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Tide shifts to Obama in most competitive states
AP Via WRALNews ^ | 9/22/2012 | CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press; THOMAS BEAUMONT, Associated Press

Posted on 09/22/2012 8:24:28 AM PDT by NCDragon

DES MOINES, Iowa — In a presidential race seemingly frozen in place for months, the advantage has shifted toward President Barack Obama after a series of miscues by Mitt Romney, punctuated by the Republican challenger's comments about people who pay no income tax.

Despite a continuing gray economic sky and unrest in the Mideast, the president has edged ahead of Romney in polls in some of the most competitive states, including Iowa and Virginia, and forced Romney to redouble efforts in Florida and Ohio, without which he has little chance of becoming president.

With about six weeks left before Election Day and early voting under way in some states, Romney faces a problematic map, a ticking clock and a campaign demeanor that has failed to click with many voters.

Obama's momentum did not come overnight. It built over several weeks in which Romney hit some potholes while the president made few errors and benefited from previously unseen advantages in advertising strategy and fundraising.

(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; romneytoast; toast
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To: glennaro
when Romney-Ryan take office in January...the economy will explode as investors and banks begin releasing huge amounts of money they've been sitting on due to the uncertainties...

100% spot on.

21 posted on 09/22/2012 9:09:03 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Ambassador Stevens is dead and the Chevy Volt is alive!)
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To: NCDragon
Think the final nail for him may be the debates. When confronted, he stutters and the words after that seem weak. Obama sometimes stutters but the words after that are not weak. I also think Romney will lose points because he is not articulating his “plans” well. I watch every time he is talking on TV and that is what I'm basing these comments on. Maybe he will do okay but think the odds are he won't based on his behavior up to now.
22 posted on 09/22/2012 9:09:35 AM PDT by Marcella (Republican Conservatism is dead. PREPARE)
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To: NCDragon

Scare tactics almost all of the SNS (selective news service)use them because team Obama is in panic mode and can/t gain the numbers.
They also say Romney has already lost,wishful thinking on their part.Voodoo dolls are all onvr the news rooms.


23 posted on 09/22/2012 9:11:52 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: NCDragon

Romney has lost ...yet AGAIN!

(Meanwhile, he has wiped out the obama bounce in Gallup, and is tied in Rasmussen....even so...he has LOST LOST LOST....LOST I tell you...and he might lose it AGAIN next week if he has yet GAFFE!)


24 posted on 09/22/2012 9:15:24 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: ConservativeDude

Where is diogenes?


25 posted on 09/22/2012 9:17:05 AM PDT by DWC (historian)
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To: carton253
Puhleeese.... Even I voted for McInsane in 2008, knowing he was going to lose.

Sometimes one votes out of civic duty and to cast opposition to the enormous evil I knew was coming.

26 posted on 09/22/2012 9:18:13 AM PDT by Stepan12
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To: NCDragon

BS


27 posted on 09/22/2012 9:19:38 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Marcella

LOL. Obama will be off his teleprompter and will get massacred in the debates. Did you see Obama confuse the national debt and the budget deficit on Letterman? That was a preview of the debates.

But since you apparently hate Romney or like Obama you can go ahead and keep cheering for Team Kenya.


28 posted on 09/22/2012 9:20:04 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Stepan12

who is feder?


29 posted on 09/22/2012 9:21:34 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: NCDragon

Obama has slipped in the national polls so the presstitutes are talking about a few state polls of dubious quality. Standard misdirection from Pravda.


30 posted on 09/22/2012 9:22:24 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: NCDragon

What a crock!


31 posted on 09/22/2012 9:26:22 AM PDT by austingirl
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To: Stepan12

I guess that the sarcasm tag was necessary after all.

But perhaps you will take your words to heart and quit posting Don Fedar’s defeatist words on every thread I’ve read this morning.


32 posted on 09/22/2012 9:27:25 AM PDT by carton253
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To: Stepan12

I guess that the sarcasm tag was necessary after all.

But perhaps you will take your words to heart and quit posting Don Fedar’s defeatist words on every thread I’ve read this morning.


33 posted on 09/22/2012 9:28:08 AM PDT by carton253
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To: NCDragon

I haven’t a clue how accurate or inaccurate all this poll crap is.

All I know is the the Dem convention was a disaster, and now for the past week the post 9/11 crap being fed to us has been a disaster.

Is there a large group of people out there who were swayed to think favorably of Zero this past month?
I suppose it’s possible, but not likely.

I have not seen Mitt make any major blunders despite how MSM is trying to sell it.

I remember how McCain was being demonized at this stage of the game (remember the mag pics that showed him as a vampire?)
Romney is up against the most corrupt bunch to ever hold power - from here on out we can expect nothing but sheer propaganda from AP and all the others.


34 posted on 09/22/2012 9:28:08 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: NoobRep

the guy is real tool isn’t he?


35 posted on 09/22/2012 9:31:38 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Westbrook

Regardless of what is printed, or what the media says or prints—every one needs to vote....the outcome of the election depends on it....


36 posted on 09/22/2012 9:35:51 AM PDT by rxtn41
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To: rxtn41
Regardless of what is printed, or what the media says or prints—every one needs to vote....the outcome of the election depends on it....

At this point I would say our collective future depends on it.

37 posted on 09/22/2012 9:40:59 AM PDT by WHBates
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To: God luvs America
who is feder?

click here

38 posted on 09/22/2012 9:41:04 AM PDT by Stepan12
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To: carton253

I said in my first remarks that I hope Don Feder is wrong; however, this fellow Romney is not only no Ronald Reagan, but he is not even a George W. Bush wh0 did win two elections for the presidency. Despite the hysteria and vitriol against Bush (43), he never said that John Kerry was a nice guy and managed to ridicule Kerry effectively with his own words.


39 posted on 09/22/2012 9:45:36 AM PDT by Stepan12
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To: NCDragon

Story by White House Spokesmen CHARLES BABINGTON and THOMAS BEAUMONT.

Folks, that’s truly who they are.

The AP reporter’s job died years ago, and is defunct as the buggy whip maker. They are no longer known as the Associated Press, but rather American Pravda.


40 posted on 09/22/2012 9:46:37 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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