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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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The only Problems I have heard about with line problems at the polls happen in Houston Texas when NAACP forced there way on voters at a polling station and started moving Obama supporters to the front of the line ahead of others. maybe this is what Mechelle is talking about with her commit of not letting them push you back out of line after being able to cut line in by this real raciest Group
Conservatives are not proud americans. They are no different then the taliban.
Go get your Prozac and your electroshock treatments... you have departed from reality....
I'm sure every Dem is so proud at our President's attempt to cover up the Lybia death of 4 Americans! If you knew the truth you would be ashamed of the president.
If a New Black Panther thug or an SEIU goon tries to intimidate you with a baseball bat, pull your concealed carry weapon, and put two in his or her center of mass. Guaranteed, the rest will scatter like the cockroaches that they are.... And when Obama loses, keep those weapons close... so that you don't end up like the guy who was dragged from his truck and bashed in the head with a brick during the Rodney King riots. The "entitled" will surely go berserk when the Panderer in Chief goes down....
I think the liberals are coming unhinged. How dare anyone challenge their Dear Leader. He is going to give them stuff so they don't have to take care of themselves. Simple fact is this, NO government run economy that has ever existed has done well. None. It is the reason Europe has had struggles for years and is facing meltdown now. It is the reason the Soviet Union collapsed. Obama believes that you expand the middle class the economy will be hunky dory. However, the belies the fact that you must have those willing to take risks to create jobs and expand the economy. Our economy is not a finite pie. It is an ever growing pie. When it is growing, the middle class expands. When it is held in check, like Obama wants to do, it doesn't grow and the middle class is hurt. Indeed, the libbies LOVE to expound on the Clinton years. Yet libbies won't tell you that Clinton really didn't change Bush 1 economic policies. Why? Because they were beginning to work when he first ran and he knew it. Obama promised to cut the deficit in half, and even full Democrat control for two years, couldn't get it done. The Dems couldn't even pass a budget. Obama's only solution is to throw more money at the problem, then toss some red meat at the libbie voter by blaming the rich when even raising their taxes like he wants is a mere drop in the bucket. A chump is someone who keeps voting for the same stuff over and over thinking this will FINALLY be when they do what they say. Obama voters are chumps. Democrat voters are chumps. The Democrats promise you everything and deliver nothing. Why? Because they want to keep you angry and riled up and voting for them. If you got what you wanted, you wouldn't ever vote for them again and they know it.
Hitler, Stalin and Idi Amin weren't satisfied either, but they still had to go!
"Don't let anybody push you out of line?" Really??? Michelle O. is just mad because she wishes she could be vacationing in some other expensive place on the tax payers dime than talking to the public!!! I'll bet no Dem knows what she spent on vacations just since January! $1.4 million!!! yes really! She desperately wants to keep her lifestyle. It's not about her wanting what's best for this country! We are paying for her playing!!
She needs to get her head out of her ...... and realize she and her crazy husband need to go back to Chicago and stay. They have done enough harm to our country. We need a President who honors his country not apologizes or runs to the muslim states all the time. We don't need them ruining the country for 4 more years.
White people try to push me out a line evertime I go to vote. Michelle kno da trufth.
We, the people of America won't push anybody out of line but we will push this fraud and his freak show of associates out of the white house. Power to the people!
Michelle My Bell,
Honey, It's come time for the American people to push you and your husband out of the WH.
We should tell Michelle "Do not let the Blank Panthers push you out of line", do not let the NAACP take over your polling place as they did in Houston, do not let the SEIU buss non-citizens (illegal immigrants (and I do have sympathy for their status), to voting polls to vote,, yes Mrs. Spend my money on vacations as others do without, don't let ANYONE STEAL YOUR VOTE THRU INTIMIDATION, REWARD, BULL SH#T,, ETC.
Yu whites get pushed by blank panthers cause yu been pushin fo yeers againt us in crop feels and cottin feels.
Nice spelling! From an Obama supporter!
First Lady - First Bitch.
Good one.
There will be hell to pay when she loses her free jets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Election day and I am so fearful that this election will be stolen by King Obee, if that happens, those who voted for him just sold your country down the river, ruined the lives of your grand children,, a nation cannot survive when the takers (Obama cell phone types) outnumber the makers,,, look overseas, see what's happening,, the "takers" are producing more children than the makers, why? because the Makers have to pay for their children and give serious consideration to the well being of their offspring, and the Takers? They have Uncle Sam dolling out the money taken from the takers,,no thought or very limited is given to the offspring produces by takers,, no taking male is held responsible for being a sperm donor (notice I did not use the word father), to numerous pregnancy,,, Rev Wright said (and Obee sat for 20yrs and never heard" G*d D*m America" makers need to unite and bring back God's blessings.
Fear not! Romney's gonna win tonight!
let's PUSH THIS BABOON out of the WH !!!
let's rid the WH of this pestilence and find them a primate cage that will accept them
Old Proverb:Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
*2012 Updated Revision:*
Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with unlimited free minutes, free internet, cash for his clunker, food stamps, section 8 housing, free contraceptives, Medicaid, ninety-nine weeks of unemployment, free medicine, and he will vote Democratic the rest of his life…even after he's dead.
This made me spit my coffee out laughing, all over my screen!
Coffee abuse.
So true!!! Good one
Congratulations, Michelle. Win or lose (I pray to God you and your fraudulent partner husband do, in fact, lose), you have managed to go from cradle to grave without holding down a real job that requires real work. Quite an achievement. Not really.
The affirmative action shuffle. Both went to Harvard Law. I would just love to see their LSAT scores! But the best token prize was the Nobel Peace prize given in his second month in the White House. Instead of rejecting it and saying that he didn't deserve it and to give it to someone that was on the front line in some country like Africa or some Mother Theresa type... he accepted it. Typical affirmative action prizes. No work, just the prizes. Neither he nor his wife had any student loans. It was all a free ride.
But in the end, She couldn't pass any bar exams. Imagine that... a Harvard Law graduate that couldn't pass a bar exam anywhere! That's the affirmative action shuffle.
And to those folks in Philadelphia, don't let the black panthers in front of the polling place intimidate you!
"Your president is nowhere near satisfied," she said. Huh, what a coincidence, neither is the American public.
Romney/Ryan 2012
Errr.... shouldn't she be giving this message in Philadelphia? Or maybe she's talking about the lunch lines.... ya know... the ones where all the kids are clamoring to get those yummy, healthy Michellunches.
"we are
going to get thisdone"There. Fixed it for ya.
Errr.... shouldn't she be giving this message in Philadelphia? Or maybe she's talking about the lunch lines.... ya know... the ones where all the kids are clamoring to get those yummy, healthy Michellunches.
MO's racist fantasies are vile.
she must have been talking to the republican poll monitors in philly, that were physically removed and replaced w/ dems. these were election officials, and they were given the boot, a woman included. This narrative used to work, but thanks to networks like this that call for and encourage violence against those they disagree w/, everyone now know that the majority of the time it is dems, "progressives", and the "tolerant" left that carries out this animalistic behavior. A reply to a commentor above who called romney's statement that this economy is at a standstill is false. I kind of agree, from what i see, it is moving backwards. the unemployment rate is higher than when this empty suit took office. they do not know how to pay for obama care (except by taxing the "rich). if his ideas worked, a turnaround would have started a couple of years age, but obama contiues to do everything he can to take control of this economy and financial system. GOOD RIDDANCE, HE WILL BE OUT OF OFFICE SOON.
what is this moron talking about? the only pushy people at the polling places are wearing Black Panther jackets. they're lucky they haven't met mr Smith or mr Wesson yet. they pull a nightstick on me and they will.