Let’s see …. stepford mormon wall street toady vs. stepford Reaganite-in-democrat-clothing wall street toady.

Think I’ll choose neither.

the country still thinks KNOWS the economy is doing poorly.

Fixed it for ya!

Boxturtle (You can fool all of the people some of the time….)

Spot on, Box; and I think there are still going to be some ugly foreign-policy chickens coming home to roost at Pennsy avenue.

Hotdog: post of the week! Right to the point. :o)

The one thing from the poll that should concern the Obama team most is that most Americans continue to view the state of the economy as bad

Perhaps they should also be concerned about their having so routinely betrayed people who would otherwise be their supporters that those people are now disinclined to vote for them despite their inspiring battle cry, “Yes, we suck, but the other guy sucks a bit worse.”

Gotta admit, that is pretty good. Gotta laugh to keep from crying.

I can see how Romney’s gaining. He hasn’t said anything monumentally stupid since last Thursday.

Ahh, the day is young.

FYI these polls are complete horseshit. A manufactured horse race.

For real change see “proportional representation”.

Agreed. I don’t believe for a second that a majority of Americans want a corporate raider for President.
On second thought, if it’s true, then I’m flabbergasted.

It’s pathetic that Obama could do such a horrendous job of standing for anything that people could remotely get behind a corporate raider like Mitt Romney as an agent for hope after the biggest failure of the free market in 80 years.

Remember when Obama stood up at a podium and railed against the Professional Left after Democrats got their asses kicked in 2010, for the PL being unsatisfiable whiners because they were mad that healthcare reform “didn’t have a public option that would only have affected a million or so people” and his “sweeping” financial reform POS “didn’t address some obscure derivative rule”?

Well, how did that work out? Now he’s going to get up for re-election to defend a healthcare bill that most of the country dislikes, wants repealed and may get struck down by the Supreme Court when even Scalia said during arguments that providing healthcare through taxes would be constitutionally acceptable. And he’s going to defend his inadequate financial reform as something that represents standing up to Wall Street when JPMorgan is on stage as Exhibit A of the fact that nothing has changed and the banks that were too big to fail in 2008 are even bigger today.

The Republicans should have been facing electoral extinction after 2008, and 98% of the US would have loved to see Wall Street put to the guillotine. All it took was Obama to suck up to the savvy businessmen to bring the Republicans back from the dead.

Not really surprised. Although he’s done some good, overall Obama has been a disaster on so many levels. The Republicans will drown this election with a tidal wave of money and sadly, the “electorate” will follow the money.

Prepare to be flabbergasted. The U.S. electorate by and large are politically ignorant and are nothing more than marionettes of the 1%.

Exactly right. The big 0 went begging to the repugs for one measly vote for a health care plan that they wrote and it was all down hill from there in terms of the voting in the two houses of congress. The big 0 had already shown where he stood on election night by his “look forward, not back…” speech and his appointment of rahmbo. As anyone can tell, I am so looking forward to voting for the big 0.

Now that I have had my say on voting, I want to switch back to ask the question, “why is FDL following the lead of the msm so closely on the “horse race” aspect of this pres election. I realize that constantly writing about politics brings problems of what to write about, but it seems to me that this is one aspect that is not worth obsessing about. I realize that I don’t have to read it, and often I don’t, but it seems that FDL has slid into the easy to write articles rut.

Several sites that are watching all the polls and transferring that to the electoral college clearly indicate that Romney does not have a path to 270 electoral votes under the current landscape. But it’s fun sitting on the benches and playing with the pencils.

..nothing more than marionettes of the 1%.

I don’t know about that. I think most Americans are perfectly capable of making the wrong decision totally on their own. But, give them some help, they’ll walk into quicksand carrying an anvil.

Obama was more concerned about winning the “friendship” of the “loyal” opposition to prove even though we was black and supposedly a Democrat he was really one of them. Had he come out hard fighting for the public at large, holding the criminals in the past administration accountable, clearly supported single payer (at the least a public option) he would have won the support of the base and a majority of the independents. His bipartisanship fetish was total bs and will ultimately cost him the election. Of course Rahm will say he didn’t move further to the right. It’s time to be organizing the opposition to the coming Republican administration. The Republicans will at least rally and unite progressives and “liberals” ( I really hate using the term “liberals” because they are a disgrace) and be the source of real push back.

Well said!

Interesting point, as always. But Obama is raising a ton of money too. I suspect, but I have no proof, he’s been getting money from the 1% as well. After all, they’ve made out prettttty well under him.

It’s so much easier to follow the “horse race.” It’s that simple. For the corporate media it’s preferable than actually reporting the real issues that effect the lives of the average American.

In Michigan they have been running anti-Obama ads on radio and television for the last 3 months and it’s just getting started. You would think Michigan would be safe for Obama because of the auto bailout but these ads are having an impact. They are providing the frame by which people will make their decision and right now the picture of Obama in that frame is that of Dorian Grey, the one that was hidden in the closet.

And, who doesn’t enjoy a good horse race. As long as you got a seat near the bathroom, it’s a nice distraction from the trials and tribulations.

I do miss Perry, and Cain, and Newt, and Santorum though.

Also bear in mind that when social security author Eric Laursen participated in an FDL book salon on Saturday, he said that Obama was a greater threat to SS than Romney; with Romney, Congressional D’s are free to pretend they oppose cuts to it.

Oh yeah, good times! Good times!

Exactly. It was said in the past that it would be political suicide for a Democrat to reestablish relations with Communist China. The only one that could do it had to be a Republican, ergo Nixon. The same is true for the dismantling of SS and Medicare. Political suicide for a Republican but possible if proposed by a “Democrat” ergo Obama. He’s done more to destroy the traditional Democratic Party than any politician of the 20th & 21st Centuries.

I really expect it to get verry dirty before it’s over. The republicans are gonna attack Obama on every possible front. They’re callin him everything from fascist to communist. Sometimes, both.

Not to mention “foreign born.”

I don’t expect much in the msm; I don’t really pay much attention to their following the “horse race.” I guess I do expect more here and am disappointed to see it slid into the same rut.

Obama is really a sociopathic conman in an accelerated, tuned-for-the-times mould of Mush Clinton, version 2.0, the pandering to the slave south rejiggered to suit the temper of the Internet generation.

I listened to Obama’s reception at–Radcliffe? Vassar? one of them, where you’d really think they’d know better–t’other day, and the crowd was Beatles hysterical. Frightening, really.

Our side, and, speaking as a true patriot, the good of the nation, needs for Obama to lose. He is far more capable of delivering the agenda of modern feudalism than a shallow brute like Romney, whose mien we’ve seen before. Mitt’s an HW Bush, more or less, without Bush’s leverage of insider knowledge as to where the skeletons are buried in the power elite’s near-term past. Those Eastern poobah dinosaurs just don’t hunt so good, anymore.

If nothing else, a moderate centrist would have to fly his phony freak flag so high to appease his base that no one would take him seriously, and his base would eviscerate him at the first sensible policy he had to implement at the behest of his financier cronies. Which Obama can get away with, because his “base” is sorta concerned with at least the appearance of competent governance.And the ravers on both sides just blow their various wads on the floor anyway, so F ‘em, eh?

The fact that Romney has a slight lead in the national polls doesn’t scare me like it used to. Obama and Romney are pretty much the same, in fact, Obama is so determined to be like Mitt that he ripped off Mitt’s health care plan. Obama has proven beyond any doubt there is no real, discernible difference between the 2 parties. And Obama’s been such a major disappointment (his recent, extremely belated “evolution” on gay marriage nothwithstanding) it’s impossible to get any enthusiasm to vote for him, and the fear tactics of the Dems aren’t working this time around.

Of course the election will be close. Why would anyone think otherwise. We have two candidates that are offering agendas that differ at most on very minute items.

It’s a deep irony that Obama is essentially running on a Republican record. Obamacare is Republican, and a watered down financial “reform” bill is what a moderate Republican would have passed.

Great! Let’s see.

We have a glorious horse race manufactured by the lamestream media between two candidates and their respective parties.

Yet, their only substantive “accomplishment” to date is to agree that all of the extremely important issues of the day will never be acknowledged or discussed.

Issues such as how to resuscitate our moribund economy, end unemployment, end the never-ending wars and bring our troops home, regulate and control wall street greed, reign-in spiraling out-of-control health care costs, establish single-payer health care, and restore of our civil rights, to name a few.

I cannot think of a reason why anyone with a functioning brain cell would vote for either one of these candidates.

I certainly won’t.

Suprise… suprise…

Voters cant decide which of the two corrupt, lying scumbags… to vote for.

I wont be voting for either of the two creeps.

Independents and third party candidates all the way… no more corrupt/fake Democrats and Republicans.

I just call him what he is … a corrupt politician.

Other labels are only meant to distract peoples attention from that fact.