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To: Road Walker who wrote (124536)	10/21/2012 8:12:31 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 149317

Obama got the last word in the second debate. He used it very deftly to bring in the 47% remark of Romney. I hope that it is the beginning of Obama defining Romney during the debates. I expect him to carry that further into the third debate and really show the folks how Romney has no position on any issue and is a weathervane. At least people know who Obama is and that in itself throws light on his plan for the next 4 years. But nobody knows anything about Romney. He has changed since he began his primary campaign and now. Obama needs to bring that out very clearly for the folks. Romney is neither FORWARD nor BACKWARDS. He is CIRCULAR. ================================== Romney's Etch-A-Sketch Conservatives fine with moderate Mitt DANA MILBANK Published: Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 5:30 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 5:35 p.m. Mitt Romney etched and sketched his way to a new position on abortion last week, telling the Des Moines Register, "There's no legislation with regards to abortion that I'm familiar with that would become part of my agenda." ....contd at news-journalonline.com

To: Road Walker who wrote (124536)	10/21/2012 11:59:29 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 149317

I presume the women in Florida will do the same thing the women in other states are doing, particularly women like Mihok in this post. Romney just screwed up with women during his last debate. I am sure Obama will get him involved with women's issues on Monday. ======================= Mitt Romney still struggling to convince Pennsylvania's female voters Obama's lead has grown smaller in the Democratic-leaning state but women say they are unimpressed by Romney at debates ....contd at guardian.co.uk

To: Road Walker who wrote (124536)	10/21/2012 12:44:47 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

Finally, I found someone who agrees with me. Obama's Problems Didn't Start With the Debate —By Kevin Drum \| Sat Oct. 13, 2012 1:58 PM PDT What's going on with the polls? I wrote something about this a few days ago, but I think it might have gotten buried, so I want to repeat it. According to both Pollster and Real Clear Politics, Mitt Romney began his big *surge well before* last week's debate. In the ten days before the debate, Pollster shows Romney gaining 2.4 points and RCP shows Romney gaining 1.8 points Romney has continued gaining since then, and Obama has continued falling, but this isn't solely a reaction to Obama's lousy debate performance. It started in late September. But why? Nothing special happened during that week to benefit Romney. Their ad buys remained about the same as always. The only thing I can think of is that it was just the inevitable rebound from the hit Romney took over the 47% video.** In any case, there's more going on here than just the debate that everyone's been obsessing about. Anyone have any good guesses about what happened during that last week of September? motherjones.com

To: Road Walker who wrote (124536)

10/21/2012 1:37:03 PM

From: tejek

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Nearly 70 yrs old and voted for 1st time today + *

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I've never written a diary before, but I wanted to share my pride in my husband and what I hope his vote may represent. My husband of nearly 25 years voted for the first time today. He's on his way right now to drop off our ballots. My husband who has expressed nothing but disdain for politics in all the years we have been together. For my husband, family, work, friends and baseball...those were his priorities.

My husband started working at 15 in the seafood business here in Washington state. His first job was on the production line. Even when he had a management position, he still worked on his feet. Sometimes in Alaska he would work for 18-20 hours, catch 2-3 hours of sleep and be back into the plant to make sure things were set up for the next day. It's hard enough to work on your feet in any job. But add cold, wet rooms and concrete floors...it takes a toll.

So at 63 he took early retirement. He struggled with this decision and we discussed the financial ramifications and the personal ramifications for over a year. I'm quite a bit younger than my husband and we're not financially in a position for me to retire. But I knew and he knew he could not physically endure the pain anymore. He needed hip and knee replacement surgery. Had to have them. He worked for a company that would not allow him to take the time off to recover and know that his job would still be there when he was capable to go back to work. They had to offer him a job...just not his old job. So he retired and had his surgeries and is not in pain anymore. I am so grateful he no longer has to endure such pain. And I'm so grateful for the extra time we've been able to share because he is retired.

So now it's 6 years later and my husband asked how hard is it to register to vote? I hid my surprise (I was flabbergasted) and told him it was easy we could do it online. So he asked me to help him register. It was amazingly quick...took less than 5 minutes...and badda bing, my 69 year old spouse was registered to vote for the first time in his life.

Please follow me below the orange pig in a blanket.....

About a week ago I finally asked him why he decided to vote as he has never really been interested in politics. Ever. And he said it was because of me. Because I cared so much about who was elected and because I talked with such passion about the issues, he finally 'got it'. Finally he said, finally it sunk into him that these guys like Romney and Ryan could cause me harm. They could cause me harm when he (my husband) was no longer around (alive) to protect me. And R & R could also cause his children and his grandchildren harm because R & R, along with the other Republicans, want to change Social Security and Medicare in a way that weakens or eliminates both programs.

He went on to explain, it wasn't just the social safety net, it was also the harm the current crop of Republicans could inflict on the environment. They don't even believe that global warming is real. They want to drill baby drill. My husband has heard me rant about equal pay and equal opportunity. He's seen my own struggles working in an industry dominated by men. He's heard me rant about war. And why didn't we pay for the damn wars?

Finally he finished by saying, he had overheard a conversation I had with a friend. I was going on about how I had learned a hard lesson back in 2001. I learned that it did matter who was President. That one person, the wrong person, could in fact screw things up so badly, that life as you know it comes tumbling down. But also I found that one person could also impact things in a good way and I was going to try my hardest to help impact things in a good way.

And so my dear husband decided it was time to vote. It was time to help me and help his children. And that is my hope. That these tea party freaks and Republican pukes miscalculated the American public when they tried to pit the senior generation against the younger generation. My hope is that the American public does in fact remember what a mess George Bush created and that we give Obama more time to 'fix' the mess he inherited. My hope is we all leave the planet in better shape than we found it. And my hope is that my husband is around to vote in more elections because every election is important and because it's just too hard to think about life w/o my dear husband.

dailykos.com

To: Road Walker who wrote (124536)	10/21/2012 2:34:16 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 149317

From Jeremy Bird of the Obama campaign re. OH: 1. All public polling shows that the President has a double-digit lead among those who have voted: --Survey USA found that Obama leads by 19 points (57/38) among those who have voted already. -- Rasmussen, a Republican pollster, found that Obama leads by 29 points (63/34) among those who have voted already. -- The Wall Street Journal/NBC poll found that Obama leads by 26 points (63/37) among those who have voted already.-- PPP found that Obama leads by 52 points (76/24) among those who have voted already. 2. Registration numbers strongly favor President Obama: -- Four in five Ohioans (81 percent) who have registered to vote in 2012 are either female, younger than 30, or African-American or Latino – all demographics that strongly favor President Obama. -- Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of Ohioans who have registered to vote in 2012 – and the same percentage among those who have already voted – live in counties that President Obama won in 2008. 3. Early vote numbers strongly favor President Obama: -- More than half (55 percent) of the early-vote ballots requested so far this year have been requested by women, 3 percentage points greater than 2008 early voters. -- 582,402 ballots have been requested this year from precincts that Obama won in 2008, 33,414 more than in from precincts that McCain won. -- The total number of votes already cast this year (both by mail and in-person) from precincts Obama won in 2008 is 261,304 – 55,636 more than from precincts McCain won. -- Democrats’ margin over Republicans in votes cast has increased by 21,792 compared with this point four years ago. secure.assets.bostatic.com