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Obama, Romney Close

Recent poll shows race is closing in as Obama, Romney campaign in NH Friday.

 

The presidential race between President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in New Hampshire remains ever so close, according to the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.

In mid-August, UNH's WMUR Granite State Poll had Obama 49 percent to Romney's 46 percent, with 2 percent for another candidate and 4 percent undecided. In April, the poll had the president with a 9-point lead over the former Massachusetts governor.

Andy Smith, executive director of the UNH Survey Center, said a gender gap appears in this battleground state, reflecting a national trend.

Women prefer Obama over Romney by 16 percent.

Men prefer Romney over Obama by 11 percent.

And the race for New Hampshire's powerful and often undefined, late-breaking undeclared voters? The battle for the hearts and minds of independents is also close: 42 percent for Obama, 39 percent for Romney.

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Twin campaign appearances in New Hampshire on Sept. 7. Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, with their wives, are scheduled to be in Portsmouth today, with remarks around noon. Romney is scheduled to speak at Holman Stadium in Nashua at approximately 7:10 tonight.

Related Topics: Barack Obama, Elections, Mitt Romney, UNH Survey Center, election 2012, and participate 2012

Timothy Harden

8:40 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

$305,562-Obamas gift to Women in terms of Natl Debt:
Grandmother $50,927
Mother $50,927
Wife $50,927
Daughter $50,927
Grand Daughter $50,927
Great Grand Daughter $50,927

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Atlant Schmidt

8:58 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Oh Timothy, you keep posting these "facts" of yours, totally ignoring the facts that 1) not only was most of this debt acquired under Republican administrations, 2) much of President Obama's contribution to the debt was paying the interest costs on the debt and finishing the prosecution of the wars started by George W. Bush.

Don't you think people notice this?

Well, maybe you'll post it in Spanish next in honor of the political party that wants to make English our only legal national language.

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Judith Hogan

9:41 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

TH - I like that synopsis. I hate the numbers, though!! When Obama took office "our" debt was $30,000. per. After 3.5 years it is $50,000. per. I fear to think what it will be if Obama is in office for another four years.

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Mike Healey

3:37 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Thankfully President Barack Obama has a plan to pay down the debt and not continue to increase it like Romney does.

Timothy Harden

9:52 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Women pay $975.75 to fill a heating oil tank.
This is a tax on Women and a cruel tax on the Poor.
How many tanks do you use during the winter?
Will the elderly go cold this winter?

275 gallons times $3.49 per gallon

Mitt Romney premises energy independence by 2020

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Mike Healey

3:36 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Thank God prices aren't as high as they were under Bush.
Mitt Romney didn't promise energy would be independent of cost by 2020.

Judith Hogan

10:01 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

I said it earlier and I will say it again. HP - I like your synopsis, however, I hate this increasing debt to future generations. When Barack Obama took office the debt per was $30,000. After 3.5 years the debt per is $50,000. After four more years, do we dare even go there? Remember, the debt has to be paid and our kids and grandkids will pay it. It's like Grandma and Grandpa travelling all over the world on a credit card and then handing the credit card statement to the kids saying "Merry Christmas" - now figure out a way to pay for our extravagance.

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Mike Healey

3:35 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Of course Republicans will increase the debt even further.

Timothy Harden

10:27 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

$1,122 is what Obama costs WOMEN per year.
Gas prices have gone up and is the same as a TAX

Now 3.71
Then 1.84
Increase 1.87

Average miles per year 15,000
Average miles per gallon 25
Gas used per year 600

600 times 1.87 equals $1,122

This is a real war against women by Obamas Energy Policies.

Romney promises energy independence by 2020

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Mike Healey

3:34 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

I thought gas prices peaked at $4.19 under Bush, so you wanted to say that President Barack Obama saves women money?

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Steve From NH

4:44 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Under Obama this country is less dependent on foreign energy than at any time in the last 40 years. You do have to give credit for the positive stuff, you know.
And Romney promises a lot of things. Romney promises EVERYTHING. On both sides of every issue. Who is Romney really, anyway? Does anyone have a clue?
Honestly, is the the best the Republicans could come do?
He was the last man standing in a long line of losers:
Republican Front Runners:
1 - Michele Backmann (Thought the Revolutionary War started in NH)
2 - Donald Trump (and he wasn't even in the race!)
3 - Herman Cain (Pizza anyone?, Just trying to sell a book)
4 - Rick Perry (oops)
5 - Rick Santorum
6 - Newt Gingrich
7 - Can anyone else please, please, please save us from Mitt? PLEASE?
8 - Sigh...... mitt romney
And do you know why?
Because Romney is a fraud. Nice guy maybe, but a small varmint huntin', pro-anti lifechoice, health care mandate, $10,000 bettin', olympics with our money savin', Venture Capital layoff makin', Cayman Island fraud.

LJoel Hackbart

11:27 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

"Romney promises energy independence by 2020"
Yes, and Romney is a liar.

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News Flash

11:43 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Obama Promised a million jobs in energy. HE LIED because he is a LIAR.

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Atlant Schmidt

12:04 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

News Flash:

That's odd; employment (or at least employment demand) seems to be way up in the oil patch and doing well in the solar business:

http://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications_papers/pub_display.cfm?id=4852

http://irecusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IREC-Solar-Market-Trends-Report-June-2011-web.pdf

It seems to me that, to the extent that the Republicans allow it, the energy sector *IS* creating plenty of new jobs.

-Paul-

3:14 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

These guys are identical or virtually identical on all major issues. They're both pro-bank bailout, stimulus, foreign military interventionism, foreign subsidies, warrant-less wiretaps/surveillance, NDAA/extrajudicial killings, patriot act, drug war, hemp/raw milk prohibition, anti-gun, pro-government takeover of healthcare, opposed to meaningful spending cuts, in favor of continued massive deficits, massive military spending, continued federal government control of education, devastating sanctions on foreign civilian populations, Fed control of monetary policy, opposed to habeus corpus -- even criminalization of private first class mail delivery.

This election is about as substantive as a fight between fans of different sports teams, or a bunch of empty hot air.

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Jan Schmidt

3:46 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

right, and the next President gets to fill a few SCOTUS seats - do you want the Koch brothers to pick them?

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-Paul-

7:51 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Jan, that's nonsense -- it's akin to a hardcore partisan republican asking if I want the SCOTUS seats to be picked by a socialist or someone who "hates America".

Each side is dug in hopeless blind partisanship, believing their own fear-mongering, and completely ignoring anything substantive ... to each, the other side is the devil incarnate. They each listen to their own media (Levin, Hannity, etc on the one side, and Maddow or Odonnel on the other), to the point where each side has its own set of skewed and mostly false "facts".

Why, Obama is a Marxist Muslim from Kenya who is implementing a plan to destroy America!

Romney is a corporate stooge who tortures animals and wants poor people to starve in the streets!

None of this is based on any sort of philosophy or rational analysis of the issues. If that actually occurred, as I say, maybe someone would notice that Bush grew government enormously, and Romney promises to do the same. Maybe someone would notice that Obama has been as pro-war and anti-civil liberties as Bush ever was (remember, the stuff that people were protesting on the street before someone with a D took office? -- silly me, I thought they were actually anti-war, or wiretapping, or extrajudicial killing/prisons, or pro habeus corpus. Really, they were just opposed to the letter "R")

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Jan Schmidt

7:57 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

No Paul, it isn't nonsense. Please take a moment to research how Romney happened to choose Ryan with a little help from Koch et.al.

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-Paul-

8:13 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Jan, research how Obama is best buds with Saul Alinsky! And listened to liberation gospel for 20 years, from an extreme pastor! He also gets funding from Soros! Oh Noes!

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-Paul-

8:15 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Jeremiah Wright hates America!:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Wright

Be afraid, be very very afraid.

Timothy Harden

3:49 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

8 Trillion, Women's share of Natl Debt. Total of 16 Trillion or $16,000,000,000,000.

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Steve From NH

4:32 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

I would think that your share of National Debt would be calculated by your net worth, income, or something similar, because that's how it's going to get paid off. So, the share of the 47% of Americans who are too poor to pay taxes, would be 0%, the share of the middle 50% would be 99% of the national debt, and the share of the top 3% would be 1% of the National Debt, because under Romney they won't pay anything over 1%.

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-Paul-

7:54 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Steve, I'm no Romney fan, but maybe you should actually look at facts, rather than hysterical hyperbole.

The top 1% pay 38% of all income taxes. The top 5% pay 59%.

Steve From NH

4:49 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Under Obama this country is less dependent on foreign energy than at any time in the last 40 years. You do have to give credit for the positive stuff, you know.
And Romney promises a lot of things. Romney promises EVERYTHING. On both sides of most every issue. Who is Romney really, anyway? Does anyone have a clue?
Honestly, is the the best the Republicans could do?
He was the last man standing in a long line of losers:
Republican Front Runners:
1 - Michele Backmann (Thought the Revolutionary War started in NH)
2 - Donald Trump (and he wasn't even in the race!)
3 - Herman Cain (Pizza anyone?, Hey, I'm just trying to sell a book)
4 - Rick Perry (oops)
5 - Rick Santorum
6 - Newt Gingrich (Moral Authoritarian cheatin' got his 3rd wife, and not that it matters, but what the heck is Callistas hair made of?)
7 - Can anyone else please, please, please save us from Mitt? PLEASE?
8 - Sigh...... mitt romney
And do you know why?
Because Romney is a fraud. Nice guy maybe, but a small varmint huntin', pro-anti lifechoice, health care mandate, $10,000 bettin', olympics with our money savin', Venture Capital layoff makin', Cayman Island fraud.

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jrmetalman

6:26 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Obama's economy is too weak. This president is too weak, maybe he should wrap himself in a pink condom and walk with the faithful. Romney and all republicans believe Reagan was the man. His recovery was TERRIFIC!!! Romney's recovery will be much, much better than the current WANNABE'S! Even the nonsense about the"Great Recession". It was absolutely HORRIBLE after Carter and the Republicans fixed it! Time for a successful change, not "Mr. Dreamer" and the "Kool Aid Gangs"!

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-Paul-

7:59 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Oh gawd ... this is what passes for political discourse. "Kool aid gang" and "varmint huntin' Cayman Island fraud"?

It's not surprising that most Romney supporters and spend 95% of their time talking about how Obama stinks, and most Obama supporters spend 95% of their time talking about how Romney stinks.

You're both right.

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-Paul-

8:01 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Sorry for being short, but I'm really tired of being surrounded by endless bull. Can January come already, so we can get the next lying, power hungry sociopath into office?

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jrmetalman

8:14 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Our economy stinks. Most of the people I know have been hurt in this economy. Believe it or not this is the OBAMA ECONOMY!!! Four more years of CRAP!!! No thank you, Romney and Ryan know the Reagan model worked. The Dems ares so focused on Tax collection they ignore what businesses can do if they are supported!!!

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-Paul-

8:27 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

This week, in stuff you weren't told by Sean Hannity:

- Under Reagan, federal spending went from $678 billion to $1.14 trillion
- The federal debt under Romney went from $712 billion to $2.05 trillion, and the deficit went from $79 billion to $152 billion.

Other highlights:

The budget for the Department of Education, which candidate Reagan promised to abolish along with the Department of Energy, more than doubled to $22.7 billion, Social Security spending rose from $179 billion in 1981 to $269 billion in 1986. The price of farm programs went from $21.4 billion in 1981 to $51.4 billion in 1987, a 140% increase. Medicare spending in 1981 was $43.5 billion; in 1987 it hit $80 billion. Federal entitlements cost $197.1 billion in 1981—and $477 billion in 1987.

His budget cuts were actually cuts in projected spending increases, not absolute cuts in current spending levels.

Reagan: "We're not attempting to cut either spending or taxing levels below that which we presently have."

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