Media is most busy selling us O.

At this point in the campaign, the media was telling the American people that Carter would beat Reagan in a landslide. The media reports what it WANTS to be true.
Romney in a landslide, because you can't fool the people twice.

http://front.moveon.org/stop-a-couple-of-people-from-voting-republican-this-year-just-share-this-hilariously-eye-opening-video/?rc=daily.share

Mary: Do you have any original thoughts?

"The legend of Reagan’s epic comeback is largely the result of anomalous Gallup polling, which even showed a Carter advantage over the final month of the campaign... In fact, Reagan held a lead from mid-September onward and had a two or three point lead heading into the debates. Private polling conducted for the Reagan and Carter campaigns showed the same thing. Reagan’s 10 point victory is a precedent for sweeping undecided voters, but it isn’t a model for a come-from-behind victory...
[W]ithout the 1980 model, there isn’t any example of a challenger coming from behind to defeat an incumbent president. The leader of mid-September polls has gone onto win the popular vote in every election since 1948, and then it was the incumbent who pulled off the comeback."

http://www.tnr.com/blog/electionate/107171/exploding-the-reagan-1980-comeback-myth#

@Mary: did "the media" during the reagan/carter election include the internet? blogs? facebook? Get with the times!

Well done! However, people & Parties get pensive, and want to know, at least in general, what " the 4-1-1" is, also Parties to plan/alter strategies. Nonetheless, like your comment !!

Apparently Mitt Romney is now less popular than… George W. Bush.

That’s according to a new Bloomberg News poll, which finds that former President Bush has 46 percent favorable ratings and 49 percent unfavorable ratings among adults. By contrast, the current GOP presidential candidate Romney has a favorability rating of 43 percent and unfavorable ratings at 50 percent.

President Barack Obama came in with higher favorability than both Republicans, racking up 52 favorable ratings and 44 percent unfavorables.

Romney did, however, beat out Vice President Joe Biden‘s 42 percent net favorable ratings.

The poll’s most favorable leader found was former President Bill Clinton, who polled at 64 percent favorable and 29 percent unfavorable. Coming in second was First Lady Michelle Obama, with 63 favorable and 29 unfavorable.

Not only is the news Democratically-slanted, it is shallow and superficial.
Saturday Night Live does a better job in exposing Obama Administration's failed job policies given the trillions in debt and deficit, stimulus, cash for clunkers, payroll tax cuts, etc. SNL Video posted at Left leaning Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/27/snl-election-special-president-obama-ohio-voters_n_1921357.html

That's right Susan. Can they hear us now?!
The Chick-Fil-A day was also inspiring.
Designed as an attack on a privately-owned business by the liberal nosey-body LEFT, the RIGHT came roaring in.
I love America.

Repost: The Republican party always seems to attract those with a lesser intellect and those who dispute the facts. The conservative base primarily consists of the uneducated, white, Southern man. Rick Santorum (R) said it best: "We will never have the elite, smart people on our side." So true, litte Ricky, as long as your party continues on its path of destruction.

It was a brief moment of insanity which fortunately has ended. Obama 4 more years

The Obama Voter -- A Vote for Obama is a Vote for Free Stuff... food, housing, medical, school AND, best of all, free cell phone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio

Then you didn't understand what Romney was saying. He's Right.
You're allowing the drum-banging media to dictate your vote. Very sad.

Why did it motivate the Lib Dems? Is it because it is in fact TRUE? Are you voting before or after you go pick up your disability check?

Hope you have ID. This time you'll only be able to vote for the dear leader once!

Amen

How can you guys possible argue it's 'true' or a 'fact' that 47% of the American people won't "take personal responsibility and care for their lives" when A) you don't know them personally, and B) that number includes the 28.3% who ARE employed and simply make an amount that's taxed under the amount they have withheld from their paychecks, AND it it includes the 10.3% who are retired or living on Social Security. Did they not take care of their lives? Are people making under an arbitrary dollar amount not taking 'personal responsibility'? Or are we really just talking about the 6.9% who pay no federal taxes at all?

full context:
"Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn't connect. And he'll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. I mean that's what they sell every four years. And so my job is not to worry about those people—I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

figures:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/spitzer/2012/09/18/romney_s_47_percent_it_s_only_6_9_percent_and_the_tax_burden_is_proportionally_distributed_.html

I can always tell a pro-Obama liberal left-wingers by the language they use. Mittens? His name is Mitt. Why are you so immature? Do you think this helps?

Tim, tell us when and where you served?

Mary the liberal left doesn't even come close to the conservative right when it comes to name calling and immature language. In fact, you folks have elevated it to an art form.

You teabaggers are the worst. They attack Obama on everything. Do you live in a cave?

Tom Smith? He gained a little recently because the numbers had nowhere else to go. PA will not elect a tea party Senator especially this year. This one may be double digits:http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/senate/pa/pennsylvania_senate_smith_vs_casey-3008.html

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/senate/pa/pennsylvania_senate_smith_vs_casey-3008.html

How do you explain the Undecideds for Casey? I am Tea Party and many others see that GWBush Big Government Republicans set the stage for Obama's Big Government debt, deficit and spending. Tea Party is what Pennsylvania needs.

John, I just dot understand the CHANGE that the media are proporting, not from '08, but from November '10? Didn't the Republicans BLAST the Dems in that election? Has this country vastly improved since November 2010? I certainly don't think so, and the demonstration of incompetence and lack of leadership, or lack of honesty and action over these last 2 weeks, far outweighs what the man says with a microphone n his hand. "Let me be perfectly clear", I don't think the electorate is nearly as ignorant the vast majority of media thinks we are. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio. Here are some of the firm Obama supporters!

Do you think we should even hold an election? Polls are a lot less expensive and time consuming and you seem to think predict accurately as if they had a crystal ball.

Fox News is not conservative. Only a Liberal would think that. Fox News is more accurate than shallow, superficial and Democratically-slanted media but that is not a high bar.

Bob, I think you are on to something. Let's cancel the election, and run this country COMPLETELY by polls. We can have a wet-finger contest, and have our leadership go on tv daily (wait, he already does that), and make a statement, then wait and see which way the wind blows. Better yet, he can hide out in Vegas, then see what MSNBC polls tell him how to respond....yeah, that's it, that's how we should run a country! I am getting this déjà vu feeling, like my ideas already happened somewhere.....

Totally right! But is has more to do with how the extremists in the republican party has thank god scared most normal people!

Bob u actually think fox news is unbiased ... That is hilarious

You are right that polls are, accurately, reflecting that Obama is ahead. I don't understand given the economy, jobs and Benghazi/Caira and Iran but facts are facts.

What are the undecideds?

Ohio? He's getting blasted there also. Than inlcudes a recent FOX news poll. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/oh/ohio_romney_vs_obama-1860.html
John I know you want to believe. Good luck with that. By the way it's the same story in Florida, nevada, and Virginia but just not as bad.

Optimist.....watch what happens between then and now......the polls will drastically change. Let me ask you a question as you seem to have all of the facts. If the "pollsters" tell us that Romney was winning Nevada after the RNC, and is now lagging behind (almost an11% turnaround) as it is in many states, who is actually CHANGING their vote. The 'pollsters' tell us that the true independent voter makes up @ 7-9%. Are we to assume that all 9% are now voting for Obama, and throw in 2% of republicans changed their mind? My point is these pollsters are all full of crap. They don't have a clue.....no matter who is leading. This just sells newspapers, magazines and most important airtime.....it's all about the BENJAMIN's my friend, and it always will be when it comes to the media. Don't believe me? Watch how many people are unemployed from media after the elections. It's simply about generating money......every 4 years a dying industry gets a bump.

if we decide by poll only--will that make us "BI-POLAR?" Laughing at the thread and those who believe polls.

If Obama wins, national bankruptcy follows. This is clear to everyone except ideologues.

Michael, I concur completely....it's all been downhill from there, and based upon these pollsters, it's gonna keep on following the same downhill track....once 51% of this country joins the handout group, it's over. I will do what I can to stay afloat, trying to keep as many of those I can employed, but when these Obamacare additional taxes kick in, I will be forced to grow the unemployed volume.....somehow, in 2016, I don't think we will be blaming Bush anymore...but by then, who will care!

Really? Think there were a few more 'moments of fame' there--don't forget about Scott Walker.

By the way, I've driven through no less than 5 states in the last two months and I have not seen ONE obama sign on a lawn. Not seeing any signs. People are NOT tipping their hand this time around. WAY too many embarassed over their huge mistake in 2008 and are so disenchanted they will do exactly what someone else on this board wrote, i.e., they will vote for Romney and then say they voted for Obama. LOL Politics as usual.

Democratically -slanted CNN Tom Foreman Erin Barnett Fact Check “cornerstone claim” of the Democrats and report: There are fewer people working now than when Obama took office- about ½ million private sector jobs and about 1.1 million fewer if government layoffs included.

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/kudos-to-cnn-for-fact-checking-the-democrats (video embedded).

This will not be seen in Pennsylvania’s superficial and Democratically slanted, conventional group thinking media.

You WISH.

Smith has no chance. Your message would be better received in Arkansas or Mississippi. Your interest in guys like Romney and Smith has more to do with invading Iran on behalf of the right wing Israeli lobby than it does about anything else.

Optimist Motivating: A little bit of anti-Zionism, which many of us consider to be Jew-hatred, with its implication of dual loyalty, to focus our attention. Obviously Mitt Romney and, certainly, the Bible believing Tom Smith support the Jewish State. Democrats and Obama, not so much.

Bob how much money will you be contrinuting to tea party candidates in the East Penn School board race this time around?

Probably nothing. I have other priorities.

Tony, A MSNBC link? Seriously? What a lovely picture of you! You look truly mesmerized by the dear leader...It obviously effected your thinking as well..Oh FOX has Obama ahead so let's call the election for him...do a little research son. A majority of the polls have over sampled Libs/Dems based on 2008 models. Even pundits say that is not going to happen again. So keep relying on the polls and come election day...BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE!

JF - the MSNBC link was story about Christie appearing this morning on ABC's This Week....where he said the polls aren't rigged. Try reading, if you can, before you jump to your foregone conclusions. And don't call me son. At least I have the intellectual honesty and decency to post under my real name instead of hiding behind initials. Stay away from that dynamite when it blows up in your face.

Hey Tony baby..listen up son...The fact that you post your real name shows just how stupid you are! But at least we will be able to put the name with the face..those pinwheels in your eyes as you stand in front of the dopey change podium are mesmerizing...go back to surfing MSNBC.

Yes you are so right Jimmy. Obamama and his gang has losted most of the common sense his grandmom gave him.And his gang ,, do they even know what the heck is going on ....As for Mitt the rich ,,,, wo is me,, WE ARE IN DEEP,,DEEP TROUBLE!!... Nobody to vote for... God help the US OF A

Me, too. I was there for this. Great!

I'm looking forward to the debates as well, Tom Bartman. I have heard that Mitt Romney is an excellent debater. I certainly hope so. But, will he be debating for the Republicans or the Democratics? Mr. Romney may not be consistent, but he is always quite comically hypocritical. I guess when Wednesday night comes, he will decide whether or not he is a liberal or a conservative. I just love the suspense!

Desperate times call for desperate blog posts! Romney and his superpacs have already given up PA. You tea brains should go places where your hatered would be better received like Mississippi and Texas.
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/romney-gop-michigan-pennsylvania-pull-out.php

It's not just educators who will not support Romney. Females are tired of the war against women, Americans do not want another ground war in the Middle East, seniors do not want a voucher medicare program, a ton of people think spending cuts should include the military and a huge group do not trust a proven bain job killer who will not release his taxes and disdains 47% of the population.

@optimist: Well said! Perfect!

Hey optimist...after you get done cutting and pasting from the dopey change website how about you actually get caught up on the news not just what you are fed from the Dem talking points. Thanks for helping to prove how misguided the dear leaders followers are. Keep it up! Your perfect!

@optimist: JF just proved you right. (Or, in JF's terms: "You just done proved me 'write.' 'Your' perfect.")

Yes , what is that cell phone giveaway about . I saw that , did Obamama do that ???Give free cell phones away..... I HOPE NOT!!!!!!!!!

WOW how profound Mr. Collins. Do have any more words of wisdom to add to the debate? Sad thing is a moron who votes will count just as much as those that actually have some intelligence.

@JF: I guess that means your vote will count.

WOW Janey babe your just as profound...please keeping posting and proving my point for the whole word to see!
PS: Didn't the name Jane go out like in the 1950's?

JF: You're (not your) funny. Go back to high school (like).

Agree

Not really - just makes you look a troll, another attention-seeking bully to be ignored.

Morgan King..Seriously? Are you royalty? Does king Obama pay you homage? I knew a horse named Morgan.

Jane Frankland has consumed so much Kool Aid her brain is warped. She needs a frontal lobotomy--or something. Ignore the mental case she most definitely is.

JF, That's must be the reason why people with undergrad, grad and doctorate college degrees vote, in higher percentages, DEMOCRAT. Now, let's look at the Republican demographics, white men without a degree and seniors over 71. Wow. 2112-Obama. Maybe we should start getting Hillary prepared for 2116.
Vote for the fiscally responsible party-DEMS

You won't me at the polls..I try to stay out of lower class neighborhoods.

If that's the case, JF, then you must get a better education, as well as some tact and humility. A kindergarten degree won't meet the standards of the upper class neighborhoods.

I beg you "Jane"...please stop..you continue to make yourself look foolish with your "I know you are but what I am" responses...am I not humble because I expose you as fool for looking back at the last 4 years and thinking this dolt in the White House has done nothing for this country? I think not sweetheart! Oh darn on second thought keep it coming so I expose you more!

LSB..what about the first 2 years when Obama had the House and the Senate? He could have done anything he wanted. Oh but you conveniently don't mention that. I'm sure you will vote for whoever keeps your government benefits coming.

Your choice, and we all have to lose for it. How you can possibly indulge this horrid excuse for a leader 4 more years defies belief and is beyond all comprehension.

President Obama never "had" the House and the Senate. The Republican obstructionists saw to that (via an unprecedented amount of filibusters). Consult a legitimate news source, JF. I must say, JF, that your comments betray you as quite the snob. Don't fret, however, Jesus did say something like "whatsoever you do to the least of My people, that you do unto Me."

You are correct. Like him or not, LBJ was the most effective president in getting his legislation passed. Kennedy was a wuss - showing no leadership and failing to pass the CIvil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. Obama is more like Kennedy than Johnson, leaving Congress to do whatever they want to and that is not a complement. He let Pelosi and Reid run wild and cutoff the Republicans at the knees with his early statements like "we won". Romney on the other hand, whether you like him or not, has proven that he can work closely accross the aisle in MA, since his legislature was more than 75% Democrats, and they were able to pass budgets. Ditto for Christie in NJ - you might not like what he has done, but he had to get everything substanitive that he did through a Democrat majority legislature.

Jane...really...Jane..OMG that's funny! Wasn't Beaver Cleaver's mother named Jane?

Really, JF, Beaver Cleaver's mother's name was June, not Jane. You can't even get your TV trivia right.

Jane...you are sooooooooooooooo stupid! I should not even clue you in but I will just to show what a moron you are. Do you think in an age of identity theft it is smart to use your real name on the internet? Stay with me dummy Obama supporter. Your patch profile states that you are from Springfield PA. Go to zabasearch.com and your address and phone number is available. Do you have ANY idea what people can do with that information alone? No, you don't because you are a complete idiot. I doubt I will hear back from you and if you are smart it will not be under your real name!

Curmudgeon. President Obama had no Senate majority (60 senators) during his first two terms, and definitely not on 1/20/09, when he only had 58 senators. Prove me wrong.

JF, God bless you.

Jane...Just as I thought...still using your real name...as your pull the lever for your dear leader you might think about taking your full name off the internet you idiot. Thanks for proving anyone that supports Obama is a complete idiot!

JF - You, my friend, are the stupid one. Do you realize how easy it is with a single browser plugin to obtain your IP address? And do you know how easy it is to trace that back to you?

Stop trying to tell yourself you're somehow smart for using an alias. You're just an ignorant coward.

Curmudgeaon..forgive "Jane" and her parsing..she's too busy posting all her personal information on the internet so people can steal her identity.

Once again the right wing thinks it is entitled to its own facts. There were not 60 members of the Democratic Caucus in the US Senate on January 20, 2009. There were 55 Democratic Senators and 2 Independents who caucused with them, bringing the caucus to 57. There were 41 Republicans. There were 2 vacancies in the Senate, including the disputed Minnesota race that was not settled in Democrat Al Franken's favor until June, 2009. Hillary Clinton's seat was filled on January 26 bringing the Democratic caucus to 58. Arlen Specter switched parties on April 29, 2009 and brought the number to 59 and Franken made 60 until the death of Senator Kennedy in August, 2009. From the time his replacement took office in September, until Scott Brown was sworn in in Feb, 2010, Democrats had 60 seats. Democrats had a filibuster proof majority for about 6 months total during the time they controlled the Senate in 2009-2010. Get your facts straight before you accuse others of being morons, Curmudgeon.

Oh your a teacher..that explains it. A teachers union goon! First lesson of the day should be don't put your personal information on the internet..To use your own words ....God Bless your students

Since your with Campisi and Jane why don't you provide all your personal information over the internet...Fools.

Really, Yikes? Read what you ever so polite and brilliant co-hort Jane-Put-All-My-Personal-Information-On-The-Internet writes very early in the day:
"The Republican party always seems to attract those with a lesser intellect and those who dispute the facts. The conservative base primarily consists of the uneducated, white, Southern man." So, who is arrogant and disrespectful? She has not intelligently tried to make a point without insulting whomever she addresses--but you probably missed those, though. Typical behavior of the left--they will continue to worship at the altar of obama, and see what they want to see. Go and see the movie 2016 and for once try to keep an open mind, but I'm sure you won't do that, but instead, from the periphery, blast Dinesh D'Souza and call the movie "propaganda." What a hypocritical, pompous, condescending bunch of bleeding hearts you really and truly are. There is nothing anyone can say to change your mind, so go forth and cast that obama ballot in November. God help us that our fate is in the hands of the likes of some of you.

When they have nothing left, they resort to silly name calling. And they truly have nothing left. For four years its been name calling and foot stomping and screaming like children. On Nov 6th the Tea Party children can start screaming and name calling for another 4 year term.

Hey Campisi...listen up son..you prove how stupid you are by posting your personal information on the internet...I am so mesmerized by the pinwheels in your eyes in front of the dopey/change podium...you look like an Obamabot!

Well put

The individual mandate was also a conservative idea that came from the Heritage Foundation. That probably drives the right wing absolutely crazy (well...crazier). The right wing abandoned the idea when Obama decided he liked it because they are incapable of across-the-aisle compromises.

at age 75 arent you slotted for Alzheimer status soon?

If there is in fact so much voter fraud in Philly, why can't anyone give a single example of it? Seriously, show me one example where someone voted pretending to be someone else. Here is a good example of actual fraud and it has nothing to do with IDs:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/ondeadline/2012/09/28/florida-voter-registration-fraud-republican/1601809/

How soon that we forget the installation of Bruce Marks into the PA Senate by a Federal Court in 1993, overturning the fraudulent election of William Stinson!

That case even reached the Supreme Court of the US, where it was affirmed. The case was based on massive voter fraud and collusion by the Board of Elections.

Current photo IDs won't stop all voter fraud, but it would no doubt help stop much of it. There certainly has to be additional provisions to prevent all voter fraud. No system will ever be perfect, but current (or recently expired) ID can help stop many forms of voting fraud.

Two more recent instances of voter fraud by elected officials:

1) School board member votes in wrong town: http://www.nj.com/union/index.ssf/2012/09/elizabeth_board_of_education_m.html

2) Congressional candidate votes in two states: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-wendy-rosen-withdraws-20120910,0,3764352.story

As I said, photo ID's won't stop ALL voting fraud, but it will go a long way in reducing it.

Anyone with half a brain could see that voter photo ID law invoked by the Romney camp (only States with Republican legislature) is intended to suppress the potential Obama voters...Other tactics are to shred Democrats' registration forms in Florida, make sure student voters in Ohio write down their dorm room number, attempted cancellation of early voting also in Ohio...God help us...Hopefully, today the PA High Court sees the light and throws this statute out.

Is that all of the stuff they teach the staff of St. Robert Bellarmine's Mary, or are those beliefs your own?

http://saintrobertwarrington.org/community/staff/

Mary - email me. You gave me a great idea.

Good grief Mary, why don't you just admit that you are a hater. A list of false (opinions or beliefs) does not make them true. Where are your facts to back up any of those bizarre things on your list.

Do you fools even understand the difference between Communism and Socialism? If you are going to accuse Obama of being "socialist", at least take the time to learn what the term means, especially compared to Communism.

@lorbee & richard: Instead of a socialist or communist, Obama might be best considered to be a fascist or corporatist. He is as much a tool of the banks as any of his predecessors.

Mary, give it a rest and go launder you big white suit. You know, the one with the pointy head piece that covers your face with the eyes cut out.

The people who believe in the right wing rhetoric that gets spewed on the radio and on Fox "News" are like the kids who still believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy into their teens. Or the ones who think that there are monsters in their closets & under their beds. At some point you expect them to realize all of their beliefs & fears are based on fiction, but when they don't get it you start to question whether they are mentally developed or mature.

Right Agnes, entertainers in a circus Sideshow.

Mary only stated the truth. As they say, "the truth hurts" and you will find the cream will rise to the top in November, and we will be saying "President Romney." Thank you, Lord, I know YOU will make it happen.

Thanks Lorbee - if that comment you cited above is the worst you could find in this ocean of rudeness, then my point is proven. That is nothing compared to you referring to OUR US PRESIDENT as "bammy".
Amazing.

Not sure you want to base your vote on God through Mitt Romney, unless you are a Mormon too. Romney is at present, a high priest in the Church of Mormon. Mormons believe that founder Joseph Smith is higher than Jesus Christ. Check it out...the man has taken vows.

God has voiced no discernible opinion on the people running for office in America, and presuming to know what He might think about them if He did is a pretty big guess, and an awfully slippery slope.

LOL! Haha!

I have noticed that Tommy Fartman has also been talking about third graders. Shame on you Fartman. Love the comment that Mary is KKK. That sums up the right-wing, racist & pervs.

Wha wha what???? Quit sniffing your Sharpie, you make zero sense.

Sharpie - I was going to go with 'It' but that seemed even less appropriate. Regardless, if you think that you could possibly know what an eternal omniscient cosmic being feels about something, even if you're trying to decipher it from a text thousands of years and translations old, you are deluding yourself.

The government is against them. The unions are against them. The liberal media is against them. The pollsters are against them. Is there anyone that the the right-wing conspiracy lovers DON'T think is against them?