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2012 Presidential Election part 4


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BOOM! Romney tells crowd we’ll give Obama a chance to change Washington from the outside in November!

Posted by therightscoop.jpg The Right Scoop on September 20th, 2012 in Politics | 0 Comments

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Fantastic Romney response to Obama’s claim that he can’t change Washington from the inside, that it can only be changed from the outside. Romney tells the crowd that Obama has already thrown in the white flag of surrender on changing Washington from the inside so we’ll give him a chance to change it from the outside in November. BAM!

Watch here: http://www.therightscoop.com/boom-romney-tells-crowd-well-give-obama-a-chance-to-change-washington-from-the-outside-in-november/

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Media Bias and the 47 Percent

 

By Linda Chavez · September 21, 2012

The narrative of the Romney campaign as portrayed by most major media last week has been one of a tone-deaf, elitist candidate. In a presidential race as tight as this one -- the Gallup daily tracking poll Thursday showed the candidates tied at 47 percent -- the media potentially can tip the balance for or against a candidate in a decisive way.

Most outlets ran with the stories suggesting Romney was describing 47 percent of American voters as government-dependent slackers who pay no taxes. In fact, Romney suggested nothing of the sort. The videotape of Romney's remarks received publicity after James Earl Carter IV -- grandson of former president Jimmy Carter -- promoted the tape through the left-wing magazine Mother Jones. It turns out, the version of the tape available via Mother Jones was edited, with important sections left out.

But even the edited version didn't justify the media feeding frenzy it provoked. Romney did not say 47 percent of Americans were freeloaders. What he did say was Scissors-32x32.pnghttp://patriotpost.us/opinion/14830

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Vetting Obama

 

 

By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | September 21st at 04:30 AM | 15

I want to give special mention this morning at both the top of the Morning Briefing and the top of RedState to the Washington Examiner. Often, conservatives complain that Barack Obama has not been vetted. Honestly, he hasn’t really been vetted. We do not know a lot about Barack Obama from his time before the United States Senate. Much of what we could learn has Scissors-32x32.pnghttp://www.redstate.com/2012/09/21/vetting-obama/

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The 12-Step Guide for the Recovering Obama Voter

 

"My name is Craig K., and I’m an Obamaholic."

September 21, 2012 - 12:14 am

 

That’s the confession with which Craig Karpel opens The 12-Step Guide for the Recovering Obama Voter. It’s meant, of course, to be an aid not just to addicted individuals but also to a society that’s taken a wrong turn and gone off the rails.

And, analogously to the addicted individual, the first requirement is accurately targeting the blame: “the Obama presidency isn’t Obama’s fault — it’s ours. We should be impeached for having elected him.” And that includes “those of us who didn’t vote for him, because we didn’t persuade enough other people not to.”

In other words, this book offers itself as a curative to a whole country that has “hit bottom,” as Karpel puts it, as the national debt reaches staggering levels, the numbers of those unemployed and living off the dole continue to burgeon, and the world scene descends into a Hobbesian nightmare as Iran strides unimpeded toward nukes and Islamists take the helm in Egypt and a raft of other countries.

What brought things to such a pass? What enabled Americans to enable “a man with no administrative experience to run the largest organization on earth”? Why was Obama elected without “carefully examining [his] background, character, career, and plans,” while ignoring the fact that he lacked any record of significant achievements?

In the framework of his 12 Steps, modeled loosely on those of AA, Karpel looks for the answers.

For one thing, “we became hooked on a political cult that…presented a politician as a messianic figure.”Scissors-32x32.png

 

http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-12-step-guide-for-the-recovering-obama-voter/

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The comments are interesting. The "reformed republican" posts do not ring true to me and seem scripted from the same line of reasoning. Talk about astroturfing.

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Morning Jay: Historically, Obama Isn't in Strong Shape

6:00 AM, Sep 21, 2012 • By Jay Cost

 

Conservatives are growing worried, and Democrats gleeful, about Obama’s lead in the polls, basically for the same reason: it is late in the season (or so it seems), and the incumbent president has a lead. That is a good thing for Obama.

Perhaps, but three fundamental points need to be kept in mind.

First, Obama is weaker than previous incumbents who went on to victory. When we are looking through history, the only poll we can really utilize is Gallup if we want an apples-to-apples comparison. For better or worse, Gallup is the only polling organization consistently doing polling of registered voters since 1952. Even media outlets that have been polling a long time have changed pollsters over the years, so Gallup is the only game in town when we are investigating history.Scissors-32x32.png

Here is where Gallup has found incumbent presidents at this point, i.e. roughly mid-September, since 1956.

Through 2004 every incumbent who was above 50 percent at this point won, and every incumbent who was under 50 percent at this point lost. As of today, Obama is under 50 percent. Scissors-32x32.pnghttp://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/morning-jay-historically-speaking-obama-isnt-strong-shape_652813.html

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4 more years! 4 more years! 4 more years!

 

More Americans Added to Food Stamps Than Find Jobs

DANIEL HALPER

Sept. 21/12

 

An alarming data point from the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee: More Americans are being added to food stamps than are finding jobs. The data is detailed in this chart, provided by the committee:

 

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As the chart shows, between April-June 2012 (the most recent three month block for which government data is available), only 200,000 jobs have been created while 265,000 individuals have been added to the food stamp rolls. Additionally, in that time period, 246,000 workers were awarded disability.

 

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Ed Henry@edhenryTV

Just in from Romney camp: In 2011, the Romneys paid $1,935,708 in taxes on $13,696,951 in mostly investment income ....

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Wouldn't it be nice to owe almost $2 million in taxes? I guess the msm will say it was not enough.

 

Here is a further breaksown of Mitt''s tax return.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/09/21/democrats_media_get_punkd_romney_releases_tax_returns

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2012 Electoral College Scoreboard

 

Rasmussen Reports - Electoral College Breakdown Safe Romney 178 Likely Romney 3 Leans Romney 15 Toss-up 105 Leans Obama 16 Likely Obama 21 Safe Obama 200

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Haven't Read it yet, But.....

 

Washington Examiner: The Obama You Don’t Know

 

H/T & Vid Right Scoop

 

Introduction

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In an effort to get a clearer picture of Obama -- his shaping influences, his core beliefs, his political ambitions and his accomplishments -- The Washington Examiner conducted a four-month inquiry, interviewing dozens of his supporters and detractors in Chicago and elsewhere, and studying countless court transcripts, government reports and other official documents.

 

Over the years and in two autobiographies, Obama has presented himself to the world as many things, including radical community organizer, idealistic civil rights lawyer, dynamic reformer in the Illinois and U.S. senates, and, finally, the cool presidential voice of postpartisan hope and change.

 

With his air of reasonableness and moderation, he has projected a remarkably likable persona. Even in the midst of a historically dirty campaign for re-election, his likability numbers remain impressive, as seen in a recent AP-GFK Poll that found 53 percent of adults have a favorable view of him.

 

But beyond the spin and the polls, a starkly different picture emerges. It is a portrait of a man quite unlike his image, not a visionary reformer but rather a classic Chicago machine pol who thrives on rewarding himself and his friends with the spoils of public office, and who uses his position to punish his enemies.

 

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