The lesser of two evils by far Obama is.
It's on Yahoo and won't play for me. ?
Chicken in every pot and a sub prime mortgage for every home.
wtf?!
Mitt Romney slumps in new U.S. poll
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The lesser of two evils by far Obama is.
It's on Yahoo and won't play for me. ?
Chicken in every pot and a sub prime mortgage for every home.
wtf?!
Obama Assails Romney on Women’s Health Care
DENVER — President Obama made one of his strongest pitches to date for the women’s vote, which is crucial to his re-election, telling a mostly female crowd of 4,000 here on Wednesday that Republicans led by Mitt Romney would take them back to the era of the 1950s.
Mr. Romney, who was in Colorado last week, on Wednesday was in another swing state, Iowa, which Mr. Obama will tour by bus next week. Their itineraries underscored the push to mobilize supporters and win over the few undecided voters in the relatively few battleground states that will decide the election.
In Des Moines, Mr. Romney called for developing a range of energy resources including wind power, but he pointedly did not mention his opposition to an administration-supported tax credit for the wind industry that Republican leaders in both Iowa and Colorado strongly favor. Iowa Republicans, including Gov. Terry E. Branstad, have publicly criticized Mr. Romney for his stance. And in Colorado, Mr. Obama is stoking the controversy during his two-day, four-stop visit.
But at his first stop at a Denver campus shared by three colleges, Mr. Obama’s emphasis was on women’s health and reproductive issues. He was introduced by Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown Law School graduate who this year became a hero to women’s groups, and the target of conservatives like Rush Limbaugh, who called her “a prostitute,” after Republicans blocked her from testifying in Congress for insurance coverage of contraception.
“When it comes to the economy, it’s bad enough that our opponents want to take us back to the same policies of the last decade — the same policies that got us into this mess in the first place,” Mr. Obama said. “But,” he added, “when it comes to a woman’s right to make her own health care choices, they want to take us back to the policies more suited to the 1950s than the 21st century.”
Mr. Obama departed from his usual, broader stump speech to focus on his health insurance law, and to reopen a debate over contraception that roiled the Republican presidential nomination contest this year and helped solidify his support among women.
“The decisions that affect a woman’s health, they’re not up to politicians. They’re not up to insurance companies. They’re up to you,” he said. “And you deserve a president that will fight to keep it that way.”
Generally, about 6 in 10 female voters support the president, nationally and in many swing states, helping to offset a gender gap that has white male voters opposing him by roughly the same margin.
In Colorado, however, Mr. Obama’s lead among women is not so wide, according to a new poll for Quinnipiac University/The New York Times/CBS News. And that helped account for Mr. Romney’s narrow five percentage point edge among Colorado voters over all. Obama advisers disputed the poll’s methodology and said their own surveys showed the president with a slight lead.
Mr. Obama, as he has lately, purposely called the health care law by the pejorative that Republicans gave it — Obamacare — “because,” he said, “I do care.”
He criticized Mr. Romney for promising to repeal the law and to end public financing of Planned Parenthood. And Mr. Obama cited the benefits that would be lost without the law: coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions and for young adults under 26 years old on their parents’ policies; savings for older Americans with large prescription drug bills; mandated coverage of preventive services like contraception; and insurance company rebates.
From Denver, Mr. Obama flew west to Grand Junction for a rally of 2,400 supporters in an area he did not win in 2008. On Thursday, he will visit Pueblo and Colorado Springs, and draw attention to his support for — and Mr. Romney’s opposition to — renewing federal tax credits for wind energy production.
As in Iowa, another leader in harnessing wind, news coverage of the issue has not been kind to Mr. Romney, noting that he supports oil subsidies even as he attacks the wind credits and other parts of what he calls Mr. Obama’s costly obsession with “green jobs.” A column this week in The Denver Post began, “Is Romney trying to blow it?”
In Iowa, Mr. Branstad told reporters recently that the Romney campaign suffered from “confusion” over the credit, echoing earlier criticism from Representative Tom Latham and Senator Charles E. Grassley, both senior Republicans in Congress.
The Romney campaign argues that the tax break, which is due to expire this year, is a government intrusion into the free market — a position that has Tea Party support.
Mr. Romney told campaign activists, “We have got to take advantage of America’s extraordinary energy resources —coal, oil, gas, nuclear, renewables, wind, solar, ethanol, you name it.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/us/politics/obama-assails-romney-on-womens-health-care.html
DENVER — President Obama made one of his strongest pitches to date for the women’s vote, which is crucial to his re-election, telling a mostly female crowd of 4,000 here on Wednesday that Republicans led by Mitt Romney would take them back to the era of the 1950s.
Mr. Romney, who was in Colorado last week, on Wednesday was in another swing state, Iowa, which Mr. Obama will tour by bus next week. Their itineraries underscored the push to mobilize supporters and win over the few undecided voters in the relatively few battleground states that will decide the election.
In Des Moines, Mr. Romney called for developing a range of energy resources including wind power, but he pointedly did not mention his opposition to an administration-supported tax credit for the wind industry that Republican leaders in both Iowa and Colorado strongly favor. Iowa Republicans, including Gov. Terry E. Branstad, have publicly criticized Mr. Romney for his stance. And in Colorado, Mr. Obama is stoking the controversy during his two-day, four-stop visit.
But at his first stop at a Denver campus shared by three colleges, Mr. Obama’s emphasis was on women’s health and reproductive issues. He was introduced by Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown Law School graduate who this year became a hero to women’s groups, and the target of conservatives like Rush Limbaugh, who called her “a prostitute,” after Republicans blocked her from testifying in Congress for insurance coverage of contraception.
“When it comes to the economy, it’s bad enough that our opponents want to take us back to the same policies of the last decade — the same policies that got us into this mess in the first place,” Mr. Obama said. “But,” he added, “when it comes to a woman’s right to make her own health care choices, they want to take us back to the policies more suited to the 1950s than the 21st century.”
Mr. Obama departed from his usual, broader stump speech to focus on his health insurance law, and to reopen a debate over contraception that roiled the Republican presidential nomination contest this year and helped solidify his support among women.
“The decisions that affect a woman’s health, they’re not up to politicians. They’re not up to insurance companies. They’re up to you,” he said. “And you deserve a president that will fight to keep it that way.”
Generally, about 6 in 10 female voters support the president, nationally and in many swing states, helping to offset a gender gap that has white male voters opposing him by roughly the same margin.
In Colorado, however, Mr. Obama’s lead among women is not so wide, according to a new poll for Quinnipiac University/The New York Times/CBS News. And that helped account for Mr. Romney’s narrow five percentage point edge among Colorado voters over all. Obama advisers disputed the poll’s methodology and said their own surveys showed the president with a slight lead.
Mr. Obama, as he has lately, purposely called the health care law by the pejorative that Republicans gave it — Obamacare — “because,” he said, “I do care.”
He criticized Mr. Romney for promising to repeal the law and to end public financing of Planned Parenthood. And Mr. Obama cited the benefits that would be lost without the law: coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions and for young adults under 26 years old on their parents’ policies; savings for older Americans with large prescription drug bills; mandated coverage of preventive services like contraception; and insurance company rebates.
From Denver, Mr. Obama flew west to Grand Junction for a rally of 2,400 supporters in an area he did not win in 2008. On Thursday, he will visit Pueblo and Colorado Springs, and draw attention to his support for — and Mr. Romney’s opposition to — renewing federal tax credits for wind energy production.
As in Iowa, another leader in harnessing wind, news coverage of the issue has not been kind to Mr. Romney, noting that he supports oil subsidies even as he attacks the wind credits and other parts of what he calls Mr. Obama’s costly obsession with “green jobs.” A column this week in The Denver Post began, “Is Romney trying to blow it?”
In Iowa, Mr. Branstad told reporters recently that the Romney campaign suffered from “confusion” over the credit, echoing earlier criticism from Representative Tom Latham and Senator Charles E. Grassley, both senior Republicans in Congress.
The Romney campaign argues that the tax break, which is due to expire this year, is a government intrusion into the free market — a position that has Tea Party support.
Mr. Romney told campaign activists, “We have got to take advantage of America’s extraordinary energy resources —coal, oil, gas, nuclear, renewables, wind, solar, ethanol, you name it.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/us/politics/obama-assails-romney-on-womens-health-care.html
The ironic part of this is that if he was and had been running on his earlier stances, he would actually be my prefered choice. But it is very clear, and has been for a while, that he is saying whatever he feels he needs to say to get elected. And it means that he was doing that then too so his positions mean nothing. What you will get is a puppet leader who will do whatever bidding his republican 'advisors' tell him to do. Darth Romney if you will.
The only way that makes him any different from his opponent is that it is blatant.
I was referencing EAO's weaponizing homosexuals, minorities, and undocumented worker's post.
If a politician can't at least go to the trouble of trying to cover that up, I don't think I should go to any trouble to support him. And I can't think of an example of any politician who has flipped so radically from left to right (or right to left). Most common is the campain promise that never happens or the tax that comes after promising no new taxes (McSquinty, Bush Sr.) rather than a fundamental shift in political views. Could just be my memory.
How many electoral votes do you think Walter? So we can compare after the election.
That's not news. The fool seems to make a habit of stepping in the manure then sticking foot in mouth.
- There are several new polls every day and there will continue to be several new polls every day for the 87 days until the only poll that counts which is the election.
- During the past three months since Romney became the presumptive GOP standard bearer, 90% of the polls have shown a very close race with the candidates within a statistical margin of error tie with each other.
- In the past three weeks since Obama blurted out the truth about his dismissive attitude to individual achievement and business success and his yearning for a society which leans left and embraces big government with his absurd "you didn't build that" comment, the most comprehensive and credible of the polls has shown Romney in the lead every day except for two days.
- The poll in question is the Rasmussen rolling averages poll of 1500 likely voters. Today, taking account of yesterday's polling results, Romney has a four point lead in that most reliable of polls.
- I also rather suspect that the following things will give Romney a further boost in his polling over the course of the next three months:
1/ Mitt will probably pick Marco Rubio as his VP running mate which will help greatly to strengthen the GOP's appeal among Floridians, Latinos and the under 40 voters. While some including most of the liberal MSM in the tank for BO will say that Rubio lacks qualifications to be president, he actually is significantly more experienced and qualified for the job than Obama was in 2008.
2/ The GOP convention will result in a 3-5% bump or possibly even more in Romney's support.
3/ After Romney is confirmed by the convention as the GOP candidate, he will be able to spend the huge war chest of campaign donations on TV and other advertising and so will be able to saturate the media markets that count just as much as Obama has been doing. And I expect him to take a tougher stand against the disgusting Chicago thug style slanders, libels and smears that Obama and his gang of mugs, thugs and slugs has been disseminating and dissembling in a desperate effort to distract voters from his own manifest failures as POTUS. All Romney has to do to counteract Obama's lies about him is to tell the truth about Obama and also about his own sterling career in business, government and the olympics.
4/ Mitt should be able to wipe the floor with BO in at least two of the three presidential debates and that clown Biden will lose the VP debate no matter who Mitt picks as his running mate.
5/ Finally, as Americans get closer to the eelction and focus more on the choices and as it becomes clear that Obama continues to spook the private sector and to be clueless about how to revive the weak economy and as the year end possible tax and fiscal armaggedon nears, a sufficient number of dissatisfied and nervous voters will decide to pick proven experience, competence and results over bull****, boondoggling, bungling and burglary and therefore give Romney the extra votes he needs for a comfortable win.
Or so I fervently hope, LOL.
- During the past three months since Romney became the presumptive GOP standard bearer, 90% of the polls have shown a very close race with the candidates within a statistical margin of error tie with each other.
- In the past three weeks since Obama blurted out the truth about his dismissive attitude to individual achievement and business success and his yearning for a society which leans left and embraces big government with his absurd "you didn't build that" comment, the most comprehensive and credible of the polls has shown Romney in the lead every day except for two days.
- The poll in question is the Rasmussen rolling averages poll of 1500 likely voters. Today, taking account of yesterday's polling results, Romney has a four point lead in that most reliable of polls.
- I also rather suspect that the following things will give Romney a further boost in his polling over the course of the next three months:
1/ Mitt will probably pick Marco Rubio as his VP running mate which will help greatly to strengthen the GOP's appeal among Floridians, Latinos and the under 40 voters. While some including most of the liberal MSM in the tank for BO will say that Rubio lacks qualifications to be president, he actually is significantly more experienced and qualified for the job than Obama was in 2008.
2/ The GOP convention will result in a 3-5% bump or possibly even more in Romney's support.
3/ After Romney is confirmed by the convention as the GOP candidate, he will be able to spend the huge war chest of campaign donations on TV and other advertising and so will be able to saturate the media markets that count just as much as Obama has been doing. And I expect him to take a tougher stand against the disgusting Chicago thug style slanders, libels and smears that Obama and his gang of mugs, thugs and slugs has been disseminating and dissembling in a desperate effort to distract voters from his own manifest failures as POTUS. All Romney has to do to counteract Obama's lies about him is to tell the truth about Obama and also about his own sterling career in business, government and the olympics.
4/ Mitt should be able to wipe the floor with BO in at least two of the three presidential debates and that clown Biden will lose the VP debate no matter who Mitt picks as his running mate.
5/ Finally, as Americans get closer to the eelction and focus more on the choices and as it becomes clear that Obama continues to spook the private sector and to be clueless about how to revive the weak economy and as the year end possible tax and fiscal armaggedon nears, a sufficient number of dissatisfied and nervous voters will decide to pick proven experience, competence and results over bull****, boondoggling, bungling and burglary and therefore give Romney the extra votes he needs for a comfortable win.
Or so I fervently hope, LOL.
It will be a landslide for Romney. Romney will get close to 400 electoral votes.
:lol: Well we'll have to wait another quarter to see how your crystal ball holds up. If I were you I'd check it for cracks. I'll say 300 for Obama.
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
Thursday, August 09, 2012
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 47% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns the vote from 43%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided.
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll - Rasmussen Reports™
Thursday, August 09, 2012
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 47% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns the vote from 43%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided.
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll - Rasmussen Reports™
Strange how nobody from the far right objected when Romney praised Israel's SOCIALIST health care program.
Conservatives cannibalizing the Romney campaign because they had the audacity to say something true:
Health care comment by Romney staffer ignites conservative blogs - Political Intelligence - A national political and campaign blog from The Boston Globe - Boston.com
"The dissent came after Romney press secretary Andrea Saul appeared on Fox News on Wednesday to rebut an ad run by a Democratic super PAC. The ad – largely discredited by fact-checking organizations -- suggests Romney is to blame for a woman’s death because her husband lost his health insurance when he was laid off from a company owned by Bain Capital.
Saul called the ad misleading and disingenuous, but then highlighted an inconvenient fact: If the man had lived in Massachusetts, where Romney spearheaded a law covering nearly everyone, he would have had health care coverage."
"Erick Erickson, a prominent blogger, said it could “mark the day the Romney campaign died.” He also called it a “‘Read My Lips’ moment of betrayal,” in reference to President George H.W. Bush’s violation of a pledge not to raise taxes."
"Conservative commentator Ann Coulter bitterly complained, saying donors should stop contributing to Romney until Saul is fired. “There’s no point in us going to a convention and pushing for this man if he’s employing morons like this,” Coulter said."
:lol:
Health care comment by Romney staffer ignites conservative blogs - Political Intelligence - A national political and campaign blog from The Boston Globe - Boston.com
"The dissent came after Romney press secretary Andrea Saul appeared on Fox News on Wednesday to rebut an ad run by a Democratic super PAC. The ad – largely discredited by fact-checking organizations -- suggests Romney is to blame for a woman’s death because her husband lost his health insurance when he was laid off from a company owned by Bain Capital.
Saul called the ad misleading and disingenuous, but then highlighted an inconvenient fact: If the man had lived in Massachusetts, where Romney spearheaded a law covering nearly everyone, he would have had health care coverage."
"Erick Erickson, a prominent blogger, said it could “mark the day the Romney campaign died.” He also called it a “‘Read My Lips’ moment of betrayal,” in reference to President George H.W. Bush’s violation of a pledge not to raise taxes."
"Conservative commentator Ann Coulter bitterly complained, saying donors should stop contributing to Romney until Saul is fired. “There’s no point in us going to a convention and pushing for this man if he’s employing morons like this,” Coulter said."
:lol:
I may not be that far off with 300, Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight has it at ~ 304 for Obama, and 234 for Romney.