It's the economy, Mr. President

[Value Buy]

From the article:

A series of polls released late Wednesday made clear that the economy remains the most constant and influential variable in the 2012 presidential campaign, helping to explain the strategies and posture of both Mitt Romney and President Obama.

Though Romney has been besieged by millions in negative ads questioning his tenure at Bain Capital and whether he should release more tax returns, the presumptive Republican nominee remains basically even versus the president in polls. The reason? Three new polls suggest that voters' optimism about the state of the economy has slid, making Obama more vulnerable to efforts that seek to turn the campaign into a referendum on his economic management.


Barack Obama and Mitt Romney
Thirty-nine percent of registered voters said in the New York Times/CBS poll released yesterday that they approve of Obama's handling of the economy, versus 55 percent who disapprove. As a matter of comparison, voters disapproved of Obama's economic management by a tighter margin — 44 percent approving, 48 percent disapproving — in the April version of the same poll.




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Mr President, please keep attacking Bain Capital.
This will not work.
The American people are aware of what is wrong in the country, and Bain Capital is not the problem.
Nor is Mitt Romney's tax returns.
Shear demagoguery and class warfare

Where are the jobs, Mr. President?
At this rate, the election result will be known before the Democratic Presidential nomination takes place.

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Jul 19, 2012 19:05:22 GMT -5 @lonewolf said:

It's not just the lack of jobs that has people like me freaking, it's the deficit and uncontrolled spending.

Voters do not necessarily vote their convictions, or worries.
Voters always vote their economic pocketbook.

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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/19/boehner-blasts-obama-campaign-weighs-in-on-veepstakes/

(CNN) – House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday stood by his argument that President Barack Obama doesn't give a "damn" about unemployed, middle class Americans, saying Obama has been more focused on his role as candidate than president.

"The president checked out last Labor Day. And he's been on the campaign trail nonstop ever since," Boehner said on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer."

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And now we hear from the great state of Virginia

politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/19/obama-lead-disappears-in-virginia/

Obama lead disappears in Virginia
Posted by
CNN's Kevin Liptak
(CNN) - President Barack Obama's single digit lead over Mitt Romney in the crucial battleground state of Virginia has disappeared, according to a new poll.

The Quinnipiac University survey indicated Virginians split 44%-44% for the two presidential candidates. The race has tightened since March, when Obama led Romney 50%-42%, and the beginning of June, when Obama was ahead 47%-42%

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I am worried about the economy. However, Obama didn't create the problem and even worse the regulations that need to be in place to prevent a future debacle aren't. In fact the bailout created bigger banks that are apparently too big to not bailout. Because of Romney's connections in the financial community I expect him to continue to ease regulations for Wall Street etc. possibly recreating the 2008+ credit crisis on a larger level. There are pundits predicting that will happen but not necessarily who might be in office. Its unclear if the politicians as a whole won't fix what caused the crisis, how soon the crisis might recurr and how many times worse it would be.

I have almost no faith that the two primary political parties have the will to do the right things to right the economy.

[djAdvocate]

Jul 19, 2012 21:53:49 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

And now we hear from the great state of Virginia

politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/19/obama-lead-disappears-in-virginia/

Obama lead disappears in Virginia
Posted by
CNN's Kevin Liptak
(CNN) - President Barack Obama's single digit lead over Mitt Romney in the crucial battleground state of Virginia has disappeared, according to a new poll.

The Quinnipiac University survey indicated Virginians split 44%-44% for the two presidential candidates. The race has tightened since March, when Obama led Romney 50%-42%, and the beginning of June, when Obama was ahead 47%-42%

Romney lead in Virginia until Feb of this year. he is still trailing, but not by much. RCP has had it at a dead heat for over a month.

[Don Perignon]

I notice Mr. Romney is looking a bit haggard at some of his recent appearances.
I don't think he's getting enough sleep.

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Jul 19, 2012 22:55:27 GMT -5 Don Perignon said:

I notice Mr. Romney is looking a bit haggard at some of his recent appearances.
I don't think he's getting enough sleep.

he has hardly taken on any campaigning for a couple of months now. no interviews, very few appearances. i have no idea why he should seem haggard.