WorldTraveller

No, but you don't get it, it's not relevant to the thread.

Coming from you? Priceless!

Man, talk about someone's !@#$ing head buried up their ass. you're hopeless

No, the only hypocrisy here is coming from you my man.

Michigan looking more and more likely its gonna be a close race: Two polls released Tuesday give different views of how Michigan may vote in the presidential election. A survey by Mitchell Research & Communications showed the race is a statistical dead heat between President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican challenger Mitt Romney, with Romney leading, 45 percent to Obama's 44 percent. But a poll by Rasmussen gave the edge to Obama, 48 percent to 42 percent. Both surveys show that Romney, who was born in Michigan, is closing the gap with the president. Last month, Obama had a larger lead in a Rasmussen poll, 50 percent to 42 percent. Also last month, the Mitchell survey showed Obama in front, 47 percent to 46 percent. "Mitt Romney's home state continues to look as though it is going to be a battleground state this year," said Steve Mitchell of Mitchell Research & Communications. The results are consistent with other polls showing Romney closing the gap since becoming the presumptive GOP candidate. Obama once had a commanding lead in Michigan, as much as double figures in one May poll. Mitchell Research queried 825 likely voters Monday in an automated telephone survey. It has a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points. Rasmussen questioned 500 likely voters Monday with a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points. The Mitchell poll showed a possible cause for concern for Obama. Romney expanded his lead among independent voters, who are considered a key voting bloc. In the poll, they preferred Romney by a 44 percent to 34 percent margin. Last month, they liked Romney, 43 percent to 38 percent. Wendy Morlock, 36, a medical technician from Taylor, is an independent who hasn't made up her mind about the race. "I'm still weighing both sides," she said. "I'm not sure either one can really help the economy." The gender gap also seemed to be tightening in the Mitchell poll. Among men, Romney led, 48 percent to 43 percent. Among women, Obama led, 44 percent to 42 percent. Among younger voters, ages 18-39, Obama led, 49 percent to 39 percent. The president also led with voters ages 60 and older, 46 percent to 41 percent. Among people aged 40-59, Romney led by 50 percent to 40 percent. From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120725/POLITICS01/207250365#ixzz21do6aN5K

I thought this was somewhat relevant to the thread: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign is asking Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to launch an investigation into voter-registration forms that are being sent to Virginia residents and addressed to deceased relatives, children, family pets and others ineligible to vote. The errant mailings from the Washington-based nonprofit group Voter Participation Center have befuddled many Virginia residents, leading to hundreds of complaints. The organization has been mass-mailing the forms — pre-populated with key information such as names and addresses — to primarily Democratic-leaning voting blocs such as young adults, unmarried women, African-Americans and Latinos. In a letter to Cuccinelli's office and the State Board of Elections, Kathryn Bieber, an attorney for the Romney campaign, calls for an investigation into the matter by law-enforcement officials, claiming that the mailings appear to violate "at least one and maybe several Virginia laws aimed at ensuring a fair election." Bieber refers to the mailings as "tactics that amount to, or at the very least induce, voter registration fraud," and says the issue "presents a very significant risk to the proper administration of the upcoming general election." Citing a Sunday Richmond Times-Dispatch story that brought the mailings to light, the letter also asks the State Board of Elections to require registrars to reject all pre-populated voter registration applications from the group and review the eligibility of all Virginians who have registered in the past two months. "This is the only way for voters and other interested parties to regain confidence in the voter registration and electoral process that has been abused by the Voter Participation Center," the letter says. Page Gardner, president and CEO of the Voter Participation Center, said the organization mailed nearly 200,000 third-party registration forms to Virginia addresses in June, which resulted in 15,026 new voters being registered as of July 18. On Monday, the Voter Participation Center responded to the Sunday Times-Dispatch story, stating in a letter on its website that "imperfections in the VPC vendors' lists — while regrettable and unfortunate — should not be the reason or the excuse to call an entire process that is working into question." Justin Riemer, the State Board of Elections' deputy secretary, said forms have been sent by the group to deceased infants, out-of-state family members, and non-U.S. citizens, among others. In a letter this month, the State Board of Elections asked the group to cease pre-populating their forms and raised questions about how the group was obtaining lists of registered voters, citing the errant forms. Riemer noted that pre-populating the forms violates rules set forth in the state code and the Virginia Constitution requiring that voters fill out their own forms. The State Board of Elections had not received the letter from the Romney campaign Tuesday afternoon and declined to comment on the specifics. No comment was immediately available from Cuccinelli's office. Asked for comment on the Romney campaign's letter, the Voter Participation Center issued a statement noting that their forms are official applications, not registration cards. "Furthermore, they were approved before we sent them out by the State Board of Elections and are the same applications that anyone can access at a local government office or on the internet," the statement read. "Our process is legal and working." http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/virginia-politics/2012/jul/25/tdmain01-romney-camp-asks-va-to-probe-voter-forms-ar-2081517/

So if you oppose it, you're "heartless"? Geez

Yep, mhmm facts

Dude, you can't reason with emotion

You seem to be somewhat obsessed over this matter. Considering that Dianne Feinstein recently stated that the W.H is involved in the leaks that jeopardize some of our foreign operatives, you surely must be more outraged over this development, much more so than the relatively insignificant issue of mitts taxes right?

I can't help but imagine park saying all this with an Asian accent

Don't try to reason with it

Gravity man. It's called survival of the fittest. Companies don't do it so they can be perceived as Meanies, they do it to compete, and the cold hard business world, you gotta do what you can to survive, if that means shutting down here and setting up shop overseas where labor is cheaper, than that's what you gotta do. It's natural that illogical thinking people will base their conclusions off of emotions, and that's their right, but in all actuality they are detached from any sense of economic reality. It is what is

Personal attacks? I think it's time for bed uncle Eric

To all the people of the mayo mental health clinic, I need more meds! Signed, Eric. ( I think)

No, I think he is admitting that you're a hypocrite Eric, shouldn't you be watching Archie bunker or somethin? Just like two peas in a pod

Outsourcing is kinda like gravity, it's gonna happen because it is a necessary evil required for some companies to remaiN alive. Without it, many companies would shudder and would be replaced with another company set up overseas. Those who argue against it are eitIher political lemmings or extremely economically ignorant.

Honestly, I could see why you thought I was speaking about you....

It takes a special kind of stupid to come up with this drivel

Despite the ridiculously D + 11 democrat over sampling, when they asked those who were most likely to vote, Romney leads Obama by 2 points 48% to 46%

This has transformed to a far larger risk than the "the private sector is doing fine" gaffe. That gaffe was simply a soundbite to that the president made that obviously didn't do him any favors, this was more than just a soundbite, when you take his whole statement in it's totality, it absolutely was within the context of his larger message. You can hear the contempt in his voice at the very notion that small business owners that claim to work harder or are smarter than regular average working folks. It's as clear as day, and it's been plastered not only in national editorial media outlets but in local ones across the country as well.

Looks like the White House is worried about this "gaffe" http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/07/obama-to-run-ads-pushing-back-on-you-didnt-build-that-129955.html President Obama, who's gotten a lot of strife from the Romney campaign and national Republicans in the last week for his "you didn't build that" comment, is launching a new swing-state TV ad to push back on the criticism. Per the White House pool report this afternoon: "[Obama campaign press secretary Jen] Psaki began by showing a new 30-second television ad being launched by the Obama campaign in six states, featuring the president speaking direct to camera answering the “you didn’t build that” attacks by Gov. Romney. The six states: Iowa, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Nevada, Virginia. Told the campaign will send out shortly. Psaki: We are not going to stand by while Mitt Romney slices and dices and deliberately takes out of context the president’s remarks on businesses." For the Obama campaign to address the comment directly, they must think it's starting to leave a mark. And this is the kind of pushback the campaign had planned on delivering late last week, when the Colorado shooting put politics temporarily on hold.

Feinstein backtracks on statement that White House leaked secrets By Jeremy Herb - 07/24/12 02:40 PM ET Senate Intelligence Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) backtracked from her comments Monday that the White House was responsible for some of the national security leaks, saying she did not know the source of the leaks. “I stated that I did not believe the president leaked classified information,” Feinstein said in the statement on Tuesday. “I shouldn’t have speculated beyond that, because the fact of the matter is I don’t know the source of the leaks.” You know the White House called her up and told her to shut her !@#$ing trap.