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To: puborectalis who wrote (657206)	5/31/2012 12:50:46 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572600

Romney's Roads to the White House A 3-2-1 strategy can get him to the magic 270 electoral votes. Karl Rove On Tuesday, Gallup's seven-day tracking poll had Barack Obama and Mitt Romney tied at 46%. With the incumbent stuck below 50% on the ballot and Mr. Romney's favorability rising, the Republican challenger has a good shot at winning. To take the White House, Mr. Romney needs 270 votes in the Electoral College. A "3-2-1" strategy will get him there. If Mr. Romney carries the states John McCain won in 2008 and regains Nebraska's second district (the state awards three of its five electoral votes by congressional district, the other two to the statewide winner), the Electoral College will be 14 votes closer than the 365-to-173 total in 2008. That's because the 2010 Census cost blue states such as Massachusetts, New York and Illinois congressional seats—and electoral votes—while red states such as South Carolina, Georgia and Texas gained seats. None of Mr. McCain's states appear in real jeopardy for the GOP this year. After this initial hurdle, Mr. Romney's victory road starts with "3"—as in Indiana, North Carolina and Virginia, a trio of historically Republican states. In 2008, Mr. Obama won by narrow margins in Indiana (barely 1%) and North Carolina (0.32%). Today, even Team Obama doesn't pretend Indiana is in play. North Carolina also appears to be sliding away from the president: A May 14 Rasmussen poll of likely voters showed 51% for Romney, 43% for Obama. Virginia, on the other hand, will likely remain a battleground through Election Day. Mr. Obama carried it by more than six points and remains ahead by a little more than three points, according to the RealClearPolitics average of state polls. Nevertheless, if Mr. Romney can put these states' combined 39 electoral votes back into the GOP column, the Electoral College vote would be 319 for Mr. Obama, 219 for Mr. Romney. Next up is "2"—as in Florida and Ohio. They flipped from Republican in 2004 to Democratic in 2008. Both were close—a 2.8% margin for Mr. Obama in the former and 4.6% in the latter. The president's commanding lead in Florida among Jews has been sagging, his lead among Latinos has sharply narrowed, and seniors are restless. In Ohio he has definite problems with white working-class voters and affluent suburban independents. The race is extremely close in the Buckeye State—a May 7 Quinnipiac poll of registered voters has Mr. Romney at 44%, Mr. Obama at 45%—while a May 21 Quinnipiac poll of registered voters in the Sunshine State has Mr. Romney up 47% to 41%. These two states have a combined 47 electoral votes. If Mr. Romney wins them, the Electoral College would stand at 272 for Mr. Obama, 266 for Mr. Romney. Which brings us to "1." Mr. Romney then needs one more state—any state—and the White House is his. There are many paths open to him. One is the Neighborhood route. If the Boston resident and former Massachusetts governor captures next-door New Hampshire, its four electoral votes would take him to the magical 270 and the Oval Office. There's also the Great Lakes route through Michigan (16 electoral votes), Pennsylvania (20) and Wisconsin (10). Of these, Michigan may be the toughest. But Mr. Obama's antipathy toward coal, added to problems with working-class whites and suburban independents, puts Pennsylvania in play. A May 21 Rasmussen poll of likely voters had the president ahead by six percentage points. And if Gov. Scott Walker survives his June 5 recall by a healthy margin, Wisconsin could also be up for grabs—as it was in 2000 and 2004, when Democrats carried it by extremely narrow margins. A May 12 Marquette University Law School poll of likely voters shows the presidential race in Wisconsin tied at 46%. The Western route is Colorado (nine electoral votes), Nevada (six) or New Mexico (five). An April 23 Purple Strategies Poll of likely voters has the race tied in Colorado at 47%. With the nation's highest unemployment rate (11.7%), Nevadans remember Mr. Obama's notorious bashing of Las Vegas in 2010: "When times are tough, you tighten your belts. . . . You don't blow a bunch of cash in Vegas . . ." Meanwhile, New Mexico has a popular Republican Latina governor, Susana Martinez. Then there's the Plains route. Iowa (six electoral votes) launched Mr. Obama in 2008 but National Journal's Hotline reports Team Obama is targeting it for special attention with TV ads, evidence of its worry. Mr. Obama long ago lost his chance to duplicate his 2008 performance. A record of failure will do that. He's now forced to fight for states he easily won in 2008. The odds now narrowly favor a Romney win.

To: puborectalis who wrote (657206)	5/31/2012 12:52:24 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1572600

Holder’s Justice Endorses Voter Intimidation 10 April 2012 Voter Intimidation varight.com The normal function of a United States Justice Department is to prosecute criminals and make the country safer. But the Eric Holder Department of Justice has done more to endanger Americans than any previous Department of Justice in the history of the United States. And this is not because of blunders, but by direct and intentional actions that ate part and parcel of the Progressive agenda pushed by Barack Obama. Going back to the New Black Panther’s who intimidated voters in the 2008 elections and progressing through the “Fast and Furious” debacle and now, once again, with the New Black Panthers. The decision by the Holder DOJ to not prosecute the Black Panthers involved in the voter intimidation incident was one of the first signs that selective prosecution would be the order of the day under Eric Holder. And the Holder Justice Department is hardly color blind. Holder responded to statements made by Texas Republican Rep. John Culberson at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing. Culberson said, “There’s clearly overwhelming evidence that your Department of Justice refuses to protect the rights of anybody other than African-Americans to vote.” Holder said, “When you compare what people endured in the South in the ’60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, to compare what people subjected to that with what happened in Philadelphia… I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for my people So, in Holder’s mind, today’s crimes must be looked at in reference to past injustices against “his people”. In other words, two wrongs make a right. Blacks were intimidated in the past, so Holder’s justice is to allow the same treatment against whites to even the score. Shortly after Obama took office, we began seeing a concerted effort to push gun control in this country based on statistics spouted by Obama, Hillary Clinton and Holder that 90% of the guns recovered in Mexican crimes came from the United States. This is a damning statistic and one that Holder was determined to exploit to further erode gun rights for American citizens under the guise of stopping the drug related violence in Mexico that spills over the border every day. But a funny thing happened on the way to depriving Americans of their Second Amendment rights. Fox News looked at the 90% figure and found that it was a complete lie. The actual total is closer to 17%, but because the only guns sent back to the US from Mexican crimes are the ones that appear to have come from here, the 90% is a grossly inflated number not representative of the total number of guns seized. Most come from the Mexican military which are not counted as it would be an embarrassing admission. Others come from Central and South America, China and Russia. This report blew the lid off of the Holder deception: So what is the Obama Administration to do? They still want to shut down gun rights, but they were exposed as liars. Holder’s Justice calls for a plan to fix the statistics by flooding American guns into Mexico to get the numbers up where they want them and can use them for their anti-gun agenda. And the stated reasons behind the “Fast and Furious” gun runner program are absolutely laughable. “Let’s allow a bunch of guns to go into Mexico so we can trace them.” Holder’s Justice was about correcting the statistics with artificial gun dumping in order to advance his agenda. The problem was, a Whistle-blower stepped forward and exposed the entire fraud. And now Holder is stonewalling and refusing to allow people to testify before Congress. Those in charge of the hearings know exactly what Holder was doing. And eventually the truth will surface. It always does. Perhaps one of the reasons that Holder is so opposed to states actually doing something to stop illegal entry into the United States is that it would make it harder to get the gun statistics up where they can be useful with states actually watching the borders. And of course we have the selective justice in the Trayvon Martin – George Zimmerman case. The New Black Panthers have issued a “bounty” on Zimmerman. But because these are Holder’s “people”, this type of vigilantism is once again overlooked. On the one hand, Holder files a lawsuit against states for taking justice into their own hands by passing border security laws, but the New Black Panthers are allowed to take justice into their oun hands and Holder is quiet. That’s Holder’s Justice. And as a result, to counter the inaction by Holder, White Supremacists have now moved into the area in Sanford, Fl to “protect the white people” because Holder allows such threats to go unchecked. Holder’s Justice is unequal justice. That is never a solution in a civilized society. Justice must be color blind no matter who is in charge. Holder has added fuel to the fires in Mexico and Sanford Florida. His misguided attempts at gun control have already cost lives unnecessarily. And his failure to put a stop to citizens using a bounty to force their idea of justice will most likely cost lives as well. holder already has blood on his hands. We do not need any more. Holder’s justice is not American justice. And American justice is for all people, not just “Holder’s people”. It really is time for Holder to go. The sooner the better.