Polls: Obama stays ahead in Ohio, deadlocked with Romney in Fla.

Jason Reed / REUTERS

President Barack Obama gives a thumbs up as he participates in a campaign rally in Lima, Ohio, Nov. 2, 2012.

Three days until Election Day, President Barack Obama maintains his lead in the key battleground state of Ohio and is locked in a close contest with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in Florida, according to new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls.

In Ohio, Obama holds a six-point advantage over Romney among likely voters, 51 percent to 45 percent, which is unchanged from last month’s poll in the Buckeye State.

Read the Ohio poll here

And in Florida, the president gets support from 49 percent of likely voters, while his GOP challenger gets 47 percent. Those numbers are virtually identical to the ones from October, when it was Obama 48 percent, Romney 47 percent.

Both states are two of the biggest prizes in Tuesday’s presidential contest. An Obama victory in Ohio, which awards 18 electoral votes, would put him tantalizingly close to getting to the 270 electoral votes needed to win a second term.

President Barack Obama campaigns in Lima, Ohio as he rallies supporters in key states just before the election.

But an Obama loss in the Buckeye State – and a Romney win – would place a hole in the president’s Midwest firewall.

Meanwhile, Florida, which awards 29 electoral votes, is a must-win state for Romney. A Republican loss there would push Obama past 270 electoral votes – even if the president lost every other battleground state in NBC’s current map.

Obama ahead with early voters
As with the recent NBC/WSJ/Marist polls of Iowa and Wisconsin, Obama is benefitting from early voters in Ohio and Florida.

Read the Florida poll here

In the Sunshine State, 63 percent say they have already voted or plan to do so before Election Day, and Obama is winning them, 53 percent to 46 percent. But Romney is ahead among Election Day voters in Florida, 52 percent to 40 percent.

In Ohio, 35 percent say they have already voted or plan to do so, and Obama is leading them, 62 percent to 36 percent. Yet Romney is up among Election Day voters in the Buckeye State, 52 percent to 42 percent.

Strong approval for the president’s handling of Sandy
The polls were conducted after Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast, and seven in 10 likely voters in Florida and Ohio approve of the president’s job in handling the hurricane and its aftermath.

“The response was overwhelmingly positive, and that was occurring across party lines,” says Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

On handling the economy
Meanwhile, Romney has a slight advantage over Obama in Florida when it comes to which candidate would better handle the economy – 48 percent pick Romney and 46 percent back Obama.

GOP candidate Mitt Romney speaks to supporters in Chester, Ohio as he campaigns in key swing states ahead of the election.

But those numbers are reversed in Ohio, where 48 percent believe Obama would better handle the economy and 46 percent side with Romney.

On party ID
In these surveys, Democrats enjoy a nine-point party-identification advantage in Ohio and a two-point edge in Florida. Republicans have argued that a nine-point advantage is too large in this current political environment; it was eight points in the Buckeye State during Obama’s decisive 2008 victory.

If you cut that party ID advantage in half, Obama’s six-point lead in Ohio is reduced to three points.

Other numbers in the poll
Obama’s job-approval rating among likely voters stands at 48 percent in Florida and 50 percent in Ohio.

Reuters, Getty Images

In the final push in the 2012 presidential election, candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make their last appeals to voters.

In Ohio’s Senate contest, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown leads Republican Josh Mandel by five points among likely voters, 50 percent to 45 percent.

And in Florida’s Senate contest, Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson leads Republican Connie Mack by nine, 52 percent to 43 percent.

The NBC/WSJ/Marist poll of Florida was conducted Oct. 30-Nov. 1 of 1,545 likely voters, and it has a margin of error of plus-minus 2.5 percentage points.

And the survey of Ohio was conducted Oct. 31-Nov.1 of 971 likely voters, and it has a margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points.

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You know all Obama and the Dems have left is to start suing each State.

It's desperate times for the Oliar.

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Reply#1400 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 3:19 PM EST

America know we have a liar and fraud in the WH.

America knows it's Romney Time.

Someone we can trust and loves his Country.

All Obama does is preach hate America & American's.

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Reply#1401 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 3:20 PM EST

Read about the Libya terrorist attack that is all Obama's fault. He flew to Vegas when American's were being killed.

Not in America. The liar in the WH must go on Nov. 6, 2012.

It's Romney/Time all the way.

  • 1 vote
Reply#1402 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 3:20 PM EST

Obama knows it's about over. Obama has never had anything to run on so he tries to run on Bill Clintons Record.

Could Obama look anymore desperate when all he has to run on is a Former Impeached President.

America knows it's Romney Time in America.

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Reply#1403 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 3:21 PM EST

Obama knew all it would take is a couple hookers and Bill was in. Hillary doesn't care. Shes to busy trying to cover her asx on a WH cover Up before for 2016.. Never happen.

  • 1 vote
Reply#1404 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 3:23 PM EST

America is done with the liar in the WH.

America has already made it's decision. Just waiting for Nov. 6, 2012.

It's Romney Time in America.

  • 1 vote
Reply#1405 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 3:23 PM EST

MSN,NBC can't help but to tell lies to try and help Obama.

The Media can't save the liar in the WH.

America know it's Romney Time.

  • 1 vote
Reply#1406 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 3:25 PM EST

How can Obama stay ahead in OH. when he hasn't lead in weeks.

MSN,NBC love to get the Liberals licking each other. They believe anything.

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Reply#1407 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 3:26 PM EST
Nevada1050Deleted

The President of the US wants to get revenge on American's.

Isn't that what he's been doing for the past 4 years.

23 million people out of work.

6 trillion more debt.

8 billion stolen form American Tax Payers.

What more proof do you need then Obama's records to see that he does hate America & American's.

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Reply#1409 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 3:30 PM EST

The Greeks, the Incas, the Hittites – all created myths to explain life's mysteries. They have nothing on the Obama campaign.

Remember how the Supreme Court decision allowing corporate political spending was going to undermine Democrats, uh, that is, democracy? How Republican super PACs would give Governor Romney an insurmountable spending advantage? As it turns out, the Obama campaign has raised more money than the GOP candidate – almost $1 billion dollars – even while as recently as August Obama was e-mailing supporters, warning that he was going to be outspent. Obama has run 160,000 campaign ads so far, compared to 140,000 for Romney.

Another myth central to Obama's campaign is that Mitt Romney wants to go back to the "policies that got us into trouble in the first place."

What are those injurious Republican policies?

Presumably the president refers to the deregulation of financial institutions that liberals blame for the recession. But, it was Bill Clinton who repealed Glass-Steagall. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley bill, which undid that long-standing law, passed the Senate 90-8, with Vice President Biden among the many Democrats supporting the measure. By contrast, George Bush was a regulation nut. It was during his administration that the country adopted the oppressive Sarbanes-Oxley legislation.

In any event, the financial crisis did not stem from deregulation. Instead, it was caused by the government encouraging too much money to slosh into real estate and into subprime mortgages backed by Fannie and Freddie, on the misguided notion that home ownership created upward mobility.

The excess investment into property blew prices sky-high and encouraged speculation. The ensuing bubble was fed by the emergence of securitization, which made available unprecedented amounts of money. Many rungs led up this rickety ladder – poor credit analysis, incompetent ratings agencies, undisciplined mortgage brokers – but allowing banks and securities firms to invade each others' turf was not among them.

Another Obama myth is that the president "saved" GM while Romney wanted to let the auto companies go bankrupt.

People forget that GM did go bankrupt, and that taxpayers are still on the hook for $42 billion in monies funneled to GM and its financial arm Ally Capital – more than half the TARP funds that are still outstanding.

Obama upended traditional (and legal) bankruptcy proceedings in order to rig the outcome heavily in favor of the UAW – payback for the $400 million in contributions from organized labor that fueled his 2008 campaign.

For the UAW, each one percent ownership interest in GM cost $629 million; taxpayers paid $834 million and secured bondholders, the top of the credit chain, paid $2.7 billion for one percent of the company.

Romney's push was for a legal and legitimate sorting out of the company's debts, a restructuring that would ensure the company's competitiveness going forward, more harmonious labor relations and investment in energy-saving and innovative technology. Does that sound like a prescription for killing the autos?

President Obama's newest campaign ad is stuffed with myths, including how he fostered "American-made energy". Even fourth-graders know that Obama's every impulse has been to squash the use of fossil fuels. He stifled investment in oil and gas by slowing lease sales on federal lands, proposed cap and trade regulations (which thankfully went nowhere) that would crimp hydrocarbon development, pushed to eliminate tax breaks for oil and gas producers that are meant to stimulate drilling, and adopted regulations that virtually prohibit construction of new coal-fired power plants. He is convinced that high-cost green energy is the future and that fossil fuels are relics of an unhealthy and permissive past. For a campaign supposedly looking Forward!, energy policy has been remarkably embedded in past (and discredited notions) of how we are running out of oil.

Mr. Obama also touts his success in promoting exports. Sales of goods and services overseas have indeed increased, as reliably as the temperature climbs on a sunny day. Global growth is being driven by rising consumption in emerging economies like China and Brazil; we, as the world's second largest exporter, have benefited.

It is interesting to note, however, that while exports increased 72% during George W. Bush's eight years in office, despite a recession early in his term that drove exports slightly lower, the amount of goods and services we ship outside our boundaries has advanced only 20% in the four years Mr. Obama has been president. (We assume that export growth in the final months of this year will hum along at 5%, as it did earlier in 2012; they most recently turned down.) Mr. Obama's tenure began with a slump, to be sure. But he has not moved the needle here.

The Obama campaign teeters on many myths and distractions. Unhappily, there is no excuse for Mr. Obama's failure to lead this country, his inability to work across the aisle, his refusal to tackle our fiscal challenges or his disdain for private enterprise. There are no heroes here.

    Reply#1410 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 3:33 PM EST

    Now obama is using Clinton's election theme song...Just who is running Obama or Clinton..I'm getting confused with the blur...Can't Obama run on his own record?

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    Reply#1411 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 3:34 PM EST

    When you have no record to run on, grab the coat tail of Blow J.. billy, sure Michelle had to pay her dues to get his backing after throwing the fools wife under the bus.

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    #1411.1 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 4:00 PM EST

    us born and tax-burden -- if your are confused about who's running for president (Obama v. Clinton) it's because you have a short attention span and you're probably drunk most of the time listening to rush limpballs. Sober up and read and listen to some real news -- but alas -- it's probably too late as your mommy probably dropped you on your useless head and now you're a useless hillbilly teabag/re-pubic-an!!! Sad, sad, sad

      #1411.2 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 4:42 PM EST

      A hateful lib, who would have guessed.

        #1411.3 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 8:09 PM EST
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        "Vote for Revenge" , Barack Obama. WOW! Real Presidential

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        Reply#1412 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 3:35 PM EST

        If Romney had a little more personality, this wouldn't even be close. Sad that half of those voting for Obama will do so because they perceive him to be "cool". His record of failure be damned.

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        Reply#1413 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 3:45 PM EST

        the only record obama has is as a failure to deliver on all of his promises in 2008 hope americans realize this and vote him out i know people are going to say romney is a liar but obama has proven it while in office give romney the chance and lets see what he can do im sure it will not be worse than obama

          Reply#1414 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 3:49 PM EST

          I think you may be wrong about Obama. He does keep his promise of CHANGE. He changes permanent jobs to temporary jobs. He gives people the sense of hope by "sharing the wealth" which I don't even have enough to share any way. I don't understand why people hate other people so much. It is OK to be democrat and rich but it is not OK to be rich republican. Why, why, why? Why can people use their brain for once?

            #1414.1 - Mon Nov 5, 2012 4:24 AM EST
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            After Obama wins and the democrats retain the senate, we've got some major work to do to get these out of control elections regulated.

            My advice:

            First: Higher office means higher accountability not less. Presidential candidates that knowingly mislead the public with lies should be charged with a felony and – forget the fine – jailed for egregious misconduct with the public. These politicians will keep getting away with what we allow. They are out of control. Therefore, what I'm saying is that – no matter the affiliation – we American voters demand the truth, not lies. And there are CONSEQUENCES, BIG CONSEQUENCES for lying. We absolutely need this. These elections are a travesty. It's the least we can do for our kids. The youth need to inherit a sane system.

            Second: What do you guys think:

            Get rid of Columbus Day (Do I really need to go into why? Come on. Look the guy up and check out his behavior) and instead tag on the Monday preceding our Tuesday election day as a holiday. Everybody votes. You got the holiday. As a matter of fact, you should be fined if you don't vote. As a citizen, it is a responsibility. Pledging allegiance to the flag isn’t just a bunch of words. We're in fact pledging to uphold our country – and that means voting and actively working for justice. It will be better to carry out this responsibility if we weren't awash in lies and if we'd nationalize the air waves – they are our air waves – to give heightened exposure to the process without spending ridiculous amounts of money.

            Third: During the Election Holiday and for two weeks previous to it, have our federal postal system all around the country in all the states handle the ballots. Think about it. They are federal employees, have taken an oath already to uphold our country. This is what they do. They probably already have surveillance cameras on them. If not, put them in. Poll watchers can just go to the post office. Everybody knows where that is. The election process would turn into a four day major get your butt to the post office and turn in your vote holiday. The postal service could use the money. We need to be able to check on the process – so cameras and poll watchers would go right there.

            Look at the voter turnout for other countries. We are way below where we should be. Some of it is because our public schools are too afraid to study and have debates over political controversial issues. How else are the students going to learn how to self-reflect and search for the truth? Separation between church and state doesn't mean you don't talk about them at all. That is ridiculous. The whole spirit behind the assertion is to disallow intolerance. Sadly, religion has been a vehicle for death, dishonor and genocide.

            So guess what. This is for all of you in the red state Bible belt areas. You don't own the flag. We are all the flag. You don't own God. God just is. And God is present in all religions and cultures in people who endeavor to love purely. And that includes Atheists. I notice a pattern in many of you red states. I know your history. Many of you are the holders of vast graves, unmarked and marked graves of massacres and sites of Native-American tribes. Your trees hold the memory of strange fruit; of black men swaying slightly under the noose of ropes as your families got dressed in their Sunday finest and laughed and joked among neighbors. You thought you could own people. You believe the same still. Only you can decide to make the first step to getting rid of your anger. If it is too much for you, give it to God. God works the miracles. But you have to let go. Living a life of fear and hatred is no life at all. In this regard, the responsibility is all yours just as the responsibility of what I do is all mine. God knows I've made mistakes. But, like I say, I look at your history and … I just got to wonder… why all the hate? I write this because I care about you. I'm not giving up on you. I don't give up on anybody. We may have our differences, but we have much more in common than we have different. Take that log out of your eye. Do your research. Get at the primary sources. Then be true to what is true to you.

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            Reply#1415 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 3:51 PM EST

            I just chunked a big Obama all over the floor, yuk.

              #1415.1 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 4:02 PM EST

              Possibly the dumbest post that I have ever read.

                #1415.2 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 4:06 PM EST

                My dog would not even lick it up, will call in the arss licker VP though sure he will, yep dumb no doubt, but putting a Muslim in the same sentence with God, come on now you honestly do not know he gave up the Muslim faith by record in 2008 to run for President, speaking of dumb get your head out of your ARSS!!! Ever read Farticans praise of the Muslim Pres????

                When you have a fool in the WH all limits are off, they even took pork of the menu when he took office, hum. Eat more chicken......you idiots!!

                  #1415.3 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 4:24 PM EST

                  Kathy - your very first listing would have this usurper in the White House in trouble already. He has done nothing but lie. Well, that's not quite true, he took over healthcare using taxpayer money for bribes - ask Landrieux of LA; Nelson of Nebraska. Millions here; airports in your name, etc. Whatever it takes - well, except for bipartisanship. Not one bipartisan vote. Bye, bye, Blanche. Arkansas didn't forget.

                  Kathy, neither will the people who are voting for Senate day after tomorrow, either. Remember Chick Filet day? These people are the solid, conservative, hard-working taxpayers of America. You'll see them out Tuesday. Barney Frank is gone; and so is Obama.

                    #1415.4 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 4:25 PM EST

                    LOL, we do all this after the election. Why not do it now? Debbie Wasserman Schultz would be the first one indicted.

                      #1415.5 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 4:44 PM EST

                      DWS happens to have been the best representative I've ever had. She had regular conference calls that you could ask questions and she'd explain her positions before a vote. Unless you are in her district and you have a personal issue with her you are out of line and your opinion is of no value.

                        #1415.6 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 7:03 PM EST

                        Kathy

                        Your humanist slip is showing

                        If you think all people should be made to vote, you're loonier than you appear.

                          #1415.7 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 8:12 PM EST

                          Romney/Ryan thanks you for your support.

                            #1415.8 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 8:18 PM EST
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                            Just think in a few more days we can begin to debate who was the worst democrat President..

                            Carter or Obama?

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                            Reply#1416 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 4:05 PM EST

                            Ha. I can't wait to tune in here Wednesday for the eat crow-fest and to congratulate all the hard working campaigners and voters who re-elected President Obama for his next term.

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                            #1416.1 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 4:09 PM EST

                            Aaahh, the panic of DESPERATION continues...

                            That cesspool over at Fake Noos must've shut down their sewer site to more of their slugs, here whining on MSN.

                            No surprise. A desperate whine from these turds is so ...quaint and amusing.

                              #1416.2 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 4:17 PM EST

                              Yep and on Wednesday morning pack up your prayer rugs and move to Michigan, oh that's right they have the highest population of rag heads in the US, always room for a few more especially if you have daughters and youg boys as well, can not leave them out.

                                #1416.3 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 4:35 PM EST

                                What really ticks me off right now is I can not even use a joke like what do you get when you cross a black person with a Muslim, darn...your lord and savior had a white mother, the third wife from his father, never understood he had to divorce one to marry another so mostly white and Arab, only 6% black but guess better than nothing, blind fool's following another Muslim fool...got to well take an Obama now, will at least wipe it with...can I say white???

                                  #1416.4 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 4:45 PM EST
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                                  Nice, now Wisconsin has finally figured out they had a better chance with Romney and the Packers going to the Superbowl than with Obama.

                                  Sweet and thanks Packer Backers!

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                                  Reply#1417 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 4:27 PM EST

                                  No real packer fan would vote for Bronco Bama.

                                    #1417.1 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 4:42 PM EST
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                                    Dem polls are 6-10% weighted. Independants are breaking towards Romney by 10%.

                                    Bill clinton on stage with obama,after saying in 08' " obama's campaign is a " Fairy Tale ".

                                    My prediction...left wing media has masked Romney's strength with the dem weighted polling..biggest election scandal of modern times

                                    While east coast riots over obama's Fema response.

                                      Reply#1418 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 5:09 PM EST

                                      Welfare in 2011: $60,000 Per Household

                                      Taxpayers last year spent $1 trillion on welfare programs for households below the poverty line — enough to give each low-income household a check for $60,000.

                                      According to a report from the Senate Budget Committee’s Republican staff and ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the federal government spent $746 billion on welfare in the 2011 fiscal year, and states paid out $254 billion in matching funds.

                                      The federal total was up from $563 billion in fiscal year 2008, the last year of George W. Bush’s presidency, and up from $692 billion in fiscal 2009.

                                      The federal welfare spending cited in the report does not include programs such as Medicare and Social Security, which are not means-tested and directed toward lower-income Americans, and does not include programs for veterans.

                                      The Congressional Research Service reported that federal spending on health benefits for people with low income totaled $339 billion in fiscal 2011, with $295 billion spent on Medicaid.

                                      The second largest category, Cash Aid, totaled $145 billion.

                                      Federal taxpayers shelled out $101 billion for food assistance, including $80 billion for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps). That’s double what they spent in 2008.

                                      The total also includes $2 billion for Nutritional Assistance for Puerto Rico.

                                      Taxpayers also spent $41.4 billion on Pell Grants, $46 billion on Housing and Development, $7.5 billion on Head Start, and $5 billion on Energy Assistance.

                                      According to the Census Bureau, last year 16.8 million U.S. households were below the poverty line of $23,000 per year for a family of four. If all households received an equal share of the $1 trillion in welfare spending, they would each get $59,523.

                                      And if only the federal share of welfare spending is considered, without state matching funds, each low-income household would still receive $44,404 — nearly double the federal poverty line of $23,000.

                                        Reply#1419 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 7:02 PM EST

                                        Out-of-state workers have been pouring into New Jersey to help with the recovery efforts from Hurricane Sandy, but one Alabama-based utility crew claims that it returned home because of a requirement that all workers be union-affiliated. Labor officials, a New Jersey utility company and Gov. Chris Christie deny, however, that any such condition exists.

                                        This just goes to show you how stupid democrats really are. Only save me if you have a UNION Card. Screw the Unions.

                                          Reply#1420 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 7:22 PM EST

                                          If the governor and utility co deny it, why do you believe some unidentified phantom utility crew claims instead of the governor?

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                                          #1420.1 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 10:31 PM EST

                                          It came with his daily instructions, singleup.

                                            #1420.2 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 11:03 PM EST
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                                            FEMA better get their azzes in there an put a clamp down on not allowing non-union wokers when using PUBLIC FUNDS. Unless Obama and camp have a private UNION fund they better get this fixed and quick.

                                              Reply#1421 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 7:25 PM EST

                                              Ah, the Jimmy Carter days all over again.

                                                Reply#1422 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 8:15 PM EST

                                                Obama claims that he is to help middle class and Romney is for the rich. The irony is that under Obama the corporations did quite well but the middle class suffered. The US corporate profits and the stock market have both already recovered to 2007 level, and the companies sit on more than $2 trillion in cash. But the middle class family income is down from $55K to $50K. So the reality is that Obama presidency expanded the class of welfare dependents and public sector workers and helped the rich recover their losses. But the majority of middle class Americans got nothing good from him. Obama is anything but the middle class champion.

                                                  Reply#1423 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 8:31 PM EST

                                                  The key question of 2012 is: will “takers” overtake “makers”? The takers alliance consisting of liberal politicians, welfare free-loaders, overpaid public sector workers and militants in trade-unions may not have the majority but they are better organized than the rest of us. The “takers” know dead well that the large government is their ticket to good life. And they have Three Big Friends in the opinion-making business - the media, the academia and the Hollywood. (Fact: 8 out of 10 college profs donate and vote for the democrats, and it is about the same ratio for journalists, and probably more for Hollywood types).

                                                    Reply#1424 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 8:33 PM EST

                                                    SOCIALISM IS A DRUG AND IT IS EASY TO BECOME AN ADDICT ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE LAZY OR FULL OF ENVY.

                                                    I lived in a real-life socialist country (The USSR) long enough to tell signs of socialism when I see them. Socialism is all about government taking care of people with average and below average abilities and/or motivation to work at the expense of the rest. That is exactly what has been happening under Obama. His gifts to “takers” have so far been funded largely by borrowing and running up the national debt but it will soon require real tax increases. Of course at the end both the “makers” and the “takers” living standards will fall as always happen under socialism (e.g. the USSR, Greece, Cuba) but it will take some time, so most people don’t care. But when we get there it will be too late. Americans have to wake up.

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                                                    Reply#1425 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 8:34 PM EST

                                                    alexei....many see the signs and are concerned. Let's hope our votes make a difference on Tuesday.

                                                    Romney/Ryan 2012

                                                      #1425.1 - Sun Nov 4, 2012 9:15 PM EST
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