Democratic National Convention

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I couldn't watch Mr. Obama's speech last night and i have been watching the international news agency (CNN,BBC, SKYNEWS, ALJAZEERA) the whole day to see if i can see it with no success. Thanks to JamiiForums for the pictures and i have managed to read and watch the speeches from Michelle and Barack Obama.

JF IDUMU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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[h=1]Kerry: ‘Ask Osama bin Laden if he's better off now' than 4 years ago[/h]

 

[Ishmael]

I know, it's frustrating to Mittens to watch Romney going down in a flaming wreck isn't it?

 

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I know, it's frustrating to Mittens to watch Romney going down in a flaming wreck isn't it?

Romney: Clinton did ‘elevate' Democratic convention

Mitt Romney says Bill Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention "really did elevate" that gathering and that the former two-term president might even be able to win another four years in the White House "if the Constitution weren't in his way." Romney's comments, in an excerpt of an interview with Meet the Press, came as Clinton prepared to campaign for President Barack Obama in key swing states.

So could Clinton win another term?

"If the Constitution weren't in his way, perhaps. I don't know the answer to that," Romney says in the snippet of the exchange, to be broadcast in full on Sunday.

"But he did stand out in contrast with the other speakers. I think he really did elevate the Democrat convention in a lot of ways," the Republican presidential hopeful says. "And frankly the contrast may not have been as attractive as Barack Obama might have preferred if he were choosing who'd go before him and who'd go after."

If Obama had any second thoughts about Clinton's speech, one of the best-received addresses at the convention, he hasn't shown them during a three-day tour through New Hampshire, Iowa and Florida - quite the opposite. Obama has peppered his stump speech with Clinton quotes and joked that he might name the former president "secretary of explaining stuff."

Clinton is also scheduled to campaign for Obama in Florida on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Romney also knocked Republican congressional leaders for making "a big mistake" by agreeing to the so-called "sequester" -- automatic spending cuts to social programs and the military set to kick in at year's end, the price of failure to reach a sweeping deficit-cutting deal.

"The American people need to understand how it is that our defense is going to be so badly cut," he said. (Romney's running mate, Republican Representative Paul Ryan, voted for the legislation that created the sequester).

Romney: Clinton did

 

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"Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska," Kerry said in one of several colorful punchlines. "Mitt Romney talks like he's only seen Russia by watching Rocky IV.


Hili dongo babu kubwa!.

Angalia balaa yake sasa...

Poll: Obama widens lead over Romney despite jobs data

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, picking up support following the Democratic National Convention, widened his narrow lead over Republican U.S. presidential challenger Mitt Romney in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Saturday.

The latest daily tracking poll showed Obama, a Democrat, with a lead of 4 percentage points over Romney. Forty-seven percent of 1,457 likely voters surveyed online over the previous four days said they would vote for Obama if the November 6 elections were held today, compared with 43 percent for Romney.

"The bump is actually happening. I know there was some debate whether it would happen... but it's here," said Ipsos pollster Julia Clark, referring to the "bounce" in support that many presidential candidates enjoy after nominating conventions.

Obama had leapfrogged Romney in the daily tracking poll on Friday with a lead of 46 percent to 44 percent.

The president's lead comes despite a mixed reaction to his convention speech on Thursday night in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Friday's government data showing that jobs growth slowed sharply last month.

Obama's lead over Romney is comparable to Romney's former lead over the president after the Republican National Convention finished last week, Clark said.

"We don't have another convention now to turn our attention to, so (Obama's bounce) may maintain," Clark said. "How big it'll be and how long it will last remains to be seen."

Obama increased his lead over Romney in certain favorable characteristics. Asked who was more "eloquent," 50 percent of the 1,720 registered voters questioned in the poll favored Obama, compared to 25 percent for Romney. Asked about being "smart enough for the job," 46 percent sided with Obama compared to 37 percent for Romney.

In fact, Obama led Romney in a dozen such favorable characteristics, such as "represents America" or "has the right values." The only such category in which Romney had an advantage was being "a man of faith," as 44 percent picked Romney, who is Mormon, compared to 31 percent for Obama, who is Christian.

The Democratic National Convention itself received a rather muted response in the poll. Of those registered voters who had heard, seen or read at least something about it, 41 percent rated it as "average" and 29 percent as "good."

The Republican National Convention that wrapped up August 30 in Tampa, Florida similarly was rated "average" by 38 percent and "good" by 27 percent in Saturday's polling results.

The precision of the Reuters/Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll has a credibility interval of plus or minus 2.7 percentage points.

(Editing by Will Dunham)

Poll: Obama widens lead over Romney despite jobs data - Yahoo! News

 

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Obama to boy: Where's your birth certificate?

Not every kid gets asked for his birth certificate by the president of the United States. But that's what happened to a Florida lad, Andre Wupperman, when he met Barack Obama at a Florida sports bar and family joint on Saturday.

Obama made an unannounced stop at Gators Dockside -- one of many surprise visits he makes to local businesses as a candidate for reelection -- and mingled with the patrons. Upon hearing that Andre, who turns seven next week, was born in Hawaii, the president asked: "You were born in Hawaii? You have a birth certificate?" The joke got laughs, according the pool reporter Helene Cooper of the New York Times.

And according to the Associated Press, Obama had greeted Andre with the "shaka" sign, a gesture often associated Hawaii.
The president also stopped at another table and led a group in singing "Happy Birthday" to Sorina Terrell.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-boy-where-birth-certificate-003605208--election.html

 

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Obama katika kampeni

 

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Obama's Biggest Lead Over Romney Since March

We're now 60 hours or so past the Democratic convention. It is now clear that the Democrats got the better of the convention bounces. Indeed, recent national polls suggest that the Democrats' bounce not only erased some tenuous gains by Romney, but is propelling Obama into a commanding lead. In fact, Obama is now polling stronger than at any time in the last six months.

Consider the following. Today's release of Rasmussen's tracking poll showed Obama leading Romney by four points, 49 percent to 45 percent (interviews spanning Sept. 6 to Sept. 8). What makes this result especially noteworthy is that Rasmussen's results tends to skew in a pro-Republican direction, by as much as a percentage point or more; thus, their Obama +4 result is likely an underestimate of Obama's lead over Romney at the moment. Ipsos/Reuters and Gallup are also reporting Obama +4 results over essentially the same field periods.

American Research Group has a Romney +3 result (interviews spanning Sept. 4-6); interviews by Rasmussen spanning Sept. 3-5 also had Romney +3. These are the last national polls to show Romney leading Obama.

Using the tracking model I've developed for Pollster, I find that Obama is now polling against Romney better than he has since early March, during the heat of the Republican nominating campaign. Indeed, over the first week of September, Obama has picked up a percentage point of vote share over Romney, to now lead Romney by almost 3 percentage points.

A key question is whether the Obama surge in national polling is showing in the swing-states? With the conventions behind us, we can expect more swing state polling this week and beyond. But based on (a) the available state-level polls; (b) modeling that links national and state-level polling, I estimate that Obama's current position translates into about 308 Electoral College votes. There is a reasonable amount of uncertainty in the state-by-state estimates of voting intentions, which in turn means the Electoral College estimate is itself subject to considerable uncertainty. Nonetheless, the probability that Obama would win 270 Electoral College votes or more is about 85 percent.

Two "set pieces" of the campaign are behind us: the Veep announcement and the conventions. Neither produced a sizeable shift towards Romney, at least in the national polling. Romney may be running out of opportunities to sway public opinion his way.

Simon Jackman: Obama's Biggest Lead Over Romney Since March

 

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Alaaaaa!

Kumbe uchaguzi ushaisha na Obama keshashinda?

Haya hongereni.....

 

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State of the race: Advantage, Obama

By JIM VANDEHEI and MIKE ALLEN | 9/8/12 8:28 PM EDT


President Barack Obama heads out of the national political conventions with a much clearer path to winning, top advisers to Mitt Romney privately concede.

The Romney campaign, while pleasantly surprised by Obama's lackluster prime-time performance, said the post-convention bounce they hoped for fell well short of expectations and privately lament that state-by-state polling numbers - most glaringly in Ohio - are working in the president's favor.

"Their map has many more routes to victory," said a top Republican official. Two officials intimately involved in the GOP campaign said Ohio leans clearly in Obama's favor now, with a high single-digit edge, based on their internal tracking numbers of conservative groups. Romney can still win the presidency if he loses Ohio, but it's extremely difficult.

The Obama and Romney campaigns anticipate little movement in national polls before the first debate on Oct. 3, which both see as the most important day of this campaign. They also see eye to eye on their belief that the election will come down to whether Romney can persuade voters he understands the problems of ordinary people and that his solutions are at least marginally better for turning things around economically.

Where the two camps differ - and differ starkly - is on their theories of the case for navigating the final nine weeks. Romney, armed with more dismal jobs numbers, will run a one-size-fits-all campaign, wrapped around the message that the economy is bad, Obama is to blame and that change of leadership is absolutely essential. The Republican plan rests heavily on Romney's capacity to bury Obama with negative ads - and reap the benefits of his billionaire backers hitting the president even harder, and more relentlessly. This, more than anything else, alarms the high command in Chicago.

A Democratic official said the other big worry for the Obama campaign is that when you dig into the small slice of undecided voters (probably only 6 percent to 8 percent of the electorate, according to the campaigns), the demographics are not favorable to Obama: mostly white, many with some college education, economically stressed, largely middle-aged.

"Many of them voted for Obama in 2008 and felt good about that vote, and still think Obama's a good person who really tried hard, but the economy sucks for them," said the Democratic official, who has access to reams of internal polls and focus groups.

Despite that, Obama officials have maintained for several weeks that there are too few undecided voters for Romney to get the bounce he needs from the debates. "Romney is not going to win undecided voters 4-to-1," a senior administration official told reporters on Air Force One on Friday. "If you are losing in Ohio by 4 or 5 points and trailing in Colorado by 2 points, if you are trailing in Nevada by 2 or 3 points, you are not going to win in those states.

"There is a small number of undecided voters so you are not going to see tremendous movement out of these conventions, even out of the debates. … [W]e have a small but important lead in battleground states that is a huge problem for the Romney camp. … Ohio needs to be tied, Florida needs to be tied at least."

Stuart Stevens, Romney's chief strategist, said the campaign will draw from "a cavalcade of devastating statistics that indicate where the country is," including an increased use of food stamps, higher poverty rate, bleak jobs figures and the exploding debt.

Read more: State of the race: Advantage, Obama - Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen - POLITICO.com
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Alaaaaa!

Kumbe uchaguzi ushaisha na Obama keshashinda?

Haya hongereni.....

Keep it down Bro, Tea partiers wasije wakasikia wakakata rufaa!.

 

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Huyu Mwanamke ndiye anafanya niamini ule usemi "Behind every successful man, there is a strong woman".

 

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Huyu Mwanamke ndiye anafanya niamini ule usemi "Behind every successful man, there is a strong woman".

She is good and powerful than Romney's wife.