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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.
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.
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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Obama Wants to Cut $12.9 Billion from TroopsLiberals defend the health care of teachers, unions, and illegal immigrants. But when it comes to the troops, they want to cut.A proposal by the Obama administration would save $12.9 Billion by 2017 from the Tricare system.The proposed increases in health care payments by service members, which must be approved by Congress, are part of the Pentagon's $487 billion cut in spending. It seeks to save $1.8 billion from the Tricare medical system in the fiscal 2013 budget, and $12.9 billion by 2017."We shouldn't ask our military to pay our bills when we aren't willing to impose a similar hardship on the rest of the population," Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a Republican from California, said in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon. "We can't keep asking those who have given so much to give that much more."
Obama Wants to Cut $12.9 Billion from TroopsLiberals defend the health care of teachers, unions, and illegal immigrants. But when it comes to the troops, they want to cut.A proposal by the Obama administration would save $12.9 Billion by 2017 from the Tricare system.The proposed increases in health care payments by service members, which must be approved by Congress, are part of the Pentagon's $487 billion cut in spending. It seeks to save $1.8 billion from the Tricare medical system in the fiscal 2013 budget, and $12.9 billion by 2017."We shouldn't ask our military to pay our bills when we aren't willing to impose a similar hardship on the rest of the population," Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a Republican from California, said in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon. "We can't keep asking those who have given so much to give that much more."
Homeland Security | Immigration-Borders | Illegal | immigrants | abortion | transgender
ICE Manual: Taxpayers Pick Up Tab for Abortions, Transgender Therapy for Illegals
Tuesday, 06 Mar 2012 04:32 PM
U.S. immigration officials are under standing orders to provide abortion services for detained illegal aliens in some circumstances and hormone therapy to those who say they are transgendered.
The orders to do so are included in the “2011 Operations Manual ICE Performance-Based National Detention Standards” for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement division of the Department of Homeland Security.
Detention facilities are required to provide female detainees with “pregnancy services including routine or specialized prenatal care, postpartum follow-up, lactation services and abortion services," the manual dictates.
The government will pay for an abortion in cases of rape or incest, or if the mother's life is in danger, according to the manual. In other cases, the female detainee who wants to halt a pregnancy must pay for the abortion, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement will cover transportation costs to and from the abortion clinic.
The guidelines, which CNSNews.com highlighted in a report today, require a specially trained officer to interview aliens within 12 hours of detention.
“Transgender detainees who were already receiving hormone therapy when taken into ICE custody shall have continued access,” according to the regulations. “All transgender detainees shall have access to mental health care, and other transgender-related health care and medication based on medical need. Treatment shall follow accepted guidelines regarding medically necessary transition-related care.”
Yes , show us your numbers Romney where are they, here are a few:
"Mitt Romney by the Numbers" by Jon Perr
For years, Mitt Romney has been telling Americans "I love data." As he bragged to the Wall Street Journal:
But the man who would be America's 45th president doesn't want voters to see any of his. In early 2007, the Massachusetts governor's aides scrubbed his administration's computer records as he was heading out the door in Boston. Determined to avoid becoming the poster boy for gaming the IRS, Romney's tax returns remain a mystery because, as he put it, "I don't put out which tooth paste I use either." As for own tax plan, Romney boasts that "it can't be scored" because the "details will have to be worked out with Congress." As for which tax breaks he would end to offset the $5 trillion in revenue his tax cut scheme would drain from the U.S. Treasury, Mitt Romney won't name a single one in public. Otherwise, he told the Wall Street Journal last year, "you're gonna get hit by the demagogues in the general election."
But what Mitt Romney calls demagogues, most Americans call "voters." And despite Romney's perpetual--and perpetually cynical--efforts to keep his data secret, on the eve of the 2012 election there are some things we do know. Here, then, is Mitt Romney by the numbers.
$45,000,000. How much of his own money Mitt Romney spent during his failed 2008 bid for the White House, prompting son Matt to declare, "I don't ever expect to see any of that anyways."
$80,000,000. Estimated amount the Romney heirs will inherit if their father becomes president and succeeds in eliminating the estate tax.
$100,000,000. Estimated value of Romney's tax-free trust fund for his five sons.
$10,000,000. Amount the Romneys' blind trust invested in son Tagg's private equity firm, Solamere Capital, supporting Mitt's advice to college students to "borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business."
0. Number of Ann and Mitt Romney's five sons who served in the military, men their father said in 2007 instead "are showing support for our nation [by] helping me get elected because they think I'd be a great president."
5.5. Number of years Mitt Romney received deferments from military service in Vietnam to pursue his college studies and church mission in France.
1963. The year Mitt Romney's "dear, close relative" Ann Keenan died as the result of an illegal abortion, prompting Mitt in 1994 to declare his "unwavering" support for Roe v. Wade.
0. The number of exceptions to the abortion ban called for by the so-called Human Life Amendment endorsed by the 2012 Republican Platform and state "personhood" initiatives Romney supports.
3. The number of Tagg Romney's children resulting from in vitro fertilization, a procedure which would likely be illegal under state "personhood" initiatives his father supports.
$150. Value of the check Ann Romney wrote to Planned Parenthood during a 1994 fundraiser she and her husband attended, which when publicly revealed in 2007 led GOP White House hopeful Mitt Romney to claim "her positions are not terribly relevant for my campaign."
$0. Amount of federal funding President Romney would provide to Planned Parenthood and the entire Title X program for women's health.
72,000,000. Estimated number of people in America without health insurance if President Romney succeeds in repealing Obamacare and cutting Medicaid spending by over a third and giving what remains as block grants to the states.
2. Percentage of Massachusetts residents without health insurance.
27. Percentage of Texas residents without health insurance.
6,000,000. Number of senior citizens who rely on Medicaid to help pay for nursing home care.
$2,200. According to the CBO, the average increase per year for seniors under the Romney-Ryan Medicare voucher plan by 2030.
$4.1 billion. Total amount saved by 5.4 million American seniors as a result of Obamacare's closing of the Medicare prescription drug "donut hole," which would be reopened by Mitt Romney.
$716 billion. Ten-year amount Mitt Romney wrongly says President Obama "raided from Medicare," funds actually used to help expand benefits and extend life of the program's Trust Fund.
$716 billion. Ten-year amount taken from Medicare by Paul Ryan's House GOP budget to help fund a new tax cut windfall for the wealthy.
98. Percentage of House Republicans and GOP senators who voted for the Ryan budget.
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47. Out of 50, Massachusetts' ranking for job creation during Gov. Romney's tenure.
4. Number of the top 10 most profitable deals under Bain Capital CEO Romney in which the firm eventually declared bankruptcy. (In 2007, candidate Romney declared that taking a big payment from a company that later failed "would make me sick, sick at heart.")
1 million. Estimated number of American jobs that would have been lost if the United States followed Mitt Romney's advice and "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt."
$15 million. Minimum amount Mitt and Ann Romney's blind trust made from investment in Delphi car parts, a beneficiary of $12.9 billion total in the federal auto rescue Romney opposed.
14 percent. Mitt Romney's actual federal tax rate for 2010 and 2011, lower than many middle-class families.
"45 or 50 percent." What Mitt Romney says his tax rate really is, once his charitable contributions and so-called double-taxation of corporate profits are taken into account.
2009. The year that the IRS established its amnesty program for Americans using secret Swiss bank accounts to evade federal taxes.
2009. The year Mitt Romney's blind trust closed his $3 million Swiss bank account.
2010. The first of two years of federal tax returns Mitt Romney made public.
23. The number of years of tax returns Mitt Romney provided the McCain campaign in 2008 in his failed attempt to earn the vice presidential slot on the GOP ticket.
$100,000. Amount the state of Massachusetts paid in January 2007 to replace computers scrubbed of records by Romney aides.
"80 to 90 percent." The percentage of "us" Mitt Romney says are middle class.
$5 trillion. The 10-year cost of the Romney tax plan.
$2 trillion. The 10-year cost of additional defense spending if Romney keeps his promise to raise the Pentagon's budget to no less than 4 percent of GDP.
$1 trillion. Total annual cost of all federal tax deductions and loopholes.
0. The number of tax deductions and loopholes Mitt Romney has publicly committed to ending to offset the cost of his tax plan.
5 percent. The percentage of all American taxpayers whose taxes will be cut by the Romney tax plan (according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center).
95 percent. The percentage of all American taxpayers whose taxes will be raised by the Romney tax plan (according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center).
$54 billion. Estimated amount of revenue lost to the United States Treasury by the elimination of the estate tax for just 33 billionaire donors to Mitt Romney's Super PAC.
9. Number of months before his birth that the 1946 Detroit Golden Jubilee occurred, an event Mitt Romney said he attended with his father.
0. The actual number of times Mitt Romney actually "saw" his father march with Martin Luther King, Jr.
1978. The year Mitt Romney "pulled over and literally wept" when he heard on the car radio that his Mormon church would allow African-Americans to join the clergy.
2002. The year Mitt Romney said in 2002 he left Boston-based Bain Capital, in order to meet residency requirement to run for governor of Massachusetts.
1999. The year Mitt Romney said in 2012 he left Boston-based Bain Capital, in order to evade responsibility for many of the private equity firm's job-killing investments.
24. Length in hours of Mitt Romney's 2007 crusade demanding pension funds disinvest from companies doing business with Iran, which ended after it was revealed that Bain had investments in companies doing business with Iran.
2011. Year Mitt Romney first claimed that "other presidents and other candidates, like myself, would do exactly the same thing" by ordering the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan.
2007. Year Mitt Romney said, "I do not concur in the words of Barack Obama in a plan to enter an ally of ours" in order to kill Osama Bin Laden, a man about whom Romney previously concluded, "It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person."
12 million. Number of jobs Mitt Romney says he will create by the end of 2016.
12 million. Number of jobs forecasters including Moody's Analytics and Macroeconomic Advisers say current policies create by 2016 anyway.
-1.9 million. Job losses the Economic Policy Institute estimates will result through 2014 if Romney implements his budget plan.
2006. Year Romney responded "aw, geez" when informed by Boston Globe reporters that undocumented workers were landscaping his Belmont, Massachusetts, estate.
2011. Year Mitt Romney told Rick Perry, "We went to the company and we said, look, you can't have any illegals working on our property. I'm running for office, for Pete's sake, we can't have illegals."
$10,000. Amount Mitt Romney bet Rick Perry that he had not called Massachusetts health care reform a model for the nation in his book, No Apology.
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To me, democrat or republican is the same. Look at your politicians in the Senate or the House see how many of them are millionaires. The followers are either blind because of believing in something I can't see or have some kind of personal gains. After those politicians are done with their terms they making at least few time more than they were before. That is why they want to be in politic: power and money. Do they care for us: NO. Do they buy our vote: YES. I don't care who will be in the white house any more. All I want is to work, pay my tax, and hopefully my social security will be enough for me to retire when I can no longer work. Do I donate money to any of the candidates? NO. I rather buy food for my local homeless shelter than waste money on them. Will I attend my dear Democratic friend's voting party on Tuesday? No, I rather stay home, spend valuable time with my children than getting drunk cursing on the "tea baggers". You see, too much hatred and jealousy in our country these days.
Two video reminders of Mitten's character truths & flaws of 2012! The videos don't lie.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/secret-video-romney-private-fundraiser
Romney Cheating At Debate
Obama/Biden will win on 2012! No doubt!! FORWARD...!!!
If any liberal retard actually believes Obama will do better handling the economy during the next four years they are truly braindead. After four years, the unemployment rate is higher than it was when he took office and he remains clueless as evidenced by his "brain fart" idea to create a "business czar" position in his cartoon character cabinet for economic development. That in itself documents the fact he is not capable of leading the crucial economic turnaround after four years in office.
maybe if he gets in for a second term hopefully not he can try to keep some of his original promises as america goes down the wrong path with him at the helm wake up america and vote him out
Kesler Dufrene Kills 3 After Deportation Halted by Obama Administration1/23/12I justs learned about a story from the DailyMail.co.uk that has me quite upset. According to the article, Kesler Dufrene is an illegal immigrant that has twice been convicted of felony -- but was releaed instead of being deported to Haiti.Deportations to Haiti were halted following the earthquake that devastated Haiti. They released him instead of keeping him in custody.Mobile phone tracking technology and a rifle linked Dufrene to the murders but when detectives came after him 18-days later, he killed himself.The mother of one of the victims is very upset. "This guy shouldn't have been in America," said Audrey Hansack, 37 ... after the murder of her daughter Ashley Chow. "I'm so upset with the whole situation. Because of immigration, my daughter is not alive."The murders occured in January 2011 so the story is a year old but only today did I find out about the story.The lax immigration policies of the Obama administration has consequences. How many times do we have to hear the administration wants to halt deportations in Denver or that Obama's administration isgranting backdoor amnesty? We realize how capital intensive it would be to find every illegal immigrant and deport them. But is it too much to ask that anyone already in our custody be deported immediately? Especially if they are convicted of felonies like this guy.In 2006, he stole a car!Here is how it all happened.First, Obama halts deportations of Haitians.After the devastating January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the Obama administration announced it was indefinitely halting deportations to the country.Foreign nationals cannot stay detainedTh U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2001 and 2005 that foreign nationals who cannot be deported may not be held in detention longer than six months.ConclusionThe Obama administration should have known better. If the law of the land is that foreign nationals cannot be detained longer than six months then he should not have indefinitely halted deportations for fear that dangerous people like him would be released.Some may tell you that it is not compassionate to deport immigrants to Haiti. But I disagree. Compassion should not be given to criminals. And he should have been deported anyways. Three people could still have been alive. So let's be more strict on how we handle illegal immigration.
Obama Joined Third Party in 1990s
Thursday, 07 Jun 2012
President Barack Obama was a member of the far left New Party and also signed a “contract” promising to publicly support and associate himself with the New Party while in office, according to a published report.
Citing recently obtained evidence from the updated records of Illinois ACORN at the Wisconsin Historical Society, an article appearing in the National Review Online pointed to a document trail that “definitively establishes” Obama’s membership in the organization.
“Barack Obama, candidate for State Senate in the 13th Legislative District, gave a statement to the membership and answered questions. He signed the New Party “Candidate Contract” and requested an endorsement from the New Party.
He also joined the New Party,” the publication reported, quoting minutes of a Jan. 11, 1996 meeting of the New Party’s Chicago chapter.
Moreover, the publication reported that a roster of the Chicago chapter of the New Party from early 1997 listed Obama as a member and referenced the Jan. 11, 1996 joining date.
The publication also noted that in Obama’s third debate with then GOP presidential nominee John McCain, the Democrat maintained that his only involvement with ACORN came when he represented the group in a lawsuit over the National Voter Registration Act.
You RWNJ shills will have Four More Years to make up new old hate mongerings, but it will do no good, as the improved World and US Economy will smitten all the Misinformation, Lies and Obfuscation that so much effort by that ilk has had repeatedly disproven and debunked.
I would say thanks for playing, but you suck.
United We Stand, Divided We Fall. I will raise my glass of champagne that you have failed to install the Willard Tomorrow Night as I ask God to forgive your Evil Ways.
Because no one else will.
Buh Bye, Mr Romney. Your Political Ambitions are FINISHED!!!
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John, if you know even one person who is undecided on how to vote, or whether to vote, then please share this with them now:
500 reasons to vote against Mitt Romney and for Barack Obama.
Every vote counts,
Chris Bowers
Campaign Director, Daily Kos
Read 'em and weep, you DESPERATE victims under the influence of Mittens, Lyin' Ryan, Fake Noos, Pills Limbaugh, Todd Akin, Ricky InSanitarium, Newtie Tootie, Trump the birther chump, and all the rest of the neo-nuts in your pathetic party. FEEL THE FEAR! And, get your jaw off the ground!
Obama/Biden win on Nov 6, 2012! No doubt!!
Debra Olson shared Mikko Alanne's photo.
Romney has been babbling about how the "world" wants to see new American leadership. Well, BBC World asked the world, and the results are in. And they're pretty dramatic -- NO ONE except Pakistan is even remotely interested in a Romney presidency.
The very fact that Obama wont address the Libya,Benghazi cover-up, and by his own words saying there's no need to talk about it before the election (like that is an answer) is proof that he is dirty,And his followers don't even want to know the truth of a set-up,murder and cover-up of a ambassador that dared to disagree with him and his policy's
The official story surrounding the events of September 11, 2012 in Benghazi, Libya which left four Americans dead, has now officially fallen apart.
After numerous flips and flops by the Obama administration, which originally attempted to paint the incident as a Muslim outcry over an anti-Islamic video, whistle blowers throughout the U.S. government, including within the White House, the State Department, national intelligence agencies and the U.S.military have made available stunning details that suggest not only did operational commanders have live visual and audio communications from drones overhead and intelligence assets on the ground, but that some commanders within the military were prepared to go-it-alone after being told to "stand down."
Africom commanding officer U.S. General Carter Ham, after being ordered to essentially surrender control of the situation to alleged Al Queda terrorists and let Americans on the ground die, made the unilateral decision to ignore orders from the Secretary of Defense and activated special operations teams at his disposal for immediate deployment to the area.(if the general had not intervened' there would be 34 dead Americans and not just 4---And now Obama has the U.S. General Arrested for Activating Special Forces Teams; Ignoring Libya Stand-Down Order. (Obama does not like the real light to be shined on him,HuH!)
Most, if not all, of the repub. governors are trying their damnest to suppress the vote in their state. Doesn't sound very hopeful for Romney if they have to try to "fix" the election. And as far as FL goes, remember the chads? Here we go again. A state that's full of old men with gray hair trying to keep women down - and out! Obama 2012!
As Abraham Lincoln might have said, "To hell with the polls! How is the betting coming along?"
Oddsmakers Predict Presidential Result
Yet more polls assuming a 6+ plus advantage for Democrats. The turnout is going to 'shock' a lot of pollsters. Obama has almost no chance of winning the popular vote, and he's going to be sweating the electoral college, especially since Romney can steal WI and not even need OH. FL has been consistently polling FOR Romney, not for Obama, and NC/VA have been in the bag for some time... It comes down to WI/MI/OH, and Obama isn't going to be comfortable for a while...
Tonight we spank the junkie, tomorrow libs sit home and spank the monkey. Bye losers.
Wanna bet, returd? DESPERATION will not help you!
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Obama/Biden win on Nov 6, 2012! No doubt! ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
NBCPRAVDA... with its delusional Liberal oversampling... the only people you're fooling are the deadbeats who want something for nothing paid for with my money...
Florida needs to vote for Keith Fitzgerald over Vern Buchanan. Buchanan is faced with dealing with numerous charges on all sorts of things from Ethic violations to Witness tampering besides not getting things done for his constituents as he had promised in his last election.
“A legal and ethical cloud still hangs over vulnerable Congressman Vern Buchanan who is facing serious investigations by the FBI, IRS, House Ethics and a federal Grand Jury for tax evasion, witness tampering and a campaign fundraising scheme,” said spokeswoman Stephanie Formas."
Its time Florida voters took note and replace him .