Obama and Romney Hit Final Stretch Part 3

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Tampa_Dave said:
Most American pastors not backing presidential candidates, survey shows
CWN - November 02, 2012

Most regular churchgoers in the US have not heard explicit political advice from their pastors, a new survey from the Pew Research Center shows.

A bare majority of regular churchgoers (52%) reported that they had been encouraged to vote in the November elections. But only 19% said that their pastors had indicated a preference for a particular presidential candidate.

The glaring exception to that rule, the Pew survey shows, comes among Black Protestant churches. In those churches, survey respondents said, 79% of the pastors had emphasized the importance of voting, and 40% had backed a particular candidate. Among those who had backed a presidential candidate, all of the Pew respondents said that the pastor had given the nod to President Obama.

In white Evangelical churches, 54% of pastors had urged their people to vote; of those who backed a candidate, 5% of the pastors chose Obama and 26% opted for Mitt Romney. In Catholic churches the figures were similar, with 46% of priests encouraging their parishioners to vote, 4% backing Obama, and 21% recommending a vote for Romney.

News for thought…
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Quite a lot of clergy are ignoring IRS rules
 
meltzerboy said:
You’re not kidding! Enough is enough, and I don’t even live in a swing state.
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My phone rings every night, sometimes 2 or 3 times. It’s 50-50, recordings vs. surveys. I’ve been telling surveys to remove me from their calling list, and telling the pushy ones ‘I’m not voting for any name I hear on my telephone.’
 
Tampa_Dave said:
HOUSTON, TX - Friday afternoon at an early polling place located at 6719 W. Montgomery Road in Houston, NAACP members were seen advocating for President Barack Obama according to volunteer poll watchers on location at the time.

According to Eve Rockford, a poll watcher trained by voter integrity group True the Vote, three NAACP members showed up to the 139 precinct location with 50 cases of bottled water and began handing bottles out to people standing in line. While wearing NAACP labeled clothing, members were “stirring the crowd” and talking to voters about flying to Ohio to promote President Barack Obama.

After watching what was occurring, Rockford approached Polling Supervisor Rose Cochran about what she was seeing.

“I went to the polling supervisor and let her know that it was not appropriate that they were in the building handing out water. She ignored me. I repeated my statement. She told me that she would handle it. She did nothing. I then went to the assistant supervisor and he stood up, walked over to another table and then sat down. I then walked into the waiting room and they were reloading another dolly with more cases of water,” Rockford said in a True the Vote incident report.

After handing out water and advocating for President Obama, the NAACP members started handpicking and moving people to the front of a long voting line inside the polling place according to the incident report. After multiple complaints from voters about the line cutting, Rockford received a phone call from downtown telling her to “stand down.”

“All of the sudden one of the clerks, Dayan Cohen, said that someone wanted to speak to me on the phone. It was someone from downtown. I got on the phone and she said she was from downtown and that I needed to stand down and that it was okay for the NAACP to be within 100 ft. and they could hand out water. I told her that the NAACP was inside the building, wearing the NAACP clothing and caps and were handing out water and moving people from the back of the lines to the front of the lines,” Rockford said.

At this point, NAACP members were instructed to turn their clothing inside out, which they refused to do and said they weren’t going to stop their actions inside the polling place. Their behavior and actions to move people to the front of the line continued for the rest of the evening. Texas State Representative Sylvester Turner, a former Texas NAACP leader, was also seen outside the building talking with voters.

“The NAACP basically ran this poll location and the judges did nothing about it,” Rockford said.

Katie Pavlich, Townhall.com
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Eventually, this should result in legal action, but meanwhile the damage is done. It is the
same with Democratic tactics in challenging Voter ID laws, redistricting, etc. In most
cases, these cases will be found to have no merit, but the tactics delay implementing
in time for this election which is what democrats want. If they are so “good” for the
“disinfranchised” why do they need to go outside the law?
 
*Catholics buy full-page religious freedom ad in Denver Post
By Hillary Senour
Denver, Colo., Nov 3, 2012 / 12:02 pm (CNA).

A group of lay Catholics in Colorado is placing a full-page ad in the Sunday edition of the Denver Post to drive home the importance of religious freedom in the upcoming election.

“I think the folks who organized getting the ad together want to ensure everybody understands what’s at stake not only for the Church, but for the country, when religious liberty is compromised,” said J.D. Flynn, chancellor of the Denver archdiocese.

The full-page ad, which will run in the Sunday, Nov. 4 edition of The Denver Post, will feature the full text of the Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila’s Nov. 1 letter on religious freedom and the election.

Flynn said that purchasing the ad in the Sunday edition, which reaches 964,000 readers, “isn’t cheap,” but the fact that over 20 Denver-area Catholics committed to fund it shows that they “support the archbishop in his public ministry.”

“I just think it speaks to the quality and commitment of the lay people in the Archdiocese of Denver that they want to support the archbishop in this way,” he commented.

Flynn said he hopes this advertisement will highlight the importance of protecting religious liberty in the Nov. 6 presidential election.

“Our country is the product of religious liberty,” Flynn stated. “When we undermine that for something as short-sighted as free contraception, everybody is in serious trouble.

“I just hope people are hearing that.”

The idea for the advertisement was the result of a group of lay Catholics asking how they could support the archbishop in his efforts to uphold religious liberty.

“I think there are a lot of people who don’t appreciate the significance of the election for the Church’s activity in this country, and also the significance of this election for Catholics in this country,” Flynn said.

In his letter, Archbishop Aquila emphasized religious freedom as a foundational American value.

“Our founding fathers understood that without these freedoms, especially religious liberty, our democratic experiment would fail,” he wrote.

However, religious liberty faces “an unprecedented threat” from the Health and Human Services mandate, which “undermines the promise of the First Amendment,” Archbishop Aquila said.

The Obama administration’s contraception mandate requires employers to provide health insurance plans that cover contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs, even if doing so violates their beliefs.

It has drawn nearly 40 lawsuits by more than 110 plaintiffs since its announcement earlier this year.

“No one should ever be forced to choose between integrity and charity, or to violate their conscience in business,” the archbishop said.*
 
Tampa_Dave said:
Catholics buy full-page religious freedom ad in Denver Post
By Hillary Senour
Denver, Colo., Nov 3, 2012 / 12:02 pm (CNA).

A group of lay Catholics in Colorado is placing a full-page ad in the Sunday edition of the Denver Post to drive home the importance of religious freedom in the upcoming election.

“I think the folks who organized getting the ad together want to ensure everybody understands what’s at stake not only for the Church, but for the country, when religious liberty is compromised,” said J.D. Flynn, chancellor of the Denver archdiocese.

The full-page ad, which will run in the Sunday, Nov. 4 edition of The Denver Post, will feature the full text of the Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila’s Nov. 1 letter on religious freedom and the election.

Flynn said that purchasing the ad in the Sunday edition, which reaches 964,000 readers, “isn’t cheap,” but the fact that over 20 Denver-area Catholics committed to fund it shows that they “support the archbishop in his public ministry.”

“I just think it speaks to the quality and commitment of the lay people in the Archdiocese of Denver that they want to support the archbishop in this way,” he commented.

Flynn said he hopes this advertisement will highlight the importance of protecting religious liberty in the Nov. 6 presidential election.

“Our country is the product of religious liberty,” Flynn stated. “When we undermine that for something as short-sighted as free contraception, everybody is in serious trouble.

“I just hope people are hearing that.”

The idea for the advertisement was the result of a group of lay Catholics asking how they could support the archbishop in his efforts to uphold religious liberty.

“I think there are a lot of people who don’t appreciate the significance of the election for the Church’s activity in this country, and also the significance of this election for Catholics in this country,” Flynn said.

In his letter, Archbishop Aquila emphasized religious freedom as a foundational American value.

“Our founding fathers understood that without these freedoms, especially religious liberty, our democratic experiment would fail,” he wrote.

However, religious liberty faces “an unprecedented threat” from the Health and Human Services mandate, which “undermines the promise of the First Amendment,” Archbishop Aquila said.

The Obama administration’s contraception mandate requires employers to provide health insurance plans that cover contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs, even if doing so violates their beliefs.

It has drawn nearly 40 lawsuits by more than 110 plaintiffs since its announcement earlier this year.

“No one should ever be forced to choose between integrity and charity, or to violate their conscience in business,” the archbishop said.
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Thanks for posting that article. I will be praying for the Archbishop. We need more
clergy that are willing to lead the people of the Church. I pray for a Bishop for El Paso
who will do that here.
 
Fox is reporting record turnout in Florida fir early voting. That generally does not bode well for the Republicans. They actually turned people away tonight and the Republican governor refused to extend hours.

John
 
*** (EWTN) Ad says Romney vote defends Catholics’ religious liberty**

A new video aims to sway unaffiliated Catholic voters to Mitt Romney by stressing religious liberty as an election issue.

“We must vote to protect our schools, our hospitals, our charities, our faith,” the ad says. “We won’t have social justice unless we defend religious freedom.”

The ad, produced by the CatholicVote.Org Candidate Fund, cites American Catholics’ work in education, health care, and work for the poor. It uses images of immigrants, the Catholic Mass, religious teaching sisters and Catholic hospitals to endorse the Republican Romney-Ryan presidential ticket.

The ad was published on YouTube on Oct. 30. It had over 10,000 views as of Wednesday afternoon.*

Every Catholic voter we can persuade to vote for Romney, the better.
 
_Abyssinia said:
AFF poll: Minnesota a toss-up
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Now there’s an unbiased poll. Check their page everyone…“Let’s shave Axelrod’s stache.”

From the article:
In a polling memo, pollster Glen Bolger attributes the closeness of the race to Minnesota’s overwhelmingly white population.
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“Minnesota is very much a battleground state due the low minority population of the state and President Obama’s problems with white voters. Romney has a good chance to pull off one of the biggest upsets of the election cycle in this state,” Bolger writes.
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John
 
oldcelt said:
Now there’s an unbiased poll. Check their page everyone…“Let’s shave Axelrod’s stache.”

John
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Cnn, nbc etc are so reliable what with their oversampling of democrats, sometimes to higher turn out in 2008. You question Rasmussen and Scott Ramusen is an independent pollster so …

Glen Bolger’s comments about the population make the poll biased?
 
oldcelt said:
Fox is reporting record turnout in Florida fir early voting. That generally does not bode well for the Republicans. They actually turned people away tonight and the Republican governor refused to extend hours.

John
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In your dreams that this is bad news for the republicans. Why should the governor extend
the hours? The hours are posted for weeks if not months ahead of time and anyone in line
at closing time gets to vote. Those coming after, do not. If everyone followed the laws,
we wouldn’t be in this mess.
As someone who worked the polls for the 2 weeks of early voting, the closing hour is
important because there is a LOT of paperwork that has to be finished so that the county
can get the precinct books ready for the general election.
 
Tampa_Dave said:
*** (EWTN) Ad says Romney vote defends Catholics’ religious liberty***

A new video aims to sway unaffiliated Catholic voters to Mitt Romney by stressing religious liberty as an election issue.

“We must vote to protect our schools, our hospitals, our charities, our faith,” the ad says. “We won’t have social justice unless we defend religious freedom.”

The ad, produced by the CatholicVote.Org Candidate Fund, cites American Catholics’ work in education, health care, and work for the poor. It uses images of immigrants, the Catholic Mass, religious teaching sisters and Catholic hospitals to endorse the Republican Romney-Ryan presidential ticket.

The ad was published on YouTube on Oct. 30. It had over 10,000 views as of Wednesday afternoon.

Every Catholic voter we can persuade to vote for Romney, the better./QUOTE

AMEN to that!
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oldcelt said:
Fox is reporting record turnout in Florida fir early voting. That generally does not bode well for the Republicans. They actually turned people away tonight and the Republican governor refused to extend hours.

John
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chicagotribune.com/news/chi-polls-show-obama-early-vote-lead-in-key-states-20121103,0,666737.story
About 3.9 million people have voted, and 43 percent were Democrats and 40 percent were Republicans. For years ago at this time, Democratic early voters had a 9 percentage point lead over Republicans.
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Obama won Florida’s early vote by 10 percentage points in 2008, getting 400,000 more early votes than McCain, enough to offset McCain’s advantage on Election Day.
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oldcelt said:
Fox is reporting record turnout in Florida fir early voting. That generally does not bode well for the Republicans. They actually turned people away tonight and the Republican governor refused to extend hours.

John
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But, unlike his predecessors, Rep. Jeb Bush and ex-Republican Charlie Crist, the current Gov. Rick Scott, is doing his very best to disenfranchise voters, so let’s give him some credit for preventing a repeat of the 2008 election.
 
meltzerboy said:
But, unlike his predecessors, Rep. Jeb Bush and ex-Republican Charlie Crist, the current Gov. Rick Scott, is doing his very best to disenfranchise voters, so let’s give him some credit for preventing a repeat of the 2008 election.
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Evidence?
 
TexCatholic4JMJ said:
In your dreams that this is bad news for the republicans. Why should the governor extend
the hours? The hours are posted for weeks if not months ahead of time and anyone in line
at closing time gets to vote. Those coming after, do not. If everyone followed the laws,
we wouldn’t be in this mess.
As someone who worked the polls for the 2 weeks of early voting, the closing hour is
important because there is a LOT of paperwork that has to be finished so that the county
can get the precinct books ready for the general election.
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If turnout remains so high that voters cannot be accommodated, you can bet that whoever loses will have a compelling legal case.
Christie today announced today that a variety of methods will be used to ensure that his people get a chance to vote.

John
 
meltzerboy said:
But, unlike his predecessors, Rep. Jeb Bush and ex-Republican Charlie Crist, the current Gov. Rick Scott, is doing his very best to disenfranchise voters, so let’s give him some credit for preventing a repeat of the 2008 election.
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:confused::confused:
 
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