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Subscribe to RSSLatest polls: National: NPR: Romney 48-47% (but Obama leads 50-46% in the battleground states). CBS/NYT: Obama 48-47%. ABC/Washington Post tracker: Romney 49-48%. States: FL: Quinnipiac/CBS/NYT: Obama 48-47%. OH: Quinnipiac/CBS/NYT: Obama 50-45%. VA: Quinnipiac/CBS/NYT: Obama 49-47%. MI: Detroit News/WDIV/Glengariff: Obama 48-45%. PA: Franklin and Marshall: Obama 49-45%.
Those Ohio numbers might explain Romney’s continued use of an ad that has been proven to be misleading and doubling down with a radio ad that goes even further. The Boston Globe: “The ad fight continues in Ohio between President Obama’s and Mitt Romney’s campaigns over the auto industry, with Romney doubling down Tuesday with a new radio spot insinuating that the 2009 bailout caused the industry to ship jobs to China. … The problem that the Republican nominee faces is that the $80 billion government bailout for Chrysler and General Motors helped save auto jobs in northern Ohio, industry analysts have repeatedly said. And while Chrysler is restarting its China operations for its Chinese market, it will not be moving Jeep production from the United States to China, as the Romney ad infers, the company reiterated Tuesday.” And: “Even after Chrysler said it has no such intent, Romney’s campaign released a 30-second ad in Toledo on Sunday that implied the outsourcing of Ohio jobs and said Romney would do more for the auto industry.”
“Hurricane Sandy plunged the presidential campaign into an unprecedented period of uncertainty, leaving both sides scrambling to grasp the right tone for voters coping with a historic natural disaster,” the New York Daily News reports. “The monster storm, likely the biggest ‘October surprise’ in history, left both campaigns without a script, forcing them to make uncharted, and potentially politically-damaging, decisions on the fly.”
NBCNews.com’s Tom Curry looks at how the storm is wreaking havoc on election plans throughout the Northeast, down to Virginia, and West Virginia.
“As the storm lashed the East Coast and Midwest with gale-force winds, torrential rain and flooding, election officials faced new challenges: power outages, floods and snowstorms that could hinder voting through Election Day,” USA Today writes.
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The American people need to not let Mitt Romney get away with talking outta both sides of his mouth and his @$$ on all sides of every issue.
4 more years.
Pres. O is leading in all the battleground states - Ohio, Virginia, and Florida (thanks to Ryan's voucher program for Medicare).
We are seeing the vast difference between "claiming" momentum and "Being" President. Romney's ghosts are starting to stick and the more he tries to combat them with misleading or blatant falsehoods it just makes it worse - whether it's the auto bailout, funding for teachers/police/&firemen or gutting FEMA. R & R are dodging questions and are on the run. Polls are showing that Americans are waking from the Romney 'spell'.
Last night while every other news agency reported on the devastation and the relief response to Sandy - FOX Noise reported on what??? - Benghazi!
It's time to label FOX permanently for what they are: "Total Right-Wing Propaganda"!
Just like when a newspaper sells a page to advertising and has to label that page as an "Advertisement", the FCC should require the same for FOX!! A nice yellow banner diagonally across the screen stating, "PAID Advertisement" would suffice.
Take time to donate $$ to the American Red Cross or any other legit agency that will be diving in to help support victims of this storm or if you're close enough to help, volunteer your time where it's needed.
Obama/Biden 2012
Tim: funny you should mention that Red Cross and donating $$$$. Do you know where all those goods that the Romney campaign has collected at his political rallies is going ? The Red Cross does not want them.
The Red Cross, like the military, is an extremely organized group which uses specifications for what it purchases and it only obtains what it needs when it needs it. For example, for blankets, it probably has specifications that they must be a certain size, color, and made of certain material. All of the blankets it gives to people are the same. It that way, two people right next to each other at a shelter get the same treatment.
The same applies across the board. They don't keep cans of food in storage. Aside from the cost of keeping the products, they would also have to sort, stack, inspect, catalog and do everything else like a warehouse. While I'm certain the Red Cross will find something to do with what is given to them, more likely than not, the products the Romney Campaign has collected at his campaign events will not be used to help the people on the East coast devastated by Sandy.
Mitt Romney was wrong, sometimes the best thing you can do is to just give cash. $ 2.00 cash is better for the Red Cross than spending $ 5.00 of canned goods. The Red Cross works with many, many private companies to provide just exactly what people need. They have been doing their marvelous work for over 100 years and they are VERY good at doing it.
Another organization which does incredibly great work during times of crisis is the Salvation Army. Give money to either organization, if you can.
all that food collected in Ohio by Mr. R will go to local food banks
there is NO WAY you can transport all that food to the East Coast without paying a hugh price
Mitt Romney may be ahead by one point nationally, but President Obama leads 50% to 46%, in 12 battleground states: Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.
Remember that polls in early vote States will diminish since up to 40% of people already voted, and Obama is ahead 2 to 1 in all those.
I said many times that the only reason of how Romney would win this election is if he LIES and CHEATS.
We already know he's a pathological liar.
The big question is... Why Romney a Ryan lie so much?
The NYTimes speculates that it is because the current set of facts about the world and the US economy are not sufficient to un-elect the President.
To win they would have to make things up to make them seem worse than they are.
There could be an element of this...
...their politics has placed protecting the privilege of elites over all other concerns and considerations.
http://ndn.org/blog/2012/08/why-romney-and-ryans-lies-matter
They lie because they didn't have anything of consequence to talk about in the first place. They thought they could just ride the big money to victory. When that didn't work all they had left was lies. For now America is saying you can't buy an election, even as hard as the republicans tried to buy this one. Now all they're left with is lying, cheating, voter suppression and voter intimidation. The republicans motto, "do anything it takes to win, no matter how underhanded it is".
The only ones buying the crap Willard's selling is the low information voters, the true tea people republicans and the racists in the republican party.
Looks like the voters in Ohio are just like me and we are still not buying what ole mitt is selling!
Yup. At a time of crisis, one guy looks presidential, one guy looks petty and small. Meanwhile, Obama up by 1 in FLA! One week from today, the nation will start the fairly short process of forgetting who Mitt Romney is. Ah the memories!
Notice the source of the polls listed. Rassmussen shows Romney 50 Obama 48 . This was yesterday. A telephone poll of likely voters.
A telephone poll of likely voters does not include people that have a cell phone as their only line. This excludes a large portion of the electorate.
That goes for the other polls as well, I would assume.
Not all. Some are interent based (which also excludes some) and others are simple asking passers-by. The trick is getting a sample size large enough that is indicitive of the the entire population. This cannot be done with 100% certainty, whcih is why there are things called Confidence Intervals. Honestly, the average person has a hard time understanding algebra, so news and polling organizations only discuss the meat of their statistics in the fine print.
Blamo, all you have is 1 little Poll showing your boy Romney doing something (Rasmussen). I'm glad people like you are putting all their faith in Rasmussen. More heart break its gonna be for you on election night.
BTW, Rasmussen had Mccain leading in OH, FL, VA around this time last election. That idiot also had Mccain Tied in PA last election. Tied, I mean really. Obama won PA by huge numbers.
Rasmussen = Right Wing/Conservative Poll
All right wingers and Obama haters like to list either Rasmussen or Gallup to prove their false sense that Romney is leading. I said it before, Pres Obama is leading in the State by State Polls to include battleground states of OH, FL, WI, PA, IA, NV, CO. Obama only need 2 or 3 of these states on election night and its OVER..
So screw your little Rasmussen Poll and Gallup National Poll. Both are irrelvant just like there were in 2008.
Not even Mitt Romney is the "candidate Mitt Romney" that the GOP has created. It's a complete fiction. Mitt never served in Vietnam (he got 4 deferments out), he never created jobs (the voters in Massachusetts didn't want him back for a second term) and he has no clue of what to do to help the country.
The GOP is hoping that they can hold onto that expensive facade they created until election day, but it's falling apart already.
Hey stupid, Joe Biden never served in Vietnam either, nor did Biden even serve in the military. Joe Biden had 5 deferments and when they ran out he got reclassified as 4-F. Bill Clinton was a true draft dodger and never served. BTW, President Obama never served in the military and it shows why he has such disdain for the military.
sfcret: President Obama didn't avoid a draft, there was no draft he was subject to.
President Obama fully respects the military. In case you don't believe that, look up any speech he has ever given about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
You will note that Romney didn't even bother to mention the military in his nomination acceptance speech. The budget he and Paul Ryan put together calls for cuts to the VA. The Republicans in the Senate would not approve a bill so our returning hero's can get jobs. Who shows real disdain for the military ?
during the Vietnam War Obama was 7 years old
There is no poll showing Obama at or above 50% its not just Rasmussen
So what, On election day 1 of them will be over 50%.
You let a bunch of Polls tell u how an election is going to go, pathetic. You ever heard of this thing called, Get out the Vote and "Ground Game". There is no Poll out there that is 100% accurate and is going to tell you how Millions of people are going to Vote.
Interestingly the very same people who are touting the polls today as showing Romney somehow winning were pooh poohing the polls just a few weeks ago when the race wasn't as tight and Obama was the clear winner. Hypocricy rears it's ugly little head AGAIN on the far right.
My statement was to the fact taht it was not just the Rasmussen Poll.
Adler your statement is also true in the reverse the ones who were touting the polls are now saying they don't matter. My personal thought is they are good for a general understanding of where the race is. and right now anyone who tells you they know exactly where this will land is fooling themselves...
polls??? go to Intrade.com and fivethirtyeight.com and find out by yourselves
The so-called media outlets like MS-NBC, NBC, CBS, MSN, will have you believe what they want you to believe, it's beginning to to be pathetic, when you see the look on their faces, they can't hid the dispare in their expressions. 0bama is on the choppin block, His past is his biggest reason why he is not going to survive no matter what or how much the obama in the tank media tries to change his M O.
...."The so-called media outlets like MS-NBC, NBC, CBS, MSN, will have you believe what they want you to believe, it's beginning to to be pathetic, when you see the look on their faces, they can't hid the dispare in their expressions"....
Yeah - on faces like Joe Scaborough's!! Joe knows Romney's ships are sinking - his 1st debate bump is dead and he hasn't done anything since to help his cause at all.
Keep feigning Romney momentum though '11EAGLES': it's what you're paid to do & keep blogging like a true believer of FOX!!
Obama/Biden 2012
You realize that Fox escaped a major lawsuit by labeling themselves as an 'Entertainment Entity' rather than a News Organization? That is their description of themselves.
The Romney campaign seems to have learned well from their mentor:
Lesson # 1: Non partisan political statement here, just some facts.
* U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
* Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
* New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
...
* National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
* Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000
Let's now remove 8 zeros and pretend it's a household budget:
* Annual family income: $21,700
* Money the family spent: $38,200
* New debt on the credit card: $16,500
* Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
* Total budget cuts so far: $385
Mo Romney has been campaigning for the office of POTUS for the last 6 years. In regard for the 2012 Presidential Election he started off his campaign with "lying ATTACK ads.........and he has not altered that mode of "attack." He has always been a flip-flopper and poll watcher that has always adjusted to his position on issues to suit whatever audience that he is trying to win over at the time. There is too much text and video on Romney, if you will, having "epiphanies" and changing his opinion about far too many issues in far too short of time to even suggest the notion and possibility of sincerity. Aside from all of his failure to release his tax records, banking in the same banks in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland where the Mexican and Colombian drug lords bank, Romney just reeks of insincerity. In the GOP primaries, his opponents pointed out exactly how Romney would behave if he got the GOP nominiation. The have been, thus far, correct. He now changes positions on issues almost as often as he changes his underwear or alternates shoes. Finally, he is beholden to far to many masters that have the power of the purse over what Mo Romney does or says.
OBAMA-BIDEN 2012!
LTC Rattus, USA, ret.