Interesting take in that tweet, meant to slap somebody upside the head, wake somebody up, I’m sure. If it were only that easy.
Well, of course, it’s harmful, but we all have the free will as adults to not choose a path of destruction. And when people choose to be racist, and suffer the consequences, that’s kinda like karma hitting them in the face, over and over again. Too bad they’re too blinded to notice it’s self-inflicted, not to mention what it does to all of their victims.
We Americans and the World are awfully fortunate that these two marvelous people decided to sacrifice their private lives to make America a better place.
The best we can say “Thank you Barack & Michelle for your Service” is to re-elect him to 4 More Years!
“Often” as in every election, is good. Jimmy Kimmel said the same thing when Miche was on his show. But it’s a bad saying because people can infer voter fraud. Just say “vote early and in every election.”
that’s a great video. DU has posted an awesome video on Florida voting early. The lines are around the block. Rev Al is there doing rallies to get out the early vote.
Reposting from last thread….in case someone needs inspiration (unlikely for regular posters, but maybe some readers)
Just finished canvassing (11-4) and my feet and legs really hurt! It was great though. Started off rough but got much better. I was tempted to not finish my area I was so tired, but I thought about how tired our President must be and how Every conversation can make a difference. So I marched on and yep, next door was an undecided. We talked for a very long time and I eventually said “one last thing-Ryan has no foreign policy experience and he is not fit to be CIC!” He said, “Uhm, yeah you’re right. I hadn’t thought of that!” The most surprising thing is that he is really frustrated over jobs going to china because he had lost his to china a couple of years ago. AND, he is back in school getting a Bachelors in business and is mad about the cost of the loans!” I couldn’t believe it! I told him to go look up Bain, Freeport, IL and go to barackobama.com to see how Obama was his guy and Ronmey was NOT! I told him don’t trust me, read for yourself. He responded, don’t sell yourself short- I trust you, a working class person, more than the folks on TV. I was definetly surprised. Anyway, I gave him an Obama Biden pin for him to wear in case he decided on them once he looked up the facts.
Long story I know, but it just amazed me. Also, one lady said “she just doesnt vote!”. As we talked she said she supported Obama if she would vote!!! UNBELIEVABLE! When we left I had convinced her to vote. I told her the only way things will change is if she gets involved and has a voice. When we finished she was excited about voting….anyway, TOD family, this is why we are going to win! Cause there were thousands of me on the phone and in neighborhoods TODAY having the same conversations!! Last thing, as I was going to one home, the lady was leaving to go phone bank for Obama!
Thank you for posting this. Very inspiring, and something I needed to see after reading news off and on all day and getting depressed. I come to this site as an oasis of inspiration and you made my day. Thank you!
This is the kind of story we need to hear everyday until the final day. I canvas everyday. These stories happen everyday. Vote by vote we will win this election. Thanks!
17 early voting sites in my part of NE Fla. (15 libraries and 2 Elections offices). I went to a library near my home just before 2:00. I was told that the wait would be about 45 minutes, but it was more like 30-35 minutes. No lines outside, but the coming and going was brisk. However there were longer lines in other parts of town. I rocked out to tunes on my Ipod and people watched while I waited. Poeple in wheel charis and with canes, some assisted by adult children, families with small kids, newly-minted young voters, middle-aged and older couples, Black, White and Latino citizens. I love election time. I proudly wore my “I voted” sticker for the rest of the day as i ran errands.
Great work from the TOD’ers – I am loving reading about all the canvassing/GOTV experiences – some even in real time! It’s fantastic and uplifting. Thanks again to Chips for this magnificent site and the incredible effort she puts into keeping it all humming for the world to enjoy. Any word on the Des Moines register endorsement? I know the editor is a right winger so curious to see if they will follow up their blatant last week’s snit with a R endorsement. I think one can draw clear lines in the sand with these endorsements. R has disgraced himself with his blatant lying. Whoever endorses him after that disqualifies themselves as a serious media outlet. That is all.
It was great! I was in line from 2:30pm-4:30pm with my mom. People were in good spirits. I live in the VERY blue state of MD in a very blue county. Everyone was really nice. Some folks even wore their Obama gear to the polls lol.
I am also proud to have voted for MD’s version of the Dream Act and also legislation that allows same sex couples to get married.
That’s really great, CK! I’m so happy that even in a blue state, the lines for early voting were so long! So much for that enthusiasm gap theory! I also love how progressive MD is! Also, your gov is hella HAWT!! 😉
Agreed, but WaPo characterizes it as a slim lead. I think I need to stop reading papers/websites for the next ten days. This close to the election, a 4 point lead is extremely difficult for Romney to overcome both here and in OH.
From now until close of polls on 6 Nov – unless Team Obama ‘leaks’ internals – ‘polls’ are meaningless unless it’s reports from the field on the number of people voting early 🙂 So, my suggestion is to be kind to yourself and just focus on the joy of so many people already voting to re-elect our President and turn as much of the Country blue or purple as possible.
Bob, as always you make a wise suggestion. I came here late but the enthusiasm of early voters in Florida, Ohio and Iowa suggests an outcome that may surprise pollsters.
Cool! I plan to do some canvassing and/or phonebanking there next weekend too (not the overnight stay). I had planned to do it this weekend but because of the impending storm I had to adjust my plans.
Someone posted an article about Willard hiring lawyers in case he needs to contest election results. My response: bullshyte! That’s just posturing on Willard’s part. This election isn’t going to be as close as that. Let’s just hold on to Ohio, WI and Iowa! I’m so giddy! I’m so ready to vote! Can’t wait! 😆
Ps-polls and pundits can go suck rotten eggs!
Apparently the DMR has had a new publisher after 2008 and is a known Republican outfit. They created the stir about PBO’s interview so they could endorse Romney. They are not fooling anyone.
The senseless snit fit re. the Obama interview was just the latest in a long line of problems the DMR has had with President Obama. That is one of the sites I check regularly because——-Iowa! but since pro-Repub Gannett took over and with this new conservative editor, all political reporting has been slanted pro-Romney, pro-Republican. And every little tidbit about Obama, even his fair visit, would be reported in a cynical, negative manner. They have gone out of their way to find something negative in every Obama appearance, or would omit any positive which was reported elsewhere. Not surprised at all about this endorsement. Saw it coming.
Ooh I got this ejit on the phone in Ohio who was going to vote for Ron Paul. I was like why? You know he is not going to win, right? And he’s like yeah but the other two are idiots so I’m not voting for them. I was like idiot means a lot of things why specifically are you not for Romney and why are you not for Obama. He said Romney would ship jobs overseas and Obama….pause…Obama is an idiot. Then he hung up. Man I wish I was in Ohio just now so I can present him with a mirror to show him what an idiot really looks like.
No,he sounded more angry than stoned. And I just had another weird call. Lady picks up and after introducing myself she says this is the Ku Klux Klan membership home, don’t call again. I had to laugh after she said that and I thanked her for letting me know.
I’m sorry you’ve had a run of clunkers. It happens every now and then and you just have to brush it off. People are just anti-social or disinterested because they don’t have the energy to look into the issues and make a decision – the mother of all passive aggressive.
He can go fuck himself. What a loser. SMH. the only good thing is that at least his vote isn’t going to Willard. If PBO can’t have that fool’s vote, at least Willard won’t get it either. I know two dumbasses like that but they are in the Willard camp. One won’t be voting( thank god. I worked with him for 5 months and Jesus would you believe what a moron he is?) he started saying he didn’t think he’d be voting for PBO this time around, bc PBO “wants to raise ” his millionaire parents’ taxes. I asked him how much taxes they are paying now, that ass said 50%. WTF??!!! He’s one of those asses who are only in the doctoral program bc he’s going to be inheriting his parents’ practice. Fuckwit. He is literally an idiot. God bless the clients he’ll be counseling in the future. The other person is a Repuke bc her parents are Repuke. She hates PBO. Why? Who the fuck knows. Also, when my libertarian friend who is voting PBO told us that Ann Coulter-whore extraordinaire- who has managed to screw every unmarried conservative in this country- said PBO was that horrible word, that other idiot girl who- thankfully wont be voting, she’s still waiting for her ballot from out of state. She’s been waiting on it for weeks, something tells me she won’t be getting it by Election Day (there really is a God)– that one said: ‘I would agree with Coulter, he is a fucking ______.” I was so goddamned mad! The only thing that made me feel good was knowing that bitch was from a solid blue state so her vote doesn’t count and also, she possibly won’t get a chance to exercise her asshole opinion cause she still hasn’t received her ballot yet. Mean spirited bitch. Ugh.
I feel for you, but now you can feel for me too as one of my brothers lives next door. He wrote in Ron Paul’s name too. He is strictly a constitutionalist. I worked on him all year as I was able to convince him to vote Obama in ’08 but that time he only did to keep my newly departed Dad’s promise to me. This time I could not get anywhere with him.
My other brother lives in MT and clings to his gun and believes the NRA and GOP lines about Obama. He watches FOX News and listens to Rush Limbaugh. He is even harder to convince since he has been brainwashed. According to him I drink the Kool-aide. I did switch his wife to Obama this time though.
My Mom voted for Obama and all Dems as did I and I turned in our mail-in ballots. My four grown kids and their spouses are voting for Obama. My two brothers are a disappointment to me.
I voted TODAY here in beautiful Albuquerque, NM (sort of…please don’t look down at the dirt, weeds and broken glass ok?)! We’re BLUE. No drama here. I am the infamous TOD owner of the new-blue-car with the GORGEOUS OBAMA ’12 front license plate once featured here. SO I pull up right in front at the early polling site and go in. EASY process! Nice poll workers! But when I get outside one of the ancient ole white poll workers guys has taken a big plastic sidewalk easel and pushed against the front of my car to hide the plate!!! “CAMPAIGNING” is prohibited within 100 YDs of the polling site, so….no prob….rules are rules…..but I hadda chuckle!! I hope he didn’t strain his O2 tank and orthopedic sneakers rushing to hide my plate!! :>)
First Lady Michelle Obama will be featured on a special edition of the nationally syndicated Café Mocha Radio Show this weekend.
Mrs. Obama shares a special message for African American women during her interview with show hosts Loni Love, MC Lyte and Angelique Perrin in the interview, which begins airing on Friday.
With healthcare reform being a focal point in the upcoming presidential election, the First Lady urged women to “own their power” and understand that the ability to make decisions about their reproductive health is at serious risk.
Girl Talk: Michelle Obama Visits Cafe Mocha Radio Show http://alwaysalist.com/radio/michelle-obama-cafe-mocha-radio-show/
The Editor is a Republican. Plenty of conservative papers have endorsed PBO and what did we hear? SILENCE!! “We” are up against the ilk of the Republican party and the media. It is okay though because victory is within sight.
Glad to hear Sandy has passed you by, leaving lots of water I have no doubt. I assume that apart from the power failure you and yours are alright? Nothing out of the norm has happened here – PBO doing well and lots of excitement about early voting are not out of the norm. 😆
Wife: “This isn’t chicken parmiggiana! (Reads menu.) Oh, it’s chicken marinated in parmesan Italian dressing. Well, this is sucky.”
Me: “Hey, your other choice was braised beef tips. Don’t blame the hospital for your lack of reading comprehension.”
I agree with your wife. WTF is ” chicken marinated in Parmesan dressing”?!! It sounds unappetizing. I’m making my ‘yuck’ face here, Lib-Lib. Super yuck! :eeck:
/min.
I just got a chance to watch the MO Las Vegas video. If there was any doubt as to why they call her
THE CLOSER, that video will remove all doubt. This woman is super fantastic! What passion, what depth,what warmth
and compassion, OMG! I was blown away and moved to tears at the same time. Michelle touches our souls in a very
deep way. She inspires me to fight even harder and donate all that I can to this righteous cause of re-electing
this great man, her husband…PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA. Yes. we. can. !!!
today was the start of early voting in MD too…. my middle son just called to say he voted today & he waited in line for over 40 minutes!! His girlfriend said there was long lines in her area also 🙂
I voted in deep blue montgomery county (went 72% for PBO in 08), and I waited in line 90 minutes! I was among the earlier ones, so those who came after me probably had a longer wait of over 2 hrs.
Wow what a day! I am exhausted and still recovering from being sick. I spent 6 hours today phonebanking to IA and VA. I can’t count the number of calls that I made through the afternoon. I decided to trek down to Obama HQ to make calls from a friend’s office who has been working like a fiend over the past few months. I brought him so lunch, then sat down at a computer and started dialing. As you would expect, things are bustling here in Chicago. The energy is palpable and spirits are high. Though I did notice a few more people looking haggard today than I have in the past few weeks 🙂 No sleep until November 7th. As usual, the number one concern expressed was GOTV. I could report that from what I am seeing online and offline the grassroots is FIRED UP and READY TO GO. A few months ago, I encouraged my friend to check in here if he wanted to find a place besides the OFA blog where he can see what Obama supporters are saying and reporting. He has been a “lurker” ever since. Anyway, I just wanted to drop in with a little update. I will be phonebanking again tomorrow except this time from home. I have an intermittent cough that doesn’t seem to want to go away. I am really loving the updates that I am reading from folks here over the past few weeks. Please keep them coming. It is always so encouraging that we are not alone in our far flung cities doing this work but rather that we are part of an amazing community of great people doing all that we can to re-elect the President to another term. Peace to you all.
Nice! Keep up the good work! I came back from classes all day today and I’m tired as heck, but soon as I got in it was phone banking in Ohio. We will not lose this election!
From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank all of you who are working so hard for PBO…from knocking on doors, to phoning strangers, tweeting, providing news,and providing support for OFA volunteers…. and to you Chips an extra special thank you for providing this place for PBO supporters to congregate….WHEN PBO is reelected it will be b/c of all of you………I wish all of you could come to my house for a champagne brunch the day after….that is if you are not too hungover from celebrating the night before. Again, a BIG THANK YOU and (((((hugs))))) from all of us who are unable to do the things you are doing….
HERE is the brutally honest state of this race & why the MSM is an abject failure [PIC click to enlarge] RT: http://t.co/Ll0Pl0ea— Path2Enlightenment (@Path2Enlighten) October 28, 2012
One more thing…..all of you in the path of this storm, we are so concerned for you…….be safe…….as far as this election is concerned, they can always postpone it……or postpone voting for areas that are involved…..WE THE PEOPLE can have an uprising and demand it…..
MERRIMACK, N.H. — A photo with the president is a hot commodity even for well-known Democratic candidates running statewide. Two candidates in uphill races for state representative got their own on Saturday afternoon.
Kim Kojak and Joanne Rotast had been tipped off by the local Democratic organization that Obama would be making an unannounced visit to The Common Man restaurant branch here.
Rotast, who told Obama that she’d tried many times to win a dinner with him through one of the campaign fundraising promotions, received “a birthday hug and a kiss” from the president when her husband pointed out that she was celebrating Saturday.
Both got photos of them with a smiling Obama that are already headed for the Merrimack Democrats Facebook page. But getting more prospective voters to see them standing with the commander-in-chief isn’t going to be easy.
“My campaign lit—everything’s already done,” Kojak said by phone later in the day. “But “I’ll be getting it out on social media absolutely, absolutely. I just have no more money for my campaign.”
Kojak is counting on Democrats flipping the majority of the 400-member New Hampshire House of Representatives, but she’s more measured about her own prospects in Merrimack. She thinks the same is true for Obama: though she’s expecting him to win the state, she’s not sure that Merrimack voters will change their minds from 2008, when they didn’t support him.
“This time, I think that maybe they are disgusted enough with how things are going on a national level and also on a local level, so I think it’s going to be close. I think it’s going to be closer than 2008,” Kojak said. “But I don’t want to predict he’s going to win.”
MERRIMACK, N.H. — President Obama is used to talking about the first lady out on the trail, but Saturday on his short trip through New Hampshire, two new topics came up: her 2016 White House prospects and her marital philosophy.
Stopping at Teamsters Local 633 in Manchester in the early afternoon, Obama was grabbed with urgency by an older woman who’d waited in the union hall basement for the president.
“Tell Michelle to stand by, we need a woman president in four years,” she said.
Obama responded with a deep chuckle, not touching that one.
Later, in his stop here at The Common Man restaurant after his rally in Nashua, Obama greeted a couple who told him they’d been married 48 years by noting that he and his wife just celebrated 20 years together (as he acknowledged on the stage in Denver, their anniversary was the night of the disastrous first debate).
Their secret?
“Michelle’s attitude is that it takes about 15 years to train a man,” Obama said. “But the last five have been pretty good.”
Hi folks, Just got back from a big day of canvassing in Milwaukee with 50 some other Chicago volunteers. A terrific OFA office up there and great weather – sunshine and about 50 which was perfect for canvassing. This is the first year that Wisconsin has early voting so many were unaware of it still so it was fun to be able to give them the details and most all were excited to go vote. They have it 7 days a week up until November 3rd! Saturday and Sunday 9-5 and weekdays until 7:30 so it really really helps people who have regular day jobs. They can also register and early vote at the same time/same place.
Miami-Dade early voting so heavy that by 3 pm 14,745 people voted — more than ENTIRE first day of 08 EV (12,000). 12-hour total: 22,625.
Hello! Hello! CHIPSTICKS? TOD? When I try to access the post titled New Hampshire, time stamp 16:08, I get the headline, but a black field advising me that page cannot be found. Have I become lost? Am I out here in cyberspace all alone and lonely? Oh dear oh dear, any ideas? Y’all?
Just found out the DMR endorsed Romney then begged him to protect everyone’s rights. I almost fell off the bed laughing. How butt hurt were they at the off the record interview Pres. Obama gave their reporter? Sheesh. 😆
Des Moines Register endorses Romney then begs he and the #GOP not to turn the clock back on women, minorities, gays, immigrants. BWAHAHAHA.
I actually met a guy on our bus to Milwaukee today canvassing for Obama who works at the Onion here in Chicago. Hung out with him for a bit – hilarious stories.
Someone DM’d me to look at Nate’s last sentence in his blog post of a couple of hours ago ….
“Still, it is misinformed to refer to Ohio as a toss-up. Mr. Obama is the favorite there, and because of Ohio’s central position in the Electoral College, he is therefore the overall favorite in the election.”
And, he notes …
“In Ohio, however, there are not just three polls: roughly a dozen polling firms, rather, have surveyed the state over the past 10 days. There are NO precedents in the database for a candidate losing with a two- or three-point lead in a state when the polling volume was that rich.”
As all of you know, the only polls that ever matter to me are the ones where folk vote, but it seemed worthwhile to share the above in case any of you haven’t already seen it.
Irrespective of how encouraging Nate’s analysis may appear to be, let’s remember, we are in this not to win but to crush Willard and his fanatical John Birch Party and remove as many of its minions from Congress and State Houses throughout the Republic.
Bobfr, thank you for this information. In these closing days I am looking for anything that warms the heart
and this positively does. Also, thank you, thank you, thank you for being such a warrior on twitter each day
on behalf of our President. You are amazing.
Let me be blunt. You are in imminent danger of becoming former Senator Scott Brown.
Why? Well, for starters, you’re running a dumb campaign in a smart state.
You have basically been rolling burning barrels out of the back of your truck at Elizabeth Warren, hoping to raise enough doubts to disqualify her in voters’ minds.
That explains your obsessive harping on her undocumented claim of Native American heritage and the “questions” it supposedly raises. And your ads that twist complicated legal cases she’s been involved with into a narrative that portrays her as a legal gun-for-hire who has enriched herself by helping corporations run roughshod over everyday people.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
And in Maryland
Congrats on first Proud.
Early voted today…felt good! Great crowd…#obama2012!
Ditto in Carrollton, GA
MD lines are absolutely crazy.
Yes they are!
Yay for Maryland! WTG!
First?
Shucks, you guys and gals are fast.
this is so true:
Interesting take in that tweet, meant to slap somebody upside the head, wake somebody up, I’m sure. If it were only that easy.
Well, of course, it’s harmful, but we all have the free will as adults to not choose a path of destruction. And when people choose to be racist, and suffer the consequences, that’s kinda like karma hitting them in the face, over and over again. Too bad they’re too blinded to notice it’s self-inflicted, not to mention what it does to all of their victims.
We Americans and the World are awfully fortunate that these two marvelous people decided to sacrifice their private lives to make America a better place.
The best we can say “Thank you Barack & Michelle for your Service” is to re-elect him to 4 More Years!
YES.WE.CAN!!!!!!
Yes! Thank you Barack and Joe, Michelle and Jill.
Is it bad to encourage people to, “Vote early and vote often?”
What do you mean, and who on this blog has been encouraging anyone to vote OFTEN??
It’s a joke. Relax, please. Let’s not let the boys on the right get us so uptight that we cannot maintain our sense of humor. 🙂
It’s not funny, particularly since righties can’t differentiate fact from fiction.
But we can. And this is not a rightie site. Right?
“Often” as in every election, is good. Jimmy Kimmel said the same thing when Miche was on his show. But it’s a bad saying because people can infer voter fraud. Just say “vote early and in every election.”
I know. That’s why I want to say it. It annoys them and amuses me. 🙂 Sorry!
Ha! Don’t bait the zombies, sonof. 😉
They might just implode of their own nervous conditions.
😆 I get ya.
Whew. Thanks. 😉
A lot of us are highly nervous right now.
I know. That’s why I need to laugh once in a while. too many days ahead
that’s a great video. DU has posted an awesome video on Florida voting early. The lines are around the block. Rev Al is there doing rallies to get out the early vote.
pretty much everything is under surveillance.
including the code?
that proprietary code they won’t let anyone look at? because that is all that matters, and all it takes.
Chips, you really need to post that FORWARD video every day from here on out. 😀
I second that! I’m a bit of a music snob, but that is a great song/video and I can’t stop watching it!
Reposting from last thread….in case someone needs inspiration (unlikely for regular posters, but maybe some readers)
Just finished canvassing (11-4) and my feet and legs really hurt! It was great though. Started off rough but got much better. I was tempted to not finish my area I was so tired, but I thought about how tired our President must be and how Every conversation can make a difference. So I marched on and yep, next door was an undecided. We talked for a very long time and I eventually said “one last thing-Ryan has no foreign policy experience and he is not fit to be CIC!” He said, “Uhm, yeah you’re right. I hadn’t thought of that!” The most surprising thing is that he is really frustrated over jobs going to china because he had lost his to china a couple of years ago. AND, he is back in school getting a Bachelors in business and is mad about the cost of the loans!” I couldn’t believe it! I told him to go look up Bain, Freeport, IL and go to barackobama.com to see how Obama was his guy and Ronmey was NOT! I told him don’t trust me, read for yourself. He responded, don’t sell yourself short- I trust you, a working class person, more than the folks on TV. I was definetly surprised. Anyway, I gave him an Obama Biden pin for him to wear in case he decided on them once he looked up the facts.
Long story I know, but it just amazed me. Also, one lady said “she just doesnt vote!”. As we talked she said she supported Obama if she would vote!!! UNBELIEVABLE! When we left I had convinced her to vote. I told her the only way things will change is if she gets involved and has a voice. When we finished she was excited about voting….anyway, TOD family, this is why we are going to win! Cause there were thousands of me on the phone and in neighborhoods TODAY having the same conversations!! Last thing, as I was going to one home, the lady was leaving to go phone bank for Obama!
Thank you for posting this. Very inspiring, and something I needed to see after reading news off and on all day and getting depressed. I come to this site as an oasis of inspiration and you made my day. Thank you!
Just posted on the previous thread ….
Robin, what you accomplished today is what will save our United States. That is not hyperbole. That is ground truth.
#TrustBarack – He’s Earned IT
{{{{{Robin}}}}}. Thank you and bless your tired little feet!
This is the kind of story we need to hear everyday until the final day. I canvas everyday. These stories happen everyday. Vote by vote we will win this election. Thanks!
17 early voting sites in my part of NE Fla. (15 libraries and 2 Elections offices). I went to a library near my home just before 2:00. I was told that the wait would be about 45 minutes, but it was more like 30-35 minutes. No lines outside, but the coming and going was brisk. However there were longer lines in other parts of town. I rocked out to tunes on my Ipod and people watched while I waited. Poeple in wheel charis and with canes, some assisted by adult children, families with small kids, newly-minted young voters, middle-aged and older couples, Black, White and Latino citizens. I love election time. I proudly wore my “I voted” sticker for the rest of the day as i ran errands.
Love it. The creativity and artistry of this campaign is something to behold.
Michelle Obama’s speech in Las Vegas yesterday:
If I hear Michelle a hundred times she still sounds fresh and as inspiring as ever.
I forwarded this tweet Jake-what-is-the larger-point-Tapper:
“President Obama’s rally in Nashua, New Hampshire today the largest rally in NH history.”
And he doesn’t have to photoshop the image:-)
Great work from the TOD’ers – I am loving reading about all the canvassing/GOTV experiences – some even in real time! It’s fantastic and uplifting. Thanks again to Chips for this magnificent site and the incredible effort she puts into keeping it all humming for the world to enjoy. Any word on the Des Moines register endorsement? I know the editor is a right winger so curious to see if they will follow up their blatant last week’s snit with a R endorsement. I think one can draw clear lines in the sand with these endorsements. R has disgraced himself with his blatant lying. Whoever endorses him after that disqualifies themselves as a serious media outlet. That is all.
How was your voting experience today, CK? Did you have fun? Was it everything you thought it would be? Was the wait super long?
It was great! I was in line from 2:30pm-4:30pm with my mom. People were in good spirits. I live in the VERY blue state of MD in a very blue county. Everyone was really nice. Some folks even wore their Obama gear to the polls lol.
I am also proud to have voted for MD’s version of the Dream Act and also legislation that allows same sex couples to get married.
That’s really great, CK! I’m so happy that even in a blue state, the lines for early voting were so long! So much for that enthusiasm gap theory! I also love how progressive MD is! Also, your gov is hella HAWT!! 😉
Yup – voted for these two amendments as well! 🙂
Wonderful!
The Star Tribune endorsed our President. . .
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/editorials/176032451.html?refer=y
Excellent, thank you Marlz!
Nice…… with a little more than a week to go. And agrees with PPP. When the early voting progresses this will look like a cautious estimate.
Agreed, but WaPo characterizes it as a slim lead. I think I need to stop reading papers/websites for the next ten days. This close to the election, a 4 point lead is extremely difficult for Romney to overcome both here and in OH.
From now until close of polls on 6 Nov – unless Team Obama ‘leaks’ internals – ‘polls’ are meaningless unless it’s reports from the field on the number of people voting early 🙂 So, my suggestion is to be kind to yourself and just focus on the joy of so many people already voting to re-elect our President and turn as much of the Country blue or purple as possible.
#TrustBarack – He’s Earned It
Bob, as always you make a wise suggestion. I came here late but the enthusiasm of early voters in Florida, Ohio and Iowa suggests an outcome that may surprise pollsters.
Virginia only has absentee!
But Minnesota came out this morning and the Prez Is up 9.
Good news-
The media can suck it!
These are likely voters too.
I believe people are finally waking up. Better late than never.
And that’s the TPM poll tracker.
Very close to election day, this is looking good for Pres. Obama. The last few slew of polls show he’s holding steady in Virginia.
You all getting ERROR 404 on the new TOD post ‘New Hampshire’??
My mistake Magapie, pressed ‘publish’ before it was ready, so I deleted it. Am I embarrassed? Hell, yes 😳
THAT MEANS I WAS FIRST ON A POST THAT NEVER HAPPENED!!!! YEEEE_AAAAH!!!
😆 😆
You deserve a cheer for that Mapagie:
AWESOME! Thanks, Chips!!
LOLz!!
Thanks- was just about to post this. Awesome work with OFA VA ck!! 🙂
Yup! I’m headed back to VA next weekend. I’ll be saying for 4 days through to election day. 😉
Way to go, ck!!! Thank you!!!! 🙂
Cool! I plan to do some canvassing and/or phonebanking there next weekend too (not the overnight stay). I had planned to do it this weekend but because of the impending storm I had to adjust my plans.
Whoa….That’s bloody brilliant.
Ooops.. who’s got the enthusiasm gap now?
collegekay, we need to tell Chuck Todd about this.
Someone posted an article about Willard hiring lawyers in case he needs to contest election results. My response: bullshyte! That’s just posturing on Willard’s part. This election isn’t going to be as close as that. Let’s just hold on to Ohio, WI and Iowa! I’m so giddy! I’m so ready to vote! Can’t wait! 😆
Ps-polls and pundits can go suck rotten eggs!
Rasmussen and Gallup’s “likely voters” are going to be trumped 100 times over by real voters, as the early vote on the ground is proving.
Just watched the LV speech, MO was totally rockin’ it. Awesome, loved it.
Totally not surprised that the Des Moines Register endorsed the Liar after the way they blew up about PBO’s interview this week.
Least surprising endorsement of the ‘season’ – **** them, RWNJs.
LOL!
BOOM!
Worse:
HAHAHA! This also sums up my reaction to their silly endorsment.
Who did they endorse last time?
PBO.
Apparently the DMR has had a new publisher after 2008 and is a known Republican outfit. They created the stir about PBO’s interview so they could endorse Romney. They are not fooling anyone.
The senseless snit fit re. the Obama interview was just the latest in a long line of problems the DMR has had with President Obama. That is one of the sites I check regularly because——-Iowa! but since pro-Repub Gannett took over and with this new conservative editor, all political reporting has been slanted pro-Romney, pro-Republican. And every little tidbit about Obama, even his fair visit, would be reported in a cynical, negative manner. They have gone out of their way to find something negative in every Obama appearance, or would omit any positive which was reported elsewhere. Not surprised at all about this endorsement. Saw it coming.
Ooh I got this ejit on the phone in Ohio who was going to vote for Ron Paul. I was like why? You know he is not going to win, right? And he’s like yeah but the other two are idiots so I’m not voting for them. I was like idiot means a lot of things why specifically are you not for Romney and why are you not for Obama. He said Romney would ship jobs overseas and Obama….pause…Obama is an idiot. Then he hung up. Man I wish I was in Ohio just now so I can present him with a mirror to show him what an idiot really looks like.
i think he wanted to say Obama is from Kenya.
I think he was prolly stoned.
No,he sounded more angry than stoned. And I just had another weird call. Lady picks up and after introducing myself she says this is the Ku Klux Klan membership home, don’t call again. I had to laugh after she said that and I thanked her for letting me know.
I’m sorry you’ve had a run of clunkers. It happens every now and then and you just have to brush it off. People are just anti-social or disinterested because they don’t have the energy to look into the issues and make a decision – the mother of all passive aggressive.
He can go fuck himself. What a loser. SMH. the only good thing is that at least his vote isn’t going to Willard. If PBO can’t have that fool’s vote, at least Willard won’t get it either. I know two dumbasses like that but they are in the Willard camp. One won’t be voting( thank god. I worked with him for 5 months and Jesus would you believe what a moron he is?) he started saying he didn’t think he’d be voting for PBO this time around, bc PBO “wants to raise ” his millionaire parents’ taxes. I asked him how much taxes they are paying now, that ass said 50%. WTF??!!! He’s one of those asses who are only in the doctoral program bc he’s going to be inheriting his parents’ practice. Fuckwit. He is literally an idiot. God bless the clients he’ll be counseling in the future. The other person is a Repuke bc her parents are Repuke. She hates PBO. Why? Who the fuck knows. Also, when my libertarian friend who is voting PBO told us that Ann Coulter-whore extraordinaire- who has managed to screw every unmarried conservative in this country- said PBO was that horrible word, that other idiot girl who- thankfully wont be voting, she’s still waiting for her ballot from out of state. She’s been waiting on it for weeks, something tells me she won’t be getting it by Election Day (there really is a God)– that one said: ‘I would agree with Coulter, he is a fucking ______.” I was so goddamned mad! The only thing that made me feel good was knowing that bitch was from a solid blue state so her vote doesn’t count and also, she possibly won’t get a chance to exercise her asshole opinion cause she still hasn’t received her ballot yet. Mean spirited bitch. Ugh.
Lazy, sloppy “thinkers.”
You go girl! You tell it like it is.
I feel for you, but now you can feel for me too as one of my brothers lives next door. He wrote in Ron Paul’s name too. He is strictly a constitutionalist. I worked on him all year as I was able to convince him to vote Obama in ’08 but that time he only did to keep my newly departed Dad’s promise to me. This time I could not get anywhere with him.
My other brother lives in MT and clings to his gun and believes the NRA and GOP lines about Obama. He watches FOX News and listens to Rush Limbaugh. He is even harder to convince since he has been brainwashed. According to him I drink the Kool-aide. I did switch his wife to Obama this time though.
My Mom voted for Obama and all Dems as did I and I turned in our mail-in ballots. My four grown kids and their spouses are voting for Obama. My two brothers are a disappointment to me.
Think it will be the Caymans Bob!
An oldie (relatively speaking 🙂 ), but goodie!!
Was just reminded of it by a tweet and thought all of you would enjoy it on a Fall Saturday evening …
#TrustBarack
I voted TODAY here in beautiful Albuquerque, NM (sort of…please don’t look down at the dirt, weeds and broken glass ok?)! We’re BLUE. No drama here. I am the infamous TOD owner of the new-blue-car with the GORGEOUS OBAMA ’12 front license plate once featured here. SO I pull up right in front at the early polling site and go in. EASY process! Nice poll workers! But when I get outside one of the ancient ole white poll workers guys has taken a big plastic sidewalk easel and pushed against the front of my car to hide the plate!!! “CAMPAIGNING” is prohibited within 100 YDs of the polling site, so….no prob….rules are rules…..but I hadda chuckle!! I hope he didn’t strain his O2 tank and orthopedic sneakers rushing to hide my plate!! :>)
Congrats magapie! One more in PBO’s column. FORWARD#
First Lady Michelle Obama will be featured on a special edition of the nationally syndicated Café Mocha Radio Show this weekend.
Mrs. Obama shares a special message for African American women during her interview with show hosts Loni Love, MC Lyte and Angelique Perrin in the interview, which begins airing on Friday.
With healthcare reform being a focal point in the upcoming presidential election, the First Lady urged women to “own their power” and understand that the ability to make decisions about their reproductive health is at serious risk.
Girl Talk: Michelle Obama Visits Cafe Mocha Radio Show http://alwaysalist.com/radio/michelle-obama-cafe-mocha-radio-show/
The Editor is a Republican. Plenty of conservative papers have endorsed PBO and what did we hear? SILENCE!! “We” are up against the ilk of the Republican party and the media. It is okay though because victory is within sight.
TOD, I missed you so much. I just got back light after Hurricane Sandy passed by Jamaica. It seemed I missed a lot.
This was supposed to be down thread some.
Sorry to hear you were touched by the terrible weather. Welcome back and hope you’re OK!
Glad to hear Sandy has passed you by, leaving lots of water I have no doubt. I assume that apart from the power failure you and yours are alright? Nothing out of the norm has happened here – PBO doing well and lots of excitement about early voting are not out of the norm. 😆
Glad you came through Sandy. Hope you’re safe and sound!
Sunday is souls to the polls for Florida!
Awesome 🙂
What happened to the New Hampshire thread with all the pics? Am I going nuts?
😆 It’s me who’s nuts CK, pressed publish too early, so deleted it – will have it up soon.
Wife: “This isn’t chicken parmiggiana! (Reads menu.) Oh, it’s chicken marinated in parmesan Italian dressing. Well, this is sucky.”
Me: “Hey, your other choice was braised beef tips. Don’t blame the hospital for your lack of reading comprehension.”
Wimmin.
I agree with your wife. WTF is ” chicken marinated in Parmesan dressing”?!! It sounds unappetizing. I’m making my ‘yuck’ face here, Lib-Lib. Super yuck! :eeck:
/min.
Actually isalovesobama, it is very bery tastey. 🙂
Just finishing up for the evening. Lots of doors knocked. My canvassers did an outstanding job today. We’ve got this!
HOW COOL ARE YOU??!! Thank you so much for all your hard work, Alycee!!
No thanks needed — I’m selfishly working in my own BEST interest!
There’s our beautiful Alycee!!!
*applause* Go Alycee!
I just got a chance to watch the MO Las Vegas video. If there was any doubt as to why they call her
THE CLOSER, that video will remove all doubt. This woman is super fantastic! What passion, what depth,what warmth
and compassion, OMG! I was blown away and moved to tears at the same time. Michelle touches our souls in a very
deep way. She inspires me to fight even harder and donate all that I can to this righteous cause of re-electing
this great man, her husband…PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA. Yes. we. can. !!!
today was the start of early voting in MD too…. my middle son just called to say he voted today & he waited in line for over 40 minutes!! His girlfriend said there was long lines in her area also 🙂
I voted in deep blue montgomery county (went 72% for PBO in 08), and I waited in line 90 minutes! I was among the earlier ones, so those who came after me probably had a longer wait of over 2 hrs.
Awesome! Josh is in Howard County.
Wow what a day! I am exhausted and still recovering from being sick. I spent 6 hours today phonebanking to IA and VA. I can’t count the number of calls that I made through the afternoon. I decided to trek down to Obama HQ to make calls from a friend’s office who has been working like a fiend over the past few months. I brought him so lunch, then sat down at a computer and started dialing. As you would expect, things are bustling here in Chicago. The energy is palpable and spirits are high. Though I did notice a few more people looking haggard today than I have in the past few weeks 🙂 No sleep until November 7th. As usual, the number one concern expressed was GOTV. I could report that from what I am seeing online and offline the grassroots is FIRED UP and READY TO GO. A few months ago, I encouraged my friend to check in here if he wanted to find a place besides the OFA blog where he can see what Obama supporters are saying and reporting. He has been a “lurker” ever since. Anyway, I just wanted to drop in with a little update. I will be phonebanking again tomorrow except this time from home. I have an intermittent cough that doesn’t seem to want to go away. I am really loving the updates that I am reading from folks here over the past few weeks. Please keep them coming. It is always so encouraging that we are not alone in our far flung cities doing this work but rather that we are part of an amazing community of great people doing all that we can to re-elect the President to another term. Peace to you all.
Nice! Keep up the good work! I came back from classes all day today and I’m tired as heck, but soon as I got in it was phone banking in Ohio. We will not lose this election!
From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank all of you who are working so hard for PBO…from knocking on doors, to phoning strangers, tweeting, providing news,and providing support for OFA volunteers…. and to you Chips an extra special thank you for providing this place for PBO supporters to congregate….WHEN PBO is reelected it will be b/c of all of you………I wish all of you could come to my house for a champagne brunch the day after….that is if you are not too hungover from celebrating the night before. Again, a BIG THANK YOU and (((((hugs))))) from all of us who are unable to do the things you are doing….
+1. All the hard working volunteers can’t be thanked enough.
LL….am keeping your wife in my thoughts. Hope she improves very soon.
sad, but true. We have work to do in this country.
Chips – spectacular graphic in that tweet meta just posted!
#TrustBarack
Whoa. THIS!
Perfect – this graphic should be front paged 🙂
How can this be transferred to FB?
One more thing…..all of you in the path of this storm, we are so concerned for you…….be safe…….as far as this election is concerned, they can always postpone it……or postpone voting for areas that are involved…..WE THE PEOPLE can have an uprising and demand it…..
This is in reference to Jacksonville, FL.
Staging location is now closed. Off to get some ice cream. Will be back to read you guys later…
MERRIMACK, N.H. — A photo with the president is a hot commodity even for well-known Democratic candidates running statewide. Two candidates in uphill races for state representative got their own on Saturday afternoon.
Kim Kojak and Joanne Rotast had been tipped off by the local Democratic organization that Obama would be making an unannounced visit to The Common Man restaurant branch here.
Rotast, who told Obama that she’d tried many times to win a dinner with him through one of the campaign fundraising promotions, received “a birthday hug and a kiss” from the president when her husband pointed out that she was celebrating Saturday.
Both got photos of them with a smiling Obama that are already headed for the Merrimack Democrats Facebook page. But getting more prospective voters to see them standing with the commander-in-chief isn’t going to be easy.
“My campaign lit—everything’s already done,” Kojak said by phone later in the day. “But “I’ll be getting it out on social media absolutely, absolutely. I just have no more money for my campaign.”
Kojak is counting on Democrats flipping the majority of the 400-member New Hampshire House of Representatives, but she’s more measured about her own prospects in Merrimack. She thinks the same is true for Obama: though she’s expecting him to win the state, she’s not sure that Merrimack voters will change their minds from 2008, when they didn’t support him.
“This time, I think that maybe they are disgusted enough with how things are going on a national level and also on a local level, so I think it’s going to be close. I think it’s going to be closer than 2008,” Kojak said. “But I don’t want to predict he’s going to win.”
And…
MERRIMACK, N.H. — President Obama is used to talking about the first lady out on the trail, but Saturday on his short trip through New Hampshire, two new topics came up: her 2016 White House prospects and her marital philosophy.
Stopping at Teamsters Local 633 in Manchester in the early afternoon, Obama was grabbed with urgency by an older woman who’d waited in the union hall basement for the president.
“Tell Michelle to stand by, we need a woman president in four years,” she said.
Obama responded with a deep chuckle, not touching that one.
Later, in his stop here at The Common Man restaurant after his rally in Nashua, Obama greeted a couple who told him they’d been married 48 years by noting that he and his wife just celebrated 20 years together (as he acknowledged on the stage in Denver, their anniversary was the night of the disastrous first debate).
Their secret?
“Michelle’s attitude is that it takes about 15 years to train a man,” Obama said. “But the last five have been pretty good.”
That is a very cute write-up.
A 400-member house for a stamp size state ? What ? They one rep per home out there?
Hi folks, Just got back from a big day of canvassing in Milwaukee with 50 some other Chicago volunteers. A terrific OFA office up there and great weather – sunshine and about 50 which was perfect for canvassing. This is the first year that Wisconsin has early voting so many were unaware of it still so it was fun to be able to give them the details and most all were excited to go vote. They have it 7 days a week up until November 3rd! Saturday and Sunday 9-5 and weekdays until 7:30 so it really really helps people who have regular day jobs. They can also register and early vote at the same time/same place.
Awesome, forus!
Is that county strong for dems or the rethugs?
It voted 57% Obama 41% McCain in “08. 🙂
Excellent.
Former “car czar” Steve Rattner is heading to Ohio tomorrow as a surrogate for President Obama, a source familiar with the trip said.
The source didn’t immediately know the specifics of where in the state Rattner, who is now a frequent MSNBC commentator, will be and at which events.
But it underscores the emphasis the campaign is placing on the auto bailout.
Obama campaign aides did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
Hello! Hello! CHIPSTICKS? TOD? When I try to access the post titled New Hampshire, time stamp 16:08, I get the headline, but a black field advising me that page cannot be found. Have I become lost? Am I out here in cyberspace all alone and lonely? Oh dear oh dear, any ideas? Y’all?
Chips hit the wrong button…she said that she would have it up soon:) It’s not you….
LOL @ Am I out here in cyberspace all alone and lonely?
Will our President be traveling out of DC tomorrow?
To Orlando.
He was suppose to leave for Florida on Monday, but because of the weather he will leave Sunday night.
Just found out the DMR endorsed Romney then begged him to protect everyone’s rights. I almost fell off the bed laughing. How butt hurt were they at the off the record interview Pres. Obama gave their reporter? Sheesh. 😆
All that snit fit was an indicator.
I actually met a guy on our bus to Milwaukee today canvassing for Obama who works at the Onion here in Chicago. Hung out with him for a bit – hilarious stories.
Someone DM’d me to look at Nate’s last sentence in his blog post of a couple of hours ago ….
“Still, it is misinformed to refer to Ohio as a toss-up. Mr. Obama is the favorite there, and because of Ohio’s central position in the Electoral College, he is therefore the overall favorite in the election.”
And, he notes …
“In Ohio, however, there are not just three polls: roughly a dozen polling firms, rather, have surveyed the state over the past 10 days. There are NO precedents in the database for a candidate losing with a two- or three-point lead in a state when the polling volume was that rich.”
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/oct-26-state-poll-averages-usually-call-election-right/
As all of you know, the only polls that ever matter to me are the ones where folk vote, but it seemed worthwhile to share the above in case any of you haven’t already seen it.
Irrespective of how encouraging Nate’s analysis may appear to be, let’s remember, we are in this not to win but to crush Willard and his fanatical John Birch Party and remove as many of its minions from Congress and State Houses throughout the Republic.
#TrustBarack
Bobfr, thank you for this information. In these closing days I am looking for anything that warms the heart
and this positively does. Also, thank you, thank you, thank you for being such a warrior on twitter each day
on behalf of our President. You are amazing.
Boston Glove – Campaign tips for Scott Brown
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2012/10/25/lehigh/fQ4YlyYFiyRIMtSJ8qhEiN/story.html
Um, Senator Brown, got a minute?
Let me be blunt. You are in imminent danger of becoming former Senator Scott Brown.
Why? Well, for starters, you’re running a dumb campaign in a smart state.
You have basically been rolling burning barrels out of the back of your truck at Elizabeth Warren, hoping to raise enough doubts to disqualify her in voters’ minds.
That explains your obsessive harping on her undocumented claim of Native American heritage and the “questions” it supposedly raises. And your ads that twist complicated legal cases she’s been involved with into a narrative that portrays her as a legal gun-for-hire who has enriched herself by helping corporations run roughshod over everyday people.
The DES moines register is owned by the Hammett company and partially owned by Bain Capitol
Well, well, well…
jovie, I don’t know how you dig up these nuggets. The fingerprint of that horrible bain capital is everywhere.
Please tweet this everywhere to help expose the corrupt, bought and paid for media that now operates in the USA.
Another nose holding endorsement
New post everyone:
http://theobamadiary.com/2012/10/27/new-hampshire-2/
Anybody knows if this is true ?
Greg Pinelo later tweeted that he was mistaken. So this is not true.
“Georgia black turnout on record pace”…more than a quarter million blacks have already voted in Georgia which is the highest on record according to the Secretary of State. Wow!!
http://www.politico.com/blogs/charlie-mahtesian/2012/10/georgia-black-turnout-on-record-pace-147409.html