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MANCHESTER, N.H. -- On a day full of "lasts" for Mitt Romney -- his last campaign event in Florida, and last rallies in Virginia have come and gone -- it was his last rally here in New Hampshire that seemed to move the Republican nominee most, as 12,000 supporters filled an arena to cheer on the man who's presidential run they launched more than sixteen months ago.
Returning to New Hampshire, where Romney began his presidential campaign last June, and where in January Republican voters handed him a resounding victory in the first in the nation primaries, Romney sounded wistful as he thanked Granite State voters for their support, and asked for their help on Election Day.
"You know this is a special moment for Ann and for me because this is where our campaign began," Romney said after nearly three minutes of applause died down enough for him to speak. "And tomorrow your votes and your work right here in New Hampshire will help me become the next president of the United States!"
"It’s been a long journey. It started in New Hampshire a year and a half ago," Ann Romney said as she too addressed the crowd here. "Our hearts are full, and what we have learned by going on the trail is, we’ve seen the America that you all love, that we all love we feel it’s in danger, we feel it’s slipping away from us."
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Campaigning with Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, voting and election results.
The Romney's were introduced by a live version of the campaign's theme song, "Born Free," performed by Detroit-native and Romney-backer Kid Rock, who has appeared at rallies for Romney in Michigan and Ohio after lending his fellow Michiganders his support.
The New Hampshire audience heard Romney's closing argument speech, which he debuted late last week. The remarks are a balance of attacks on President Obama, mainly for failing to work across the aisle with Republicans and independents, and hopeful rhetoric meant to inspire those same independents and undecided voters to abandon the president in favor of someone new when they cast their ballots.
“Together we must lead America to a better place," Romney said near the close of his half hour remarks. "We’re one day away from fresh start, one day away from the first day of a new beginning. My conviction is that better days are ahead, and that’s not based on promises and hollow rhetoric but on solid plans and proven results, and on an unshakeable believe in the greatness of the American spirit.”
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Mitt Romney for President of the United States of America!!!!
The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave!
Let Freedom Ring!!!!
His last stop is the White House.
The Republicans are already trying to steal this election.
VOTE! And then follow up to make sure it's counted.
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Romney's last stop will be the White House? To clean the toilets? Or maybe to take the tour and steal souvenir pens??
Nate Silver's election prediction as of 11:29pm EST tonight:
Obama win 92%
Romney win 8%
GOP'ers - let me be the first to congratulate you on your candidate losing.
Doesn't matter how many greedy old white men vote for him - Romney's a goner.
And Real Americans (not corporations) have won.
Hah! Hah!
I Love TEABAGGERS and REPUBLICANS in DENIAL.
In case you haven't Noticed.
You TEABAGGERS and REPUBLICANS
aren't just LOSING the ELECTION
You've ALREADY LOST.
You just haven't Noticed
that you CLOWNS have ALREADY have HIT the GROUND.
Ouch.
Better Luck in 2016.
Nobody, and I mean Nobody, wants to go back to those dark-dank days
of the Bush Regime of Dick (Darth Vader) Cheney, that "little-turd" Karl Rove,
Ann (the Man) Coulter, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Grover Norquist,
that crazy-wacko Mormon "Nut-Job" Glenn Beck, or any of those Right-wing Racist Extremists.
Let's send Mitt Romney and his Republicans
"Back to the Political Dung Heap of History".
Hokey-dokey?
America, you be the Judge.
Do you want a known LIAR, TAX-CHEAT, and probable FELON, the cowardly MITT ROMNEY,
who only AVOIDED those FELONY CHARGES by "RETRO-ACTIVELY RETIRING" from BAIN CAPITAL
(on what Planet could you or me "Retire Retro-Actively to Avoid Felony Charges and Get away with it)?
or BARACK OBAMA, the Kind, the Good, the Merciful.
It's Not even a Contest.
The Choice is Clear.
Vote a straight DEMOCRATIC ticket this TUESDAY, and let's send
MITT ROMNEY and his "little-sidekick" PAUL RYAN and the rest of the BUSH GANG
you know, like DICK CHENEY and KARL ROVE,
"BACK to the POLITICAL DUNG HEAP of HISTORY"
where they all belong.
It will be Fun, and it's the Right thing to do.
We do Not want to go Back to the dark-dank-hideous-horrific days of the Bush Rgime,
now do we?
VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, for PRESIDENT OBAMA
like your Life depends on it,
because it does!
when hell freezes over!
Let's get this straight.
I'm a Republican and I'm going to Vote a straight Democratic ticket this Tuesday,
Why?
I'm glad you asked.
Mitt Romney has No Character, and his Character shortcomings and character defects,
are so glaring now, under the "Spotlight of Truth", they are there for all to see.
Do you want as your President, MITT ROMNEY, a cowardly PENSION FUND THIEF
who has STOLEN all you Hard-working Money and has SENT all your good JOBS to CHINA and MEXICO,
so he can LAUNDRY your Money in his Phony CAYMAN ISLAND shell-companies,
where he can then HIDE your Money in One of his HIDDEN SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS,
so he doesn't have to PAY any TAXES on your MONEY for TEN long YEARS,
and then he Rubs it in your Face, by BUYING his TROPHY WIFE an OLYMPIC SHOW HORSE,
and takes TENS of THOUSANDS of DOLLARS off his Ill-gotten LOOT through ILLEGAL TAX SCHEMES
by getting his ACCOUNTANT to call that Horse, a "THERAPY HORSE"
Hello!
That's Not just wrong.
That's Sick.
That's Unpatriotic.
That's Immoral.
That's Not Christian
That's a Major LACK of CHARACTER.
That's MITT ROMNEY
Make GOD's HEART your OWN
and VOTE for BARACK OBAMA,
If you don't, then I'm AFRAID,
"You're NO Longer in ACCORDANCE with the WILL of GOD"
and you will be Supporting the Likes of Dick Cheney and Karl Rove and the Rest of the Bush Gang.
Do you really want to go back to those dark-dank-hideous-horrorific days?
I think not.
Hell, even the Salt Lake Tribune, Utah's largest newspaper, has endorsed President Obama! Romney won't take the state in which he was governor, either! Ryan can't guaranty Wisconsin will give them their electoral votes! Face it, Romney is the failure we all thought he was since the hilarious GOP primary race.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/55019844-82/endorsement-obama-president-romney.html.csp
Get out and VOTE! Reelect President Obama! He is clearly our only rational choice!
From 2008: YES WE CAN, AND YES WE DID!
For 2012: Let's move America Forward!
Obama/Biden 2012!
What voters are saying about Obama:
1. "The Affordable Care Act is saving my daughter's life."
2. "Obama is for the vets. He helped us wind down in Iraq, he's improved mental health
policy with VA benefits."
3. "Obama stuck his neck out for us, the auto industry. He wasn't going to let it just
die, and I'm driving in this morning because of that, because of him."
4. "Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive."
5. "Supreme Court Supreme Court Supreme Court."
6. "Arithmetic. Mitt Romney's tax cuts do not add-up"
7. "He cares for the 100 percent."
8. "When Obama came into office, he successfully renewed our country's place in the
community of nations, making cooperation in tackling the world's challenges possible."
9. "The actions he has taken with respect to protecting us from terrorism have been
very, very solid."
10. "I was really very grateful to him for standing up for those kids who are having a
really rough time out there because of their orientation."
11. "For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United
States as a place where we are all in this together."
12. "He has a real plan for rescuing the economy that passes the 'math' test."
13. "Having someone in office who understands how powerful our voice can be is very
important."
14. "I am voting for Barack Obama and Joe Biden because I can trust them to care for
the middle class and restore the American dream."
15. "The first measure he signed into law after becoming president was the Lilly
Ledbetter Fair Pay Act -- so a female high school counselor or physical education
teacher can fight for equal pay for equal work."
16. "I believe in the America he wants for my grandchildren."
17. "We need four more years of repair, of helping the middle class achieve a
sustainable economy."
18. "I've watched him fight for our country, stand by the middle class, the working
class, the military, the education of our children, universal health care, women, the
environment, and matters of national and domestic security."
19. "The gifted 12-year-old I taught, whose parents were deported and left her here
with her grandmother, will be allowed to stay and finish her education. She's been in
the U.S. since age one."
20. "I want our president to place scientific evidence and risk management above
electoral politics."
21. "I have four children who are under 26 and able to stay on my health care plan.
That's been huge."
22. "He's fighting to defend and better Social Security and Medicare -- because
millions of Latino seniors rely on them."
23. "Thanks to the President's efforts to keep student loan rates low, I can expect to
save nearly $1000 as I work to repay my student loans. And I don't have too many of
those, thanks to the Federal Pell Grant program."
24. "It's been wonderful to have President Obama as a champion for access to health
care for all women in this country."
25. "Re-electing Barack Obama would lead to a stronger economic recovery than would be
the case were Mitt Romney to win on November 6th."
In my Virginia area, voting took 40 minutes this AM checking 3 polling stations. Folks at work said it was more people in Q at 7 AM than 4 years ago. Our town went 55/45 in 2008 for McCain. One town over the wait was 10 minutes. That town went 60/40 for Obama/McCain in 2008. It's a college town.
How can you think that Romney will win, when he will LOSER in his own MA State BIG TIME.
People in Massachusetts know Mittens more than anybody else in the Country.
He is Cheater and a Liar!!!
Boom is right -- if re-elected our country will IMPLODE thanks to him. He STILL has to answer for Benghazi!
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.
Romney finished his campaign as he began - LYING.
He didn't want to be slowed down by any facts. Besides Romnesia, he's never heard a position that he couldn't take when it suits his purpose.
Romney's new position will be as L-O-S-E-R after tomorrow's election. It rather suits him, wouldn't you say?
Lying -- really?? You don't think BO LIED about Benghazi, their is PROOF of what he said and then he threw everyone under the bus. He's so busy blaming everyone else for his failures. The last 2 yrs of Bush and first 2 yrs of the current admin he had a majority in house and senate and STILL couldn't get anything done except pass the healthcare bill behind peoples back -- after he promised TRANSPARENCY and meetings to be covered on CSPAN. There are endless list of the promises he's backed away from -- the biggest being he'd be a one term president if he didn't lower the unemployment to 6% and cut the deficit in half in his first term -- again he LIED! STFU
By this time next week there won't be any Republican sluggs around here to slow the bus down any longer.
I just wanted to take the opportunity to congratulate them on their choice of weasel to replace the War Hero that lost the election for them last time around.... you all line up so faithfully to cheerlead for the single most IMMORAL human you could have chosen AND he performed just as the experts predicted he would... he fell flat on his face multiple times week for over a year .
Whatever hole you crawl back into after today I wish you well, I'd advise steering clear of your fellow conspirators & treasonists ....their howling & whining will be louder than the liberals was when Little Bushie was stole the election .
In the future might I suggest you run a real MAN with real BRAINS against the Liberal candidate... that is what REAL PATRIOTS would do instead of letting BIG MONEY KOCH's stuff one down your throats again .
The last time he will ever run for public office again...Romney will never be president...this was his last hoorah.
He's running for God next!
The sad thing is, Mr Romney has five sons, each of whom will want to prove they can do what daddy couldn't do--get elected POTUS! After all--by "virtue" of their wealth, each must be entitled to have a turn. And so on, and so on, and so on....ad nauseum! The legacy that never stops giving.
"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly
After this, Willard won't even be able to run for USHER of his church...
every Mormon I know has been nothing but embarrassed & disappointed by
one of their own doing exactly the opposite of what he was taught in the church & what they stand for .
Romney wants to lead America to a better place? In his thinking that is China where he has his investments, where there are sweatshops that he loves so much and where he has shipped thousands of American jobs.
Romney says Latin America is our next China. He already has plans to move jobs south the new company is Bano Capitala
I thought Bush was the final word on how stupid conservatives could be, but nooooooo there is plenty more stupid where that came from and Romney is the proof of that.
Yep, Mr. President, just keep putting us in debt. Funny how everyone here fails to realize what the debt can lead to.
Wouldn't it be great if Congress decided we need to do something to fix our problems instead of blaming each other? The President is still waiting for the Special Committee to put something on his desk. Isn't that how it is supposed to work? What would really be nice if people like you would learn how government works then maybe you would know what is going on.
Another delusional wingnut who thinks their hands are clean when it comes to the national debt ... it would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic! The meters have still been running on the 2 wars and the tax cuts for the rich that dubya put on the USofA Merican Express card for the past 4 years. It's obvious that you tried to slyly slip it off as someone elses when your slimy finger prints are all over it.
After all of the lying and subterfuge on Mitt Romney's part, how could anyone vote for him? How has he been able to fool so many people? Romney has no scruples. He will tell people what they want to hear just to get elected. If he does, I wonder who will really be in control of the White House.
Romney will win narrowly and there will be a scandal and coverup about fake electronic vote counts.
When the lying stops, Romney is done. He could not possibly win this election unless more than half the people have completely lost their minds. Remember MA was 47th in job creation and every job he ever created at Bain was in China. Romney, you can go back to MA where you won't even win your own state tonight!!!!
The lies are just beginning, his excusses will continue what he knows how to do best. Maybe he should tell his kids America wants leaders and brave men not cowards!
The Republican Party can take the blame if he loses. I pledge not to vote for a Republican for 8 years due to the attitude they have had for the last 4. If you can't work together get out of Washington!! Nothing but a bunch of selfish drunks, Ryan enjoy a $300 dollar bottle of wine along with a few tears tomorrow night.
Obama
Yo Momma!
U Nose
Dis Brotha
Gots TO GO!!
dats rite:)
If Mitt loses, at least Don Trump has very bad manners.
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I cannot believe that some of you libs have such blind adoration of El Presidente Obama. What has he really done to make this country and your lives better? If Obama had actually been a moderate president he might have done more to aid our nation regarding jobs and our economy. Really folks, look at it-we're experiencing the worst "recovery" since the Great Depression, with similarly high unemployment numbers. Obama can't run on his record, and it shows in the negative campaigning he's run all these months. And he's saying "vote for revenge". What the hell kind of president say's vote for revenge? Revenge against whom? How about voting against a president who GOT OUR PEOPLE KILLED. The brave people who lost their lives trying to help Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi are real heroes-not El Presidente, who did nothing but continue to campaign right after the Benghazi attack and placed more emphasis on being on the Letterman show than doing something about the attack besides blaming it all on some stupid "video" that no one has ever seen. Obama and Biden have lied about what they knew and when they knew it, but one thing is a fact-the attack was not what they said it was and sent their flunkies like Rice out to spew nonsense about the situation when all other reports were to the contrary. This is who you think is a stellar Commander-In-Chief? And I promise this-you haven't begun to hear the whole story about Libya, and when you do, you'll finally realize what a disgrace Obama is and you'll be ashamed you ever voted for such an incompetent person. And if he is re-elected HE IS GOING TO BE IMPEACHED. I'm not a Republican, and I'm not starry-eyed over Romney, but I feel he can be reached where Obama is unreachable. I do think Romney and Ryan have a serious, positive message while Obama is completely negative while avoiding his own record. I am a conservative who believes in limited government, state’s rights, energy independence, lowering taxes on people, and allowing people to keep more of their hard earned money. Obama's big government policies will NEVER accomplish any these goals. Obama like to talk about "failed policies of the past", but he promotes failed UNSUSTAINABLE policies which have been tried time and time again in Europe and other countries with utter failure. Are any of you so blind that you can't see that we're further away from any of these goals than four years ago? And quit blaming Bush. If you didn't like Bush, what the hell do you like about Obama? Besides everything else about him, let me say again-OBAMA GOT OUR PEOPLE KILLED, and if you were the parent of one of these brave ones who lost their lives because our president and his administration did nothing to protect our embassy WHEN THEY HAD BEEN WARNED PREVIOUSLY TO RAMP UP PROTECTION, you'd be crushed and would do everything you could to get to the bottom of it and hold him accountable, which might be an easier task if our sorry media would do the job they should be doing. Obama and Biden need to go-let's remove them on this Election Day!
No chance of that, pork chop. Romney's lost this sucker. Read 'em and weep.
It looks like insulting African-Americans with "Kenya" and "shucking and jiving", women with "legitimate rape" that "God-intended resulting pregnancy", Hispanics with "self-deportation", students with disenfranchisement, union members with "China Jeep", The Element with "47", and the Truth with the succession of assaults, the GOP handed Obama an election he could not possibly have won on his own.
Seems rich white folks aren't always as smart as they uniformly self-attribute. I'm a white guy who values plain decency. The GOP seemed to have missed the boat.
Well said.
"Voter fraud" turned out to be the poll tax that failed.
Good Luck President Obama!
Yeah, this guy who thinks he doesn't have to work for 47% of the country, who was a bully when he was younger, is a member of a cult, who wears magic underwear, who thinks women can't make good decisions for themselves, who flip flops on EVERY SINGLE major issue, would make a good president. When pigs fly.
I like what a New Zealander friend had written to me about this election matter.
Most Women will not vote for Romney
Most Blacks and Hispanics will not vote for Romney
Most Youths will not vote for Romny
Most elderly will not vote for Romney
That just leaves Angry White Blokes
I really wanted Ron Paul but now I am favoring the Three Stooges in office
With the whole world watching, Romney makes a complete fool of himself.
Please don't vote for the Cheshire Cat/ Dobby ticket! Don't set our country back 50 yrs. If
you are a women, please investigate the rights you have that will be taken away. If you are
not wealthy just have an average income look at what the people of Massachusetts have
expressed about their former governor. Please educate yourself before voting.
Obama/Biden 2012!
Dedication. I like that in our new President. Shows he'll work hard for us.
Some of you on here lie like a rug. I am a republican but i am voting straight democrat. Thats a crock. Your a democrat voting democrat. trying to make it look like republicans are jumping ship. Well, some may fall for it, but, i think the american people are smarter than that. I have seen so much disrespect and lies coming from the Democratic campaign to the point that I am in total disgust this election more than ever. You call every word out of romneys mouth a lie, yet, all the sites, and I do mean all of them, have proven over and over that it is the democrats and obama that are twisting and telling lies. They have nothing else. In 2008 obama said that he would not run if he did not reduce the deficit. He would never run a negative campaign. Well, we all watch the tv adds. Go ahead and lie to yourselves, you know the truth, You all go pay your bills every month, You fill your tanks, you pay your healthcare bills, How is that working for you. Things seem to go down, or are they going up up up. Stop people, think about that, IF you telling yourselves your doing better, but, costs are increasing faster than the speed of light. HOW are you better off. HOW are your kids going to be better off. Stop reading headlines and go to Romneys website and read up on what HE says on the issues, not what is printed here on this website and other liberals websites. You need to educate yourselves and you cannot do that by reading liberal or conservative websites, they slant, twist, and mangle this issues so it looks one way, You need to go to the website of the one running and read it for yourselves...... come on people, your smarter than that. Get out and vote all incumbents out, ALL OF THEM, from the president on down to the mayor. Send a message, and take this country back for you and your children
Disrespect and lies like "jeep will move production to China!" or perhaps disrespect and lies like "I don't remember what I said but I stand behind it!" Disrespect and lies like "I'm for women's rights, opps, no, I think government should decide!" How about "I'm for more gun legislation...opps! Wait - I'm being told I'm not for that now!" Then there's "Fair pay for women? We'll... we'll get back to you on that!" Let's not forget about those tax returns - what is Mitt hiding? How about that $77,000 tax write off for a horse because Mrs. Romney wanted a hobby? Lies about the progress we've made, lies about our foreign policy, lies about our allies, lies about our President, lies about the 47% of Americans that Romney and his wealthy handlers care nothing about.
OBAMA/BIDEN. FORWARD.
romney couldn't win in mass. if his life depended on it . mass hates him . so the nation should listen to a voice that had to deal with him as governor . the man is a con , he ran in mass because he had no real challenge . now he has one . sorry nation romney will lose . god just told me !!!!!
Too many radical hate spewing GOP candidates. The intangibles of this election are the hate spewing extreme flak-faces who went out there on the trail and represented Mitt Romney. Americans would not want these people like Guillani, Sununu, McCain, Gingrich, et al., as their neighbor, let alone coming and going in our government and the White House. These people spoke on behalf of Romney which makes him as they are. The other thing which will resonate for 4 years is the voter suppression which Romney did not disavow which makes him an accomplice also.