Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Monday, October 29, 2012
Sun Sentinel endorses Mitt Romney for President
Brush away all the rhetoric, all the vitriol, all the divisiveness from the presidential campaign. To most Americans, only one thing matters — the economy.
Four years into Barack Obama’s presidency, economic growth is sputtering. Family incomes are down. Poverty is up. Business owners are reluctant to assume risk in the face of unending uncertainty. Many are holding on by their fingernails, desperate for signs of an economic recovery that will help them provide for themselves, their employees, their customers and their communities.
When President Obama came into office in 2009, the economy was in freefall and though untested, he inspired us with his promise of hope and change. Now, four years later, we have little reason to believe he can turn things around.
So while we endorsed Obama in 2008, we recommend voters choose Republican Mitt Romney on Nov. 6.
Yes, the jobless numbers from September showed a drop to 7.8 percent unemployed, the first time in almost four years that it’s been below 8 percent. But the numbers are deceiving because more than 4 million Americans have given up looking for work since January 2009.
Behind those numbers are the faces of your neighbors, your family members, perhaps even yourself. Good people who want to work, but who cannot find jobs because job creators have lost faith in the nation’s economic direction.
A leader’s job is to create an environment where people can do their best work — in this case, a marketplace where good jobs can grow. Obama deserves credit for supporting the American auto industry during a time of enormous peril. And the federal stimulus — which was backed by both parties, and largely distributed by Florida’s Republican-led legislature — helped build roads, dredge shipping channels and keep teachers employed, among other things.
But today, rather than articulate a compelling vision for growth, the president falls back on the tired talking point of increasing taxes for the wealthy. Americans want our tax code to be fair — and fixed; there’s no question about that. But it’s hard to see how raising taxes is going to kickstart jobs in the private sector.
The president had enormous opportunity when he took office, with Democrats controlling both houses of Congress. But he failed to focus on Job One: Jobs.
Instead, he tackled the nation’s health care system, something most people agree needs fixing. No one wants to see people with pre-existing conditions denied health coverage. Insurance costs are taking too big a bite out of family incomes. And employers want their work family to have access to health care beyond the emergency room.
But the way this president went about solving the problem — throwing the ball to Congress with little direction, refusing reasonable compromises, settling on a solution that satisfied few — left this nation bitterly divided and shook our confidence in his ability to solve tough problems.
In these uncertain times, we need a leader who will chart a clear course, sweat the details and get the job done right.
We believe Romney’s past performance is a predictor of his future behavior. He’s proven himself to be a successful businessman. He rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from scandal and mismanagement. He worked with a Democrat-dominated legislature as governor of Massachusetts to close a $3 billion budget deficit — without borrowing and raising taxes.
Certainly we have problems with Romney. At various times, and depending on whom he is speaking to, he has tried to appeal to social conservatives and immigration extremists. His foray overseas this summer was hardly a roaring success, but during the most recent debate, he showed himself to be considered a leader capable of keeping our ship of state on a steady course.
America is a war-weary nation, and while the Middle East remains a powder keg, diplomacy must remain the first, second and third tools in our toolbox; military might the last.
One other thing to remember: the next president will likely affect the makeup of the Supreme Court, as four justices are in their 70s. Whether that will put women’s rights and other policies in danger is something voters need to consider.
But with our nation facing another fiscal cliff in January — when Congress again addresses the debt ceiling, tax hikes and spending cuts — social issues are not Job One.
We believe Romney will help this nation find the political will to address the challenges with Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. We’d like to see him exercise equal fiscal discipline at the Pentagon, whose budget has grown 50 percent in 10 years and exceeds that of the next 10 largest nations combined.
The greatest threat to our national defense is not the size of our military, but the ever-escalating size of our national debt. We must get government spending under control, across the board.
President Obama is a decent man who took office with the nation facing an economic precipice. But even he predicted he would be a one-term president if he failed to turn things around.
We believe the best chance to get America back working again is to elect Mitt Romney. That’s why we endorse him for president.
Friday, October 26, 2012
Median Household Income has Fallen
Median household income has fallen under President Obama, all while the national debt has grown to over $16 trillion. Mitt Romney will cut spending and stop passing on debts to the next generation.
Barack Obama and his liberal allies raised $1 billion
We just found out that Barack Obama and his liberal allies raised $1 billion -- the first time a political campaign has hit that mark.
They will use this money to blanket battleground states with negative ads. The President's billion-dolla
r machine has resorted to petty attacks and empty rhetoric, because they have no agenda for a second term.
We cannot allow his billion-dollar machine to win -- and we can't allow them to continue to lie about and distort my record and plan. Paul Ryan and I have bold ideas and a strong agenda to get America working again.
We will get this country back on track -- and we need your help to push back against the Obama machine and to promote our agenda.
I am proud that in September alone, we raised $43.15 million from 1,011,773 donations under $250 -- that's 93.1% of all donations from across the country. Your donation today directly supports our game-changing ground operations.
We've prepared for this moment by building a record-breaking ground game run with over 119,000 devoted volunteers. We've made nearly 45 million voter contacts and crossed the 9 million doors knocked threshold -- that's incredible.
But our grassroots operation must have the resources it needs to compete with the President's billion-dollar machine.
Act now -- contribute to build up our ground game, so Paul Ryan and I, and the Republican team, can deliver a real recovery.
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A Message from Mitt Romney
Hello,
With less than two weeks to go, we’re feeling the momentum.
The debates have supercharged our campaign and the Republican team. We're seeing more and more enthusiasm -- and more and more support.
This has become more than just a campaign. It’s become a national movement. Americans recognize we can do better as a nation than we’ve done over these last four years.
Paul and I and the Republican team have a plan to produce a real recovery for America. We're going to take back this country with good jobs, rising take-home pay, a strong military, and better opportunities for all Americans.
This is a time to call on America’s greatness. We need your help -- because it matters. It matters for your kids and their kids. It matters for 23 million Americans struggling for work. And it matters for the future of our nation to have a strong economy.
Thanks to you, the movement is gaining steam -- and your continued support will propel us to victory.
Thanks,
Mitt Romney
Only 12 More Days !
With only 12 days left in this race, supporters like you are our most crucial and powerful resource.
You can make a defining difference by doing something as simple as reminding your Facebook friends and family to get out and vote for Mitt.
That's why we've created the Commit to Mitt App -- it empowers you to rally your social networks to help clinch this election.
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The momentum is growing and victory is in sight -- now let's bring it home and make a Romney presidency a reality.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Join Mitt and Paul on Election Night
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“Special Operations of America”
A handful of former U.S. military members have formed a PAC called “Special Operations of America,” which has developed a controversial video criticizing the president called “Bow to Nobody.” The soldiers do not represent the entire military in any official capacity; but they absolutely have the right to their own opinions.
There are assuredly members of the U.S. military who disagree with them. That being said, the political ad is relevant to the election, especially in light of the administration’s assistance to the Hollywood filmmakers of Zero Dark Thirty, as well as the president’s touting of the Osama bin Laden killing.
Bumper Sticker Displayed in Florida !
This bumper sticker says it all.... notice the bumper sticker above the spare tire on the jeep !
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Powerful Messages to Obama
Submitted to us by Israel Marin - Homestead, Florida
It’s amazing that something with no vulgarity can be one of the most insulting and powerful messages to Obama that I have seen to date.
It’s amazing that something with no vulgarity can be one of the most insulting and powerful messages to Obama that I have seen to date.
NOT RACIST... NOT VIOLENT... JUST NOT SILENT ANY MORE!
CIA’s Hayden: Romney Right On Iran
Tuesday, 23 Oct 2012 03:07 PM
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden tells Newsmax that Mitt Romney was right — and President Obama wrong — when the GOP candidate said during the Monday debate that a nuclear Iran and not a terrorist attack was the biggest threat to America’s national security.
The retired 4-star Air Force General also says he is “not very hopeful” that negotiations with the Iranians will dissuade them from developing nuclear weapons. And he predicts that a President Romney would “review” Obama’s exemption of some of Iran’s major trading partners from imposing sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
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Obama, Romney land in battlegrounds to replay debate, convince most crucial voters
President Obama kept up his campaign of put-downs Tuesday, as Mitt Romney accused his opponent of going full-bore negative, with the candidates charging out of their final debate and into a narrow band of hotly contested battlegrounds.
Those states, four of which were hit by the campaigns Tuesday, will play host to the final, bruising two weeks of the 2012 race. And with no debates or even fundraisers left on the calendar, all that's left is a barrage of ads and stump speeches that will try in part to build on the debate momentum -- and, of course, get out the vote.
“These debates have super-charged our campaign,” Romney said during an afternoon rally in Henderson, Nev.
Romney also repeated one of his top lines from the Monday night debate -- that Obama’s attacks on him are “not an agenda” to improve America. He also argued again that Obama has instead resorted to gimmicky phrases like “Big Bird,” “Romnesia” and “binders full of women.”
In Ohio, Obama repeated the "Romnesia" line and argued, as he did the night before, that Romney wanted to let the U.S. auto industry to go bankrupt.
“If you say you are a car guy but you wrote an article titled ‘Let Detroit go bankrupt,' you definitely have a case of Romnesia,” the president said.
That's Obama's way of summing up his charge that Romney has forgotten what his own positions have been on the issues. "Don't worry," Obama quipped. "ObamaCare covers pre-existing conditions. We can fix you up. We can cure this disease."
Obama started with a morning rally in Del Ray, Fla. before heading to Dayton, Ohio, with Vice President Joe Biden, who was at the University of Toledo earlier in the day.
In Nevada, which has one of the country’s most prolonged and highest unemployment rates, Romney promised to cut the state’s 11.8 percent jobless rate at least to 6 percent.
“But if we’re going to see that kind of recovery, we're going to need real change,” he said.
Running mate Paul Ryan introduced Romney in Nevada by asking those in attendance whether they saw the debate.
“We saw Governor Mitt Romney offer this country bold ideas in leadership,” Ryan said. “Obama failed to lay out an agenda and decided his path to re-election is to distort, distract and win by default.”
After Nevada, Romney and Rep. Ryan attended a rally in Colorado with musician Kid Rock and New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez.
Residents in the battleground states -- which include Virginia and to a lesser extent Pennsylvania and Wisconsin -- will for the final two weeks of the race be barraged by ads and campaign stops by the candidates and their surrogates.
Setting the tone for the day, Romney's campaign released a TV ad Tuesday morning hammering the president's so-called "apology tour" overseas in 2009. It includes the line: "You went to the Middle East and you flew to Egypt and to Saudi Arabia and to Turkey and Iraq. And ... you skipped Israel, our closest friend in the region."
No matter who wins, it appears highly unlikely that Obama will get anywhere close to the 365 electoral votes he won in 2008. It takes 270 to clinch the presidency, and this year's contest could be historically close, judging by recent polls.
For months, the electoral map has appeared to favor the president, with more states considered safe Democratic territory than safe Republican territory. But Romney's surge in the polls has changed the map.
The Associated Press estimates that Obama is likely to win at least 237 electoral votes to Romney's 191, with 110 electoral votes up for grabs.
By contrast, the RealClearPolitics map last week gave Romney the advantage for the first time. The latest projection shows Romney with 206 likely electoral votes, and Obama with 201. Their map shows 131 electoral votes up for grabs across 10 states.
It's no accident that those 10 states are largely on the itinerary -- repeatedly -- of both campaigns for the next two weeks. They include the four states the campaigns were hitting Tuesday.
On Wednesday, the schedule gets even more chaotic for the Obama campaign, with the president setting out on a two-day, six-state blitz. He'll hit Iowa, Colorado and California on Wednesday, followed by Florida, Virginia and Ohio
The campaigns are, naturally, using their running mates to cover more ground.
While Romney hits Nevada and Iowa on Wednesday, Ryan will make a swing through Ohio.
Each campaign has its own variations on a path to 270 electoral votes -- but Ohio, Florida and Virginia are considered among the most important. Florida is the biggest, with 29 electoral votes. Ohio has 18 and Virginia has 13 -- Obama won all three in 2008.
Recent polling in Ohio shows Obama either up by a hair, or tied with Romney. In Florida, Romney seems to have the edge. Virginia is a dead heat.
But states like Iowa, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and New Hampshire are also vital. North Carolina, a state Obama won in 2008 and where the Democrats held their convention this year, has long since trended toward Romney and is considered by some analysts a likely pick-up for Romney next month.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
U.S. Oil Output - United States could soon overtake Saudi Arabia as the World's Biggest Producer.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. oil output is surging so fast that the United States could soon overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's biggest producer.
Driven by high prices and new drilling methods, U.S. production of crude and other liquid hydrocarbons is on track to rise 7 percent this year to an average of 10.9 million barrels per day. This will be the fourth straight year of crude increases and the biggest single-year gain since 1951.
The boom has surprised even the experts.
"Five years ago, if I or anyone had predicted today's production growth, people would have thought we were crazy," says Jim Burkhard, head of oil markets research at IHS CERA, an energy consulting firm.
The Energy Department forecasts that U.S. production of crude and other liquid hydrocarbons, which includes biofuels, will average 11.4 million barrels per day next year. That would be a record for the U.S. and just below Saudi Arabia's output of 11.6 million barrels. Citibank forecasts U.S. production could reach 13 million to 15 million barrels per day by 2020, helping to make North America "the new Middle East."
The last year the U.S. was the world's largest producer was 2002, after the Saudis drastically cut production because of low oil prices in the aftermath of 9/11. Since then, the Saudis and the Russians have been the world leaders.
The United States will still need to import lots of oil in the years ahead. Americans use 18.7 million barrels per day. But thanks to the growth in domestic production and the improving fuel efficiency of the nation's cars and trucks, imports could fall by half by the end of the decade.
The increase in production hasn't translated to cheaper gasoline at the pump, and prices are expected to stay relatively high for the next few years because of growing demand for oil in developing nations and political instability in the Middle East and North Africa.
Still, producing more oil domestically, and importing less, gives the economy a significant boost.
The companies profiting range from independent drillers to large international oil companies such as Royal Dutch Shell, which increasingly see the U.S. as one of the most promising places to drill. ExxonMobil agreed last month to spend $1.6 billion to increase its U.S. oil holdings.
Increased drilling is driving economic growth in states such as North Dakota, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Montana and Texas, all of which have unemployment rates far below the national average of 7.8 percent. North Dakota is at 3 percent; Oklahoma, 5.2.
Businesses that serve the oil industry, such as steel companies that supply drilling pipe and railroads that transport oil, aren't the only ones benefiting. Homebuilders, auto dealers and retailers in energy-producing states are also getting a lift.
IHS says the oil and gas drilling boom, which already supports 1.7 million jobs, will lead to the creation of 1.3 million jobs across the U.S. economy by the end of the decade.
"It's the most important change to the economy since the advent of personal computers pushed up productivity in the 1990s," says economist Philip Verleger, a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics.
The major factor driving domestic production higher is a newfound ability to squeeze oil out of rock once thought too difficult and expensive to tap. Drillers have learned to drill horizontally into long, thin seams of shale and other rock that holds oil, instead of searching for rare underground pools of hydrocarbons that have accumulated over millions of years.
To free the oil and gas from the rock, drillers crack it open by pumping water, sand and chemicals into the ground at high pressure, a process is known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking."
While expanded use of the method has unlocked enormous reserves of oil and gas, it has also raised concerns that contaminated water produced in the process could leak into drinking water.
The surge in oil production has other roots, as well:
— A long period of high oil prices has given drillers the cash and the motivation to spend the large sums required to develop new techniques and search new places for oil. Over the past decade, oil has averaged $69 a barrel. During the previous decade, it averaged $21.
— Production in the Gulf of Mexico, which slowed after BP's 2010 well disaster and oil spill, has begun to climb again. Huge recent finds there are expected to help growth continue.
— A natural gas glut forced drillers to dramatically slow natural gas exploration beginning about a year ago. Drillers suddenly had plenty of equipment and workers to shift to oil.
The most prolific of the new shale formations are in North Dakota and Texas. Activity is also rising in Oklahoma, Colorado, Ohio and other states.
Production from shale formations is expected to grow from 1.6 million barrels per day this year to 4.2 million barrels per day by 2020, according to Wood Mackenzie, an energy consulting firm. That means these new formations will yield more oil by 2020 than major oil suppliers such as Iran and Canada produce today.
U.S. oil and liquids production reached a peak of 11.2 million barrels per day in 1985, when Alaskan fields were producing enormous amounts of crude, then began a long decline. From 1986 through 2008, crude production fell every year but one, dropping by 44 percent over that period. The United States imported nearly 60 percent of the oil it burned in 2006.
By the end of this year, U.S. crude output will be at its highest level since 1998 and oil imports will be lower than at any time since 1992, at 41 percent of consumption.
"It's a stunning turnaround," Burkhard says. Whether the U.S. supplants Saudi Arabia as the world's biggest producer will depend on the price of oil and Saudi production in the years ahead. Saudi Arabia sits on the world's largest reserves of oil, and it raises and lowers production to try to keep oil prices steady. Saudi output is expected to remain about flat between now and 2017, according to the International Energy Agency.
But Saudi oil is cheap to tap, while the methods needed to tap U.S. oil are very expensive. If the price of oil falls below $75 per barrel, drillers in the U.S. will almost certainly begin to cut back.
The International Energy Agency forecasts that global oil prices, which have averaged $107 per barrel this year, will slip to an average of $89 over the next five years — not a big enough drop to lead companies to cut back on exploration deeply.
Nor are they expected to fall enough to bring back the days of cheap gasoline. Still, more of the money that Americans spend at filling stations will flow to domestic drillers, which are then more likely to buy equipment here and hire more U.S. workers.
"Drivers will have to pay high prices, sure, but at least they'll have a job," Verleger says.
Not A Real Debate
Written by Omar Fernandez
I'm reading spin where some folks, mostly libs, are saying this was not a "real" debate. Tells me they are scared because their fool lost. Regardless, whether it was a "debate" or not in the classic sense is totally irrelevant. It is currently the best platform we have to judge "presidential appearance". Similar to the fact that the two party exclusivity of our elections may not be the perfect sys
tem, it is the best we have for now.
After all, American voters are, on the whole, woefully uninformed and ignorant of a candidates platform policies and very often even specific issues that have a direct influence on them personally. Witness some of the postings on FB. Applies to both sides btw.
So, that being said, because many are mostly devoid of rational, discretionary and intelligent reasoning, they will fall back to their default sense of primordial intelligence and vote for whomever "looks more presidential" regardless of that candidates answers or who actually "won" the "debate". Using this reasoning, Romney would be the logical winner of the election.
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Debates deliver favorability edge to Romney
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
BOCA RATON, Fla. — Mitt Romney crossed a major threshold early this week, moving above 50 percent in his favorability rating, according to the Real Clear Politics average of polls — and, for the first time in the campaign, he now leads President Obama on that measure.
The Republican presidential nominee has clearly benefitted from the debates. He had a 44.5 percent favorability rating at the end of September, before the debates. But by Monday, when he and Mr. Obama faced off for the final debate of the campaign, Mr. Romney’s favorability average was up at 50.5 percent.
“He’s did a great job humanizing himself in the first debate and seeming presidential in the second debate,” said Republican pollster Mike McKenna, who said the debate performances punctured Mr. Obama’s campaign-long strategy of trying to disqualify Mr. Romney in the minds of voters.
The Romney effort to seem measured continued on Monday in the third and final matchup between the two men. That debate was dedicated to foreign policy, and he batted away the president’s attacks, at one point accusing Mr. Obama of having little else.
“Attacking me is not an agenda,” the Republican said.
Mr. Obama summed up the last month’s worth of debates at the end of Monday’s affair, saying they framed the choice between the two candidates.
“You know, over the last four years, we’ve made real progress digging our way out of policies that gave us two prolonged wars, record deficits and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression,” he said. “And Governor Romney wants to take us back to those policies: a foreign policy that’s wrong and reckless; economic policies that won’t create jobs, won’t reduce our deficit, but will make sure that folks at the very top don’t have to play by the same rules that you do.”
Instant polls showed Mr. Obama won Monday’s debate, following his strong second-debate performance, too.
Indeed, commentators on both sides of the aisle skewered Mr. Romney for failing to give a sense of what he’d do differently on world hotspots.
“In fact, Governor Romney appeared to leave a lot of his positions behind, and it does leave you with the question: What is his worldview? What does he really believe?” former Bush administration State Department top official Nicholas Burns told CNN on Tuesday. “I think he’s leaving the impression that he’s not quite sure what he’d do or that he’s not being as specific as he might be.”
The Obama campaign said Mr. Romney “proved yet again that he would say anything to close the deal, no matter what his real positions are.”
But overall, the debates have dealt a blow to Mr. Obama’s key strategy of making Mr. Romney unacceptable to different demographics of voters — particularly women.
In Monday’s foreign policy debate, Mr. Romney hewed closely to the president’s decision-making when it came to action in Syria, Iran and Afghanistan. Indeed, at one point the president told Mr. Romney the only difference in their positions was “you’d say them louder.”
While Mr. Obama was playing for a win on policy points in the debate, Mr. Romney was aiming for something different: another chance to introduce himself to voters.
A day ahead of the first debate, Comedy Central’s election page was able to write a headline poking fun at the candidate’s appeal: “Romney continues to keep his humanity a closely guarded secret.”
But by the time the first debate was done, a huge national audience saw Mr. Romney sprinkle in stories of everyday voters he’d met who were struggling through the sluggish economy. The Republican’s humanity became the storyline.
Mr. Romney then took that strategy on the road, adding into his standard stump speech a litany of personal interactions he’s had ranging from a woman whose husband, an Army sniper, was killed in Afghanistan, to the Boy Scout troop that sent its American flag up on the space shuttle Challenger on its fateful last flight in 1986.
The Romney campaign still has several problems when it comes to relating.
In The Washington Times/Zogby Poll released over the weekend, Mr. Romney trails Mr. Obama and even his own running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, when voters were asked who is the most likable person on the Democratic and Republican tickets.
Indeed, Mr. Obama nearly doubled Mr. Romney’s rating, 40 percent to 22 percent. Mr. Ryan was rated most likable by 23 percent, and only 10 percent said that honor went to Vice President Joseph R. Biden.
The problem extends to the candidates’ wives, too. The Times/Zogby Poll found voters preferred Michelle Obama to be first lady over Ann Romney, 36 percent to 26 percent. Another 17 percent said both were equally suited, while the rest weren’t sure either made a good first lady.
Data: Decision 2012 polls
The charts below show the latest poll numbers for selected races in the 2012 election. Roll over data points on each chart for more information about the poll. Click on the links above each chart to visit detailed race pages from Real Clear Politics.
Poll: Uncommitted voters say Romney wins debate
This article was written by Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto, Fred Backus and Lindsey Boerma
By a 2 to 1 margin, uncommitted voters crowned Mitt Romney the winner over President Obama in the first presidential debate in Debate, Colo., on Wednesday night, according to a 500-person instant poll taken by CBS News.
In the moments following the candidates' performances on the University of Denver stage, 46 percent of voters gave the economy-centric debate to Romney, 22 percent said they believed the president was the winner, and 32 percent called it a tie. More good news for the GOP nominee: 56 percent of those polled said they viewed Romney in a better light after watching the debate. Eleven percent said their opinion of him dropped, and 32 percent cited no change in opinion.
Perhaps most promising for Romney, whose upper-class income has helped stifle his ability to relate to the "average American," the percentage of those polled who said they felt the former Massachusetts governor cares about their needs and problems spiked from 30 percent pre-debate to 63 percent post-debate. President Obama also enjoyed a bump in that category, with 53 percent of voters saying they believed he cares about their issues before the debate, moving to 69 percent after the debate.
The uncommitted voters polled are less likely than voters overall to identify with either of the two majority political parties. Six in 10 call themselves independents, 22 percent identify as Democrats, and 18 percent say they're Republicans.
Uncommitted debate watchers saw Mitt Romney as the winner on handling the economy (60 to 39 percent) and the deficit (68 to 31 percent), just as they did before the debate. These voters also think Romney will do a better job on taxes (52 to 47 percent), a reversal from before the debate, when uncommitted voters gave the president a 52 to 40 percent advantage on that. The president still leads on Medicare, 53 to 45 percent.
Uncommitted voters include both undecided voters and those who say they have a candidate preference, but could still change their minds. Before the debate, 23 percent favored President Obama and 22 percent favored Romney, while 50 percent were still undecided. But while voter preference for Mr. Obama changed little, after the debate support for Romney increased 12 points.
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