Come Meet and Talk With
Congressional Candidate
Andy Schmookler
Andy will speak on "What One of America's Favorite Movies Reveals about the Moral Crisis in America Today"
Andy will take any and all questions you wish to ask after the talk. The date of the election draws near so don't miss this opportunity and feel free to bring friends and neighbors. Andy wishes to debate the issues on television with Bob Goodlatte but Bob refuses to face the voters. Andy is traveling the entire 6th district and facing and meeting with the voters and answering their questions. The last thing Bob Goodlatte wants to do is answer questions from voters, well the second to last.
The last thing Bob wants to do is appear on television in a debate with Andy Schmookler.
The last thing Bob wants to do is appear on television in a debate with Andy Schmookler.
Saturday, September 22, 3:00 p.m.
Lynchburg Public Library
2315 Memorial Avenue, Lynchburg
Truth. For a Change.
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Amherst Virginia HeadlinesVirginia's 6th Congressional District covers all or part of Shenandoah, Rockingham, Highland, Augusta, Alleghany, Bath, Bedford, Rockbridge, Botetourt, Roanoke and Amherst Counties and Lynchburg City.
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Ann Romney said she and Mitt were once so poor that they had to sell stock to get thru the month. Golly Gee! thats poor.
to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what... These are people who pay no income tax ...
"My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." From the mouth and mind of Mitt Romney
McMahon, Long Separate Themselves From Romney
Republicans running for Senate in Democratic-leaning northeast states disagreed with Mitt Romney's remarks made at a fundraiser earlier this year about 47 percent of Americans wanting government handouts and considering themselves victims.
Connecticut GOP Senate nominee Linda McMahon posted a statement to her website this morning: "I disagree with Governor Romney's insinuation that 47% of Americans believe they are victims who must depend on the government for their care. I know that the vast majority of those who rely on government are not in that situation because they want to be. People today are struggling because the government has failed to keep America competitive, failed to support job creators, and failed to get our economy back on track."
Meanwhile, McMahon's opponent Chris Murphy sent around a video clip of McMahon saying that "47 percent of the people today don't pay any taxes..."
And New York GOP Senate nominee Wendy Long also weighed in on the statements -- though not proactively, as McMahon did. The website Capital New York:
"Now I don't believe that a lot of people in the 47 percent who are not paying taxes want to be there," Long told Fred Dicker this morning, in an appearance on his radio show.
Long said she hadn't actually heard the comments or seen the video, posted yesterday by Mother Jones magazine, but said Romney's assertion "sounds like it probably was not correct." She put the blame on President Obama.
"It's just a reflection of the fact that Obama really does want to create this culture of dependency," she said.
Both candidates are running in blue states where President Obama is expected to win easily in November. One difference -- McMahon actually has a chance of winning her Senate race, whereas New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand appears to be gliding to reelection.
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Romney Falling Behind Even Before 47% Video Surfaced
When President Obama is reelected in November, the video of Mitt Romney's remarks to a private fundraiser will inevitably be cited as a “turning point” in the 2012 campaign.
Narratives of presidential elections often pivot around unexpected events. Just four years ago, Obama and John McCain were virtually even in mid-September polling. Then Lehman Brothers collapsed, dragging down financial markets and dooming McCain’s chances.
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But right now, with the Romney video still big news, it’s worth noting (and remembering) that Obama had already pulled ahead before footage of Romney’s disparaging remarks about 47% of the population surfaced this week.
New national opinion surveys, made public over the last 24 hours, found that Obama has widened his advantage over Romney — to five points in one poll and eight in the other. The new polls were completed on Sept. 16.
Mother Jones magazine put the secretly recorded Romney video on its website Sept. 17.
A just-released Pew Research Center poll shows Obama leading Romney by 51% to 43%. That is a larger lead than recent surveys by other polling outfits and the biggest mid-September advantage in Pew’s presidential polling since President Bill Clinton led Republican challenger Bob Dole by a dozen points in 1996.
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The other major survey, by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal, showed Obama leading Romney by five percentage points, 50% to 45%. The poll found that Obama is in better shape in September than President George W. Bush was in his ultimately successful reelection contest against Democrat John Kerry in 2004.
Both surveys show that Romney has failed to turn a sputtering economic recovery to his advantage. And the latest distraction, in the form of his own recorded words from a Florida fundraiser earlier this year, only complicates his task, by shifting attention away from that issue.
The new polls are worth noting for two other reasons, beyond their usefulness in measuring the presidential contest just before the video surfaced.
Both surveyed likely voters. Thus, they should offer a more accurate snapshot of what would happen if the election were held today, as opposed to polls of all registered voters (which inevitably include people who won’t actually vote). In addition, they were conducted by experienced, well-regarded pollsters (the media poll
is a cooperative venture by Democrat Peter Hart and Republican Bill McInturff; Pew’s polling, directed by Andrew Kohut, is independent and nonpartisan).
Hart and McInturff concluded that voters were more optimistic about the nation’s economic future than in their previous surveys. That’s a positive finding for Obama, who is attempting to become the first incumbent since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win reelection with unemployment above 8%.
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Still, there are more than six weeks left to go until election day. October's TV debates have the potential to shift the dynamics of the contest. Another unforeseen event could also shake up what had been, until very recently, a virtually tied race. And the race will be decided by views in battleground states, though there is not much good news for Romney there either, as Obama has held narrow leads in almost all of the states which are hotly contested.
At the same time, though, post-Labor Day national polls over the last quarter-century has usually pointed the way to the election outcome. In Pew’s surveys, the only exception was 12 years ago, when Al Gore led George W. Bush by five percentage points in mid-September. The Democrat did manage to win the popular vote (by less than one percentage point), but he lost the electoral vote.
Over the next two weeks, both sides will be watching intently to see how much self-inflicted damage Romney may have suffered. If this episode is little more than a bump in the road, Romney still faces an uphill fight against an incumbent president. But if he falls even farther behind, with time running out, the video may have mortally wounded the Republican challenger.
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