CHICAGO — Sandy (the hurricane), Bruce (the Jersey rocker), and Bill (the former president) certainly helped President Obama in the waning moments of the race. But in the end, it was the steadily rising economy that kept Obama afloat and prevented Mitt Romney from reaching the White House.
Americans were not as willing as Romney to blame the president for the nation’s problems, even after Romney spent two years relentlessly prosecuting Obama over the damage: high unemployment, tepid growth, ballooning deficits.
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"Obama’s relentless attack on Romney’s Bain Capital years helped persuade sufficient numbers of independents and swing voters that Romney was an unacceptable alternative, even if they were unhappy with the status quo"....ACTUALLY, I believe that it was the BOSTON GLOBE's relentless attack on Romney's Bain Capital that was picked up by the Obama campaign.......Then there was the Obama campaign ad in which a man claimed that Romney's Bain Capital left his wife behind to die from cancer.....And speaking of leaving people to die, there's the Benghazi, Libya embassy attacks. And the massive COVERUP by both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. ---Hillary Clinton told a grieving Charles Woods "We will arrest and prosecut the man who sis this film"...The House of Representatives should continue its probe and call all members of the State Department and the president to testify under oath. If found guilty of DISHONORING their offices, they should receive dishonorable discharges, if not arrested and prosecuted themselves
Romney's groundless assertion that flipping companies to make lots and lots of money qualifies him to run a nation's economy required a resounding rebuttal.
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Part of the problem was which Mitt was going to show up, the fire-brand Tea Party favorite of the primaries or the slowly shifting moderate that kept appearing each week in stump speeches. It's not just that Mitt didn't connect, and I don't think he did, but that he connected only with those who were going to vote for him anyway. His 47% comment didn't help him either, and I guess with his weekend shift to the teleprompter to "stay on message" wasn't much help either. Mitt tried but for the wrong crowd.
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That headline should read "Obama Kept Economy Afloat"
Obama's lack of leadership kept the U.S economy in shambles. But - Obama's lies, the Blacks, Latinos, students & White single women kept Obama afloat.
It sounds like you consider a lot of the people who voted for Obama as sub-human. Is there a white robe in your closet?
The stock market fell with the announcement of Obama's reelection. The media refuse to print the truth about the fragile U.S economy. They also refuse to print the truth about Obama.
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