VOTE: By All and Any Means VOTE

VOTE: By All and Any Means VOTE

  What many of us voters do not fully understand is the full array and the depth of psychological warfare be waged during elections. Unless you find an objective source from with you get your political news you will be getting bombarded with all kinds of exaggeration, false claims, smoke and mirrors, and straight up lies. If you only listen to the sound bites or only read the headlines, which is the case with many voters you will tend to buy into the lies and false claims.
  Right now they are claiming that President Obama is doing fairly well by leading in the polls within key battleground states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. Here is the trick with these polls; people who might vote, but are not that fired up tend to back away when they think that their candidate is ahead in the polls. The double edge sword is that their are some who will not go out and vote if they think their candidate is sure to lose. This may be why President Obama says that it will be a close race and he needs all of the support and votes he can get. WE MUST REMEMBER THIS!
   Do not put too much faith in the polls. Sometimes they are thrown out there to give false perceptions. Just get out and vote!
  Below are the latest poll results. I will continue to post about the latest news concerning the campaign, so stay tuned as this race heats up.

Poll: Obama over 50% in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania

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CNN's Kevin Liptak

(CNN) - President Barack Obama has a majority of voters backing him in three critical battleground states, according to a survey released Wednesday.


The Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times poll showed Obama leading his Republican challenger Mitt Romney in Florida 51%-45%, in Ohio 50%-44%, and in Pennsylvania 53%-42%. Florida and Ohio are considered toss-ups in November's general election, while Pennsylvania is rated "lean Obama" on CNN's Electoral Map. 


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The poll indicated that only 4% of likely voters in each of the three states had yet to decide on a candidate to support. Among Romney backers, 10% in Florida and Ohio and 9% in Pennsylvania said they could change their mind before November. Eleven percent of Obama's supporters in Florida said they could change their minds, compared to 13% in Ohio and 15% in Pennsylvania.

"If today were November 6, President Barack Obama would sweep the key swing states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania and – if history is any guide – into a second term in the Oval Office," Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, wrote in a statement accompanying the poll's release.

Brown cited better-than-average unemployment rates in Ohio and Florida as possible factors in Obama's lead there, writing that "The president is running better in the key swing states than he is nationally."

Among self-identified independents, Obama edges Romney in Florida 47%-46%, and Ohio 47%-44%. The president's lead among independents in Pennsylvania is more robust, 58%-36%.

A gender gap persists in all three states, where women are more likely to back Obama and men go stronger for Romney.

In all three battlegrounds, an enthusiasm gap persists between the two candidates. Sixty five percent of Obama supporters in Florida say they strongly favor the president, compared to 49% of Romney's backers who say they strongly favor the Republican candidate.

In Ohio, 60% were "strongly supporting" Obama, compared to 42% who said the same for Romney. And in Pennsylvania, 59% were strong supporters of Obama and 41% were strongly supporting Romney.

On the economy, voters are split between Obama and Romney. Forty seven percent of Floridians said Romney would do a better job handing economic issues, compared to 45% who named Obama.

In Ohio, 46% of voters said Obama would better handle to economy, and 45% picked Romney. Pennsylvanians gave Obama higher marks on the economy, with 48% naming the president as better on the economy and 44% naming Romney.

"All this matters because half of all likely voters say the economy is the most important issue to their vote, far ahead of any other issue. The saving grace for Gov. Mitt Romney is that he roughly breaks even with the president on who is best on the economy," Brown said.

The Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times poll was conducted by telephone July 24-30. In Florida, 1,177 likely voters were polled and the sampling error was plus or minus 2.9 percentage points. In Ohio, 1,193 likely voters were called with a sampling error of 2.8 percentage points. And in Pennsylvania, 1,168 likely voters were polled with a sampling error of 2.9 percentage points.

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Obama, Romney camps spar over tax study

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CNN White House Producer Adam Aigner-Treworgy

Akron, Ohio (CNN) – Making his 12th visit to the Buckeye State since announcing his campaign for reelection, President Barack Obama on Wednesday continued to hammer home the differences between his tax policies and those of his opponent.

At a morning event in Mansfield, Obama used his speech to highlight a new study by the Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center that concluded Mitt Romney's tax proposals would provide large tax cuts to the very wealthy while increasing the tax burden on the lower and middle classes.

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The Romney campaign quickly pushed back, pointing out that one of the study’s three authors used to work for the White House. Adam Looney, now a senior fellow of The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution, served as senior economist for public finance and tax policy with the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2009 to 2010.

Speaking to 3,000 people at the John S. Knight Center here in the afternoon, Obama continued the back-and-forth between the two campaigns.

“Just today, an independent, non-partisan organization, they crunched all the numbers. They looked at his plan. This wasn’t me, it wasn’t my team,” Obama said. “This was an independent group. One of the guys who did the analysis used to work for Bush.”

Another author of the study, William G. Gale, was a senior staff economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1991 to 1992 under President George H.W. Bush.

Republicans seeking to drive transparency criticism against Obama

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CNN Political Unit

(CNN) – Republicans on Wednesday opened another line of attack against President Barack Obama and his White House, reviving doubts they have cast on the administration's transparency.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus alleged on a Wednesday conference call organized for reporters that the Obama Administration was "failing follow the law under the Presidential Records Act."
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Democratic super PAC reserving $30 million for fall TV advertising

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CNN's Kevin Bohn and Kevin Liptak

Washington (CNN) – The Democratic super PAC backing President Barack Obama, Priorities USA Action, is significantly ramping up its media spending as it reserves $30 million in broadcast and cable ad time come this fall, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN.

The group, run by two former Obama White House officials, has not actually yet purchased the ad time in the critical states of Colorado, Iowa, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, the sources said.
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Black pastors group launches anti-Obama campaign around gay marriage

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CNN's Dan Merica

Washington (CNN) – A group of conservative black pastors are responding to President Barack Obama’s support of same-sex marriage with what they say will be a national campaign aimed at rallying black Americans to rethink their overwhelming support of the President, though the group’s leader is offering few specifics about the effort.

The Rev. Williams Owens, who is president and founder of the Coalition of African-Americans Pastors and the leader of the campaign, has highlighted opposition to same-sex marriage among African-Americans. He calls this campaign “an effort to save the family.”

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