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President Obama avoided Wisconsin like the plague during the Walker recall campaign season because he didn't want to be associated with the liberals’ losing effort which came up 7 points short. Up until today, Obama has only visited Wisconsin twice in the past eight months (his last visit before the June 5 recall election was February 15 to Masterlock). This morning, Obama visited Green Bay and he has two more plans to visit Wisconsin before November 6. So that's 2 visits in 8 months, then 3 last minute visits in the campaigns' final 5 days. These are the signs of...

Bottom line: Romney 315, Obama 223. That sounds high for Romney. But he could drop Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and still win the election. Fundamentals.

Line of the night: Romney: “He asked his supporters to vote for revenge — for revenge. Instead I ask the American people to vote for love of country.” Mitt Romney:Saturday, November 3, 2012 Newington, New Hampshire Dubuque, Iowa Colorado Springs, Colorado Englewood, ColoradoSunday, November 4, 2012 Des Moines, Iowa Cleveland, Ohio Morrisville, Pennsylvania Newport News, VirginiaMonday, November 5, 2012 Sanford, Florida Lynchburg, Virginia Fairfax, Virginia Columbus, Ohio Manchester, New Hampshire

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE          www.nationalreview.com           Parsing the Polls By Michael G. Franc November 3, 2012 12:00 A.M. Last week, the Gallup Organization provided more fodder for the debate over whether this year’s polls are skewed due to a systematic over-representation of Democrats in the samples. If Gallup has it right, Governor Romney’s lead may be several percentage points greater than the most recent round of polls suggests. Gallup reviewed all of its interviews with “likely voters” conducted since October 1. Its conclusion: “The composition of the electorate for the 2012 presidential election is looking quite similar to what it was in...

November 3, 2012 Mittmentum Builds By Hugh Hewitt 11/3/2012   Michael Barone is America’s “one man decision desk,” with credibility on elections far beyond that of anyone else working the field in America today. Which is why Michael’s bold Washington Examiner column from yesterday cut through all the spin from Chicago and all the blather from MSNBC, and struck President Obama supporters in their gut. Barone, having surveyed all the polling data from every source and all the early voting numbers from all the states, sees Mitt Romney rolling up 315 Electoral College votes, including the states of Ohio,...

November 2, 2012 Colorado: Romney 50, Obama 47 By Katie Pavlich 11/2/2012   According to a new Rasmussen Report, Mitt Romney is leading President Obama in Colorado by three points. Mitt Romney still holds a narrow lead in Colorado. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Colorado Voters shows Romney still holding 50% support, while President Obama earns 47% of the vote. Two percent (2%) favor some other candidate, and one percent (1%) is undecided. Colorado, which Obama carried with 54% of the vote in 2008, remains one of eight Toss-Up states in the Rasmussen Reports Electoral College...

November 2, 2012 Buckeye Blowout: Romney Camp to Hold Epic Mega-Rally Tonight in Ohio By Guy Benson 11/2/2012   Republicans are known for their vaunted "72 hour" get-out-the-vote strategy, a massive operation that commences three days prior to a general election.  It looks like Team Romney is preparing to kick off its 2012 GOTV effort in style; they've orchestrated a mammoth rally tonight at 7pm ET in West Chester, Ohio -- a suburb of Cincinnati.  Who will be there?  As far as GOP politics is concerned, the better question might be who won't be there.  Take a look at this...

November 2, 2012 NYT Admits: Obama Crowds Not Impressive By Katie Pavlich 11/2/2012   New York Times White House Correspondent Mark Lander took to Twitter yesterday and admitted the number of people attending President Obama's campaign rallies is less than impressive, especially so close to Election Day. Maybe Obama isn't getting crowds in Las Vegas because of this: A careless remark by President Barack Obama about Las Vegas has triggered a furious backlash from Nevada’s cash-strapped gambling city and a key Democratic ally fighting a tough re-election battle in the state.  Speaking about the economy at an event in...

November 2, 2012 Nevada's Largest Daily Newspaper: Obama "Narcissistic Amateur" By Katie Pavlich 11/2/2012   The Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nevada's largest daily newspaper, has some extremely harsh words for President Obama in a new editorial. The words come in response to President Obama's leadership in the past four years, but specifically in response to his handling of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi known to the Review-Journal as Obama's "blunder." This administration is an embarrassment on foreign policy and incompetent at best on the economy - though a more careful analysis shows what can only...

As the Democrat Party becomes more aggressive in its opposition to the Catholic Church, i.e. HHS mandate, the DNC  positioning themselves to remove God from its party platform, the support for same-sex marriage and its unapologetic stand on abortion, the tension and contrast between the party and Catholicism naturally becomes more pronounced. With this, the hands of those in the Catholic media have been forced to talk about such things. In fulfilling their duty to report and comment on the news, they have no other choice but to draw attention to these pressing issues.Many who are consumers of the Catholic...

Four days out, it looks like Mitt Romney. October has come and gone with no surprise, with just a slow, plodding accumulation of signs and portents suggesting that “the One” who has come will soon be gone. The polls are tight, and the numbers are steady, but it begins to feel like 1980 again, when a tight race between President Carter and Ronald Reagan broke open over the last weekend. His own pollsters went to Mr. Jimmy and Miss Rosalynn on Monday morning to tell them that “the numbers just aren’t there.” If President Obama has taken such a meeting,...

MOONACHIE, N.J. – New Jersey will deploy military trucks to serve as polling places on Election Day in storm-battered communities, the state secretary of the state announced Thursday during a visit to this flood-ravaged town. The state is also extending the deadline on mail-in ballots.

The Romney team has been exuding confidence about Iowa, although public polling has been mixed. Right Turn has obtained from an Iowa Republican a copy of a campaign memo regarding the state of early voting there. As indicated by its reference to numbers as of Oct. 30, it is the most recent assessment from the Romney team’s perspective on the race in the state that launched Barack Obama’s presidential race in 2008: • DEM lead of more than 44 points (16.91 to 60.99%) on 9/28 collapsed to 12.27 points by 10/30, an improvement of nearly +32 net points on the...

Mitt Romney will campaign in Pennsylvania on Sunday, the first time he's campaigned in the state in many weeks, a Romney campaign official told The Hill. Romney's campaign has been increasingly bullish about its prospects in the state, launching its first ad there earlier this week. A number of GOP outside groups have also bought millions of dollars in airtime for the final push there. Obama's campaign has scoffed at Romney's push in Pennsylvania and other states they previously haven't contested, although they are investing in ads to combat the GOP outside group's efforts.

Mitt to contributors: It feels good five days outW. Mitt Romney By: Neil W. McCabe  Follow @neilwmccabe11/1/2012 04:17 PMRESIZE: AAA Print An upbeat and engaged W. Mitt Romney spoke to contributors for the last time before the Nov. 6 election on a Nov. 1 conference call.“This is the greatest collection of heroes in the history of the Republican Party,” said the former Massachusetts governor, who called in between campaign events in Virginia. “I want to thank you for all your work. This has been extraordinary.”The governor said, “The enthusiasm, the energy, the passion is real and if we can continue...

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://weeklystandard.com) Romney Campaign: The Fundamentals Favor Us Michael Warren October 31, 2012 5:12 PM “We feel that we are in a very, very good place, that this race is exactly where we hoped it would be a week out,” said Russ Schriefer, a senior advisor to Mitt Romney, on a Wednesday conference call with reporters. Schriefer says the Romney campaign remains convinced that the fundamentals of the race favor the Republican, even as polls show the race remains tight in important swing states like Virginia, Ohio, and Iowa.Romney pollster Neil Newhouse explained the campaign’s...

Thursday, November 01, 2012 Iowa remains neck-and-neck in the closing days of Election 2012, with Mitt Romney now showing a one-point lead. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Iowa Voters finds the Republican challenger with 49% support, while President Obama earns 48% of the vote. Two percent (2%) like someone else in the race, and one percent (1%) is undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.) (Want a free daily e-mail update? If it's in the news, it's in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook. The survey of 750 Likely Voters...

Mitt Romney has the lead in Ohio and trails narrowly in Wisconsin, according to a new poll for the Republican group Citizens United. Romney leads Obama by 49 to 46 percent in Ohio, according to the poll, and trails Obama in Wisconsin by 49 to 47 percent, according to polling first obtained by The Hill.

Mitt Romney has the lead in Ohio and trails narrowly in Wisconsin, according to a new poll for the Republican group Citizens United. Romney leads Obama by 49 to 46 percent in Ohio, according to the poll, and trails Obama in Wisconsin by 49 to 47 percent, according to polling first obtained by The Hill. Partisan polls should be viewed with some skepticism, and both polls put Romney in a better position than most publicly available data has shown. Obama has a small but steady lead in most Ohio polls, and a slightly wider lead in Wisconsin. The polls also...

November 1, 2012 Pew: Yup, Romney's Leading in Early Voting By Guy Benson 11/1/2012   Welcome to November.  Earlier in the week, one of the oldest and most respected polling firms in America -- Gallup -- produced results based on thousands of voter contacts indicating that Mitt Romney is leading in national early voting by roughly six percentage points.  Last night, another venerable polling outfit confirmed Gallup's findings with a survey of its own.  From Pew Research:   The Pew Research Center survey found that the race is even among all likely voters nationwide (47% Obama, 47% Romney). Unlike...