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Chris Matthews on President Obama’s debate performance

I agree with Chris Matthews here.  Last night was President Obama’s opportunity to begin the end of the campaign.  Instead, he gave Romney a chance to get his footing before Election Day.

I understand that the President was going for “look Presidential, cool, and calm” but it came off “lackluster.”

This morning on MSNBC, David Axelrod – adviser to President Obama said:
“I understand there was a hunger for us to attack Romney more personally than the president did last night,” he allowed. “The president was talking to the American people…treating the American people like adults.”

Axelrod said the president would “review” his performance and “if he wants to make some changes in the next debate he will do so.”

I don’t think this will affect the election at this point as there are so few undecideds, and Obama has solid margins in important swing states like Ohio.

But he can’t afford another one of these.

I break into a cold sweat when I even start to think of a Romney administration. 

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Reuters tracking poll shows President Obama up 7 points

Reuters/Ipsos poll tracking poll shows President Obama 49-42.

After a bump from the Democratic National Convention, the numbers seem to be holding at that level.

The poll had a credibility interval of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points for likely voters, making the 7 point difference well outside that range.

Full results at Reuters

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President Obama now “net positive” for job creation

According to new revisions released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy created 386,000 more jobs between March 2011 and March 2012 than shown by previous estimates.

As economist Justin Wolfers noted, this means that President Obama is now net positive for job creation over his term in office, even taking into account the massive losses in January 2009:

The Economist’s Greg Ip tweeted that the revisions mean that Obama’s net job creation number is now 125,000.

The new numbers — which are based off of unemployment insurance reports that employers submit to the federal government — show that 453,000 more private sector jobs were created than shown by previous estimates, meaning Obama’s net private sector job creation total is now 868,000. Government jobs, meanwhile, shrank by an additional 67,000.

Via ThinkProgress

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Two minute video – President Obama explains his plans

I personally like these ideas.

We tried 8 years of tax cuts for the wealthy “job creators” with promises that it would create jobs. Where are the jobs? That plan doesn’t work.

We are better off than four years ago and things are getting better, albeit not as fast as we’d like. But sometimes, slow and steady is the way.

You walk eight miles INTO the forest, it’s eight miles back out, kids.

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Romney supporters using 2008 Obama rally pic as 2012 Romney rally

This is actually kind of sad.

Anti-gay Romney supporter tweeted a pic of what he said was a HUGE Mitt Romney rally, trying to say the media isn’t covering Romney’s HUGE events.

Problem is – the pic is actually from a 2008 Obama rally…

Check it out at Good As You.

(cue the sad trombone/fail sound “waa, waa, waaaaaa…)

Via JoeMyGod

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New polls have President Obama over 50% in crucial swing states

As both Romney and Obama separately campaign throughout Ohio on Wednesday, the Quinnipiac/CBS News/New York Times poll indicates the president leading Romney 53%-43% among likely voters.

The Quinnipiac/CBS News/New York Times is the fourth non-partisan, live-operator, survey to be conducted in Ohio over the past two weeks. A CNN Poll of Polls that averages all five surveys puts Obama at 51% and Romney at 44% among likely voters.

Ohio, with 18 electoral votes, is crucial to winning the White House. In modern times, no Republican has won the presidency without carrying the state.

The Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times survey in Florida indicates the president at 53% and Romney at 44%.

Five non-partisan, live-operator, polls have been conducted in the Sunshine State since mid month. A CNN Poll of Polls that averages all five surveys puts Obama at 50% and Romney at 45% among likely voters.

In Pennsylvania, the new Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times survey puts the president at 54% and the former Massachusetts governor at 42%. And the Franklin and Marshall poll indicates Obama holding a 52%-43% advantage. The nine-point margin is just within the survey’s sampling error for likely voters.

More details at CNN

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Andrew Sullivan: If Obama wins “he will become the Democrats’ Reagan”

Andrew Sullivan says President Obama will become Ronald Reagan if reelected:

“If Obama wins, to put it bluntly, he will become the Democrats’ Reagan. The narrative writes itself. He will emerge as an iconic figure who struggled through a recession and a terrorized world, reshaping the economy within it, passing universal health care, strafing the ranks of al-Qaeda, presiding over a civil-rights revolution, and then enjoying the fruits of the recovery.”

Read the rest at The Daily Beast

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President Obama leads in new poll of swing states

President Obama leads Mitt Romney in a new poll of 12 key swing states. This is the news that counts, kids.

Obama leads 49 percent to 44 percent in the poll from Purple Strategies.

The poll is a combined sample of likely voters in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin, and also shows good news for Obama in over-sampled results for Ohio, Virginia, Florida and Colorado. Last month’s Purple Poll showed Romney with a slight edge in swing states, 47 percent to Obama’s 46 percent.

“One important change in the latest numbers: President Obama now leads among independents,” in the states surveyed, Purple pollsters wrote. It’s the first time Obama has led independent swing-state voters in seven months, the pollsters wrote.

Via TalkingPointsMemo