Are you just cut and pasting the same comment in every story about the election? Come on man! If you are going to be a right wing troll, at least put a little effort into it.

Of course the first-term Gov. who lied to get into office....flipped flopped a house of pancakes while he was in office and was asked not to run again...is SSOO MUCH BETTER...lololol.

The people will decide to move forward and VOTE OBAMA...VOTE OBAMA...VOTE OBAMA.

Keith without the President, our nation would have been a whole lot worse off. The republicans want the quick and easy fix but there is no magic wand for the mess they made. We all wish the growth had been faster, and it could have been except for Republican obstructionists. But we see steady progress and that must continue. We can't go backward like the Romney Ryan camp would like. We can't let the Republicans continue to seek war and send our young men and women to be maimed or killed . We can't let the Republicans surpress women's rights to make choices about their bodies. If you have any brains or lacking that any sense of who is really in your best interest, VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN !

At least Quayle knows there are 50 states.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/10/31/zeqa8esy.jpg

Let me dumb it down for you Jack.

Republicans - CLAIM TO BALANCE BUDGET, ACTUALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR LARGEST PART OF DEFICIT.
Romney - BILLIONAIRE BORN INTO WEALTH, WILL CONTINUE SAME POLICIES THAT LEAD TO MASSIVE DEFICITS.

You might lack brains and sense, you might not. I am sure you lack character.

Sorry Nick. Obama added a $900 billion stimulus to the budget, then kept it in there while never passing a budget.

$900 billion out of $1.1 trillion would be like 85%+ of deficit. Obama is responsible for vast majority of deficit.

It's great when Obama supporters of your caliber post on these blogs, Nick. It gives the undecided voters real insight into their wisdom and knowlegeability on such complex issues like the economy, foreign policy, moral obligation, job qualifications, business, etc. Please, by all means, keep posting!

And you keep trolling right along too Jack. You show the average person why the Republican Party has become nothing but a divisive, hateful, propoganda pushing machine. You are a loathsome character. I am glad the majority of Pennsyvanians do not support your ideology.

Belly up to the bar America, your frosty mug of kool-aid awaits. To think that the "one party" republicrats have answers that differ from each another, on anything but some irrelevant details, is dangerous. Not once have the republicrats mentioned the diseases that afflict us today. All that is discussed are symptoms. This obfuscation, accepted by "the majority", has almost reached the tipping point. Big government is precisly why the founders warned us so strongly and often, about the dangerous descent into mob rule. This mob rule, or democracy, has been the painful, bloody, and most frequent precursor to oligarchy throughout history, and remains so today. The word democracy may not be found, not even once, in The Constitution or any State Constitution for good reason. We "were" a Republic, our rule of law "was" The Constitution. All we need to do today to find blatant disregard for our Constitution is to look out the window, yet "the majority" applauds our fall from greatness, ignorant in their appreciation for the principals and the sholders we stand upon. I am proud to say I am not among them. Our Founders had a crystal ball. How could they predict, 235 years ago, our exact fate today?
I pray it is not too late to wrestle back The Constitution from the federal authority who has defecated upon it for over 100 years. When the people awake from their kool-aid slumber, the process may begin.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again" Thomas Paine

Anthony Wayne raises the Constitution. How amusing.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/17/curl-obama-a-domestic-enemy-of-the-us-constitution/?page=all

Obama’s Justice Department has even more flagrantly flouted the laws of the land. Out of the blue, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, reinterpreted America’s gambling laws (and dumped the decision on Christmas Eve so as to avoid scrutiny). More recently, Mr. Holder has decided to thwart congressional oversight by refusing to release documents on the disastrous “Fast and Furious” gun-running scheme, and he is actively fighting Florida for trying to expunge dead people from its voter rolls.
Now comes Mr. Obama’s decision to stop enforcing America’s immigration laws. The new policy states that illegal immigrants who were younger than 16 when they entered the country are eligible for a two-year exemption from deportation. Of course, the “deferred action process,” as Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano called it, will apply to illegals up to age 30. (Think when they legally get their driver’s licenses they will also be handed a voter registration card?)

“What’s ironic,” columnist Charles Krauthammer noted, “is for eight years, the Democrats have been screaming about the imperial presidency with the Bush administration — the nonsense about the unitary executive. This is out-and-out lawlessness.”

Let's not forget that Bob Casey and Obama voted for the budgets and the deficits and the spending. Tough to claim otherwise. Look it up. Fact!

Here's a taste - is 2010 higher than 2009???? Who built that?? 60% jump in welfare spending. Bob Casey voted yes and Obama signed it.

• 2009 spending: $1.89 trillion
o $644 billion – Social Security
o $360 billion – Unemployment/Welfare/Other mandatory spending
o $408 billion – Medicare
o $224 billion – Medicaid
o $260 billion – Interest on National Debt

• 2010 spending: $2.173 trillion (+14.9%)
o $695 billion (+4.9%) – Social Security
o $571 billion (+58.6%) – Unemployment/Welfare/Other mandatory spending
o $453 billion (+6.6%) – Medicare
o $290 billion (+12.0%) – Medicaid
o $164 billion (+18.0%) – Interest on National Debt

Jack Off, Again you are delusional, intoxicated on kool-aid. What is not amusing is the one party system which generations of trusting American voters have now allowed to hijack our process. The People are along for the ride. If romney and his band are so concerned about further rape of The Constitution where are their voices? Where is their outrage? If elected, lets count the executive orders romney signs. Count the NATO approvals for murder he seeks, ignoring congress. You, and your bands of "one party brown shirts" are indistinguishable from one another. The silence on both sides is the sound of collusion as the sheep are led to oligarchy. Your position in that line is so far back that you will not be spared either. Wake up, it's almost time for bullion and ammunition.

Yes Anthony, Romney the Mormon is seeking world domination. If I were him I'd start with Canada.

Your emotional rants and uncivil behavior puts you square in the middle of Camp Obama, Mr. Wayne. You're not the lunatic fringe. You're REPRESENTIN'

Please, continue to post.

Jack, not romney, both. They are puppets. Control of oil and money are world domination. Both The British and Romans tried and failed. How else would you explain the foreign policy that exist in the US? Certainly not to keep us safe. NDAA is one of the last pieces. The writing is on the wall.

Can you name an instance when Republicans have presented a plan for a balanced budget amendment that did NOT have exceptions and loopholes? All of the ones I've seen can be waived by a 2/3 congressional vote. If Republicans are confident that a BBA will work, then why all the escape clauses?

There are two proposals floating around Congress, one authored by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and another by Utah Republican Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee. While the two bills are slightly different, they would:

Require 3/5 (House version) or 2/3 (Senate version) majority votes in Congress for spending to exceed revenue in a given year

Llimit total spending to 18 percent of GDP, unless 2/3 majorities vote otherwise

Require a 3/5 vote to increase the debt limit

Bar courts from raising taxes to satisfy the above provisions (only included in Senate version)

Allow requirements to be waived during a declared war

74 percent of Americans supporting a Balanced Budget Amendment. Democrats choose not even to discuss it. Neither of the two initial proposals address loopholes.

Democrats won't let it get to that point.

OK Arthur I looked it up: http://www.speaker.gov/general/what-do-dems-have-against-balanced-budget-amendment

You're lying.

No one supported Obama's budget! Actually the most recent Obama budget was rejected by the Senate 99-0, with all Democrats in attendance rejecting it along with the Rpeublicans.

Arthur, how did the Democrats pass Obamacare and the Stimulus then? Stop lying will ya!!

Tax cuts cannot create deficits. Spending creates deficits.

But since you brought up the tax cuts, Casey and the Democrats voted to extend them - you know the ones you and they attack - in 2010 and add a whole bunch more....they are the Obama Tax cuts now. So according to your faulty math, Obama's tax cuts are why we have the deficits......we can just ignore the $1 trillion in welfare spending for now.

Nice try to distort the facts with fake talking points.

Richard, Minster is the Republican committee chairman in Trappe which explains his positions, his assumptions, and his insults.

Richard, it's hard to screw up being flown to ravaged areas for a photo op and then sign off on federal aid...
Of course, it should have been easy for Obama to tell the truth on Benghazi, and he's totally butchered that effort... And it's that event, along with our decimated ecnomy, that's going to drive voters to the polls and choose Romney... Count on it...

Oh KAY,,,,DICK , I NOW sEE WHAT YOUR PROBLEM IS ... yOUR A POOR Demo , who looks like a fool for supporting Obamama now that he has show he dont know what the heck he doing ..KINDA OF LIKE YOU DOT KNOW WHAT THE HECK YOUR TALKING ABOUT ..... OK DICK ...... HEAD . .. ON OUT THE DOOR WITH YOUR OBAMAMA .. Wanna bet ,, what you gonna bet ,, your food stamps .. Yes i see why you want Obamama to win , to keep living free ...

Obama signed sequestration into law, and outright lied during the debate... It had Axlerod doing backflips in the spin room afterwards... As for Romney and FEMA, his proposals are about getting aid to the states a lot quicker, and that saves lives... That should always be the bottom line... To think that there is only one way to do something is very narrow minded... He never said federal aid would be abolished...

http://www.speaker.gov/general/what-do-dems-have-against-balanced-budget-amendment

Mr. Post, if what you say is true, then why do Congressional Dems and Obama voraciously and incessantly block Boehner-led efforts to get to a balanced Federal budget?

The Obama-Biden tax plan hikes the small biz tax rate from 35% now (world's second highest rate) to over 40% next year. Obama says “only” 3% of small biz owners will be affected by his tax rate hike. A huge lie. This is a tax increase on 1 million successful small biz (i.e. 3% of the 30 million small biz tax returns filed annually).

The Obama-Biden plan will raise taxes on a majority of small biz profits and hit those companies which employ the majority of Americans. Here’s how:

Unlike corporations, biz profits flow through to owners. Owner pays taxes on her small biz by adding profits to her income tax form. Therefore, personal income taxes are the same thing as small biz taxes.

The Obama-Biden plan to hike the top two marginal income tax rates (from 33 and 35% today to 36 and 39.6%, respectively) is a hike in America’s small biz tax rate. This does not include Obamacare’s 3.8 percent small biz surtax.

Per the IRS, most small biz profits face taxation in households making more than $200K per year. IRS tracks 2 types of small biz income: sole proprietors, and “pass-through” entities like partnerships and S-corps. There are 30 million tax returns reporting small biz income. Owners report business profits of $590 billion. $477 billion faced taxation in households making more than $200K a year.

Why is unemployment so high under Obama compared to past recoveries?

Because small biz owners, the ones who create the new jobs, remain on strike.

But only one Party, in Congress and the White House, continues to rabidly block any work towards a Balanced Budget Amendment: http://www.speaker.gov/general/what-do-dems-have-against-balanced-budget-amendment

Jack, Bill Clinton proved that you don't need a "stop me before I spend again" Balanced Budget Amendment to, you know, balance the budget and even run a surplus. He did it four years in a row - then Bush/Cheney took over and looted and pillaged this country for eight years. And now you want us to go back to that.

Thanks, but no thanks.

Bruce you show up and play the blame game with no facts. I didn't realize our constitution allowed Bill Clinton or George Bush or oBama to spend moneyall by themselves. I wonder how much a Republican congress in 94 helped keep Clinton in line as did a booming economy before the dot com bust. For the record, Bush's deficits over 8 years do not equal Obama's over the past 4 and before you get your panties in a bunch, both Democrats and Republicans in Congress did this. That's right Obama, Casey, Biden, Specter all voted for these budgets. They made it happen. If annual spending is $1 trillion more now than revenues right now, how do you pin this on Bush?

Have you even looked at the budget and how the money is spent?

From 2009 to 2010, there was an increase in Welfare spending of $283 Billion.

Did Bush/Cheney do that from retirement or did Casey and Obama do that?

Try to come better prepared next time and they say women are the emotional ones. ;)

Mr. Bailey, dig deeper. Even Clinton admits he was wrong.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-bill-clintons-balanced-budget-destroyed-the-economy-2012-9

http://www.forbes.com/sites/karlwhelan/2012/09/05/did-bill-clintons-budgets-really-destroy-the-american-economy/

http://www.craigsteiner.us/articles/16

20 Trillion in debt, Obama's plan? Making the poor poorer, and more of them? Increasing government dependence?

No thanks, and no thanks.

Have you looked at the budget?

$3.6 T spent like this
$700 B defense
$610 B government
$800 B Social security
$740 B medicare and medicaid
$630 B welfare
$220 B interest

Should we just fire all the men and women in the military and defense sectors and add to the unemployment? Get real

How about Medicare, SS and welfare spending equal $2.2 trillion by themselves

in 2017 this total will grow to $3.4 trillion a 50% increase. Check it out yourself

Who thinks we should let government spending increase 50% from todays trillion dollar shortfall level?

BTW - decaying infrastructure has been a promise to get fixed for decades....why are we still waiting? Like my new friend Mr. IV said, don't trust politicians especially those in office like Obama and Casey.

Exactly. Is it your contention romney will return to the constitution for guidance before starting another war? Will he seek congressional approval? Will he not sign executive orders and go to NATO? He said in the debates he would "call his lawyer". Is that your idea of a return to the constitution? He has obviously not read it. Both parties are the problem, not the solution.

Smedley (love it) I would say having annual deficits of 1 trillion a year means it is already here. How many times can Obama talk about investing in roads, bridges, etc.....what the hell have you been doing for 4 years? Where did the trillions go if the roads and bridges are not fixed. Stop lying to us like some food commercial. We have brains and we see through it.

Look Romney is no Saint but unlike Obama who was there voting for these budgets and spending and debt while claiming he wasn't. We have to make a choice. The fraud we gave a shot to who has failed miserably or to the other person who at least has done something in life like it or not and succeeded. Obama was never qualified to be President. we just didn't like Mccain and wanted a change. Unfortunately, we were sold a clunker. Maybe we need a lemon law for bad politicians!! :)

Very confusing post (I guess we are supposed to forget the
Bush adm.) with no citations- get some sleep.

Obama lied, Americans died.

Benghazi, Fast and Furious...

Don't get your hopes up. Expecting victory and actually achieving it are two different things.

Updated election forecasting model still points to Romney win, University of Colorado study says

The state-by-state economic data used in their model have been available since 1980. When these data were applied retroactively to each election year, the model correctly classifies all presidential election winners, including the two years when independent candidates ran strongly: 1980 and 1992. It also correctly estimates the outcome in 2000, when Al Gore won the popular vote but George W. Bush won the election through the Electoral College.

http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2012/10/04/updated-election-forecasting-model-still-points-romney-win-university

Yeah a website of paid actors telling us "why they changed their vote" funded by the right wing Super PAC "Ending Spending Action Fund" and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee is a great source. Sigh....

Man, you people are dumb.....

You are a funny man, Richard. You should join Bill Maher.

I know plenty of "real life" people that have switched to Romney. They also happen to be African American.

You hero has lost his shine.

Yea , Dick is a funny man ,, Thats what is screwed up with him , he allways high like nutso Maher ... Hey Dick...... ..Head , your a head , pot head ,,, its not legal here in Scodaville..

Wow. Just wow. Calling Romney a liar?

Do you actually pay attention to anything that Obama, Biden, Clinton, and Holder say?

Obamacare with all of its hidden taxes.
Fast and Furious
Benghazi and that evil video
The great bailout of GM (Soon to be China Motors. Just listen to Obama's hand picked chairman of GM speaking in China)
The "Stimulus"
Green Energy (All those tax dollars wasted on failed companies run by Obama cronies)

http://liberallogic101.com/

All politicians are liars, not just republicans, not just democrats...they all just want your vote and will say anything to get it.

Karen, just asking - did you hold George Bush to this same standard in 2004?

Bruce, of course she doesn't. The security briefing for President Bush on Aug 6, 2001 was only titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike Within US"

Lol really? When Clinton was in office how was your living? When Bush got voted in, how was your living? That's what I thought and you as well as the others who want to sit and act like you was living the "good" life 4 years ago take your head out your ass.

Jack Minster is wrong, but so are you... everyone is entitled to their opinion, even if it's a load of hooey (as Jack's obviously is)...

your post smacks of the slimy tactics we're seeing being used by Republicans, such as the "Dreams of My Father" DVD and advertising that's intended to confuse and/or scare people into not voting... suppression of others' ideas is NOT the way to win an argument or an election...

i'm going to flag this post as inappropriate...

Having debt isn't the same as spending more than you take in. Debt is not a bad thing if you pay it back or own something at the end like the car or house or even college degree. The national debt has increased by $7 trillion under Obama. Nothing is being paid back. It's an interest only scam like all of those mortgages that went belly up.

The majority of the spending isn't even on things that we would own (do Obama phones count?) such as food stamps. Think about this. The government borrows money from China to give out food stamps.

A budget deficit means more was spent than received. A budget deficit or surplus would then either add to or subtract from the debt.

in 2001 spending was $1.9 Trillion and today it is $3.8 trillion.

As long as what you take in pays for the debt, it works. This is not what the federal government does. They borrow money to pay the interest on the borrowed money.

Borrowing money to pay for day to day expenses is the textbook definition of being insolvent. If you are doing this, you will not survive for very long.

@Marybeth: I find your numbers interesting, and misleading.
you said "in 2001 spending was $1.9 Trillion and today it is $3.8 trillion. " I did some digging and found this
" In the 2009 fiscal year — the last of George W. Bush’s presidency — federal spending rose by 17.9% from $2.98 trillion to $3.52 trillion." Thats from the wall street journal. (http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-05-22/commentary/31802270_1_spending-federal-budget-drunken-sailor) Why are you lying?
you also said "The majority of the spending isn't even on things that we would own (do Obama phones count?) such as food stamps." The money we borrowed from China paid for the increased military spending due to the 2 wars we are/were in. The Obama phones is the biggest lie of all. The phones you are talking about is from the "Telecommunications Act of 1996", which is not funded from taxpayer money, its funded by the telecommunication companies. They just turn around and add an extra fee to your bill for it.
You are just like your candidate, just making up stuff to get elected.

I'm having trouble finding such a poll on Politico.com. There's a very high lead, as you describe, among RURAL voters, but I see no evidence of what you're suggesting in suburban regions.

http://images.politico.com/global/2012/10/politico_gwbgp_oct29_weighted_tables.html

You have facts about Romney?? How? The man never gives a straight answer. He has more positions than the Kama Sutra. All you have is a bunch of empty promises, just like Obama and the rest of them.