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[kamui]

Will Obie One get indicted

for the 100 plus deaths as a result of Sandr?

 

Why do you write such a BS?

 

Anyway:

 

President Obama is now better than a 4-in-5 favorite to win the Electoral College, according to the FiveThirtyEight forecast. His chances of winning it increased to 83.7 percent on Friday, his highest figure since the Denver debate and improved from 80.8 percent on Thursday.

http://fivethirtyeig...sed/#more-37099

[Guest lazyphil]

tounge in cheek me thinks kamui

[unit731]

Brett LoGiurato|Nov. 3, 2012, 1:04 PM

 

"President Barack Obama maintained a significant, 6-point lead over Republican Mitt Romney in the crucial swing state of Ohio, according to a new set of NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls released early this morning. The result is unchanged from mid-October.

 

The polls also showed Obama ahead of Romney by 2 points in Florida, which is a virtual must-win for the Republican nominee."

 

 

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[Steve]

The election is over. Its been over for a while. The first debate made it a little more difficult but too many things had to happen for Romney to win and a debate was not big enough event. The financial collapse was that event in '08. The jobs numbers worked against Romney.

 

Had the Republicans fielded a more moderate candidate they could have won. Obama is very beatable. Bush was beatable in '04 as well had a better campaign and candidate been fielded for the Dems.

 

The Tea Party and the far right are killing the Republicans. I have a feeling if they lose this election, lose ground in the other races for Congress as well as the 2014 elections, they will have some serious soul searching.

 

Rubio looks a good candidate. Maybe Jeb Bush. Jeb's biggest problem obviously is his brother and the '00 election but if he look at his record its a good one. He's a moderate. He has a latina wife. He's from a state he'll carry (Florida) so all he'll need is Ohio.

 

The demographics are working against the Republicans. They are relying on older white protestant males. That demo is getting smaller. States that were red are now purple because of changing demograpics. North Carolina and Virginia were firmly red a decade ago.

 

Women, latinos and the youth are attainable. Having to cater to the far right alienates them. Blacks and gays will never go Republican in numbers. Only way is if they field a moderate candidate from that group or has strong ties to that group. Bloomberg could get the gay, women and latino vote. The arbitrary stop and search anyone Black policy of his police department has alienated blacks but he can win the other groups.

[Flashermac]

Obama Refuses to Answer About Storm Victims’ Frustrations

 

 

President Obama this morning ignored a reporter’s question about the mounting frustration victims of Hurricane Sandy are having with the response to the storm, refusing to let a question from the press interrupt a FEMA photo op in which he was on display taking action.

 

No doubt aware of the political perils – and potential benefits – of the fallout from the hurricane, Obama arrived at FEMA with multiple members of his Cabinet in tow in a massive display of presidential concern. Even Cabinet secretaries you wouldn’t expect to be involved in hurricane relief – such as the Secretary of Labor and the Small Business Administration Administrator – have been enlisted and were at this morning’s meeting.

 

Obama’s effort will indeed have some practical effect – anytime a president shows he is personally engaged in an issue, it helps get the various agencies involved into a higher gear.

 

But with scenes of devastation proliferating on voters’ TV screens around the nation and evidence mounting of an insufficient response, Obama obviously felt he had to be seen at FEMA for a second time this week before heading back out to campaign.

 

After the visit to FEMA, Obama departed for Ohio.

 

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[unit731]

Keith Koffler is another one of those right wingnut drones.

 

 

 

"President Obama has seen a boost in his job approval ratings in the past week as the nation has dealt with Superstorm Sandy and its aftermath. Meanwhile, Republican challenger Mitt Romney’s favorability has hit a rough patch following almost a month of gains."

 

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[Flashermac]

Times/Bay News 9/Herald Florida Poll: Mitt Romney 51, Barack Obama 45

 

3 November

 

 

Florida continues to look good for Mitt Romney. The Republican holds a 6-point lead in the state essential to his hopes of defeating President Barack Obama, according to a new Tampa Bay Times/Bay News 9/Miami Herald poll.

 

The poll shows slight tightening, with Romney's 51-45 lead down 1 percentage point from the Times' statewide poll a month ago. Other Florida surveys show a tighter contest and both campaigns are blanketing the state with appearances geared toward scraping together every last vote.

 

Still, nearly every key indicator in the Times' pre-Election Day poll reveals Romney's advantage in a state Obama won four years ago.

 

Florida voters trust Romney more to fix the economy and give him an edge, 50 percent to 48 percent, on who will look out more for the middle class — a stark turn from past months when Obama and his allies unleashed a barrage of TV ads portraying Romney as an out-of-touch corporate raider.

 

Romney even has a slight advantage on foreign policy, with 2 percent more voters saying they trust him over Obama, who has faced criticism over the fatal attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya.

 

"Florida typically is a little bit more Republican than the rest of the country," said Brad Coker of Mason-Dixon Polling and Research, which conducted the poll for the Times and its media partners.

 

In 2008, Sen. John McCain "only lost by 3 points here and he lost by 7 nationally," Coker added. "Three points is not a lot of ground to make up in Florida for a Republican, particularly when the president's popularity is mixed, at best."

 

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[Flashermac]

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

 

3 November

 

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows the race tied, with President Obama and Mitt Romney each attracting support from 48% of voters nationwide. One percent (1%) prefers some other candidate, and two percent (2%) are still undecided.

 

Forty-six percent (46%) are certain they will vote for Romney, while 45% are sure they will vote for the president.

 

For most of the year, Rasmussen Reports has conducted 500 survey interviews per night and reported the results on a three-day rolling average basis. For the final week of the campaign, we are conducting 1,000 survey interviews per night.

 

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[Flashermac]

An Unpredictable End to a Very Predictable Election

 

by Scott Rassusen

 

Election 2012 has had few surprises. So it's somewhat surprising that heading into the final weekend of the election season, we are unable to confidently project who is likely to win the White House.

 

 

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[Flashermac]

<< Republican insider David Frum has an interesting article up at the Daily Beast. I like Frum. He’s conservative to moderate and I depend on him to tell me what’s happening behind the scenes in the GOP. He’s been quite critical in the past of the Tea Party element, and continued that theme. His article at The Daily Beast & the National Post is worth a read.

 

Frum says, “My National Post column describes why the Tea Party has caused Republicans to lose elections that seemed well within their grasp.†If Romney loses the race, Frum believes the reason will be simple: “The Tea Party struck again.â€

 

Frum is a mainstream Republican who blames the Tea Party element of the GOP for messing up what should have been some “sure thing†races in the House and Senate, not to mention the presidency. From Todd Akin, to Richard Mourdock, to Indiana’s ouster of Dick Lugar (he would have been an easy win for the GOP but lost a primary challenge to a Tea Party candidate), Frum is wondering when the GOP mainstream will wake up to the idea that the GOP has been hijacked by the far right. >>

 

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