Pennsylvania Democrats sound a bit more confident than Republicans that Monday night's foreign policy debate will help win votes for their candidate in the Keystone State, according to brief overnight surveys by Patch.
When asked if their candidate's debate performance will help him in Pennsylvania:
- 19 of 22 Democrats who responded said yes, while three were neutral
- 17 of 23 Republicans agreed that it will, while one disagreed, three were neutral and two had no opinion
When asked who won:
- 15 Republicans said Gov. Mitt Romney won, while one said Obama, five were neutral and two had no opinion
- 21 Democrats said Obama won while one was neutral
When asked who would be the consensus winner, as declared by national media:
- 13 Republicans said Obama while two said Romney, six were neutral and two had no opinion
- All 22 Democrats said Obama
The catchy phrases that stuck with debate watchers varied:
- Republicans said Romney's reference to Obama's "apology tour" was a memorable moment for conservatives.
- Democrats singled out Obama's "horses and bayonets" remark in responding to Romney on the strength of the modern U.S. military.
In their survey comments, Pennsylvania Republicans repeatedly noted what they called Romney's presidential bearing:
- "President Obama acted like he needed a big victory tonight. Romney behaved like a President."
- "During the debates both Obama and Biden have come across as angry and arrogant."
- "Overall good debate. Mitt looked as if he was the president whereas Obama looked angry and rather unprofessional at times."
- "Romney continued to look more presidential. His demeanor was superior to the President's."
- "I think the debates helped Governor Romney this year in much the same way they helped Reagan in 1980 and Kennedy in 1960."
- "People will think of Romney as presidential where Obama came across as petty."
Democrats, in their comments, criticized Romney for being inconsistent and praised Obama's performance:
- "Romney is all over the place and spineless; he just says anything"
- "I have never seen a candidate be as dishonest and inconsistent as Mitt Romney."
- "I think President Obama made the case tonight. I think there will be some that know our economy is tied to world events, and that the President, despite setbacks, has had a steady hand, and hasn't pushed us off into anything, and that will be important to continue our recovery in global uncertainty the next four years."
- "If 60% of undecided voters are women, I think they would be more attracted to Obama's foreign policy (less bellicose) and emphasis on need to concentrate on education and infrastructure at home."
One Democrat was "pleased at the bi-partisan tone of Mr. Romney on those immediate foreign policy "problems' such as Syria, Egypt. Some on the right may see it as weakness on his part but I see it as adult behavior and statesmanship."
Patch's survey takers are local elected officials, candidates and activists who volunteered to take part in this non-scientific project.
Check out what surveys said following the second presidential debate.
Do you actually pay attention to anything that Obama, Biden, Clinton, and Holder say? Obamacare with all of its hidden taxes. Fast and Furious Benghazi and that evil video The great bailout of GM (Soon to be China Motors. Just listen to Obama's hand picked chairman of GM speaking in China) The "Stimulus" Green Energy (All those tax dollars wasted on failed companies run by Obama cronies) http://liberallogic101.com/
For the sake of those four Americans and in honor of their memory, I will not cast a vote for this president - I will cast a vote against him and hope we have a new President in January. Obama has the blood of those four Americans on his hands. He says someone will be hold accountable (after the election). I hope we beat him to it.
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Romney = Idiot RON PAUL 2012
His boss is Anthony Varano; Document Solutions Group 136 Green Tree Road # 130 Phoenixville, PA 19460-1166 map Phone: (610) 676-0386 I plan on giving him a call so he knows what his dead beat sales guy does all day on his dime. I suggest others do the same.
The majority of the spending isn't even on things that we would own (do Obama phones count?) such as food stamps. Think about this. The government borrows money from China to give out food stamps. A budget deficit means more was spent than received. A budget deficit or surplus would then either add to or subtract from the debt. in 2001 spending was $1.9 Trillion and today it is $3.8 trillion. As long as what you take in pays for the debt, it works. This is not what the federal government does. They borrow money to pay the interest on the borrowed money. Borrowing money to pay for day to day expenses is the textbook definition of being insolvent. If you are doing this, you will not survive for very long.
I am not sure I could look any more stupid than I do now for voting for Obama last time. Nothing could be that stupid. Fool me once..... I never said the problems didn't exist before he got to be President. I have repeatedly said, he was a big part of creating the spending problems along with Bob Casey, Joe Biden and all the others who voted for reckless spending and debt that we have no ability to pay back. Should we just keep doing it this way? You know the failed economic policies of Obama these past 4 years? Stop with the emotional, immature comments. Go read some budgets and voting records.
you said "in 2001 spending was $1.9 Trillion and today it is $3.8 trillion. " I did some digging and found this " In the 2009 fiscal year — the last of George W. Bush’s presidency — federal spending rose by 17.9% from $2.98 trillion to $3.52 trillion." Thats from the wall street journal. (http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-05-22/commentary/31802270_1_spending-federal-budget-drunken-sailor) Why are you lying? you also said "The majority of the spending isn't even on things that we would own (do Obama phones count?) such as food stamps." The money we borrowed from China paid for the increased military spending due to the 2 wars we are/were in. The Obama phones is the biggest lie of all. The phones you are talking about is from the "Telecommunications Act of 1996", which is not funded from taxpayer money, its funded by the telecommunication companies. They just turn around and add an extra fee to your bill for it. You are just like your candidate, just making up stuff to get elected.
The latest Politico battleground poll, released earlier this week, shows Romney with a massive 19-point lead over Obama among suburban voters. Surprisingly, it's actually one point higher than his lead among rural voters. Obama leads among urban voters by 29 points. In 2008, Obama won the suburban vote by 2 points. The 21-point swing away from him makes his reelection very difficult. Obama's approval rating among suburban voters is deeply underwater. Just 42% approve of the job he is doing, against 57% who disapprove. A staggering 52% disapprove strongly. Romney has a net 23 approval rating among suburban voters, 59% approving with 36% disapproving. Over the past 30 years, no one has won the presidency without winning the suburban vote.
go see 2016
I showed that Obama, Casey, Biden et al all voted for Bush's Budget in 2008. They are responsible for their votes and Bush is responsible for signing it. I know it is convenient to only blame Bush but unless you can point me to where in the constitution the President has such powers. In 2010, Obama praised the very same spending budget that his party passed. One year you say its bad and than magically the next the same spending is worthy of praise. And I am the liar? LOL! Defense 2008 - $636B 2012 - $709B Medicare 2008- $386B 2012- $478B Welfare 2008- $324B 2012- $635B Here is OBAMA'S 2013 budget summary. Spending = $3.8 Trillion Revenues = $2.9 Trillion DEFICIT = $900 B Shall we Blame Bush for this $900 Billion budget miss? http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2013/assets/tables.pdf Don't forget Obama said the debt was irresponsible......guess he is irresponsible too!!
The more actual facts we Romney supporters post, the more Obama supporters nitpic on a the difference between 16 trillion in debt versus 16.27 trillion, etc. I'm thinking... and I could be wrong... that there are no more undecided voters visiting these threads. Just not seeing anyone asking legit questions.
your post smacks of the slimy tactics we're seeing being used by Republicans, such as the "Dreams of My Father" DVD and advertising that's intended to confuse and/or scare people into not voting... suppression of others' ideas is NOT the way to win an argument or an election... i'm going to flag this post as inappropriate...
http://www.factcheck.org/2012/06/obamas-outsourcer-overreach/ http://obamalies.net/list-of-obamas-failures http://blog.heritage.org/2012/10/18/president-obamas-taxpayer-backed-green-energy-failures/ http://lacrossetribune.com/news/opinion/patti-schmidt-list-of-obama-s-failures-is-long/article_7a139146-fec2-11e1-8e81-0019bb2963f4.html http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/08/obamas-foreign-policy-failures-catalogued.php http://www.facebook.com/notes/republican-security-council/the-top-10-obama-flip-flops-by-ari-fleischer/171275079638338 http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100083104/the-u-turn-president-barack-obama-top-ten-flip-flops/ You see, it's easy to run on a slogan, like Obama did in 2008... Hope and change, baby... It's much harder to do once you have a record that can be reviewed... He also said in 2008 that if he didn't get the job done in four years, that it would be a one term deal... Well, he hasn't delivered, so time to let him keep his word... Romney/Ryan 2012
Colter95 continues to paste links to, and conveniently summarize, actual facts and substance. While you continue to spin and lie. You, Mr. Krebs, are the Obama electorate. Keep posting.