Posted on 09/10/2012 7:53:48 AM PDT by C19fan
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows President Obama attracting support from 50% of voters nationwide, while Mitt Romney earns 45% of the vote. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, and three percent (3%) are undecided.
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Santorum would be doing much worse, IMHO.
You know I really dislike Mike Tyson. Not just for being a idiot and a thug and beating on woman, and being a convicted rapist, but he was a thug boxer too. A first round knock out specialist, whose most famous punch was biting off his opponents ear. Gag!
He met his match with Lennox Lewis, the defending heavyweight champion and a real gentleman met him in the ring to defend his title. Lewis, not one to boast, said in the pre-fight that he hoped to help Tyson retire by beating him, and thus improve the boxing game.
On January 22, 2002, a brawl involving the two boxers and their entourages occurred at a press conference held in New York to publicise the bout.Tyson went on stage at the Hudson Theatre and stared in the direction of where Lewis was to appear. As soon as Lewis appeared, Tyson quickly walked toward him and appeared to be about to assault Lewis. One of Lewis’ bodyguards attempted to block Tyson's access to Lewis before Tyson threw a left hook in the bodyguard's direction. The two boxers rolled on the floor with personnel from both camps getting involved.
During the melee WBC president José Sulaimán claimed to be knocked out when he hit his head on the table. He later filed a US$56 million lawsuit against Lewis and Tyson for injuries caused in the scuffle. Sulaiman claims he was spat on and Tyson threatened to kill him, when he got up after being knocked out.[6]
Tyson later admitted to biting Lewis' leg and had to pay him US$335,000.
Following the brawl Tyson came to the edge of the podium, and issued a several minute-long profanity-laden tirade towards freelance journalist Mark Malinowski, who suggested that Tyson should be put in a straitjacket. Tyson punctuated his oration by vowing to introduce Malinowski to the concept of prison romance.[7][8][9]
The brawl at the press conference for this fight was named The Ring magazine Event of the Year for 2002.
All of which made this one of my favorite rounds of boxing ever! Lewis' 8th Round KO of Mike Tyson It's nice to see Mike with both eyes cut, his nose bleeding, flat on his back, wondering WTF just happened ... if there is a Tyson of politics, it's now West, who is an officer and a gentleman.
Despite hating Mike I will admit he was a great boxer in his prime. I've even seen him rated #1 of all time in some lists, so I can't take that from him. But, especially in sports, character counts. So I would never rate him that high.
Please excuse typo.
That’s the problem. None of the people who ran in the primaries are the best and brightest the Republicans have to offer. Romney is probably the most electable to the general populace, but even that is debatable.
“He needs to go negative fast.”
YES. So much material for Romney - he needs to begin using it now! He must not let Obama gain momentum and dispirit the Republican base so early.
Debt bomb
Quadrupled deficit - now >100% of GDP
>8% unemployment for 4 years - a post WW2 record
Drop in global competitiveness from #1 to #7
AAA downgrade first time in history
The Romney ads released last weak are lame and a complete waste of money. Romney needs to get aggressive like he did with Gingrich and Santorum and do it NOW!
I agree. Better to spend time prepping than blogging at this point. The inevitable can only be delayed so long. Romney is a better man than Obama but he doesn't have the fortitude to actually fix our problems.
I have recently reluctantly steeled myself to the idea of a second Obama term. The one upside is that I'm convinced Obama will be at the helm when the good ship USA hits the iceberg and is mortally wounded. It will be nice to see that pinned on his dumb butt.
Santorum would be doing much worse, IMHO.
I don’t know. We would definitely be getting Ohio and most mid-west states and then add the South and I think we would win. Perhaps not a landslide but enough to win. The problem with Romney is he does not relate to regular people. Santorum would definitely relate to the regular joe.
“if people choose for four more years of THIS, it falls back to the question of the tipping point. We cannot recover if we have four more years of massive government buildup. It will be irreversible.”
Hey... the voters keep doing it in California with full knowledge that their system is headed over a cliff. Maybe we’ve reached a tipping point where the whole country is ready to follow suit.
Santorum has no discipline he is like goofy Labrador puppy that would lunge for any treat the MSM dangled in front of him.
By now he’d be neck deep trying to define his position on porn, chastity and contraception.
I certainly haven't given up. I'm just PO'd at Romney, and Republicans in general yet again. I'm so tired of the GOP snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Our country, way of life and FREEDOM are at stake here... this truly IS the most important election in my lifetime.
Scott Rasmussen IS a conservative, or he's at least a Republican. Saw him at CPAC in February.
His is one of the few polling firms that polls "likely voters" and I believe (I admit I'm not sure) he polls Republicans and 'RATs 50/50.
I was polled by Rasmussen via phone about 4-5 years ago. It was an automated poll - VERY efficient, and well done. I answered truthfully, and - as there was no human on the other end - I felt no "guilt" as I've heard some people do when preferring one candidate over another.
Agreed..the MSM would play Santorum like a fiddle, he’d be slaughtered
Until Romney figures out how to do just that (and he'd better get going), he needs to send Paul Ryan "out there" during every waking hour. Ryan shouldn't have much down time between now and November 6th...
lol. You liberal Republicans are a hoot.
Was 50% of the population receiving some form of government subsidy back in 1998? Food stamps/EBT cards, welfare, "disability", etc.?
Obama and the 'RATs have designed it so more people are receiving gov't freebies and thus will vote to continue/increase those freebies. We will find out on November 6th if he was successful. (God help us, I hope he's not)
I'm NOT "giving up", but the reality is we have a far different electorate now than back in 1998...
I tend to agree. You aren’t going to win talking about contraception. He seemed unable to stop.
One thing I feel is certain. If Romney has spent six years and millions of his own dollars to get to this point, he’s going to go into the campaign with both barrels blazing.
We shouldn’t start asking what Romney is doing wrong to deserve these bogus polls.
These ‘pollsters’, all of them, have the boot of this regime on their necks. These propagandist pollsters have always been slanted towards the left but this election cycle they are being forced to juice the numbers even more.
The reason is THIS president is in deep, deep trouble and they know it.
Was 50% of the population receiving some form of government subsidy back in 1998?
I'm NOT "giving up", but the reality is we have a far different electorate now than back in 1998...
I'm NOT "giving up", but the reality is we have a far different electorate now than back in 1998...
Shouldn't that be 1988?
FReegards!
I was down in the mouth until listening to Rush reminding us that Carter was ahead at this point over and so was Dukasis. He believes the media is trying to discourage us and frankly they’re doing an effective job. Nothing will stop me from voting and I’m hoping everyone else who will vote for Romney feels as I do.
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