So you really like that ad where Romney out and out lies to you about Jeep moving your jobs to China? I bet you loved the one about President Obama taking the work out of welfare lie? I mean Romney tells you easily provable lies and your are in the bag for him?

The republicans keep calling us libtards, but I think someone would have to be dumber than rocks to vote for a candidate who openly lies to everyone over and over.

MITT ROMNEY PAID ZERO TAXES FROM 1996 TO 2009.

Romney is a SALESMAN, A BAIN vulture CEO. He is looking out for the top 0.01% - the Adelson's want their $5Trilion tax cut.

Romney is running on GWB's tired old hand-me-down policies that created the worse economic depression in 60 years.

Watch out for Ohio - Husted is accused of ordering voter-machine software.

And the headline here, after Romney's concession speech, will read...

THAT'S FUNNY. WHERE ARE ALL OF THE REPUBLICON TROLLS?

DEWEY WINS!!!! - Faux Newz

With Romney more than an hour late thanks to a ground stop at the Philadelphia airport, some frustrated and frozen supporters streamed out of the event while Romney spoke

The reason may not have been the waiting, more likely was the message. Some of his so called supporters have finally seen through the haze of lies coming out of his campaign and decided to bolt.

And the headline here, after Romney's concession speech, will read...

That will be Willard's best speech to date, and one that he can't Flip-Flop on.

O&Joe 2012

YES, fellow Progressives - CAN HARDLY WAIT FOR MYTH ROBME'S CONCESSION SPEECH!

After that, he'll go home to one of the 6 states, where he owns mansions, but the people don't like him enough to vote for him. :-)

THE. BEST. POLLING. DATA. EVER. (Unless you buy the silliness Faux Noise is selling - LOL!)

Nate predicts on Nov. 6,
President Obama is 85.5% 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: PA - 97.9%

President Obama chances of winning: *OHIO* - 86%

President Obama chances of winning: IOWA - 83%

President Obama chances of winning: WISC - 94%

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! :-)

Romney's Pennsylvania reach foreshadows election outcome

One pundit called Pa, "Fools gold for Republicans". They go there with high hopes, only to lose the State anyway...

O&Joe 2012

Updated for 9:40pm EST on Sunday, November 4, 2012:

*** Revised RCP averaged polling numbers plus new FiveThirtyEight projections across the board.

Obama's leads have been strengthening in Ohio, Iowa, and Nevada over the weekend while weakening in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan; Romney has stabilized his position in both Florida and North Carolina.

Curiously, polling in Colorado, New Hampshire, and Virginia has been strangely absent over the past two days.

Mischief alert: Quite a bit of suspect outlier polling favorable to Romney being floated out in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan today in the face of multiple polling which confirms strong Obama leads in each of these states. The Karl Rove axiom of 'shape perceptions to alter outcomes,' perhaps?

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With less than 26 hours to go in the 2012 presidential campaign, Real Clear Politics (RCP) continues to report that Obama leads in eight of their 11 toss-up states with Romney leading in three.

In descending order of 'percentage of lead' in favor of Obama, followed in ascending order of 'percentage of lead' in favor of Romney, here are the published averaged numbers from RCP as of 9:40pm EST together with the most recent FiveThirtyEight election night probabilities of victory for either candidate:

In WISCONSIN, with 10 electoral votes, Obama's lead fell this morning to 4.2%, down from 5.0% on Saturday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 94.3% chance of victory here, up by 1.0% from Friday and by an astounding 8.6% since Tuesday.

*** Advisory: It should be noted that RCP's average in Wisconsin has been influenced by an outlier poll from the right-leaning Rasmussen which has the race at a dead heat when four other current polls have Obama leading by 8.0%, 7.0%, 3.0%, and 3.0%. In fact, the 7.0% Obama lead was affirmed recently by another Right-leaning poll (WeAskAmerica) which is wholly funded by the conservative Illinois Manufacturing Association.

In PENNSYLVANIA, with 20 electoral votes, Obama's lead fell this morning to 3.9%, down from 4.1% on Saturday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 97.9% chance of victory here, up by 1.8% from Friday and by a significant 3.8% since Tuesday.

*** Advisory: It should be noted that RCP's average in Pennsylvania also has been influenced this weekend by the release of an outlier poll from the conservative Pittsburgh Tribune-Review which has the race at a dead heat when two other findings have Obama's lead at 3.0% and 6.0%.

In MICHIGAN, with 16 electoral votes, Obama's lead fell this morning to 3.8%, down from 4.0% on Saturday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 98.6% chance of victory here, up 0.2% from Friday and by 0.5% since Tuesday.

*** Advisory: It should be noted that RCP's average here has been influenced by yet another outlier poll, one released by Baydoun/Foster (D), a self-described Democrat-leaning voter analytics consulting firm based in Michigan, which has Romney up by 1.0% when four other polls have Obama leading by 6.0%, 6.0%, 5.0%, and 3.0%. In fact, the 5.0% finding for Obama was published late last week by Rasmussen, another Right-leaning poll. The irony is that Baydoun/Foster has consistently produced polling results which favor Republican candidates up and down the ticket in Michigan and their results, by and large, remain highly suspect.

In IOWA, with 6 electoral votes, Obama's lead rose this evening to 3.0%, up from 2.0% on Saturday morning. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama an 80.7% chance of victory here, down by 2.4% from Friday but up and by a substantial 6.8% since Tuesday.

In OHIO, with 18 electoral votes, Obama's lead held today at 2.8%, up from 2.6% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama an 86.0% chance of victory here, up by 5.3% from Friday and by an astronomical 12.7% since Tuesday.

In NEVADA, with 6 electoral votes, Obama's lead held today at 2.8%, up from 2.4% on Friday.
FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama an 90.1% chance of victory here, up by 2.9% from Friday and by an astonishing 10.4% since Tuesday.

In NEW HAMPSHIRE, with 4 electoral votes, Obama's lead held today at 1.5%, down from 1.8% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama an 79.4% chance of victory here, up by 0.7% from Friday and by an astounding 9.1% since Tuesday.

In COLORADO, with 9 electoral votes, Obama's lead held today at 0.6%, down from 0.9% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 69.3% chance of victory here, up by 3.6% from Friday and by an astronomical 13.9% since Tuesday.

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In VIRGINIA, with 13 electoral votes, Romney's lead held today at 0.3%, down from 0.5% on Friday. Interestingly, FiveThirtyEight increased Obama's chance of victory here (and not Romney's) to 70.7%, up by a substantial 5.9% from Friday.

In FLORIDA, with 29 electoral votes, Romney's lead held today at 1.4%, up from 1.2% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Romney a 55.0% chance of victory here, up by 0.2% from Friday.

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

In NORTH CAROLINA, with 15 electoral votes, Romney's lead continued to hold at 3.8%. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Romney a 79.7% chance of victory here, down 0.2% from Friday.

So...

In order for Obama to win re-election the least complex route would be through maintaining his current lead in the five toss-up states where his existing margins are widest (Wisconsin at 4.2%, Pennsylvania at 3.9%, Michigan at 3.8%, Iowa at 3.0%, and Ohio at 2.8%. Doing so would bring his electoral vote total on Election Day to 271. In this scenario, Obama could still surpass 270 while failing to hold Nevada, New Hampshire, and Colorado.

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

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

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

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

Path #3: Obama comes from behind to win Florida. This scenario would require only that Obama win the three states in which his present leads are widest (Wisconsin at 4.2%, Pennsylvania at 3.9%, and Michigan at 3.8%), resulting in 276 electoral votes.

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

Path A: Romney steals both Ohio and Colorado resulting in 275 electoral votes (least unlikely outcome).

Path B: Romney steals both Ohio and New Hampshire resulting in 270 electoral votes.

Path C: Romney steals both Pennsylvania and Colorado resulting in 277 electoral votes.

Path D: Romney steals both Pennsylvania and New Hampshire resulting in 272 electoral votes (most unlikely).

Working against two of these scenarios (Paths A and B) are rising averaged polling numbers over the past two days for Obama in Ohio; however, in that same forty-eight hour period Romney has succeeded in reducing Obama's averaged leads in Pennsylvania, Colorado, and New Hampshire. Perhaps somewhat mystifyingly, the Romney campaign continues to make pronouncements alluding to their having embraced the "Pennsylvania Strategy" included in Paths 3 and 4 above, the two paths which have the least likely chance of success.

So, is this a bold strategic maneuver on the part of Eric Fehrnstrom or a feint designed to counter Obama's anticipated re-allocation of campaign resources to a quantifiably softening political landscape in Florida? If it's the latter, a review of the published travel schedules for the President and key Democrat surrogates for tomorrow, with the one exception of Bill Clinton, does not suggest the Obama campaign is taking the bait.

In any event, should Romney fail to steal either Ohio or Pennsylvania he could overcome this shortfall by capturing the four other states in which Obama's current leads are smallest (Colorado at 0.6%, New
Hampshire at 1.5%, Nevada at 2.8%, and Iowa at 3.0%) resulting in an electoral vote total of 273.

FiveThirtyEight this morning estimates the chance of Election Day victory for each candidate as follows: Obama 85.5% (up significantly from Friday morning's 80.9%) and Romney 14.5% (down by a similar margin from Friday's 19.1%).

FiveThirtyEight now also projects that on Election Day the final electoral tally will be as follows: Obama 306 (up 7 from Wednesday's 299) and Romney 232 (down 7 from Wednesday's 239).

Lastly, although it makes no difference in terms of the final result which can only be determined by the Electoral College, FiveThirtyEight currently predicts a national popular vote distribution on Election Day as follows: Obama 50.5% (up from Thursday's 50.4%) and Romney 48.5% (down from Thursday's 48.6%).

With only 26 hours of campaigning left, and with Friday's published October jobs report playing to predictably mixed reviews (economy adding more jobs than expected; unemployment rate ticking up one tenth of one percent to 7.9%), holdout voters may now be left to nothing more than the proverbial 'feel in their gut' as Tuesday approaches.

My own predictions: Look for craziness down in Florida on Election Day and an unwillingness on the part of the Ohio Secretary of State, Jon Husted, to call the election in his state in a timely manner. In spite of these obstacles, Obama wins the White House with an electoral vote total of 332 to Romney's 206, taking Virginia and Florida along the way.

It is desperation by Romney to go to PA, maybe he could have a prayer breakfast service with Santorum? Talk about a total cast of GOP losers. I hope to never see them again except on SNL reruns..........

Fantasizing again ticked. By the way Obama doesn't have to win Ohio but he will. On the other hand Romney has to win it or it's lights out. Face it, the party's over.

Gov TOM Corbett? Is that the same guy as the former DA in Pa who allowed Jerry Sandusky to continue to rape children for 3 YEARS AFTER AN INDICTMENT WAS HANDED DOWN? Who gave MONEY to Sandusky's foundation following the indictment? THAT Gov Corbett? Then again, the Christian RW and buggering children seems to be....ah never mind. Dont want to offend anyone with the truth!

Wow, yet another RW hero! Right up there with Scott Desjarlais here in Tennessee who is "Pro-Life"...until his mistress gets knocked up.

You Neo-Cons really need to start finding a better class of people to follow!

Despite your spin I see a pattern too..."Our President."

The wish and probability to commit fraud is becoming increasingly evident by the GOP. Democrats, we must vote in great numbers. We must do so with the attitude, that the right to do so is as fundamental as breathing. Anyone who attempts to stop or question that innate right must be fought, just as one would fight another who tried to deny anyone of us air for breath. Anyone gets in your face, tell 'em to get outta your face, then call the authorities. Make sure going in, you know who and where to call. Go to the aid of anyone whom you believe is being subjected to voter interference. Lastly, do not leave until you have made yourself understood by someone of authority, and then leave only if the Authority coherently explains why you are ineligible to participate, and you agree with such. If all else fails, Course this is a personal choice, you could do like I did in the 2004 election, when I knocked a republican poll worker on His sorry ass. Cost me $1500.00 lawyer fees, but I was found "not guilty" and the county had to pay Court costs and reimburse me the lawyer fees, and I still voted. Vote! Don't allow any son-of-a-bitch to deny you this most basic right!

well #1.9 (Cant) - your apparent lack of education is appalling. WHO caused the lack of security for Americans traveling the world? Can you say SHRUB? I knew you could. After the military action that infuriated the muslim world, WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU EXPECT? ROSES?

Romney paid all his taxes in accordance with all laws. Next question, Dems....

Prove it, Truth Conveyer.

Put a Fork in It.

It's Oven Ready and Toasty Brown.

All we need to do to this Turkey, is slap some Butter on it.

You REPUBLICANS and TEABAGGERS aren't just

LOSING this ELECTION

you've ALREADY LOST.

You just haven't Noticed that you've ALREADY have HIT the GROUND,

Ouch!

Ain't Life Grand?

arf. arf.

Hey you crazy-wacko TEABAGGERS and you hideous-horrific REPUBLICANS,

Want to know another SECRET?

You were RIGHT all along.

OBAMA really was BORN in KENYA and he really is a MUSLIM.

You Guys were Right all along.

Hah. Hah.

It's too LATE now!

Looks like that on this Wednesday Morning

PRESIDENT OBAMA will be handing out free ISLAMIC PRAYER RUGS

to all you crazy-wacko TEABAGGERS so you can all KNEEL and WORSHIP towards MECCA.

Ain't Life Grand?

ps. Is this a Great post, or what?

Next Question Conveyor

George Romney released 12 yearsworth of tax returns to the American people when he ran for president. Since then, presidential candidates -- Republicans and Democrats-- have followed his lead and released multiple tax records for public scrutiny.

All presidential candidates, except one.

Mitt Romney has only released one year of records after persistent pressure. It raises the question: What does Mitt Romney have to hide?

Romney has some explaining to do: Romney admits he has huge amounts of money in offshore bank
accounts -- but won't say how much money, how many accounts, or where they all are

Vanity Fair reports that Romney set up shell companies in Bermuda and tax shields in the Cayman Islands and Swiss Bank accounts And just this week, Romney's campaign said it was "unseemly and disgusting" for people to scrutinize his tax returns and business holdings

Unseemly? Disgusting? It's the same thing every presidential candidate has done since 1968. Everyone except Mitt Romney.

So, we have to ask: What's he hiding?

RobUs = economic traitor

Crystal

As if you know squat. You really like to call people names it's okay that's what losers do. Bend over sweetie and kiss your a** goodbye.

Obama's campaign said its wishful thinking on Romney's part to think PA is in play. If that's the case how come Bill Clinton will be there tomorrow, and not just one stop, but four?

Lynspug,

Gee, I see you have adopted the Obamaland law: "I am king, therefore I can make laws up as I go along"

The reason Romney does not have to prove anything is this:

1). He has not done anything wrong. You may want to check with the IRS and the people who he donated 30% of his income to if he did anything wrong.

I do have a suggestion though. Why doesn't Obama prove he did not do anything wrong when he left our people out to dry in Benghazi. HE needs to prove that!

Next question, Dems.

WhichKing,

Obamas grades on my desk tomorrow please. Next question....

One of these guys is going to be Humpty Dumpty after the fall long about Wednesday. I know Romney has fervent supporters (and magic underwear) ...elsewhere some are heckling the President, but I think Mitt Ryan will get the rotten egg award.

From the NYT’s Michael Barbaro:

From USA Today’s Jackie Kucinich:

Here is some real breaking news.....

And Now we hear that Romney was not letting people leave his rally who wanted to leave....

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/04/1155596/-Romney-Campaign-TRAPS-supporters-wanting-to-leave-PA-Rally

http://americablog.com/2012/11/romney-staff-refusing-to-let-frostbitten-children-leave-pa-rally.html

http://www.democrats.org/news/press/romneys_pa_fantasy_turns_into_disaster

I cannot WAIT until someone leaks Romney's tax returns! McCain saw 23 years of Romney's returns, as I recall, and then PASSED on Romney in favor of Sarah Palin.

I will also PASS on Romney. He's missing his soul.

PENNSYLVANIA!!!!

Romney/Ryan with Chris Christie for a "bipartisan' USofA, not one built on "REVENGE!!!!!!" (Obama, November 2012)

Pennsylvania. I would laugh so hard if Romney won that. The biggest upset in an election ever. Go ahead Obama, you can have Ohio's 18. We'll take Pennsylvania's 20.

Still if he takes Pennsylvania, this election would probably be a landslide, because he's polling way better in the other swing states. I like the idea though, and the fact that the Romney campaign is investing there, while the Obama campaign desperately clings to Ohio, says something.

With Romney more than an hour late thanks to a ground stop at the Philadelphia airport, some frustrated and frozen supporters streamed out of the event while Romney spoke

The reason may not have been the waiting, more likely was the message. Some of his so called supporters have finally seen through the haze of lies coming out of his campaign and decided to bolt.

Maybe so, but that still left about 29,900 plus of the original 30,000 plus to listen to him ask for their votes.

You have to do a lot of scrolling to get past all the 0bamaBots cut and pastings they do on every Election artice....

Explain this then....Why is Bill Clinton spending the whole day in PA, with 4 hastily arranged Campaign stops if they are so sure PA is in the bag ???

Because the latest poll has the race tied, that's why.

Romney will lose his birth state (MI), home state where he governed, other home state (NH), and other home state (CA). Guess the 'native son' isn't so well appreciated for his flip-flopping loyalties.

Research between now and tomorrow Mitt's record as Gov in Massachusetts and then explain to me why he's so low in the polls there.

Let's see, in the spring of 2004, Peabody, Mass., got drenched with rain, which flooded the downtown area. After the storm, then-Gov. Mitt Romney asked President George W. Bush to declare Essex, Middlesex and Suffolk Counties federal disaster areas, according to the Boston Globe.

That fall, the state legislature proposed spending $5.7 million on a flood prevention project to protect against future floods. Those funds would be matched by $22 million in federal mone. Romney vetoed it. Last week, Romney has come under fire for suggesting that the federal government get out of the business of disaster relief. But his record in Massachusetts doesn’t lend much support to the suggestion that states can handle it alone.

Once again, where's the real Mitt? Can't trust this guy with anything!

Looks like Tick #1, is on TOP of her Rubbish !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If it's a bluff why all the huffing and puffing?

When people feel fear they tend to seek others that share their fears and repeat over and over to one another their thinking about what will calm their fears!

Hey Tick, Enough with that Fox ReTarded News info, that garbage doesn't work, put the trash out for the landfill !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Romney is playing to huge crowds everywhere he goes, and Obama much smaller then in 2008. Biden had a mere 900 show up to one of his events in Colorado. Obama crowds are down, absentee ballots are way down from 2008, and Romney has a 12 point lead among independents. Everything is in place for a lopsided Romney victory, something the country desperately needs. Can't wait to hear the liberals crying, after the joyful announcement that Obama is one and done.

So let me try and get this straight. You democrats want myself and others to give obama another four years to try and do what he promised to do in his first term as President of the United States? When people really think about... it, you know the ones that haven't bought into the smoke and mirror tactics, giving him a second chance does not make sense.

It's funny a job report that came out right before the election, and the last time they released a report they dropped the unemployment % to what is was in the latest report, and they fought tooth and nail about how they didn't fudge numbers, and how dare people are saying they lied on the report. Hence the last report came out after obama got curb stomped by Romney in the first debate. Funny how a week later they came out and said due to a system error California was left out of the last report and more excuses, but yet the unemployment numbers still stayed at 7.9%. So I wonder what they left out this time?

Then we can move to the Libya issue. How it took obama 14 days to declare it a terrorist attack, and in those 14 days he blamed it on a video. Let me see didn't Libya ask for more security for 9/11 due to knowledge of terrorist cells in the area four days before 9/11, but obama and biden told the people they had no knowledge that they requested security. Didn't intelligence agencies two hours after the attack notify this administration that it was indeed an organized attack done by terrorists, yet again they didn't know this and blamed it on a video. How about we look at this whole Arab spring situation and see how it turned into a FUBAR (F'ed Up Beyond All Recognition) agenda of obama's? With Mubarak in Egypt women could be in the streets without male escort, could own their own shops, drive a car, go to school. Other religious groups could practice their faith in peace, they even helped protect the muslim protesters when it was their time to pray and now they are killing non-muslims, burning their churches/places of praying down to the ground. The new government wants to reevaluate the peace treaty to Israel. In Libya under Gaddafi women could walk down the streets without male escort, drive, educate themselves. Now the government there said day one after killing Gaddafi that Sharia law would be the law of the land, so that means the women of this nation are nothing but property to the men. Let me educate you democrats in something your dear obama said in 2007 telling the Boston Globe when running for POTUS; "The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation." So him acting without it appears to be at odds with what he stood for when he ran for president the first time. If it is a threat the POTUS has 90 days to declare war on that nation to protect the United States, after that he needs congressional approval and congress needs to declare war. Wait, didn't obama tell congress he does not need congressional approval to attack Libya, because he has UN and NATO approval to do it? Didn't he get his little puppy dog panetta to tell a congressional hearing the same thing? Hey at least Bush Jr. got congressional approval! Can any of you democrats tell me how and in what way was Libya an actual or imminent threat to our nation? I'll wait....... Don't worry about it, I'm sure you all will come up with some kind of new zing to make yourselves feel better!

Here is something else that seems very interesting to me and others that you are asking to vote for obama. It took obama 7 days to visit Joplin, Missouri after a tornado wiped out half of the town and left 120 people dead. It took him 14 days to visit the gulf coast after the BP oil spill. obama declined to visit Tennessee after the historic 2010 "1000 year floods". obama ignored the Texas wildfires when over 400 homes were lost. Oh yeah obama ignored the calls for assistance from Benghazi where we lost 4 Americans. But it took obama only one day to visit the hurricane damage on the east coast. Oh yeah!!! There is an election coming up!!! Again I'll wait to see if you democrats have a reply or even a zing to it!!!

I just have a three more things I want to bring to the democrats attention and maybe just maybe they could have an answer for me and the others that are wondering the same things. You know how when obama says he wants to get the rich to pay more taxes to make it fair. Wouldn't it make more sense to make sure that all the 1% people pay their taxes instead of increasing the taxes on them? See here is a little math for you all. Let me say a democrat makes $100,000 a year and let us say we do a flat 20% tax for everyone including the top 1%. That means this democrat will pay $20,000 in taxes for the year. Now let's take a 1% person and say they made $20 million. At 20% they would have paid $4,000,000 in taxes. It would take the democrat at the same pay, 800 years to pay the same in taxes that the top 1% person paid in one year. So can you all really stand there and say it is fair to make them pay more in taxes? Wouldn't it be fairer to just make sure all the 1% pay taxes and don't find loop holes to not pay? A great quote from a great man "to take from one … in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." That great man is Thomas Jefferson.

2nd to last thing I want to talk about is a few stats of obama and the previous president during their reelection years: Sept 2004 Bush Jr. Reelection vs. Obama's September 2012 numbers in (); Unemployment 5.4% (8.1%), Number of Unemployed 8 million (12.5 million), Number of Unemployed and Underemployed 18.5 million (23.1 million), Jobs Added in August (data released in September) 142,000 (96,000), Median Household Income $54,788 ($50,054), 2Q GDP Estimate 3.3% (1.3%), Labor Force Participation 66% (63.5%), Average Gallon of Gasoline $1.92 ($3.83), Crude Oil (Barrel) $48.86 ($92.89), Debt Per Person $25,105 ($51,155), Consumer Confidence 96.8% (70.3%), Federal Debt $7.4 trillion ($16.1 trillion). Now I'm not saying Bush was a great or even good POTUS, but numbers don't lie, and the third thing I want to mention has a lot to do with these numbers and how they got so bad.

When obama was elected he had 6 months of super majority in both the house and senate. With a super majority you can get what ever you want done, and passed. The other party could not stop it. Why was nothing done to so called help us out from what the previous administration caused. That all the blame is being put on the previous administration. All they did was scare the public and D.C. into getting the stimulus bill passed that hasn't done what it was supposed to do, and to pass obamacare. You democrats should know what obamacare is all about right? Oh wait, you wouldn't, none of us would. Just like one of your fellow democrats from California nancy pelosi said when asked what is in it. We will just have to find out after it is passed! You have to be kidding me!!! We still have yet to find out what's in it, but what we do know is it contains a loosely worded mandate that the federal government can force people to buy a product or suffer penalties. So can any of you explain how nothing was done with 6 months with a super majority? Again I'll wait.........................

tc-3804346 ...(#1.40)..."Romney will lose his birth state (MI), home state where he governed, other home state (NH), and other home state (CA). Guess the 'native son' isn't so well appreciated for his flip-flopping loyalties.

JFK would be too Conservative to win Massachusetts today....Boston, The Cradle of Liberty would now vote for King George ......they've gone full circle....

Fewer Than 200 Show Up for Obama Rally Featuring Stevie Wonder at Cleveland State University...

TO: CantAffordNoMore who wrote:

"...Obama has made a mockery of the highest office in the land (maybe the world). None of our people are safe, anywhere in the world..."

How, in your mind, did President Obama "make a mockery out of the highest office in the land"?

As far as "being safe" goes, the ONLY time we were hit by terrorists on American Soil is when Republicans were in the White House.

Republicans when we got hit on 9/11 Republicans swore we were being kept safe.

Now that we are 100% under Democrat President Obama, Republicans say "none of us are safe".

Has any reasonable person ever heard of such a backwards mindset that Republicans can't it straight of when they are "safe" and when they were "attacked"?

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012

TO: Mike in Delray who wrote:

"Fewer Than 200 Show Up for Obama Rally Featuring Stevie Wonder at Cleveland State University..."

I read that 25,000 people showed up.

Geez, Republicans really ARE bad with numbers! Too "fuzzy" for you? Seems so.

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012 !

American Girl-724855.... You're funny. And could use a history lesson.

American Girl-724855, you're funny! You could also use a history lesson.

AmericanGirlf-724855, you are funny! You could use a history lesson.

MORRISVILLE, PA -- Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney traveled here to Pennsylvania on Sunday for a trip that, in two days or so, would seem either prescient or desperate.

History proved that it was desperate.

The election was held ten days ago and Romney lost Pennsylvania. Since the state has OVER a MILLION more registered Democrats than Republicans, no one really needed a crystal ball to see that outcome.

Mr. Fabulous Businessman proved that he is just an empty suit. He would have run the country the same way he ran his campaign... completely out of touch with reality.

Just curious. Do you have anything concrete to back up your opinion? As one of the "confederacy of fools" I am really wanting to be educated in this area. Why am I a fool? Be specific, please.

OH forgodsakes, Kannin . . .

when are you going to stop posting this "article" that maybe was (in)correctly translated from a newspaper in . . . . PRAGUE! yeah, we American voters all pay sooo much attention to a newspaper written in the Czech Republic

Somehow I think maybe something from an American paper, written by economist Robert Reich might be more appealing . . . .

"ROMNEYISM"

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

The ten guiding principles of Romneyism are:

1. Corporations are the basic units of society. Corporations are people, and the overriding purpose of an economy is to maximize corporate profits. When profits are maximized, the economy grows fastest. This growth benefits everyone in the form greater output, better products and services, and higher share prices.

2. Workers are a means to the goal of maximizing corporate profits. If workers do not contribute to that goal, they should be fired. If they cannot then find other work that helps maximize profits in another company, their wages must be too high, and they must therefore accept steadily lower wages until they find a job.

3. All factors of production -- capital, physical plant and equipment, workers -- are fungible and should be treated the same. Any that fail to deliver high competitive returns should be replaced or discarded. This keeps an economy efficient. Fairness is and should be irrelevant.

4. Pollution, unsafe products, unsafe working conditions, financial fraud, and other negative side effects of the pursuit of profits are the price society pays for profit-driven growth. They should not be used as excuses to constrain the pursuit of profits through regulation.

5. Individual worth depends on net worth -- how much money one has made, and the value of the assets that money has been invested in. Any person with enough intelligence and ambition can make a fortune. Failure to do so is sign of moral and intellectual inferiority.

6. People who fail in the economy should not be coddled. They should not receive food stamps, Medicaid, or any other form of social subsidy. Coddling leads to a weaker society and a weaker economy.

7. Taxes are inherently bad because they constrain profit-making. It is the right and responsibility of individuals and corporations to exploit every tax loophole they (and their tax attorneys) can find in order to pay the lowest taxes possible.

8. Politics is a game whose only purpose is to win. Any means used to win the game is legitimate even if it involves lying and cheating, as long as it gains more supporters than it loses.

9. Democracy is dangerous because it is forever vulnerable to the votes of a majority intent on capturing the wealth of the successful minority, on whom the economy depends. The rich must therefore do whatever is necessary to prevent the majority from exercising its will, including spending large sums of money on lobbyists and political campaigns. The most virtuous among the rich will go a step further and run for president.

10. The three most important aspects of life are family, religion, and money. Patriotism is a matter of guarding our economy from unfair traders and undocumented immigrants, rather than joining together for the common good. We owe nothing to one another as citizens of the same society.

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On Tuesday we'll decide whether these should be the guiding principles of America.

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IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT FOR AMERICA?

HECK NO, VOTE O & JOE! :-)

"...a citizenry capable of entrusting an inexperienced man like him with the Presidency."

Ummm, you do know that Obama spent three entire terms as Illinois state senator, before he became a US senator, before he was elected President? Right?

You do know that Mitt's only political experience was as a one-term governor after which he couldn't run again because he would have lost in a landslide? And you do know that he's losing not only in Massachusetts, where he was governor, but in Michigan, where his dad was governor, too?

Apparently not. I'm sure Fox News didn't cover all that.

Anemone - You do realize Obama was a US seantor from 2005 until he became president, right? You do realize that he was a Senator in a democrat controlled House and Senate during Bush's last term? You do realize that your excuse for Obama not getting anything done during his last two years was because ONLY the House was repuplican controlled and that means that Bush couldn't get anything done because BOTH houses of Congress were democrat controlled?

That means that Senators Obama and Biden caused the so-called 'economis mess' that they so-called inherited.

Face it, Obama OWNS the mess of our economy and doesn't have the experience to not only understand what is wrong, but doesn't have a clue as to how to fix it.

ANYBODY who is STUPID enough to vote for ROBME has consumed the KOOL-AIDE. If that bastard gets elected, look to go hot on another military action with IRAN this time - in perhaps 18 months MAXIMUM. His theme song will probably be "Bomb, bomb, bomb...bomb, bomb IRAN!"

@Kannin#2: The very acute and very greatest threat to the continuation of this nation as a representative democracy of Free people is, in fact, people like yourself. Uneducated, weakminded, cell phone yalping, REDNECKS are becoming the howling voices of pure gwaddamned lunacy, lunacy upon which people like "lying Romney" totally depend. Tea Party and It's members could not exist with an absence of such people. People like the various gang of "rapist's could not be running for the Congress if people like you did not exist. Untried Felons like "Darrell Issa" could not sit in Congress if It wasn't for people like you. You'll never overcome your lunacy through the counsel and teachings of other lunatics. Additionally, the cost to this country of trying to cope with such egregious stupidity is becoming greater than the national defense costs. Call it what you wish, but It is what It is.

kannin

Are you really that stupid? You post the same garbage day after day. This is the same post you put up yesterday. Repukelicans like you like broken records. Try using that brain to come up with something new. OOPS forgot you're a little slow between the ears..

Crystal:

And Obama says, "High gas prices are good too!" HE is in it for the citizens of this nation. NOT

http://cofcc.org/2012/02/obama-says-high-gas-prices-are-good-for-the-evironment/

Romney/Ryan for a Strong USofA

He is Black and you can't stand it. What I fear is all the wingnut conspiracies that will appear after Obama wins.

I believe Rupert Murdoch set out to destroy America with Fox News as an experiment in how stupid Americans are and he has succeeded.

Why is it that some states are unable to manage the procedure of voting? Why should anyone stand in line for 7, 8 or 9 hours and end up voting at 1:00 AM in the morning? Why can't they provide better facilities for voting? What are they afraid of? May be it is to show that government is unable to manage anything properly! People will not give Obama the credit for getting rid of Bin Laden but blame him for Bengazi. If Obama is responsible for Bengazi, Bush is responsible for 9/11 attack on New York. People of Ohio should be thanking Obama for the auto rescue. It is funny that some one wants Obama to show his college transcripts etc. but is not demanding to see Romney's tax returns. Is Romney left of Ted Kennedy, severly consewrvative or a moderate. I want Romney to show the real Romney. Don't forget the 47% comment. I am sure quite a few of those ranting and raving against Obama are one of those 47% and will wait for the trickle down from the "Job creators" (the top 10%) while the Republicans "Expand their tax base"(the rest).

Hey Kannin. I am gratuitously insulted that you rudely call me and the 51% of the electorate who voted for our President last time foolish/fools. I have already voted for him again. What was the alternative? Romney, once we got to "know" him, turned out to be un-knowable and inconsistent. No tax returns, no consistent policy statements (except that, trust him, the economy would magically improve under his skilled off-shoring and outsourcing, bankrupting and government bail-out taking CEO leadership). So, what are you on about, except to call the majority names?

I'm putting you on ignore, so I won't have to read your sillyness come Wednesday.

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting an inexperienced man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president.

Bin Laden

The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.

Bin Laden

The Republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of Idiots such as those who made him their president."

Bin Laden

Republicans = 0

Obama = Bin Laden

NeoCons suck says "He is Black and you can't stand it."

Once again out pops the race card. If you disagree with Obama you are a racist. If you don't vote for Obama it is because he is black. That is all liberals have to combat a failed presidency. Obviously the condition of the country will have nothing to do with why Obama loses tomorrow, it will be racist. Ironic that the nation overwhelmingly put aside race to elect Obama, and now not re-electing him is racist. Maybe the problem with liberals is that they cannot see beyond the color of his skin to the job Obama has done. Or more accurately failed to do. Obama is simply not a leader, he is a complainer, he blames, and he makes excuses. Obama had his chance, and he did not earn another. That is why Obama will lose tomorrow.

But Romney has some advantages here that make the state a tempting target so late in the game. In addition to GOP ad spending in the state, Republicans won two major statewide races here in 2010, electing Sen. Pat Toomey and Gov. Tom Corbett. The Romney campaign also boasts of a robust ground-game here, in part as a holdover of those successes.

Could the Presidents record be a asset for Mr Romney?

You could have said 4 years ago that Obama's experience was possibly a weak link. That argument does not fly today. There arent too many people that have more experience than Obama does at being President of the USA. Romney/Ryan on the other hand are by far the least experienced pair in foreign affairs that have ever been offered to the American people for serious consideration for a Presidential election.