Slipping in polls, Romney assures voters 'I care'
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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop at American Spring Wire, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, in Bedford Heights, Ohio.
WESTERVILLE, Ohio — Slipping in states that could sink his presidential bid, Republican Mitt Romney declared Wednesday that “I care about the people of America” and can do more than President Barack Obama to improve their lives. In an all-day Ohio duel, Obama scoffed that a challenger who calls half the nation “victims” was unlikely to be of much help.
Romney’s approach reflected what he is up against: a widening Obama lead in polls in key states such as Ohio, the backlash from a leaked video in which he disparages Obama supporters as government-dependent people who see themselves as victims, and a campaign imperative to make his policy plans more plain.
With under six weeks to go, and just one week before the first big debate, Obama’s campaign reveled in the latest public polling — but tried to crush any sense of overconfidence. “If we need to pass out horse blinders to all of our staff, we will do that,” said campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki.
The day’s setting was Ohio, where Obama’s momentum has seemed to be growing. It’s also a state no Republican has won the White House without carrying.
Romney, eager to project confidence and brush aside suggestions that he was faltering, went after working-class voters outside Columbus and Cleveland before rolling to Toledo. Obama rallied college crowds at Bowling Green State University and Kent State University, reminding Ohioans their state allows them to start cast ballots next week. Early voting has already begun in more than two dozen other states.
For Romney, in his appearances and in a new TV ad in which he appeals straight to the camera, it was time for plain talk to contrast himself with Obama, and to mince no words about his expectations.
“There are so many people in our country who are hurting right now. I want to help them. I know what it takes,” Romney told the crowd in Westerville. “I care about the people of America, and the difference between me and Barack Obama is I know what to do.”
Asked in an interview about his ability to empathize with ordinary Americans, Romney cited the health care law he championed while governor of Massachusetts. It’s a topic Romney usually doesn’t raise because Obama cites the initiative as the basis for his own health care overhaul. Conservatives despise what they call “Obamacare” — Romney has vowed to repeal and replace it if elected — and tend to oppose the idea of universal health coverage.
“Don’t forget — I got everybody in my state insured,” Romney told NBC News while in Toledo. “One hundred percent of the kids in our state had health insurance. I don’t think there’s anything that shows more empathy and care about the people of this country than that kind of record.”
That message so late in the campaign — a presidential nominee declaring his concern for all the people of the country — was part of his widening effort to rebound from his caught-on-video comments at a fundraiser.
In those comments, made last May but only recently revealed, Romney said “47 percent of the people” pay no federal income tax, will vote for Obama no matter what, see themselves as victims, think the government must care for them and do not “take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”
New opinion polls, conducted after the video became public, show Obama opening up apparent leads over Romney in battleground states, including Ohio and Virginia. And majorities of voters in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania say Romney’s policies would favor the rich over the middle class or the poor.
Specifically in Ohio, two surveys show the president crossing the 50 percent mark among likely voters. A Washington Post poll found Obama ahead 52 percent to 44 percent among those most likely to turn out, and a Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times poll showed a 10-point Obama lead among definite voters.
Noting anew the Romney video comments, Obama said Wednesday: “We understand that America is not about what can be done for us. It’s about what can be done by us together, as one nation, as one people.”
And he added: “You can’t make it happen if you write off half the nation before you take office.”
Romney was showing signs of picking up his pace, and he did not mince words about his expectations.
“Were we to re-elect President Obama there is no question in my mind we’d face four more difficult years,” he said. “If, instead I — no, instead, when I become president, we’re going to get this economy growing again, we’re going to do the things that ignite this economy.”
Romney scheduled a blizzard of interviews with ABC, CBS and NBC, his second round of broadcast network appearances in three days after weeks of ignoring their requests. He also did interviews Tuesday with Fox News and CNN.
“I’m very pleased with some polls, less so with other polls,” he told ABC. “But frankly, at this early stage, polls go up, polls go down.”
The new Romney TV ad, at 60 seconds, is a longer and softer approach in which he speaks about people struggling to pay for food and gas with falling incomes.
At one point on Wednesday, the two candidates spoke from different sections of northern Ohio at the same time, their scenery as different as their message.
At a factory in Bedford Heights, Romney appeared on a stage surrounded by visual evidence of Ohio’s manufacturing base — giant coils of steel wire, metal beams, yellow “caution” signs — and spoke as machines whirred in the background. He appeared with Mike Rowe, an everyman TV personality and pitchman.
Obama appeared at two packed college basketball arenas, delivering his message first to a boisterous crowd of more than 5,000 at Bowling Green and then to 6,000 screaming supporters at Kent State.
He said a student who introduced him broke his wrist during a game of ultimate Frisbee. Exhorting the crowd to vote, he said, “You got to play through injuries.”
The campaigns tried, too, for footholds on other fronts.
Both sides kept up their attempts to paint each other as weak in dealing with China, efforts aimed at wooing support from working-class voters whose jobs might suffer from imports from China.
Romney also focused Wednesday on interest paid on the national debt, a subject he hasn’t regularly discussed in his standard campaign speech. His comments came after a Washington Post poll showed the federal debt and deficit are the one set of issues where he has an advantage over Obama with likely voters.
Romney’s running mate, Paul Ryan, took a sharper approach. He told radio host Sean Hannity that Obama was using hollow tactics to paint his opponents as evil.
“He’s basically trying to say ‘If you want any security in your life stick with me. If you go with these Republicans they’re going to feed you to the wolves. It’s going to be a dog-eat-dog society,’” Ryan said.
In recent weeks, Romney has lost his polling edge on the economy generally, with more people saying they now trust Obama to fix the nation’s economic woes.
Fighting back, new Republican-leaning independent groups jumped in Wednesday with advertising aimed at voters who supported Obama in 2008 but are undecided now.
“I will say that as time progresses, the field is looking like it’s narrowing for them,” said Psaki, the Obama campaign spokeswoman. “In that sense, we’d rather be us than them.”
The president, though, did have his own ups and downs.
Air Force One aborted its approach into Toledo because of bad weather, forcing the commander of the presidential plane to circle the airfield.
The second try was a success without incident.
Later, at Kent State, Obama was building to his argument for keeping jobs in the United States when he stumbled on a familiar line before recovering at Romney’s expense.
“First thing is, I want to see us export more jobs, uh, exports more products. Excuse me. I was a channeling my opponent there for a second.”
AP White House Correspondent Ben Feller reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Kasie Hunt in Westerville, Ohio, Beth Fouhy in New York and Dan Sewell in Cincinnati and Deputy Director of Polling Jennifer Agiesta contributed to this report.
Sep 29, 2012 at 10 a.m.
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lol...
Sep 28, 2012 at 11:33 p.m.
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whz_bng, that's what is so troubling. Romney doesn't seem to ever learn.
"Bottle-blond bangs swept over one eye - this, the other boys whispered, was not a man's haircut. One of them - a popular, handsome specimen - grew particularly incensed at his classmate's new look. He formed a posse and found a pair of scissors. After locating the blond boy, the gang tackled him. The boy screamed for help, but none came. Lock by lock, his hair was lopped off.
Soon after, the boy disappeared from school. Eventually, he returned, his hair clipped short and back to its natural brown color.
There was no disciplinary action, but the incident would forever haunt everyone involved, save for the lead attacker, Mitt Romney. He forgot about it, married a pretty girl, produced five handsome sons, and made hundreds of millions of dollars. Now he wants to be president." [ http://www.citypages.com/2012-05-30/news... ]
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"Perhaps Romney really doesn't remember the assault on John Lauber nearly a half-century ago, despite the fact that so many of the other people who were there have never forgotten it. Or perhaps he decided that claiming ignorance would be the safest course of crisis management. But what he said told people nothing about the man he is today and how he has changed and grown over that time. We're all different people than we were in our youth, and we all have regrets. The 17-year-old Mitt Romney may have been a privileged, entitled boy with a mean streak. The 65-year-old Mitt Romney missed an opportunity to convince us he's something different." [ http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/11/opinion/wa... ]
Sep 28, 2012 at 11:20 p.m.
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poo, that piece of video is 20 yrs ago. 20 yrs ago Obama was beating up kids on a beach in Hawaii, smoking dope and doing blow.
Sep 28, 2012 at 11:59 a.m.
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As if the video of Romney writing off 47% as victims who feel entitled to government assistance wasn't trouble enough, Mother Jones has another video of Romney talking about Bain Capital "harvesting" companies at significant profit. You can read the transcript and watch the video at: [ http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012... ]
Sep 28, 2012 at 8:24 a.m.
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RAF that's a wee bit scary that you read that article as Obama conceding the debate. Wow.
Sep 28, 2012 at 7 a.m.
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"You don't know Mitt: 99 Facts About Mitt Romney"
http://thinkprogress.org/romney-facts/
"Mitt Romney Gets Tax Break Off Firm Sending Jobs To China"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/27...
"Illinois Workers Fight Back Against BAIN Capital Outsourcing Their Jobs To China"
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentar...
"Factory Workers Prepare To Confront Romney In Tampa Over BAIN Layoffs"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug...
YES-->"Romney Still GETS MONEY From BAIN Through OFFSHORE ACCOUNTS"
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/...
Sep 28, 2012 at 3:24 a.m.
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The Obama campaign has already conceded next Wednesday's debate to Romney . Isn't that golden?
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-team-tries-l...
Sep 28, 2012 at 3:22 a.m.
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fake brotherkoch stated "your partisan loyalty never ceases to amaze"
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Really? The irony is dripping from you, a poster claiming to be something completly opposite of who you really are, regardless of the multiple-user rules, has no standing to make silly claims.
Sep 28, 2012 at 2:14 a.m.
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poobah:
For the life of me I can't see Rommney 'winning' a debate either. Debates are VASTLY over rated. Both sides will come out claiming they "won'. Unless there is some MONUMENTAL GAF by one side, the debates won't change ANYTHING. It's THEE most over rated aspect of the campaigns. The only real 'knock outs' in debates were Reagan making that famous line about his age to Mondale, and just coming off with incredible likability from his joking charismatic personality. Then consequently going on to just SMASH Mondale, in one of the biggest landslides of all time. Kennedy killed Nixon in the 1st real TV debates, but that was more because of make-up and image. Nixon looked like a ghost, and Kennedy looked all colorful and robust. The debate itself had no real big knock out verbal moment. Most every debate is a DEAD DEAD DRAW, and effects nothing in the swing votes.
Sep 28, 2012 at 2:03 a.m.
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What the media will also NEVER mention is what the effect Gary Johnson will have on this race? Most polling agencies don't even put him up as a choice. The ones that are, he is polling around 5%. This obviously makes a sitting president able to win even when approval is below 50%. Use to be believed that no president could win with below 50% approval. Not true at all. Clinton did it TWICE, both times never getting over 50% of the vote over all popular vote (That was the Ross Perot factor playing in). The media will have you believe that Clinton was the mega populist president, which is NOT AT ALL the case.
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MANY independents (myself included) will be PROUDLY voting for the only real candidate who offers real change, and solutions, and that candidate is Gary Johnson. More then likely Johnson will pull more potential Rommney voters then Obama voters. However; that is very difficult to prove or disprove, just more of a hunch. There was much debate who Perot took votes away from (nothing could ever be proven one way or the other).
Sep 28, 2012 at 1:56 a.m.
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The Romney campaign has already conceded next Wednesday's debate to President Obama. Isn't that golden? [ http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/201... ]
Sep 28, 2012 at 1:48 a.m.
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RAF:
I am not one to put much credence in polls myself, unless of course they are the actual internal polls from the campaigns. Public polling has always been a very small weight in my handicapping of ANY political race. Both sides have (and ARE ) spinning these recent polls to death. I just stand by my claim that I made MANY months ago, in that Rommney was just a HORRIBLE, and totally un-electabe candidate the GOP put up. I explained many times how it was a 2000 election in party reverse all over again.
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I caught O'Reilly tonight, and I think he FINALLY figured it out! It only took him 3 months to do so!! In that the reason Rommney is down is because of LIKABILITY. Many people vote for the PERSON, and don't care about ideological beliefs. Lot of the ideologues mock those type of voters, but their vote counts just as much. Rommney simply does not connect with people. He is a GAF machine, and just simply gets CRUSHED in a likability-popularity contest with Obama. Being a pretty Independent person myself, if I was forced to pick one solely on who I found more likable, I would HANDS DOWN take Obama. This likability is WHY I was on Obama to win way back in May over Rommney (who appeared to be the GOP chosen one).
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Both ideological sides pretty much cancel one another out in a presidential election. Both sides rally their sheeple into supporting their chosen clown..All that is pretty much a statistical wash. So it really comes down to that 20% group who truly is independent. Often those people really don't like either sides agenda, and just go for the person they personally like better (who's they'd rather have a beer with), or who they feel would be better in a crisis situation as a leader. The later is actually what sunk McCain. It was NOT Palin. McCain fell apart when the financial crisis hit, and he looked (and was CLUELESS) and came off like a leader running around like a chicken with their head cut off. As soon that crisis hit, he was DONE (prior to it he was tied in all major polls). It was clear to the undecideds who was the calmer, cooler, level headed, reserved person in a crisis, and the election right after that was TOTALLY WON for Obama.
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Just like John Kerry in 2000, Mittens simply has a MONUMENTAL task in getting those independent, undecideds. Unless Obama makes a catastrophic blunder, or there is some MAJOR October surprise, I just don't see how Obama will ever lose the undecided voter majority (which usually do decide it). As that group really does almost always come down to a popularity-likability contest on their selection.
Sep 28, 2012 at 1:11 a.m.
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Kiow, I for one have never stated one would win or one would lose, I only know which way my vote will be against. The hilarity I find is how the media enjoy shaping the message based on polls that in no way statistically way make up the electorate and then the sheeple fall in line over it; see the same links to the talking point spin daily.
Sep 28, 2012 at 1:05 a.m.
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"These polls have already been debunked. 2008 had 3% more Democrats and these polls are using 9% more. They finished 18th in correctness. I look to Rasmussen. They were the most accurate in 2008, 2010, and the only one to have Walker up by 5% in the recall. He won by 7 - within the margin of error."
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Believe the kool aid that the Faux boys: Rove, Dick Morris, O'reilly are feeding you. The real accuracy is found in MARKETS where REAL $$$ (and very large $$$)is being waged. Long time ago when I worked in one of these campaigns polling agency, the 1st thing we did when we found are candidate was lost (in our internal polls)? WE CASHED IN. Just all made large wagers over in the UK (this was before you could play it all on the internet). With the mega volume on Intrade, I can guarantee you that insiders are just hammering Obama, with the internal data they have.
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If you truly believe the Faux boys, and that Rommney still wins, or the preposterous claim that Dick Morris CONTINUES to make in that he will win in a landslide, then go wager on Rommney. You can more then quadruple your money at this very point in time. Another week, you will likely get 10/1 on him.
Sep 27, 2012 at 11:26 p.m.
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http://www.examiner.com/article/will-the...
Sep 27, 2012 at 11:24 p.m.
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RAF, your partisan loyalty never ceases to amaze. Trying to equate $3,500,000 foreign income with typical 401K and IRA portfolios.
If you had any clue -you would know that IRA's and 401Ks aren't privy to the same sort of foreign partnership investments that Mittens rakes it in on. Those are boutique investments rigged up for the uber-wealthy and tax evasion.
Sorry to break it you pal -you only get the lowgrade milquetoast foreign stuff in your IRA, if you have one.
Mittens has the same lacking loyalty to America with his personal investments, as he had with Bain. He does not care.
Sep 27, 2012 at 11:02 p.m.
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"BLANK grossed over BLANK in foreign income last year"
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Why is the left fringe so blind to investments? The same one millions of working people have in their 401 accounts and the same one millions of public workers have in their pension program investments. Only a problem when they want it to be one...hysterical.
Sep 27, 2012 at 11:01 p.m.
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Romney's doing so great in the polls, I'm just wondering where his giant "Mission Accomplished" banner is?
Sep 27, 2012 at 10:36 p.m.
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Romney grossed over $3,500,000 in foreign income last year alone. Does he really care about America?
Sep 27, 2012 at 10:36 p.m.
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Romney grossed over $3,500,000 in foreign income last year alone. Does he really care about America?
Sep 27, 2012 at 10:28 p.m.
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West I agree, the choices put forth by the two parties are lackluster at best. As has been the case for decades when it comes time to vote at the real poll, the voting booth, a choice will be made on who not to elect...something the two party system has ensured for decades.
Sep 27, 2012 at 9:50 p.m.
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Romney doesn't need any media spin. He's his own worst enemy, and a 2nd rate Presidential candidate, yet still a better choice than the loons that lined up this year to run under the Republicans. This was the best the Republicans have to offer? His own party dragged their heels in supporting him. Why should I have an open mind and vote for him if his own party is unsure of him?
Ryan makes a bigger splash than Romney does, which isn't saying much. If this is America's best and brightest, we're in big trouble.
Sep 27, 2012 at 8:23 p.m.
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Classic media spin. With most media driven polls using a dem plus bias higher than the real turnout from the 2008president's elections they have been trying to declare an over sell to dems and they have bought it. Clearly the same polls show independents that voted for Obama in the last election are now leaning away but somehow the pollsters believe there will be a record turnout, more than in 2008, from dems in this election. I wonder if they can tell us the lotto numbers too.
Sep 27, 2012 at 6:44 p.m.
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Midnight_Ride said, "Fox... Fox Business... Desperation and certainly not real news for anyone with intelligence."
Can't disagree with you on that!
Sep 27, 2012 at 6:15 p.m.
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Correct!
Tonights top stories: first 10 minutes
Fox - Libya terror attack, UN with BB and Iran
Fox Business - The sluggish economy under Obama
MSNBC - more character attacks on Romney.
Desperation and certainly not real news for anyone with intelligence.
Sep 27, 2012 at 5:50 p.m.
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Obama and his Libyagate. Lies to the American public and cover up with the media. Not good.
He knew within hours it was a terror attack and lied as far as his UN speech blaming a little stupid film nobody saw or can even confirm it exists. Shameful, simply shameful
Who called first? FOX NEWS!
Sep 27, 2012 at 5:37 p.m.
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If Obama wasn't worried, why is he in Ohio? He's not in Illinois. He's not in California. He's not in New York.
He is in Ohio and Wisconsin and other swing states.
((43% Expect Better Economy if Romney Wins; 34% Say Same of Obama)) - says it all when you look further then the headlines
"it's the economy stupid" Then they send out idiots like Stephanie Cutter to say women aren't looking at the last couple years? Get real team Obama.
Sep 27, 2012 at 5:15 p.m.
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Mitt Romney's 'Them' Problem
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arch...
Sep 27, 2012 at 4:55 p.m.
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He cares? He cares about losing Ohio and keeping his tax returns secret.
Sep 27, 2012 at 4:04 p.m.
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The Official "thatwaseasy" Daily Swing State Tracking Poll (9/27/2012)
Romney: 183% (patriots), Obama 47% (victims)
Methodology: Private
Margin of error: +/- 140%
Republican oversampling: +136%
Sep 27, 2012 at 3:47 p.m.
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polls and facts don't matter.. of no concern... your for FREEDOM !!!! really all you have to remember.... it's easy.... so much other stuff you shouldn't try to think about... F R E E D O M......
Sep 27, 2012 at 3:44 p.m.
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I thought you people didn't care about polling? awfully testy aren't we??
Sep 27, 2012 at 3:20 p.m.
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Always good to tell the truth.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/201...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20...
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/0...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/st...
Sep 27, 2012 at 3:02 p.m.
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Seems Obama and his media pals can't throw anything to the wall and make it stick. It's the economy stupid.
Sep 27, 2012 at 3 p.m.
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Daily Swing State Tracking Poll
Swing State Daily Tracking: Obama 46%, Romney 46%
who's losing?
Sep 27, 2012 at 2:08 p.m.
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"The information you are presenting is being proven false by the fact checkers."
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Romney campaign=“We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.”
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"You are losing in the polls."
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Romney campaign=Beeson declined to elaborate on how their polls differed from those of media outlets, but he said, “We are, by any stretch, inside the margin of error in Ohio.”
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So no fact checking allowed and they get their own polls, showing what they want them to show. Is this for real? Wow, they aren't just out of touch with the general public, they are out of touch with REALITY!
Sep 27, 2012 at 1:56 p.m.
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Bowlgal asked, "poobah, how do you get your information? I'm just wondering because you seem to like to accuse others of parroting information."
If you read my comment that prompted your question, paying very close attention this time, you will find that the "parroting" remark was a quote from the article I cited and not my words. Here's a link to a number of resources that can help with reading comprehension: [ http://janesville-wi.yellowusa.com/Readi... ]
Bowlgal asked, "If you don't get yours from TV, radio, or newspapers, what are you doing here?"
I fail to see the relationship between my source of information and what I am doing here. That's a rather bizarre construct. What am I doing here? I'm participating in the discussions. I thought that was obvious.
Sep 27, 2012 at 1:37 p.m.
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If Obama wasn't worried, why is he in Ohio? He's not in Illinois. He's not in California. He's not in New York.
He is in Ohio and Wisconsin and other swing states.
Forget the popularity poll - look to the economy question.
43% Expect Better Economy if Romney Wins; 34% Say Same of Obama
"it's the economy stupid" Then they send out idiots like Stephanie Cutter to say women aren't looking at the last couple years? Get real team Obama.
Sep 27, 2012 at 1:07 p.m.
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poobah, how do you get your information? I'm just wondering because you seem to like to accuse others of parroting information. If you don't get yours from TV, radio, or newspapers, what are you doing here?
Sep 27, 2012 at 12:59 p.m.
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These polls have already been debunked. 2008 had 3% more Democrats and these polls are using 9% more. They finished 18th in correctness. I look to Rasmussen. They were the most accurate in 2008, 2010, and the only one to have Walker up by 5% in the recall. He won by 7 - within the margin of error.
Sep 27, 2012 at 12:39 p.m.
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"I like humans."
Sep 27, 2012 at 12:14 p.m.
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In all fairness to Feduptaxpayer, he isn't the only Romney supporter with confusion over the polls.
"It’s clear that Fox & Friends has a tricky relationship with data. But on the show Thursday morning, the hosts took that relationship to a whole new level.
After a raft of new polls showed Obama opening up leads in swing states, the Friends flew in to full-blown conspiracy mode about what’s really behind the data.
Parroting the latest Republican meme that national polls oversample Democrats, host Steve Doocy threw in to the mix the possibility that pollsters are using voter turnout from 2008 to guide who they should be asking.
Co-host Gretchen Carlson had another theory: “I do think there’s a subliminal message in these daily polling things, which isn’t always great for the voter.”
One problem with the theories: FOX’s own polling also shows Obama surging in swing states. A survey released by the network just last week showed the president leading Romney by no fewer than five points in Ohio, Virginia and Florida." [ http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/0... ]
Oh my!
Sep 27, 2012 at 11:53 a.m.
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Poo -- We have had discussions at work, with freinds and family and I must only know the 47% or more that support Romney.... The only people I here from that support Obama -- are collecting assistance, and that doesnt include SS, as relatives that are on SS -- are voting Romney.. So one thing is for certain -- this will be interesting especially if the polls have been using biased models as some have stated.
Sep 27, 2012 at 10:03 a.m.
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He's like a late night infomercial. The Shamwow...Yeah, nobody is listening to this clown, except for patriots - and I doubt many of them are.
Sep 27, 2012 at 9 a.m.
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It doesn't help your cause when you express your true feelings by writing off 47% as victims who feel entitled to government assistance.
"As we’ve discussed on various occasions, the Gallup Poll has consistently been slightly more favorable to Mitt Romney than most other premium polls.
We can’t say why Gallup is moving. But we can say that a dramatic new move for Obama coincides pretty much exactly with the release of the 47% remarks on September 17th.
Today’s number, where Obama ballooned to a 6 point lead, is the first day the entire sample is after September 17th." [ http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/20... ]
Sep 27, 2012 at 8:58 a.m.
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Mr. etch-a-sketch will say what ever he thinks will get votes. I don't believe a word he says.
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