Obama is beating Obama by six points in Florida and Ohio and a whopping 11 points in Pennsylvania, the Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News poll found: (51-45%, Fla.; 50-44%, Ohio; and 53-42%, Pa.).
While the president carried all three states in 2008, Joe Scarborough expressed surprise that Romney was performing poorly in Florida in particular.
"The president’s doing very well in one swing state after another," Scarborough said during Morning Joe Wednesday. "Here is Florida, which is such a Republican state…it is so conservative—it has one of the most conservative governors in America, and yet, the presumptive Republican nominee losing by six points in Florida and things aren’t much better in Ohio. This has got to be troubling on the first day in August for the Romney team."
MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, who also appeared on Morning Joe, echoed what others have said in recent weeks: Despite complaints about yet another negative ad campaign season, "the way the Obama campaign has just hammered Romney" with negative ads was making an impact.
Also boosting Obama in the polls is Romney's own "stiff" and "awkward" manner, Scarborough added, not to mention his "inability to get out of the way of a punch that everybody else sees" coming.
"As a politician, Mitt Romney is inept," Scarborough surmised.
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I'm beginning to wonder: "Is Mitt for real?"
The American people understands very well the situation: Romney is a businessman, (a successful one according to his fans). But America is not a for-profit entreprise. The American people could have chosen Romney if they had money to invest, if they were not totally broke because of the failed Bush policies. It wouldn't matter wether the profit comes out of the back of the poorest ones of the nation. Only profits would have matter. America is a nation and policies, either social or economic, should take into account the rich as well as the poor.
America understands that, under a Romney presidency, the American society would comprise only two classes: the upper, upper, super rich 1% on top of the scale and the 99% of the poor at the bottom of the scale. And nothing, in the middle. The American middle-class would cease to exist and Women would return to the infamous time when they were allowed just to work on a factory line.
America understands that if the Republicans have not decided from the very same afternoon Obama took the oath to office, to counter WHATEVER he proposes to move the economy forward, we would have been better positioned now. Even measures the Reps used to back up before were opposed to just because Obama was proposing them. The Republican party has sacrified the fraile and difficult recovery just for the sole purpose of "making President Obama a one-term president" . What other proof of treason do we want to convince us that these people are in the pocket of big money and cannot care less about the american people?
They are stubborn, they are vicious, they are bold, they are disingenuous, and they are big liars. Just look at the way they pictured the ACA as the most evil thing in the planet. Though, Romney passed the same when he was governor. Though, the countries he just visited and of which he praised the health care system ARE in fact "socialized" healthcare. And they are successful.
Definitely, Romney and the Republican are NOT good for the country at large and for the middle class in particular. A second term for Obama will allow for a more centered and middle-class oriented policies, since the Republican will not have anymore their most prominent reason to bankrupt the country: (they won't be looking anymore to deny Obama a second term).
OBAMA-BIDEN 2012 !!!
Joe,
I wouldn't call Texas tea baggers "conservatives." Tea baggers, in the whole, believe in "reactionary" politics.
Toloto,
In general I agree with all your comments, but I would point out that our current financial situation is not solely the Bush policies fault, although I believe a large part of it is.
In all our bickering back and forth during this election, many of us have lost sight that many of our fiscal problems today are the result of a financial bubble/meltdown that was made possible by the actions of many administrations and members of both parties who have systematically deregulated our financial banking system over the past few decades.
This get strangely little air time and both parties have been complicit in its origin and none have come up with concrete steps/programs to rectify the problems that caused it and that are still in effect today. Barney/Frank is not considered sufficient to stop the problems and until we rigorously break up capital/investment banks back into separate entities (from an asset and securities perspective) and break them into smaller "not too big to fail" institutions, we will continue to be robbed blind by those running them.
Seeing as neither party is addressing this basic issue, leads me to believe they are both involved and have no interest in protecting the rest of this nation. Money may not be the root of all evil... but it is clearly #1 and we have to remove it from elections, and we need to reign in the "deregulation" of the past decade +.
Morning Joe Panel,
When the stimulus was enacted, economists said that it wasn't enough. Now, conservatives are surprised that the economy is stalled and they are steadily laying off state and local employees. We are not STOOPID. A larger initial stimulus would have enabled stated and local governments to retain employees thus LOWERING THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE.
Conservatives cannot show a point at ANY TIME IN HISTORY, where their "lower the deficit in time of recession" theory ACTUALLY WORKED. Yet they continually ask the American people to vote for them in an ACT OF FAITH. Today's conservative have contorted Milton Friedman's economic theories to the point where they will not work in a depressed economy, which was CREATED BY THE VERY THEORIES THEY NOW SAY WILL RESTORE PROSPERITY.
I wish conservatives would put their considerable intellectual powers to work on economic policy that will ACTUALLY BENEFIT THE ECONOMY.
Too bad that their "intellectual powers" are in a state of rigamortis (on purpous, you know, do-nothing-on-purpous-because-we-want-to-make-this-President-a-one-term-President and the people and the country be damned is winning out. Last night (7/31/12) they were Still insisting on voting on repealing the health care bill and in the House they were pushing abortion bill's AGAIN.
Lets win this one for the gipper (it wasnt wasnt reagan)
Obama biden 2012