    poor O. catastrophic, kinda going supernova. duck and cover

    sporting O stickers are Priuses.

    what, no Volts? bad Karma

    • 7 votes
    #2.13 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:23 PM EDT

    CA

    someone's @!$%#e is going to hit someone elses fan ... I intend to duck and cover in either case.

    • 4 votes
    #2.14 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:28 PM EDT

    I'll call your NPR and raise you the RAND Corp.

    https://mmicdata.rand.org/alp/?page=election

    ------------------------------------------------------------

    The combination of the two is conclusively INCONCLUSIVE...and incomplete...

    But I don't want to spoil everyone's fun...(Your guy here) is definitely winning!

    • 2 votes
    #2.15 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:31 PM EDT

    Caesar Augustus-

    What no physists or engineers here.

    I guess there aren't any "physists" here -- there just might be a physicist [or several] though.

    • 1 vote
    #2.16 - Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:23 AM EDT
    Reply

    Obama/Biden 2012 "Helping 100% of the people, 100% of the time!"

    • 15 votes
    Reply#3 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:39 PM EDT

    Chris Stevens in that 100% AlaskaGirl?

    • 2 votes
    #3.1 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:25 PM EDT
    Reply

    Say Haake - how about an article on votes totals, by party, in the early voting?

    Shoot Mitt's even kicking it in the NPR poll.

    NPR!

    • 9 votes
    Reply#4 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:39 PM EDT

    Spanky - if you actually want ACCURATE polling data go to:

    http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/

    Nate Silver aggregates ALL the polling data, and has almost always been correct.

    Nate wants to be CORRECT - he is non-partisan and cares more about his reputation for accuracy than about one candidate or the other.

    if you just want someone to tell you what you want to hear, cherry-pick your polls

    Meanwhile. President Obama has 73% chance of winning 295 electoral college votes

    He is likely to take OH - 73.3%

    He is likely to take PA - 94.2%

    He is likely to take VA - 58%

    He is likely to take COLO - 54.4%

    He is likely to take WISC - 85.7%

    ONLY 2 swing states where Robme & Ryin' Lyin ahead: NC & FL

    But, feel free to ignore ACCURATE if that helps you sleep at night.

    O & JOE!

    • 9 votes
    #4.1 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:19 PM EDT

    KJNC - you mean Nate isn't "retroactively" picking the winner? That one from earlier today still has me laughing!!!

    Obama/Biden 2012

    • 10 votes
    #4.2 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:24 PM EDT

    538 is a cronie site... very funny (albeit untrue) stories can be found there!

    • 2 votes
    #4.3 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:27 PM EDT

    sirie.... a cronie site.... hmmm. Does that mean you are as delusional as Twit?

    • 3 votes
    #4.4 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:02 PM EDT
    Reply

    They both have such an obscene amount of money that they can advertize in Lapland if they choose...

    There was a very intelligent discussion about this on PBS that I know everyone has already seen...

    • 6 votes
    Reply#5 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:47 PM EDT

    Have I told you that I love a man with a wry sense of humor? LOL Too funny!

    • 4 votes
    #5.1 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:57 PM EDT

    We have been talking Scotch...but I'll have a double RYE in a PINCH!

    • 4 votes
    #5.2 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:02 PM EDT

    I knew you would go there, that is why I chose that specific word! A man after my own heart!

    Speaking of Vegas, I actually met Mr. Dangerfield in Vegas. What a lovely man he was.

    • 2 votes
    #5.3 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:15 PM EDT

    My ex-wife stood on line for hours to get him to autograph a copy of "Rappin' Rodney"...Surprisingly that was not the reason for the break-up...

    I once bummed a cigarette from Jerry Lewis in the LV airport...back when people smoked cigarettes...

    (I like that Mr....RESPECT!)

    • 5 votes
    #5.4 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:17 PM EDT

    My parents always taught me to respect when respect was due.

    • 3 votes
    #5.5 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:29 PM EDT
    Reply

    Polls do not vote. The People do! Get out and vote America. Keep our fellow citizens in Freeport Illiois in your prayers America. If the GOP/RNC "Outsourcer and Chief" wins in November? There will be many more Freeport Illinois in America! That is fact.

    • 8 votes
    Reply#6 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:47 PM EDT

    Stupid statement. Anything in Illinois was made by a democrat.

    • 3 votes
    #6.1 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:51 PM EDT

    Ben-636050

    Stupid statement. Anything in Illinois was made by a democrat.

    Does that include Ronald Reagan?

    • 5 votes
    #6.2 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:08 PM EDT

    bcwc - as anyone in Illinois will tell you, we have a lot of Republicans here too - and they make things - not as good as Democrats though!

    Obama/Biden 2012

    • 9 votes
    #6.3 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:20 PM EDT

    Actually, wasn't Reagan originally a democrat?

    • 3 votes
    #6.4 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:21 PM EDT

    Ben, don't know but he certainly wouldn't be a Republican today! Not crazed enough!

    Obama/Biden 2012

    • 10 votes
    #6.5 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:25 PM EDT
    Reply

    Ben --- Last I knew Illinois was still in America , what diff. does it who made it?

    • 10 votes
    Reply#7 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:58 PM EDT

    You are right. At the end of the day it makes no difference.

    • 1 vote
    #7.1 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:04 PM EDT
    Reply

    Polling since the 3rd debate shows Romney has lost momentum.

    If Romney felt good, he wouldn't be running ads that even Republicans are calling desperate and dishonest.

    • 9 votes
    Reply#8 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:03 PM EDT

    What in the hell are you talking about???? Talk about a low information voter -- Debbie you sure are one. Besides being above 50% in most of the polls shows Romney has got all the momentum needed. What RINO Republican is saying that?

    • 4 votes
    #8.1 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:06 PM EDT

    Ben - not true but you'll find out 11/7/2012

    Obama/Biden 2012

    • 8 votes
    #8.2 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:21 PM EDT

    What's not true? Well closer to 50% than Obama let's say. But besides anyway, do you honestly believe -- no matter who wins -- we'll know something concrete on 11/07/12? This is a great year to be an attorney LOL.

    • 4 votes
    #8.3 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:25 PM EDT

    Ben, we'll know 11/7/2012 unless they delay the voting because of Sandy.

    Obama/Biden 2012

    • 6 votes
    #8.4 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:26 PM EDT
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    The GOP/RNC "Speculator and Chief" has no common sense, no ability to be honest, and self-respect for the suffering of others. He continued his Political Campaigning today in Ohio. The GOP/RNC "Outsourcer and Chief" was not asked by the Red Cross to do anything. Today the GOP/RNC Bain Trained "Vulture Speculator." Was being a true 'boss' in his so-called food drive. This was a Tea Begger Political Rally in Ohio today. This is fact!

    • 8 votes
    Reply#9 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:11 PM EDT

    Being from Pa. I can tell you plain and simple, there is no way he wins this state. He is as well liked as Santorum which isn't saying a hell of a lot for him.

    • 12 votes
    Reply#10 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:22 PM EDT

    So,

    Next Tuesday, Obama goes the way of New Coke, the Edsel, and let's not forget,....The Chevy Volt.

    The question libbies need to be asking themselves is: how much damage did the horrible, one term of Obama do to the entire Democrat party??

    If President Romney is very successful at rapidly turning our economy around, how long will it take for Americans to get that sour Obama taste out of their mouths??

    Could be 20 years before another Democrat is even considered for such a high office. And what does this do to the libbie media outlets?? Any credibility left??

    Someone once said....Elections have consequences.

    • 3 votes
    Reply#11 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:10 PM EDT

    Hey Joe,

    Thanks for using my pet name "libbie". It's funny how you say "if" your boyfriend is successful at rapidly turning the economy around. What, already have doubts about mr. wonderful?

    Plus, your boyfriend wants to get us into another war. That will go over really big with an already war weary nation. Will you stick up for him then? Will you say it's ok to have more americans killed? Do you think it's ok that over 4000 young men and woman have lost their lives in two wars? These courageous souls will never hug their loved ones again, they will never have families of their own, they will never see a beautiful sunset again. Do you care about the hardships affecting those vets returning? The injuries, the trama that they are dealing with? I'm certain you get my drift. Tell every on this thread that if your future boyfriend pulls us into another war it's ok with you.

    See Joe, everyone knows that although the economy has taken longer to come back from a horrible recession, that your other boyfriend caused, it is coming back.

    Lastly, Joe (love using your first name....kind of like we're best friends). Are you, or anyone in your family receiving social security? How about medicare? If so, you and they believe in some type of social safety net (it's not a bad thing, really). If you do support these great social safety nets, then you too are a "libbie".

    oxoxoxo

    • 2 votes
    #11.1 - Wed Oct 31, 2012 1:02 AM EDT

    The sequester plan, which was authored by Dave Lu from the Obama administration according to reporter David Woodward of the Washington Post, would cut almost $1 billion in funds from the FEMA budget.

      #11.2 - Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:06 AM EDT
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      Hilarious watching Obama trying to act Presidential. He has no shame. He is now going to try and use the aftermath of this storm as a political life preserver.

      Obama is drowning in his own ineptitude, and is reduced to grasping at straws. Anything for a few more votes. LOL

      • 2 votes
      Reply#12 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:27 PM EDT

      I just got a copy of the announcer track on Mitt's new Pennsylvania ad. Apparently he's using the "Ohio Strategy."

      Here it is: "Over the past four years of the Obama administration, Jerry Sandusky was allowed to run free in Pennsylvania. Obama actually traveled through the state while Sandusky was in the shower! Mitt Romney would slash funding for public television programs that encourage people like Jerry Sandusky, while cutting taxes on the middle class. Had enough of inappropriate big government touching? Vote for Mitt Romney. And his cute running mate with the baby eyes, Paul. I'm MItt Romney and my hands are all over this message."

      • 3 votes
      Reply#13 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:54 PM EDT

      Okay..let's be clear. The Romney campaign is advertising in Michigan, Pennsylvania and even Minnesota because statistically they are within the margin of error in these supposedly Obama lock states! Mitt's not desperate! BUT Obama is (otherwise Obama campaign would not have Bill Clinton in Minnesota and VP Biden in PA)! These states are TRUE BLUE...correct??? Wheels coming off Obama's cart. next week is going to be fun to watch.

      • 1 vote
      Reply#14 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:12 PM EDT
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      Everyone remember that all Republicans voted to Cut Medicare. Check the past votes on budgets every time the voted was to cut MEDICARE

      • 5 votes
      Reply#16 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:36 PM EDT

      Hey Spanky, it will soon be over....the Big Mouth Red Head will soon be crying in her popcorn and if I am hearing things from Reverend Al and the horses ass Mr. Ed, it will all be blamed on voter suppression and the big bad republicans.....I can hardly wait.

      • 2 votes
      Reply#17 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:54 PM EDT

      I hope she gets a real job.

      • 2 votes
      #17.1 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:46 PM EDT
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      Hey what the f my Romney Ryan cap is made in China!!

      • 3 votes
      Reply#18 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:40 PM EDT

      Hey my Romney Ryan Cap is Made In China!!

      • 3 votes
      Reply#19 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:49 PM EDT

      Just like the ever ready battery....he keeps going and going...lying and lying. Perhaps he flip flops from city to city so he doesn't have to remember the doozie he told the day before. He must have a bigger ego than thought to come up with that much "embellishment"so often and so quickly.

      • 2 votes
      Reply#20 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:51 PM EDT

      One of Twit's biggest endorsers caught in a web of crap! Donald Trump made a bigger fool of himself on TV!!! Go Letterman... socked it to his dumb a$$!! Priceless!

      youtu.be/Ial4SRFl0ig

      • 3 votes
      Reply#21 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:05 PM EDT

      Trump has lost his mind.

      • 4 votes
      #21.1 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:22 PM EDT
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      The lie line is getting pretty old for a baseless accusation. So is the military service BS.

      So an ad went too far, at least it didn't cause several service members their lives. Do you realize the guy who made the video is still in jail ? What did he do that he should be in there. Obama saw to it that he was arrested immediately....for what ? Exercising freedom of speech ?

      Obama didn't serve, Biden took 5 draft deferments to avoid serving, Clinton signed up, but failed to show up, and is the first pardoned felon to ever serve as president, he also lied to a grand jury under oath.

      • 2 votes
      Reply#22 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:12 PM EDT

      Ground Crew - he broke his probation. He got out of prison in 2010 for fraud and he was restricted from using a computer or internet for 5 years. He obviously got caught. The President did not send him there, althought I am sure you would like to think he did.

      • 2 votes
      #22.1 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:26 PM EDT

      Oh.....that must be why Obama had him scooped up......because of fraud ?

      Hey pal, do you want to buy a bridge ?

      Even a blind man could see why Obama went after him personally.

      • 1 vote
      #22.2 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 11:30 PM EDT
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      The red blue map from 2008 most of the state was red except for Philadelphia and Pittsburgh areas.

      Hmmm I'm beginning to see a pattern here.

      • 1 vote
      Reply#23 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:30 PM EDT

      Thinking, false statement. I live in Pennsylvania in the fourth largest city and Obama won this part of the state overwhelmingly. Got any more BS. Next time check your facts. I almost forgot, Rethuglicans deal in fantasy not facts.

      • 1 vote
      #23.1 - Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:56 PM EDT
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      Vote Obama/Biden 2012 save us from a Romney/Ryan DISASTER!

      PRESIDENT OBAMA IS AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE OUR

      GREATEST PRESIDENTS WE WILL EVER HAVE! Gov Christie of NJ stated today How
      Wonderful and exceptional Pres Obama is! and he use to endorse romney. He told
      Fox news he did not care about romney and his presidential campaign and he did
      not give a d*mn about pres politics by him!

      VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 2012 and
      SAVE us from A Romney/Ryan Disaster..

      Romney refused 14 times today to
      answer reporters questions if he would do away with FEMA as he has previously
      stated while he held a supposed relief event that was held where he was to speak
      politically today and had people bring can goods to him agains RED CROSS
      protocol! He also was in a DRESS shirt supposedly helping to load a truck. WHAT
      A BIG ACT LIAR! RUNNING ADS in OHIO about Jeep sending jobs to China A LIE all
      news media is talking about his desperation with LIES and FRAUD!

      • 4 votes
      Reply#24 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:43 PM EDT

      It really would be a shame if Romney was able to lie himself into the Presidency :) It will backfire.

      You may be asking, why would he lie like this and get so desperate? In his mind this is his whole adult life on the line. This is his last shot. 2016 will see some new candidates like Christie, Bush 3, and maybe Pataki or Petraeus. You won't see much interest in Santorum, Cain, Bachmann, Perry, or Gingrich next time around.

      Romney's campaign made a mistake in going this way. His best shot was to go all-in in Wisconsin while winning VA, FL, NC, NH, and CO. It was still a tall order, but he can't win in PA and OH. As it is, he could lose them all!

      I believe Obama will get 294 or 303 electoral votes, depending on CO.

      • 2 votes
      Reply#25 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:02 PM EDT

      This Montgomery County PA family will be voting to reelect Obama!

      • 4 votes
      #25.1 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:28 PM EDT
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      Mitt why don't you get your [VERY SMALL group of supporters] and ride off into the sunset or where ever it is you money grabbers go to sulk after you get your backside KICKED again. The American public does not like or want you in a position of leadership!

      • 3 votes
      Reply#26 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:29 PM EDT

      Is that why they are bussing Somalians in Ohio who can't speak english, and they are telling them to "vote brown all the way down", in Somalian ?

      It seems the only issue to too many people is skin.

      • 1 vote
      #26.1 - Tue Oct 30, 2012 11:26 PM EDT

      Ground Crew

      Is that why they are bussing Somalians in Ohio who can't speak english, and they are telling them to "vote brown all the way down", in Somalian ?

      It seems the only issue to too many people is skin.

      It seems the only issue to you is that Ohio has Somalis who are voting [legally at that]. It seeems that you know very little about the Somali population in Ohio; ergo. . . . from the Somali Community
      Association of Ohio report of 2010:

      Somali Community Highlights

      • 45,000+ Somali live in Ohio.
      • 25% of Somalis Immigrants speak English well enough to get a job, especially the young people.
      • 40% have become citizens of the United States of America
      • More than Four Hundred Somali business have been created by Somalis.
      • More than One Thousand of Somalis are attending Ohio Colleges and Universities.
      • The number of Somalis living in central Ohio will continue to increase in the next 5 years [2010-2015]

      BTW: "vote brown all the way down" refers to Sherrod Brown, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Ohio. [ "It seems the only issue to too many people is skin." Methinks your bigotry is showing]

      • 2 votes
      #26.2 - Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:53 AM EDT
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