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Romney completely underestimated the electorate, his campaign was counting on it being more white than 2008, but that didn't happen.

Multiple Romney sources buzzed about one number in particular: 15 percent. According to exit polls, that’s the share of African-Americans who voted in Ohio this year. In 2008, the black percentage of the electorate was 11 percent. In Virginia and Florida, exit polls showed the same share of African-Americans turned out as four years ago, something that GOP turnout models did not anticipate.

“We didn’t think they’d turn out more of their base vote than they did in 2008, but they smoked us,” said one Romney operative. “It’s unbelievable that that they turned out more".

Obama's campaign was anticipating this and allocated resources to getting out the minority vote.

Reminds me of this

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This crap about sampling is a completely non-factor, yet the right-wing loves to push it, because they need a reason to dismiss the polls and because they are completely crazy with fear that Romney could lose.

Party ID is fluid, which means polls should not weighted by it and are not weighted by it (except the ultra-Republican Rasmussen, which gives 2% weighting to Republicans in their polls). A whole lot of extremist Republican who don't believe the Republican Party is far right enough have switched to independent, which makes the sample of independents fairly right leaning. Not all independents are swing voters and they certainly aren't all moderates. A different set of independents tends to show up every election.

Plus, the state polls are consistent with a +2% Obama lead nationally. At this point, Obama is in the driver's seat.

I've been working for a congressional campaign and a state senate campaign for months, and right now it's all about getting out the vote. When I phone banked today, it was about checking in with people to see if they had mailed in their ballot yet and if they didn't, inform them to walk it into the polling station on Tuesday.

Romney staged a "relief" event for Hurricane Sandy. Can he get any more fake?

http://www.theatlant...ef-event/58529/

Mitt Romney was really concerned that his "Storm Relief Event" in Kettering, Ohio yesterday would look like a dud, so he and his team stocked their donation tables with $5,000 worth of supplies at Walmart. The props, according to Buzzfeed's McKay Coppins, were things like granola bars, canned food, and diapers which were strategically placed to make sure that the photographs taken at Romney's "Storm Relief" campaign didn't a show very un-busy, un-stocked relief table (what else do you expect when you give people short notice to donate their canned goods?). But ... but ... look at how pretty all those fake donations look:

And apparently, the event was so manufactured that they allowed supporters to use the donations which were bought by the campaign, to donate back to the campaign. According to Coppins:

Empty-handed supporters pled for entrance, with one woman asking, "What if we dropped off our donations up front?"

The volunteer gestured toward a pile of groceries conveniently stacked near the candidate. "Just grab something," he said.

Two teenage boys retrieved a jar of peanut butter each, and got in line. When it was their turn, they handed their "donations" to Romney. He took them, smiled, and offered an earnest "Thank you."

A new Washington Post poll has Obama up 4 in Virginia. If that holds and it certainly could hold up with a only a week to go, Romney's chances of reaching 270 are infinitesimal.

Romney was out of his element on foreign policy, everything he said was generic and devoid of substance. It was clear that he was not comfortable discussing foreign policy when he tried to shift the discussion to the economy.

When his opponent does well, Mitt Romney falters, it happened in the primary debates and it happened last night. I don't recall any Presidential candidate ever getting fact checked real time by the moderator.

Obama showed up in force last night and that is what he needed to do. He more than redeemed himself from that last debate.

Rosie Perez blasts Romney

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Like Ted Kennedy said all those years ago when he ran against Romney for Senate, Romney is multiple choice. Romney changes positions to fit whatever he's running for.

The next debate is a town hall, which is better for Obama, since it's at least partially interactive with people.

What happened is that Obama tried to just get through the debate without screwing up by playing it low key, but that doesn't always work and clearly it did not work.

Marceline, it isn't just the right questioning the data. Everyone is suspicious of the numbers.

I think it's sad, too, that we can't trust the judiciary, the Justice Department, the Federal Reserve... or anyone.

The only people I've seen question it are right-wingers who want to win the election, that hardly constitutes everyone. It doesn't see like the right-wing gets how crazy some of their insinuations are? That is a scary thing.

This surrounds a congressional race in Florida involving a really corrupt member of Congress, David Rivera. It's a long story, but this blurb sounded so much like a soap opera, that I had to post it. This woman was one of his helpers in a scheme to rig the Democratic primary.

http://www.bradenton.com/2012/09/25/4214177/nudity-politics-gunfire-and-a.html

“We are going to Vegas,” she told Cosicher, a report said. The report noted that when Cosicher refused, she grabbed a gun, which appeared to be a .45 that she kept at bed side.

She then sat naked at a desk with her leg up and compared the gun to a male sexual organ.

“If you think your [expletive] is powerful (showing the gun), this is mine,” Alliegro told Cosicher, who tried to ignore her by going to make coffee, a report said. Alliegro followed him and told him to sit on the couch.

She fired a round into the ceiling.

Why don't windows on airplanes roll down?

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/09/24/899441/romney-plane-windows/

Bin Laden is dead, something George Bush didn't accomplish. Troops from the surge just left Afghanistan, plus the Iraq War was ended awhile back. Allies that were alienated under Bush came back into the fold. That's good foreign policy. No President has a perfectly flawless term when it comes to anything, but there has been plenty of success. But, apparently, the none of that counts because of rabid partisanship. Give credit to where it is do, had there not been a change in policy, Bin Laden would still be alive and troops would still be in Iraq.

What is this supposed to tell me, though? That these states are "red" states means nothing. Without knowing WHO these people truly are, the map and the notion of a "Republican" state versus a "Democratic" state means nothing. I'm a registered Republican living in California, by the way. Because my state is a "blue" state, does that mean I am for redistributing the wealth, as our President is? Of course not.

Romney's statement about the 47%, which Jane's research indicates is absolutely true - we all know it's true, or at least that percentage is pretty damn close - does not reference "blue states" in particular. There are people who vote for Obama living in red states, right?

And doesn't it stand to reason that a person who fears losing government benefits as a result of a Romney victory... would NOT vote for Romney?? Who would those people vote for? Ron Paul?

Anyway... reaction to Romney's comments are ridiculously overblown by the liberal mainstream press. When two weeks of the news cycle are dedicated to Romney statements that aren't particularly outrageous or incorrect... rather than a discussion on the President's foreign policy failures, including his indecision over whether or not Egypt is an ally, indicates a bias in the press the likes we've never seen before.

Yeah, there is a lot riding on this election... this is made particularly clear by the way the mainstream press is so willingly sacraficing what was left of their integrity and objectivity.

It shows which states have the most non-taxpayers and they are mostly Republican states, governed by Republicans for the most part. Republicans are supposed to create jobs, yet they haven't improved the jobs situation in the poorest states that they run. Plenty of those non-taxpayers vote Republican, because poor white Southerners break heavily toward the Republican party.It's not a black and white situation.

Again, Obama won middle class counties all over the country, it's highly unlikely that most of his voters aren't paying any taxes. And for the record, there is such a thing as the working poor, many of these people pay zero taxes because they don't make enough to pay taxes, but yet take no federal subsidy. Again, it's not a black and white situation.

At the end of the day, Romney is accountable for what he says, no one forced him to make these particular comments and people are entitled not to like them. You can't broad brush people with a total disregard for facts.

Exactly, the Daily Caller is much more activist that Media Matters is, Media Matters specializes in pointing out biases or falsehoods in press. The Daily Caller just obsesses about Democrats 24/7. Hypocrisy is a ridiculous thing.

The majority of Americans who don't pay taxes are in Republican held states.

Indeed

It's very doubtful that the majority of those who voted for Obama don't pay taxes. This issue with the truth is a big problem that conservatives have. You can't have your own version of the truth.

Large portions of Obama's base are middle class, just take a look at any map and you'll see that he won plenty of middle class and even working class counties across the nation.

Why does he think that if he was Mexican he'd have a better chance at winning? He's losing because he's a political hack and has a poor personality, not because he's not a minority.

All the over top ranting and anger about Obama aside, let's be rational for once. Romney opened his mouth, Clinton didn't force him to do, Obama didn't force him and neither did any other Democrat, it was all on Romney himself, period. But, go ahead and keep demonstrating why the Republican Party is half a step away from being below the Monster Raving Loony Party (a joke).

Romney's face after giving a very politicized press conference about the death of the Ambassador in Libya.

Well, the Assistant US Attorney called it "voter fraud" in her quote. But whatever we wish to call it, I'm sure we can all agree that it is wrong and shouldn't happen. If something is up, it should be investigated, regardless of which party or what individuals are responsible.

But as we refer to the Voter ID issue, I say issue identification to all voters FOR FREE. Then make it a requirement to present that ID to vote (or whatever else a person may need ID for... buying liquor, showing to an officer when caught speeding, picking up your kid at school, getting free government surplus cheese and bread, etc.

Redd, would you agree to Voter ID if we made the ID free?

The point is, the incident wouldn't have been stopped by voter ID and mainly involved politicians. When fraud happens in elections, it's mainly politicians doing it, not random voters.

ID is fine as long as it isn't used to try and hamper certain constituencies from voting.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A Democratic state legislator from east Arkansas, his father and two campaign workers pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to commit election fraud after federal prosecutors said the lawmaker's campaign bribed absentee voters and destroyed ballots in a special election last year.

Prosecutors said Democratic Rep. Hudson Hallum of Marion, Kent Hallum, Phillip Wayne Carter and Sam Malone acknowledged that they participated in a conspiracy to bribe voters to influence absentee votes in the Arkansas District 54 primary, runoff and general elections in 2011. The four were released pending a sentencing hearing.

"In a nation in which every person's vote matters, protecting the integrity of the electoral process from those who seek to win office by cheating the system is critical," Assistant U.S. Attorney Jane Duke said in a statement released by her office. "Voter fraud schemes such as that carried out in the 2011 District 54 race have the devastating effect of eroding public confidence in elected officials and disenfranchising voters."

That is election fraud, which is far more common that voter fraud. Voter ID couldn't have stopped that sort of fraud, because it was orchestrated by a campaign. If anything, election fraud is more of a problem. Florida 2000 proves that.