Who Do You Think Currently Has the Upper Hand in the 2012 Election?

by SodaHead Politics Posted 2012/05/22 22:55:13

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Cuppajo 2012/05/22 22:57:13

Mitt Romney

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Simply because he hasn't repeatedly lied to the American people and screwed us over for several trillion dollars.
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Ladd to none 2012/05/24 04:54:01

With a loose undecided mind as you are desplaying, how could you have ever been a Republican ? Barack Hussein Obama's Lawyer even admits BHO is not USA borne and it don't matter. Nobody knows who BHO is ?BHO's memo, he wrote about himself as he is from Africa ! That is good enough for me to know this guy has ill intent don't you know ?

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tootsieboy 2012/05/23 18:35:34

Barack Obama

+1
With 10 million black and 8 million Mexican votes in his corner plus who knows how many gays poor Mitt is, at best ,second string

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Chris to tootsieboy 2012/05/23 19:04:15

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Wrong sir. Assuming I support Obama because I have a Mexican heritage is a naive stereotype. Many Hispanics are quite conservative. I know many conservative blacks as well.

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Builder to Chris 2012/07/02 11:59:30

No Chris you are died wrong! Obama will get over 90% of the Black vote as he did the last time and at least 65% or more Hispanic vote. Throw in most of the gays and women and the president will be more than able to hold his own!

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Chris to Builder 2012/09/13 19:07:37

I wonder how many of those votes will be from dead people.

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Builder to Chris 2012/10/02 11:30:07

You could ask the GOP in FLA. or N. Carolina. Hahahahahaha it's funny how the bigots are the only ones pushing voter laws and they are the ones caught cheating.

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none 2012/05/23 18:31:04

Mitt Romney

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I think Americans are getting sick of the all about me Obama attitude, talking about BS distractions like gay marriage and Mitt the bully instead of real issues like the economy and debt, and Obama's unpatriotic, step on the Constitution, spend like a fool, kiss muslim ass, anti-gun, UN supporting agenda

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weenyboy to none 2012/05/23 18:54:42

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As I recall, it was the Republican mantra in 2010 that IF ELECTED, it would be Jobs, Jobs, Jobs! Silly Me.... NO JOBS Bills ever proposed by the House. Instead ANTI-WOMEN legislation, attempts to defund Planned Parenthood (which primarily TESTS poor womenfor diseases) and let's not forget Republican soponsored invasive tests for women wanting an abortion. Yeah, those Republicans are right on message once again!

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none to weenyboy 2012/05/23 19:06:44

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What anti-woman legislation, all the liberals have done with this foolish distraction is create a new synonym. Now Fluke is synonymos with slut. Good going.

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Marty 2012/05/23 18:06:44

Barack Obama

+2
I support President Obama, but I don't know how this will play out. A lot depends on the economy. I think Obama has accomplished a great deal in spite of the toxic political climate.

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Tom Camfield 2012/05/23 17:41:58

Barack Obama

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Obama. Romney's too smarmy and out of touch with average Americans (and a bit wild-eyed).

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Bob to Tom Cam... 2012/05/23 18:43:18

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And Obama understands the average American? Only if you lean socialist.

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Tony Wikrent 2012/05/23 17:41:47

Barack Obama

+1
Mitt Romney is NOT a capitalist. When Romney or Bain forces a company to borrow money so it can pay Romney or Bain a huge fee, or dividend, or bonus, or whatever they want to call it, they are DECAPITALIZING that company. They are taking capital OUT of that company and out of the economy. But according to Republicans, THAT's free enterprise, That's why I blame Republicans more than Democrats for wrecking the American economy,

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Poor 2012/05/23 17:32:56

Barack Obama

Since the media already are90% liberal, Romney has a hard time competing with all of the free press Obama gets and of course they look for negative for Romney. All to that all the union thugs, communists, socialists, freeloaders and Hollywood, it would take a miracle for anyone to beat the establishment and millions upon millions of dollars from Soros for Obama and the Dems to make sure we don't stay a democracy.

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Loneseer 2012/05/23 17:21:30

Barack Obama

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Mitt Romney is a flip flopper, a liar that will do anything to beome president. He even make stupid statements besides being filthy rich and mistreating the people that worked for him if there is any truth to this part of it. That rich bastard wouldn't know the value of a dollar if it jump up and hit him in the eye. And besides, like Barack Obama, if he becomes president (HEAVEN FORBID) he will have to deal with a Congress that can't agree on anything. So what is a President to do with such a Congress?

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dale to Loneseer 2012/05/23 17:36:41 (edited)

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Sorry, no one can beat Obama for lies, deception and unkept promises. Socialism.works only for a few power elites...Obama and wife clearly.think they are the special people who should decide who to take it from (as in stick it too) and who to give it too (as in just enough to buy their vote)

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Builder to dale 2012/07/02 12:01:35

well that's your opinion anyways, I disagree!

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Wolfman 2012/05/23 17:19:16

Mitt Romney

It's the economy, stupid Obama.

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Tom Cam... to Wolfman 2012/05/23 17:45:04

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Indeed it's the economy. But the Republicans want to deal with it Greek style, and we all know how that works.

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Wolfman to Tom Cam... 2012/05/23 17:51:11 (edited)

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If you mean that the Republicans want to stop the insane spending, you're right. We are $16-TRILLION in debt, our credit rating has been reduced meaning that China may not lend us more money, we have record unemployment and record people on food stamps. This isn't Greece Tom, but the spending spree is over. Santa's broke.

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Marty to Wolfman 2012/05/23 18:18:31

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The debt is critical, but we have to get people working, and to that effect, the government must help stimulate the economy. How about putting some of the laid off teachers back to work. Educating our young people is our best chance to be competitive in the future. Also, trussing up our aging infrastructure would put construction workers and engineers back to work. Even if you are a libratarian, you have to use roads and bridges. We get people the jobs, they pay taxes, the economy grows, then address the debt.
Why are so many people opposed to stimulating the economy. Just hold your nose and do it! Look at Japan, they couldn't stomach stimulation and their recession dragged on and on.

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Wolfman to Marty 2012/05/24 04:54:41

Obie was given $870-BILLION in stimulus to fill "shovel-ready" jobs. Obie laughed after the stimulus package passed and admitted that there were no shovel-ready jobs. That's the problem with Obie; there is no plan. He wants to raise taxes on the "rich" but he has no idea what he is going to do with the money. Anything to do with jobs, Obie destroys. Obie destroyed the space program. Obie destroyed the Keystone Pipe Line. Obie is shutting down the coal industry. Obie is shutting down off-shore drilling. We do need more infrastructure but first we need a plan. The only budget that Obie has ever submitted was rejected by the Senate 99-0. Obama is an economic fool; even the Democrats know it. No, we don't need to "hold our nose and do it." We tried that and Obie bailed out the UAW pension fund and has Government Motors designing Chevy Volts that catch on fire and nobody wants. Obie did get jobs for the people in Germany that make solar panels for folks that only need electricity in the daytime.

Education funding is done on a state level. We throw more money at education than any other industrialized nation on earth and our ROI sucks because we try to push everyone into college, we have a poorly structured vocational education program, and Political Correctness is kil...

Obie was given $870-BILLION in stimulus to fill "shovel-ready" jobs. Obie laughed after the stimulus package passed and admitted that there were no shovel-ready jobs. That's the problem with Obie; there is no plan. He wants to raise taxes on the "rich" but he has no idea what he is going to do with the money. Anything to do with jobs, Obie destroys. Obie destroyed the space program. Obie destroyed the Keystone Pipe Line. Obie is shutting down the coal industry. Obie is shutting down off-shore drilling. We do need more infrastructure but first we need a plan. The only budget that Obie has ever submitted was rejected by the Senate 99-0. Obama is an economic fool; even the Democrats know it. No, we don't need to "hold our nose and do it." We tried that and Obie bailed out the UAW pension fund and has Government Motors designing Chevy Volts that catch on fire and nobody wants. Obie did get jobs for the people in Germany that make solar panels for folks that only need electricity in the daytime.

Education funding is done on a state level. We throw more money at education than any other industrialized nation on earth and our ROI sucks because we try to push everyone into college, we have a poorly structured vocational education program, and Political Correctness is killing us. No, we don't need more teachers. We need more math and science and less emphasis on self-esteem.

What we need is an astute businessman for president instead of a community agitator.
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dale to Wolfman 2012/05/23 19:43:51 (edited)

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Margaret Thatcher: the problem with liberalis is that sooner or later they always run out of someone elses money. If we look around the world it is always true. The more the government takes the pie keeps getting smaller and smaller until there is not enough left for them to take...happens every time it's tried. 16 trillion and.climbing.it is national insanity and/or suicide .

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Wolfman to dale 2012/05/24 04:56:26

And Obie wants to increase the debt ceiling again. Why do we have a debt ceiling if we increase it every 6-months?

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eviltwin 2012/05/23 17:18:28

Barack Obama

+1
I think Obama has the upper hand because of his coverage. He's going to need to retool his message to account for the lack of change he promised, but that's easy enough to do. Romney is just offering more of the same economic policies that got us into this mess: deregulation and lack of accountability. I think ultimately voters will realize this.

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uhhh--Mike? 2012/05/23 17:16:21

Barack Obama

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Let's see...why would any more vote GOP for Prez than in 08? In fact, since the GOP vote tends to be heavy in 70 plus, and the Obama in 35 & under, quite a few have "departed" from over 70, while there is a whole bunch more just crossed over from 18 in the past 4 years.

Obama should bump his final total to 53% and change come Nov. Period

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VintageLys 2012/05/23 17:15:41

Barack Obama

+1
media is on his side

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Revolution 2012 2012/05/23 16:59:01

Mitt Romney

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Barack Obama is an unconstitutional liar, while Romney is a complete imbecile by all measurements. Romney would probably have the upper hand; While both Obama and Romney are greedy and dirty politicians, Obama is the dirtiest. By sheer corruption, Romney is marginally better than Obama. I'm still sticking with Ron Paul in terms of who I'd vote for. I'll vote for what is morally right whether or not moral righteousness wins the election.

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Aksana 2012/05/23 16:56:48

Barack Obama

Obame

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nighttrain8 2012/05/23 16:47:16

Mitt Romney

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I only put Rommey cause I had to vote. Ron Paul is the only candidate worthy to be president of this great country. To vote any other way is to continue to give away what makes us unique; the constitution.

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skroehr 2012/05/23 16:44:11 (edited)

Mitt Romney

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I can't really say this based on media. It's kind of an intuition. Of course the media is in the bag for Obama, so all we'll hear until election night is how he's kicking ass. In my actual personal life, I know of at least 5 persons in my own family or friends who DID vote for Obama last time, and won't do so again. I don't know what percentage nation wide are experiencing this buyers remorse, but among my family and friends who voted for Obama in round one, there are none who will be this time. The 5 who did, are not this time. So that would be 100% of Obama voters in my friends and family who are voting for Romney. The media would never say anything like this. I guess it will just come out in November when the chads hit the fan. ;-)

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SABLE 2012/05/23 16:28:50

Barack Obama

+1
But they are close

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Ty 2012/05/23 16:09:17

Barack Obama

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MrTy here; Grtngs my fellow Americans. I voted for Pres Obama, and I'm so glad I did, I could just dance, dance, dance. And I'm most certainly looking forward for voting for he and VP Biden again, God Willing. Anyone with good morals, should realize that Willard "Not Fit" Mitt Romney is not qualified to be anyplace near the oval office. Willard "Not Fit" Mitt Romney is an awful big liar without shame, and he's gotten worse since his wife Annie Mae joined, or I should say took over his campaign. "All liars shall have their part in the lake of fire" (In Part)MtTy

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charles d 2012/05/23 15:48:15

Mitt Romney

+2
Looks like too many liberals voting! Does not reflect National data?

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Dave 2012/05/23 15:41:22

Mitt Romney

+2
On a level playing field, Obama would be forced to drop out before November, but the Media constantly covers for him because he's "star." And what is a star ? A ball of glowing gas.

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Zambero 2012/05/23 15:31:16

Barack Obama

+1
Romney will never be able to shake his inauthentic image. He keeps digging himself in deeper and no one has the sense or ability to wrest the shovel from him.

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ThickAzABrick 2012/05/23 15:19:26

Barack Obama

He gets free publicity everyday and with the media as far to the left as they are, he is virtually assured that any news story will be spun in his favor.

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Bud 2012/05/23 15:12:06

Barack Obama

Unfortunately it is the President. I base this opinion on the 'Peter-Paul' theory. "If you rob Peter to pay Paul you can count on the support of Paul". Because of the depredations on the private sector by the Obama administration the Pauls outnumber the Peters and the Pauls expect the federal government to pay their way and strew their lifetime pathway with rose petals; thus assuring Obama's reelection.

Bud

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Dave to Bud 2012/05/23 15:56:55

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But what happens when the rose petals runs out ? When the producers are bled dry, who will support the welfare leeches and illegals. Welcome to Thunderdome.

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Juan 2012/05/23 15:02:57

Mitt Romney

+2
The American Dream has died. The only thing that seperated America from the rest of the World was the right of the common person to obtain property by thier own initiative. This is not GW Bush's fault or Clintons or any other President.
The only choice before us is whether we want to live under the fist of an oppressive socialist government or a system of Robber Baron Masters. Ron Paul has about as much chance of winning as I do and he is the only real candidate that is capable or willing to restore the true American Dream.

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