Obama can exploit early voting to win Ohio (18 electoral votes), Nevada (6) and Iowa (6), but that gives him only 267 Electoral College votes. Obama is likely to finish 3 electoral votes short of what he needs to win.

Chrysler Group's production plans for the Jeep brand have become the focus of public debate.

I feel obliged to unambiguously restate our position: Jeep production will not be moved from the United States to China.



From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2012 ... z2AnfUuBvt

Monkeyboy wrote:Saw Christie endorsed Obama today, saying he's the right man for the job during tough times and stuff like that. Good for him.

Maybe I'm starting to like that fat tub of goo (Jerry Royster reference, ftw).

td11 wrote:Sam Stein @samsteinhp
Romney's Jeep ad has frightened workers (who think they're losing jobs) + prompted Chrysler CEO to write Detroit News bit.ly/SsaeGO

Chrysler Group's production plans for the Jeep brand have become the focus of public debate.

I feel obliged to unambiguously restate our position: Jeep production will not be moved from the United States to China.



From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2012 ... z2AnfUuBvt

In endorsement after endorsement, the basic argument is that President Obama hasn’t been able to persuade House or Senate Republicans to work with him. If Obama is reelected, it’s a safe bet that they’ll continue to refuse to work with him. So vote Romney!

That’s not even a slight exaggeration. Take the Des Moines Register, Iowa’s largest and most influential paper. They endorsed Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, Al Gore in 2000, John Kerry in 2004, and Barack Obama in 2008. But this year, they endorsed Romney.

Why? In the end, they said, it came down to a simple test. “Which candidate could forge the compromises in Congress to achieve these goals? When the question is framed in those terms, Mitt Romney emerges the stronger candidate.”

The paper goes on to note that “early in his administration, President Obama reached out to Republicans but was rebuffed.” The problem, they say, is that “since then, he has abandoned the effort, and the partisan divide has hardened.” I’m not sure that’s an accurate read of the situation — Obama spent most of 2011 negotiating with John Boehner — but that’s neither here nor there. The point is that’s how the Register sees it, and it stands in contrast with Romney, who “succeeded as governor in Massachusetts where he faced Democratic majorities in the legislature.”

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In the New York Times, David Brooks’s endorsement is titled “The Upside of Opportunism.” The opportunism he’s endorsing is Romney’s. But the opportunism that led to his endorsement is the House Republicans’.

Predicting a second Obama term, Brooks begins with the fiscal cliff. “Obama would first go to Republicans in the Senate and say, ‘Look, we’re stuck with each other. Let’s cut a deal for the sake of the country.’ He would easily find 10 Republican senators willing to go along with a version of a Grand Bargain. Then Obama would go to the House. He’d ask Eric Cantor, the majority leader, if there were votes for such a deal. The answer would probably be no.”

Romney, Brooks says, would also begin his term by heading to Congress and asking members of the other party for cooperation on a fiscal deal. The difference between him and Obama, Brooks thinks, is that Romney would get that cooperation. So vote Romney.

jerseyhoya wrote:Only Barack Obama is allowed to mislead people about his opponent's stance on auto industry issues! How appalling by Romney! Didn't he know that?!