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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP
President Barack Obama, center, and the Federal Emergency Management Administration’s Craig Fugate, left, watch as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, second from left, meets with residents at Brigantine Beach Community Center on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Brigantine, N.J.
Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 | 12:40 a.m.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama dives back into campaigning after three days immersed in managing the federal response to the storm that battered the East Coast. The contours of the presidential race remain much the same, with Obama and Republican Mitt Romney locked in a tight contest and both campaigns predicting victory.
The president's advisers insist his break from campaigning had minimal impact on his standing. If anything, it gave Obama a chance to offer the type of comfort and command in a crisis that only a president can deliver.
Still, the Democratic campaign is seeking to make up for the lost time with a heavy travel itinerary in the coming days, including rallies Thursday in Wisconsin, Nevada and Colorado.
The president is expected to address a campaign rally around 2 p.m. today at Cheyenne Sports Complex, 3500 East Cheyenne Ave. in North Las Vegas. Doors are scheduled to open at 11:30 a.m.
Actress Eva Longoria and percussionist Sheila E. will join Obama at the rally.
Obama spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said that while the president remains focused on the storm recovery, "there is a reality of a political election happening in five days and he will return to the trail to make the case to the American people on why they should send him back for four more years."
The storm created headaches for Romney, diverting the public's attention away from the campaign as he was trying to build momentum. It also forced the Republican challenger to temper some of his harshest critiques of the president to avoid looking insensitive as people coped with the impact of Superstorm Sandy.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, right, takes the stage with vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan during a campaign rally at the Henderson Pavilion Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012.
The partisan sniping continued this week from the candidates' surrogates and their running mates. Much of it focused on Romney's new television and radio ads in critical Ohio suggesting automakers General Motors and Chrysler are adding jobs in China at the expense of workers in the Midwestern swing state. Vice President Joe Biden said the spots were among "the most flagrantly dishonest ads I can ever remember."
Obama's campaign planned to keep pressing its criticism of the ads as it seeks to block Romney's prospects for a breakthrough in Ohio, a state every Republican has needed to win the presidency.
The Republican ticket hasn't backed away from the ad. Running mate Paul Ryan said in a statement, "American taxpayers are on track to lose $25 billion as a result of President Obama's handling of the auto bailout, and GM and Chrysler are expanding their production overseas."
In fact, Chrysler is adding 1,100 jobs to its plant in Toledo. It's also adding production facilities in China as demand for cars there grows. Because of trade rules, it's easier for companies to build cars for the Chinese market in China. It's also more efficient. Japanese automakers, for example, have plants in the U.S. to meet American demand.
Romney was campaigning Thursday in Virginia, while Ryan was appearing at events in Nevada and Colorado.
Ahead of campaign events in Virginia, Romney released a Web video highlighting a decades-old barbecue chain in Richmond that's shutting its doors. "When President Obama took office there was a lot of hope that things were going to change. Well, he didn't change anything," a woman connected to the business says in the video.
Biden had two events scheduled in Iowa. Obama was starting his day in Green Bay, Wis., making up an event that was canceled earlier in the week because of the storm. He had a rally planned later in Las Vegas, as well as an event in Boulder, Colo., a heavily Democratic area.
Aides said Obama planned to mention the storm victims in his remarks.
More than 19 million people have already voted in the presidential election, either by mail or in person. No votes will be counted until Nov. 6, but some key states are releasing the party affiliation of those who have voted.
Democrats have an edge in votes cast in Florida, Iowa, Nevada, North Carolina and Ohio. Republicans have an advantage in Colorado.
No time to do his job... Back to doing the only thing he does well.
Republican Gov. Christie of Obama: "He means what he says."
Now, if I can say the same of Romney....
ASADTEACHER>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> What about Benghazi? There has been a total lack of news xcept fr Fox concerning this. There is documented proof there is a coverup. There is Emails fr the ambassador requesting help days before the attack. Where is the reporting? If it was a REP u couldn't get it off our LIB PRESS!
In Vegas AGAIN!!!.
How many times do we need to put up with the impact of his trips here. For a place he was so adamant about NOT spending money at about 3 years ago, he continues to come back (like a bad cold). I figure each one of these trips (with Air Force One and crew and security escorts has to be costing us - the taxpayers) at least a million each trip. I guess he will just give China a ringy-dingy and borrow a few billion more to cover it. Romney might be a ruthless venture capitalist, but he is a business man first, and we need a business man and not a glad-handing politician in office.
Christie KNOWS that Obama is going to win, and is HAPPY about it, and has decided to go with the winner. By supporting the president in this way, the path will be clear for him to run in 2016.
Five more days and we will see the end of Romneys campaign of constant lies and deception. Hopefully, it will also be the end of the excessive Super Pac money, since Obama will put in Supreme Court justices that will reverse the Citizens United anti-Democracy ruling.
Oh, and the Teabaggers can start their whining that Romney wasn't "conservative enough". Hannity has probably already written his first five shows based on this idea. Maybe on one of them he can show the always dead wrong pundit Dick Morriss slashing his wrists as he sucks on a hookers toe!
"storm hiatus"
Too funny. He actually had to appear as if he was governing something during this time. Back to Vegas to get the old ego massaged!
Quick people of Las Vegas. Run to the polls to support this loser before he throws us under the bus again next Wednesday. Remember, we are only friends of his until he gets our vote, and then we are back to being that city where people come to blow government money that he gave out freely with no oversight. We are the cream of the crop to him now, but after the election we will be back to being the stuff that helps the crops grow...you know, the stuff that comes out of the southbound end of a northbound cow!
He's going to win....Some of you guys will be angry on election day. Better find a way to channel that anger.
His efforts with working with Gov. Christie are likely going to sway a few more voters. Very presidential, working hand in hand with a Republican. The tragic irony of this storm is that it will get Obama more votes.
Don't worry folks, the Prez has your back! Just like he had the back of those in Banghazi....
Strike while the iron is hot, red hot! Make your case Mr. President, make your case!
Be direct, tell the people the truth, be the President and you will win and serve four more years, as our President.
My numbers have you at winning by 6 to 8 points.
Yeah, he's slightly overweight. But unlike most republican politicians, Gov Christie is not stupid.
The New Jersey governor can tell the difference between an unprincipled snake oil peddler who considers 47% of us to be moochers, and a Commander in Chief who cares about all Americans, not just the elite one-percent at the top.
Welcome to Las Vegas, Mr. President. Nevadans are looking forward to your second term.
"General Motors and Chrysler are adding jobs in China at the expense of workers in the Midwestern swing state. Vice President Joe Biden said the spots were among "the most flagrantly dishonest ads I can ever remember."..............
That's not was reported by CNBC and GM one year ago Joe!.....
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=300...
To New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Good grief Chris, get a hold of yourself you looking like a circus seal performing for a Mackerel treat.
The real poll will be on November 6th and not those fake polls from NBC/MSNBC, CBS/NYTIMES, Pew, Quinnipiac, who have oversampled Democrats 7-10%. If you look at the internals it is easy to see. So if you think those lines were long at Chic-fil-lay appreciation day, with conservative Americans showing their support, wait for November 6th 2012, the day they kick Obama and all his socialist czars out of office. They're going to have to extend the hours for voting because they'll be coming in droves to finally put a nail into the coffin of the worst president in the history of America!
43 months of unemployment above 8 percent, 8.2 million people working part-time who want full-time work, a record 88 million Americans not in the labor force, 1.5 percent GDP growth in the past quarter, more bad GDP numbers expected, a stagnant housing market, $5 trillion in new debt, the downgrading of the U.S. credit rating, 38 percent of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, 45 million Americans on food stamps, food prices continuing to increase dramatically, the poverty level likely to rise to the highest level in nearly fifty years The recession that ended three years ago this summer has been followed by the feeblest economic recovery since the Great Depression.. " " and this means the plan "worked? The shine is off the Hope and Change, it's now just Hype and Blame, so you'll be going away come this November. Stop drinking that "Hopium laced Kool-Aid" You've been conned!
If you support Romney and Ryan and intend on going to a rally, be careful. Be very,very careful. If you stand in front of Mitt and he decides to flip, he could land right on top of you. If you stand behind Mitt when he flops, he could still land on top of you. Very, very dangerous. Be very careful.
@milt1007
The economy is improving and has been for some time now:
'Reuters reported last month, "At 1,400, the S&P 500 " was closing in on a four-year high and was up 74% since Jan. 20, 2009, the day Obama took office. Not since Dwight Eisenhower's first term has a president had such a strong run for their first term." Former Merrill Lynch strategist Richard Bernstein told Reuters, "The stock market is a barometer not of the absolute level of the economy but of improvement in the economy. There is no doubt the economy has improved in the last four years'
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/for...
Check out this job creation chart from Obama's website:
http://i46.tinypic.com/2z5kx2c.jpg
Will Eva Longerin have that "Happy Birthday, Mr President" look in her eyes?
This could evolve into something.
Benghazi . . .
I don't recall Reagan getting any flack from the other side of the aisle when the Marine Barracks were blown up in Beirut killing HUNDREDS of Marines.
And where is all the sympathy from the tantrum-happy neocons for the 4,500 US military slaughtered in Iraq that is now a province of Iran?
You that attempt to make Benghazi an issue are disingenuous at best.
Wouldn't surprise me one bit if, once his state is back to normal, Gov Christie decides to switch parties and becomes a Democrat.
If so he'll be greeted with extremely wide open arms into the party that cares for all Americans, not just the elite one-percent at the top.
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Obama is done, he did finally do his job during this last storm but only because it was a week away from the election. So long Obama!!!
Independent forecasts by both Moody's & Macroeconomic Advisers predict 12-million NEW jobs under Obama in the next four years. And, Obama has created 5-million new jobs since Mar 2010, with 2.2-million created in the last year alone. Romney's job math is a non-issue. We get no more jobs with Romney than is already set to happen. Why risk it? Or, Romney?
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And to comment on Obama coming to Vegas so much....idk...his comment encouraging people not to come here a few years back, maybe he could suggest why they should come here to kiss and make up so to speak.
Welcome again to Las Vegas, Mr. President. Four more years.
Don't listen to the gaggle of right wingers that infect the comments sections of the Las Vegas Sun.
They'd complain no matter what you do. Cure cancer and they'd complain you are outsourcing the Grim Reaper's job to China or something stupid like that.
@ashley
i heard the president tell corporations not to spend taxpayer moneys on coming to vegas. i heard him tell the rest of us not to blow the kids' college money on a trip to vegas. i never heard him say what you say he said. there's a big difference in meaning between what i heard and what you say he said, so i'd like to know.
Once again the "don't go to Vegas" comments come out of the woodwork. He said don't go to Vegas and blow a bunch of cash when you can't pay your bills, can't fund your kids educations, can't pay your mortgage, can't pay your credit card bills.
What exactly is wrong with that statement? Absolutely nothing.
What exactly is wrong with that statement?
Well TomD1228 i could give you several reasons why this statement is wrong. Why did he single out Vegas? Why not NY? Or how about LA? People lost thier jobs because of his misguided attempt at being frugile. If you can't see whats wrong with this statement you must be blind or don't have any loyalties in Nevada.
if after four more years nothing changes ColinFromLasVegas then it will still be the right's fault. Shoot I could write the headline now. All you Lefts and Rights are so predictable.
It wasn't misguided. He was dead on. If you don't have it you can't go and spend it. These aren't people enjoying family vacations. It's Mom and Dad leaving the kids with grandma as they go off and spend their kids education money on a gambling junket. My loyalty is to common sense. In this case Obama was right. Right and wrong trumps some kind of nonsense "Nevada loyalty". It's a bigger picture.
Fox News has again changed their name. They went from Faux News to the Benghazi Network.
Welcome Mr. President,
We want 4 more years. So, Mr. President "Are you Fired Up?" "Are you Ready to Go?"
I am ready for you to be our President for 4 more years.
So, please remember this:
"Yes We Can" "Yes We Did" "Yes We Can Do it Again for 4 more years"
May you always be blessed with good health, lots of love and happiness surrounded by good friends and family.
Openrange. Exactly. The Benghazi "scandal" has garnered so much attention that they seem to forget that under Bush, we were attacked on our own soil. I don't blame Bush, but he was warned a terrorist attack was likely and pretty much ignored it.
TomD, it doesn't matter how many times you try to tell these people what Obama really said, they choose to ignore it since it doesn't fit there right wing agenda. I totally agree with what Obama said. "Don't take government bailout funds and blow it in Vegas".
TomD and Vegaslib, He said you shouldn't come to Vegas if you can't afford it.
hmm, the Country is broke....we can't afford it. Stop coming here.
Is that better??
Jumbo,
Welcome. Nice comments.
Bush never tried to cover up an attack, he just opened up some whoop a**!
Caesars down $500 million, MGM down $180 million. Wait till December when the layoffs start.
Don't be in despair, Janauary 20th, 2013, we will welcome President Romney!!
tp777,
Yea, on a country that didn't attack us and had no weapons of mass destruction.
Unfortunately, that "woop a**" cost thousands of men's and women's lives.
I stand corrected, the following is what Obama said regarding Vegas. I thought I remembered him saying not to spend "government bail out funds". I was wrong. I still think is was a reasonable thing for him to say.
"Responsible families don't do their budgets the way the federal government does. Right? When times are tough, you tighten your belts. You don't go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don't blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you're trying to save for college. You prioritize. You make tough choices. It's time your government did the same".
Gen Powell and Chris Christie support OBAMA, only a few bigots support Romney like the demoted blogger at the creepy newspaper in town (who is full of hate)
The baggers are still unhinged over Obama's comments about corporations being responsible and not blowing taxpayer cash in Vegas. Oh but wait...just not too long ago, the right wing crazies piled on Obama over the recent GSA scandal, in which...wait for it...a gov't agency came to Vegas and blew a bunch of taxpayer cash. Wait...what?
Cons are jedi-masters of unintentional irony.
Vegaslib,
Only 4 in the senate and 16 in the house voted against declaration of war in Iraq and Hilary wasn't one of them.
When a dictator refuses UN inspectors and wrecks genocide on its people we will interject.
As a member in the state department for six years I don't have your luxury of not knowing what has occurred during this administration.
Desperation is starting to set in on republicans.
Even delusional GOPers can see the end is near to their four-year reign of domestic terror in which President Obama, and by extension the American people, have been held hostage by govt-hating zealots willing to destroy our nation if their demands weren't met.
Sensible people want to move forward, not be dragged back to the 19th century by a party led by Grover Norquist and bible-thumping Southern white males.
Last throes,
Is that really Brian Greenspun? As by your statement I can tell someone went to a rally today.
tp777
There were UN inspectors allowed in Iran and they found nothing. Glad to know you were a member of the State Department for six years. Since I don't have the "luxury" of knowing what occurred, I do have the "luxury" of researching facts.
Vegaslib,
I said Iraq, not Iran. When doing your research make sure you know what topic your researching.
tp777,
My mistake, I missed a letter, my bad. I guess that one letter negates my argument?
@milt1007,
Milt Cross, slow down. Take a breath, easy, easy.
Now, all that you have mentioned can be traced back to the Bush Administration.
Things are improving under the Obama administration.
Stop hyper-ventilating. The fact all clear. Stay calm.
This should help:
President Obama wins re-election by 6 to 8 points.
Obama come to town to do his usual damage to capitalism.... Tours are cancelled, jobs are idled and tourists inconvenienced because he has to land at McCarren for the photo ops, when a perfectly good Military base is 20 minutes away and would not create so much economic damage.
And this is the "Jobs" president??
I am starting to wish Obama will be win another term. At least that will guarantee this will be his last visit to Nevada..