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Mitt Romney dominated among nearly every demographic, income, and ideological category in Tuesday’s Arizona primary.
As in Michigan’s contest on Tuesday, in Arizona the economy was the issue that mattered most to voters: nearly half of those interviewed in the exit poll picked the economy as the dominant issue and Romney won those voters with 51 percent, to Rick Santorum’s 26 percent.
A plurality of voters said they wanted someone who could beat President Obama in November and 56 percent of such voters backed Romney.
Among the minority (15 percent) who said they were looking for “a true conservative,” 43 percent supported Santorum. Another group which Santorum won was born-again Christians: 37 percent supported Santorum while 35 percent backed Romney.
Time's Mark Halperin thinks Mitt Romney can rally the GOP base because he's shown them there is no "pure candidate" in the race.
But Catholic voters (17 percent of the electorate) much preferred Romney to Santorum, as did non-evangelical Protestants.
Romney, a Mormon, also won nine out of ten Mormon voters, who accounted for 14 percent of Tuesday’s electorate.
Despite Romney having changed his views on abortion in 2005, and Santorum having been a stalwart abortion foe for many years, it was Romney who dominated among the nearly 60 percent of voters who said abortion should be illegal: Romney won half of those voters in Arizona, while Santorum won about a quarter of them.
Exit poll interviews of voters in Tuesday’s primary defied some of the news media stereotypes. Arizona has enacted the most stringent law in the nation to arrest illegal immigrants and question those suspected of being illegals. And illegal immigration was a concern to some voters in Tuesday’s election -- but only 13 percent said it was the issue that most mattered in deciding how they voted.
After winning both the Michigan and Arizona primaries on Tuesday night, Mitt Romney turns his sights on President Obama and the fall campaign.
And remarkably, more than three out of five Arizona Republican primary voters said illegal immigrants ought to be allowed either to apply for citizenship or to stay in the United States as temporary workers.
Only 34 percent of Arizona voters wanted illegal immigrants deported. Romney easily won among all three groups of voters.
Romney won among all income groups but did best among those with a family income of $100,000 or more. But even among the voters who reported family income of under $50,000, Romney beat Santorum 42 percent to 28 percent.
Fifty-four percent of Arizona voters said they’d made their decision on whom to vote for before this month. And most of them (49 percent) backed Romney.
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Romney's delegate count continues to grow at the same rapid pace as Obama strong disapproval rating grows and the media will keep spreading the lie that Romney is a weak candidate.
Mitt Romney 2012
I think Romney will be the best nominee because it will be an easy win for Obama. That is why the ads are there, to tell us who to vote for when one is a crossover. I think this is going the right way!! Obama 2012!! UP, UP WITH THE PEOPLE!!
Obama 2012 means , UP , UP , WITH OUR DEBT ....
Well , we may have to default soon , so that up , may stop ....
I agree with u Rob. It blows my mind that the press has handled Romney. He is a great guy and I am so glad to see that CNN and NBC are being somewhat fair. Fox in a big joke that is for sure. they are backing Santorum with their owner murdock
This is a crying shame that an Election can be bought. Romney spent almost twice as much money as Santorum and what did it get him? A win in his home state, WaHooo. AZ already proved they don't know what the hell they are doing when they sent McCain back for another term. So now Santorum and Romney are tied 5 to 5. We can only pray that Super Tuesday will put Santorum ahead for good and bury Romney in his Liberal ways.
Romney voted for Obamacare.
He's pro-carbon taxes,
pro abortion,
and a corporatist gun-grabber, just like Obama.
Romney is exactly the same as Obama, so what difference does it make?
From the article and common sense:
The above position is a problem.
Romney does not have a progressive political platform for America.
As governor of Massachusetts, Romney's health care plan is seen as too liberal for conservatives. Thus, he has back-peddled on universal health care. Romney's continuous "flip flops" have caused him to be "null and void" on domestic and international issues. His "Corporations are People too" nonsense shows that he is a committed elitist. His plans for our improved economy is to return to the failed "supply-side, "trickle-down" theory. His dirty work at Bain Capital reveals that he has no empathy for the struggling middle class and the poor. Yet, people are running to vote for this phony.
This "Anybody but Obama" vote, is a vote for a directionless, smooth talker who will cause most of our citizens to continue to economically, politically and socially flail about.
We love to cut our noses off to spite our faces!
Yep, you are right.
We love to cut our noses off to spite our faces!
The Obama supporters proved that in the last election! ... and they are still drinking the koolaid!
Rob in ma,
If you are really from Mass, you would not be for Romney. What has he done for MA? He continued the Big Dig fiasco, and "balanced" the budged with increasing fees for average Americans.
during Romney’s term as Governor of Mass, the state was 47th in job growth.
bayllie: What was the unemployment rate?
CKSM,
While the unemployment rate under Romney did fall (from 5.6 to 4.7), it was largely due to contraction of the labor force and the only state that saw a sharper drop in its labor force during Romney’s term was Louisiana, the state that was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Massachusetts lagged behind the country in virtually every economic measure under Romney’s term but after Romney left, the Mass economy has
rebounded much faster from the next recession it faced, creating jobs at nearly twice the national rate and ranking in the top 10 nationally.
Romney campaign does not challenge this statistic but explains that he took office in the midst of a recession -which is true. But since he could not do it for Massachusetts, how is he going to be able to do it for the country??????
It's interesting that Romney beat out Santorum for the Catholic vote and for the 'pro-life' vote.
Where can the man in the sweater vest go if his base won't support him??
Go Rick! GO AWAY.
Obama and Romney may have similarities, but Obama has no clue when it comes to financing/economics.
That is the major difference and the biggest thing needed with our balance sheet looking more and more like Greece.
If the MI dems push a robo-call trying to get Santorum elected in with dem votes, that's all I need to know about the Obama campaign party concerns. Romney 2012. I don't like him, but the dems are afraid of him so given the poor hand were dealt, I'll take Romney ... I want to be there when Obama and his old lady are shown the door and escorted out. I wonder what national treasures we'll lose this time.
natemesis: and yet, here we sit in a growing recovery after enduring 8 years of the worst Presidency of modern times from the last Republican "experiment" in trickle down, let em eat cake "economics". Mitt's ONE issue was supposed to be the economy--and that's in recovery--He's got nowhere to go. His dubious claim to being a job "creator" (a whole new spin on a venture capital/private equity operation making its fortune on DISMANTLING companies and selling them) isn't buying him anything...dismantling health care?? yeah, right, tell it to the millions of people who aren't about to go back to the 'good luck with that' care of the republicans.
STexan: So "all you need to know" doesn't include the Republican crossovers in the same states on democratic elections? (that is NEWS to you??? No wonder you're reduced to Romney).
The national treasures we would lose would be Obama and the First Lady themselves.
The GoTP is done. They can't decide on which fool they want to lose to Obama in November. The religious bigots vote for Santorum, because they can't stomach a MODERATE MORMON in their party, while those who actually have a clue realize Romney is the only chance they have against Obama at this point. And it's a pretty slim chance if you face facts.
AP-1414066, all I hear is conjecture, but no real facts from you.
It's certainly not a flourishing economy. It's a weak recovery at best with the possibility of slipping back into recession. AND that's after Obama increasing the deficit by $5 trillion. Anyone can make an economy recover if they push $5 trillion into the system.
His economic team has had many resignations, he didn't spend the stimulus money well to promote growth. It made short term jobs that will go away.
If you really think venture capital/private equity don't promote jobs or business please, please take some finance classes. He may have dismantled some small companies that were already going down, but he provided needed financing for other companies that are still running and employ thousands.
Please prove to us how Obama has done better.
Somebody else posted this in another forum so i thought i would spread the word...
Since President Obama took office - the stock market has gone up over 56%.
Yesterday the Dow closed at 13,000 for the first time since May 19, 2008.
We've had 10 straight quarters of GDP growth.
Auto sales (up by 11% in January) are growing so rapidly that Detroit is hustling to keep pace:
Three years after the auto industry nearly conked out for good, 12.8 million cars & trucks were sold last year. The projection is that 14 million will be sold in 2012.
Automakers hiring thousands of workers across the country, adding shifts, and 13,000 jobs more in 2012. Total of 717,000 jobs have been added in the car and parts industries.
Three years after filing bankruptcy in 2009, General Motors now exceeds its peak mid-1990s earnings.
General Motors: Now the world's biggest automaker. With $7.6 Billion in profits - the highest in GM's 103 year history. And 47,500 employees will receive $7,000 in profit-sharing.
Chrysler : Sales increased by 44 percent, faster than any other car company; goals include increasing revenue to $65 billion in 2012, a gain of 18 percent to an overall profit of $1.5 billion.
Ford: Investing $Billions and planning to bring thousands of jobs home to the U.S.A.
In 2008, four hundred thousand auto industry jobs were lost. Chrysler and GM were basically toast.
President Obama rescued more than a million jobs by intervening, and helping the auto industry re-tool & re-structure.
Manufacturing: 50,000 manufacturing jobs added in January - the highest monthly gain since 1998.
334,000 jobs created in the last 2 years = 21 consecutive months of job gains = largest 2-year job growth in 26 years: After 12 consecutive years of jobs losses in manufacturing, orders rose 81.6 percent in the Midwest region in 2011 - the strongest year since the 1990s. U.S. factories must add even more workers to keep up with current pace of output. Last month manufacturing sector employees worked an average of 41.9 hours per week, a post war high.
Only time that figure was higher was between 1942-5, when factories were working overtime on war products (42 hours per week average).
Lowest employment rate in 3 years: January was 7th straight month of adding a minimum of 100,000 jobs per month.
Best job creation rate for 2011 in 6 years, and second best in 12 years.
Housing sales are UP: West 8.4%, Mid-west 14.1%, North-East 3.7%, South 9.1%
Cheers :)
independant-2850861
you can quote these figures until you are blue in the face but all that matters to the TPGOP is birth control, vaginal probing and now college degrees. This was never about the economy and jobs. This was always about anti-Obama from day one.
A community organizer who is running the economy into the ground or a guy who ran billion dollar companies and made a lot of money, gave a lot away and wants america to grow. Seems like a tough vote for me. ! I must be one of the those anti obama people..Lets see, massive health giveaway, forced purchasing of healthcare to support rich healthcare ceo's, bank bailouts again and again, high gas prices, high inflation, high unemployment, massive deficits. Lets see, I think I WANT MORE OF IT>
If you didn't want ObamaCare, perhaps you should have supported Universal Health.
At least then the money would go to DOCTORS, and not CEO's.
Obama ain't perfect, but America is the better for him!
(and WHY is being a community organizer so bad? Seriously!)
Fed up Senior,
The recent trend of cutting off our noses to spite our faces started with Americans voting for Reagan in 1980. This father of the right was a supporter of the failed "supply-side" economic theory. This financial con says that, if we soak the rich with cash, their ilk will allow the wealth to trickle down to the "rest of us."
In spite of the falsehood of the above scam-theory, we heard misdirected voters foolishly state: " I'm voting for Reagan. I don't like his policies, but I like his personality."
Not surprisingly, the same naive Americans saw: a decline in real wages for non-supervisory workers, high unemployment, a loss off the tax deduction for credit card interest payments and large tax cuts for the wealthy.
Our citizens repeated the same voting mistake in 2004...they voted for Obama's predecessor, twice.
When our citizens decide not to use logic in the voting booth, the right wins.
If Romney wins the White House, we will see another case of "self-inflicted punishment."
Obama/Biden 2012!
America's best hope is that the haters will be so unenthusiastic about the current crop of GOP incompetents that they'll stay home on election day.
Mitt Romney: Even his DOG throws up at the thought.
Rick Santorum: JFK is throwing up in his grave.
Somebody please by jolly joker a newspaper.
Community organizer? For the past several years he has been President of the most powerful nation on earth. Before that, he was a United States senator. Before that he was an Illinois state senator and a professor of Constitutional law at one of the most prestigious (and conservative) law schools in the United States. Before that he was President of the Harvard Law Review, and graduate with honors from one of the most pestigious law schools in the United States.
Running the economy into the ground? Jobs are up, unemployment is down, the stock market is up, American banks are once again profitable, the American autormobile industry is profitable and growing, housing sales and starts are up, people's retirement accounts are beginning to heal, and a lot of the credit goes to President Obama.
Ran billion dollar companies? Romney never ran any of those companies. He's been a professional poltical CANDIDATE (and a losing one at that) for the past several years. He pays taxes at a lower rate than the average middle class American, and lower even than the working POOR. His kids have dodged paying taxes on over $100 million in income, just like Mitt dodged serving in the military by fleeing to France. He outspent Rick Santorum three to one in Michigan, where he grew up, a state that elected his father Governor, and came away with a TIE in delegates awarded. That's not efficient.
He even makes his own DOG throw up.
Since Santorum, without Romney's deep pockets, simply could not compete in both Arizona and Michigan, he wisely conceded Arizona and instead spend his time and campaign dollars in Michigan. If Santorum ties or wins there [Romney's home state], the Republicans have themselves at best a couple of lame, weakened candidates going forward toward November's General Election!
Romps .... ??
Well , as long as not one person voted for Obama tonight , America has hope ....
Right on !
bigbenalaska
your post does not make sense...it's like saying that as long as not one person voted for Jeb Bush tonight, America has hope....I didn't realize that anyone could vote for Obama tonight...
A vote for Santorum was a vote for Obama
if you combine the anybody but Obama, my country be damned pitch-forkers with the vaginal probe people, the 'education as a vast conspiracy' people, along with the 'bibles not constitutions' and the moon colony hopefuls, you still wind up with a resounding defeat for the Republicans in November . (Hard to imagine a worse drubbing than even McCain/Palin...but they're trying.)
Since you COULDN'T vote for Obama, your post is a bit confusing.
Romney's delegate count continues to grow as Obama's approval rating grows higher** It's sad that republicans only running point is "I'm not Obama, I'll undo everything he did" and "Obama bad". Get your heads out of your a** and we might actually be able to select a candidate who A. has common sense b. will help the country grow. Until then, I'm either righting in a candidate or voting Obama bc both Santorum (really, this guy is a nutjob) and Romney are terrible candidates.
And that is why Obama will win. Because they have nothing to offer, but a religious nut, who says he is a Christian but that really behaves differently. And an unbalance person who thinks in order for capitalism to work one has to create poverty in others. Santorum send his kids to college but does not want any one else to so their kids will perpetuate the status quo. It is time for the omelet to turn.
I don'tknow what all of the hub bub is about. A bunch of white men in dark suits telling women how to control their own bodies, no birth control etc. If they were dysfunctional in the bedroom would they take a dose of cialis or any of the other drugs to get things going. I say yes. Santorium has 7 children. Good for him. I bet he won't have seven more. What form of birth control is he using? Obama will beat anyone of those jokers. Just wait and see.
afrommi,
And Obama has what to offer? Loans to green companies that will default, and nearly a trillion dollars in loans to students so universities can continue to raise tuition, while students are left with a huge debt impossible to pay back. Genius.
At least Romney knows how the economy works and how businesses fund themselves.
Yea, lets not fund green technology, we can just mine more of our coal and if we start to run low on oil we will just invade a country that has it, also, lets make it a law that no one can go to college unless they grew up in a home that made no less than $150k a year, and hope others countries follow suit, throw out all employee rights and allow companies to do what they "must" in order to make as much money as possible, the GOP economic dream. All up hill from there right? Well, least till that cliff...
no, actually, Romney has proven with his lackluster performance as governor that he does NOT know how the economy works...same ol' tired ideas and no new jobs. We're in a recovery now...the same old tired 'the sky is falling' rant from Republicans isn't enough to convince anyone that Romney is any kind of alternative.
What was the unemployment rate when he was governor? Did it drop? And he was able to do that while working with both republicans and democrats.
When the deficit ceiling needed to be raised we didn't have any leadership from President Obama and lost our AAA status.
We may be in a slight recovery, but our economy is not strong. The dollar is highly inflated our Debt to GDP is not hopeful, with the Fed keeping interest rates down, the rates will eventually sky rocket coupled with a loss of our AAA status. This means the future will be rough for investments because it will be so much more expensive to borrow money. Sounds very similar to Greece doesn't it?
We don't need someone who fakes their way through an economic recovery, we need someone who actually understands financing/economics.
he would appeal to this bunch of old angry folks- whose time is long past. arizona has terrible financial problems
- don't spend your money there
ruby, “arizona has terrible financial problems”
Do you have ANY facts to back that up? I would like to see some stats on “old and angry” as well if you have them.
chase"dot"com/online/commercial-bank/document/Arizona.pdf
As I've been saying all along, Mitt Romney will be our next, and best ever President, for the next eight years.
America will soon be leaving the darkness, and despair of the Obama administration, and begin to enter the golden age of pure, enlightened, Republican rule. The despised, and ludicrous Democratic party will become a joke. A worn out joke that history professors will bring up to get a chuckle out of their students.
Obama will have the dubious distinction of being the very worst President ever in America's history. He tried to destroy America, but only succeeds in destroying the Democratic party. Goodbye Barrack baby, hello President Romney.
Obama shelved in 2012.
In what way is Romney different from Obama?
Joeseph this is great news, are the people on the planet kolob aware of this?
AWOL, Not yet...... but Mr. Obama will tell his supporters later today.
jollyoldsoul1
Obama doesn't have to say anything...the Republicans put it on TV for everyone to see.
A future that would bring sounds more like a movie called The Handmaids Tale.
Santorum does not want others to go to college but those who are from the top 20% who already have been benefiting from the unjust policies. They will still control 93% of all the financial wealth by keeping salaries low and the prices of goods and services high. The bottom 80% sharing only 7% of all the wealth will not have enough for education if the GOP wins. Romney will be an easy challenger he is one of the ones who have been benefiting from the policies of unjust distribution of wealth. If the GOP base cannot recognize they have been lied to...then they are not just sleeping but stupid. Those who are within the bottom 80% better wake up. And to those who crossed over today: THANKS !!!
afrommi,
there is nothing better than an uneducated, desperate workforce that has no rights (eliminate Labor Laws). Make birth control illegal and in 18 years you will have even more uneducated, desperate workforce that will outbid the next guy for the lowest wage so that they can feed their family. Thy are just planning long-term.
Bayllie contrary to liberal belief's a college degree is not a necessary ticket to a good income. While certain careers a degree is necessary, there are many career fields that are good income positions with a Certification path. I have a Culinary arts degree and Im one of 3 Lead network engineers for a 60,000 global corp. I know many many, Net engineers who went the Cert. path and are making 6 figures. In fact when my blind son asked about college I pointed him towards a Micro Soft Certification and he is now enjoying good position.
jollyoldsoul1
where in my post did I say that education=college degree only. Certification path is still education. Finishing HS is education. Electriciansneed education. IT needs education... I can keep going on.
Tell me, to become a network engineer, did you have to get additional education or did they just hand you a certificate and gave you your 6 figure check?
By the way, if a college degree was only a liberal belief, why do you have every single Republican candidate hold college dergrees ? I guess they are closet liberals.
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker,but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.
Proverbs 14:31
"Leadership gains authority and respect when the voiceless poor are treated fairly." Proverbs 29:14
HEY ROMNEY HOW ARE YOU GONG TO DEMONSTRATE THIS??
You have been honest. You just want to take care of yours but the rest can go to h***. You already caused the poverty of many.
You yourself do not believe what you are saying.
If hard work pre-empts wealth: why is it that waitresses, nurses, housekeepers, janitors, civil servants, domestic help, factory workers, teachers, designers, computer data entry worker, customer service reps, bank tellers, store clerks and so on are on the bottom sharing only 7% of the wealth? And that is why President Obama is fighting to raise the minimum wage and to lower the taxes of the 80% and to raise the taxes of those who have benefited the most for the last 30 years from the policies.
80%: if you want to have more of the wealth to share by working hard, do not vote GOP. They answer to ALEC not you! They answer to Norquist, not the American people.
Look at the budget and see how the GOP is lying about it.
A job that does not pay the bills and that will not allow people to live is not a job but a burden.
afromni
nice post right on although i'm not for Obama, Obama is doing all of what you say to make it appear that he supports the middle class only to get their votes.It won't last long.
afrommi, you obviously know nothing about what you are talking about. Romney donated 15% of his income to charity last year and Obama donated 1%. Romney did not accept payment when he lead the olympics or as governor of Mass. You say that Romney is the candidate of big business and Obama is the crusader against wall street however Obama has recieved more money from wall street than any candidate in history. In Romney's "evil" idea of captialism, some people lose, but a whole lot more people win in the end, unlike socialists like Barack Obama. I have lived in a country that was ravaged by socialism and I have seen its effects. It does not work. but you continue your plea for poor little Barack. He will probably get reelected. But when history looks at why america fell, Barack Obama will be the first one that the name.
Romney is so wealthy he could donate lots more and it really means nothing. Other than duping persons like yourself who obviously don't understand donations often have other intentions. Rockefellers did it to control school education, Romney he certainly did it last year just to show what a generous person he is as the PR about his not caring about the poor certainly hasn't helped him. The guy is a out of touch elitist and thankfully many know this.
I sure would like to see someone who says the president is a socialist actually substanciate this drivel. You say you've lived in a socialist country, yet call our president a socialist. Well at least one of these statements is false.
What has our president done to you righties that makes this so... Let's see. He supported bailouts of the banks, is that socialism... Oh, he supported extension of the Bush tax cuts.. Maybe that is socialism.. How about the recent talk of lowering corporate tax rates.. yeah, that must be it... Corporate welfare must be socialism,....
cause I really haven't seen much that the everyday joe in this country has received unless you want to include the unemployment and foodstamps that he receives cause the last president did NOTHING to create decent paying jobs. Hospitality and food service with no benefits, that is what has been the job creation. The millions of people can't support themselves and need government programs.. Yeah your Republicans have all the answers..Not support persons going to school to better themselves so they can stand on their own and contribute in taxes and get off the government programs.
Doesn't matter what the subject is the Republicans want to sell some sort of moral superiority brought into the equation how they deserve this but not the everyday citizen. The minute those poor folks are in need cause of what is done to them, often by the elite, well that's that evil socialism the Republicans just hate. It would be laughable if it wasn't so pathetic.
Ryan Powell - If you're going to post at least post the truth!!!
Romney gave 10% to the Mormon Church which is called a tithe - required - 3% went to Organizations which try to cure homosexuals - like "pray away the gay"
President and Mrs Obama - gave 14.7% to Charities (This can be verified on line)
Rick Santorum - gave 1.4% to Charity - great Church goer that he is
Plus this year Willard Romney is the prime benefactor of Wall Street @ 20 to 1
Thank you Barbara,
I am getting tired of all the lies being spread as truths against Obama!! Some seem to think "if they say it enough, it will become the truth"....LOL
OBAMA 2012
Is it the truth? This is the info I found:
Mitt Romney's 2010 tax return was released today, revealing made $2.98 million in charitable donations, out of his adjusted gross income of $21.6 million. That comes to about 14 percent of his adjusted gross income for the year.
Compare that to when Obama first ran for president in 2008. He released his 2006 tax return, which showed $60,307 in charitable donations out of an adjusted gross income of $983,826.
That comes to 6.1 percent of his gross adjusted income two years before he ran for president.
Obama is overwhelmingly generous compared to Vice President Joe Biden's charitable donations in 2006.
According to Biden's 2006 tax return, the couple gave $380 dollars to charity out of his $248,459 adjusted gross income; a percentage of 0.15.
As President, Obama has raised his charitable giving considerably. In 2010, the Obamas donated $245,075 to charities, or 14.2 percent of their adjusted gross income of $1.7 million.
@CKSM,
Every year, the president releases his tax returns, so there is little mystery about the extent of his contributions to charity.
In 2010, for instance, the president's taxable income was a little over $1.7 million, much of it from book sales. Line 19 of his itemized deductions shows that he gave $245,075 in gifts to charity.
That would be a rate of more than 14 percent, easily meeting Huckabee's standard of a "dime out of a dollar."
In 2009, the president's taxable income was about $5.5 million. He listed $329,100 in charitable contributions on his tax return and also directed the Nobel Prize Committee to give his $1.4 million prize directly to 10 charities (which meant he could not take a tax deduction for donating the prize).
This adds up to a rate of 31.4 percent of taxable income, again easily surpassing Huckabee's standard. (Update: a reader correctly notes the percentage would be 25.1 percent if you added Obama's Nobel Prize money to his taxable income.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/obamas-gifts-to-charity-just-1-percent/2012/02/14/gIQAXuMDER_blog.html
AND Romney Tithes his money to assure his entrance to heaven, not to be "charitable"...
Jo-An: AND Romney Tithes his money to assure his entrance to heaven, not to be "charitable"...
Thta's pure speculation. How do YOU know what HIS motives are? If he was so cheap why doesn't he just quit the church? How much did Obama give to his racist, hate spewing Rev Wright? When he sat there for 20 years listening to the good Rev rail about whites and America??
Cause he wants to go to Heaven, silly...
Do some research on Mormons, they MUST tithe 10% to their church, and Romney tithes 15%.
OBAMA 2012
Jo-An,
As you can tell by my name, I'm a Mormon, I can tell you with out a doubt, that Gov. Romney does not, nor has he ever paid more then 10 percent of his income to tithing. No we don't have to pay tithing to get into heaven, but we do it because the Lord ask that we give some of what he has given to us back to the church. Since I have become a full tithe payer I have been blessed beyond measure. God bless you Jo-An, but please get your facts straight before you start bashing someone that does not agree with your ideas. Perhaps you should do some research yourself, just saying.
I didn't mean to offend, my comment was made, tongue in cheek, but as I have read:
No disrespect to your Mormon belief, But it pretty much like you are "expected" to tithe 10%...to the church!
Romney is an empty suit, that talks out of both sides of the mouth!
I don't tithe, because I don't go to church, yet I have been blessed beyond measure TOO, guess it's karma..
Thanks for "blessing me", Peace!
OBAMA 2012 :)
This country is sick and in desperate need of a doctor. Ron Paul is an OBGYN doctor who takes care of mommies and babies. A true American patriot. Wake up America and vote for Dr. Ron Paul 2012.
Sorry, Ron Paul lost any chance of grabbing the Indy votes needed to take the prize when he signed the Xian Taliban's "pro-life pledge".
We don't want people who sign crazy pledges to grab votes from fringe groups. Period.
Ol' Romney is alyin'and the mormons is aflyin'.Just think,a new lds temple in D.C. I like a religion that says that all of the Christian religions are wrong and the mormons are all right.Their founders name is John Smith.Give me a break,couldn't he have used John Doe
The guy was Joe Smith, and is worshipped more than Jesus.
There has been an LDS temple in D.C. since 1978.
The LDS religion teaches that all mankind will have the same opportunities to be saved, regardless of which religion you belonged to, and regardless if you were in the right place and the right time to learn of Christ. The idea that Mormons believe only Mormons can be saved is a common falsehood that is passed around by critics of the LDS church, based on the fact that the LDS church believes that the authority to administer in the church must come from Christ. They believe it was restored to Joseph Smith. Thus they believe that the ordinance of baptism must be done by someone holding the proper keys and authority, which they believe was lost from the world after the age of the Apostles.
The Mormons teach that almost all religions have some truth, and that most religions are good and beneficial. However they believe that their religion is the restored church established by Christ, and therefore has additional truths.
Also, Joseph Smith is not worshiped in the Mormon religion. He is highly revered, similar to how catholics revere the pope, or other previous leaders of their faith. They believe that he did a lot for mankind, but is in no way like Christ.
We believe that we can be saved through the atonement of Christ, not Joseph Smith. We believe that Christ directs the LDS church, not Joseph Smith. Our articles of faith, which described our beliefs, mention Christ 5 times, but not once Joseph.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints worships Christ, and him alone. They take the Bible and Book of Mormon very literally, which includes the parts that say that you should worship no one else but God.
You can tell that doodah54's statement most likely originated with somebody who is antagonistic towards the LDS church. These are the predominant groups that refer to Joseph Smith as Joe.
All of these things, with exception of the last paragraph, can be sourced off of the LDS church's website if you want factual info.
If Ron Paul got an ounce of the media coverage these fake politicians got (Romney/Santorum), and people actually got to know the man. This would be an easy win for Ron. There is a reason his rallies and speeches draw huge crowds. This man is the real deal. The media will never let you know that. The media will continue to shelter the masses who get their only education and information from the talking box in their living room the same way they did in 1960. Wake up people, this is our lives at stake this election.
James
They can say what they want about Ron Paul, They are just repeating what the MSM has told them.But doesnot make them right.By the time they wake up it will be to late if it isn't already.
No. He blew it when he signed the "pro-life pledge". That takes him out of the "libertarian" category, and places him squarely into the "gov't that interferes with peoples choices" category.
No Indy or Dem consider him credible after that move. If he can't take most of the Indy's, and some of the Dems, he's not viable. So he's lost both his credibility & viability. Game over. It's not the media's fault, it's not the two-party systems fault (unless you claim that the two-party system forced him to signed that pledge), it's nobody's fault but his own.
We're tired of crazy pledges that pander to the rabid, frothing fringes. That seems to be a disease that only the conservatives have caught- and it doesn't play well with the majority.
Ron Paul would be in his 80s before the end of his first term... his son is more of a liability with the average US citizen than a boon... if he wanted to run, he should've done so 20 years ago... McCain was seen as too old... Who would Paul's running mate be? It's an even more relevant question than it was with McCain (and we all know how disastrous that choice turned out to be)... Ron Paul is very soft on defense... coming from a democrat... Obama '12!
weusall-You suck. You suck more than most.
The problem with Ron Paul, is he is an isolationist. Does he have some good ideas, yes, he does, but for the most part he is very radical in his thinking.
We can not isolate ourselves from the rest of the world, didn't work so well before WWI or WWII. It would appear tawdry that we have to buy our friends, yet the dynamics of this globe and its politics, dictate it.
I believe that Obama will take wthe white house again. I also believe that the republicans, will take Congress.
My only hope is that Obama comes more center, just as Clinton realized he needed to.
Lets run by some numbers here before the Obamabots claim victory this November....
Employment up? Excuse me but its been reported that American Airlines is about to layoff 15 thousand, the Postal Service 35 thousand but thats only the half of it...
Our military starts getting the RIF (reduction in forces) and they WILL IF Obama is reelected.
Obama is Jimmy Carter on crack.
Romney as well as the rest of you clowns-You suck! None of you could successfully run a country if you had a book of directions. It probably is easier to run a country populated by stupid people as opposed to smart ones, What an Fing joke! Go whine somemore girls.
Just a question of who Mitt will choose to be our Vice President for the next eight years. Rubio?? Ryan?? Christie??
Can you imagine Christie debating the likes of Joe Biden?? LOL Poor Joe. Got to be embarrassing when you actually have to perform without a teleprompter.
Obama shelved in 2012.
Christie's chin would keep getting in the way. lol
Gary S. If you keep talking like that no one will listen to you. I know. I suck.
to vote for romney is to vote for obama- I can't vote for either- romany says christ is a profit only muslems say same thing- he says Yes to gays a lesbians unions as dose Obama-God says No to it read the bible- I guess I will vote for who ever is left as I am a democrat that can't vote abd wont vote for oboma and I wont for Romney either-
Please do not vote. PLEASE.
Republicans need to remove religion from their politics and decision making.
I forgot to mention that I am republican leaning. Lose the religion. This is the 21st century.
Why is it that Libs always want to dwell on the Rights' "religious zealism", or "bigotted racism", yet the ONLY SIDE THAT PLAYS THOSE CARDS (incessantly I might add) ARE THE THE LEFTWINGERS???? Being right square in the middle of the 2 sides it is not confusing...it just looks like what it is. Stupidity in full bloom.
Theie is no different netween Romey and Obama. Both are anti=American.
On YOUR planet perhaps. Here, the two candidates, even the one I won't be voting for, are most decidedly pro-American. It's their politics on what that means that differs.
Mitt the Boob
As usual, Mitt will do or say something and be on the defensive by 5 PM today. It always happens. lol
And Obozo is thick-skinned??? Not.
Well that's Arizona for you. We have a great 'claim to fame'. Just look at what we're famous for: Racial Profiling (can you say immigration inequality?); snakes; liberal gun laws; scorpions; concealed weapons, even into a bar (think about it); 'Brown Recluse' spiders; a police state; giant dust storms; few benefits for workers (don't get hurt here); packs of javalinas; John McCain; mountain lions; Jan Brewer ; "Sheriff" Arpayo (he's not .. ); coyotes, and the launch of the Enron/Anderson crime... right on our golf course !!! It strikes cold in our hearts, while the weather is hot, and has brought on a boycott by travellers and business leaders choosing to visit other states. Good idea. Because we're too stupid to live. So I agree with the rest of you who are commenting pro-GOP. Romney, Santorum (the dictionary describes this nut well), or any of what I am coining, 'The Four Horseman of This Apocalypse now riding under GOP banners, will be great for the economy and the health of the country, and the unification of the world. We deserve it! Bring it on !! Death of what is left of our nation and citizens rights is the next natural step ... isn't it ?
" Stupid is, as stupid does..." Forest Gump
Disillusioned
Dissolutioned, “… brought on a boycott by travellers and business leaders choosing to visit other states.”
It may not be as bad as you have been told. In 2010, 36.9 million overnight domestic and international visitors traveled to Arizona, a 4.5 percent increase over 2009. Visitor spending directly generated $17.7 billion dollars, according to statistics released in July 2011 from The Arizona Office of Tourism. In addition, overseas visitation to Arizona saw a 15 percent increase over 2009, and more than 650,000 visitors traveled from Canada, an increase of 16.5 percent from 2009. One can only wonder how well Arizona would be doing if it was not such a terrible, terrible place.
Dis, I have two questions for you:
1. Where would you prefer to live if AZ is so bad?
2. Why aren't you already there??
And remarkably, more than three out of five Arizona Republican primary voters said illegal immigrants ought to be allowed either to apply for citizenship or to stay in the United States as temporary workers.
That's only remarkable to the clowns at MSNBC. The ones who push racism and prejudice.
Romney wins in a landslide in Arizona because he is MORMON! Our state is loaded with Mormons, and they will vote for Romney for that reason alone, A recent local article told of all the dollars the Mesa and Gilbert residents are pouring into Romney's campaign. Mormon Temple in Mesa....Mormon Temple being built in Gilbert. I will give you this, based on 38 years of living around them in this state....their family values are often held to the highest standards, but their business practices are notably corrupt. I didn't say this last election, but I will this time around...."Obama 2012!"
AZ Resident how is that different then with blacks voting for Obama because he is black?
soaz: you ASSUME blacks voted for Obama because he's half-black (...um....could it be that the overwhelming majority of African Americans are registered Democrats?? or didn't that occur to you) YOU, of course, I presume, only vote based on issues....?
Living in AZ in 2000, I backed McCain over Bush; all of the Republicans mocked me as supporting "the Liberal Candidate" in that race. The only thing that has changed over 12 years is the religion of the nominee; I joked that AZ could also be called South Utah. There's nothing wrong with Mormonism, but I am amazed at the shift in political center there. You sure can't tell it by their legislature. Glad that I don't live there anymore; 24 years was 23 too much.
soazDan.....Exactly....it's no different. They will vote on the basis of something other than what the candidates actually represent as far as running this country is concerned. I don't think any of them have the magic answer to solving this country's economic woes......but Romney's lack of concern for taking from others scares me far more than Obama's ever has. Romney has never walked in anything other than silver shoes, and has no problem taking from those who are struggling so he can buy another pair!!