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ORLANDO, Fla. – Declaring "we are going to get this done," an emotional Michelle Obama rallied a central Florida crowd Monday night, telling supporters on the eve of the election that it's "all on the line" Tuesday.
"Your president is nowhere near satisfied," she said, making the pitch for a second term for her husband, President Barack Obama.
The first lady has maintained a busy schedule visiting key swing states since the Democrats' national convention in Charlotte, N.C., in September.
Here in an Orlando park, she made her final solo campaign appearance of the 2012 cycle.
"Together, slowly but surely, we have been pulling ourselves out of that hole that we started in," Obama said, casting her husband's first term in office as a difficult but productive road to economic recovery.
Though she didn't mention Republican nominee Mitt Romney, she warned against moving backward, touting her husband's overhaul of the health care system and regulation of the financial industry.
The campaign estimated the crowd at 2,600. The decision to hold the first lady's final rally here in Central Florida is no doubt tied to the campaign's strategy to win the state's 29 electoral votes.
Both the Obama and Romney campaigns have poured tens of millions into advertising in the Sunshine State, hoping to win the so-called "I-4 corridor," a key part of the Florida puzzle.
Obama was joined on stage Monday by Sen. Bill Nelson and Puerto Rican-born performer Ricky Martin.
Nelson, who is leading in polls against his Republican challenger, U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, made a pitch for support in Spanish.
Almost 4.5 million people in Florida have already cast ballots, taking advantage of early and absentee voting opportunities here. The latest data from the Florida Secretary of State's office shows that Democrats have cast 1,915,630 votes – giving them a lead against Republicans, who have cast 1,747,977 votes.
But Michelle Obama warned that the president needs every vote he can get.
"Don't let anybody push you out of line," the first lady said, telling those who haven't voted yet to get to the polls early. "Don't let any delays deter you."
Michelle Obama was scheduled to appear later Monday with her husband in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Bahaha....reading some of these post is really comical....
bahaha....and they just keep coming. Really not a laughing matter, people we need to open our eyes & C Romney for who he is. A great business man? Maybe....but difinately a GREAT LIAR!!!! Romey is on the right today and tomorrow maybe the left and then next week down the middle. He really doesn't have any sense of who he is as a canidate. It is whatever will get him the most votes that day. I honestly think he has told so many lies he has lost track of them. He hasn't voiced plans of what he wants to do, you know kind of selling hope dreams, but when asked how he would do it......he doesn't have any answers.... Maya Angelo said it best "when people show you who they are; believe them"We were in a REALLY big rut....HOLE/trench in 2008 when OBAMA took office (how easily we forget), that was in the making for 8 years (THANK U BUSH woohoo), is it really LOGICAL to blame Obama for our slow progression.....we R moving in the right direction now & a Romney win would put us right back in the hole that we ARE DIGGING out of. Sure it is only natural to be disappointed in the speed of recovery, but that's not a excuse to switch the play book, and Coaching staff. Regardless your views, practice ur right to vote b4 tht too is warranted unnecessary and taken away
Travis-Tiyah Ryan-Simmons===Well we really don't know what can be accomplished with Romney as President but we know what Obama has done in the past 4 years. That has proven to be a big mistake and all of the wrong policies at the wrong time. I don't want to see another 4 years of Obama. We have seen his policies in progress and they didn't work. After throwing away the first 2 years on Obama and the Democratic Parties ideas of how this country should be. We the American People were put on hold. Only now does Obama say he has a plan and it's the same one. That's good to know since none of his budgets never got a vote and the Democrats that never produced a budget in Congress for over 3 years. Toss Benghazi into the mess you have a failed President and he needs to be replaced, he has done a terrible job.
Romney doesn't know either bahabhahah thats why when asked he doesn't have any answers. the policies that romney favors I guess u like......the things tht got us where we were wanting change...hell needed a net from the cliff tht the bush admin. pushed us off of. Like I said today Romney has this view on things, then when the wind blows it differs, so i do not think really he is sound enough to be the leader of this GREAT land.
This is a cultural election to me. Do we want a bankrupt nanny state? Do we want continued racial devisiveness? Do we want to continue to turn our backs on our long time allies? Do we want a hip hop society? Vote Romney if you do not want this kind of change to continue
Wait a minute this is the same lady that was only proud to be an American, for the first time in her life, was when her husband became the President? Her Husband Obama, turned a blind eye to the Black Panther voting threat that was documented but never followed up on? This is the same couple that on a Flag Day Celebration said, all of this over a damn flag? This same couple that cost us Millions of Tax Payer Dollars to vacation around the world?
No we need a change alright we need a new President. Vote Romney and then we can start making some progress because we are surely headed in the wrong direction. I don't think anyone will be pushed put of line. I believe the lines will be extra long with people waiting to vote Obama out of office.
obamass showed his true color, by bowing too his muslim king, I would never, ever,trust him or her. the bitch said all this for a flag. My love one, was killed for that flag you @!$%#ING BITCH.
Barack Hussein, the Harvard-educated lifetime politician attorney millionaire, has managed to fool a portion of the population into thinking that he actually gives a crap about them (other than their votes).
At the end of the day, we shall see how many fools there are in this great nation.
The nation and its people do not exist for the purpose of 'satisfying' any politician, do not exist for the purpose of 'satisfying' Barack Obama.
There is not logical reason to place Obama in the White House for an additional four years to allow him to place millions into poverty and homelessness.
It is not acceptible for Barack Obama to push our heads under water until we all stop breathing.
That this election is even close is a very sad statement on American voters.
man you got that right..i can't believe there is ONE adult american who will vote for this asswipe obama...
My only real concern is what happens to Obama's 34 Czars and Michelle's 19 paid hand-maidens after the election?
well moochelle...you know what they say.......you can take the girl out of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of the girl........get rid of this whole stinking obama regime....adios barry...
That's kind of a disrespectful way to talk about the "First Baby-Mama".
sorry vern....i don't respect her or her asswipe husband...
Time to take out the trash, can we ever get the smell out.
I hope that every voter takes a look at the online U.S. National Debt Clock before they go to cast their vote.
Obama
Yo Momma!
U Nose
Dis Brotha
Gots TO GO!!
dats rite:)
hey obama!!!...soon you will be able to wear a dashiki in reverend wright's church...amen brother!!!!
Less than 3,000 people show up at Obama's rally in Orlando? That's not good...Florida will end up in the Romney column...
It appears that Romney's events have been pulling more people than Obama's in a number of swing states.
Goodbye Obama, hello Romney!
The good news is that once Obama leaves the White House in January, he can fly over to Kenya and run in their Presidential election in March. I'm sure they'd give their "boy wonder" 2 terms, so he can screw up their country over the next 10 years instead of ours, and all those Barackoholics who've consumed too much Obama kool aid can move over there with him. Besides, he'd be closer to his family and he wouldn't have to worry about his birth certificate being a problem! LOL..
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"Don't let anybody push you out of line" Right. Like this stupid, racist bitch ever experienced any hardship in her privileged life.
She's an animal. A big, lumbering, gap-toothed, slobbering, animal. I'm sick of seeing her fat arms. She hates this country and she hates Baracks white parents.
Easy for her to say. Couldn't move her out of line with a tow truck.
Time for her failed social experiment of a husband to retire.
I just voted in central Florida and there was no one trying to keep anyone from voting. The paranoid folks need to keep their nose out of this election.
I think she meant to say "Don't let groups like the New Black Panthers intimidate you or force you out of line" and "don't let ACORN like groups steal the election for my husband by having a large number of felons and illegal immigrants vote."
For all of you on the fence about whether to re-elect this divisive, non-transparent, snide-acting, excuse-making, do-nothing president for another miserable four years without jobs, no hope, and plenty of fear of the future, along with a liberal media that is in the bag for him so they won't lose their gay marriage and tax-subsidized, free-for-all abortions, ala, the Benghazi coverup where they won't cover the Nixonian/Benghazi scandal, you need to look at these amazingly, shocking videos about allegations about our alleged crack smacking, closet homosexual president, that have also been buried by the liberal press:
You should also listen to Obama's college classmate here:
I so hope we, the American people, push the First Traveler off taxpayer financed airplanes and into line with the least of us.
Thank God! I am so encouraged! To read that hes " no where ear satisfied yet" tells me theres still a country left! He hasnt yet completed his Marxist-Communist designs...Oh man..you bet nothings going to deter me from that voting booth! Go Florida! We can do this!
"...push you out of line"??? What decade does Mrs. Obama think this is?
Oh Michelle...So many vacations and so little time.
The double standards are ridiculous. Friggin Jay-Z compares Mitt Romney to a "b**ch" at a campaign rally. If anybody had done that on Romney's campaign about Obama...all hell would break loose.
OMG, who wrote and who posts on this site. I suspect George Soros and Scarborough, Brzezinski, and Chris Matthews are posting with the editing performed by Comcast's Brian Roberts. Thank you for my laugh for the day.
If someone is just now verifying their voter registration today and finding out where they go to vote then they must not have been to involved in the process.........or just did not bother with the Primaries. If you do not know what you need to present to vote then where have you been? Really no wonder we have some of the challenges if it is such a last minute thing for some...........it is a privilege.
Never heard of anyone pushing anyone out of line and I have been voting for over 40 yrs. The implication there is wrong in so many ways not sure where to begin.