Obama, Romney on offense as second presidential debate kicks off - Los Angeles Times [ournewsa.blogspot.com]
Question by American Women: Why is gas prices rising again if we are suppose to be "jump starting the country"? I'm confused- we are in a tug-o-war to pass this stimulus check for billions that will impact low income housing, food stamps, education but our gas is on a raise(AGAIN) and that's one thing that really hits people in the pocket. Ironic when it was going on under Bush it was his fault, but now it's Opec? Best answer for Why is gas prices rising again if we are suppose to be "jump starting the country"?:
Answer by shera_42
Funny that you call Obama's so called stimulus package a "check". That speaks volumes.
Answer by Daniel v 8.33
IDK. But I think its not in the hand of the government. Maybe they will soon do something about it.
Answer by Peter J
opec is cutting supply because demand is dropping. by cutting supply, cost goes up, and so on.
Times political reporters James Rainey and Robin Abcarian discuss what to expect in Tuesday's presidential debate.
At only two points since spring has the extremely close presidential race between President Obama and Mitt Romney shifted in any meaningful way; tonight, Obama will be under pressure to produce a third.
In the run-up to the second presidential debate of the general election season, Democratic campaign aides said Obama would try to use recent good economic news to persuade wavering voters that his policies were yielding tangible benefits without alienating them by overselling. He also would try to rebut what he and his advisors see as a misleading effort by Romney to shed the “severely conservative†label that he took on during the Republican primaries and recast his proposals in more moderate terms.
Aides and allies dropped broad hints that Obama would seek to make an issue of Romney’s tenure as governor of Massachusetts.
Romney will face pressure of his own to match the performance he pulled off in the first debate. He is likely to pursue some of the lines of attack he opened then and in the days since, challenging Obama administration-backed subsidies for companies in the renewable energy industry and the conflicting accounts that officials have offered regarding the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, in which Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed.
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But most of the spotlight will be on the incumbent, whom voters by wide margins judged to be the loser when the candidates met Oct. 3 in Denver.
The race between the two men has been extremely close and largely static most of the time since late spring. Because of that general lack of movement, the few times the race has shifted have taken on outsized importance.
The first shift took place during and just after the Democratic convention. With the help of former President Clinton, Obama pulled wavering voters over to his side and took a small but significant lead nationally and in virtually all the battleground states. That lead grew a bit larger after Romney suffered from a series of mistakes that generated two weeks of bad news for him, most notably the public release of a videotape in which he told a fundraising lunch that 47% of Americans pay no taxes, consider themselves "victims," are dependent on government and can’t be reached by his campaign.
Then came the second shifting point, the initial debate. Voters who had previously been on the fence said they found Romney forceful and persuasive. Perhaps just as important, Romney’s performance revived enthusiasm among Republican partisans, while Obama’s lackluster demeanor and failure to respond forcefully to his challenger demoralized some Democrats.
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The impact quickly showed up in polls as Romney picked up the support of Republican-leaning waverers. As before, the movement was not huge â€" an average of 3 to 4 points â€" but it erased most of the lead Obama had enjoyed, to return the race to the near-tie that had prevailed most of the summer and to send many of the president’s supporters into a deep funk.
As the second debate approached, Romney appeared to have taken at least a small lead in at least one major battleground state, Florida, and he was pouring resources into others, particularly Ohio and Virginia, in the hopes of establishing a clear path toward a majority in the electoral college. Obama appeared to be holding on, at least for now, in several other key states.
Obama’s task at Tuesday's debate was to revive the enthusiasm of his supporters in order to drive up turnout and to begin the process of wooing back some of the undecided who had drifted Romney’s way. Aides said they were particularly focused on female voters. Obama’s lead over Romney in September had depended in large part on strong support from blue-collar women, and several polls had shown him losing ground with them since the first debate.
In the days leading up to the second debate, Obama received reams of advice from fellow Democrats, much of it unsolicited. Several prominent party strategists not connected with his campaign have argued that to win, Obama needed to go beyond what he had said before and offer a clearer sense of where he wanted to take the country in a second term. Others have urged him to come out swinging against Romney, accusing the Republican of misleading voters about his positions.
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Aides have generally conceded that Obama needs to be more forceful and was overly cautious during the initial debate. They have downplayed the likelihood of any major shift in direction or a sudden declaration of new goals for a second term.
“You should expect that he’s going to be firm but respectful in correcting the record in the times we expect Mitt Romney will hide from and distort his own policies,†campaign press secretary Jen Psaki said.
Obama is “energized, and I expect he’ll also be making a passionate case,†she said. “He’s his own harshest critic, and that, of course, informs his preparations.â€
Romney aide Kevin Madden said his candidate had two goals: “Cutting through all the clutter and negative advertisements running against the governor, and instead talking directly to voters and having a clear choice emerge for voters who haven’t made a decision."
“The president’s record demonstrates that he hasn’t been able to fix the economy,†he added.
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