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Obama in NH: 'Don't Boo' Romney, Just Vote

In return to battleground state, the president says four electoral votes are a key to victory.

 

It didn't take long for President Obama to go after his GOP presidential opponent Mitt Romney at a packed rally in Manchester, attacking what he called the former Massachusetts governor's "PowerPoint plan for the economy."

Much of the crowd of about 6,000 streamed into Veteran's Park three hours early, anxious to hear the president's follow-up to what several Democrats in the audience called a successful debate on Tuesday.

Obama sliced the five-point plan that Romney touted two days ago, repeating his comment from the debate that it is more like a "one-point plan."

"Those at the top play with a different set of rules than you do," he said on the plan. "They can pay lower taxes, they can keep their money offshore, they can buy companies and load them up with debt, lay off workers, strip their pensions (and) send their jobs overseas."

Obama said Romney took another swing on Tuesday at explaining his $5 trillion tax cut and "whiffed" on it.

"Instead of telling us how he'd pay for it, he said 'I'll let you know after the election,'" Obama said.

"When a politician tells you he's going to wait until after the election, it's not because the plan is so good that they don't want to spoil the secret," he added. "That's usually not what's going on."

Obama went on to slam Romney's jobs plan, where the GOP hopeful has said that he wants to add 12 million jobs over the next four years.

"When folks started crunching the numbers, his jobs plan fell apart even faster than his tax plan," he said. In New Hampshire you've heard of the New Deal, the square deal, the fair deal – Mitt Romney is trying to sell you a sketchy deal." 

The incident in Benghazi last month, which was contentiously debated on Tuesday, did not get mentioned in Obama's speech. But he did bash Romney's position on Iraq, saying that his opponent last week said that the United States should still have troops there.

"I think bringing our troops home after doing the job they did in Iraq was the right thing to do," Obama said. "You are the reason folks who serve us so bravely are now embracing their family and hearing those words – 'welcome home, welcome home, welcome home.'"

Obama called Romney's policies top-down, and those that got the country into a financial crisis.

On education, he said that Romney believes that hiring more teachers will not grow the economy.

On women's rights, Obama referenced Romney's "binders full of women" anecdote from Tuesday, which came while the Republican presidential nominee was discussing fair pay for women.

"We don't have to order up some binders to find qualified, talented...young women," Obama said.

The binder quote also came under fire while U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) addressed the crowd, where she said that Obama "doesn't need a binder to appoint women," referencing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as one of those women Obama assigned to his Cabinet right away.

Also psyching up the energetic audience was Gov. John Lynch, who said that Obama "truly understands that the American dream should be more than just a dream," and that it should be a "reality for anyone who wants to work for that dream."

The crowd was chanting from the moment the president took the stage, sending shouts of "four more years" and "Obama" to the podium throughout the 20-minute speech. When the audience booed the name Mitt Romney, Obama politely told them to stop booing, telling them not to boo, but rather to vote next month.

Gary Cameron, who came from Cape Neddick, Maine, is a registered Democrat who voted for President Obama last election.

He said that he is still in favor of Obama, calling this a “big election” that is all about where the country is at going forward.

Cameron also commented on Obama’s Tuesday debate performance in New York.

“I’m glad that he woke up,” he said, referencing a lackluster effort from the president in the first clash with Mitt Romney.

Muriel Soucy, a retired Manchester resident, said that she saw the president right in Veteran’s Park during the 2008 election cycle.

She has been volunteering for Obama in Manchester, and said that Medicare and the affordable care act are the primary issues for her.

“I think (the Affordable Care) act is going to help not only myself but it’s going to help a lot of people in our country,” she said.

She added that her confidence in the president has not diminished one bit during his four years in office.

Joe Bramante, a registered undeclared voter from Derry, whose niece, Doria, helped sing the National Anthem, held aloft a sign that read, "Omitt Romney." He said Romney's record as governor of Massachusetts was not nearly as good as his campaign purports. Obama, he added, is turning the country around after the recession.

"The economy is struggling," Bramante said, "but it's getting better."

Romney supporters outside of the Obama campaign event said the country is not better off than four years ago, and that change is needed. One of them, Warren Goddard of Manchester handed out leaflets that read: "The Obama administration's mandate issued under the Affordable Care Act requires Catholic institutions to offer health insurance that covers contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs."

"It's an assault on my church," he told a reporter, as a man repeatedly heckled him.

Goddard, a member of New Hampshire Right to Life, held up a sign, "Catholic: Yes, Obama: No," to those leaving Veteran's Park. He said he has no idea which candidate has the edge in New Hampshire with 19 days until Election Day. "The polls don't really mean anything," he said.

President Obama's time in New Hampshire was very brief. He is scheduled to fly out to New York for a fundraiser and an appearance on "The Daily Show."

Related Topics: Candidacy, Decision 2012, Democrats, Elections, Mitt Romney, President Obama, Republicans, Veteran's Park, and manchester

Atlant Schmidt

1:26 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

I couldn't attend this event but I did get a chance to walk around the (huge) perimeter of the secured area and I got to hear the crowd; they sounded "fired up and ready to go!"

And I got to wave to the President as his motorcade headed down Granite Street.

Well done, President Obama!

Four more years!

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Mike black

3:44 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

You got to wave to him ? Wow I bet you and he both marked that as a hilite in your life.

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Ernest

6:26 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Ah, yes. The Obama Smoke & Mirrors Show attracts a certain class of gullible people. But most of the snake oil salesman's followers now see right through this charlatan and his rants of empty promises and record of repeated failures.

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JIM

5:48 am on Friday, October 19, 2012

the obama big top circus came to town unfortunately laughing boy biden the clown wasent with the troop of jugglers and mimes but the king of one liners and ring master himself was up to the task of performing for the crowd of mentally disabled NH residents who clapped and drooled as the ring master did his now outdated 2008 act

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GAR

8:39 am on Friday, October 19, 2012

Does the word hypocracy mean anything to the Obama supporters? Obama says, "When a politician tells you he's going to wait until after the election, it's not because the plan is so good that they don't want to spoil the secret," he added. "That's usually not what's going on." Is that like saying, "in order to find out what's in the bill (ACA), we will have to pass it first." What a hypocrate.

News Flash

1:28 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Obama still has not told anybody what his plan is for the next four years. Is this a National Secret?

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Ernest

9:31 am on Saturday, October 20, 2012

Obama? A plan???? What, are you kidding?

Timothy Harden

1:43 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Seniors should remember that gas rices have doubled under Obama

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Jan Schmidt

1:47 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Hello? Is there anyone home in there?? Who decides gas prices? Hmmmm?

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One Man Wolf Pack

2:23 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Hi Jan, the market does, and what effects the market? US policy and regulations; and who controls that? Ahhhhh that's right, OBAMA.

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Ken Eyring

2:25 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Extraction of oil from federally controlled lands is down due to restrictions by Obama.

A separate discussion is that our country has enough oil, gas and coal resources for energy independence for hundreds of years. Not harvesting those resources has a direct impact on prices.

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Mike black

3:45 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Obamacare raises taxes and healthcare costs AGAIN in 2013 !! Watch out seniors, women, and children !!

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Jan Schmidt

4:07 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Ken

"The data in the report, which go back to 2003, show that there was indeed a large decline in oil production on federal lands and waters in 2011. But that observation belies the fact that federal lands and waters were exceptionally productive during 2010, outstripping any year's productivity during the Bush administration. Indeed, the average productivity on federal land and waters during the four Bush years, 2003-2008, was 634 million barrels per year. During the three Obama years, 2009-2011, it was 676 million barrels. During the Bush years, federal lands produced roughly 33 percent of the national output on average. During the Obama years, they produced roughly 34 percent. [Columbia Journalism Review, 3/22/12]"

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Jan Schmidt

4:11 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Charlie

"Economics professor James K. Galbraith said the problem with blaming the gas price spike on the falling dollar is that "dollar has not been falling (against the euro, say) in recent months. Overall the dollar-euro exchange rate is about where it was when Obama took office."

its the traders playing with the price - the volitile situation in Iran and the entire Gulf is a prime motivator of price

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One Man Wolf Pack

4:31 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Jan, you can blame the traders all you want but ahhh, what do you think they are making their trades on? Do you think a) that there is some sort of collective union style cabal to move prices to which nearly the entire market is in on or b) they are trading on the policies and regulations that could effect the price? (Hint one option is open to criminal prosecution that has not been brought forward for a lack of evidence, not a lack of denial)

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DLC

7:14 am on Friday, October 19, 2012

it is not just the price of gas that Seniors should remember. We retired with our SS and interest on our savings to live on. The 5 and 4 year
CD's we took out are maturing starting next Spring. We live on this interest. The interest rate we now have varies from 4 to 5% So we will now be receiving about 1 dollar for every 4 or 5 dollars we now receive. So unless you are retired with a government pension and free medical insurance you are out of luck. That is unless you jumped on the free gravy train that has increased the welfare rolls by over 1/3 under this administration then you are all ok.
But if you worked hard all your life.
Saved your money.
Never bought any thing you could not afford.
You are out of luck because you are now paying for all the deadbeats.
We need Mitt Romney to try to get this Country back on the right road.

Celia Brown

1:43 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Dead man walking. He's done in NH. I just saw one state poll. Independents are making the decisions now and Obama is on fumes at this point. Also Gallup confirms that Mitts performance on the 2nd debate actually moved the needle farther in his favor. Quantitatively Mitt won the debate.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/157817/election-2012-likely-voters-trial-heat-obama-romney.aspx

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Jan Schmidt

1:57 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

hahahaha... both owning almost half and you think one has won... hahahahah

here's the quote
"These results are for likely voters, who are the respondents Gallup deems most likely to vote based on their responses to a series of questions asking about current voting intentions, thought given to the election, and past voting behavior. Each seven-day rolling average is based on telephone interviews with approximately 2,700 likely voters; margin of error is ±2 percentage points."

Its a guess - at best... and no... Mitt lost, he was angry and condescending and let us know that he's lose with the truth - 31 myths in 41 minutes - now that's impressive.

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JIM

6:07 am on Friday, October 19, 2012

likely voter polls are more accurate than registered voter polls

R. Scott White

1:45 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

You should vote even if you don't like either candidate; remember, write-ins are allowed if nobody is any good for you.

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Ernest

8:47 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Yeah, like write-ins have a snowball's chance of winning....... or coming close ......or getting a decent percentage of the votes......... or making an impact. Writing in a candidate is as good as not voting

News Flash

1:50 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

How many thousand are from out of state.

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MerrimackREZ

2:03 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Obama is done!!!! He is on the trail pushing "binders". Women want jobs... For themselves and there spouses. They don't want a campaign gimmick or soundbite. He has nothing left and I cant wait to VOTE... Lets do it.... Keep up the MITTMENTUM!!!

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Timothy Harden

2:03 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Big Boo to Obama for heating oil prices

What I paid for heating oil under the Obama Administration

03/03/2009 1.899
05/30/2009 1.899
11/10/2009 2.399
01/12/2010 2.599
03/16/2010 2.549
10/05/2010 2.449
12/15/2010 2.799
01/27/2011 3.099
03/23/2011 3.499
11/08/2011 3.499
01/10/2012 3.549
03/07/2012 3.749
10/13/2012 3.549

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Jan Schmidt

4:16 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Apparently he can't learn either...

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darknyt74

2:33 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012

Jan and Bull:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnLP12X3EgM

Where is the windfall tax that he promised? He's been in office for 4 years and there has been no change.

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Celia Brown

4:33 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012

Actually He does...... The fact that he poo poo's everything except wind and solar directly impacts investor sentiment, global production, geopolitical health and leverage, and raw material futures. Look at corn as an example. The stupid Obama regs require that all gasoline has a minimum percentage of Corn-based content. The price of corn on the futures markets has almost quintupled since he took office.

A president can effect direct corporate pressure as well in many legal fashions. Look at Obama. He took a failing US auto industry from a step away from insolvency, and using your billions, turned it into a failing industry with loosing market share with less non-union people and funded their union pensions. So even Obama proved that he can intervene.

MerrimackREZ

2:09 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Thank God I got rid of my Oil Furnace..
Oh wait.. Is it ok that I said God?.. Jan/ Essie and I cleared to believe in god? I cant wait for the inauguration. I will stand up and say the pledge of allegiance with dignity for the first time in almost 4 years knowing we have a leader that loves America.

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ForThePeople

4:40 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

God isn't real. But Obama is indeed a Christian, so I don't know what you're complaining about.

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Tammy

5:24 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

MerrimackREZ-Everybody is entitled to have an imaginary friend-if they choose. You can believe in ghosts, aliens, or whatever floats your boat.

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Bull Moose

5:25 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

"I will stand up and say the pledge of allegiance with dignity for the first time in almost 4 years"

Real Americans pledge allegiance to our flag no matter who is in the White House. Sorry to hear you lack the dignity to join us.

Timothy Harden

2:41 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

23 million Boo Obama every morning.

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Hardy Har Har Har

2:48 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Baby Boo Boo, Boos Obama.

Hardy Har Har Har

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Bull Moose

3:35 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Pity the poor low-information voter who believes the President has a secret dial hidden in the Oval Office that controls the price of Regular at the Irving down the street.
When gas was $4.68 (at 3:00 of the video below) FOX News told the sheeple that the President has no power to lower gas prices.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzEnKdBAb_o&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzEnKdBAb_o&feature=player_embedded

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Atlant Schmidt

7:09 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Fox's "truth" varies depending on the propaganda needs of the moment.

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Ernest

8:49 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Pity the low-information, low-intelligence voter who believes Obama is doing a fine joib running the country.

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David Pittelli

11:25 am on Saturday, October 20, 2012

You say that as if Democrats, and their legions in the press, didn't blame Bush for high gas prices then. They did. The hypocrisy goes two ways, it would seem, although one can argue that given Obama and his Energy Secretary explicitly favored higher energy prices, it is likely that their actions have something to do with higher energy prices.

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darknyt74

2:38 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012

Funny, I recall people blaming Bush and Cheney for high gas prices during the 2008 election.
Obama's been in office for 4 years. During his campaign in 2008 he promised an oil profits windfall tax. Ooops. No such tax exists now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnLP12X3EgM

Just my 2 cents

4:11 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Are people insinuating that restrictions and safety regulations are not appropriate?
Where were you during the BP disaster in the Gulf? Those were the direct result of Bush's deregulations. How come people only think of themselves and their gas/ oil prices? How come people don't look at the big picture? Alternative energy, which President Obama promoted this am as part of his plan.(no secret-NewsFlash--he listed his plans this am loud and clear--you should have come to listen). Did low gas prices at the end of the Republican administration in 2007 mean that our economy was in good shape???? Please do the research. Another part of the Obama plan is to promote and provide for all levels of education to promote job opportunities. (watch the video again) This administration has and hopes to continure to offer opportunity for education for new energy technology and math and science education. Education opens the minds of individuals. Education encourages confidence and econimic succcess and opportunity for all citizens...not just those that can borrow from their parents. America is a country that will take care of you all when you hit hard times.

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JIM

6:45 am on Friday, October 19, 2012

we see another obot got their ofa bedazzled em kit complete with the retarded notion that the the poor economy was the reason for low gas prices at the end of President Bushes last term in office, the obama limp along economy has 4 dollar a gal gas so that lie wasent worth your two cents

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JIM

6:48 am on Friday, October 19, 2012

if a poor economy set gas prices .......today gas would be FREE

David Campbell

5:44 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Moon bats , love him while ya can because he WILL be gone.. NOBAMA IN 2012

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DLC

8:42 am on Sunday, October 21, 2012

Love NOBAMA!
Thanks I need a little chuckle this am.
Vote Romney
Save America

Ernest

6:35 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Hey liberals - try facing reality for a change. Romney is surging in all the polls - both nationwide and in the swing states. Obama is going down in flames. Criticize Romney all you want. But your man has nothing to offer other than a record of broken promises and repeated failures.

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Atlant Schmidt

7:11 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Of late, your claims are not true; the bleeding has been stopped and quite possibly reversed.

The latest polls even put President Obama back on top here in New Hampshire.

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Celia Brown

8:48 am on Saturday, October 20, 2012

As of yesterday, gallup has romney up a tick (three ticks up since the second debate), has him up by 1 in NH, and yesterday we find out that Romney now leads in the electoral vote. Also we are seeing all around us people in the public eye stating their bets. That further calls for more concern from Obama. Using binders in a campaign stomp is further evidence of a campaign in real trouble. Obama is just a week from being a dead man walking. Numbers don't lie.

one more debate left and one of Obama's key foreign policy advisers did a huge hit piece on Obama, and how terrible he has performed internationally. That couldnt come at a worse time. Like I said...people are going all in for their candidate now.

Numbers dont lie. And it looks bleaker for the moonbat candidates in this state as well..

Bob Korbey

3:01 am on Friday, October 19, 2012

Obama stated 4 years ago that if he doesn;t get the job done then he doesn't deserve to be re-elected. He has given us broken promises, failures & lies. Give Romney a chance and if he fails in 4 years then we boot him out too! It's like buying a car that is a lemon-why would you keep putting money into it-get rid of it!!!

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JIM

5:58 am on Friday, October 19, 2012

Bob, your 100% right, its time to give someone else a chance to fix the economy if Romney cant do it will kick him to the curb in the next election and try again ....but
IF OBAMA WINS .....................AMERICA LOSES

News Flash

9:21 am on Friday, October 19, 2012

The Un-President
Barack Obama shows an unerring instinct for policy deniability.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444734804578062820162407596.html

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Ernest

9:30 am on Saturday, October 20, 2012

Romney will utterly destroy Obama on foreign policy. The third debate will ace it for President Romney's election. Can you liberals say t-o-a-s-t???

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Piccadilly Circus

10:22 am on Saturday, October 20, 2012

Obamanesia-When you forget about 23 million unemployed American

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Sharpie

12:51 pm on Saturday, October 20, 2012

Here's a short current video to watch - "Bain-owned factory workers plead w Romney to stop plan that will send their jobs to China", Oct. 19, 2012.

http://current.com/shows/the-young-turks/videos/bain-owned-factory-workers-plead-with-romney-to-stop-plan-that-will-send-their-jobs-to-china

This kind of destruction and disregard for your fellow citizens will create karma that follows one. Profits at the price of people is money that will haunt those profiting in the short term far longer than one can possibly imagine. A global economy is a myth. People live in real places, and we are bankrupting our own real country where we really do live. This election vote for someone and something you believe in, and who believes in you as an American citizen. Wish China well, but champion yourself and your own people first. Anything else will fail you, your fellow Americans, your country, and ultimately, your world. Stand for something worth living for. Vote Libertarian for one election. Gary Johnson, Libertarian candidate for President, wants to change tax laws so that American business has an incentive to remain and return to the USA. Start living for freedom, right here in your own country. Vote Libertarian for one election. Live free.

http://www.garyjohnson2012.com/

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News Flash

1:38 pm on Saturday, October 20, 2012

Clinton: I Thought Obama 'Was Going to Cry'

"Governor Romney's argument is, we're not fixed, so fire him and put me in," said Clinton. "It is true we're not fixed. When President Obama looked into the eyes of that man who said in the debate, I had so much hope four years ago and I don't now, I thought he was going to cry. Because he knows that it's not fixed."

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/bill-clinton-romneys-argument-true-were-not-fixed_654893.html

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Tammy

3:39 pm on Saturday, October 20, 2012

News Flash-I think Clinton was pushing the meme that President Obama feels the man's pain.

Mark Alesse

6:03 pm on Saturday, October 20, 2012

Clinton is signaling that he wants Obama to lose. Watch as others in the press take the hint and begin to distance themselves from Obama. The last thing that Clinton wants is Obama to have four more years with which to ruin the Party's image and/or be in a position to select the next Democratic nominee. He wants to ride Hillary back into the White House so much he can taste it. Obama won't want that to happen as he and the Clintons hate each other.

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News Flash

7:19 am on Sunday, October 21, 2012

Only 30 Percent of Americans Satisfied With Country’s Direction

Read more on Newsmax.com: Poll: Only 30 Percent of Americans Satisfied With Country’s Direction
Important: Do You Support Pres. Obama's Re-Election? Vote Here Now!

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News Flash

8:16 am on Sunday, October 21, 2012

Romney now leads in Favorability/Likeability.

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News Flash

8:33 am on Sunday, October 21, 2012

Romney leads in New Hampshire.

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News Flash

9:07 am on Sunday, October 21, 2012

Romney leads in Electoral Votes.

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News Flash

9:24 am on Sunday, October 21, 2012

Romney leading in Swing States

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News Flash

12:08 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012

Why America is breaking for Romney

http://washingtonexaminer.com/why-america-is-breaking-for-romney/article/2511249#.UIQdgmeoZ8G

Before the first presidential debate on Oct. 3, Mitt Romney trailed President Obama 49 percent to 46 percent in the RealClearPolitics national poll average. After Americans got to meet the real Romney during the first presidential debate -- not the caricature created by Obama's omnipresent negative television ads -- Romney pulled ahead of Obama in the RCP average, 47 percent to 46 percent.

When releasing his New Hampshire results Friday, PPP's Tom Jensen tweeted out: "NH voters think Obama won debate by 8 pts, still support Romney by 1. Democrats need to accept debate this week was not a big game changer."

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News Flash

5:01 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012

Romney Leads Obama 52-45: Gallup Poll

Mitt Romney extended his lead Sunday over President Barack Obama in a much-discussed Gallup poll that shows the GOP challenger now leading by 7 points, 52-45, among likely voters.

While most surveys show Obama and Romney locked in a virtual dead heat, Gallup alone finds that the Republican would win by a comfortable margin if the election were held today.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/gallup-poll-romney-leads/2012/10/21/id/460837

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