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Tide shifts to Obama in most competitive states
AP Via WRALNews ^ | 9/22/2012 | CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press; THOMAS BEAUMONT, Associated Press

Posted on 09/22/2012 8:24:28 AM PDT by NCDragon

DES MOINES, Iowa — In a presidential race seemingly frozen in place for months, the advantage has shifted toward President Barack Obama after a series of miscues by Mitt Romney, punctuated by the Republican challenger's comments about people who pay no income tax.

Despite a continuing gray economic sky and unrest in the Mideast, the president has edged ahead of Romney in polls in some of the most competitive states, including Iowa and Virginia, and forced Romney to redouble efforts in Florida and Ohio, without which he has little chance of becoming president.

With about six weeks left before Election Day and early voting under way in some states, Romney faces a problematic map, a ticking clock and a campaign demeanor that has failed to click with many voters.

Obama's momentum did not come overnight. It built over several weeks in which Romney hit some potholes while the president made few errors and benefited from previously unseen advantages in advertising strategy and fundraising.

(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; romneytoast; toast
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To: Westbrook
God may yet show the mercy none deserve, Westbrook ...

2 Chronicles 7:14 ~ If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

http://40daystosaveamerica.com/mission.html

40 Days of Fasting and Prayer for American, starting Friday, September 28th and ending Election Day ... Hear our prayer, O Lord ...

41 posted on 09/22/2012 9:52:32 AM PDT by Pegita ('Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take Him at His word ...)
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To: NCDragon
(President Barack Obama, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney led the way by denouncing those who dared state the obvious version of what had happened in Benghazi, Libya – that it was about terrorism and not about the anti-Mohammad film.)

I can't believe an American would knowingly vote for a man who bows to Islam but denies his country has "Judeo-Christian" roots and who willingly lies to his countrymen. Obama was raised in the Islamic faith; is surrounded by Marxist, Communist, and Socialists...has a hatred for Capitalism though willingly uses every aspect of it. NO TO A SECOND TERM FOR OBAMA....HE MOST LIKELY IS NOT LEGALLY ALLOWED TO BE POTUS NOW.

42 posted on 09/22/2012 9:57:58 AM PDT by yoe
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To: NCDragon

Just remember that we are dealing with a rerun of the Clinton/Dole election. The media types back then discovered that they could put out oversampled Democratic polls and hope that they would be self fulfilling, and they were. So many thought the polls were correct they many became discouraged. Ever since then, we have a vicious propaganda machine that exists through subjective polling and ranting left wing media. The real question this time is: are people going to fall for these tactics again? Remember how the opposition brought out Bush’s DWI a few days before the election and harped on it non-stop? It didn’t work then. Maybe it won’t this time.


43 posted on 09/22/2012 10:02:41 AM PDT by NotTallTex
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To: NCDragon
All I know is I am in Florida and wont be pulling the lever for the con man from KOLOB.

If the blue bloods and country clubbers and their greedy pulled back wives running the RNC think they are going to force this fraud down conservatives throats and we'll just take it, they have another thing coming.

There will be no solutions coming out of DC no matter which faction of Washingtonians is in control.

DC IS the problem, the Capitol needs to be rotated amongst the States.

44 posted on 09/22/2012 10:02:50 AM PDT by Rome2000 (WILLARD ROMNEY -- MORMON MELCHIDEZEK BISHOP -HIS FAMILY HAS AVOIDED MILITARY SERVICE FOR GENERATIONS)
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To: Rome2000

I guess the 300% inflation in your energy bills caused by the Obama regime’s EPA regulations wasn’t enough pain for you.


45 posted on 09/22/2012 10:06:45 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: Stepan12; God luvs America; carton253; Psalm 144; Fiji Hill; republicanRocker
I have to laugh. Someone who purports to be a “life long Conservative” yet Feder still believes a Leftist media machine that manufactured the fraudulent Bush National Guard story in 2004 and the scandalous 2008 Jour-0-list coordination between the “News” media and the Obama campaign.

Does anyone really think the Leftist propagandizing mindset in the media that manifested itself in the 2004 and 2008 Elections media scandals just magically went away now?

46 posted on 09/22/2012 10:13:04 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: MNJohnnie

i looked at the site for 30 seconds and it looked like a homemade web site so i paid no attention....


47 posted on 09/22/2012 10:15:47 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: MNJohnnie

I have to be impressed, a full paragraph!


48 posted on 09/22/2012 10:16:20 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans. Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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To: NCDragon

Scare tactics on the part of AP: Absolutely

...or is Romney really toast? Not

They also attempted to depress us and suppress the vote in 2010. They FAILED. Big time.


49 posted on 09/22/2012 10:22:36 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia ("Together we will unite America and get this done" - Paul Ryan - August 11, 2012)
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To: DWC; Diogenes

“Where is diogenes?”

Posted by “Diogenes” on August 28th. (last post)

“Diogenes has been out of circulation owing to illness and other misfortunes...”


50 posted on 09/22/2012 10:32:55 AM PDT by Holly_P
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To: lodi90
“But since you apparently hate Romney...”

I don't hate anyone. Telling the truth about someones behavior isn't hate. Seeing reality for what it is, is not hate. You are typical of some on this forum - tell the truth about Romney and you are a hater - that is Democrat behavior and you've got it.

51 posted on 09/22/2012 10:33:19 AM PDT by Marcella (Republican Conservatism is dead. PREPARE)
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To: lodi90; Marcella

No Marcella that is pure projection on your part.

Your posting is all emotion based not fact based. That a standard tactics Conservatives are use to seeing from Leftists

Your posts don’t “tell the truth about Romney” you merely post your opinions about him as if they were facts. Your opinions are not facts.


52 posted on 09/22/2012 10:36:29 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: Rome2000
DC IS the problem, the Capitol needs to be rotated amongst the States.

So, if that's the problem, what are YOU going to do about it?

How will sitting out this election help you achieve your goal? How would voting for Virgil Goode, or whoever, help you accomplish it?

Indeed, how will aiding and abetting the re-election of Barack Obama and the Democrats help advance your objective?

Just wonderin'...

53 posted on 09/22/2012 10:37:17 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA; Ignorance on parade.)
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To: Psalm 144

I have to be depressed, another ad homine attack in place of a reasoned response. How sadly typical.


54 posted on 09/22/2012 10:38:49 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: MNJohnnie

Ad hominem attacks make you sad? Who would have known?

Anyway I was actually pleased to see a full paragraph of expression.


55 posted on 09/22/2012 10:40:52 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans. Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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To: Marcella
Think the final nail for him may be the debates. When confronted, he stutters and the words after that seem weak. Obama sometimes stutters but the words after that are not weak. I also think Romney will lose points because he is not articulating his “plans” well. I watch every time he is talking on TV and that is what I'm basing these comments on. Maybe he will do okay but think the odds are he won't based on his behavior up to now.

Notice something? There no fact to back up your emotion base opinions. Odd thing is that if Romney is such a weak debater as you claim, how did he manage to win the nomination after some 27 GOP primary debates?

56 posted on 09/22/2012 10:42:15 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: MNJohnnie
I guess the 300% inflation in your energy bills caused by the Obama regime’s EPA regulations wasn’t enough pain for you.

The real "Tea Party" protested intolerable government policy by destroying about 2 million bucks worth of Tea and telling the Kings minions to stick it where the sun don't shine.

We can choose to roll over and let Federal apparatchiks call the shots, or we can take action against them.

Seems like a its time for the spineless cowards in the GOP to start calling for Civil Disobedience on a mass scale, yet all I hear is crickets, because the national GOP first and foremost WASHINGTONIAN, and all of us chumps outside the beltway are good for is to be the source of cash for them to extort and pass around to their rich friends at the banks and on wall street, as opposed to the democrats in DC, who pass around our cash to their fellow communists and parasites.

Either way, we are getting a raw deal, and change will need to be pushed by state government and mass civil disobedience.

This pathetic joke MYTH WILLARD isn't going to do anything to stop the extortion by the IRS, make the federal apparatus any smaller, reverse the loss of freedom which occurs daily via actions by the federal apparatchiks in the bureaucracy and judiciary, or fight the homosexual agenda.

57 posted on 09/22/2012 10:43:11 AM PDT by Rome2000 (WILLARD ROMNEY -- MORMON MELCHIDEZEK BISHOP -HIS FAMILY HAS AVOIDED MILITARY SERVICE FOR GENERATIONS)
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To: okie01
State Governors need to stand up and call for mass civil disobedience against intolerable regulations instituted by federal apparatchiks

The States can dismantle DC, call for a Constitutional Convention, and move the Capitol out of DC and away from the bloodsuckers in Arlington.

This Republic will fall due to Universal Suffrage in any event, only question is whether we start the reset now or wait until the complete collapse and then start picking up the pieces.

58 posted on 09/22/2012 10:51:53 AM PDT by Rome2000 (WILLARD ROMNEY -- MORMON MELCHIDEZEK BISHOP -HIS FAMILY HAS AVOIDED MILITARY SERVICE FOR GENERATIONS)
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To: Rome2000
So rather then get 85% of of something you would rather help reelect someone who will do 100% of what you oppose? You would rather help re-elect the guy who did this to you?

Obama Economic Data

59 posted on 09/22/2012 10:52:46 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: Marcella
I also think Romney will lose points because he is not articulating his “plans” well.

I think because his real plans involves becoming a GOD and something about KOLOB, but he can't talk much about that in public so instead pretends to be a conservative.

He sucks worse than Bob Dole and John McCain combined, makes George W look quick on his feet.

60 posted on 09/22/2012 10:56:29 AM PDT by Rome2000 (WILLARD ROMNEY -- MORMON MELCHIDEZEK BISHOP -HIS FAMILY HAS AVOIDED MILITARY SERVICE FOR GENERATIONS)
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