So?

I hoped you also noticed how busy all the downtown eateries were immediately after. Love it when they make it in Massachusetts, and spend it in NH, don't you?

I had Obama people knocking on my door yesterday who were from Rhode Island. They had a printout of people who had not registered to vote and were asking who lived in the house. I asked them why they were up here in NH and they stated that they were not needed by the campaign in RI or MA so they came to NH. I started to discuss Obama's chances considering the dismal economy and they cut me off and told me they had to move on...

Imaging an Obama supporter not wanting to talk with Seamus...hahahahahah

Massachusetts residents know what is at stake. They have had Romney for 4 years as Governor. Its his homestate. They really know him. And they are deciding 2 to 1 they don't want that! Coming out in droves to support the alternative.

"Imaging an Obama supporter not wanting to talk with Seamus"

It was odd. He knew nothing about me other than I am a registered Republican. I guess the Obama campaign does not believe that anyone would cross over party lines and vote for Obama...

There were an estimated 8500 people there. How many MA cars do you claim to have seen?
Given the false logic and poor arithmetic evident in your implication, I can see why you would be a Romney supporter. Only with the same sloppy math and logic would you believe Governor Romney's claims about his budget plan.
What's next from you? A condemnation of the fire marshall for making the estimate of 8500?

"poor arithmatic"? "sloppy math"? Where is this in Judith's post? What is Keith F Thompson going on about?

BTW, which car do you think was Michael Healey's? An old Prius with a "Kerry Edwards" bumper sticker on it?

As did Mass Democrates.... When Dr. Biden and her hubby were here last month i went to the Democratic headquarters in Concord, parking lot there holds 12 vehicles, one was actually from NH, the rest were from other states. Just Saying!

The 2012 Nelson A. Rockefeller Center poll found that 55.1% of the NH voters support same-sex marriage, 30.9% oppose it. A May 2012 Public Policy Polling survey found that 57% of NH voters thought that same-sex marriage should be legal, while 35% thought it should be illegal and 8% were not sure. A separate question on the same survey found that 85% of NH respondents supported legal recognition of same-sex couples, with 54% supporting same-sex marriage and 31% supporting civil unions, while only 13% thought that there should be no legal recognition and 2% were not sure. The UNH Survey Center poll, conducted between August 1 and August 12, 2012, found that 61% of NH voters were against repealing same-sex marriage, 28% were for.
Why post things that you just make up?

If that makes you feel better, go ahead and believe it.

Polls? How about a referendum? Let NH vote on the re-definition of the word "marriage". In dozens of other states, the voters have rejected it despite whatever the polls indicated..

Seamus:

Rights should *NEVER* be subject to referendum.

You don't get to decide civil rights based on a vote, Seamus. These are inalienable rights from birth. Please look at the Declaration of Independence for other examples.

Right. The majority of citizens support gay marriage according to the polls so the issue should be dropped, but those that support gay marriage do not want an actual vote...

This issue has been voted on 30+ times in the United States; has the Supreme Court found any of these vote unconstitutional?

"Marriage" is defined in constitutions of 37 states as one man and one woman. I guess the other 13 states' founders as well as those that founded the country did not see the need to define a word that is commonly understood. To me, civil unions are fine, but "marriage" has a specific meaning and is not an evolving paradigm. Let's vote and see who agrees..

Good comment, Carol. Also, Massachusetts is a slam dunk democratic state. There are simply more opportunities to see President Obama here in NH. Additionally, where they have volunteers working in all 50 states to help all the campaigns, we get many out of state people just before the election who come specifically to canvass in New Hampshire. They're already here. The border is 7 miles away. They're democrats and Americans who want to see their president.

People in Mass have had a taste of Romney as governor. He's a phony and couldn't leave that state fast enough. He used his office as a stepping stone to run for president and takes credit where it wasn't due. Proves that money wins elections.

I agree! All the people I met in line were from NH. Anyway, on a NORMAL day in downtown Nashua, it is about 50% Mass plates!

Holly,

I spent quite a while "working the crowd" to urge them to oppose the three New Hampshire constitutional questions and it was clear that the crowd was a mix of New Hampshire folks and Massachusetts folks. I'd *GUESS* one-third Mass and two thirds New Hampshire but I wasn't keeping track.

That's fine; because there's no race in Massachusetts, if Mass folks want to see President Obama up close, then we're their best opportunity.

It would be interesting to conduct the same experiment at the Romney event; I'll bet there will be damned few folks from Massachusetts who have any interet in seeing Romney; they're mostly happy to see the back of Mitt.

Because it's legal and your president does the same thing too, including investing in outsourcing to a greater degree then Mitt.

I do the same thing because I work hard for years and I prefer to keep as much income as possible. And that is not a sin

@ Celia

Got a link to back that claim up? Waiting...

In the second debate Romney informed O that if he checked his pension he'd see that he too has money invested in other countries. O's answer was his pnsion isn't as big as Romney's so he doesn't check it. In fact O's pension is bigger than Romney's as O worked for the State of IL for 8 years, and is to receive about 18,000 a year for that short period. Romney didn't accept a salery when Gov. of MA, thus NO Pension.

Gee, people at an Obama rally stated that "Mitt Romney was the worst governor they ever had."

Seamus:

It isn't just "people at an Obama rally" that say that; it's people all over the State of Massachusetts. There's is a reason why Romney is going to get absolutely blown out in that state.

Newsmax, huh? That's pretty sad as a "source".

Have you noticed you only ever tell us why President Obama is bad? You never tell us in what ways Romney is good, or even better than President Obama.

It's almost as if it's just personal hatred of the President on your part rather than what would be best for our country.

Amen!!! Let them pout.

I agree Charles - a wonderful day for Nashua - job well done! Be proud!
A wonderful day for the Dems.
A wonderful day for the USA!
Obama 2012 Yes!

That's a pile of "stuff" and you know it. Why do you keep posting lies?

Statistically News flash is correct. If you look at the percent gap between White men against both females and people of color, you can easily make the case that this Obama economy has hit females and minorities at historic levels. A true a factual demonstration of Obama's war on women and minorities.

Obama's recipe for them....no jobs, just welfare. That's a better guarantee of these people voting democrat. you can call it a lie and BS....But the numbers don't lie.......

@ Celia

If you believe the number don't lie, then you go find out how many jobs we lost under GWB. Go check the stock market then and now. When you're done with that, check home prices. Then check the consumer confidence index.

America is on the mend, and if it's not fast enough for you, call John Boehner and ask him why the GOP is standing in the way of the recovery.

Celia:

Happily, a *HUGE* crowd of women at the rally yesterday aren't buying the "stuff" you're selling. They can tell the difference between a ticket that, almost from top to bottom only talks about women (and what should be done about them) and a ticket that mostly *IS* women!

Yes, in our particular NH House district, 11 of the 15 Democratic names on the ballot *ARE* women and that includes most of those rows near the top.

So don't waste your breath trying to convince women that white, Christian, straight (or closeted) Republican men will do a better job attending to women's issues than will *ACTUAL WOMEN*.

Like it or not, Flasher, the economy *IS* looking up in nearly every measurable dimension. The stock markets are *VASTLY* up from where they were when Preident Obama assumed office. The hemorrhaging of 800,000 jobs/month has long since been reversed and we're gaining jobs. The housing market is stabilizing.

And *ANOTHER* reason that the next four years are going to be better in the past four years is that we're going to kick out a bunch of Republican obstructionists in the federal government clearing the way for representatives who will actually work in the American interest of the American people instead of the interests of the Republican Party.

Markets are artificically up due to QE X - QE Infinity. Pumping paper into the economy will ultimately result in a liquidity bubble, in which I predict will burst in q1-q2 next year. We are already seeing he early warning signs of enterprises, in financial services, manufacturing, raw materials, retail, and transportation all missing forecasts.

You are all witnessing major companies, in the last 60 days, announce major layoff announcements. Just today, UBS announced 10,00 forecasted layoffs.

Enterprises are positioning themselves to brace for the next bubble, in this case created by Obama and the Fed. Obama just does not understand that creating a cheaper supply will not bring us out of this near-recession (2.0 GDP last quarter is piss-poor and im sure it will be revised downward once the election is over). Creating demand is what has not been tested in the last 4 years. And that cannot be artificial, as Obama has tried and failed:

Cash for clunkers - people would have bought cars anyways, they just bought it sooner

The housing market is not stabilized. New home growth is predominantly apartments as the demand for SFH and condo's are at historic lows. Apartment buildings are the growth these days.

Cash for fridges - same thing.

Stimulus - Green policy investment cronyism failure across the board. One new story every week it seems

*THAT LIE* again? You're desperate, aren't you?

Don't you know, cutting $716 billion from Medicare doesn't count. Because they're not cutting anything they cover, they're just cutting how much they're going to pay for it! (Never mind that many health care providers are already losing money on Medicare patients, which means more will refuse new Medicare patients in the face of these arbitrary fee cuts. For seniors unable to find a doctor, Obamacare really will “end Medicare as we know it.")

BARACK OBAMA CAMPAIGN CALLS BILL CLINTON A RACIST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPNdIrnwyfE

How pathetic you have become, "ForThePeople." No wonder you are ashamed to post under your name. Try an argument, rather than ad hominem, and people will likely respond in kind. Saying that all of your opponents are stupid bigots doesn't count. Your descent over the last few weeks shows your desperation.

Link? Cough it up. Or it's crap. (Providing a link doesn't guarantee non-crappiness of your claim, but it MAY lend credibility).

@David Victory - As per your request, http://nlpc.org/stories/2012/09/10/refuting-obama-campaign-claims-–-gm-did-go-bankrupt

Carol:

Is "stupid Democrats" acceptable here on Patch?

Off topic. Dumb, too.

Not off-topic when photos of her with her hand out are prominent on this report. And not nearly as dumb as you believing healthcare is free now.

And the 5,000,000 new private-sector jobs had nothing to do with it. Right. Got it.

By the way, on-shore oil production is at its highest levels in many years. That had nothing to do with it either, of course.

And GM, Chrysler, and the suppliers that feed into them are still alive.

And Osama bin Laden is still dead.

1) A strawman. Of course every job has something to do with it, but we have fewer employed people than when Obama took over, and if we had the same labor force participation rate as we had then the unemployment rate would be 11%.

2) Oil production on the federal lands (over which Obama has significant control) is down. It is up on state and private lands due to nothing Obama has done, but rather improved drilling technology and higher oil prices.

3) I don't accept your premise that the Obama bailout saved the American auto industry. Even apart from the fact that at current stock prices we're underwater about $25 billion on GM alone, the bailout of the auto industry was a disaster. Bankruptcy by executive fiat may be faster than normal (and legal and Constitutional) bankruptcy by a judge, but when the executive arbitrarily decides that hourly workers making much higher wages than anywhere else in the industry, shouldn't have to give back anything on wages, he has not improved the firms' long-term viability, he has reduced it. And when the executive arbitrarily gives the UAW, the union that backed him, hundreds of millions more than their share, while screwing the 20,000 nonunion employees of Delphi, that is corruption. And when the executive further decides to screw the senior bond holders, contrary to the contractual terms under which they lent the money, that is both contrary to law and highly damaging to all corporations needing debt financing, as no one is eager to lend money to firms knowing that debt contracts are now less important than which union donates time and money to the President. Expanding this lawless and corrupt form of bankruptcy and crony capitalism, which President Obama apparently wants to do, will inevitably lead to a long-term decline of what is left of our economy.

We also have a few photos of you working at the rally, but we figured we'd let you vet those before posting any of them; we'll arrange to get them to you.

So you still have nothing good to say about Romney, ehh? I wonder why the only thing you post is bad news about President Obama; never anything *IN FAVOR* of the fellow you must support?

And posting an article from (fundamentalist) Christian News Service really doesn't really add to your credibility; they have a very definite agenda that they're promoting and it's not the agenda of the majority of the American people.

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We were *NEVER* a "Christian nation" and only people who are ignorant of our history make that claim.

We were not a Christian nation. Our nation was founded by refugees of all faiths.

Why did Obama put on the "free" JT concert? Because that is what slick Chicago politicians do. Under the guise of a great "free" concert, Slick Barack is buying your vote.

Don't let him play us as suckers. New Hampshire, we're better than this.

Lorna, Joe:

I'll bet neither of you two were there. And I make this bet because *THE CROWD'S REACTION TO PRESIDENT OBAMA* made it clear that, no matter howmuch they appreciated seeing James Taylor, they had also come to see President Obama and cheer him on to victory in his re-election campaign.

I understand why this doesn't fit the memes that you folks like to spread, though.

Atlant, tell me...If they many of them weren't just there for the concert, then why did they leave all of their Obama handbills scattered all over the Globe plaza parking lot? In fact why did they throw them on the ground anyway. I thought that THEY were the ones who cared about pollution! As far as the ones who cheered...I find that most of Obama's supporters are supporting him for what THEY can get from him, not what he does for the country. A free concert just adds to his portfolio of freebies. However, when it comes to Fast and Furious and Benghazi they don't have a clue! I don't know about you, but my mama always told me to watch out for those guys offering me candy.

Carol:

So is it okay to call someone a "delusional fool"?

DUMP OBAMA:

Of course that's what you believe. You believe a lot of "stuff" that only exists in your mind as fantasies.

It is NOT an honor to cheer on the Bernie Madoff of Washington, aka Barack Obama. You think Bernie was running a scam, just run numbers and you'll see how the damage Bernie did to our country is small potatoes compared to where we are and where we're headed under the sails of Obamanomics.

But hey, why bother with numbers? Isn't all about "just feeling good and being politically correct?"

Joe, in regards to, "just feeling good and being politically correct?"

Are you referring to not acting like a racist? Are you a racist?

@ForThePeople - To answer your foolish questions, no and no. Let me ask you a question. Can you tell us, using real numbers and not pie in the sky wishful thinking, how Obamanomics is going to bring prosperity back to this nation?

http://www.barackobama.com/taxes?source=primary-nav

Start here, Joe.

Franklin Pierce is there a Visualize Nashua reference in this story? I don't get your comment.

Actually, recent polling indicates that the recent Romney momentum has stopped. All polls that I've seen show Romney or Obama with no more than a three percentage point lead. This presidential race is a statistical dead heat, like it or not.

And what else would you expect George Will to write?

If he ever wrote an op-ed favoring a Democrat, I'd worry that his bow tie was tied too tight!

Your attempt to pigeonhole people on the Glenn Beck chalkboard shows your ideological leanings. Everyone who doesn't think like you gets to be a communist, eh?

Luckily, the red scare:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_scare

Surprisingly, this page has been updated since I last linked it to another fear and loathing poster. Read and learn something about yourself.

I think perhaps FP is the one 'drinking the kool-aid'. Carol, we appreciate your work.

Perhaps Republicans and the rich should cease their "capital strike"?

That might help our economy dramatically!

> Overrun with foreigners

Deny it as often as you like, but you really *ARE* one of those folks, aren't you?

I'm curious, News Flash: your posts hardly ever seem to be connected to the topic under discussion. Instead, they seem to be whatever latest anti-Obama link you've discovered or just a re-hash of a throw-away remark you've used dozens of times before.

Are you like this in real life?

And do people in real life respond well to this behavior of yours?

What, exactly, are you trying to accomplish here on Patch?

Curious to see if any attendees notices his demeanor.

So? See my reply above.

15,000 is in comparison to 8,500

Population of Florida: 19,058,000

Population of New Hampshire: 1,318,000

So your point is?

Lorna:

I have a question for you in return: When George W. Bush was President and more than 3,000 Americans died on 9/11, were you as concerned that President Bush had totally ignored intelligence reports about the threat of Al Quada attacks, *INCLUDING* the possibility that they would use fully-fueled transport aircraft as improvised bombs?

I support President Obama.

I think you watch too much Faux News.

Stop politicizing the tragedy.

First of all Obama is not running against George Bush. However since you brought it up, there is a big difference between the 2 9/11 attacks. George Bush did not have info as to where the attack was to take place or when the attack would take place. Obama knew where his men were being killed, that they were under mortar fire, where the launchers were and watched it all in real time. There is a difference of not having enough info to act, and having the info but refusing to send in the support they needed. And, my info comes from the emails and paperwork involved...something most news networks for some reason aren't doing much reporting on. You'll know the truth...when it's too late. Hopefully there are enough people out there who know how to google!

Bush's information was quite precise as to method and reasonably precise as to time.

Yet he did not act.

And a thousand times as many people died.

Yet that doesn't seem to concern you so I conclude you're just trying to score cheap political points.

It has already been reported that there was not enough time to get troops there before the attack ended. If you have sources and references that you want to share, by all means. If you think Obama is sitting in the White House watching Americans die on his TV and doing nothing because, why? How does that scenario play out in your head?

Turn off Fox news, present your references here, or you will just be labeled another partisan trying to score points off of dead Americans.

@ForThePeople - Of course Obama was just "not sitting in the White House watching Americans die...", he was in Las Vegas (sin city) attending a fund raiser! In the last four years has he spent anytime in the White House? Between vacations and fund raisers he is on a perpetual vacation and you can tell based on the direction the country is heading, right down the ....

I hate defending Bush because I really don't think he did a good job as President. However, I have to ask, what was he supposed to do? Shut down all airports nationwide? For how long? How long would it have taken to put in place the screening measures necessary to protect us? Suddenly the American people would have to be body searched to provide safety. Pre 9/11 the people would have had his head over it! Not to mention the effect on the nation being basically shut down for an extended period of time. Or maybe he could have put all people from middle east countries on a no fly list? Yeah right...there would have been cries of racism. The main difference is that this time the President DID know exactly what was going on. One drone was already in the area and was sending back video immediately. Another drone was sent in. There was military support 2 hours away. It took 6 hrs. and 20 minutes before the mortar fire killed 2 of the heroes that went to the embassy and rescued the survivors! They drove through gunfire and grenades to get to the annex a few blocks away. Why was no help sent as they begged for it?

I AM NOT politicizing this. I am pointing out a major flaw in the capability of a Presidential candidate to handle an emergency situation. I don't care which party he is in when it comes to this! And, political party should not matter to anyone on this matter. This is bigger than politics. This is about how we support our troops under fire!

Rupert Murdoch's propaganda machine at work.

(As everyone knows, Rupert Murdoch's "News Corporation" owns Fox News.)

Nooo...He wants to streamline FEMA and make it more effective by putting it in the hands of the States. Here's what he said:
Q: You've been a chief executive of a state. I was just in communities dealing with tornadoes & flooding. FEMA is about to run out of money, and some people say, maybe we're learning a lesson here that the states should take on more of this role?
A: Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that's even better.
Instead of thinking in the federal budget, what we should cut--we should ask ourselves the opposite question. What should we keep? We should take all of what we're doing at the federal level and say, what are the things we're doing that we don't have to do? And those things we've got to stop doing, because we're borrowing $1.6 trillion more this year than we're taking in.

FEMA is going broke!!! By returning it to the states, where they know exactly where the money needs to be spent efficiently, he would be saving disaster relief for the future. Why does everyone think that just because the Federal Government won't be running a program that the program will no longer exist at a state level? It's the same thing with the education. So much money is wasted by the Fed. government running it. Romney wants to give the money to the states, plus cost of living increase, plus 1%.

During a 2011 GOP primary debate he said it was "immoral" for the federal government to be spending money on disaster relief when it should be focused on deficit reduction.

It IS immoral to inefficiently spend money through a system full of federal red tape, rather than streamlining it by letting the states decide what is best for them and where the money is best spent. Not only is an inefficient, nearly broke system not able to provide as much assistance, but we are wasting money that our children will have to pay for. Before you get all uppity...the aid provided is not wasted. It's the money needlessly spent as it trickles down to the states that is wasted.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/29/oct-28-in-swing-states-a-predictable-election/?hp

74.9% chance President Obama wins Ohio.

Why are you people so stupid?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/weddingring.asp

Olenhgal:

Well, if they were published "last week", then surely you'll have no trouble providing us with the link to the New Yorker article that shows those pictures, right?

But there are no such pictures. And you're just joining the Right Wing chorus of folks who will hear something negative about President Obama, believe it implicitly, and *REPEAT IT ENDLESSLY*, no matter how many people prove you wrong and how incredibly stupid such statements might make you sound.

Mike:

Racism is alive and well. Especially in Republicans. A new poll!

http://news.yahoo.com/ap-poll-majority-harbor-prejudice-against-blacks-073551680--election.html

Here is the old one that confirms Republicans are not only more prejudiced, but they have lower IQs:
http://news.yahoo.com/low-iq-conservative-beliefs-linked-prejudice-180403506.html

Least educated states in the nation (all Republican):
http://247wallst.com/2012/10/15/164232/5/

And, even if Obama was a Muslim, so what? Is the implication that Christianity is a paragon of values? May I direct you to the Old Testament?

Wow, you just troll the Patches spreading this manure, don't you. Nixon wasn't 'removed', he quit- chickened out because couldn't face the consequences of his actions. You pick & choose what looks 'bad' to you as if you trained at the feet of Rove and Cheney. You're not even good at it, much like those 3rd rate burglars. Obama is asking for 4 more years- not exactly ducking responsibility. Right or wrong, good or bad, he's standing by his convictions.

Even without Watergate, Nixon's not exactly a shining example of Republican virtues... smallminded, mean, petty, and lacking in any redeeming Presidential features. Secret recordings, illegal expansion into Laos and Cambodia, and the 1973 oil crisis. Sure, he went to China... opening the door to modernizing and engaging what has now become our biggest rival on the world stage. Once a triumph, much like every other Republican venture, it's come back around to bite us in the ass. Had they stayed isolated another decade or two, who's to say that their version of Communism wouldn't have splintered and democratized like the Soviet Union? Instead, it remains a monolithic culture dominated by political hacks with connections and money... which, now that I phrase it that way, scares me even more about the path the so-called conservatives want to take us down.

It's ok, you sound like you might be younger than I am, and probably went to school after education and critical thinking were cut out of school by No Child Left Behind.

President is only crushing Romney in early voting, not annihilating him like he did to McCain, good to know.

I think Romney leads in all the fake polls.