I agree, this one is absolutely AWESOME. It can reach a lot of independents. Seniors too. Mr. Glenn exudes gravitas and honesty. ANd don’t you love it when he says, talking about Pres. Obama, “he MEANS what he says” ?!!! We all know it’s meant to allude to Romney’s flip-flopping ha ha… The clips of President Obama are great too: an active, serious and warm president who’s rebuilding America. The “president of the people” !
A couple of beautiful positive ads in the same day. Yessssssss !
In a race that may come down to turnout: 25% say they've been contacted by Obama's campaign, 21% by Romney's: abcn.ws/WlOPQq#ABCWP— Langer Research (@LangerResearch) October 15, 2012
Campaign press secy Jen Psaki says Pres Obama will be "firm but respectful" in debate tomorrow & ready to correct Romney distortions.— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 15, 2012
Hi everyone, wondering if anyone can help with this?
An occasional poster here got in touch to say a friend’s son has recently been posted to Afghanistan and because he collects postcards his girlfriend had the idea of trying to get one sent to him from every state. She’s about 10 short of her goal – these are the missing states:
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Utah
Wyoming
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Delaware
Connecticut
Rhode Island
If anyone from one of those states would like to send him a card, just email me and I’ll put you in touch with the person who contacted me.
Thank you!
Update – we have a Washington postcard sender, so we’re down to nine states!
You’re the best CT! You can email me at theobamadiary@gmail.com – I’ve just double-checked with the woman who contacted me to see if it’s okay to pass on her email address, will send it to you when I hear back from her. Thanks again!
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 10/15/12 10:21 AM EDT
From this morning’s Latino Decisions polling update:
ImpreMedia & Latino Decisions released the latest in a series of tracking polls today revealing support for President Obama slipped from 72% last week to 67% this week, suggesting that his debate performance also led some Latino voters to re-evaluate the President. Those who said they are certain to vote for Romney increased slightly from 20% last week to 23% this week. When asked how important the presidential debates are, 76% of all Latinos said a candidate’s performance in the presidential debate was important in how they evaluated a candidate. …
When asked if they thought Democrats were doing a good job of reaching out to Hispanics, 53% said yes compared to 65% a week ago, again suggesting the President’s debate performance impacted support for the Party as well. However, there have been no signs of improvement in perceptions of the Republican Party with 17% saying the GOP was doing a good job of outreach to Hispanics.
Obama’s smaller, post-debate lead is still 8 points larger than his victory margin with Latinos in 2008, when he bested John McCain, 67 percent to 31 percent. That 8 percent comes out of the Republican side of the poll -
So PBO dropped by 5pts, 3 of which went to Willard. So it’s likely that he will get back at least the 2% who didn’t go to Willard, bringing him to 69% and giving him a victory margin that is 10 pts higher than his 2008 margin.
I don’t understand voters who base their opinion on one debate. Where have they been the last four years? Have they not witnessed what PBO has done and the shitload he was handed? How can they even prefer a dishonest, coreless person like Romney? I’ll never understand how people’s minds work!
Hard to tell. People closest to we’re pretty subdued. But my
Obama Biden bumper sticker got me a few winks and smiles when parked close to where the line ended
Good turnout in drizzle – 45 min to work my way inside but from there it was a breeze bcc they handed out ID verification forms to complete while in line outside.
Evenly mixed crowed by race, age, and gender.
Line much longer since I finished.
I read somewhere that the order of the names randomly vary across ballots within a given state. So different voters see different names listed first, last, etc. This is to avoid creating an “order” effect bias.
Crikey, that’s just crazy. I’d like to think it wouldn’t make a difference on the Presidential ballots …. you’d want to be a right dipstick to just vote for whoever’s listed first …. but still, mad stuff.
Well Yardarm, you’ll have to apply for the postion in a formal way, I don’t want to be accused of favoritism when I rule the world – but yes, the jobs is yours!
Seriously since he was the first to apply formally, I don’t mind YardArm having all the jobs, if I can sit at your feet, O Ruleress, and watch him work. I am a supervisory category watcher. Yes I am.
Here is an NPR discussion of this very issue – discussion between the NPR interviewer and a University professor on rotation of names to decrease bias.
// Prof. KROSNICK: There is a remedy and as it turns out, Ohio is the wonderful illustration I think of optimal fairness and accountability. As I said, in Ohio name is order is rotated from precinct to precinct. Now, it’s a pain for the elections officials who have to be very careful about how to implement this every year and make sure they do it fairly. But overwhelmingly often they do do it fairly.
And what’s nice about it is every candidate gets an equal opportunity to be listed first, and anyone who wants to inspect it can always look at the ballots on Election Day to be sure each precinct’s ballots are as they should be according to the law. //
This has to be the most over-polled election in history, so much so, the polls have become the “news”. In the meantime everyone is ignoring Romney’s lies, and his Bain money from China. You should not pay attention to any of the polls, because of the over-saturation of polls, they are useless at this point.
'Romney: The Great Deformer. Is he really a job creator? Ronald Reagan’s budget director takes a scalpel to the claims' thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/…— The Obama Diary (@TheObamaDiary) October 15, 2012
Good day ya’ll. When a man has all of the money he’ll ever need and there isn’t anything you could give him as a present, what could he want? Why King of course.
As our president said earlier this year, sending the GOP/MSM into convulsions: “The Private Sector is doing fine.” And unlike some persons in the Republican party and in the media, our President’s statements are always borne out by FACTS.
Good Morning TOD Family! I early voted this morning with my daughter, husband, sister-in-law and mother-in-law. We arrived @ 7:55am. There was approximately 15-20 people ahead of us. It was a very diverse crowd which was nice to see. We left the polling precinct @ 8:30am. The poll workers were majority AAs. My family and I are extremely happy we voted to re-elect President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden! #FORWARD
FLORIDA has same day absentee balloting. You can go to your local election office, and pick up an absentee ballot and vote the same day.— Nancy Mitchell (@NancyWonderful) October 15, 2012
Wonder if #Mitt's Chinese Communist buddies are as worried for his Mental Stability if elected, as Ann is. #Romney4China#Sensata— Bobfr (@Our4thEstate) October 15, 2012
Dear TODobots, I’m waaaay over my head with retweet thanks so I’m opting for a short cut. My thanks are no less sincere for being all addressed together in this tweet. In fact I feel very fortunate to have had so many retweets this past weekend that I can’t answer in my usual way. Thank you, and your contacts, for the feeling that we are working as a team.
Dear @SenatorReid Given #Mitt's extensive profiteering in Communist China & tax avoidance, please inform us if he received IRS Amnesty.— Bobfr (@Our4thEstate) October 15, 2012
Colbert always exposes truths, lies, hypocrisy and nonsense that our not so illustrious news media personnel (no longer journalists) ignore or miss. He was brilliant here once again.
THE MAJESTIC VOICE OF MORGAN FREEMAN IN OFA CAMPAIGN AD: “CHALLENGES”
“Every president inherits challenges, few have faced so many. Four years later our enemies have been brought to justice. Our heroes are coming home. Assembly lines are humming again—there are still challenges to meet, children to educate, a middle class to rebuild but the last thing we should do is turn back now.”
Sailor – a little mental hygiene advice – never, ever watch Ms Greenspan or any of her ilk, on any device. And, your electronic devices will also remain functional from not being blown away
My husband does the same thing and he starts screaming at the tee vee from early in the morning. Hey, I want to know what they’re saying too but there has to be a line between information and your sanity.
I have another question: PBO faced Hannity and O’Reilly and doesn’t make people at his rallies sign loyalty pledges. The proof that Mitt doesn’t care about the 47% is that he won’t talk to LOD or Rachel or Thom Hartmann…….. Some brave leader he is. What a fucking fraud.
As of 2013, the deficit will have been reduced by $300 billion from Bush’s final deficit of $1.2 triilion — $500 billion if you include the full 2009 $1.4 trillion deficit.
Report that, Tom Brokaw, if, in fact, you have any balls and aren’t caving to the nonsensical agitprop of the far-right “liberal media” horseshit. Report the truth for once. Just because the president hasn’t eliminated the deficit from the clusterfuck that Bush handed to him doesn’t mean he needs to “account for it.” Jesus H. Christ.
I was the 5th peron in line at the Dekalb County Tax Assessor’s office on Memorial Drive. Go OBAMA/BIDEN 2012. There has been a study stream of people coming in, especially young Black men. The pundits are writing them off, we will prove them wrong.
Nothing would make me happier than to see ALL the rw-leaning alleged ‘likely’ voter models blown out of the water. If our side voted consistently in the numbers that Republicans vote, we’d never have gotten in this mess. I don’t understand it. We let a small sliver of Americans choose the direction of the country. Outrageous.
Andrea Mitchell asks if President Obama is "a little rusty." WH spokeswoman resists urge to ask if Mitchell is feeling "a little yeasty."— Ryan Adams (@filmystic) October 15, 2012
Only thing 'blind' about #BainMitt's trust are #tcot fools watching him redistribute #Sensata wealth into China & his offshore bank accounts— Bobfr (@Our4thEstate) October 15, 2012
Thanks to all of the early voters today. And look at our beautiful FLOTUS being a great example. Love our POTUS, FLOTUS, VPOTUS and Dr. Jill Biden. We are so blessed.HZ
Vote early in ga today
TY!
Hello Amk!
This is a great ad. John Glenn is revered in Ohio and his words will resonate with the voters there. I’m so glad he did this ad.
Remember everyone, O-H-I-O is our firewall. We win there and its ovahhhh for Romney on election night.
Hi donna. Yes, that was a classy ad (which the thugs never seem to produce) and I am glad that is playing in one of the most crucial states.
I agree, this one is absolutely AWESOME. It can reach a lot of independents. Seniors too. Mr. Glenn exudes gravitas and honesty. ANd don’t you love it when he says, talking about Pres. Obama, “he MEANS what he says” ?!!! We all know it’s meant to allude to Romney’s flip-flopping ha ha… The clips of President Obama are great too: an active, serious and warm president who’s rebuilding America. The “president of the people” !
A couple of beautiful positive ads in the same day. Yessssssss !
Thank you John Glenn! Thank you!
Great to see you Joan, hope you’re doing well.
Hahahahahaha. “firm but respectful.”
Just bringing this over from the last thread –
Hi everyone, wondering if anyone can help with this?
An occasional poster here got in touch to say a friend’s son has recently been posted to Afghanistan and because he collects postcards his girlfriend had the idea of trying to get one sent to him from every state. She’s about 10 short of her goal – these are the missing states:
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Utah
Wyoming
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Delaware
Connecticut
Rhode Island
If anyone from one of those states would like to send him a card, just email me and I’ll put you in touch with the person who contacted me.
Thank you!
Update – we have a Washington postcard sender, so we’re down to nine states!
Count me in! Here is my silly question of the day
your email address?
You’re the best CT! You can email me at theobamadiary@gmail.com – I’ve just double-checked with the woman who contacted me to see if it’s okay to pass on her email address, will send it to you when I hear back from her. Thanks again!
Thanks Chips!
See below Chips — I’ll chuck in Utah. Melanie will get one for me today.
This is awesome!!!
Maybe someone could find a postcard from the State of DENIAL where the TEAGOP Cult live.
Got it, Tally!
It’s called Utah!
My daughter will get one today.
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 10/15/12 10:21 AM EDT
From this morning’s Latino Decisions polling update:
ImpreMedia & Latino Decisions released the latest in a series of tracking polls today revealing support for President Obama slipped from 72% last week to 67% this week, suggesting that his debate performance also led some Latino voters to re-evaluate the President. Those who said they are certain to vote for Romney increased slightly from 20% last week to 23% this week. When asked how important the presidential debates are, 76% of all Latinos said a candidate’s performance in the presidential debate was important in how they evaluated a candidate. …
When asked if they thought Democrats were doing a good job of reaching out to Hispanics, 53% said yes compared to 65% a week ago, again suggesting the President’s debate performance impacted support for the Party as well. However, there have been no signs of improvement in perceptions of the Republican Party with 17% saying the GOP was doing a good job of outreach to Hispanics.
Obama’s smaller, post-debate lead is still 8 points larger than his victory margin with Latinos in 2008, when he bested John McCain, 67 percent to 31 percent. That 8 percent comes out of the Republican side of the poll -
So PBO dropped by 5pts, 3 of which went to Willard. So it’s likely that he will get back at least the 2% who didn’t go to Willard, bringing him to 69% and giving him a victory margin that is 10 pts higher than his 2008 margin.
What’s more, they say it’s bad news for Obama.
Arithmetic!
I could have gone all day without seeing this. Dang!
Me too. We don’t gopolitico shite here anymore jovie. Not this close to the election.
And No, we don’t need to know ‘what the other side is thinking and doing’. That whole article was pure bs.
I don’t understand voters who base their opinion on one debate. Where have they been the last four years? Have they not witnessed what PBO has done and the shitload he was handed? How can they even prefer a dishonest, coreless person like Romney? I’ll never understand how people’s minds work!
Loooooooooove it!!!!!
Is this the first TOD vote for PBO for this election cycle?
If so, a special treat for dudette is in order ?
Works for me
Sure it works for you!
{{{Dudette}}} <– that's for the vote! 
Way to go Dudette!!!!
#FORWARD
Thanks Bob!
Go gal. How was the turn-out ? Any indication of party id of those with you in the line?
Hard to tell. People closest to we’re pretty subdued. But my
Obama Biden bumper sticker got me a few winks and smiles when parked close to where the line ended
Good turnout in drizzle – 45 min to work my way inside but from there it was a breeze bcc they handed out ID verification forms to complete while in line outside.
Evenly mixed crowed by race, age, and gender.
Line much longer since I finished.
Nice to know there was a good turnout and the voter mix was varied.
Congrats on your vote.
Thanks!
Congratulations Dudette!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Donna
Now that’s the most heart-warming pic I’ve seen on Twitter all day! Thanks dudette:)
Congrats again! Rock that (early) Vote!
Yay! Thnx PJ!
Beautiful, Dudette9t9! Thanks for sharing.HZ
Ummm why is Romney listed first on the ballot?
Good question. The fucker does not even make it alphabetically. Isn’t there a code or something to print the ballot ?
I’ve seen that on a lot of ballots now CK, and I’ve yet to read an explanation for it. Anyone?
I read somewhere that the order of the names randomly vary across ballots within a given state. So different voters see different names listed first, last, etc. This is to avoid creating an “order” effect bias.
I dunno but here in Cook County IL, Obama is #1 on the ballot. Cook County(Chicago) is a Democratic stronghold.
Thanks Yardarm. I’m completely puzzled by it, surely all ballots should be done alphabetically, so how can Mitt Romney ever be before Barack Obama??
It depends on which party has control in the state or county for overseeing election ballots and results(counting).
Crikey, that’s just crazy. I’d like to think it wouldn’t make a difference on the Presidential ballots …. you’d want to be a right dipstick to just vote for whoever’s listed first …. but still, mad stuff.
Sorry but it is what it is.
Yep. When I rule the world all these things will change, promise.
Can I be the Sargent-at-Arms?
Attention on deck! All hands man the the rail! Hand salute!
Ah, you’re shipshape Yardarm! Should we hire anyone else, or will we just rule the world ourselves?
We can’t forget the loyal TODers.
Seriously since he was the first to apply formally, I don’t mind YardArm having all the jobs, if I can sit at your feet, O Ruleress, and watch him work. I am a supervisory category watcher. Yes I am.
Here is an NPR discussion of this very issue – discussion between the NPR interviewer and a University professor on rotation of names to decrease bias.
// Prof. KROSNICK: There is a remedy and as it turns out, Ohio is the wonderful illustration I think of optimal fairness and accountability. As I said, in Ohio name is order is rotated from precinct to precinct. Now, it’s a pain for the elections officials who have to be very careful about how to implement this every year and make sure they do it fairly. But overwhelmingly often they do do it fairly.
And what’s nice about it is every candidate gets an equal opportunity to be listed first, and anyone who wants to inspect it can always look at the ballots on Election Day to be sure each precinct’s ballots are as they should be according to the law. //
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6471912
How did I not know you were a Chicagoan? (or at least in the neighborhood).
Cook County born and raised.- Southside of Chicago baby.
Well I’m a Northsider but I love ya anyway! (Husband is from the southside).
Love ya back.
I thought it had to do when campaign files papers with election office but it’s worth checking out. Will let you know what I find out.
That’s tight!
Please do not flog ARG polls! They have no credibility or accuracy. Electoral-Vote.com refuses to even list them because they are so bad.
+1. We do not need any more rw bs spin/polls/linkys here.
I want to second and third that.
I fourth and fifth and sixth that .
This has to be the most over-polled election in history, so much so, the polls have become the “news”. In the meantime everyone is ignoring Romney’s lies, and his Bain money from China. You should not pay attention to any of the polls, because of the over-saturation of polls, they are useless at this point.
This is from ARG. They’re crap. They’re a well known GOP organization with no credibility and no accuracy. Their methodology is beyond laughable.
Good day ya’ll. When a man has all of the money he’ll ever need and there isn’t anything you could give him as a present, what could he want? Why King of course.
That sure describes Mittens.
I vote in Augusta, Georgia today. Can’t wait.
Make you hydrate first. That post-voting euphoria could make you feel a little woozy!
That was supposed to be “Make sure you hydrate…”
LOL. Perfect.
As our president said earlier this year, sending the GOP/MSM into convulsions: “The Private Sector is doing fine.” And unlike some persons in the Republican party and in the media, our President’s statements are always borne out by FACTS.
As usual, Pres. Obama was right. The private sector is indeed doing fine.
Good Morning TOD Family! I early voted this morning with my daughter, husband, sister-in-law and mother-in-law. We arrived @ 7:55am. There was approximately 15-20 people ahead of us. It was a very diverse crowd which was nice to see. We left the polling precinct @ 8:30am. The poll workers were majority AAs. My family and I are extremely happy we voted to re-elect President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden! #FORWARD
Well done and congrats, Allison and family. Nice to know that PBO is banking the these early votes.
Sorry…Left out location….voted in Gwinnett County, Georgia
Hey Allison I missed you by a couple of hrs!
Super Allison. Thanks to you and your family!
Yay!
Congrats and thanks GA voters Dudette, Alison and Eve.
With those happy votes and notes, gunnite folks.
Nite amk, see you later.
G’nite amk. sleep tite. Don’t let Candy Crowley bite.
Nitey nite, amk!
Dear TODobots, I’m waaaay over my head with retweet thanks so I’m opting for a short cut. My thanks are no less sincere for being all addressed together in this tweet. In fact I feel very fortunate to have had so many retweets this past weekend that I can’t answer in my usual way. Thank you, and your contacts, for the feeling that we are working as a team.
Aw VC, that’s sweet!
Well done, vc!
RT’d!!
#Sensata
#FORWARD
TY, Bobfr. It’s good to be able to do something, even if it’s a small something.
Excellent ad by Jay-Z
Love it Donna, thank you!
This is beyond brilliant. OFA makes the best ads. They’re real and speak to everyone.
Ok, Chips, your play husband Wayne Rooney really has some, um, issues: A San Marino player asked for Wayne Rooney’s shorts and Rooney obliged.
I don’t even have words for that. Who’s worse: the player for wanting Wayne’s shorts, or Wayne for giving them?
LL, I’m just hoping they’ll turn up on Ebay – and NO ONE will outbid me
The world’s most expensive pair of dirty shorts. The mind reels.
Colbert always exposes truths, lies, hypocrisy and nonsense that our not so illustrious news media personnel (no longer journalists) ignore or miss. He was brilliant here once again.
For real!
http://twitter.com/Our4thEstate/statuses/257888200318672897
#FORWARD
THE MAJESTIC VOICE OF MORGAN FREEMAN IN OFA CAMPAIGN AD: “CHALLENGES”
“Every president inherits challenges, few have faced so many. Four years later our enemies have been brought to justice. Our heroes are coming home. Assembly lines are humming again—there are still challenges to meet, children to educate, a middle class to rebuild but the last thing we should do is turn back now.”
Why doesn’t Mitt put out an ad like this with Ted Nugent narrating? That would be a sure winner!
Turn back to the GOP, the people who got us in this mess in the first place, No, No, No.
People Are Going Crazy For Morgan Freeman’s New Obama Ad
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/people-are-already-going-crazy-for-morgan-freemans-obama-ad-2012-10#ixzz29OC5pRcF
Is it me or is Andrea Mitchell a real sack of rat poop? Help me out here folks before I shoot my tv. I’ve only got one left.
Sailor – a little mental hygiene advice – never, ever watch Ms Greenspan or any of her ilk, on any device. And, your electronic devices will also remain functional from not being blown away
Bob this is excellent advice!
Aye Lootenant. I keep hoping to spot land.
ALWAYS change the channel when her Randian, lying, Republican face shows up on the screen.
Good advice but I’m a glutton for punishment. I want to see what the enemy is doing.
My husband does the same thing and he starts screaming at the tee vee from early in the morning. Hey, I want to know what they’re saying too but there has to be a line between information and your sanity.
Ain’t that the truth!!
I have another question: PBO faced Hannity and O’Reilly and doesn’t make people at his rallies sign loyalty pledges. The proof that Mitt doesn’t care about the 47% is that he won’t talk to LOD or Rachel or Thom Hartmann…….. Some brave leader he is. What a fucking fraud.
[Bob Cesca has an angst at MTP & Browkow]:
President Obama has CUT THE DEFICIT. Full stop.
As of 2013, the deficit will have been reduced by $300 billion from Bush’s final deficit of $1.2 triilion — $500 billion if you include the full 2009 $1.4 trillion deficit.
Report that, Tom Brokaw, if, in fact, you have any balls and aren’t caving to the nonsensical agitprop of the far-right “liberal media” horseshit. Report the truth for once. Just because the president hasn’t eliminated the deficit from the clusterfuck that Bush handed to him doesn’t mean he needs to “account for it.” Jesus H. Christ.
Meet the Press is poisonous.
Full piece here: http://bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2012/10/tom-brokaw-is-worthless.html#disqus_thread
I was the 5th peron in line at the Dekalb County Tax Assessor’s office on Memorial Drive. Go OBAMA/BIDEN 2012. There has been a study stream of people coming in, especially young Black men. The pundits are writing them off, we will prove them wrong.
“There has been a study stream of people coming in, especially young Black men.” VERY REASSURING – and yes we will prove the pundits wrong.
Thanks for voting Brenda, and for sharing your experiences with us!
Nothing would make me happier than to see ALL the rw-leaning alleged ‘likely’ voter models blown out of the water. If our side voted consistently in the numbers that Republicans vote, we’d never have gotten in this mess. I don’t understand it. We let a small sliver of Americans choose the direction of the country. Outrageous.
New post everyone:
http://theobamadiary.com/2012/10/15/photos-from-the-campaign-trail/
Thanks to all of the early voters today. And look at our beautiful FLOTUS being a great example. Love our POTUS, FLOTUS, VPOTUS and Dr. Jill Biden. We are so blessed.HZ