President Obama, Mitt Romney run neck-and-neck in swing states

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President Obama and Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney run neck-and-neck in hypothetical match-ups in three critical swing states, a new Quinnipiac poll shows.

Voters are nearly split between the president and the former Massachusetts governor in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida -- and since 1960, no presidential candidate has won without carrying at least two of those three states.

The poll, conducted from October 31 to November 7, shows that businessman Herman Cain leads Romney among Republican voters in Ohio and Florida and is tied with Romney in Pennsylvania. However, in all three states, voters consider Romney more trustworthy than Cain and are more comfortable with the idea of Romney as president. Furthermore, Mr. Obama bests Cain in a hypothetical match-up in all three states.

Mr. Obama won Pennsylvania by more than a 10-point margin in 2008, but the Quinnipiac survey shows the president polling just one point ahead of Romney, 44 percent to 43 percent. Fifty-two percent of Pennsylvania voters disapprove of the president's job performance, and 50 percent say he doesn't deserve a second term.

In Ohio, Mr. Obama is ahead of Romney 45 percent to 42 percent. Half of Ohio voters disapprove of the president's job performance and 46 percent say he deserves to be re-elected.

In 2008, Mr. Obama won Florida by just about 2 points, but he currently trails Romney there, 45 percent to 42 percent. While the president beats Cain in a hypothetical match-up, Cain comes close in Florida: The president leads 45 percent to 41 percent.

Florida could prove to be even more of a challenge for Mr. Obama if the Republican candidate selects Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida as a running mate. The first-term senator, a rising GOP star known for his charm and his Cuban heritage, has been widely considered a top contender for the GOP vice presidential slot, though he's said he's not interested in the job.

[RobAla]

How can anyone in their right mind continue to support President Obama? Most Americans don't care for lies, corruption, and extremism in a President.

Let's look at the list of achievements during his first 3 years of President Obama and fellow progressives:
1) He lied 8 times in promises to televise the health care discussions openly on CSPAN.
2) He made deals giving one premium health care plan to union members (supporters) and another to the rest of the country.
3) He stood by and allowed the House and Senate to buy health care votes using taxpayer money.
4) He allowed the health care bills to be fashioned behind closed doors and be filled with political favors. This disaster of a health care law costs the American taxpayers an additional $105 billion EACH YEAR, after the Democrats cut more than $400 billion from Medicare to pay for it.
5) He and they took over the nations health care by the federal government - most Americans did not want this extreme action - and still do not. This horrible bill will cause the majority of Americans to have higher health care cost in rising premiums. The CBO in May 2010 said that this irresponsible bill will cause $1 trillion over the next 10 years in additional federal spending. We already can not afford the size federal government that we currently have, with a $14.4 trillion national debt. It imposes $billions of unfunded mandates on struggling states to provide greater Medicaid coverage. 27 states are suing the federal government over this nonsense, as they don't have the money to pay for this. Businesses are not hiring because of the additional cost PER EMPLOYEE that is caused by this law. President Obama has continued at least a 9% unemployment rate for three years.
6) He irresponsibly overspent 100s of billions of dollars the US didn't have on bailouts (President Bush started it and President Obama accelerated it) and bogus stimulus packages. The worthless 111th Congress (led by Democrat Nancy Pelosi) was too busy screwing up the nation to do their job. They never established a budget for the nation in 2010, and by law they are to do this.
7) President Obama has behaved in the most partisan manner of any recent President, after promising bipartisanship. He has arrogantly trashed everyone who has not agreed with his socialist agenda - even the Supreme Court.
8) Instead of securing the border and enforcing federal immigration laws, the President has made war on Arizona Americans as they attempt to protect themselves from an invasion of illegal immigrants.
9) The President's man, AG Holder, dropped his case against the Black Panthers who blatantly intimidated voters at the polls. Now, Holder may finally be kicked out over "Fast and Furious" - the program that sold guns to Mexican cartels, guns used to kill a US border agent.
10) This President has focused on this extremist agenda, instead of the millions without jobs. You can not grow the federal government on the backs of business and taxpayers during a recession, and expect job creation.
11) President Obama imposed a moratorium on drilling in the gulf, throwing thousands more out of work. One foreign oil company screwed up, and the President decided to punish other oil companies that have drilled responsibly for decades.
12) President Obama wanted the President Bush tax cuts to expire, which would have resulted in redirecting money away from the economy and pushing it into Washington. The President held on to this until he was forced to change by the pounding the Democrats took in the 2010 election. Still, he promises to increase taxes next year.
13) The President and other progressives in Congress have imposed oppressive additional expenses and regulations on private sector businesses that are crippling the private sector jobs market, while expanding the federal government and public sector jobs. Anyone with any economic sense knows that you need tax revenues from a healthy private sector jobs market to fund public sector expansions, and the money is just not there. Yet, President Obama wildly and irresponsibly continues to massively grow the federal government - hence an outrageous $14.4 trillion national debt.
14) He knows nothing about economics or foreign policy, as he was a community organizer. A community organizer is someone who agitates for a particular cause.
He has continually agitated one group of Americans against another in class warfare and pointing blame at entire groups of Americans for his failures (bankers, mortgage lenders, the Supreme Court, private insurance providers, CEOs, all Republicans, oil companies, Fox News, corporations...etc). He does nothing to unite the nation.

Just to name a few. The perfect word for President Obama is "irresponsible". His failed policies and practices are tearing this country apart. He is the worst President in my lifetime, and I have seen 12. How in the world can he still have any serious support? He has to go in 2012.

[1988JAck]

This will all change when Romney is nominated. President Obama will win a second term by a large majority.