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Conservative Pro-Israel Groups' Relevance At Risk In 2012
Post Date: 2012-10-21 13:42:09 by Brian S
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Conservative pro-Israel groups that have spent millions of dollars targeting President Barack Obama’s policies toward the Jewish state are facing a daunting reality: If the president wins anyway, their political influence may never be the same. For groups such as the Republican Jewish Coalition and the Emergency Committee for Israel, as well as a vocal class of Israel-boosting GOP opinion leaders, the 2012 presidential election is an almost existential test of relevance. In a sense, the 2012 race is to conservative Israel hawks what the Wisconsin gubernatorial recall was for organized labor; a campaign that could permanently strike fear into their political enemies or raise ...
Obama Is Flooding Wisconsin Radio With This Brutal Ad On Romney's '47%'
Post Date: 2012-10-21 12:54:59 by Brian S
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This radio ad provides a glimpse into how the Obama campaign is localizing its efforts to attack Mitt Romney's controversial comments on the "47 percent," breaking down who makes up the group in Wisconsin. I heard the ad for the first time shortly after I landed in Wisconsin on Thursday, and I decided to count. I heard it 22 more times from Thursday through Saturday across a wide variety of platforms on both AM and FM radio, though I did a fair amount of driving on each of the three days I was in the Badger State. Needless to say, people are taking notice in the state. Michal Lattomus, a self-described Republican who lives in Paul Ryan's neighborhood in Janesville, Wis., ...
Maher To Republican Guests: ‘You Guys Are So F-Cked Up’
Post Date: 2012-10-20 19:42:07 by Brian S
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In criticizing the “Republican bubble” Friday night, Bill Maher denounced his two conservative guests during a panel discussion on the second presidential debate and the fact-checking on the Libyan consulate attack that tripped Mitt Romney up. After Maher showed the clip of Romney mistakenly saying it took President Barack Obama two weeks to call the Sept. 11 assault on the Benghazi consulate that killed four Americans “an act of terror,” followed by transcripts from the two days immediately afterward where Obama did, in fact, refer to “acts of terror,” Daily Caller contributor Boris Epshteyn first denied that that was a fact, then said it wasn’t the ...
Republicans bracing for 'October surprise' as Gloria Allred 'prepares for Romney revelation' (teams of lawyers)
Post Date: 2012-10-20 10:13:39 by Hondo68
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Revelation: Republicans are bracing for Gloria Allred, pictured, to make a potentially damaging revelation about Mitt Romney, just weeks before the election Republicans are bracing themselves for Gloria Allred to make a potentially damaging revelation about Mitt Romney, just weeks before the election.The pro-President Obama lawyer is rumoured to be preparing for her so-called 'October surprise' in which she will strike the Republican presidential hopeful's chances by unearthing some sort of secret or scandal.Ms Allred has refused to comment on the rumours, which first surfaced in a tweet by the Drudge Report's Matt Drudge on Thursday. 'Here she comes. Hearing Gloria ...
As Other Polls Show Tight Race, Gallup Stands Apart
Post Date: 2012-10-20 00:43:57 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON | Fri Oct 19, 2012 10:08pm EDT (Reuters) - The election between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney looks like it will be a knuckle-biter - unless you go by one of the United States' most respected public-opinion polls. As most surveys show Obama and Romney locked in a virtual dead heat, Gallup finds that the Republican would win by a comfortable six percentage points if the election were held today. Questions about the gap between Gallup's findings and those of other pollsters is the latest fuss this election season over polling methodology as partisan passions come to a boil in the heated final weeks before the November 6 presidential ...
Ohio Among Six Battleground States With Lower Joblessness
Post Date: 2012-10-19 11:23:09 by Brian S
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Ohio was among six of eight states considered U.S. presidential election battlegrounds that showed a September drop in unemployment, according to Labor Department data less than three weeks before voters head to the polls. The jobless rate in Ohio declined to 7 percent in September from 7.2 percent a month earlier, the agency said today in Washington. Unemployment also fell in Wisconsin, Colorado, Florida, Iowa and Nevada. The rate was unchanged from August in New Hampshire and Virginia. Joblessness in five of the states is less than the national average of 7.8 percent. Labor-market developments in the swing states may help influence undecided voters as they determine whether to re-elect ...
Obamas, the Embrace
Post Date: 2012-10-18 20:00:04 by Abcdefg
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At the end of the debate, Mrs. Obama came out and there was an odd embrace. Or at least it seemed that way at the time. It looked like he wanted to give her a "peck" on the cheek, but she dodged it. Then the back patting began. It just looked odd. What do you think? (click here to download the video clip)http://www.mediafire.com/?9hk1101q28h4lmg
Poster Comment:I'm using a file sharing site and have the time for this file to be available for 30 days. Note that I slowed down about 1 second when they come together. You can hear the change in to audio pitch.
Mitt Romney's Bailout Bonanza
Post Date: 2012-10-18 12:18:13 by Brian S
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Mitt Romney’s opposition to the auto bailout has haunted him on the campaign trail, especially in Rust Belt states like Ohio. There, in September, the Obama campaign launched television ads blasting Romney’s November 2008 New York Times op-ed, “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.” But Romney has done a good job of concealing, until now, the fact that he and his wife, Ann, personally gained at least $15.3 million from the bailout—and a few of Romney’s most important Wall Street donors made more than $4 billion. Their gains, and the Romneys’, were astronomical—more than 3,000 percent on their investment. It all starts with Delphi Automotive, a former General ...
O'Reilly In Denial After Obama Burst Fox's Gas Price Bubble
Post Date: 2012-10-18 11:25:39 by Brian S
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Bill O'Reilly dismissed President Obama's statement in the second presidential debate that gasoline prices were unusually low when he was inaugurated due to the recession as "totally bogus." But while O'Reilly thinks it "doesn't make any sense," oil market experts and even News Corp. outlets have explained that the recession led to a huge drop in oil demand, which temporarily drove prices down just before Obama took office. From Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor last night: O'Reilly apparently can't be convinced by graphs showing gasoline prices rapidly dropping as the global recession hit: Or former economists for the American ...
Romney’s ‘Binders’ Comment Threatens Pitch to Women
Post Date: 2012-10-18 11:12:04 by Brian S
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Mitt Romney’s claim to have ordered up “binders full of women” to staff his Massachusetts cabinet has opened a fresh struggle with President Barack Obama for the backing of female voters, threatening to erode the Republican nominee’s gains with a crucial constituency. Romney’s comment at the second presidential debate Oct. 16 in Hempstead, New York, sparked Internet ridicule, Democratic derision and a day of damage control by the former Massachusetts governor’s campaign. “I understand the challenges women face and want to make it easier for them in the workplace,” Romney wrote in a posting yesterday on the social media site Twitter. His campaign ...
In case u missed it:Watch the Full Town Hall Debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney
Post Date: 2012-10-17 22:43:37 by whyofcourse
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Romney Goes All Out For The Israel Lobby
Post Date: 2012-10-17 18:22:12 by Brian S
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Some years ago a prominent Palestinian attorney whose roots in Jerusalem dated back to before the Crusades recounted to this writer that he and a group of fellow businessmen had raised the money to build a much-needed cement factory in the West Bank but that the Israeli authorities had denied them a permit. "Why?" I asked without thinking. The attorney simply smiled and shrugged his shoulders. He was too polite to say, "It's the occupation, stupid!"That memory came rushing back with the news that Mitt Romney in a speech in Jerusalem on July 30 declared that the Palestinian economy lags behind Israel's because "culture does matter." Speaking to American ...
Dick Lugar Hits Richard Mourdock Mailer, Reiterates No Support For The Tea-Party Back Candidate
Post Date: 2012-10-17 13:08:35 by Brian S
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INDIANAPOLIS — Retiring Republican Sen. Richard Lugar is disputing a conservative mailer in Indiana that claims he supports Republican Richard Mourdock and reiterating he will not campaign for the tea-party backed opponent who unseated him in May. Lugar spokesman Andy Fisher said Wednesday the piece was "clearly unauthorized" and comes from a group that spent $100,000 against Lugar in the primary. Conservative lawyer Jim Bopp’s super PAC sent the mailer to Hoosier voters this week. Mourdock has continued to try and win Lugar’s mantle in the general election — claiming in Monday’s debate that he had been endorsed by the senator — but Lugar has kept ...
Military Personnel Campaign Funds Favor Obama Over Romney
Post Date: 2012-10-16 18:46:58 by Brian S
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President Barack Obama has received almost twice as much in campaign contributions from U.S. military and Defense Department personnel as his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, despite Romney’s promises to boost defense spending and his criticism of military cuts set to take place in January. Obama has received $536,414 from such donors, compared with Romney’s $287,435, according to research by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics in Washington. The group’s study, which includes data through August, looked at donations from individuals who listed their employment as the Defense Department or one of the branches of the military. Defense Department personnel led the ...
Mitt Romney: The Great Deformer
Post Date: 2012-10-16 13:05:33 by Brian S
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Bain Capital is a product of the Great Deformation. It has garnered fabulous winnings through leveraged speculation in financial markets that have been perverted and deformed by decades of money printing and Wall Street coddling by the Fed. So Bain’s billions of profits were not rewards for capitalist creation; they were mainly windfalls collected from gambling in markets that were rigged to rise. Mitt Romney was not a businessman; He was a master financial speculator who bought, sold, flipped, and stripped businesses. (Charles Ommanney / Getty Images) Nevertheless, Mitt Romney claims that his essential qualification to be president is grounded in his 15 years as head of Bain ...
High Court Won't Block Early Voting In Ohio
Post Date: 2012-10-16 12:44:05 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court is siding with Democrats in refusing to block early voting in the battleground state of Ohio. The court on Tuesday refused a Republican request to get involved in a dispute over early voting in the state on the three days before Election Day. The campaign of President Barack Obama and Ohio Democrats sued the state over changes in Ohio law that took away the three days of voting for most people, but made exceptions for military personnel and Ohioans living overseas. Democrats say nearly 100,000 people voted in the three days before the election in 2008. A federal appeals court ruling reinstated voting on the weekend before the election and Ohio ...
(2nd) Presidential Debate Live Online Tonight
Post Date: 2012-10-16 11:04:19 by Murron
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(2nd) Presidential Debate Live Online Tonight LONG ISLAND, New York -- Watch the second 2012 Presidential Debate live online tonight between President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney which will take place at Hofstra University on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 9 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time / 7 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time / 6 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. The Presidential Debate is scheduled to last for 90 minutes. The second 2012 Presidential Debate live stream online will appear here 30 minutes before the debate begins tonight. http://government.brevardtimes.com/2012/10/presidential-debate-live-online-tonight.html Viewers can comment below as the debate unfolds ...
Howard Kurtz: How Can Romney Face Putin If He’s Afraid Of Whoopi?
Post Date: 2012-10-16 10:58:03 by Brian S
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After Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign announced on Monday that the candidate had canceled his Thursday appearance on ABC’s The View, media critic Howard Kurtz wondered how the former Massachusetts governor could stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin if he couldn’t even take questions from Whoopi Goldberg. “Governor Romney was supposed to be on with us this Thursday with Ann Romney,” co-host Barbara Walters explained on Monday’s show. “We were looking forward to it. Over the weekend, his people said that he had scheduling problems and would not be coming on with us, nor at this point did he feel that he could reschedule.” ...
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin to visit ‘Bainport’ Oct. 16, Al Sharpton to visit Oct. 20
Post Date: 2012-10-15 15:23:21 by Brian S
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FREEPORT, Ill. — U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., will visit “Bainport” in Freeport, Ill., at 9:45 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 16. Bainport is an encampment set up at Stephenson County Fairgrounds, 2250 S. Walnut Road, Freeport, by workers facing outsourcing at the Bain Capital-owned Sensata Technologies plant. Created in 2006, Sensata develops, manufactures, and sells sensors and controls for major auto manufacturers such as Ford and General Motors. Workers at the plant have been training their Chinese replacements, who have been flown to Illinois by the company. The final layoffs are expected to be made in November. The plant employs 170. Workers began to camp outside the plant ...
Bain Owned Plant Drops US Flag as US Workers Forced to Train Chinese Replacements
Post Date: 2012-10-15 14:43:03 by Brian S
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Presidential candidate Mitt Romney loves to berate the Chinese on the campaign trail. He portrays himself as the candidate that will stop Beijing from “cheating” that will stem the flow of jobs being exported to Asia from the United States. Yet an Illinois company that he has large investments in is forcing soon to be laid off workers to train their Chinese replacements even as Romney continues to claim that his programs will revive the economy and create jobs. To make matters worse, the U.S. flag that has always flown in front of the company’s Freeport , Ill. headquarters was removed just as the Chinese trainees arrived. The facility, which is ...
Obama Embraces Economic Record In New Commercial
Post Date: 2012-10-15 14:35:48 by Brian S
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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) -- With the economy showing some signs of improvement three weeks before Election Day, President Barack Obama on Monday laid down a full embrace of the economic record many Republicans say is his biggest weakness. The president's first act in this critical campaign week was to announce a new battleground state advertisement featuring voters discussing the ways their economic conditions have improved during his term. The ad was hitting the airwaves as Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney huddled in intense preparation for their second debate as polls show a closely fought campaign. "This race is tied," Obama said in an appeal to supporters asking ...
Florida Democrats Cut Traditional Republican Lead
Post Date: 2012-10-15 12:51:41 by Brian S
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Republicans and Democrats in Florida are casting early mail ballots in similar numbers, wiping away an advantage that Republicans have typically held in the swing state and posing a potential setback for Mitt Romney, the party’s presidential candidate. Republicans have dominated early absentee voting in recent Florida elections, which Democrats traditionally offset with higher turnout at polling places open prior to Election Day. During the first week of mail voting in advance of the Nov. 6 election, Democrats are slightly behind Republicans. “It’s not good news for Republicans,” said Brad Gomez, a political science professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee, ...
Medicare Premiums Would Rise for 59% With Ryan Plan
Post Date: 2012-10-15 12:47:38 by Brian S
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Elderly people in Florida would have paid more than $200 extra for traditional Medicare if a system similar to Paul Ryan’s proposed overhaul of the program was in place in 2010, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Ryan, the Republican vice presidential nominee, wants to transform Medicare into a “premium support” system in which beneficiaries get a fixed payment from the government for their insurance, rather than guaranteed benefits. Such a plan would lead to wide variations in Medicare costs across the country, according to the study today by the nonprofit Kaiser group. Fifty-nine percent of beneficiaries would have paid more in 2010, unless they switched from ...
Obama Showcases Auto Industry Bailout
Post Date: 2012-10-13 15:32:00 by Brian S
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US President Barack Obama on Saturday praised the decision early in his administration to bail out the failing US automobile industry, arguing it has now become a leading job creator. “Today, auto sales are the highest they’ve been in more than four years,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address. “GM is back”, he continued. “Ford and Chrysler are growing again. Together, our auto industry has created nearly a quarter of a million new jobs right here in America.” The financial bailout of the industry dates back to January 2009, when all three major US auto companies — GM, Chrysler and Ford — stood on the verge of bankruptcy, ...
Biden Had The Edge (42 percent to 35 percent) In VP Debate: Reuters/Ipsos Poll
Post Date: 2012-10-12 18:44:58 by Brian S
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By Gabriel Debenedetti Fri Oct 12, 2012 6:26pm EDT (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden came out on top of Thursday night's vice presidential debate with Republican challenger Paul Ryan, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. The energetic Biden claimed a seven-point victory - 42 percent to 35 percent - among registered voters, with a similar margin among independents. Nearly a quarter of registered voters and about a third of independents were unsure who did a better job during the debate at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Democrats will be hoping Biden's performance helps President Barack Obama recover from a week-long slide in the polls after his poor showing against Mitt ...
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