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Trinnity
07-03-2012, 09:04 AM
Poll: Romney Claims Slight Edge in 15 'Battleground' States
(http://news.yahoo.com/poll-romney-claims-slight-edge-15-battleground-states-164545408.html;_ylt=A2KLOzGP5vJPnRUA.Q3QtDMD)
[T]he 15 states CNN calls its battleground states — Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin — Romney leads Obama, 51 percent to 43 percent.

Notably, though, the CNN/ORC International group includes three states thought to be comfortably in the Romney column this cycle: Arizona, Indiana, and Missouri.

He's far from locking up this election. His donations are not adequate either.

Cigar
07-03-2012, 09:40 AM
It's about three weeks since President Obama announced his administration would begin enforcing the goals of the DREAM Act. What does Mitt Romney think of Obama's policy? Oddly enough, we still don't know -- he and his campaign refuse to say.

What's more, it's been more than a week since the Supreme Court ruled on Arizona's anti-immigrant law, striking down nearly all of the odious SB1070. What does Romney think of the ruling? We don't know that, either -- Team Romney consider the candidate's opinion a secret.


Last week, when Romney chatted with a far-right website, he seemed to briefly take a position on immigration, but campaign aides quickly walked it back (http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/romney-appears-to-change-position-on-dream-act.php), saying he misspoke.


What on earth is going on here? The Republican reportedly told some Republican elites last week he's worried about vote totals, but he's also trying to avoid (http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/07/romney-at-langone-murdoch-blankfein-meeting-i-wont-127890.html) looking like a "flip-flopper.


Romney said the Hispanic vote is important, noting he has Sen. Marco Rubio on the trail for him and that one of his own sons speaks Spanish, but indicated he is not going to change positions from some of what he said in the primaries.

"I know I took some positions in the primary that are" hard to contend with in a general, Romney said, according to two sources.

"I am not going to be a flip-flopper," he added, according to one guest. He talked more about the various concerns that he has to balance in terms of competing constituencies who have different views -- and noted, two sources said, the precise percentage that Hispanic voters make up in the swing states, a figure that was less than 20 percent.


http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/03/12542183-romney-to-stick-with-far-right-agenda-on-immigration