In recent history there have always been Democrats. There have always been Republicans. There have always been moderates and extremists on both sides.

But never before, since the Civil War, has the US been so divided, so angry, so polarized. Crises and hardship in the country have never been so bad since the Great Depression. Finger-pointing and blame are almost rabid in their intensity. Republicans blame the Democrats and Obama, Democrats blame the Republicans and Bush. There is actual hatred festering between the different sides of almost every single demographic division. It's truly frightening.

I hope we can figure out what the change was that caused our nation to be so terribly divided today.

I remember Kevin White when he was Boston' mayor. He was always around the streets of Boston, always in the news, always talking to people. Mayor Menino the same.

Michael Dukakis as our governor rode the Green Line to the State House. I used to see him in the mornings going up the escalator at Park Street Station. He was always very friendly and never missed saying to good morning to those near him. Ted Kennedy was a huge presence in MA. He was always showing up for this or that event. With his huge smile and ever present pride that MA was his home.

The Red Sox were his team, a passion passed down to him from the time his grandfather Honey Fitz was the Mayor.

Deval Patrick has such a pulse on what's going on in our state. He's a quiet governor, yet a competent, engaging man. A very progressive and incredibly decent man. A real 21st Century governor.

Mitt Romney as our governor. I have no memory of him walking the streets of Boston or any other city for that matter in MA. I have no memory of him showing any particular interest in the state of MA or its citizens.

We remember him as a governor who was never here. That's the memory we all have of him.

Just watched the President and Former President Clinton rally in Virginia. They rocked the house!

The President knocked it out of the park!!

"One last push", sounds like constipation which is a summary of Mitts lifelong disaster...........

Updated for 11:00pm EST on Saturday, November 3, 2012:

*** Spoiler alert: Today Obama made substantial gains in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, and Iowa while seeing his margins fall in Wisconsin and New Hampshire; Romney improved his position in Florida.

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Real Clear Politics (RCP) consistently has been the "go-to" source for accurate averaged daily polling data for both FOXNEWS and NBCNEWS. With less than 49 hours to go in the 2012 presidential campaign, RCP continues to report that Obama holds increasing leads in eight of their 11 toss-up states while Romney clings to smaller and more static leads in the remaining three.

In descending order of 'percentage of lead' in favor of Obama, followed in ascending order of 'percentage of lead' in favor of Romney, here are the published averaged numbers from RCP as of 11:00pm EST together with the most recent FiveThirtyEight election night probabilities of victory for either candidate:

In WISCONSIN, with 10 electoral votes, Obama's lead has fallen to 5.0%, down from 5.4% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 94.2% chance of victory here, up by 0.9% from Friday and by an astounding 8.5% since Tuesday.

In PENNSYLVANIA, with 20 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 4.8%, up from 4.6% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 96.6% chance of victory here, up by 0.5% from Friday and by a respectable 2.5% since Tuesday.

In MICHIGAN, with 16 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 4.0%, up from 3.5% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 98.6% chance of victory here, up 0.2% from Friday and by 0.5% since Tuesday.

In OHIO, with 18 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 2.9%, up from 2.6% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama an 83.8% chance of victory here, up by 3.1% from Friday and by an astonishing 10.5% since Tuesday.

In NEVADA, with 6 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 2.7%, up from 2.4% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama an 88.7% chance of victory here, up by 1.5% from Friday and by an astounding 9.0% since Tuesday.

In IOWA, with 6 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 2.5%, up from 2.0% on Saturday morning. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama an 80.7% chance of victory here, down interestingly by 0.9% from Friday but up overall by a substantial 6.8% since Tuesday.

In NEW HAMPSHIRE, with 4 electoral votes, Obama's lead has fallen to 1.5%, down from 1.8% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama an 80.4% chance of victory here, up by 1.7% from Friday and by an astonishing 10.1% since Tuesday.

In COLORADO, with 9 electoral votes, Obama's lead is holding at 1.0%, up from 0.9% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 67.9% chance of victory here, up by 2.2% from Friday and by an astronomical 12.5% since Tuesday.

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In VIRGINIA, with 13 electoral votes, Romney's lead has fallen to 0.3%, down from 0.5% on Friday. Interestingly, FiveThirtyEight increased Obama's chance of victory here (and not Romney's) to 67.0%, up 2.2% from Friday.

In FLORIDA, with 29 electoral votes, Romney's lead has risen to 1.4%, up from 1.2% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Romney a 54.8% chance of victory here, but this margin is actually down a stunning 9.9% from Tuesday.

It should be noted that RCP's average in Florida does appear to have been hyper-inflated by two recent outlier findings in favor of Romney, the first a 6.0% margin today from the unapologetically right-leaning Mason-Dixon Group with localized results for only the two cities of Tampa Bay (site of the 2012 RNC) and Miami (Marco Rubio stronghold), the second a 3.0% margin from Gravis Marketing, a polling firm funded in large part by BAIN Capital, and an appreciably older finding by The Sunshine State News, an ultra-conservative website/blog which had Romney leading by 5.0% on October 24. Minus the influences of these extreme outliers, Romney's true lead is likely well under 1.0% and quite possibly closer to that of dead heat. Ah, Florida....

In NORTH CAROLINA, with 15 electoral votes, Romney's lead is holding at 3.8%. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Romney a 79.6% chance of victory here, down 0.3% from Friday.

So...

In order for Obama to win re-election the least complex route would be through maintaining his current lead in the five toss-up states where his existing margins are widest (Wisconsin at 5.0%, Pennsylvania at 4.8%, Michigan at 4.0%, Ohio at 2.9%, and Nevada at 2.7%). Doing so would bring his electoral vote total on Election Day to 271. In this scenario, Obama could still surpass 270 while failing to hold Iowa, New Hampshire, and Colorado.

However, should Obama fail to hold the strategic prize of Ohio, the loss could effectively be neutralized by any of the following combination of wins from states where FiveThirtyEight is currently forecasting Obama victories:

Path #1: Obama loses Ohio but holds the remaining three states where he presently leads, New Hampshire, Iowa, and Colorado resulting in 272 electoral votes.

Path #2: Obama loses Ohio but steals Virginia while also taking only one state from among New Hampshire, Iowa, or Colorado resulting in 270, 272, or 275 electoral votes, respectively.

Interestingly, with Romney's lead having diminished significantly in Florida over the past two weeks and with Hurricane Sandy forcefully highlighting the stark contrast between the candidates regarding the value and necessity if not the mere existence of FEMA in a state which has perhaps the greatest dependence on federal storm relief efforts in the nation, a 3rd path has now emerged which could provide for some interesting election night television:

Path #3: Obama comes from behind to win Florida. This scenario would require only that Obama win the three states in which his present leads are widest (Wisconsin at 5.0%, Pennsylvania at 4.8%, and Michigan at 4.0%), resulting in 276 electoral votes.

For Romney to unseat Obama, he not only would have to hold the three states in which he presently leads, Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia bringing his electoral vote total to 248, but also steal victories in at least one of the following possible combinations from states currently leaning Obama, listed in descending order of likelihood based on the reverse engineering of current FiveThirtyEight numbers for election night chances of victory:

Path #1: 24.15% chance of Romney stealing both Ohio and Colorado, resulting in 275 electoral votes.

Path #2: 17.90% chance of Romney stealing both Ohio and New Hampshire, resulting in 270 electoral votes.

Path #3: 17.75% chance of Romney stealing both Pennsylvania and Colorado, resulting in 277 electoral votes.

Path #4: 11.50% chance of Romney stealing both Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, resulting in 272 electoral votes.

Working against each of these scenarios are rising averaged polling numbers over the past two days for Obama in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Colorado; in that same forty-eight hour period, only in New Hampshire has Romney succeeded in reducing Obama's margin, and that by a slight 0.3%.

Perhaps somewhat mystifyingly, the Romney campaign continues to make pronouncements alluding to their having embraced the "Pennsylvania Strategy" included in Paths 3 and 4 above, the two paths which have the least likely chances of victory.

So, is this a bold strategic maneuver on the part of Eric Fehrnstrom or a feint designed to counter Obama's anticipated re-allocation of campaign resources to a quantifiably softening political landscape in Florida? If the latter, based on published campaign schedules for key Democrat surrogates, it doesn't appear the Obama campaign is taking the bait.

In any event, should Romney fail to steal either Ohio or Pennsylvania he could overcome this shortfall by capturing the four other states in which Obama's current leads are smallest (Colorado at 1.0%, New Hampshire at 1.5%, Iowa at 2.5%, and Nevada at 2.7%) resulting in an electoral vote total of 273.

FiveThirtyEight this morning estimates the chance of Election Day victory for each candidate as follows: Obama 83.7% (up markedly from Friday morning's 80.9%) and Romney 16.3% (down markedly from Friday's 19.1%).

FiveThirtyEight now also projects that on Election Day the final electoral tally will be as follows: Obama 305 (up 6 from Wednesday's 299) and Romney 233 (down 6 from Wednesday's 239).

Lastly, although it makes no difference in terms of the final result which can only be determined by the Electoral College, FiveThirtyEight currently predicts a national popular vote distribution on Election Day as follows: Obama 50.6% (up from Thursday's 50.4%) and Romney 48.4% (down from Thursday's 48.6%).

With less than 49 hours of campaigning to go, and with Friday's published October jobs report playing to predictably mixed reviews (economy adding more jobs than expected; unemployment rate ticking up one tenth of one percent to 7.9%), holdout voters may now be left to nothing more than the proverbial 'feel in their gut' as Tuesday approaches.

Remember to change the clocks tonight (Spring forward, Fall back), mow the yard tomorrow, and re-stock the 7-layer dip on Monday for an exhilarating night of television on Tuesday!

I have no respect for Obama or Fema. I was in GTMO (Guantanamo Bay, Cuba) for the Cuban-Haitian refugees. I oversaw building of the camps, food galleys, refuse pick-up, bussing, etc. We had all these things set up in days. And all was paid for by our taxes. Now we have people (tax payers) in the States needing care and were is the help?? The military has tons of equipment sitting idle. Our Commander -in-Chief should of had the gas and tents, blankets, galleys there with-in 1 to 2 days. Also there are tons of emergency generators around sitting idle too, these should of been brought in to assist also. Heck they just spent over 7 million for Generators for the Generals Housing units in Fort Myer and Fort McNair. Go ROMNEY

Axlerod said Obama's speech comes from his "loins", yes he said loins- pretty fitting as we have gotten screwed the last four years. Axlerod and Wasserman Schultz are such Obama leg humpers!

Romney/Ryan 2012 the end of an error

Time for another shellacking!

Fire up his base with a bunch of lies is all his bluster does. Which of course have the opposite effect for those of us who'd rather not be lied to. :)

I have no respect for Obama or Fema.

Thank God people like you aren't in charge of Sandy relief. I'd end up putting a bullet in my brain waiting for support from your type in a disaster.

The only thing I want to hear from Myth Robme is his concession speech. Then I hope I never have to see his little sneer, that he think passes for a smile, ever ever again.

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this is worth reading:

"Romneyism"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/romneyism_b_2069095.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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O & JOE, God Bless You! :-)

Romney implores Colorado for one last push.

I know Colorado people. They don't like being pushed. They don't like being lied to. They will push back. Adios, Romney.

Obama says, "A vote for me, is a vote for revenge." Now that is a fail leader and a real recipe for collaboration (NOT).

Anyone voting for Obama deserves the cliff!

Romney/Ryan 2012 for a "United" "Bipartisan" "Non-vengeful" States of America!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jeff, thank God people like you aren't in charge of anything. Fred was actually at GTMO, gave you his account of that situation and you responded like a jerk.

Vote straight Democrat to get revenge on the party that doesn't care about America.

CO:

Guess Christie's hug was truly only a photo op, Obama didn't even wait for the lights to go on, before calling revenge.

Disgusting.

Romney/Ryan for a "United" States of America

Go to youtube or http://Lybio.net and check out the song by Dan Roberts, titled Mr. Scam Man. Describes Obama to a tee and its hillarious!!!!

'One final push' but its for a breech birth.

For Romney to Win, State Polls Must Be Statistically Biased

THE. BEST. POLLING. DATA. EVER.!

Nate predicts on Nov. 6,
President Obama is 84.4% likely to win 307 Electoral College votes!
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President Obama chances of winning: the popular vote - 80.3%
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President Obama chances of winning: *OHIO* - 84.2%

President Obama chances of winning: WISC - 94%

President Obama chances of winning: PA - 97.1%

President Obama chances of winning: VA - 70.1%

President Obama chances of winning: NH - 79%

President Obama chances of winning: NV - 89.4%

President Obama chances of winning: CO - 68%

President Obama chances of winning: IOWA - 83%

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of the last 22 polls, Obama is ahead in . . . . 19 :-)

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O & JOE . . . VOTE! :-)

Ticked off, Obama is ahead in New Hampshire and Virginia by a couple of outlier polls. Remember Rasmussen favors Repblicans by 1 point, and the others seem to favor Democrats by 2 - 6 points this year.

Also Remember, any incumbent tied with less than 50% of the vote loses to the challenger because 80% of the undecides at this point break for the challenger and the rest stay home mostly.

Independant --

I didn't see a "hug".

The "revenge" word was used by President Obama once, and not in the sense of "calling for revenge" (as you say). I'll use the "revenge" word as much as I want, because I am not the President, and I am not held to the same standards as he keeps.

Obama-Biden, and a straight Democratic ticket, because it is the only way to send the obstructionist tea party Republicans the message that their devisiveness is not welcome in the United States of America.

• DEMOCRATS - Your country needs you! For those waiting until election day - Especially in the swing states. Remember no fight worth winning is ever easy. The Greatest Generation has taught us so much, we must stand up to those who try to take our freedoms away.
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• Don't allow billionaires to buy our Democracy.
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• By Voting you are fighting for Democracy. Stand with your fellow citizens and vote. Honor our brave men and women who fought and died for our right. VOTE!

Northstar

What happened to the 50,000 Obama crowds of 2008. I have yet to see a number over 24,000. Then there is Bill Clinton only getting 2800 in Akron the other night while R & R get 30,000 in Butler county and 50,000+ in Cincinnati?

All Along and Quietly, Good Feelings have been coming about how the Election is going for Prez O And The American People. The fools of America will NOT be able to elect these Thieves of America; Here is a Very Helpful Post which is tried and Proven True: And For the Very Few NAIVE American voters who are thinking of voting for Mitt Tax Pittance Rommel and Lyin'Ryan out of desperation and hope that THESE
TWO MONSTERS will rescue your life, Better look AT THE FACTS. CountDracula and EdddiMunster are going to keep the bush TAX EVASION BONUSES FOR THE EVIL
RICH In Effect: with TheCount's Crappy excuse? "I won't LOWER the taxes on
the Rich!!!!" Well, Thanks Count, as you 1-10% and Corporate
rich
already pay the Lowest taxes in American History and taxes are
REALLY on the Backs of Working Americans @37%. AND!!! WE DO NOT Even Get A
Universal HealthCare System Like THE SANE Countries Have; Instead We GOT SCREWED By KingGeorge THE VacuumBrained and his republicanCrimeCartel "WMD" Wars. Gas and Oil Prices????,
What a Sucker Punch AT Voters!! The Count and EddiMunster PERSONALLY Dreamed
up the $4.00p/g at the pump to blame it on Prez O, Like their pals in the
House Of Reptiles STALLING Prez O Legislation to Create Meaningful Jobs and
Careers. AND! AND!! AND!!! JUST WHO do you voters think
sets Gas& Oil prices, "Healthcare" policy prices, Hiring, Job/Career Outsourcing,
Burger Flipping pay for NET $4.50p/hr while TheCount and HIS
republicanCrimecartel Soldiers are SUCKING YOU DRY for
$4.00p/gal gas and oil,
$1100.00p/m for "healthinsurance",
while mind you!, Rommel's FRIEND, the ceoVampire
at united healthcare, took home
$128,000,000 *CASH* for salary year 2008!!!!!!!!!, PLEASE Research This FACT So
YOU KNOW PhantomBeast IS NOT
BSing You, While the Crook Paid No taxes with capital Gains
LoopHoles, Thanks to The republicanCrimeCartel which Perverted the tax laws FOR
THE EVIL RICH, LEAVING
WE American TaxPayers to Pay HIS Taxes. These Clowns are
aristocrat decendents of the Plantation and Slave Owners who were the ruling
idiots who
started the civil war and ran the south into ruination; SOUND
FAMILIAR? AND
in 2010?, These republicanCrimeCartel gonifs (CROOKS) convinced NAIVE voters to
vote them into controlling the House Of Representatives, PROMISING Renewed
republicanCrimeCartel power to be used to
Create jobs and Government services. What A Cruel Laugh!, FOOLED YOU AGAIN!! These
republicanCrimeCartelPoliticos have
used the House of Reptiles to BLOCK EVERY
HELPFUL Bill and Law Prez O has created and backed Creating Meaningful jobs and helping WE
AMERICANS. And Some of
you are STILL considering voting for THIS EVIL And VILE GROUP?, Who will use
your vote to Hurt YOU And Your Family AND
give it ALL AWAY to themselves and the 1-10% and Evil Corporate Rich While THEY RAPE America AS THEY DID during The King's NOTORIOUSLY SHAMEFUL Shrubber Reign 2001-2008.
Here Is a
Very VERY Helpful Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og35U0d6WKY&feature=player_detailpage

I never thought I'd find myself agreeing with anything Mitt Romney says, but I have to agree with his statement:

"One final push is gonna get us there. We've had a lot of short nights and long days and now we're close," Romney told a crowd of more than 17,000 supporters gathered at an outdoor amphitheater. "The door to a brighter future is there – it's open, waiting for us. I need your vote, I need your work, I need your help."

But unfortunately for Mitt, I have a different door in mind for him to get pushed through.

DB...

Speaking of audience size...do you recall the Romney fiasco at Detroit 's Ford Field? In a stadium that seats upwards of 80k, they had to put up a curtain behind him on stage at the 30 yard line to try and hide all the empty space...and he was facing the closest end zone but the "crowd" didn't even extend to the end line. All of about 1200 people showed up for him...pretty sad, eh?

Or...how about those Latinos who were bussed in for his Univision tv forum appearance? Why Mitt even threatened to reschedule his appearance if he wasn't allowed to bus in some friendly folks who would cheer him.

He did something similar at his NAACP speech too in a misguided effort to "broaden" his appeal.

"Spontaneous attendance" aren't words I necessarily equate with a Mitt Romney appearance.

Romney only secured 5 of their 21 delegates during primary season; so, in my opinion, he never had an INITIAL push.

Take a hint and just leave us alone Mitt.

OHIO SECRETARY OF STATE DISCARDING VOTES / OBSTRUCTING VOTES! MUST BE STOPPED.

THIS IS NOT being carried by the mainstream press and it is the most important story right now for this election!

The Ohio Secretary of State is discarding votes!!! THIS MUST BE KNOWN. SPREAD THE WORD!

ELECTION IN PERIL - OHIO SECRETARY OF STATE DEFIES ORDERS

Last Minute Directive by Ohio's Jon Husted Could See Legal Votes Discarded & Swing the Election

I posted twice to make sure people see this.

In one of Ryan's stop in Colorado he stated:

Ryan told voters in the key battleground of Colorado to hold on for just another few days.

Romeny and Ryan deserve politcal defeat.

As Americans, we should hold on.

Yes, hold on for another few days. Hold on until our citizens can re-elect Obama to an earned and well-deserved 2nd term as Commander In Chief of this country.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell's endorsement of Obama says it best:

http://www.barackobama.com/share/forward-colin-powell-endorses/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=obama&utm_content=Colin+Powell+former+Secretary+of+State+and+chairman+of+the+Joint+Chiefs+of+Staff&utm_campaign=em12_20121102_ft_act&source=em12_20121102_ft_act

Obama/Biden 2012!!!

Romney is a liar. If you tell lies like he has that means he is a Liar. I'll take one of his latest quotes on the stump. "Under Obama, he has created a 16 trillion dollar debt". Lets try to add the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which were under Bush. Lets add the tax cuts for the wealthy in 2002 under Bush. Lets ad the tax deductions for seniors for prescriptions under Bush. lets ad up the Bush blank check for spying on everything. Nobody knows how much that cost us. My guess is it in the Trillions of dollars. Did Bush pay for it? No!

Romney is a liar!

The final "push" that Mitt Romney is requesting could be done at the Grand Canyon, as far as I am concerned.

Obama for a SAFER environment and NO WARS!!!!!

"Romnesia", "Revenge", "speaking from the loins? Big bird ads!" Looks like Biden isn't the only child in the President's campaign.

Irespond...how could you! LOL!

Those who think Romney will win are living in a dream world.

Seriously Romney, I'll give one last push, and you'll drop into the toilet where you belong. Buhbye.

Numb3rTech

The United States actually needs Governor Romney and Mr. Ryan to win.

Numb3rTech,

Where have you been? Because of the 2000-2008 GOP policies, that Romney wants to resurrect, the American economy collapsed. This country does not need Romney and Ryan to revisit financial mayhem. Clinton left this country with a surplus. Bush and the GOP party gave massive tax breaks to the wealthy, they allowed our treasury to be gutted and they abandoned the middle class and the poor. Republicans pushed this country off of the financial cliff. Obama has reversed the reactionary policies of the right.

Obama is steering America forward.

the great depression of the 1930's

The great depression is an example of austerity at its worst.

Hoover, another Republican, did nothing to help the people.

we need a business man

We do not need a business man who will not show the citizenry his taxes. We do not need a man who dumps citizens on the unemployment lines.

The masses with nothing wanting government hand outs

The masses only want a fair chance at opportunity. The "hand outs" have been given to the 1%.

Vote for Romney

Vote for Romney and that is the end of America.

Vote for Obama/Biden and vote a straight Democratic Ticket!

I keep reading reports that the polls have Obama leading in Ohio and Michigan. I live in Ohio. Pehaps as a working man I don't rub shoulders with the other 47% but far ans awy nearly ALL of the people i have come in contact with are tired of Obama. Tired is actually to soft a term. they are fed up with Obama.

Yesterday my wife and I went to a small town in lower southeast Michigan. We traveled on a state highway for about 23 miles. In that stretch of road I counted 14 Romney signs in front yards and 3 Obama. Now not every lawn had a poster but if the ratio is consistent the Obama is behind by a large number in the great auto producing state of michigan.

Of course my own evaluation is based on the people I see and talk with or overhear in the stores and the visual effect of actully seeing campain signs is not scientific like the polls we read about, and since my opinion is different from what some news agencies wish too project I must not be taking the right things into consideration for something for obama to be trailing by over 4 to 1 in that one stretch of highway.

Obama, Biden, and Hillary Clinton: MEXICO's THREE STOOGES!

Amen, Walker! Throw all the baggers out. They currently are on vacation (due to return after Thanksgiving). The best Christmas gift we could give would be a pink slip returning these scumbags to the private sector.

Boner, Cantor, Ryan, Akin, Mourdock - throw them all out and let them all legitimately rape each other.

Avenger - here in Atlanta (a supposed RED state), I have seen about 10 yard signs total for Wrongme. I would have an Obama yard sign (probably many) but here in the heart of the repressive south, people with Obama signs have been harassed and things thrown onto their lawn. My 2008 Obama car magnet was stolen off my car two years ago. I noticed it gone when I returned from the store. Some neanderthal teabagger took it. I'm just glad they didn't do a key job on my car.

I have seen maybe 8 total Romney bumper stickers. About the same number of Obama stickers. I don't see this groundswell of a Romney Tsunami that Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers are paying to try to bring into existence.

I see Nate Silver's predicted winning probability going up every day. It has gained over 11 points since October 27.

Romney is toast. We won't have to look at that practiced, fake smile too much longer.

4 more for 44

go BRONCO BAMA

It used to be called voodoo economics. The give away to the rich with supposed trickle down effects has been shown to be complete bull$#!&. Romney's economic plan is merely smoke and mirrors.

Here's what the non partisan Congressional Research Service has to say about cutting taxes to increase revenue. (Summary below)

Throughout the late-1940s and 1950s, the top marginal tax rate was typically above 90%; today it is 35%. Additionally, the top capital gains tax rate was 25% in the 1950s and 1960s, 35% in the 1970s; today it is 15%. The real GDP growth rate averaged 4.2% and real per capita GDP increased annually by 2.4% in the 1950s. In the 2000s, the average real GDP growth rate was 1.7% and real per capita GDP increased annually by less than 1%.

There is not conclusive evidence, however, to substantiate a clear relationship between the 65-year steady reduction in the top tax rates and economic growth. Analysis of such data suggests the reduction in the top tax rates have had little association with saving, investment, or productivity growth. However, the top tax rate reductions appear to be associated with the increasing concentration of income at the top of the income distribution.

The share of income accruing to the top 0.1% of U.S. families increased from 4.2% in 1945 to 12.3% by 2007 before falling to 9.2% due to the 2007-2009 recession. The evidence does not suggest necessarily a relationship between tax policy with regard to the top tax rates and the size of the economic pie, but there may be a relationship to how the economic pie is sliced.

Romney's whole economic platform is refuted by these findings, there is no way his tax cuts will bring the economy back. Senator Mitch McConnell (R) blocked the release of the Report. It surfaced again in the Nov 1 2012 New York Times.

http://dbcc.senate.gov/files/documents/CRStaxesandtheeconomy%20top%20rates.pdf

DEMAND that Mexico be removed from our immigration system.

Why would any American vote to retain a president that has stolen jobs from Americans and allowed people living in the US illegally to get them?

And as we speak Romneys vulture business Bain Capitol which he is still a huge shareholder is dismantling and shipping American jobs from a profitable U.S. company(Sensata) to China. Romney is the most ruthless and despicable type of business man in our country and the right wants him to be our president. I hope all you conservatives are willing to move to China if you still want your job.

On the day before an election that's supposed to hinge on jobs, taxes and the middle class, Bain Capital, the company Mitt Romney founded, will close the doors of a factory in Freeport, Illinois, and ship 170 good, high-tech jobs to China.

The employees of Sensata Technologies were forced to train their Chinese replacements, and the American flag that long flew over the factory was reportedly removed while the Chinese engineers were visiting the site. A group of workers have set up camp across from the factory -- calling it “Bainport” -- and some supporters have tried to block the trucks hauling equipment out of the plant. According to Dave Johnson, there have been several arrests.

Sensata workers have asked to meet with Mitt Romney and hoped to enlist his help keeping their jobs in the United States, but he has refused, instead remaining on the campaign trail where he speaks often about “getting tough” with China.

The most important part of the story is that Sensata Technologies is profitable operating in Illinois. Net income last year was $355 million, up 16 percent from 2010. The company reported total revenues of $1.8 billion in 2011, up almost 19 percent from the year before. According to a company financial statement, “both 2011 net revenue and adjusted net income represent record levels for the company.”

So this has nothing to do with “making hard choices” in the process of turning around a failing business, which is how the Romney campaign describes Bain's corporate raiding. Bain's partners are looking for a modest boost in profits by locating the plant closer to the booming Asian automotive market (Sensata makes high-tech automotive parts). They'll get a small tax break for relocating the plant – the one Mitt Romney insisted did not exist during the first debate – and possibly defer taxes on some of the income the company generates.

"The Rasmussen Reports Daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday Nov. 3 has shown Obama and Romney in a dead heat nationwide at 48 percent each, with 2 percent remaining undecided."

Sorry Ticked Off. Your boy Romney isn't going to win. The election is state by state -- not a national contest. President Obama is going to win Ohio, (even Rasmussen has him tied there) Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada and Iowa for sure and perhaps even Colorado. You can win Florida, Virginia, North Carolina and I'll even give you Colorado. That leaves Obama with 277. He wins. I'll even give you either Iowa or Nevada --- and Obama still wins.

And if Republicans don't come up with a better candidate in 2016, you just may wind up with another President Clinton.

The House of Representatives will be essentially the same as now after the election, with Republicans in control with about 240 seats.

This means that a vote for Obama is a vote for several more years of 'GRIDLOCK', since Obama has demonstrated that he is either unwilling or unable to compromise with the Republicans.

Unlike Reagan and Clinton, who worked closely with an opposing Congress to get lots of good things done, Obama has made only one attempt to meet with the Republicans (on the Debt crisis), and even then he reneged on the 'deal' he made with Boehner.

With Romney as President, we will at least have some cooperation between the White House and Congress, and avoid more GRIDLOCK.

Romney will do just fine after he loses. Bain owns Clear Channel where hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on advertising for the campaigns on their 900 radio stations and countless billboards. There will be a windfall profit this year.

It's the vulture capitalist way of siphoning money donated to his campaign, back into his pocket. All completely legal and above board. There's a sucker born every minute.

Republicans rely on this axiom. You can fool enough of the people, enough of the time.

Better to have gridlock than what Romney has in mind. see #1.44

Ed, I completely agree, Romney will actually improve his position after his loss in this upcoming election on Tuesday night. It's the RWNJ's that will be buying the Klee-Nex and Puffs and I'm sure Queen Anne will have plenty on hand as well. The Tea Party will now be in confusion and Grover Norquist will find out exactly what "broken promises" are all about.

Vote for revenge libs!!! Revenge!!!

If Romney wins, it's Doomsday for America, don't Vote for a Liar & Looter !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If Romney wins, burn this mother @!$%#er down, libs!!!!

Libs are starting to sound more and more like terrorists than a political party.

Obama is about to become a lame duck. Time to end this ugly chapter in our history.

Don't give the Keys back to the Losers that got us into this Mess, lets not make another mistake like "W" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the last 4 Yrs. the biggest challenge for the Republican party has been overcoming the voter suppression & non-stop lying by the MAIN STREAM MEDIA to cover up O'Bamas failures, backdoor meetings with big labor, apology tours, thousands of O'Bamacare waivers for unions & Dem. yes boys, Libya, whispering comments for Putin, $7 billion stolen from Medicare for Obamacare, bailing out UAW pension funds, bailing out California's Public Sector unions pension funds, the attacks on the Private Sector, $4.50 gal. gas, $6 trillion debt in just 4 yrs. & few people know all the harm Obama has wrought in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!

The amount of money stolen from Medicare to spend on O'Bamacare is $700 billion.

It really does not matter who wins this election is guaranteed to have a lawsuit. What idiot thought emailed votes would be a good idea?????? What is going to prove that one person is not emailing votes for other people yes I know about IP addresses but many voters in the same house would use the same computer often and I know that my spouse and I do not always vote alike!! If it was not for the fact that my worst nightmare would be listening to the two liars and yes I think they are BOTH telling some lies in any more commercials I would say the election should be postponed!

Hey Box Lunch, Bloomberg a Republican knows Best !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Powell a Republican also knows what is best for America !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you Vote for RobMeHood your Lunch Box will be Empty !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!! !!!

Most New Yorkers do not know Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s political party affiliation, a new poll of New York City residents conducted by The New York Times with Cornell University and NY1 News finds. But their confusion is perhaps well founded, as Mr. Bloomberg has been a Democrat as well as a Republican, before becoming an independent a couple of years ago.

Bloomberg is now an independent that banned 24 oz sodas. No conservative does that

Powell is clearly race oriented

Powell addressed the UN about the WMD's in Iraq in which Democrats feel are lies....

Obama has already almost won!!

Just another term and we leftists can completely unravel America!! Vote for Obama!!

We will let anyone into the country illegal or not, and give them money at the expense of citizens. When citizens complain, we will call them "racists" and "haters". It works!

Who cares about American tradition? We want communism!!

Who cares about economic growth, we will just confiscate money from those who still have some!!

Who cares about the European heritage this country was founded on, we will turn it into a negro nation, where the whites are the second class citizens!!

AMERICA DOESN'T DESERVE TO BE A PROSPEROUS NATION, IT SHOULD BE MORE LIKE THE THIRD WORLD. VOTE FOR OBAMA!!!!

WE WANT REVENGE ON AMERICA AND AMERICANS!!!!!!!!! WE WILL HAVE THAT REVENGE WITH OBAMA - JUST LIKE PASTOR WRIGHT SAYS: "NOT GOD BLESS AMERICA - GOD DAMN AMERICA"!!!!!

OBAMA / BIDEN 2012!!!

COMRADE OBAMA is finished! Just don't loot the White House before you leave like Bill Clinton did.

In a few more days we won't have to listen to Romneys lies anymore..... thank God.

The President said that he would bring the nation together. That did not work.

The President said that he could work with the opposition party by reaching across the isle. That did not work.

The President said that his administration would be free from lobbyists. That did not work.

The President said that his administration would be the most transparent ever. That did not work.

The President said that he would fix the economy within three years. That did not work.

The President said that his health care bill would lower health care costs. That did not work.

The President said that he would not raise taxes on 95% of Americans in any way. That did not work.

The President said that his stimulus spending bill would solve our employment problem. That did not work.

The President said that he would cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. That did not work.

I see a pattern here. The President said that if he could not fix the economy within three year that he did not deserve a second term. The President also said:

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies.

And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on.

Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities. Instead,interest payments are a significant tax on all Americans–a debt tax that Washington doesn’t want to talk about. If Washington were serious about honest tax relief in this country, we would see an effort to reduce our national debt by returning to responsible fiscal policies.

Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.

~ Senator B. H. Obama, March 2006

The thought that came to mind when I read the headline was, "Is CO giving birth to a new baby corporation?".

He wants you to push that big jagged pill of BS down your throat and vote for he and Eddie Tuesday. The only thing I'm pushing for as regards the republican party this election is the "off" button ***yawn***

Hey Beagle, that's funny. You should post more often.

If you live in an areas affected by Hurrican Sandy, please make an effort to go and vote for Obama, even if you are trying to survive in a shelter. The reason for that, is that Romney will defund FEMA, and give no assistance and help to you and your family.

He is NOT TO HELP PEOPLE. He is to help only those that will bring a profit. He only sees good by turning everything into business. Helping you is not a business.

Think about that!

Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers are making one last push, too. They have invested a lot of capital into this hostile takeover, and they damn well want to protect their investment. A few more million to pay trolls to infest the forums and drum up fake support for their fake CEO Willard will only help infuse cash into the economy, not install their puppet so he can 'sign this stuff' for Grover Norquist.

But nice try. You billionaires are good for something, anyway. You may go back to your corporate thievery now.

I live in Colorado and when voting the other day the conversations were not favorable for Willard. But I did see a Romney supporter leading his wife out on a leash, so he does have support.

I'm not partisan. I also think the last four years haven't been what I expected, even though Obama did achieve some truely remarkable things such as ending the war in Iraq, preventing a worse recession, getting Bin Laden, setting a timetable for getting out of Afghanistan, salvaging the auto industry. In honesty I simply don't believe Romney. He flip flops all over the place and I genuinely feel he believes 47% of Americans are takers. How insulting "behind closed doors". As a middle income family, I don't believe he will have our best interests at heart. His social agenda seems sort of out of a time warp from decades ago. He says he will run America like a business. America isn't a business its a society of human beings. He looked fairly lost in the debate on foriegn policy. I can't vote for him.

I saw a dog walking a monkey to the voting booth, they told me the monkey had a hard time spelling O'Bammas name?

“All we have to do is replace Obama. We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don’t need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don’t need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate. Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become President of the United States. This is a change for Republicans: the House and Senate doing the work with the president signing bills. His job is to be captain of the team, to sign the legislation that has already been prepared.”
~Grover Norquist, calling for conservatives to elect a weak President they can use as a puppet, CPAC, February 2012.

Mr. Romney and not Governor Romney, the latter is in the past. You want to be the leader of this great country, however you have not distance yourself from the negative racist acts that have follow or should I say lead yor campaign. Your rally looks like a Klu Kluck Klan rally, whereas President Obama rally appears to be a Human Race rally with the complete faces of all ethnicities of America standing behind him. We as Americans want a better tomorrow and with President Obama we shall see that tomorrow. How is it that you have five(5) boys and none of them have served in the United States military, do they love America as you profess to. After all is said and done you will look back on your campaign while you are all alone and you will feel the shame and the disrespect that you allowed to happen and it will haunt you for the rest of your days. You will never be President of this great country!!! You can take that to your Swiss bank account and deposit that fact!

Lies and lies again. The Obama's rented a 40 million dollar estate for a vacation. The property has been listed in Hawaii Rental Properties magazines for some time. I've rented condos and homes in Hualalai (Four Seasons Resort) on the Big Island, in Princeville on Kauaii and elsewhere -- rented does not mean own, unless you live in the GOP alternate universe!

Obummer - Odumbo - Oblama - these 'clever' nicknames tell you one thing - that the person using them in as a derogatory term means they have absolutely no clue and nothing of substance to offer.

Bagger.

Media Bias = voter suppression......The NAACP is actively engaging in voter intimidation in Houston Texas, with Houston politicians help.....

It is great to know that this lying sleazebag is about to reap what he has sown. There are other charges that I have heard coming from MoveOn also. It just cant be right for this moron to go around spreading the lies and caring about nothing except tricks and greed. Really NOT what our country needs, but at least he will help to get our President re-elected (hopefully).

Mitt will have plenty of time after his loss on Tuesday to deal with violating Federal Ethics laws. Lets also not forget to comfort all of the RWNJ's who will be feel a little sore come Wednesday. The new slogan will be chanting " Sore Romney Loser Ryan". Worth repeating, and more exciting to hear it from others on Wednesday. Yea.

JUST HAD TO POST THIS FOR ALL WHO JUST PASS BY THE LINK ..... GREAT NEWS .... GOOD FOR THE LIAR ...

UAW Files Charges Against Romney for Auto Bail-Out Profiteering

By Greg Palast (about the author) Permalink (Page 1 of 1 pages)
OpEdNews Op Eds 11/2/2012 at 13:41:06

For Mitt Romney, it's one scary Halloween. The Presidential candidate has just learned that tomorrow afternoon he will charged with violating the federal Ethics in Government law by improperly concealing his multi-million dollar windfall from the auto industry bail-out.

At a press conference in Toledo, Bob King, President of the United Automobile Workers, will announce that his union and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) have filed a formal complaint with the US Office of Government Ethics in Washington stating that Gov. Romney improperly hid a profit of $15.3 million to $115.0 million in Ann Romney's so-called "blind" trust.

The union chief says, "The American people have a right to know about Gov. Romney's potential conflicts of interest, such as the profits his family made from the auto rescue. ...It's time for Gov. Romney to disclose or divest."

King added, "While Romney was opposing the rescue of one of the nation's most important manufacturing sectors, he was building his fortunes with his Delphi investor group, making his fortunes off the misfortunes of others."

The Romneys' gigantic windfall was hidden inside an offshore corporation inside a Limited Partnership inside a trust which both concealed the gain and reduces taxes on it.

The Romneys' windfall was originally exposed in Nation Magazine, Mitt Romney's Bail-out Bonanza after a worldwide investigation by our crew at The Guardian, the Nation Institute and the Palast Investigative Fund. [Ed. -- The full story of Romney and his "vulture fund" partners is in Palast's New York Times bestseller, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits.]

According to ethics law expert Dr. Craig Holman of Public Citizen, who advised on the complaint, Ann Romney does not have a federally-approved blind trust. An approved "blind" trust may not be used to hide a major investment which could be affected by Romney if he were to be elected President. Other groups joining the UAW and CREW include Public Citizen, the Service Employees International Union, Public Campaign, People for the American Way and The Social Equity Group.

President Obama's approved trust, for example, contains only highly-diversified mutual funds on which Presidential action can have little effect. By contrast, the auto bail-out provided a windfall of over 4,000% on one single Romney investment.

In 2009, Ann Romney partnered with her husband's key donor, billionaire Paul Singer, who secretly bought a controlling interest in Delphi Auto, the former GM auto parts division. Singer's hedge fund, Elliott Management, threatened to cut off GM's supply of steering columns unless GM and the government's TARP auto bail-out fund provided Delphi with huge payments. While the US treasury complained this was "extortion," the hedge funds received, ultimately, $12.9 billion in taxpayer subsidies.

As a result, the shares Singer and Romney bought for just 67 cents are today worth over $30, a 4,000% gain. Singer's hedge fund made a profit of $1.27 billion and the Romney's tens of millions.

The UAW complaint calls for Romney to reveal exactly how much he made off Delphi -- and continues to make. The Singer syndicate, once in control of Delphi, eliminated every single UAW job -- 25,000 -- and moved almost all auto parts production to Mexico and China where Delphi now employs 25,000 auto parts workers.

Nah. it's just about money. The wealthy (and the whole population) made lots of money in the 90's and 2000's , but the wealthy can't stand the lack of money flow like it used to be. Tough beans. Share the pain.

Save:

At some point, we nasty successful people, are going to dump you off our backs...then QUIT working ourselves.

Romney/Ryan for a United States of America!

REPUBLICANS TOOK A FEW OATHS: to the people/constitution, Mr. Norquist and Mitch O'Connell.

2 out of 3 ain't bad - sorry to those who might have thought the people/constitution really mattered to them. Just check the voting records of the congress. Dems for jobs; Repubs for tax breaks. And, even with a "majority" the first two years, filibusters have become a Repub Rule. OBSTRUCTIONISM was their 4-year strategy to make Obama appear to be uncooperative. Although it took the Dems three years to finally speak up, it's finally been reaching America and it doesn't work for most Americans who want what's best for the country not some radical right wing agenda that has been pushed on us for too long!

And, for all the so called rich people who don't want to pay 39.5% income tax (an increase from 36%); it was 70% in the 1950's under REPUBLICAN Dwight Eisenhower. It has been lowered time and again. Stop whining about wealth all of us other taxpayers helped you create. Did you build the roads, bridges and pay the firefighters and police all on your lonesome? Get over it.

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012 VOTE DEMOCRAT FOR DEMOCRACY

@Kannin, Your thinking is convoluted. No President has gone against a Congress as this one has in the last 100 years. Over 90% of the GOP have signed a pledge to not pass any legislation that will increase a tax on the very rich even at the cost of the poor and middle class. The GOP is corrupt. They need to be voted out of office. The GOP has done what? Nothing! Destroy the poor and middle class for a $138.00 tax a week for someone that makes $5,000.00 a week? That is enough money for food for a week for a family of four. In another world that is a lunch for a rich person. Your thinking is convoluted.

we nasty successful people, are going to dump you off our backs

Sorry to rain on your parade, but one day, the PEOPLE THAT MADE YOU RICH will dump YOU off their backs. Or what? Are you going to tell me that YOU BUILT THAT BUSINESS WITHOUT THE HELP OF THE ESTABLISHMENT AND PEOPLE?

If so, your should have started your business in SOMALIA. It does not matter, right? BECAUSE 'YOU" built the business..

pfft!!!

Obama 2012

You are right Harry 360, The Evil 1-10% and corporate rich like 14% and ZERO Taxes on the money they Steal from Working American TaxPayers, Who Pay taxes @37%; and these "wealthy" Gonifs(CROOKS) like getting free roads, bridges, security and Hey! Harry! You know what!!! The evil rich, Who Were PROPERLY disposed of in The French Revolution Compliments of THEMADAM, Like taking the Working Americans Money while they smugly grin. But WAIT!,THERE'S MORE!! Since this 1-10% and corporate Vile Rich Live off of the Working Americans...Uuhmmm, Doesn't That Make Them Parasite Recipients; The Lowest form of Life on this Planet. Without Working Americans this PARASITE Bunch would Perish!! Here is a helpful Treatise: And For the Very Few NAIVE American voters who are thinking of voting for Mitt
Tax Pittance Rommel and Lyin'Ryan out of desperation and hope that THESE
TWO
MONSTERS will rescue your life, Better look AT THE FACTS. CountDracula and
EdddiMunster are going to keep the bush TAX EVASION BONUSES FOR THE EVIL

RICH In Effect: with TheCount's Crappy excuse? "I won't LOWER the taxes on

the Rich!!!!" Well, Thanks Count, as you 1-10% and Corporate
rich

already pay the Lowest taxes in American History and taxes are
REALLY on
the Backs of Working Americans @37%. AND!!! WE DO NOT Even Get A
Universal
HealthCare System Like THE SANE Countries Have; Instead We GOT SCREWED By
KingGeorge THE VacuumBrained and his republicanCrimeCartel "WMD" Wars. Gas and
Oil Prices????,
What a Sucker Punch AT Voters!! The Count and EddiMunster
PERSONALLY Dreamed
up the $4.00p/g at the pump to blame it on Prez O, Like
their pals in the
House Of Reptiles STALLING Prez O Legislation to Create
Meaningful Jobs and
Careers. AND! AND!! AND!!! JUST WHO do you voters think

sets Gas& Oil prices, "Healthcare" policy prices, Hiring, Job/Career
Outsourcing,
Burger Flipping pay for NET $4.50p/hr while TheCount and HIS

republicanCrimecartel Soldiers are SUCKING YOU DRY for
$4.00p/gal gas
and oil,
$1100.00p/m for "healthinsurance",
while mind you!, Rommel's
FRIEND, the ceoVampire
at united healthcare, took home
$128,000,000
*CASH* for salary year 2008!!!!!!!!!, PLEASE Research This FACT So
YOU KNOW
PhantomBeast IS NOT
BSing You, While the Crook Paid No taxes with capital
Gains
LoopHoles, Thanks to The republicanCrimeCartel which Perverted the tax
laws FOR
THE EVIL RICH, LEAVING
WE American TaxPayers to Pay HIS Taxes.
These Clowns are
aristocrat decendents of the Plantation and Slave Owners
who were the ruling
idiots who
started the civil war and ran the south
into ruination; SOUND
FAMILIAR? AND
in 2010?, These
republicanCrimeCartel gonifs (CROOKS) convinced NAIVE voters to
vote them
into controlling the House Of Representatives, PROMISING Renewed

republicanCrimeCartel power to be used to
Create jobs and Government
services. What A Cruel Laugh!, FOOLED YOU AGAIN!! These

republicanCrimeCartelPoliticos have
used the House of Reptiles to BLOCK
EVERY
HELPFUL Bill and Law Prez O has created and backed Creating Meaningful
jobs and helping WE
AMERICANS. And Some of
you are STILL considering
voting for THIS EVIL And VILE GROUP?, Who will use
your vote to Hurt YOU And
Your Family AND
give it ALL AWAY to themselves and the 1-10% and Evil
Corporate Rich While THEY RAPE America AS THEY DID during The King's NOTORIOUSLY
SHAMEFUL Shrubber Reign 2001-2008.
Here Is a
Very VERY Helpful Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og35U0d6WKY&feature=player_detailpage

If they knew how to create jobs then why aren't they doing it already? You won't fool us no more? The GOP is all about borrow, spend, and pass the debt off to others? Wow, that is funny. In fact, your entire post is funny. Hey, do you know what the acronym GOP means? Just asking, got a great chuckle from your post.

Oh really,why

It is supposed to mean Grand Old Party, for the extremely rich it still is, but for the rest of us their party is anything but grand .

The "GOP" stands for the "Grand Old Party". In other words the "Wealthy and the rich". Give the money to us so we can hire the little people and get them out of the dredges of the slums. Not give the money to the poor and middle class so they can get themselves out of the dredges of the slums. The GOP is all backwards... We need to vote every GOP incumbent out of office!

My father was a diehard Republican (I capitalize it this time, because I remember the old party). He would not recognize it at all. The GOP is long gone. Nixon replaced pro business politics with ripoff criminals that should be prosecuted under the RICO act.

The backdoor politics not only turned blatantly dishonest, but mean as well.

Barry Goldwater would be villified as a Socialist by these cretins. Throw all the baggers out. We want our country back, too, and I would probably consider voting for an Eisenhower today. There are none left. All we have is predatory, vacuous, mealy mouthed vultures.

I'll be so happy Tuesday night when Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania and the Northeast Corridor turns blue. That will let me go to bed early.

Wrongme - you still have time to self deport.

Keystone pipeline, OIL co's paid for most of their campaigns, and now Sandy cleanup jobs for men but not women.

GOP = group of prikks!

Actually, Romney needs to flee the country before he is imprisoned for perjury or tax evasion charges. He can change his Depends when he gets to the Cayman islands.

CO:

First up, Obama for Impeachment. Dear one...Cayman Islands are the least of America's worries.

Romney/Ryan 2012

Independant --

You've got to be kidding. President Obama is squeaky clean.

Now Darrell Issa, that's someone that could use some lessons on what it means to be honorable.

COinFL:

Squeaky? Benghazi is sitting with Hillary in a locked closet. Where is she?

Romney/Ryan 2012

Besides all that , I want revenge!

LATINOS are finished with reign of COMRADE OBAMA ending.

Don't let the border hit you in the ass!

It could be because they know they are on the eve of winning the white house.

Wow, what spin on the Ann Romney bit. You are obviously looking through Obamacare glasses. She looked energized, confidant and happy, unlike Michelle who always looks hateful and narcissistic.

Lot's of whishful thinking in that post Dock. Time to come back to reality now!

No CrystalBall-569996 Better STOP gazing into the crystal ball and face reality; Michelle Looked PRETTYGood

If you will look at all the polls taken Goossmann, you will see WHY and WHO the votes ARE for Obama..All the polls show him with around 47% of the vote in ANY given state..That 47% ring ANY bells??..

You know WHAT I cant believe???..Why isnt the MEDIA and AMERICANS DEMANDING answers about Benghazi?? The white house{Obama} blames the State department{Hillary} which blames the Military{Pinetta,Petraus, woods}which in turn blames the CIA{???} which in turn blames the FBI{???} which inturn blames the Ambassador and the 3 other Americans that got killed..Talk about WHOS ON THIRD..We have key stone cops running the white house and no one seems to care..I'm telling you right now, if Obama gets re-elected, you better learn how to hunt and plant a garden..You're gonna need it..

Gossman

I can not believe there is anyone who would vote for him , must be a lot of rich folks.

Obama2012

Blade there is plenty of news stories in the last few days on every media about bengazi and what happened read them.

@2833 clark; I have read all of them and you are saying what exactly? When Bush was president we were attacked in New York City (twice), Iraq, Afghanistan and Pennsylvania. There were 3000 people killed in NY. There were 1000's of Americans killed in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Four brave and unfortunate people were over run and killed at a Benghazi house. What is your point?

Like the rest of their pitiful party, Blade has one last, pathetic thing to harp on. Libya. The President didn't jump on his horse and stampede down Main Street blazing guns like Romney did, and turn out to be wrong.

He gathered the facts and presented them when they verified them.

There was no stand down orders. No cover up. No conspiracy.

Give it a rest. You are just looking like fools now. Maybe it is best to just go ahead and drop the facade. You ARE all fools.

Agreed. The left wants to forget the last election, 2010 and how it was all GOP. The Dems have done nothing to change that momentum.

If that were true, then how do you explain the fact that the electoral math is squarely in Obama's favor while the window of opportunity for Romney is closing fast? Historically, the out party tends to do very well in the off-year election. The Republicans managed to capitalize on this in the excitement of the new Tea-party faction. But the glitter has warn thin on the Tea-party as they have become loopier and loopier over the past four years. The moderate vote which put them into office isn't nearly as taken with them anymore. That is why the race today favors Obama.

Excited Republicans eyeing the narrowing polls tend to forget that the President Is Not Elected By Popular Vote. Romney has a major uphill climb and time is about out. It didn't have to be that way, except Romney screwed up.

Mitt Romney made some the same appalling blunders which sank John McCain four years ago. Chief among them was a disastrous choice of running-mate. Both sought to pander to the religious right with their choice, and in so doing walked away from the middle. It wasn't the Religious Right who got Romney nominated. Let's face it.. Romney was their last choice, insisted upon by the middle. When are we going to give up this fiction that the extreme right is the 'base' of the Republican party?

Romney needed either Ohio or Florida to have a shot at the White House, yet instead of choosing Senator Rob Portman as his running mate (which would have given him Ohio), Romney pandered to the Religious Right and took Ryan. The Religious Right loves the man. So much so that they start chanting Ryan's name at rallies, snubbing Romney (yet again), and forcing him to 'correct' the chant by reminding them that he is on the ticket too! Weird and embarrassing.

Give credit where due, Ryan at least has not gone Rogue. Yet it was a stupid, bone-headed, game-ending selection of a running mate -in the footsteps of McCain- and he didn't have to take that self-inflicted wound. The reality is that the religious right would vote for an old tennis shoe rather than vote for Obama, so Romney had the vote of the extreme right sewn up already. So why NOT be the moderate and seek the vote of the middle majority who got him nominated? Why not choose a Portman, or a Palenta or a Hunt?

Or, if he really wanted to make a splash as the candidate who would bring both sides together and govern from the middle, why not choose a blue-dog Democrat for his VP? That would be a game-changer right there. Tisk. Opportunity lost, and Obama gets four more years. The only reason the race is at all close today is because the moderate voters insisted on the moderate candidate, Romney. Had any of the more extreme candidates favored by the Religious Right gotten the nod, the race wouldn't even be this close; so there is something seriously off about your 'momentum' claim. The more people have learned about ObamaCare, the better they have liked it. Ben Laden is dead, and GM is alive. Romney is going to lose.

-Science_1

Like I said in my post above, we will see soon enough. This election turned infavor of Romney after the fit debate and it is gaining momentum for a close. Conservatives will show up to the pools and I dont see the same energy fom the Democrats. I may be wrong but I have seen too may of these to discount what I see happening.

You wouldn't have liked any of the choices Romney made for VP. I think Ryan is a great choice and a future presidential candidate. The guy is smart and articulate, regardless of how the left perceives him.

Fair enough. Tuesday is coming, so well shall wait and see. By this time next week it will all be over but the crying, and the conspiracy theories. Either way, it will be good to finally have this election in the books.

-Science_1

PS, as an independent voter who is not wed to either party, had Romney run hard center rather than trying to prove that he was 'more conservative than thou', courting the extreme right and assuring big money donors behind closed doors that it wouldn't be his job as President to worry about the 47% of Americans who are 'dependent on Government' and who will never take responsibility for their lives, he could have had my vote. But all his moderate talk now just comes off as phoney, shifty, and etch-a-sketchy. I don't know what sort of animal he is. How can anyone know what his positions really are at the core when they change by the week, by the day, and sometimes by the hour. He seems willing to say anything to get elected. Poo to that!

Ryan..articulate? oh my! you are very young

go watch the video where Ryan has staged photos for pubicity. He washed one dish and they had not seen him in years.

another liar... he does have shark eyes.

To be fair to Ryan, Deb, I do find him articulate. But you have a point. That whole 'washing pans' photo-op was a disaster, sort of like when Nixon tried to show he was a common guy by doing a photo-op of him walking in the sand by the sea. Unfortunately, no one mentioned to him that ordinary people do not wear wing-tips when strolling by the sea, so the photo-op blew up on him.

To an issue of more substance; Ryan has an dreadful Credibility Quotient. He tells fewer flat out pants-on-fire lies that Romney, but he has the worst truthfulness ratio of any of the members on either of the two tickets. This is what I calculated for Biden and for Ryan.

Biden: 64 statements fact-checked: 67.2% Credibility Quotient, including 3 Pants-On-Fire Statements over four years. This means almost One-in-Twenty of Biden's statements are a flat out lie!

Ryan: 33 statements fact-checked: 48.5% Credibility Quotient, including 2 Pants-on-Fire Statements over the past year. This means that more than One-in-Twenty Ryan statements are Pants-on-Fire lies.

Ryan is by far the most factually challenged. At less than 50%, Ryan's Creditability Quotient is so low that, when when you hear him say anything of substance, he is more likely lying than telling you the truth!

-Science_1

GOP voters I know were so excited loads went to early voting, couldn't wait! What a difference from 2008, when they didn't want to vote for McCain so many stayed home.

Deb you really think that ridiclousness washes???? ALL politicians since the beginning of time have took advantage of every availalble tool to get themselves noticed. Ryan is NOT doing anything Obama and Biden haven't done and continue to do.

Yes, skrewd, all politicians on both sides of the isle do photo-ops all of the time. Obama does them. Romney does them, Biden does them, Ryan does them. That's why politicians love kissing babies, it makes great photo-op.

But when an photo-op comes off as overtly staged and utterly counterfeit and outrageously phoney, when posing turns into being a poser, the public is revolted. That is what happened to Nixon. That is what happened to Ryan. They became living jokes, which was the exact opposite of what a good photo-op should do.

I'm inclined to cut Ryan some slack. We shouldn't chose our officials on the bases of photo-ops, though people frequently do. To me honesty is matters far more.

-Science_1

science_1 I agree and all politicians lie but the blatantly lies from romney tells me he cannot be trusted.

Obama2012

I think it will be early Tuesday night, shortly after the polls close in the Eastern Time zone. If Romney fails to carry Ohio, Virginia, and especially Florida, it's over. Romney has been steadily dropping in the polls. Friday's show Obama leading in all but one state poll, and that was Florida, read with Nate Silver writes:
Although the fact that Mr. Obama held the lead in so many polls is partly coincidental — there weren’t any polls of North Carolina on Friday, for instance, which is Mr. Romney’s strongest battleground state — they nevertheless represent powerful evidence against the idea that the race is a “tossup.” A tossup race isn’t likely to produce 19 leads for one candidate and one for the other — any more than a fair coin is likely to come up heads 19 times and tails just once in 20 tosses. (The probability of a fair coin doing so is about 1 chance in 50,000.)"

It is almost like the movie Dumb and Dumber.
Lloyd: Hit me! Just give it to me straight! I came a long way just to see you Mary. The least you can do is level with me. What are my chances?
Mary: Not good.
Lloyd: [Gulps] You mean, not good like one out of a hundred?
Mary: I'd say more like... one out of a million.
Lloyd: So you're telling me there's a chance. Yeah!

Keep it Simple! Here are the past four years of Obama's accomplishments:

1. Refusing to come to the aid of our Ambassador and Associate Americans.

2. Complete display of ignorance or willful refusal to accept any responsibility for the deaths of four Americans.

3. Commander in Chief with not a clue as to what happened in Benghazi while the murderers hide in place sight and ridicule our country and its impotency. That is, if you want believe Obama's revolving and evolving explanations.

4. Record deficits to the tune of over one trillion per year.

5. Record number of unemployed Americans.

6. Record number of food stamp recipients.

7. Record number of welfare recipients.

8. Record amounts of spending on welfare.

9. Lower and lower numbers of work force participants.

10. A failing administration in regards to foreign policy - Al-Qaida is now in Libya, Mali, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. In 2009, basically in 2-3 countries, now in approximately thirty countries.

11. Poverty at the highest level since the sixties.

12. Reduced wages - only the 5th time in the past thirty-three years.

13. Record number of citizens on disability due to no unemployment benefits.

14. Adding three dollars of debt for every dollar added to the economy.

15. Two credit Agency downgrades.

16. First President to ever complete a term without one single budget being approved.

17. First President to have experienced actual "evolution" while in office.

18. Increased gas prices to nearly double what they were when elected.

19. Added 11,327 pages of new business regulations in less than a full term.

20. Three consecutive years of GDP lower than the previous year.
This is certainly a "Record Breaking President" and that is just for starters.

Why wouldn't everyone endorse the above?

You are going to blame the so called socialist for poverty? Are you kidding me? What happened to redistribution? You are blaming the President for commodity prices? Do you not understand our political/economic system at all?

A Socialist President would definitely set commodity prices and redistribute wealth. This is why the American Socialist Party does not endorse Obama now, and did not endorse him in 2008.

There is a free clue for you. Now, if you can get just one more clue, you'll have two to rub together. Cheers!

Keep it Simple!

I'll keep it simple for you Don --

If Republicans don’t come up with an economic plan other than cut taxes for the richest of the rich, if they don’t find something to talk about other than teleprompters, birth certificates, “legitimate” rape, and birth control, if they don’t stop swearing allegiance to Grover Norquist, if they don’t stop thinking that the answer to every international problem is to drop a bomb on it, if they don’t ditch the tea party fools, if they don't stop sucking up to people likes Donald Trump and Sarah Palin, if they don’t stop denying science, and it they don’t stop allowing Rush the junkie to be the real leader of their party – you may want to get used to another President Clinton.

Science -

And who are you checking your facts with? Factcheck.org is funded by Soros and has screwed up on plenty of their claims that Romney has lied more than Obama. Have you actually checked the claims yourself or are you counting on a biased media source?

Great post. Can't wait to see the movie!

You sir, are not all that bright. But, whatever, have fun with this.

Not sure about the anti-Christ thing, but the Mormon 'church' (in reality a big corporation/cult) is not Christian. I know because I was baptised as a Mormon.

They never said anything about the magic underwear, multiple levels of heaven (the top one is only available to Mormons that contribute 20% of their income - yes, it is Pay Per View), their belief that their god was born a man on the Planet Kolob (yes, outer space), their belief that anyone that gets into the Premium Top Level Heaven becomes a god themselves, with virgins circling the globe, sending down new little Mormons.

They don't tell you that stuff until you're in. Then, after you find out you joined a bunch of whacked out extremists that make Heaven's Gate seem mainstream, they badger and bully you into turning over AT LEAST 10% of your income to them, and threaten you with excommunication if you don't comply.

This is why Romney has that pushy mindset. That's how they roll. If more people understood what a crazy made up religion this is, they'd run away like I did.

Don't worry only medical hacks will still be in the profession once Obamacare takes affect.

Romney/Ryan 2012

Obama/Biden! 2012

Why?? You really want 4 more years of status quoa or worse????? Since when has MEDIOCRE at best been what REAL AMERICANS strive for?????? Forward to what? A flatline of the same BS??? NO THANKS!!!!!

R&R 2012

I'm a small business owner and I damned straight BUILT MY BUSINESS in spite of Obama!!!!

AMEN to that Skrewdworld..

Medicare is PAID FOR by everyone who collects paychecks and is a guarantee for healthcare because our elderly were suffering and dying without it. EVERY TAXPAYER pays for it and just like all us taxpayers paid for the roads and bridges leading to your small business; we ALL paid for the police and firefighter protection YOU enjoy; we ALL paid for teachers to educate people so they would have the EDUCATION to work for small business owners. You didn't build it - ON YOUR OWN was Obama's speech... we're all interdependent on one another for all the things I listed and more. So you haven't heard the entire speech Obama made concerning this topic obviously or you just vote for who Rupert Murdock's (the multibillionaire right winger) who supresses objective reporting and forces all those who don't believe to conform to his right wing agenda (NO TAXES for the wealthy). See the video "Outfoxed" and you might see a new side to these issues. Are you open to learning?

Harry:

Psst. Obama borrowed and spent your medicare money. Sorry.

Romney/Ryan 2012

"I'm a small business owner and I damned straight BUILT MY BUSINESS in spite of Obama!!!!"

• And President Obama never said you didn't build your business. It's very clear you get your news from Fox and thus are among the most uninformed voters in the nation.

Barak Hussein creates some of the same types of conotations for me and my vote.

At least Willard is a name that doesn't evoke terrorist in one's mind. Just saying.

Romney/Ryan 2012

Willard makes me think of a rat

tlins must be 12 to write something like that.

some people's children...go to bed tlins.

now now Phil and Nick... don't you think you're being a little harsh on the rodent species, considering?

Obama HONEST in Government???

So I guess what he told the american people about Benghazi was TRUE???

What the hell have you snorting up your nose on that big fat head of yours?

@Blade: Big fat head? Obama told the world that was a terrorist attract in Benghazi the very next day. You are the one snorting!

oh please!

news flash deb!!!! Obama is RICH TOO!!!

Yes, but Obama was a POOR little black boy running down food on the plains of Kenya before he came to the United States..So he knows what its like to be poor and to some extent "middle class""..He loves the "middle class" so much he's made it so that with a family of four, you have to make $100 thousand dollars even to be considered "middle class" anymore..Problem is, nobodys working and the few people that ARE trying to work, he's ATTACKING them..He made a great big show about saving the auto industry, but you dont hear his crowing about KILLING the coal industry..He's cost THOUSANDS of jobs in that sector of the economy in his four years..and more to come IF hes elected again..I wish tomorrow ALL the coal fired power plants would just say F U C K I T , they've had enough and just shut them down..Quit producing power...Then the C O C K S U C K E R in the White house could say he's doing his part to go green and save the planet because he'd be setting in the dark and burning candles..

OBAMA/BIDEN....... NOT

"news flash deb!!!! Obama is RICH TOO!!!"

Yes he is --- not a rich as Romney but far from poor. The difference is daddy didn't give him a 4 million dollar head start, he didn't get rich by borrowing money from other people, he didn't get rich by simply moving money from point a to point B, and he didn't get rich by making other people poor --- like Romney has.

Just relace Obama's name for all your negative remarks, then you'll have spoken the truth.

I liked Huntsman, he sounded rationale, has great experience -- obviously rejected by the CP party -- the rationale part pretty well killed his chances.

I grew up in a Republican family in the middle of farmland in Illinois. I liked Eisenhower and William F. Buckley, especially when he went after the John Birch Society (one of the founders a Koch brother, of course) and kicked them out of the party. In those days, they were the Grand Old Party -- now the have become the Corporatocracy party -- of the companies, by the companies, for the companies. My husband and I both own our own companies and are still working in our 60's. The CP rat pack hold none of the values I hold dear.

Huntsman was on the Colbert show. When asked, if he spoke with Willard, he replied "never", that pretty well summed it up for me.

Blade you never watched his U.N. speech if you did you lie he told the world we had free speech, and the rest of the world did not understand it, but we do and we will have it . NO apology to it.

Blade forgot how his precious George 'Dubious' Bush lied to the USA as to why we really invaded Iraq when there never was WMD and we lost over 4,000 Americans, yet the Repub-Lie-can'ts are making a bigger issue over the 4 Americans in Libya.

Obama's actions, actually his continued LACK of action regarding Benghazi-gate got 4 Americans brutally murdered. Time for O & Joe to GO!!!

@skrewdworld You are obviously completely divorced from reality therefore you must rely solely on FOX for your information. The entire Benghazi time line has been exposed and unfortunately for FOX news and fools like yourself the facts don't line up with your fiction. So like FOX news today you're just thrashing away at empty brush because the birds are all behind and you are wasting your time.

Thanks Roz! Just wanna add PAUL RYAN voted along with other congressional REPUBLICANS against an outcry of the Democrats to REDUCE SECURITY BUDGETS FOR EMBASSIES AROUND THE WORLD. Now, we have some basis for why Benghazi was understaffed.

WHY WERE WE IN IRAQ AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE'S WILL AND NATO? Because Dubya likes war WHEN he doesn't have to fight. 2003 - "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" right? And, I HAVE BEEN WAIT YEARS TO KNOW - WHERE ARE THE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, GEORGE?? Tick-tock tick-tock.

If there were no demonstrations, then why would our diplomats be calling for help?? Either there were demonstrations or there were no calls for help... either way, at least we know why there wasn't adequate security at the embassy and the safehouse surely wouldn't be equipped to fight off people with grenade launchers? Our security was compromised by the Republican vote to reduce security funding and by other factors still being investigated. So what do ya want? 2010 with a Republican sweep and the promise of jobs, jobs, jobs and all we get are anti-abortion legislation, screeching about all Americans having healthcare (which is much more cost-effective than sending them to ERs like Romney suggests), voter suppression laws cloaked as voter fraud - with the only example of real voter fraud by REPUBLICANS in Florida... yup, we're investigating Benghazi and it's like the economy turnaround - not good enough for Repubs so hand the world over to R&R - NOT!!

Bye, bye, Mitt. And, thanks for the laughs.

Roz -

You are so wrong about what happened in Benghazi it would be laughable if your belief in your idol wasn't so misplaced.

Obama has yet to come out with the truth himself. His subordinates keep changing their story, revising it as new facts come out.

If Obama hadn't lied in the first place he wouldn't have to keep changing what he claims to have said - even though the record has caught him in the lies.

Does that mean you're going to MA to get married ?

Yes, Blade, we do. Another thing most people in liberal states do is stay married, unlike people in most red states. Not that I expect that to have any effect on your twisted thinking.

oh Blade is just jealous because Arkansas won't allow him to marry his goat

"Love how Colorado is close but Obama stands to win Mass by 30 points."

It is interesting to note that not only is Rooney down by a huge margin in the state he governed, he's also down in Michigan -- his "home" state and the Romney/Ryan ticket id also down in Wisconsin -- Ryan's home state. It seems the people who know these two the best don't want to elect them.

And -- it looks like President Obama just may win Colorado again.

That state endured Romney for 4 years, and he vetoed something like 700 bills. Most were overridden. The people of Massachusetts saw Romney up close, and that's all they needed.

If he was such a great governor, and if he could work across the aisle like he claims, why is that state 100% likely to go into the Blue column???

Because they want no part of this snake oil, used car salesman. (My apologies to used car salesmen everywhere.)

LOL metroknome ... give it up .... your not gonna get it ... its irrelevant .... now tell me something intelligent like OBAMA 2012 .........

Guitar,

I'll let Mitt know that you will vote for him if he releases the tax returns.