I find Romney's number to be very fitting - "47 Percent"! I also find it fitting and proper that he is finishing second in a two party contest. One difference between Republicans and Democrats lately is that Democrats listen to people whereas people listen to Republicans (and they shouldn't). I am confident the voters will re-elect Obama/Joe.

Republicans declared from the very beginning, in January 2009, that they wouldn't co-operate with President Obama and the Democrats, on fixing the economy.

Romney is so slippery and false - now trying to say that the President was the one who wouldn't co-operate.

GOP is rewriting history by saying this. The President tried relentlessly to bring GOP to the table.

Romney is cut from the same cloth, and trying to rewrite what actually happened.

FINAL poll.

Remember all those Iowa straw polls that were driving us nuts? lol

And so here we are. FINAL poll.

Hallelujah

Bring it home Obama/Biden/Clinton.

Bring it on home.

It time to get nervous Feisty! The amount of Democrat oversampling by NBC is tremendous! Can't wait till Tuesday!

Nice to know it's the 'final poll'......comparing prime rib vs hamburger...apples vs apple juice..never seemed quite right to me!

Guess all the pollsters will be unemployed.....oh well!

Backhouse, I just saw a Romney ad where he stated - Obama, take your campaign of hate and take it back to Chicago.

After what we heard out of the teaparty for 4 years, then Limbaugh, Sununu, voter suppression, etc., Romney has the audacity to call our campaign a campaign of hate.

Trust me when I say this is just a ploy to keep people interested and reading. I worked for several years at a newspaper and one of the things they love is a close election. The other is tragedy. Both bump up circulation and profits. The same can be said for electronic news sources.

Best wishes to Pres. O.

Mitt doesn't have to be President..there is nothing to prove in his life - he already has all the money in the world. Mitt's argument is totally bogus that Mitt's business background makes him more qualified.

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We don't need a Vulture-in-chief (Mitt); Pres. O's policies have been working. Prosperity is already here...and is coming to more people with more hope everyday.

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FORWARD...

NATE SILVER AGGREGATES ***ALL*** THE POLLS

:-)

For Romney to Win, State Polls Must Be Statistically Biased

THE. BEST. POLLING. DATA. EVER.!

Nate predicts on Nov. 6,
President Obama is 85.1% likely to win 307 Electoral College votes!
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President Obama chances of winning: the popular vote - 80.5%
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President Obama chances of winning: *OHIO* - 85%

President Obama chances of winning: IOWA - 83%

President Obama chances of winning: WISC - 94%

President Obama chances of winning: PA - 97.1%

President Obama chances of winning: VA - 71.%

President Obama chances of winning: NH - 79.4%

President Obama chances of winning: NV - 89.5%

President Obama chances of winning: CO - 68.1%

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of the last 21 polls, Obama is ahead in . . . . 17, 2 ties, Myth ahead in NC & FL :-)

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O & JOE . . . VOTE! :-)

(@1.8) Yes, that struck a nerve with me also, Pat Boston. Especially with Romney ads being 99% negative (and 99% False).

Remember all those Iowa straw polls that were driving us nuts? lol

Who will ever forget Bat-Crap crazy Bachmann & her darling husband Marcus winning it? lmao

"as long as" being the operative phrase here. The people of FL just have to get out from under these teaparty clowns.

Fair, honest, in The United States of America, ain't going to happen.. I don't believe in the election system, to much money, to many people to buy off. What used to be a necessity of electoral college votes is now a way to stack the deck. It shouldn't be close, President Obama should have it in a landslide. Romney/Ryan lie through their teeth, makes no sense..

OBAMA OWNS THIS CRISIS.

WATER?

For GOD'S SAKE, WATER?

I live in Schuylkill County, PA, just about 100 miles from NYC. I was in Brooklyn a couple of weeks before Sandy hit. Took less than 2 hours to drive there.

Just counting the one reservoir my little area uses, about 3 MILLION GALLONS, we could help those in NYC with EASE.

Just needs pumps and tankers.

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH FEMA?

Is THIS Bush's fault, TOO?

I was in Harrisburg PA on Thursday night for an NRA/Tagg Romney event at Bass Pro Shops.

SRO.

Yesterday I drove the 70+ miles to Harrisburg Intenational Airport to see Paul Ryan.

Saw his plane, but not our NEXT VICE PRESIDENT.

Fire Marshall refused to allow any more into the AIRCRAFT HANGAR (you know, a building as BIG as a CITY BLOCK?).

Said we had already EXCEEDED CAPACITY!

Some 3500 of us didn't get to see Ryan, but WE WILL VOTE for ROMNEY/RYAN, anyway!

Lots of nice folks. Even spoke with people I WORK WITH in the State Unemployment Office, and a lovely woman whose daughter works for TSA.

DEAR LEADER and his PROGS won't know what HIT THEM...

In the past month, I have been to Brooklyn NY, Philadelphia PA, Harrisburg PA, Allentown PA, Tamaqua PA, Pottsville PA, Hershey PA, and points in between.

I ZOOM on the Interstate to get there on TIME, and take the back ways home to enjoy the scenery. And I NOTICE things.

Ratio in the cities, of ROMNEY/RYAN signs to OBAMA/BIDEN signs?

100:1.

OUTSIDE the cities? There are NO O/B signs AT ALL...

Let's compare Obama's rhetoric in 2008 with his performance now;

1 – Promise - 'Investments' in Green Energy would create millions of new jobs. Reality – Billions spent on Green Energy companies (like Solyndra) have been wasted, and no new jobs.

2 - Promise - My health care would go down and I would be able to keep my own plan? Reality – Health care costs have skyrocketed, and many employers are canceling coverage for workers.

3 – Promise - You would cut the deficit in half in 4 years. Reality – Four straight years of record deficits averaging about $1.3 Trillion (The largest Deficit under Bush was only $459 Billion in 2008), and the National Debt is $6 Trillion higher than the end of fiscal 2008.

4 – Promise - Unemployment would drop to about 5% in 4 years. Reality – We are still stuck near 8%, which is higher than the 7.4% for Bush's last full month in office.

5 – Promise - Energy costs would drop as we shifted to 'Green Energy'. Reality – Energy costs have skyrocketed (Gasoline is more than double the $1.84 per gallon when Obama took office), and food costs are increasing dramatically.

GRADE - F

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.

There's no explaining TeaPeople voting against their own best interest!

Low-information is the only reason.......

I think that the liberal media is being liberal in the skewed polls showing President Obama ahead. Sorry for your let down. Obama will lose and lose big. This article says that 2/3's of the people are happy with the Presidents handling of Hurricane Sandy, I guess that nobody asked the people in NY that still have seen NO assistance, have no power, have no food, and have lost everything. It is a joke that President Obama said no red tape and assistance is coming with no delay. Another broken promise. lol get ready for the results, I will be celebrating the Romney landslide. :)

After what we heard out of the teaparty for 4 years, then Limbaugh, Sununu, voter suppression, etc., Romney has the audacity to call our campaign a campaign of hate.

That Romney is something else, Pat. I've never seen such a lying scoundrel like this run for such a prestigious position as POTUS. Even Nixon had more likability. Believe me, if Barack Obama were white, this race wouldn't even be close. Sorry, I had to say that because it is the truth. Look at the poll number among white males and tell me it's not true. Hopefully after Tuesday night, we can let out a long sigh of relief when the President is re-elected.

there is a sign in Staten Island the reads " Obama please dont Benghazi us " WOW !!!!! thats got to hurt , maybe Axelrod can blame it on bush !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Team Obama's ground game is larger and more advanced than it was in 2008

What are you smoking with that statement?

In 2008, high school kids were campaigning for Obama. Online media targeting the 20 - 30 year old voters went nuts over him. There was an electric energy around the country at the possibility of him being elected. It was as called a Grassroots movement that took America by storm.

In 2012, most Americans (Democrats and Republicans) just want the damn thing to be over. We know neither Obama or Romney are really worth a $#!t but at least we know who Obama is as president. Romney, we have no idea what he might be.

Obama has been far from a compitent president and I say that as a former supporter of him.

If your honest with yourself, you'll admit that this president has been a huge disappointment to us!

@1.13 Feisty, and saw Bachmann's face recently when the audience laughed spontaneously at her claim - lmfao! @opajack, yes it would be nice to see Allen West go 'buh bye' too! @1.19 Chilled: Two of my brothers voted for Mitt, they aren't dumb (not really) - they just hate and fear Obama. They made it through his first term fine, they'll survive his second!

Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL

Talk about a pet peeve of mine!

Notice how reporters on NBC/MSNBC have taken to calling President Obama "Mr" Obama again?

Damn liberal media - Ha!

At least President Obama has tried to run a positive campaign by saying "don't boo, vote." The revenge comment is simply an extension of this, which rightwingers could never understand because they are Haters. But even if taken in the negative context they try to spin this into, let's remember REAL history.

The Republican/Tea Party and Mitch McConnell et al, made it VERY clear more than once that their primary objective was to make the president a one-term president -- Not to make the American people the most important objective per their oath of office, rather revenge has been the rightwing goal (and always has been their mindset -- they did it to Clinton too).

Now with this reminder, and the pitiful un-American record of the GOP/TP (especially after 2010) in obstructing economic recovery, the only other word for this is TREASON. Do I want revenge in the sense of seeing as many of these unpatriotic douchbags thrown out of office? You betcha!

Say NO to the fraud, Mitt Romney -- Don't reward hiding tax evasion, lying, and election shenanigans to win the highest office in the land.

Vote a Democratic ticket all the way down the ballot -- Our country's future is truly depending on your votes!

Romney and Lying Ryan,

A plan of words, like I will create 12,000,000 new jobs, but never a word how! I will get rid of the deficit and loopholes, but Congress will have to decide how? ? Two sick puppies!

No promises, just utter failures. Grade F-

"Obama gets support from 48 percent of likely voters, while Romney gets 47 percent."

Bad news for Obama - NBC uses Marist for their polls, and Marist has one of the worst track records and most bias of all the major pollsters. In fact, in 2004, their final poll had Kerry winning by 50% to 49% for Bush. Bush actually won by 2.4%, so Marist was off by 3.4% - biased in favor of the Democrat. They were also off by about 2% in 2008 - again, biased in favor of Obama when comparing their final poll with actual results.

If Marist/NBC has Obama ahead by 1%, that means Romney is actually ahead by 2%.

Mitt Romney is determined to WIN at all cost. He has people making robocalls telling that Obama is from Kenya, and that he is a MUSLIM. This PIECE OF @!$%# called Mitt Romney deserves only a swift KICK IN THE NUTS.

Obama-Bidden 2012

tony & G-Dog, as President Obama just said on Rev. Al's show, there is a bigger purpose here than racism. It's about the future. All the other nonsense we have to just let roll off our backs. That was President Obama's message to his supporters.

And for the most part, we have. It still hurts to see so much racism, but it is the GOP that is stirring the pot. And Romney is a big part of it.

Hopefully we'll see the last of him in 2 days.

Well, America will see the last of him. Not so sure we in MA have seen the last of him. Perhaps he is moving/or has moved out of state. I have no idea. Nor do we care.

mike-2598123

there is a sign in Staten Island the reads " Obama please dont Benghazi us " WOW !!!!! thats got to hurt , maybe Axelrod can blame it on bush !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So some Romney supporter put that up, WTF? Those folks are glad Brownie isn't in charge of FEMA, they are glad we still have FEMA and not Romney isn't at the helm, and they are glad they aren't in Eric Cantor's district where they would have to give up education and other services to pay for disaster recovery.

As for Benghazi, really, seriously, you rightwingers still have your panties in a wad about this LIE from FAUX Noise and the Republican Zone? Wow!

clwyd-2621393

Romney and Lying Ryan,

A plan of words, like I will create 12,000,000 new jobs

What a joke -- those jobs are forecast regardless of who wins. It would be a shame to see Mittwitt squeak into the White House and then take credit for all the progress President Obama made despite Republican obstructionism. Lord, I hope the American people are smarter than to be hood-winked by Romney and the Republicans.

jerry-717350 -- Come out of the Republican Zone -- hurry before you disappear into the alternative universe forever!

ROY WILSON-336103

Healthcare costs have NOT sky rocketed and as for employers cancelling health plans, really? even though this wont be implimented for another year, odd, and considering the mjority will NOT be out of pocket, you have bought in to the Republican machine.

Do you really think that if you keep the stock holders over Wall Street making billions of dollars IS GOING TO TRICKLE DOWN TO YOU?

FOR YOUR INFORMATION: The stock market is doing BETTER THAN EVER, AND YET, YOU COMPLAINT ABOUT not having jobs. RICH PEOPLE WILL NEVER HIRE ANYBODY IF THEY CAN AVOID IT. You will have to rebuild your home is you get hit by disaster, because the Republicans want to dismantle all the agencies that give protection to folks: FEMA, and the EPA..Or DO YOU THINK THAT THAT STUFF JUST HAPPENS TO "others"?????????

@Jerry, I used to get that drunk on the weekend, I had to turn it down. 300 electoral votes?? LOL. Romney and his sidekick are looking like beggars now..........

I believe President Obama will win on Tuesday. The tragedy is that there are probably 47% that believe Mitt Romney's lies.. Or do they just hate their President more than they love their country? Each individual must look into their own heart for that answer.

God Bless America....vote!!

Laurence Vickery -- You keep up the faith. I remember the aftermath in 2008. The stunned silence from the rightwing for a few months was glorious.

But the sad FACT is Romney is the nominee because the Republican field in the primary was so pitiful -- he shouldn't even be as close as he is in polls. Even if we were in a depression, Romney should be behind by double digits he so NOT ready for prime time. It is only due to FAUX Noise/the rightwing propaganda machine and low-information voters that he is doing as well as he is.

Krestov -- Good post. Too bad Obamacare couldn't go into full effect immediately. If it had, we wouldn't even be having conversations about polls or his reelection -- It would be in the bag for him.

Barack...hiding his agenda for second term...

Contact your Senator's Office tomorrow to Confirm!

President Obama is putting off major environmental regulations until after the November elections in order to avoid the political blowback of the economic damage those regulations will cause, according to a new Senate report.

Environmental regulators in the Obama administration "don't want this economic pain to hit American families just before the election because it would cost President Obama votes," states the report, released by Environment and Public Works on Thursday, "so they have simply decided to punt, intending to move full speed ahead if they gain a second term."

The regulations will have a drastic negative impact on jobs and agriculture families and businesses in states like Iowa, Ohio and Oklahoma.

Contact your Senator's Office tomorrow to confirm for proof!

As for Benghazi, really, seriously, you rightwingers still have your panties in a wad about this LIE from FAUX Noise and the Republican Zone? Wow!

LOL, Well we will have to all live 50 years for all the information to be declassified to truly determine who is lying!

So some Romney supporter put that up, WTF? Those folks are glad Brownie isn't in charge of FEMA, they are glad we still have FEMA and not Romney isn't at the helm, and they are glad they aren't in Eric Cantor's district where they would have to give up education and other services to pay for disaster recovery.

Post-Katrina Work Marred by Waste and Corruption

The government awarded 70 percent of its contracts for Hurricane Katrina work without full competition, wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in the process, according to a House of Representatives study released by Democrats. The report, a comprehensive overview of government audits on Katrina contracting, found that out of $10.6 billion in contracts awarded by June 2006, more than $7.4 billion were handed out with limited or no competitive bid.

This is the problem with FEMA. In many cases contractors charge 3 to 5 times what other contractors could do the job for. This is BIG business and it lines the pockets of the top 1%. Isn't that corruption??? It is in my book! So don't tell me that they have to give up anything. They need to make bids fair and competitive so that money saved can be spent on education and other social services!

The saddest part about Mitt, Faux News & the Rush Limbaugh types is that nightly, Comedy Central calls out every one of their lies. Jon Stewart doesn't call it Bullsh%t Mountain for nothing. When you are discredited nightly by comedians and you can't handle it? Please just go away!

On my facebook feed. My RWNJ friends keep posting Mitt Romney crap. The best part though are the replies on Romney's page. 75% of the responses are pro Obama - anti Romney ... My Barack Obama facebook feed is 90% pro Obama.

Can't wait until November 7th. That's the day Faux & Friends begin Campaign 2016. While the rest of America moves on. For the next 1300 straight days our RWNJ's will be once again be dragged through the coals of misinformed blah blah blah. These people are soooo stupid. They can't even change the channel.

Fact: Did you know? People who watch NO News are more informed than people who watch Fox News.

Comedy Central Rules! Obama 2012.

Let the exploding heads begin to explode.

IRESPOND, tell us how you really feel - LOL I'm on your side.

You liberals really are out of touch... seriously.... wait till this NEWS hits the mainstream media... Oh and it will........ you boy might get re-elected but it won't last long till you're stuck with Biden!....

Joseph Boell. Is that a THREAT against the PRESIDENT? You should be arrested..

Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL

Talk about a pet peeve of mine!

Notice how reporters on NBC/MSNBC have taken to calling President Obama "Mr" Obama again?

Why is it every time it looks like he is going to win, they blatantly attempt to diminish the office?

Are you drunk today Fiesty?

Whatever the outcome on Tuesday, roughly 50% of the country will not be happy with who won. Also, as long as there is no majority in congress, nothing will get done the next four years anyway. This nation is dysfunctionally fragmented to a point of hopelessness.

My wife and I are still UNDECIDED ABOUT WHO TO VOTE FOR . .

We were almost swayed by that ad by Mr. Peterffy until we heard HE WAS RICH!!! How dare he make a fortune off the backs of Americans to take back to Socialist Hungary?? Obama should STRIP HIM OF ALL HIS ASSETS, TAX HIM AT 1000% for being Successful!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnX7TNFIELg

Thomas Peterffy grew up in socialist Hungary. Despite . .

Will-1091847

Whatever the outcome on Tuesday, roughly 50% of the country will not be happy with who won. Also, as long as there is no majority in congress, nothing will get done the next four years anyway. This nation is dysfunctionally fragmented to a point of hopelessness.

This is the reality. We are @!$%#ed no matter what. They have all put off dealing with the debt issue until after the elections as well. The @!$%# is about to hit the fan again no matter who gets in.

@Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL

There is also no comparison between the Governor of a state like Ma. and a Senator that votes present most times and then spends the next four years on the job training as POTUS. Everybody laughed at Clint Eastwood, but he had it right. If someone can't do the job you have to let him go. Times up Obama.

And if I were you Feisty I wouldn't bet my house on it. It's gonna be a cold winter. You don't want to be sleeping outside.

@SeeJames . . Ma'am, you seem to have a problem with "the Skin You Are In"

Lets talk about "REVENGE" The American People want Congress back from the TeaReTards in the House and put back in the Dem's Hands for a Better America !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How can Romney be running for President of the United States of America when he didn't pay Taxes from 1996 to 2009, this is beyond Crazy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"There's never been a day in the last four years I've been proud to be his VP."

Vice President Joe Biden in Wisconsin on Friday Nov 2, 2012

Stop sucking all the oxygen out of the air with your GOPee Wee Herman, "I know you are but what am I?" doom and gloom lack of logic.

The election will only be a problem if Romney wins under similar conditions as 2000, or even 2004. This time the Left is not going to let it go uncontested. What is dysfunctional the most is our election system -- Start with this and taking money out of it, and the rest gets fixed too.

The best case scenario is President Obama is reelected, and the Dems keep all their Senate seats (McCaskill, Sherrod Brown, etc.) plus pick up Richard Lugar's seat with Donnelly, win back the Massachusetts seat with Elisabeth Warren, and pick up Kyl's seat in Arizona with Carmona. Donnelly, Warren, and Carmona are ALL superior candidates to the Republicans.

The Dems are unlikely to win back the majority in the House, however we should be rid of a bunch of crazies like Joe Walsh, Michele Bachmann, and Allen West in the House as a good start to recovering sanity. The message sent, as well as diminished Teabagger numbers will force these crazies to stop protesting and start governing on behalf of the People.

And not a moment too soon, since the "financial cliff" will be the first thing faced by Congress after the election. After Teabaggers ruined our credit rating trying to hold the nation hostage, who would want Teabaggers in power again now?

The power of up-the-ballot in these cases for the reelection of President Obama is not being given enough attention. A lot more Dems are likely to vote this year in a state like Arizona to get rid of Arpaio the Birther as well as support for Carmona -- And women are definitely breaking in favor of the president, even Mormon Republican women who don't like the War on Women.

Who knows about Seniors, but they should be pretty mad about privatizing Medicare and slashing Medicaid, as well as having their votes suppressed by Republicans.

Romney wants to help the Storm Victims by dumping FEMA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So mind boggling that the right wing lemmings will vote for Weasel RobMe. A CONman with NO MORAL COMPASS. A cold, callous, conniving man who is in this presidential race for his OWN SELFISH reasons. He has HAVE everything he wants, he just want to add the POTUS title to his massive portfolio AND to protect his massive wealth.

AND YES - IT IS A FACT THAT MITT DID NOT PAY TAXES FROM 1996-2009!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/04/1155381/-Breaking-Romney-Paid-Zero-Taxes-From-1996-To-2009

What the right wing lemmings here do NOT UNDERSTAND is that RobMe has cut a deal with his massive donors, such as Adelson. IT'S NOT EXACTLY A DONATION - IT IS AN INVESTMENT, PEOPLE!! The greedy rich do not like parting with their money UNLESS there is something in return!!!

God help us if Weasel RobMe makes it to the W.H. You all will be in for a RUDE AWAKENING for voting against your best interest, because we will end up with an Oligarchy of the Plutocrats!!

Feisty Redhead, it is correct to call the President Mr. Obama. That is a respectful title for him. It is like Colin Powell would be correctly referred to as General Powell, Secretary Powell or Mr. Powell. Generally the highest rank is the title to be used but there is no hard and set rule on this. The media also often uses one's surname without the Mr. or Ms. in front of it and that is acceptable for them to do that.

LOL.

"There's never been a day in the last four years I've been proud to be his VP."

Vice President Joe Biden in Wisconsin on Friday Nov 2, 2012

"People take things out of context because they are full of @!$%#."

Former President Abraham Lincoln in Illinois on Monday Oct 5, 1875.

Mitty Pity Party in 46 hours! BYOB!

Fiesty finally got it right....you Can't stick a fork in him.

Her comments, as well as other Obama "die hards," reflect their concern for their Chief.

Also, many daily pro Obama bloggers are "missing in action."

Reality is replacing the BS and the "grandstanding" in NJ is "backfiring."

I got my every 4 year robocall from the NRA wanting me to vote for a Republican for president. Yea right! Romney has a horrible voting record on guns when he was governor, and they want me to vote for him? It's always vote for the Republican. Now why? Because they are backed by the wealthy, thats why. Romney voted for brady bill, voted for assult weapons ban. He doesn't even know which end of a gun you put in your shoulder.

Vote Obama/Biden 2012

Here's the trickle-down we've seen- the Rebublicans give big tax cuts and advantages to the millionaires and billionaires. They de-regulate banks, and other lending corporations as well as other multi-million dollar corporations to leverage for them much higher profits at the expense of the now-struggling middle class.

What did the millionaires and billionaires do with their money they accrued through these advantages? Did these "job creators" create jobs? No, they hoarded their millions and billions so that they could spend it on attack ads to promote the candidate who will protect their advantages so that they can continue to hoard more money.

When Barack Obama took office, America was hemorrhaging 500,000+ jobs per month. Within six months of his taking office, the job loss slowed to less than 100,000, and by the end of the year jobs were increasing. NOT, btw, by the so-called "job-creators", but by US, the MIDDLE CLASS small businesses. Private sector jobs, as well. Government jobs have decreased, therefore reducing government spending and reducing the size of the government, a frequently lamented peeve of the Rebublicans. They should be thrilled, yet they still complain.

President Obama saved the auto industry- 50,000 direct jobs, one million more jobs tangential to the American automakers industry.

Obamacare- the NUMBER ONE REASON FOR THE FLOOD OF BANKRUPTCIES WAS A CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS IN THE FAMILY FOR WHICH THERE WAS NO HEALTH COVERAGE. Familes lost their homes going bankrupt trying to save the life of a family member. Children were dying because, if their parents changed jobs, the new insurage provider refused to cover pre-existing conditions. Young people between the ages of 18-26 who formerly had no health insurance are now covered under their parents' policies. My best friend lost her daughter to a highly treatable form of cancer because she, at 23 years old, had no health insurance from her employer. If Obamacare had been enacted ONE YEAR EARLIER she would be alive today.

President Obama doubled college funding for students, expanded the GI bill college funds for returning vets, and funded job re-training so that the unemployed can train for the many jobs that actually are available, but for which unemployed people are not qualified.

Credit card reform- if you pay one card one day late, your other credit card banks can no longer sky rocket your interest rates. Your credit card lender can no longer charge you a minimum payment that will actually leave you over-the-limit so they can charge a big, fat over-the-limit fee. Your bank can no longer re-order the sequence in which your checks cleared in a day so that they can hit you with a number of $35 return fees rather than the one fee for the one check you may have accidently not covered by a mere $1,2, or $3.

Lilly Ledbetter- everyone gets paid the same for equal work.

President Obama enacted much higher fuel efficiency standards that not only will reduce carbon emissions to slow climate change, but will reduce our dependency on oil, another peeve of Republicans, yet, of course, they still complain.

President Obama is getting us out of Afghanistan, the war made-up by the Republicans. He's reducing military spending by making the military more efficient. The war in Afghanistan alone cost $300,000,000 PER DAY.

President Obama had the cujones to go after Osama-Bin-Ladin like a lion after a warthog, until Osama-Bin-Ladin was killed, so he is never, ever to attack any American anywhere in the world, much less on our own soil. Romney stated it wasn't worth the effort. Apparently, it is much more productive to spend one's time protecting the profits of billionaires bilking the American middle class.

President Obama cut taxes for middle class families. Inaddition, he cut taxes for us, the small businesses across America, so that we can continue to employ our staff in some of our cases, and create jobs for new staff in other cases.

All of this DESPITE the obstructionism of the Republicans.

There is a lot of work left to be done. The Republicans have stated their objective over the last four years and it was NOT to create jobs, protect and promote the health of the avarage American, support higher education, provide fair work and pay practices for women, prevent unfair banking practices that prey on the middle class in order to further line the pockets of the already-filthy-rich, reduce oil dependency and give EVERYONE a fair shake and a leg up.

The Republican objective has been to GET OBAMA OUT OF OFFICE, no matter what the cost to the country. Since this will be President Obama's last term in office, making their one driving objective now moot, perhaps they can now focus on the GOOD OF THE COUNTRY, and be motivated to actually REACH ACROSS THE AISLE and vote for a jobs bill, vote to increase taxes for the filthy-rich, vote for education, vote for clean energy, vote to make the military more efficient and therefore less expensive, vote to repair and improve infrastructure. Maybe they can even get out of womens' health- we don't direct theirs.

One can only hope. But, if they don't, President Obama will get it done anyway, just like he has for the last four years.

Romney will be so pissed when he loses. He'll go back to being CEO of Bain. Bain owns Clear Channel and their 900 radio stations so Romney will be able to vent his frustration by ramping up the anti Democrat rhetoric. I doubt the Republicans will give him another kick at the can, but rest assured, he will have fun playing kingmaker behind the scenes. I wonder what other companies he will buy to try and swing the vote to the republicans in 2016?

I see all the GOPs here, screaming POLL BIAS and other such nonsense.

Look. If you all on the RIGHT are convinced that your Magic Underwear Cultist is going to win the election, then why are you here belly-aching, pissing and moaning?

Go to sleep, chill out, and get ready for Tuesday night! If you're convinced that your Cult Member is going to win, why are you so angry and pissy all the time? Get over it!

How fitting it would be for Barack to be stuck in prison with Hillary for many years to talk about the "old days"

He put her on the road for 4 years and to be stuck with her....Hillary-ious

Corruption 101.....The Obama Administration excelled in this

Heh heh heh last check- Romney's in the lead, sweating are we lil' piggies?

Why did Obama vote present so many times? Did not want a record to discuss? The reality of this election is that there is likely to be NO mandate. Do you really want four more years where nothing gets done, things happen by default.? -although I want Romney, the numbers may be difficult. That does not mean the country wants Obama . He will not have a madate and there will be more difficulty in getting the country to really solve problems. Obama only knows tax and spend. Since we cannot pay down the debt on the backs of the one percent, how will we do that? I suspect it will be similar to the idiot O'Malley who has now raised taxes on those making more than $100,000 which in the very high priced state of Maryland is NOT a lot. He will be coming for you. The only alternative is to let us go bankrupt.

I read the President's economic plan for the next four years. The Plan is devoid of detail to include budget. It appears to be primarily a wish list. It seems that the President wants the federal government to spend a lot of money that it does not have to train math and science teacher's to teach vocational classes at the JC level for jobs that do not really exist in this country. Foreign manufacturers are paying their workers roughly a tenth of the minimum that our workers require and that is why they can always beat domestic manufactures on price. Neither candidate seems to have a solution for this problem. It is our huge trade deficit that is degrading efforts to revive the economy by injecting more money.

In many states, state colleges and universities are having to raise tuition to make ends meet because of tighter state budgets. The President wants to withdrew federal funding from these schools so that they either have to raise tuition even more or close down facilities. The President thinks that this effort will help improve the quality of education in America.

The President is expecting to pass his increased taxes on the "Rich". He has been trying to do that for the past four years but he somehow thinks the can prevail in the next 4 years. This tax will at best take 100 billion dollars per year from the private sector and put it into the public sector. The President promised that the 2012 federal deficit would not exceed 229.27 billion dollars yet the actual deficit exceeded 1.1 trillion dollars so his efforts to date to cut the deficit have been less than successful. He is proposing more spending and unspecified cuts and which has been provided it is impossible that any actually deficit reduction will take place. So I am looking at a nominal annual deficit of 1 trillion dollars assuming the increased taxes on the "rich" passes.

At the heart of the President's plan is the idea of bringing the troops home in 2014 and with the savings use half of it to start paying down our debt and use the other half for infrastructure improvements. To start paying down the debt the federal government has to run a surplus. To run a surplus with half of the piece dividend, the federal government will have to realize a savings of more than 2 trillion dollars per year from bringing the troops home. That amount is more than twice a s much as we are paying for defense including all overseas operations. The President's plan is mathematically impossible. Mathematically impossible plans are at the least less than viable. The President's plan is an example of fantasy economics.

My biggest concern is all the debt that our federal government has been accumulating. With a debt or more than 16 trillion dollars and huge deficits predicted for at least another decade, I estimate that the money that the federal government is borrowing today will end up costing the tax payers more than 10 times the amount borrowed to repay over the next 180 years. Paying 10 times the going rate for goods and services is not good management. The President has yet to present a detailed plan for repaying the debt. The tax payers have a right to know how much all of this federal borrowing to going to end up costing them.

Will,

If Republicans had been concerned about the debt, the money that went out in the Bush tax cuts would have gone to pay down the debt instead.

Bob-2711464

It time to get nervous Feisty! The amount of Democrat oversampling by NBC is tremendous! Can't wait till Tuesday!

Bob, weird that you are waiting till Tuesday to hear what you already know, Romney has a BIG "L" on his forehead. Oh and it doesn't stand for Lucky either.

President Obama heads into election day with the Pew Research Center projecting a 50% to 47% margin for the president over Romney.

I find it interesting (and somewhat odd) that while polling generally indicates a very close race Silver's all the way up to 85% for O. For his sake I hope D+ oversampling doesn't come back to bite him in the butt.

GIGO anyone?

Ed, Thank you for reading my post and commenting. I agree with the President that the huge deficits posted by the Bush administration were less than good. I had hope that the President would have been the fiscal conservative that he campaigned but he changed. From his past speeches who would have guessed that he would post deficits greater than three times those of the Bush administration. With a debt of more than 16 trillion dollars and huge deficits predicted for at least another decade, I estimate that the money that the federal government is now borrowing will end up costing the tax payers 10 times the amount borrowed to repay over the next 180 years. As the debt grows so will the multiplication factor. The idea of bolstering the economy by injecting more money has not worked during the Bush administration and it has not worked during the Obama administration. The apparent culprit is our huge trade deficit.

@Fils d'Artemis: Think of it this way. If Obama was winning by 75% to 25%, would you say he had a 75% chance of winning? No way! It'd be more like 100%, because there is little chance he could lose that lead. Similarly, the fact that polls - not just from NBC, or some other "biased" source, but almost ALL polls - continually put him ahead by about 3% in all battlegrounds, this should indicate that unless 3% of the population in those states changes their mind all for Romney in the next 24 hours, or unless a hell of a lot of Obama supporters (who checked "Likely to vote") for some reason don't, then the chances are slim that Romney pulls it out, despite how slim the lead is. Just like your favorite team winning by 1, a win is a win, and in all the crucial states, Obama is "up by 1", and there's hardly any time left on the clock.

I just watched an interview on PBS, with the writers of this book;Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class is a book by political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson. In it the authors argue that contrary to conventional wisdom, the dramatic increase in inequality of income in the United States since 1978—the richest 1% gaining 256% after inflation while the income of the lower earning 80% grew only 20%^[1]—is not the natural/inevitable result of increased competition from globalization, but of the work of political forces.^[2] Those at the very top of the economic ladder have developed and used political muscle to dramatically cut their taxes, deregulate the financial industry, keep corporate governance lax and labor unions hamstrung.^[3] Instead of a rising tide lifting all boats, the authors write, "yachts are rising, but dinghies are largely staying put" in America, and "there is reason to suspect that the dinghies are staying put in part because the yachts are rising."^[4].

We knew it, they've proven it! Big business needs to be cut off!!

It must be depressing for Democrats , liberals and Obama worshipers to see Obama's numbers sinking. NBC polls is giving Obama 48 % , Romney 47 % in a poll oversampling Democrats to levels of 2008 election. Independents favor Romney, and the war on woman do not work having Obama and Romney 50 % . The enthusiasm among Democrats is lower among Democrats but is higher among Republicans. Obama is working hard in states like Wisconsin that he won in big margin in 2008 The campaigner in chief start his journey for reelection four years ago, spend millions attacking Republicans, leading a partisan congress to damage the image of the whole Republican party, calling "enemies" , the party of no, and blaming them for all his failures, later attacking Romney with lies, creating a false image , continuing negative campaign and calling for "revenge " to his supporters ,he hardly get 1 % over his opponent. For Obama his failure to delivery his promises to bring the economy back on track, create more jobs, reduce the deficit, bring solutions to the illegal immigration and countless more failures including the latest Bengazhi cover up are his own enemy.

Ronmey 45 , 44 gone.

Massachusettz: You must have missed my second sentence. Almost *all* of the polls, especially the ones that sported the worst results in 2008, are routinely showing D+ oversampling. Hell, the CNN poll today showed a dead heat overall with Romney showing a double-digit lead among independents. Given that, it defies logic to believe that the president has a 85% chance of winning. I'll forever hold a flower for Nate because of our shared love of baseball, but I'm convinced he's wrong here.

p.s. I don't say this lightly, nor is it a completely unqualified opinion. Two-thirds of what I do for my weekly scrip involves statistical analysis and data handling.

Seventeen reasons for not voting for Barack Hussein Obama.

1. 23 million unemployed

2. 43 straight month's of 8+% unemployment.

3. 45 million on food stamps

4. Black poverty at record highs.

5. Gas prices have doubled.

6. Black youth unemployment over 50%.

7. Hispanic unemployment at 10.3%.

8. Illegals set to receive $7 billion.

9. Food prices up more than 25%.

10. Middle class has lost more than 1/3 of net worth.

11. Worst job creation record since 1945.

12. Worst economic recovery in 75 years.

13. Average household income declined $4300.

14. Health insurance increases more than $1500 under Obama.

15. Only president to have US credit downgrade (twice).

16. Over 100 million people on some form of means tested welfare.

17. $6 trillion added to our debt; More than ALL presidents combined.

This is the problem with FEMA. In many cases contractors charge 3 to 5 times what other contractors could do the job for. This is BIG business and it lines the pockets of the top 1%. Isn't that corruption??? It is in my book! So don't tell me that they have to give up anything. They need to make bids fair and competitive so that money saved can be spent on education and other social services!

No, this is our problem with our current system that insists on giving contracts to private business. By its very nature, the idea is flawed. It is only worthwhile collecting together services in another industry if you can get efficiency of scale and therefore provide the service cheaper than any single smaller entity can manage to get.

This doesn't work for the Federal government, which already has the scale internally. It's just a giveaway and a waste of taxpayer money. There is NO way private industry can do it better.

The inept obama hasn't got a chance!. You dems better get a ins. policy that covers mental health as you will all need a straight-jacket on Tuesday when Romney kicks the dog poop out of obama....ROMNEY/RYAN 2012-2020

>>> LIVING PROOF

President Obama, Governor Christie, Mayor Bloomberg, Mayor Booker, and a cast of millions, have demonstrated that the October Surprise, was US.

President Barack Hussein Obama, Commander-in-Chief 2012

You & US

It's gonna be a long long journey
It's gonna be an uphill climb

So now I’m gonna talk to my people oh oh
About the storm wo ooh
About the storm wo ooh ooh

So glad the worst is over
We can start building now

Our best days are right in front of us
And were almost there
If we choose to be

Anything you say to me
And everything you do
You can’t deny the truth
Cos we're the living proof

Mary J. Blige

President Obama inherited a debt of $10.6 trillion when he took office. Ending the war in Afghanistan will save $1.4 trillion per year. Add to that the $400,000,000 added per year with a modest tax increase on the top 1% of Americans, who are accruing FORTY PERCENT PER YEAR of the wealth in America and we will see the $16 trillion debt, MORE THAN HALF OF WHICH WAS INCURRED DURING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, will be paid in less than a decade. This EVEN WITHOUT THE JOBS continued to be added under the Obama policies.

Unemployment continues to decline DESPITE the obstructionism of the Republican party (this is not to say all Republican citizens are obstructionist). As jobs CONTINUE TO BE ADDED under the Obama administration, the debt will decrease at an accelerated rate because jobs added = increased revenue = decreased debt. With the growth in the economy, the deficit will be paid even more rapidly. And the economy IS GROWING.

It all boils down to a growing economy. Any economist worth his salt says there will be no recovery without debt. Much in the same way most people own a home by first going into debt with a mortgage, the economy requires a cushion of borrowing to increase, support, and sustain job growth. Any small business owner/operator uses periodic loans to grow her/his business. Same psinciple. E.g. TVA.

@Massachusettz- Are you not sick of Romney calling Massachusetts his "(my) state"? He's no more Massachusetts than George Steinbrenner is. Besides, he destroyed the state when he was govenor.

From today's NY Times:

If Congressional Republicans get their way, expiring cuts in the estate tax for America’s wealthiest families will be extended in 2013. But under their cruel plan, enhancements to tax credits for low- and moderate-income working families, which are also set to expire at the end of the year, would end.

Extending the estate tax cut would benefit the estates of the wealthiest 0.3 percent of Americans who die in 2013 — about 7,000 people. Ending the tax credits would hurt some 13 million working families, including nearly 26 million children, many of whom live at or near the poverty line.

Is that what we'd vote for, America?

No more Bush doctrine.

Obama/Biden 2012

Every time I see someone on here ranting about the polls "oversampling" Democrats, I know for certain that they don't understand statistics.

Nate Silver does a lot better job of explaining math to this crowd than I do, so:

Poll Averages Have No History of Consistent Partisan Bias

Presidential elections are high-stakes affairs. So perhaps it is no surprise that when supporters of one candidate do not like the message they are hearing from the polls they tend to blame the messenger.

Some have said that the polls are "oversampling" Democrats and producing results that are biased in Mr. Obama's favor. One Web site, unskewedpolls.com, contends that even Fox News is part of the racket in what it says is a "trend of skewed polls that oversample Democratic voters to produce results favorable for the president."

The criticisms are largely unsound, especially when couched in terms like "oversampling," which implies that pollsters are deliberately rigging their samples.

But pollsters, at least if they are following the industry's standard guidelines, do not choose how many Democrats, Republicans or independent voters to put into their samples — any more than they choose the number of voters for Mr. Obama or Mitt Romney. Instead, this is determined by the responses of the voters that they reach after calling random numbers from telephone directories or registered voter lists.

On the whole, it is reasonably impressive how unbiased the polls have been. In both presidential and Senate races, the bias has been less than a full percentage point over the long run, and it has run in opposite directions.

That does not mean the pollsters will necessarily get this particular election right. Years like 1980 suggest that there are sometimes errors in the polls that are much larger than can be explained through sampling error alone. The probability estimates you see attached to the FiveThirtyEight forecasts are based on how the polls have performed historically in practice, and not how well they claim to do in theory.

But if there is such an error, the historical evidence suggests that it is about equally likely to run in either direction.

Nor is there any suggestion that polls have become more biased toward Democratic candidates over time. Out of the past seven election cycles, the polls had a very slight Republican bias in 2010, and a more noticeable Republican bias in 1998, 2000 and 2006.

They had a Democratic bias only in 2004, and it was very modest.

Still, 2004 went to show that accusations of skewed polling are often rooted in wishful thinking.

For more details and analysis of why this is true, read the article.

Obama's REVENGE statement shows his hardened heart toward a large portion of America. He is the biggest partisan bully in the history of America! His REVENGE comment would even apply to Republican Chris Christie! Obama didn't even wait for Jersey's lights to go on, before throwing a sucker punch. Deplorable.

Romney/Ryan with Chris Christie for a Strong "United" non-bullying USofA

kkwilson - You lie!

Here are just two rebuttals of your remarks:

From FactCheck.org:

It is untrue — as claimed in a graphic widely circulated by email and in social media postings — that the debt has increased more under Obama than under all previous 43 presidents combined. In fact, as of Jan. 31, 2012, the rise under Obama had yet to surpass the rise under his predecessor, George W. Bush.

The figures in that graphic are pure fabrications, as anyone can easily confirm by plugging Obama’s inauguration date — Jan. 20, 2009 — in the Treasury Department’s handy “debt to the penny” website. That shows the nation’s total debt stood at $10.6 trillion on the day Obama took office (not $6.3 trillion), and it had increased to nearly $15.4 trillion by the end of January 2012 — a rise of more than $4.7 trillion in just over three years (not $6.5 trillion).

And from the NY Times:

The pace of creation of jobs in the private sector during the current administration is now greater than the pace in either of President George W. Bush’s terms in office.

I don't think Chris Christie is "with" Romney, Independent.

Last I saw of him, he was with Obama.

To all those who don't like the word "revenge".

Al Gore won the 2000 election by over half a million votes.

But because the GOP was so scummy they stole the election, this country had to suffer through Iraq, Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib, 9/11, the total annihilation of America's values of truth and justice, and the greatest economic collapse this country has seen since the Great Depression.

Frankly, I think "revenge" in this election is too mild a remedy.

Call it "poetic justice" or "taking our country back" if that suits your vernacular better. Either way, the fat lady is singing.

REAL:

He was the teaching Obama bipartisanship, too bad Obama failed. REVENGE?

Nice try though...

Romney/Ryan 2012

Real:

It is that mentality that will be the demise of your party. The fact that you justify his use of a disgusting word as the President of all citizens in this nation, is flat sickening.

And yet, with a typical, justification response, of tit for tat, I see you aren't a leader either.

Romney/Ryan for a Strong America

To those, who are to blind to see, too death to hear, or too manipulative with the facts:

Romney is nothing more than a salesman, who's great with repackaging the old Bush ideas that never worked. He panders to the less educated folks, who can't see through the political fog that changes with each campaign stop. Yet, these same people are too quick to parrot the lies/ myths as fast as the stories change on a daily basis. Short term memories of their parties failures keeps them from recalling recent earlier events. How many of these folks do research on their own to verify the candidates policies and philosophies rather than relying on ads or campaign talks? They'd rather stick with a party of extremist, controlling ideas coming from the greedy, wealthy elitists rather than to think on their own. The blind mice ceremoniously follow the "pied piper" when the outcome polices of Romney/Ryan will hurt this Nation the most.

Have you noticed that since Ryan's bad interview and display of temper on National TV (when Ryan thought the microphone was turned off), that they've kept him in the closet for any type of interviews. Romney, too, has shown his running prowess from reporters on the question of eliminating F.E.M.A. for all National Disasters. The Romney/Ryan idea is to privatize F.E.M.A. over to each State for handling on their own without Federal Aid when all the States are struggling just to meet the annual budget without disasters. With Republicans, their self-serving policies consists of eliminating and outsourcing for their own increase of profits. For the past 4 years, the Republicans have done the following: obstructed 100% of any Obama/Democrat Bills; held our Country hostage with the credit rating/ budget approval; made voter's suppression laws; expressed strong desires to place all the cutbacks on the middle class, elderly, and poor social entitlements (which they paid into) while increasing those tax cuts for the wealthy elite, who need the money (to hire more workers which they did not do); want to expand the Military with money that the U.S. does not have. With the wealthy tax cuts and expanded Military, etc., how does Romney/Ryan expect to balance the budget, or lower the deficit without raising the middle class, elderly, and poor taxes????? Of course, there have been no answers from them as is with everything else on their policies of change that sound just like Bush's previous policies. Notice, too, how the Romney/Ryan staff has many of Bush's old staff members running their campaigns in spite of their protests that they are different from Bush. When you can't believe anything that flip-flopping Romney with amnesia says now, what makes anyone think that he'll be different if elected??? Think twice before voting!! Unless wealthy, your life, job, and healthcare will depend on the choice you make.

Who would ever have thought that our October Surprise would be Gov. Chris Christi, a Republican, who knows how to work with a Democrat, and doesn't appear too bigoted to say: "Pres. Obama has done a good job, worked hard, stayed in contact all the time, and gave up campaigning to come to their aid". Obama places his Country comes first with self-serving needs last. And where was Romney? Why he stayed safe campaigning in Ohio and still has yet to visit the disaster areas. Now, doesn't that sound just like Bush, who didn't visit Louisiana until two weeks after Katrina?

Obama is Pro Choice, while Romney is Multiple Choice (one for each personality) !!!

So, Which Man Is BEST for ALL AMERICANS ??? IT’S YOUR CHOICE!!

1.) One, who practices true Christianity with concern and compassion for all; or one, who cares for the 2% and to Hell with the 47%

2.) One, who demonstrates clarity and calmness; or one, who uses “FEAR TACTICS” to create confusion?

3.) One that demonstrates morality and integrity; or one that demonstrates greed and concerns for the 2% wealthy elite while expressing that he doesn’t care about the 47%?

4.) One that shows respect the women and provide them with their choice of appropriate healthcare; or one that backs a candidate (Murdock), who claims RAPE and PREGNACY are "GOD’S INTENTION" as-well-as a "GIFT FROM GOD", or one (Akin), who wants to legitimize (Akin) the rape of women and children?

5.) One, who clearly DOES NOT suffer from amnesia; or a CHAMELEON with changing colors on the hour by the hour depending on where he is and telling them what they want to hear in order to get their votes?

6.) One, who puts a NATIONAL DISASTER FIRST and CAMPAIGNING LAST as-well-as visiting the areas of calamity; or one lacking in personal character, whose main concern was to campaign in Ohio (a critical electoral State) on Tues. (as the storm still continues to wreak havoc) while doing this under the guise of helping the victims with the planned opportunity for a “POLITICAL PHOTO OP” as he packs a few boxes which the Red Cross has expressed donations be given in the form of money, since they know what is actually needed and can get it there faster?

7.) One, who has visited the storm area immediately; or one, who is too busy campaigning on the trail, and has yet to visit the disaster area?

8.) One, who demonstrates CHARACTER, HONESTY, and CONCERN for ALL; or one, who doesn’t care about the 47%, too busy attending expensive fund raising dinner events, and refuses to show his tax reports (when other candidates--to include Obama-- who has shown 10 or more tax reports)?

9.) One, who encourages investing in America; or one, with off shore accounts, and as the acting President for the Board of Trustees and Investment Member is currently sending a company, Asentia (not sure of spelling), overseas to China for sweat-shop wages (less than $1.00 per hr.)?

10.) One, who wants realistic benefits; or one, who wants to eliminate all entitlements, and replace some with vouchers to invest in often very unstable stock markets. If you lose with the investment, there goes your healthcare, because it’s your loss?

11.) One, who wants to reform the taxes, eliminate the loopholes, and make the wealthy elite pay more of their fair share of taxes; or one, who wants the wealthy to have even bigger tax breaks , because they need the money to hire workers, which they have not done during the Great Recession, but do have billions to spend on Campaign Ads ?

12. One , who believes in the right to vote; or one who condones Voters Suppression?

13. One, who believes in transparency and truth; or one, who continually runs away from the press by hiding or ignoring their questions presented 31 times?

14.) One, who realizes that the private sector cannot handle major catastrophes, and allows the Govt. to step in with aid; or one, who wants to privatize everything (so his companies overseas can take on the contracts for profit) and expects the private sector to handle everything on their own? (Can you just see NJ handling $50 B on their own now, or in the immediate future?)

15.) Real leadership that looks like ONE, who shows up and is out there with a National Disaster area while cutting through the “red tape” to get help moving sooner; or one, who is busy campaigning in Swing States while using the storm (during the storm) as a “Photo Op Event” under the guise of a “Disaster Relief Event” with canned goods when the Red Cross asked for cash or blood donations, since they know what is needed?

16.) Someone, who lives in this universe; or someone, who lives in a parallel universe with a gold self-serving spoon in his mouth?

17.) one, who realistically tries to provide the help where needed; or one, who professes, “YOU CAN”T PUT UP THE RICH ELITE ON THE TABLE; BUT YOU CAN PUT UP THE MEDICARE, MEDICAID, SS, and HEALTHCARE ON THE TABLE”. “Just Privatize everything with vouchers!!” ?

18.) The “OCT. SURPRISE” is one, who shows one more concern with the needs of our Country while placing campaigning last; or one, who is more concerned with his own needs by campaigning negatively in the “Swing States”, and not even visiting to take a closer look at the disaster areas??

19.) One who tries stabilize and to bring our Country together; or one, who "Flip-flops" hourly as Mitt does, which doesn’t help to stabilize our Country in hard economic times of distress, etc.?

20.) One who cares about our Vets; or one, who never mentioned the Vets in the 3 debates/campaigns, and whose V.P. voted the against the recent Vet Bill to help them find jobs, etc.

Be sure to get out and vote on Tuesday, November 6, 2012 in spite of the hardships that Ohio and Florida will experience.

Go FL and stick to your determination for the right to vote in spite of Gov. Thug Scott ( Get smart by voting Scott out when his re-election comes up the next time. Remember that he bought the last election with his own money.). Blessings to all those (in both Parties), who wait with patience while suffering the long 7, 8, and 9 hours to vote with their choice.

Vote Obama/Biden on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012 !!!

And do report immediately any discrepancies with the voting, ballots, etc. Don't let your bosses dictate as to whom you will vote elect!!!!

I made the mistake once but I AM DONE making the same mistakes over and over. I am not happy with the statue quo, eventhough many are happy, appently they don't care for the 53% of Americans plight and continuing struggles. They continue to pull the strings and outright LIE, to push buttons and play on the emotions of the majority 53% of American people. They are happy with the deficit taxpaying spending on corrupt Unions, and regulating domestic energy sources. The 47% are happy with way things are NOW! They are happy to get their Federal Gov't subsidies that go to drunks and addicts strung out on drugs that pump out babies, enviromentalist control over domestic energy resources, and wasteful spending of taxpayers money to corrupt unions. I am dillusioned by my vote for Mr Obama in 2008...Never Again! I will do more research in the future!

Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, the result of a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most consequential job?

Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League, despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer;" a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote "present"); and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions.

He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator. And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?

Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal: To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberal Dom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass. Let that sink in: Obama
was given a pass - held to a lower standard - because of the color of his skin.

Podhoretz continues: And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) "non-threatening," all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?

Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon - affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily
to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.

Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don't care if these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self-esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist. Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin - that's affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism, then nothing is.

And that is what America did to Obama. True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois ; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary.

What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks? In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama's oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people - conservatives included - ought now to be deeply embarrassed.

The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and that's when he has his Teleprompters in front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth - it's all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100 years.

And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. Remember, he wanted the job, campaigned for the task. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise
his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?

In short: our president is a small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.

I have done my research this ELECTION, and the clear and just choice is Mr. Romney... God Bless this beautiful country.
My hispanic family and myself are no longer slaves, to the liberal media and politicians that play with our emotions. We are making choices with commonsense and intelligence from here on out!

Romney/Ryan 2012

Those of you regardless of Party who write the encyclopedias above are wasting your time. Your not going to change anyone's mind.

What we have is a country divided right down the middle. No matter who is elected it will not be an easy road. If Obama is re-elected we can expect exactly what we have seen in the last 2 years. If Romny is elected we will se the same type os stailmate at least for the first part of his term.

Obama crammed the healthcare bill down the republicans throats with mandates . they will not forget that EVER. after he lost the majority nothing was accomplished because of his "my way or the highway " attitude.

romney will face very similar opposition if elected fro the democratic Senate. It is a no win for America .

Independent Thought,

Just wanted to let you know I will be voting REVENGE in regards to your lies and crap in your posts! Thank you Mr. President for reminding my reason fro voting!

The media maybe trying to portray this as a close election to energize the voters, but the raw data is being heavily manipulated to do so. Every one of the recent polls are using the 2008 presidential model to adjust the raw data, and nothing supports their contention that in 2012 there will be a similar turnout. Also there is no mention of the fact that Romney has a 12 point lead over Obama among independents. So unless the turnout is exactly the same as in 2008 meaning Democrats over Republicans, and the independents don't show up, this is very likely to be a lopsided win for Romney.

Liberal morons are shaking in their boots at thought Obama could be one and done. They better start looking for a job.

Thankfully, the 'spin' stops tomorrow. I wonder what all of the 'political junkies' are going to do after the election is over - I suspect that many people will be going through 'Political Withdrawal Syndrome' (PWS) for the next few weeks. In reality though, I'm reminded of Bill Murray's "It just doesn't matter" speech from Meatballs.

Considering the wide disparity among pollsters, I can't wait to find out which were the REAL POLLSTERS, and which were the POLITICAL HACKS.

A Vote for R & R is a Empty Lunch Box, all your money will be going to the 1% !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Foolish voters help the Mega Rich get Richer, stop the 1% from buying your Democracy - wake up dude !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obama's best choice may be suicide!

Republicans will survive if Obama wins on Tuesday.

But the Democrats have nowhere to go if Obama wins or loses.
Biden is the next champion to hang their hat on? (He's the village idiot and his party knows it). The
Democratic Party no longer has any acumen. Obama has created a substantial
displacement for the Democratic Parties leadership and the party now looks very
one dimensional in its insolent glory.

Every day young Americans are becoming more fiscally conservative
while their social choices lean liberal. Both major parties continued political
insolence only drives these young people to protect themselves. Young
Americans will sadly leave both parties if necessary for their own survival. The political
pendulum always keeps swinging!

Unfortunately many Democrats just don't get how they’ve
allowed Obama to take them so far left. The displacement Obama creates for the
Democrats destroys them even in victory. The Democrats now struggle to find
their core if Obama wins or loses. If Obama wins, the Democratic Party could be
in substantial trouble if the status quo continues another 4 years (and there
really is no light at the end of the tunnel right now). Even now Democratic
leaders are very fearful about the position Obama has put them in. Don't look
for Democratic leadership to support Obama's policies and spending habits over
the next 4 years if he wins (good luck Sandy victims). Obama won’t get any
support from Republicans either, because of the blame game he has played for
the last 4 years. He and his party are really in a pickle and the Chinese and
Western Europe aren’t going to buy down the debt either. He’s definitely a lame
duck in a lame duck term. Suicide might be his best choice. He really has nowhere to hide.

Taken from the pdf file of this poll provided here on the article....

Generally speaking, do you think of yourself as (ROTATE:) a Democrat, a Republican, an independent, or

something else? (IF "DEMOCRAT" OR "REPUBLICAN," ASK:) Would you call yourself a strong

(Democrat/Republican) or not a very strong (Democrat/Republican)? (IF "NOT SURE," CODE AS "NOT

VERY STRONG DEMOCRAT/REPUBLICAN.") (IF "INDEPENDENT," ASK:) Do you think of yourself as

closer to the Republican Party, closer to the Democratic Party, or do you think of yourself as strictly

independent? (IF "NOT SURE," CODE AS "STRICTLY INDEPENDENT.")+

Likely

Voters

Strong Democrat ............................................... 25

Not very strong Democrat ................................. 6

Independent/lean Democrat .............................. 12

Strictly Independent .......................................... 14

Independent/lean Republican............................ 15

Not very strong Republican ............................... 6

Strong Republican ............................................. 20

Other (VOL) ....................................................... 1

Not sure........................................................... 1

+ Results shown reflect responses among likely voters.

Kornfed "Taken from the pdf file of this poll provided here on the article...."

So what's your point?

This is nothing but the 'assumptions' that the pollster used to 'adjust' their poll - giving the Democrats about 20% more respondents than Republicans (31% vs 26%). If Rasmussen and Gallup are correct and there are as many (or more) likely voters who consider themselves Republicans than Democrats, the poll numbers would be very much different. And then there are the Independents, who currently seem to favor Romney.

Most surveys show that the breakdown of voters is about 33% Republicans, 33% Democrats and about 34% Independents. Since exit polls show that those who identify with a political party typically vote 90% for their party's candidate, that means that the Independents typically decide the election.

Like I said in my post #1.103 - "Considering the wide disparity among pollsters, I can't wait to find out which were the REAL POLLSTERS, and which were the POLITICAL HACKS."

ROY WILSON-336103

Kornfed "Taken from the pdf file of this poll provided here on the article...."

So what's your point?

My point is the over sampling of Democrats. It obviously wouldnt be to show the over representation of Republicans...I didnt think it needed commentary, but I guess it did

Kornfed "ROY WILSON-336103 My point is the over sampling of Democrats."

Sorry - I obviously misinterpreted your post. I agree that most polls over-sample Democrats to 'skew' their results. Fortunately, 'The proof is in the pudding', so we will find out tomorrow.

Interestingly, since Ohio is key, and there are a lot of side issues there, we may not know the actual outcome for another week or two.

We know who is getting the blame for tomorrow's GOP loss in two of the three branches, The Bishop. Rove, Rush, and Fox already have their thesauruses out, looking up names to call Willard (ala Monte Python) after they lose. We are once again going to hear Limbaugh whine about 'carrying water' for the losers. Reminding voters of what good government can do for them after a disaster was the final push. Phoney can good drives and lying about the auto industry were terrible decisions. If you can't run a campaign properly, you can't run this nation.

An Independent Thinker:

Kudos. Well said.

Obama/Biden 2012

“Mitt Romney the GOP candidate who violated federal ethics laws will be the first Presidential candidate to be charged before an election for President.”
politicolnews.com/romney-charged-with-ethics-violations-before-the-election/#ixzz2BN9Xgiaz
And this is the man you want for president!!!!!

I belong to neither Party (including the Tea Pots)

Corporate America paid for and bought by the greedy elite!!! Stand up to them, and vote against the person of their choice! Don't let their money take away your freedom!!

Vote Obama/Biden on Nov. 6, 2012!!!

I don't understand why people wait until Election Day to vote, and most likely becoming involved with many voting problems. It's so archaic!! It's so much easier doing the voting with an absentee ballot. That way you don't have to miss work, or stand in long lines up to 6 hours, etc., etc. It wouldn't surprise me that when the Election Day is over, the people still standing in lines will be refused the right to vote, esp. with the Medicare crookster, Rick Scott in FL. How in the world did we ever come to the point where we allowed money to make our choices? Some blind (figuratively and not physically) voters just can't see the greedy, thieving, crook wannabe President from the candidate, who really cares about all the people and the job itself. Media, too, has become the evil messenger disciple with false/misleading reporting to gain their share of the profits/ratings.

If you have not voted yet, get out there to vote no matter what difficulties you may have to face. And then for the next election, make it easy to vote through absentee ballots. Refuse to allow money to buy the elections anymore. We want people in office that know what life is really like and are there for all the people while ignoring the other 47%.

The last line in Post #1.117 should read as follows:

We want people in office that know what life is really like, are there for all the people, and not just ignoring the other 47% with different party philosophies.

I would love to see someone try to intimidate me at the polls. They would find out in a hurry that you dont mess with this citizen's right to vote. I would not do anything stupid mind you. Romney's 47% number seems to be haunting him quite a bit. I dont think it is a good omen for him. Dare I say it is quite funny actually.

These so called democratic elections are nothing more than Gestapo Elections controlled by the corporate wealthy elite money and the crooked Republican, & Tea Party members. Such a huge waste of money that could have been used to hire people for jobs 4 years ago. But, oh no that wouldn't even be considered, since if it wasn't obstructing 100% of everything coming from the Democrat Party. That just shows exactly what the elite thinks of middle class and poor Americans.Those classes are the dirt beneath the fingernails of the wealthy elite and Republicans. Those classes exist to be the corporate elite slaves when they don't know how to vote intellectually, or to insure their right to vote by waiting till zero hour.

To rapidrush:

They'll just take your vote away behind your back with broken, lost, or rigged voting machines. Do you remember the chads and the Diebold voting machines (still out there in Ohio with more bought by Romney's oldest son)???? And we all know how it goes when counting the votes by hand which resulted with the evil Gestapo's in 2000 and 2004, who destroyed our country while the laying all the blame on Obama and Democrats. We don't need any more of the 2000-2008 decade with wasted fiscal spending for things they don't have the money to pay for, esp. with more wars and expanded military.

Too late for this, but I hope it makes headlines before the end of the day tomorrow.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/11/05/dutch-source-confirms-romney-paid-zero-taxes/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our President has provided an economic "plan" for the next 4 years that is mathematically impossible. That cannot work.

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