Mitt Romney Presidential Campaign

[Seeker1961]

Poll Gives Romney Double-Digit Lead Among Independents

nationalreview.com/corner/315538/poll-gives-romney-double-digit-lead-among-independents-katrina-trinko

In other words…a statistical dead heat which will likely change after the Democratic convention.

The only poll that really matters is the Electoral College poll on election night, but if you’re interested, right now it is projected that Obama has 221 electoral votes, Romney has 191 and there are 126 toss ups. (RealClearPolitics) CNN and HuffPo have slightly different projections but they’re close.

I realize that none of those are CAF approved sites, so thus will be completely ignored or ridiculed-but I’m cooling down after a run and don’t have anything better to do.

 

[CatholcCrusader]

Take a step back everyone and look at the recent posts about Reagan. If anything, they prove that Reagan was just as controversial a pick a Romney is. Persoanlly, I think Reagan was the greatest president of the 20th century. But the fact that arguments still swirl to this day about his conservatism should tell us a little about today’s arguments about Romney.

Bottom line: Romney is a good man, he will make a great president, and he is surely light years better than that multiple expletives} we have in the White House now.

 

[lynnvinc]

crazy thing is, the volt was #14 on the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy’s Green Book, and the 12 cars with better green scores were all gasoline…

I suppose if one were to drive their Volt on coal-powered electricity and drive it in gasoline mode quite a bit (it only gets about 35-45 miles per charge, and about 35 miles per gallon in gas mode), then other cars would be better, like the Prius, which gets some 51 miles per gallon.

Since our electricity is 100% wind-generated, and we drive less than 40 miles (actually less than 20 miles) nearly every day, then the Volt is much cleaner. So it might not be the cleanest alternative in all cases, but it is for us. There is also the Leaf, an total EV which gets some 100 miles per charge.

The point is Romney should not have made that implied claim that it is impossible to drive a car on wind power. It is possible. And I am left to wonder, “does he lack imagination, knowledge and smarts, OR is he making a bid to get more campaign funds from the dirty (killing) energy folks?” Either way, he is a very poor choice for anyone concerned about life on planet earth.

 

[Julia_Mae]

Transcript of Selected Excerpts from Exclusive Mitt Romney Interview with Raymond Arroyo to air on The World Over Live on EWTN, Thursday, August 23rd 8PM Eastern

HHS Mandate & Cardinal Dolan

Raymond Arroyo: The Catholic community in this country and people across the faith spectrum were outraged by President Obama’s HHS Mandate – requiring abortifacients and contraceptives to be made available to employees. It set off protests by the Catholic bishops and individual people of faith. What will you do as president about that HHS Mandate?

Gov. Romney: Well, first of all I’ll continue to meet with to Cardinal [Timothy] Dolan [of New York and President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops] – who by the way is going to offer the benediction on the last evening of the Republican Convention after my acceptance speak. So I am making it very clear that the interest of religious freedom is something I support wholeheartedly and will work with him and with others to assure that each piece of legislation that we consider is thought also in terms of its impact on religious freedom and tolerance. This is a nation where our first freedom is the right to worship God as we choose, and any effort on the part of the federal government to intrude on religious liberty and to reject tolerance in favor of a government mandate is a violation of that first freedom.
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LOL! So the answer is: nothing. He will do nothing whatsoever about HHS.

How can anyone vote for this guy?​

 

[ishii]

LOL! So the answer is: nothing. He will do nothing whatsoever about HHS.

How can anyone vote for this guy?

Nothing except repeal Obamacare. Why do you feel the need to misrepresent Romney’s position? Not voting for him is enabling the most pro-abortion abortion president to get re-elected. Careful what you wish for.

Ishii

 

[Julia_Mae]

The reason for posting this was to keep track of campaign rhetoric, not to re-ignite the question of whether or not Mr. Obama is a natural born citizen or not.

Romney is trying to beat us to it.

 

[rlg94086]

Romney is trying to beat us to it.

Romney hasn’t questioned Obama’s citizenship. Do you have any genuine criticisms of Romney, or are you going to keep posting misrepresentations?

 

[_Abyssinia]

In other words…a statistical dead heat which will likely change after the Democratic convention.

The only poll that really matters is the Electoral College poll on election night, but if you’re interested, right now it is projected that Obama has 221 electoral votes, Romney has 191 and there are 126 toss ups. (RealClearPolitics) CNN and HuffPo have slightly different projections but they’re close.

I realize that none of those are CAF approved sites, so thus will be completely ignored or ridiculed-but I’m cooling down after a run and don’t have anything better to do.

Convention bounces do not have long lasting impact. What has impacted Romney from the RNC is his favourable have increased

UCLA’s Tim Grosecross says the electoral college favours Romney

RealClearPolitics electoral college average can not be reliable because they are using polls by ABC, CBS, Fox, Washington post that have an oversample of democrats by sometimes 9 points which is not a reliable of what is going to happen when the voting starts, especially with polls show enthusiasm gap for democrats

University of Colorado professors Ken Bickers and Michael Berry have picked the correct winner from every presidential race in 1980 and they pick Romney with 320 to Obama’s 218 with a 20 point margin of error

 

[Seeker1961]

Convention bounces do not have long lasting impact. What has impacted Romney from the RNC is his favourable have increased

UCLA’s Tim Grosecross says the electoral college favours Romney

RealClearPolitics electoral college average can not be reliable because they are using polls by ABC, CBS, Fox, Washington post that have an oversample of democrats by sometimes 9 points which is not a reliable of what is going to happen when the voting starts, especially with polls show enthusiasm gap for democrats

University of Colorado professors Ken Bickers and Michael Berry have picked the correct winner from every presidential race in 1980 and they pick Romney with 320 to Obama’s 218 with a 20 point margin of error

Ha! There it is! The rejection of any source not “right” enough!!

 

[Seeker1961]

Nothing except repeal Obamacare. Why do you feel the need to misrepresent Romney’s position? Not voting for him is enabling the most pro-abortion abortion president to get re-elected. Careful what you wish for.

Ishii

Why would he repeal his OWN plan??? Especially when it’s already working in Massachusetts?

 

[ishii]

They are on the books…you just don’t happen to like the ones that are there.

John

Are laws against abortion doctors on the books?

Ishii

 

[ishii]

Why would he repeal his OWN plan??? Especially when it’s already working in Massachusetts?

His “own” plan wasn’t forced on every state in the union. Obamacare is country-wide. Repealing Obamacare is the centerpiece of the Romney/Ryan agenda - but it will take a fairly conservative senate that isn’t controlled by Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer. That is why, as Catholics interested in the sanctity of life, we need to not only vote to oust the anti-Catholic Obama, we also need to oust anti-Catholic senators.

Ishii

 

[oldcelt]

Are laws against abortion doctors on the books?

No, laws saying that they may practice legally.

BTW, nice bump.

John

 

[ishii]

No, laws saying that they may practice legally.

BTW, nice bump.

John

Oldcelt - you wrote:

Then here you go, Our laws should respect the sanctity of life.That is already on the books and being enforced, last time I looked.

Abortion is legal - “doctors” can legally go in and suck the unborn child out of the womb with a vacuum. So, no - our laws don’t respect the sanctity of life - and they will continue to not respect the sanctity of life if otherwise good Catholics keep voting for pro-abortion politicians.

Ishii

 

[meltzerboy]

Convention bounces do not have long lasting impact. What has impacted Romney from the RNC is his favourable have increased

UCLA’s Tim Grosecross says the electoral college favours Romney

RealClearPolitics electoral college average can not be reliable because they are using polls by ABC, CBS, Fox, Washington post that have an oversample of democrats by sometimes 9 points which is not a reliable of what is going to happen when the voting starts, especially with polls show enthusiasm gap for democrats

University of Colorado professors Ken Bickers and Michael Berry have picked the correct winner from every presidential race in 1980 and they pick Romney with 320 to Obama’s 218 with a 20 point margin of error

With respect to the professors’ predictions, I read that Berry himself admits that their study, which was only designed in 2005, was done RETROSPECTIVELY to validate the winners of previous presidential elections, by plugging in the numbers according to the formula they constructed. The only presidential election they correctly PREDICTED was the last one in 2008.

What can I say? Beware of the claims of professors! (Oops. That would include yours truly.)

 

[oldcelt]

Abortion is legal - “doctors” can legally go in and suck the unborn child out of the womb with a vacuum. So, no - our laws don’t respect the sanctity of life - and they will continue to not respect the sanctity of life if otherwise good Catholics keep voting for pro-abortion politicians.

Allow me to put my position to rest so I can move on to other issues.:

I am pro-choice, but I would prefer that no federal money be used to support abortion except in cases of rape, incest or a threat to the life of the mother. I further believe that any abortion beyond the point of viability is, most often, unnecessary…partial-birth is abhorrent and should be illegal.

Regarding my soul…I personally oppose abortion, have never and will never engage in, support, or counsel anyone that they should have an abortion.

Those who wish to engage in abortion must do so in line with their own conscience and beliefs. That is a question that can never be answered or resolved by political action in ,y opinion.

Everything in life is a choice.

There you have it…now…I’m moving on…feel free to assail me.

John

 

[rlg94086]

Allow me to put my position to rest so I can move on to other issues.:

I am pro-choice, but I would prefer that no federal money be used to support abortion except in cases of rape, incest or a threat to the life of the mother. I further believe that any abortion beyond the point of viability is, most often, unnecessary…partial-birth is abhorrent and should be illegal.

Regarding my soul…I personally oppose abortion, have never and will never engage in, support, or counsel anyone that they should have an abortion.

Those who wish to engage in abortion must do so in line with their own conscience and beliefs. That is a question that can never be answered or resolved by political action in ,y opinion.

Everything in life is a choice.

There you have it…now…I’m moving on…feel free to assail me.

John

No need to assail you. You’ve already confirmed that you are a pro-choice Catholic. Other Catholics who wish to ignore Church teaching and join you in voting pro-choice will do so.

Catholics who wish to remain faithful will now know that they can ignore your political advice.

 

[_Abyssinia]

With respect to the professors’ predictions, I read that Berry himself admits that their study, which was only designed in 2005, was done RETROSPECTIVELY to validate the winners of previous presidential elections, by plugging in the numbers according to the formula they constructed. The only presidential election they correctly PREDICTED was the last one in 2008.

What can I say? Beware of the claims of professors! (Oops. That would include yours truly.)

Are you sure you are correct? Article says their model has predicted every presidential election since 1980

 

[meltzerboy]

Are you sure you are correct? Article says their model has predicted every presidential election since 1980

That’s what I read somewhere online. Supposedly, the individual asked Berry about this and Berry emailed him and stated the model he invented was used retrospectively. The present article is misleading since it uses the word “predicted” too loosely. I cannot, however, vouch for the authenticity of the correspondence since, as you’re no doubt aware, a lot of information online is bogus.

 

[ishii]

Allow me to put my position to rest so I can move on to other issues.:

I am pro-choice, but I would prefer that no federal money be used to support abortion except in cases of rape, incest or a threat to the life of the mother. I further believe that any abortion beyond the point of viability is, most often, unnecessary…partial-birth is abhorrent and should be illegal.

Regarding my soul…I personally oppose abortion, have never and will never engage in, support, or counsel anyone that they should have an abortion.

Those who wish to engage in abortion must do so in line with their own conscience and beliefs. That is a question that can never be answered or resolved by political action in ,y opinion.

Everything in life is a choice.

There you have it…now…I’m moving on…feel free to assail me.

John

Still dodging the point, oldcelt. You said our laws reflect the sanctity of life. I demonstrated that they don’t with regard to abortion, and you have no answer to that. The question still stands - are you in favor of laws protecting the sanctity of life or not? Are you in favor of laws against rape? Or should “those who wish to engage in rape do so in line with their own conscience and beliefs” as you say?

Ishii