[An Nahar]  President Barack Obama
In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed ...
has stashed $181 million into his re-election account to cheer supporters after his limp debate performance, but several polls show movement towards Republican Willard Mitt Romney
...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. More to the point, he isn't President B.O...
Obama's camp Saturday announced its biggest monthly haul of the 2012 race with its September fund-raising figures, a day after supporters got another fillip with news that the U.S. unemployment rate dipped below eight percent.
| It is said his campaign has turned off credit card identification again, as was done in 2008, which would explain the sudden non-reluctance of his many new donors. |
| Makes it a lot easier to donate using a pre-paid credit card from overseas. Easier for an American to buy a bunch of pre-paid credit cards and donate to circumvent limits, or to maintain anonymity. |
Yet there were signs that Republican Romney's confident debate joust with the president was softening support for Obama in the battleground states that will decide who will control the White House for the next four years. In Gallup's daily poll, Romney cut the president's lead from 49 to 46 percent, and other national polls and state surveys showed movement to the Republican, who appeared before 6,000 people in Florida Saturday.
| It does no good to have lots of money if the voters choose to be uninterested. Except, of course, that the retired politician can keep whatever is in the kitty by way of a retirement fund. |
It will be the middle of the coming week until Wednesday's debate and Friday's Labor Department data, which showed the tumble in the unemployment rate to 7.8 percent, are fully factored into state of the race polls.
| The reporter buys all that and sends it on, ignoring the analysis that shows that unemployment as measured by other indicators didn't budge... |
The president, whimpering mewling crying wringing his hands shaking his tiny fists recuperating after his debate mauling from Romney in Denver on Wednesday night, took time out Saturday to wine and dine his wife Michelle in a belated celebration of their 20th wedding anniversary.
| "Happy anniversary honey! Next year we can celebrate in Hawaii!" |
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