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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TARADO96 who wrote (123664)	10/13/2012 10:48:27 AM
From: Sr K	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

It's not plausible that "The better than expected unemployment numbers from last week is not helping Obama." Of course it helped him. Do you really think it hurt, or are you just pessimistic? The economy is improving, corporate tax receipts were up for the FY ended 9/30, there was a surplus for September, for only the 2nd month of the year. The women's vote will probably determine the outcome. Biden passed up an opportunity Thursday, but Obama may get a shot to attack Ryan and Romney for their position on life and abortion. If push comes to shove, you have to say it. If it were put into the Constitution that citizenship begins at conception, a man could stop his girlfriend from having an abortion. If Ryan takes that position, Republicans lose votes. A President or a Catholic Vice President may not want to put it in those terms, but if the race is close enough to need to say it, it can be presented not as government telling a woman what she can't do, but as another person, even an ex-boyfriend telling her what she can't do. It could shift any state that's still in play, moving Toss Up states to Obama. And there's a lot more economic data that will be reported through 11/2. On average, these reports are likely to be slightly positive. A Supreme Court decision on an Ohio case re early voting could also be important.

To: TARADO96 who wrote (123664)	10/13/2012 11:42:46 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 149317

Latest pols have been the best Romney has mustered. And hopefully they are going to be the best that he will muster. It is indeed a concern that Obama bombed during the first debate. But this is a best of 3 with a wildcard playoff. Many have said, particularly the independents, that Biden won in the wild card playoff. He has halted the slide as evidenced from the latest Rasmussen Tracking poll out today (if Rasmussen poll says Romney has slowed down, I would believe so because Rasmussen's voter sample is weighted more towards the Republicans). Like you, I was expecting to see a bigger impact on Obama's numbers from the jobs report. And I can also agree with Sr K that over the course of this month there will be more economic numbers coming and they are expected to be positive. On Tuesday, the nation would be watching very carefully what Obama has to say about the first question that Candy Crowley is expected to ask and that is Libya. I hope he explains the decision making process, tells the American people how that was followed in the case of Osama and how that was applied here also. Americans know well that not every issue goes to the White House directly. But they want to hear it from their President. I have a feeling that he will bounce back on Tuesday. He will do so if he is less professorial, more Clintonesque where he needs to use short sentences to describe complex issues like Romney/Ryan's 20% tax cut and why the math does not add up. People would also be expecting from him what he would do to create jobs, a jobs plan. Anyway, TARA have a nice weekend, cheer up and you and all others know that Obama has been there before and has recoiled very well.