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Subscribe to RSSDES MOINES, Iowa -- Returning for the final time to the state that launched the 2012 campaign so many months ago, Mitt Romney asked Iowans on Sunday morning to support him one last time, by casting their ballots for the "change" candidate on Tuesday.
"I need your vote, I need your work, I need your help. Walk with me. We’ll walk together. Let’s begin anew," Romney said in closing here, his voice showing strains from days of frenetic campaigning. "I need Iowa – I need Iowa so we can win the White House and take back America, keep it strong, make sure we always remain the hope of the earth. I’m counting on you!"
A crowd of more than 4,000 supporters turned out for Romney's Sunday morning Iowa finale, in which the GOP nominee delivered his now-familiar closing argument stump speech calling on undecided voters to "look beyond the speeches and the attacks and all the ads," and make their final choice based on records, and who they believed stood the best chance to enact "real change" in the next four years.
Mitt Romney, striking a hopeful tone in the final days of the , returned to Iowa, the state that launched his campaign. "Iowans feel betrayed," Romney said.
"Talk is cheap. But a record is real and it’s earned with real effort," Romney said. "Change – you can’t measure change in speeches. You measure change in achievements.”
Romney has looked to strike a hopeful, optimistic tone in the final days of a campaign, which Sunday's newest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows remains deadlocked nationally, with Obama claiming 48 percent of the vote to Romney's 47 percent. Romney advisers concede they're likely narrowly behind in Iowa based on early voting totals and internal polling, but remain confident Romney can win the state with a strong showing from Republican voters and independents on Election Day.
Attacks against the president, calibrated to appeal to those independent voters, remained in this final appearance. Romney criticized the president for asking supporters to vote based on revenge for the sixth-straight rally ("Voting is the best revenge," Obama said in Ohio on Friday; an off-the-cuff remark quickly grafted into Romney's stump speech), and during his introduction of Romney, Iowa's Republican Gov. Terry Branstad accused the president of betraying Iowans natural fiscal restraint.
"Iowans feel betrayed. Almost a sense of -- not only disappointed, but almost a sense of betrayal that our principles of sound budgeting and responsible government have been ignored by this administration for four straight years," Branstad said. "Iowa's message for Obama is: It's time for a change. It's time for you to go back to Chicago."
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President Obama is winning nearly every swing state poll against Mitt Romney less than 72 hours before voters start casting ballots next Tuesday. The polls add evidence to the narrative that Obama has the momentum in the final days of the campaign, and that have already sewn up an Electoral Collage majority. Obama is winning 21 of the 27 swing state polls released over the last 72 hours. Romney is winning only three of the swing state polls, with another three polls showing ties.
The GOP/RNC 'need' to come clean to all the American People. Of what their "Tea Begger Buddies" did on Janruary 20, 2009. The Tea Beggers 'conspired' to obstruct and then destruct the US Economy at all costs. The GOP/RNC "Conspirators" plotted to destroy the American President at all costs. The Tea Beggers in the US House Of Representatives lead by little "Richie Rich" Ryan. Set their plans in motion after their "Caucus Conspiracy" on Janruary 20, 2009. "Crazy Cantor" was at the Caucus Steakhouse Restaurant as well with treason on his mind. The GOP/TeaBeggers made their "Blood Oath" to block every single bill that is presented by the President. On that night of the GOP "Caucus Conspiracy." It was made very clear by "Nutty Newt" that the seeds were planted for 2012. They wanted to make this President to be a failure, and that he tried though. The President is a nice guy but his policies failed America. Does this sound familiar America?? Then over the last Two Years we hear "Bonehead Boehner" claim that compromise will not happen in this Congress. In the US Senate America. "Mickey Mouse Mitch McConnell" made it clear. That the only economic and political purpose of their "Cult" was to destroy an American President. The "Mickey Mouse Club" in the US Senate lead by "Mickey Mouse Mitch McConnell." Obstructed and lied about every bill that was purposed by the President. All of the Budgets of the President are to be struck down quickly. This GOP "Conspiracy" is huge America! Get all the facts, and research this Tea Begger Conspiracy carefully.Then vote!
Mitt, what you need is a shrink. Anybody as conflicted philosophically, emotionally and intellectually as you is clearly in need of psychological treatment.
You are right on- and the problem for narcissists like Romney is that they don't think anything is wrong with them. They think it is perfectly natural that everything is about them. Here is a sure way to tell a narcissist: Make ANY statement and they will find a way to make it about themselves.
In speach after speach, all of this last week Romney has said " We are going to "take America back"we are going to stop the divisivness." Funny, but the only "divisivness" I have heard, has been coming out of the mouths of those on the Right, ever since the President took the oath of office. "Our number one goal is make sure that Barack Obama is a ONE TERM President." "There will be NO compromise with the President from this Congress." Sounds like divisivness to me, not to mention obstrustionism. Alot of you on the right seem to think that, it was the President who took the "My way or the highway" approach with the Congress, WRONG, the Republicans in both Houses had already made the decision NOT to work with our President, THEY ARE THE DIVIDERS,THEY ARE THE OBSTRUCTORS, THEY ARE THE ONES WHO SAID, "MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY!!!!" VOTE to continue FORWARD!!! Obama/Biden 2012 !!!!!!!!!
POLK COUNTY SAYS ROMNEY WILL WIN IOWA. I am one of the tens of thousands of Iowa Independents (the largest voting group in Iowa), living in a Polk County (Des Moines) suburb, and based on my experience I am confident that Independents will go overwhelmingly for Romney on Tuesday, and that most people here see that the new clothes from the Emperor ObaMarxist Keenyatta's "Communism Works" collection are a total fraud. We will be out big time to make sure this communist street thug imposter from Kenya no longer occupies OUR White House!!! COMMUNIST RED IS THE COLOR WE DON'T WANT!!!
HIT THE ROAD, BARACK, AND DONTCHA COME BACK NO MO! FAUX-WORD!!!!
As soon as you start spewing the ridiculous Kenya/communist crap you immediately expose yourself as the backwards, ignorant hillbilly that you are. Now go make whoopee with your sister/wife and stop spewing your idiotic, hateful vitriol.
Talk is always so cheap. Perhaps if Obama wins you could find some way to make amends for your outrageous lies. Why not agree to wear an Obama shirt for a week? At least then there could be some consequences for your lies. Move to a blue state, don't reside in a communist red state.
Do you want some fries to go with that load of BS...?
How American. Voting for the son of an immigrant from Mexico.......
Of course Mittens needs Iowa... and PA, & OH, & WI & MI & CO & FL and hes just not going to get them. Poor Mittens.
Go Green Bay...!
Go Obama...!
I have posted the following a couple of times and not one rightist has refuted or attempted to dismiss the report, why the silence boys, too painful reality?
All you tax cuts for the rich proponents chew on this:
Here's what the non partisan Congressional Research Service has to say about cutting taxes to increase income. (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.
Since Romney's whole platform is refuted by these findings, Senator Mitch McConnell (R) blocked the release of the Report. It surfaced again in the Nov 1 2012 New York Times. Full report available on-line, google it. Romney full of sh!t, even our own Congressional report asked for by the Republicans refute that old voodoo economics of trickle down. Its doesn't work, never has. All that rich folks create jobs if they didn't have to pay such high taxes is nothing but pure elephant mythology.
Obama 2012
Elephants aren't stupid enough to believe the right-wing lies either!
Republican leaders know the "Trickle down" theory is actually "Trickle on". They tell you it's warm and raining....and the GOP sheep believe every word.
why should we give any response other than nonsense to lies?
receipts as a Percentage of GDP were higher in the Reagan and Bush years than under Eisenhower
table 2.3 from the White House (receipts by source as percentage of GDP)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals/
...and the national debt tripled under Reagan, went up 50% under George H.W. Bush and doubled again under George W. Bush.
lying and liberalism seem to go hand in hand
Who's responsible for the Budget Deficits and the Debt?
While it's tempting to blame the President for Budget Deficits, it's actually the responsibility of Congress to pass a spending budget, which establishes the amount of the Deficit each year and any required borrowings on the Debt. So what does the record show based on who controlled Congress over the last 30 years;
DEFICITS
Total Deficits when Democrats controlled Congress (12 years) = $5.022 Trillion.
Total Deficits when Republicans controlled Congress (10 years) = $1.219 Trillion.
Total Deficits when Congress was split (8 years) = $1.063 Trillion.
NEW DEBT
Total New Debt when Democrats controlled Congress (12 years) = $7.859 Trillion.
Total New Debt when Republicans controlled Congress (10 years) = $3.238 Trillion.
Total New Debt when Congress was split (8 years) = $1.781 Trillion.
Spin it all you want, but these are the FACTS
(a) – Contrary to popular belief, the National Debt increases far more than the Deficits for each year.
Sources - Democrats controlled Congress from 1987 – 1994, and from 2007 – 2010. Republicans controlled Congress from 1995 – 2000, and from 2003 – 2006. There was a split Congress from 1980 – 1986 and for 2001-2002, and 20010-2011.
I'll let the facts speak for themselves as to which Party is more fiscally responsible.
Added clarity
Democratic Congress all during Reagan-Reagan vetoed 72 bills,
Tip O'Neil declared every Reagan budget DOA because it didn't contain enough spending
Bush 1 was a Rockefeller liberal whom I voted against and deserved to be run out of office, but the debt was pushed up under Bush 1 by the Dem Congress
Clinton fought against a balanced budget and it took a Republican Congress to bring fiscal sanity beginning in 1998.
Bush II-inherited the Clinton Recession and the shut down of our economy after 9/11
We were close to a surplus until the Dems retook the House and immediately raised social spending with Pelosi declaring "we finally get to fund our dream lists"
Obama increased the debt more than Bush's 8 years in just 2 1/2 years.
So, Republican Presidents are responsible for everything good that happened, and Democratic Congresses for everything bad. A convenient manipulation of the numbers, nothing more. Clinton fought against a balanced budget? So it was just an accident? Bush inherited a balanced budget from him....but let's not focus on that, right?
The fact is that the debt goes up far more when Republicans are in the White House - where the budget is defined and executed - and they've never balanced a budget. They can't spell fiscal responsibility - they only cut taxes to buy votes, and then run up the deficit and decimate government services.
Fortunately it is now becoming common knowledge that their irresponsible handling of fiscal policy called "trickle down" doesn't work, and never did.
Romney certainly is the "Change" candidate. He'll change any position at any time.
Yeah. Mitt knows how to change. He does it all the time. ;-)
Although deplorable for both parties.
Final Fact Check - Who Tells the Truth More
From politifact.com. Counting as true, statements rated as true or mostly true.
Romney = 62 true or mostly true statements out of 202 checked statements
Romney tells the truth 30.6% of the time.
Obama = 205 true or mostly true statements out of 452 checked statements.
Obama tells the truth 45.3% of the time.
Don't believe me go to politifact.com and do the math yourself.
Romney: "I need Iowa"
You need a MIRACLE, you lying sack of sh!t!. I hope we never see you run for office after Tuesday. Go back to shipping our American jobs overseas and raiding pensions. The stuff you're good at.
Wow, the rightys are sure talking like they know they are going to lose Tuesday, thank god. Next, 2014, republican congress is going be aborted. Wait and see
If all of the Super Pac money went to help the Sandy relief fund, a lot of people could be helped. I think this says a lot about where the rich have their priorities.
Really? Is that why the only possible replacement for Obama is not leading significantly in the Iowa polls? Methinks you have been drinking the cheap wine again, Gov. Brandstad. Since you couldn't deliver your state for Romney, one could conclude that you are trying to cover your own ass with your wild assumptions.
For a bunch of folks that are supposedly "religious right" they should be reminded of the christian commandment "thou shalt not lie", in fact, every single second. Not to mention the fact God is love, so I guess the Republicans don't believe in that either as Romney has stated he wants to go to war. Well I guess part of his jobs creation package will be adding more grave diggers, unless he out sources those too.
You are dead wrong. Our president has done everything in his power to deliver, but he needs people in congress to actually do their job rather than make a republican pact to obstruct and defeat any recovery by president Obama, fillibustering and killing all bills so they cannot become law.
Romney knows if he tells the truth and reveals his plan is George Bush presidency part two, including using the same cabinet staff, the exact Bush cabinet people that were in power during that presidency, Romney would be laughed off the podium.
To understand Obama as a "liar" you overstate the issue as Obama at least tried. Whereas Romney is a liar beyond any used car salesman and even two bit magician, as when you attempt to kick the tires on the amazing used (bush) vehicle he's selling he waves his arms and in a puff of smoke it's gone. The crowd goes wild (an hopefully lynches the performer).
Add to the Romney liar scheme the soup kitchen photo shoot and "relief effort" $5000 of staff bought Walmart "donations". It's clear he not only lies he has full on contempt for doing real work and the poor.
What he really needs is a conscience. And even a shred of integrity.
Read about the Mountain Meadows Massacre regarding Mormons with a search on google.
Time to leave your dream world. It's 2012, not 1850ish.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
Romney needs the Presidency to keep him out of jail! If he doesn't win, I'll bet $10,000 he takes his family back to Mexico where the rest of his clan still lives after his Grandfather ran to with the Federal Government on his heals. It seems Romney has running in his blood. Call him a coward if you want he's been running from fights most of his life. France during the Vietnam War, ring a bell for any of you vets? That's where Romney spent his life while you were fighting. Someone needs to ask Romney how many people died during that war. Someone needs to ask him why or if any of his kids will serve this country in the Military? I'm not saying Obama is any better for not serving in the Military but so far I haven't heard he was in France during a war. Correct me if I'm wrong. I just feel if you want to serve this country as President you should first serve it in the Military. That should be a requirement of our President! Shhhsh, Romney doesn't even know Iran has beaches and its own access to the oceans. What kind of President does he plan on being? That's not a leader if he has to rely on someone else to tell him where we are about to go to war or does he plan on marching our solders across the Straights of Hermos? Romney's idea of a good economy is one that is building war machines. I want my son and yours home safe, building America not building someone else's country or dying for someone that hates us. The President is on the right track, we need friends not more enemies. Let's keep moving forward!
I agree- you are confused
In 1857, Mormon leaders taught that the Second Coming of Jesus was imminent,[27] and that God would soon exact punishment against the United States for persecuting Mormons and martyring "the prophets" Joseph Smith, Jr., Hyrum Smith, David W. Patten, and Parley P. Pratt
Wow, that was only 150 years ago.
Hmmmm...
Three generations ago...
Hmmm...
"I write my dad's name at the top of the piece of paper to remind myself of all that he sacrificed to give me the opportunities I now have," Romney said in the interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, which aired on "The Situation Room."ee Mitt Romney's ago...
...and just what all did his Father teach him...?
Grandfather...Father...the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
I agree the apple doesn't fall far from the tree-
Obama's daddy taught him the US was an imperialist pig nation bent on colonial rule of the world and that only a communist revolution was the only answer to defeat the US.
Mitt Romney relying on teleprompters to deliver his
closing speech...
WTF...so many republicans have bashed President Obama for using a teleprompter.
Hello...what's up with this...?
What say you now...?
I'm thinking that the closing speech, if any, should be able to come from the hip.
Romney refused to show his tax records. He hides money off shore to keep from paying his fair share of the taxes due. He outsources jobs in order to reap more profits. He wont tell anyone how he plans to fix the budget. He has lied constantly. He blows off nearly half the country.
But He's Not The Black Guy!!!!!!!!!! The only thing those arenas of people he is speaking to can see.
The GOP is pathetic.
It has been typical of the GOP/right wing to confidently tell everyone that they want what they do not,...since the beginning of the Obama administration.
That is the nature of propaganda. Telling half of the truth as if it is all there is to hear or consider.
They knew Obama would support social change and vie for the interests of the people,...and that would get in the way of the bottom lines of the wealthy masters they serve.
Anyone who has been paying attention knows that the GOP is all about corporate welfare,...and that Romney/Ryan will gladly dismantle the entire social safety net,...repeal Roe vs Wade,....and further empower corporate America to become the defacto rulers of the country, dismantling the middle class and funneling as much wealth as possible to the top few percent of wealthy Americans.
Check the numbers,...THAT is what has been happening to us for years.
They will continue and accelerate the growing gap in earnings. Prepare to work longer and harder for less,...until you are very old indeed. I would SERIOUSLY consider the fate of your children under the policies being offered by Romney/Ryan,...unless of course you are sure that they will be millionaires.
Sure there are stagnant wages and fewer benefits for most,...but wages and bonuses for top management are soaring.
I find it hard to believe that Romney is able to convince so many to vote against their own self-interest.
I think we may find that the race isn't as close as Romney has paid for and would have you believe.
He's BUYING the election,...flooding the airwaves with the repetition of false promises,...a platform very different than that he promoted during his run for the Republican nomination (designed to get votes - "SURPRISE"),...and lies and half truths about president Obama.
I am quite sure that Romney/Ryan will do as they promised during the RNC if elected. They do not have the concern for the people that they are projecting to get votes. The middle class will be TOAST !!!
On Tuesday, November 6th,...vote for "WE THE PEOPLE" : Vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden
The Subterfuge v The Reality: Republicans claim Obama is taking $700B out of Medicare v actually it is $700B out of Medicare expenses; Romney says he will restore $700B to Medicare v the reality is Romney wants to repeal Obamacare which would restore $700B to Medicare expenses for Special Interests; Republicans claim Obama will have a trillion dollars added in taxes v actually Obama plans to raise taxes only for those earning over $250k and in the mean time Romney wants to cut taxes and drastically cut regulations, greatly benefiting the few and resulting in his numbers not adding up; Republicans say repealing Obamacare is a positive v the reality is that it is already providing benefit for many, most don’t want it repealed, the Republicans served their own interests in refusing bipartisan cooperation to develop healthcare reform and now they want to leave the people dependent on those who fought it and don’t want it, to come up with something of value; the Republicans fault “big government”, government spending and the deficit as the evil v the reality that while those things are good to get under control they didn’t cause our problems and concentrating there is a distraction from what did cause our problems - that consistently being aggressive exploitation by the few, allowed by permissive politicians seeking the support of “the money” and just costing the majority greatly.
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
I'm amazed that people not just in Ohio but all over continue to support Romney when he still won't give any details on his supposed tax plan (probably because he doesn't have any). He lies about his stance on every issue, supports other republicans who spout these ridiculous and offensive views on rape and abortion and then makes up absolute like this crap about Jeep moving it's factories to China! That one was so outrageous that the CEO's of Jeep/Chrysler ran their own ad denouncing the ads as a complete lie.
Have you all noticed that Romney couldn't even be bothered to visit the areas destroyed by the storm?
Maybe it's because he said during the Republican debates he would eliminate FEMA and make the states themselves do it.
I guess New York & New Jersey are lucky Romney isn't in charge. I'm noticing a trend here when it come to Republicans and wanting to help the citizens after a disaster.
And this is the guy you want to run the country?????????????????
Romney, you need your mouth washed out with soap for all the lies you tell. But, as a sociopath you don't know the difference between a lie and the truth anyway do you?
Sure you're no Ted Bundy, and if you weren't wealthy you might be, but you show all the traits of a sociopath.
Ladies and gentlemen, ask yourself this....Do I really want a sociopath in the White House? Would that be a surefire ticket to war, more economic problems, famine, elders and poor starving without a president who gives a whit about "those people"?
Wow, that was long, but very good! Right on the money with Rummey the lier!