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Romney Struggles to Gain Traction in Battlegrounds
Wall Street Journal ^ | Sept 9, 2012 | Sara Murray

Posted on 09/09/2012 6:54:21 PM PDT by Innovative

With two months to Election Day, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney faces the disconcerting reality that he isn't winning most of the states he would need to beat President Barack Obama.

Mr. Obama is leading Mr. Romney by small margins in seven of the eight battleground states, all but North Carolina, according to averages of public polls compiled by RealClearPolitics. All are within the margins of error.

"Our problem in our country is not that we're not paying enough taxes," Mr. Romney said. "It's that we're spending too much money and the economy is not growing as it could and should."

"It's still a very difficult economic environment, and there's plenty of time for Romney to rally," said Mark McKinnon, a former political adviser to President George W. Bush. "Sixty days is like sixty years in political time."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012swingstates; battleground; elections; morepollingbs; obama; romney
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To: Innovative

I don’t care any more. I can get banned for it, but so be it. Time for these fakes to be dealt with for the fraud they are trying to put over on us.


141 posted on 09/10/2012 1:13:07 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: GlockThe Vote

No wonder you call social conservatives ‘fake conservatives’.

Hey, great, lose without us, we don’t care. :)


142 posted on 09/10/2012 1:13:28 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas, Texas, Whisky)
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To: JCBreckenridge

You are not a social conservative or any conversative at all. You are an obamabot and a troll.

If you think your cause is advanced by handing Obama 4 more years on the path we are heading you are truly as bad, if not worse, than any of those in the freak show we witnessed in Charlotte w tears streaming down their faces.

Just be honest about it. Your little shell game claiming some pious position is a joke and you deserve to b e ridiculed and mocked for it.

There is nothing dignified or respectable whatsoever with your position in giving obama 4 more years on a platter because your 100/100 magive conservative unicorn from the sky is not the nominee.


143 posted on 09/10/2012 1:33:05 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: GlockThe Vote

“you deserve to be ridiculed and mocked for it.

There is nothing dignified or respectable whatsoever with your position in giving obama 4 more years on a platter because your 100/100 magive conservative unicorn from the sky is not the nominee.”

Given that Paul Ryan is a conservative Catholic who supports traditional marriage and unborn children, are you saying that Romney recruited a ‘magic conservative unicorn from the sky?’


144 posted on 09/10/2012 1:40:48 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas, Texas, Whisky)
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To: RIghtwardHo; Admin Moderator; Sidebar Moderator; darkwing104; TheOldLady; Arrowhead1952; LucyT; ...

There’s a Trolley Bus station just around the corner of the FR building...you’ll be on the next one.

You’re no Conservative who “will never vote for Romney because he’s 0b0z0!” You’re trying to peel votes away and have your communist boy 0kaka win by default. It won’t happen. You and your “butties” are facing a landslide loss.

Your posts prove that you’re a LeftWard “Ho”:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:rightwardho/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change

You have been carrying 0kaka’s urine for quite a while now. Here’re a couple of your garbage posts from the URL above:

“Why Clint Eastwood’s speech worked
Sunday, September 02, 2012 12:00:30 AM · 32 of 56
RIghtwardHo to 2ndDivisionVet

If there are arguments among people on both sides (and there is) whether or not it worked . . . it didn’t.

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“Romney pledges to protect ‘sanctity of life,’ marriage in GOP acceptance speech
Friday, August 31, 2012 5:33:57 PM · 12 of 115
RIghtwardHo to NYer

Romney is pro-choice. You “conservatives” have fun with that one.”

“You conservatives”, eh? Aren’t you one of “us?”

I guess not.

I guess it’s time for you to go, followed by your boy and his communist cabal on November 6.


145 posted on 09/10/2012 1:45:19 PM PDT by melancholy (Professor Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist, Ph.D. in L0w and H0lder)
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To: JCBreckenridge

That is exactly what makes your position so absurd and deservinig of ridicule scorn and derision.

People like yourself are a joke claming some higher position than the rest of us all while handing obama 4 more years.

Spare me your con and shell games, it may work on others less discerning but i see right through your phoney obamaloney.


146 posted on 09/10/2012 1:54:45 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
How did this once great country turn into a sh*thouse so fast?

By allowing public enemy #1, the MSM, to take over unmolested!

You can count many reasons, however, everything is originating from a communist agenda that wasn't checked for close to a century.

There is no critical, free press or what's called The Fourth Estate, rather, it IS The Fifth Column that is railroading this Republic to oblivion.

They elected the highest-ranking illegal alien POTUS and now they protcting him with all kind of lies and faux polls.

147 posted on 09/10/2012 2:01:09 PM PDT by melancholy (Professor Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist, Ph.D. in L0w and H0lder)
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To: JCBreckenridge

Very well. I consider you a proud idiot. (The best kind.)


148 posted on 09/10/2012 2:46:07 PM PDT by Chunga (Ron Paul is a fruitcakey jackass.)
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To: melancholy

I went to a Republican gathering yesterday evening. Ted Cruz could not attend, but his father was there in his place. His signature quote was “It’s better to vote for a Republican you don’t know than wind up with a dim you don’t like”. He got a standing “O” when he got off the stage.

Posters like RIghtwardHo are here to disrupt the regular FReepers. It can take a long jump off a short pier and get under 0 bummer’s bus.


149 posted on 09/10/2012 3:08:03 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 ("It's better to vote for a Republican you don't know than wind up with a dim you don't like".)
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To: melancholy

That guy is still here??? He really needs a boot in the okole.


150 posted on 09/10/2012 4:56:39 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Chunga

I fought hard for my guy in the primaries and he lost. So be it. The republicans went in another direction and don’t care about the things that I do, so I’m going to go in another direction.


151 posted on 09/10/2012 6:05:40 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas, Texas, Whisky)
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To: little jeremiah
He really needs a boot in the okole.

Does the 0k0le or the b00ty produce 0kaka? Anatomy isn't my strong b00t.

152 posted on 09/10/2012 6:11:16 PM PDT by melancholy (Professor Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist, Ph.D. in L0w and H0lder)
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To: GlockThe Vote

“Spare me your con and shell games, it may work on others less discerning but i see right through your phoney obamaloney.”

Are you stating that you don’t believe I’m a Catholic who’s against contraception?


153 posted on 09/10/2012 6:13:53 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas, Texas, Whisky)
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To: melancholy

Your anatomy knowledge is perfect, the okole is the hindquarters from which issues okaka.

Hawaiin pidgin to be precise!


154 posted on 09/10/2012 6:21:16 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah
okole is the hindquarters from which issues okaka.

Oh uh! I thought 0kaka was a person. Now you'll tell me that 0h0m0-marriage will procreate, huh?

That's Hawaiian punch.

155 posted on 09/10/2012 6:28:12 PM PDT by melancholy (Professor Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist, Ph.D. in L0w and H0lder)
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To: melancholy

I cannot duel wits with you, my friend - you are too sharp for me!

But this is what we used to say around here, got out of the habit, though.

The barack is the white throne, and 0bama is what one deposits in it, and then flushes it down.

In vernacular “0bama” is “Okaka”.

Of course, this is just very local vernacular.


156 posted on 09/10/2012 6:42:27 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah
In vernacular “0bama” is “Okaka”.

Aha! At last I'm no longer confused.

For a while, it sounded so...so...what is word? Oh yeah, kinda melancholy, if you will.

157 posted on 09/10/2012 6:47:02 PM PDT by melancholy (Professor Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist, Ph.D. in L0w and H0lder)
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To: JCBreckenridge
The republicans went in another direction and don’t care about the things that I do, so I’m going to go in another direction.

So what?

158 posted on 09/10/2012 8:01:49 PM PDT by Chunga (Ron Paul is a fruitcakey jackass.)
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To: TMA62
We could take Romney out into the middle of the desert and introduce him to a Navajo who has never watched TV or read a newspaper and I guarantee he will come away from the encounter with our nominee wondering just what the hell was wrong with that guy.

It isn't the media, it is a spectacular history of socially inept behavior. A twelve year old who behaved like Romney would be medicated. Everything that comes out of his mouth sounds like something the SNL version as portrayed by Dana Carvey would say. So is it a Freudian self-annihilation scenario or is he just not right in the head?

Given he is an adherent to a religion invented by a criminal who was never more than two steps away from a noose and is wholly unsupported by the historical record. I'm going to go with not right in the head.

While some might feel obliged to take one for the team and feign respect for Mormonism (at least for a few more weeks) I am not among them.

159 posted on 09/10/2012 10:49:18 PM PDT by WalterSobchak2012 (I have nothing to offer Mr. Romney but silence.)
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To: JCBreckenridge
When the Whigs supported slavery and put slavery supporters at the top of the ticket we got Buchanan. Remind me what happened to them? We the People want a party that supports unborn children and traditional marriage. If that party is not the Republican party then we will find one that is.

Well said!

160 posted on 09/11/2012 9:25:17 AM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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