Obama (D) Gets my vote
wow yall are not so smart9QA is a fairly good artist.
Is your country one of the places OBAMA is committing war crimes against?im out to destroy your country and spying on you here was the logical place to start
LOL haters.Researchers are now finding that for an increasing number of Americans, the idea of a Black man as commander in chief of the United States is unacceptable, and that could cost President Obama the presidency if minority, women and young voters don’t turn out on Election Day, experts said.
“I guess it shows you the underlying tenacity and strength of racism in America,” said Robert Smith, a political analyst who teaches at San Francisco State University.
A recent Associated Press poll showed that “51 percent of Americans now express explicit anti-Black attitudes, compared with 48 percent in a similar 2008 survey," according to a story on the research.
Some argue that anti-Obama sentiments are based on ideology and political belief, but that could not fully explain the level of acrimony and vitriol that has marked his opposition. Many have been unwilling to give the president credit for any of his accomplishments. After inheriting two wars, a $1.2 trillion deficit grown from a record budget surplus and a crumbling economy, the Obama administration has ended the war in Iraq, started the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and killed Al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden.
It also engineered groundbreaking legislation, such as never-before achieved universal health care coverage and equal pay for women and minorities. Through its efforts, the financial industry was stabilized, the auto industry saved, the housing market revived and unemployment decreased.
Throughout his first presidential campaign there was a dogged attempt to discredit Obama—questioning his citizenship, challenging his religious faith and cross-examining his educational achievements in an unprecedented way.
“There’s been an effort on the right, during his first election campaign and during his presidency, to ‘otherize’ Obama and to make him out as un-American,” Smith said.
That effort spawned the “birther” conspiracy—the theory that Obama was not born in the United States and is therefore neither a citizen nor a legitimate president. Despite considerable evidence, Obama-doubters remained convinced that the president is hiding something.
Media hog Donald Trump recently announced he would give $5 million to a charity of Obama’s choice if the president released his school application and records and his travel records.
"That's just code for saying [Obama] got into law school because he's black,” CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer said in response to Trump’s allegations back in April. “This is an ugly strain of racism that's running through this whole thing.”
And it’s an ugly strain that has permeated much of the anti-Obama zealotry the nation has seen over the past four years, sociopolitical experts say. Bumper stickers, posters and outright comments speak of that hate, from the lynching of empty chairs—Clint Eastwood’s symbol for Obama; deliberate withholding of the president’s title when referring to him; protest posters portraying the president as a fascist; Arizona radio host Barbara Espinosa calling the president a “monkey”; Ann Coulter’s calling him a “retard”; denigrations of First Lady Michelle Obama’s body, particularly her derriere; Internet and magazine photos depicting her as a militant “angry Black woman” and as a primate; and references to her as “Moochelle,” because of her perceived push to get Americans to “mooch” off the federal government.
“There has been a really substantial rise in, not just racism because that has existed all along, but the expression of racism,” said David Bositis, a senior analyst at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.
And, he said, such expressions have mostly emanated from the Republican Party, whose leaders have done little, or nothing, to quell them.
“[Republican candidate] Mitt Romney and his campaign and the Republican Party treat racist expressions with a wink and a nod because those people are their supporters,” Bositis said.
But then Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill have not been shy in their prejudicial treatment of the president. During Obama’s first “State of the Union” address, Rep. Joe Wilson screamed out “You lie!” in blatant disrespect. Republicans have employed legislative obstruction and a refusal to cooperate or compromise, holding the American people hostage to their stated goal of making Obama a one-term president.
The GOP has also used voter suppression in their effort to oust Obama.
“This is the biggest and most coordinated state legislative assault on the vote in more than 100 years,” said NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous in a previous AFRO interview. “When you add it all up it is a very cynical strategy to control the outcome or at least unduly influence the outcome by who can vote and what ballots are cast.”
But those efforts could backfire, by spurring Black and other minority voters to rally behind the president.
“They see these racist attacks…and they find it repulsive,” said Bositis, who studies the Black electorate. “They know without words that these people hate Blacks, Latinos and other minorities…and just about everybody that’s not like them, and the reaction is, ‘I have to do my part to stop these people.’”
The Democrats during the Andrew Jackson era were completely different from the Democrats of today. Back then, the Republicans were the progressive party but then in the middle of the 20th century the roles began to switch.But a jackass isnt exactly the best symbol
especially since by definition, it a contradiction. arent the dems in theory supposed to be the more progressive party? a jackass is stereotyped as stubborn
FWIW the Ron Paul guys want Obama to win so Rand Paul can run in 2016, so I doubt they would lie about this.I have some contacts in the state and what I am hearing is that internal polling shows Obama down by 10+ points in most, if not all areas of PA with the exception of Philadelphia. In 08, Philadelphia went 83% for Obama (595,000 votes). The key to Obama holding PA is going to be turnout in Philadelphia, which requires a lot of door to door work on election day by the Dem machine. GOTV is very much a hands-on process in inner city Philly. Essentially, Obama needs to come close to matching his 2008 vote total in Philly for the math to work in his favor. If say his turnout is reduced and he pulls 500,000 votes out of the city it is likely that he will lose the state. Now, as we know, the enthusiasm for Obama is not what it was in 08. So if the precinct captains walk a little slower, take more breaks, stop and chat with people longer, etc - any distractions will reduce their effectiveness and hurt Obama's chances.
Karl Rove, unlike DICK MORRIS, is better at predicting elections, and even predicted Obama's landslide victory, while MORRIS said McCain had a chance the day before. This article basically confirms what I posted earlier in the sense that less Democrats will show up than they did in 2008, and every aspect that led to Obama's victory is down by a significant margin.In addition to the data, the anecdotal and intangible evidence—from crowd sizes to each side's closing arguments—give the sense that the odds favor Mr. Romney. They do. My prediction: Sometime after the cock crows on the morning of Nov. 7, Mitt Romney will be declared America's 45th president. Let's call it 51%-48%, with Mr. Romney carrying at least 279 Electoral College votes, probably more.
Democrats currently going through the five stages of grieve.ANGER: Mitt Romney is a woman hating, baby seal clubbing, company killing Nazi vulture capitalist who wants nothing more than to give increased benefits to his billionaire friends while the middle class serfs row his yacht. No way anybody will vote for him. We've so got this in the bag.
DENIAL: There's no possible way Romney can win. Nate Silver and Intrade say so.
BARGAINING: OK, Romney may have won the first debate. And he looked OK in the 2nd and 3rd debates. And he actually looks like a President. And he's been over 50% in Gallup for the last ten polls. And his running mate actually knows what state he's in and give a complete speech without stepping dumping a "full load" on anybody. And we haven't got a prayer of taking back the House. But, if all else fails, just please, oh please, God let us hold the Senate and we'll still be OK.
DEPRESSION: OMG, Romney might actually win and with the Republicans controlling both the House and Senate. Time to start checking bus fares to Canada.
The real wildcard here is Pennsylvania, which I mentioned above. If the turnout is down in Philadelphia (which it will be), then Romney could take the state, which would change everything.Adrian Gray, who oversaw the Bush 2004 voter-contact operation and is now a policy analyst for a New York investment firm, makes the point that as of Tuesday, 530,813 Ohio Democrats had voted early or had requested or cast an absentee ballot. That's down 181,275 from four years ago. But 448,357 Ohio Republicans had voted early or had requested or cast an absentee ballot, up 75,858 from the last presidential election.
That 257,133-vote swing almost wipes out Mr. Obama's 2008 Ohio victory margin of 262,224. Since most observers expect Republicans to win Election Day turnout, these early vote numbers point toward a Romney victory in Ohio. They are also evidence that Scott Jennings, my former White House colleague and now Romney Ohio campaign director, was accurate when he told me that the Buckeye GOP effort is larger than the massive Bush 2004 get-out-the-vote operation.