Gay GOP group hesitantly backs Romney
 

Larry King is moderating a 3rd Party debate on CSPAN right now if anyone is interested. Participants are Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party), Jill Stein (Green Party), Virgil Goode (Constitution Party) and Rocky Anderson (Justice Party).

He looks fifteen years younger. At least.

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According to a BBC poll conducted in 21 countries, respondents who expressed a preference in the American election chose President Obama over Mitt Romney by a more than 5-1 margin.
The countries with the largest pro-Obama majorities were France (72 percent for Obama, 2 percent for Romney), Nigeria (66 percent for Obama, 11 percent for Romney), Canada (66 percent for Obama, 9 percent for Romney), the UK (65 percent for Obama, 7 percent for Romney) and Australia (67 percent for Obama, 6 percent for Romney). Romney received the most support in Kenya, where he registered an 18 percent approval rating, compared with Obama’s 66 percent. In Poland, Romney was also able to garner a bit more favor, with 16 percent supporting the Republican, compared to Obama’s 34 percent. Both candidates received relatively low scores in Pakistan, China, Malaysia and Japan. Pakistan was the only country where more respondents wanted to see Romney elected.

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Re Romney's youthfulness.

He has never smoked or had a drink. No caffeine. Lots of money for health care. And primates who are socially privileged tend to be healthier and live longer.

The stress from being so competitive has to be taking a toll though. But his family of origin was close, if somewhat more dysfunctional than the the family he created, and he is very loved and supported by his wife and children. He has every right to look a little younger than his age.

I also think that working for others keeps one young(ish). And misguided as many of his efforts have been, he has put in many many hours of his life "helping" others as a Bishop and in politics. I think that much of what he does, he does with an open heart. That it is based on patriarchal and elitist ideas (he has instructed women to give up their children for adoption rather than raise them as single parents), I guess, doesn't alter the fact that he experiences it as working for others.

I doubt that one could count the number of people he helped move or arranged for jobs for or sat with in the hospital. That's what Mormon leaders do, day in and day out. They also maintain an organization that calls on parents to disown their gay children. I have no use for their religious beliefs or their organization. But the fact is that they work work work work for others. It's impressive.

His dad had some fine qualities. He bucked Nixon when he was a member of the cabinet and tried to make genuine change to encourage racial integration of neighborhoods, not just schools. He was for fair employment and supported civil rights when other Republican governors paid those ideas lip service. And like his son, he worked worked worked worked worked. I know it's a cliche about Mormons, but it's one that the Romney family illustrates. I absolutely don't doubt that Mitt Romney experiences himself as sincere in spite of the fact that he has to rationalize a lot of shit (the destruction caused by Bain, the fact that he lies to the public on a daily basis). He believes in himself and what he is doing. That keeps you young.

He is an integrated human being. He's not shallow or deeply selfish (as Bush and his buddies were). He's deeply WRONG. But he is a person to be reckoned with. Obama made a mistake by not respecting him, and it cost Obama a lot. Hopefully, not the election.

Wow to Palin's "shuck and jive" comment. I know it's Palin, but jeez. The good thing is that it hurts Romney so soon before the election.

And Coulter's "retard" comment.

And Murdock, the Indiana candidate for the Senate, who made the comment that pregnancies resulting from rape are part of God's plan -- this a candidate Romney supported.

Not a great couple of days for Romney with women, African-Americans, and people with disabilities.
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Someone on the Ed Show was saying that this might hurt Romney in Virginia -- with women in the north and with African Americans. Polls in VA are very close. Losing VA would make it much harder for Romney. He could lose while taking Ohio and Florida if he loses Virginia.

Seriously, we could lose Ohio, Florida, Colorado, and New Hampshire and win if we got Virginia. This assumes (reasonably) that we have Nevada, Iowa, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

I was just listening to a clip of Obama speaking in Colorado, and it sounds like he is losing his voice. Good. About time.

Seriously though, he was not holding back. Good to see.

Crap. I heard this months ago...must be true. Damn
 

Credo petition
"The Department of Justice must launch an immediate investigation into Hart Intercivic touch screen voting machines in Ohio, and take all actions necessary to block Republicans from stealing the 2012 presidential election with voting machines tied to the Romney family and campaign."


http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/...Fview.html%2F0

This is the main issue...i guess a trail of votes for verification was only assured or demanded in certain states. I grew weary from the wary of it all...i forget. Obviously, it never went federal and it is up to the individual states still. Of course...secretary of state of each state. Drives me nuts. Paper trail hard copy should be manditory across the country.
Smith said she's still not particularly concerned about Hart Intercivic. Her concern is over any equipment from any company that doesn't leave an auditable trail. "We need systems and rules in place that makes it irrelevant who owns the voting machines," she said. "Some of them are recountable and some of them are not. And that's the situation that's really unacceptable."

According to Verified Voting, there are 118 jurisdictions with as many as 7.8 million registered voters whose votes are counted by Hart Intercivic machines that produce no paper records whatsoever -- in other words, no way to make sure they've been counted properly. That includes jurisdictions in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2006697.html

Polls are a little better today. Still basically a tie in terms of popular vote. No telling. But Nate Silver increased the probability of an Obama win to 73 percent. When it was in the low sixties, I was not sleeping well.

In the same vein as what DMW posted, apparently a retired NSA analyst has spent the last several years analyzing vote records and vote counts in his home state of Arizona and then the greater United States, and found very, very suspicious anomalies strongly favouring the GOP across the board.

http://www.laprogressive.com/gop-is-....VAlnANuH.dpbs

In my opinion, it's because he is using the word "peace" every other second. He's pandering, and it's working.

I'm a little ashamed to think that all it takes to gain with women is to say "peace" a lot, like it's the equivalent of shitting sunshine and rainbows.

NARAL petition... telling Romney to withdraw his endorsement of yet another
dude who wants to control a womans body. Maybe this will help with the polls...


http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/elec...ck-survey.html

Dear ,

Did you know that Mitt has endorsed a candidate who said that pregnancy from rape “is something that God intended to happen”?

Romney-Ryan's Endorsements

Tell Romney to take a stand for women and withdraw his endorsement.

I thought I had heard everything until a U.S. Senate candidate from Indiana, Richard Mourdock, said, “even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.”

Who could be so callous as to deny a rape survivor the right to have full control over what happens to her body after such a traumatic experience?

What’s even more disturbing is that Mitt Romney endorsed this guy and appeared in a TV ad for Richard Mourdock.

I’ve called on Mitt Romney to withdraw his endorsement, and I know we can make a real impact if we can get 30,000 people to stand with me. Please add your name.

Romney’s campaign responded to the controversy saying that they did not agree with Mourdock’s comments—but Romney stopped short of withdrawing support for his campaign.

It is painfully clear that Mitt Romney places higher value in supporting his extreme anti-choice ally over supporting women who have survived a sexual assault.

Help me show Romney’s campaign and the media that Americans are appalled by his refusal to take a stand for women. Please add your name to our statement calling on Romney to withdraw his endorsement.

Thanks for speaking out.

Nancy Keenan

Ohio, state of my birth, don't let me down again.

It's just so close, and Ohio is . . . well, Ohio.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epo...bama-1860.html

Obama has steadily been holding a small lead in Ohio for a very long time and other states are looking pretty good as well- but of course a small lead is a small lead.

Now I am worried about this damn storm- of course people's safety first- but also Turnout! I am a nervous wreck that this could throw everything out of whack.

Same here...can walk. I did have this weird little panic thing happen...like what if something got lost and I am not registered and/or they moved my polling place and I don't know it?

Crazy thoughts from a scared Obama won't win, Butch. :praying:

Corkey & Ami, Dapper & Tantalizing stay safe out there!

Oh and yes be sure to vote, glad to hear you can walk. Crawl if you have to, lol. Seriously though we are thinking of you.

One state I am a bit nervous about because of the storm is PA. As I understand it there is only in person voting on Election day itself. Correct me if I'm wrong Corkey. So if the weather is bad maybe it effects turnout? OK hopefully not.

I haven't heard about in person voting days for other states that could be effected by the storm yet.

Nate Silver analyzed Ohio today- being up 2.3 with 10 days to go. He seems pretty bullish about that. Woo hoo.

There is early absentee for seniors and differently abled, but we're on those damn machines, so I hope they do have paper ballots. PA is fired up to vote, trust me Dems are gonna vote even if we have to stand in line all fricken day.

Yes I believe you Corkey! I lived in central NY for 10 years and Northeasterners are no wimps when it comes to weather. I hope the storm weakens and everyone stays safe.

I don't know why I torture myself with these things, but I did look up which states have early in person voting. Over 30 states do, but many along the eastern seaboard don't. :| Hopefully the bad weather will have passed by Election Day, but it would be nice for people to have more leeway.

From the Miami Herald which endorsed Obama:

"Romney has taken so many contradictory positions on important issues — abortion, immigration, even Obamacare (first he said he would repeal it; then he said he would keep the parts most people like) — that he could take any action he chooses once in office and claim that it fulfills a campaign promise he made at one point or another. He has run on his record, and he has run from his record.

That’s not an issue for the president. Not all Americans like what he stands for, but they know who he is. He has championed the middle class and has a larger, more tolerant notion of America that includes closing the inequality gap and evening the playing field, as exemplified by making an equal-pay-for-women bill the first law he signed. He has fought for the DREAM Act on behalf of the immigrant youths brought here by their parents, and he wants a Supreme Court that will continue to support Roe v. Wade. That’s crucial."

Thanks, BullDog. I am worried about this very large Weeping willow tree in my yard as it is close to the house. I will be here by myself, but have close neighbors.

Tantalizing is for sure overprepared at her house. Part of her job at work is disaster stuff, so she's got it going on! Tantalizing's 18 year old son will be there with her.

Yes, for Delaware there is no early voting. And I seriously would walk if I needed to. DE should be an easy win for Obama, anyway.

Listening to yesterday's Rachel Maddow show. Rachel went on a rant about Romney being willing to say any damned thing and then not correcting it when the truth is pointed out. Like saying that Jeep is going to close down and go to China.

Anyway, Rachel:

"It’s ok for your uncle who watches Fox News all day and yells at the TV to say, 'I saw that story somewhere.' But when you want to be President of the United States, you can’t keep proving that your first line of intelligence is the suffocating oxygen-free right wing blogosphere . . . . Stuff is not true just because you read it somewhere."

One of the most maddening things about all his lies is even when reporters or others find out he's lying, he tells his lies in front of big crowds- the debates, campaign speeches. The corrections are heard by much smaller audiences. So he gets away with murder.

Slight dip for Obama today, and now the storm.

Wondering how this will affect the ground game and then actual voting.

You know, there are moments when I am really, genuinely terrified as to what will happen if Romney wins office.

I mean, he is SCARY. Seriously. It is WHO he is that terrifies me the most. Not what he says, not what he thinks...it is actually the fact that we DON'T know what he think that is the really scary thing. Those kind of people are the dangerous ones.

Of one things I am certain...it can NOT good for women, POC, or the poor in our country.

Even his smile is creepy.

Yes, I know that I am speaking to the choir here, but does anyone else have those terrifying moments where it really REALLY hits them?

At least we knew with George W. he was an idiot...but Romney is way smart and due to that has more of any ability to do more damaging things...things that will set women WAY back...a very dangerous man he is.

I cannot resist tonight and feel compelled to say what's on my mind... not only about the election, but the Press.

I will be *so* upset if Romney is voted into office - especially in light of past issues with voter balloting issues (fraud, tampering, intimidation, et al). Worse, it would appear that there is not one single person of executive power who will call out this type of blatant (or in some cases, it's well hidden) case of what I feel is a civil rights related issue. I wish it wasn't the end of my day so I could find the term I really want to use that describes this situation perfectly, but apparently I am tired.

But more importantly, this is what bothers me just as much as the former issue concerning Romney: It's that the Press seems to not care how news is reported or what constitutes news, in and of itself, or even prioritizing their news content in terms of not only reporting on election issues (as well as news in general) that is of paramount importance to every single person who lives within the jurisdiction of the US, but in terms of providing news that is honest, credible, legitimate and not what the news has been offering up as 'news.'

I find it unconscienable (did I spell that right?) that the public in general, it would seem, does not feel compelled to hold the journalistic press corps to a standard that is above reproach and that it would appear that counter-news agencies seem to not call out major corps press members for their less than stellar performance in news reporting.

I feel that the press and other social media outlets are culpable in manipulating press releases and publishing them as bonafide, legitimate, credible sources of news (information). I can't tell you how many times I have called into an editors desk and launched my own disapproval of their so-called process as a way of taking action; and encouraging others I know here at home, to make calls or write letters to Editors of news periodicals/publications, as well.

Slight bump for Obama today. Living and dying by these polls is ridiculous, but I do it to an extent.

I keep reading people saying that independents tend to break late for Republicans and that there is polling to show that they are breaking for Romney.

I also hear that they think turnout is going to be low -- unrelated to the storm. That's bad too for Dems.

Are there trends in the polls, or are people just steeling themselves in case the worst happens?

Those pictures of Obama with Gov. Christie and the folks from New Jersey have to help.

Re the battleground states, I was worried about Pennsylvania, but it looks like there wasn't that much flood damage. Fuck Virginia. If we win it, good. If not, meh. I don't think much hinges on it (though what do I know?) But it would be a blow to lose PA. New York and New Jersey are ours. If the vote turned out otherwise, it would have to be related to storm related errors. So, just give us those electoral votes and let those folks concentrate on digging out and drying out.

I can't wait for this damned election to be over.

My happy thought of the day is that Romney's position on FEMA could cost him Florida. It has been a dead heat there and talk like that has to scare the crap out of them. If Obama wins Florida, it's game over.

I cant read any Romney stuff these days. What is his, currently likely to change tomorrow, take on FEMA?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2048867.html


Adorable and sad at the same time.
Poor kid...she said it though...it should be so obvious.

Bloomberg endorsed Obama!! I don't know why I am so happy about that. It wasn't like New York wasn't going to go blue anyway. But I am.

*big grin*

ok now i'm all kinds of suspicious

bloomberg - who i always thought he did not support obama politics - outright tells him not to come around for super storm photo ops - and he gives him his endorsement

christie - who had that rather unflattering toward obama leadership convention speech - he's all nicey nice and now offering overtly favorable and borderline overly effusive commentary on obama's abilities to jump into action and lead

something is a foot