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Veterans retreating from President Obama

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This is great news for Romney, especially in battleground states. His lead is double figures in some.

Veterans retreating from President Obama - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.com

President Barack Obama is trying hard to win veterans, but it looks like they’d prefer a new commander in chief.
The Obama campaign had been hoping that veterans and their families — especially among the post-Sept. 11 generation that served in Iraq and Afghanistan — would be part of their path to victory: They’re a high turn-out demographic and concentrated in battleground states, with nearly 1 million each in North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia, and 1.6 million in Florida.


Read more: Veterans retreating from President Obama - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.com
 
LOL.....you have to look pretty hard these days and then spin it pretty good in order to find anything that could be deemed "Good News" for Romney.
Who is going to be the savior of your Republican party in 2016 NP? Gingrich or Thompson?
 
The democrats have never done well with the military vote - that is why they send their ballots late..
 
President Barack Obama is trying hard to win veterans, but it looks like they’d prefer a new commander in chief.

Vets are one group which I would expect to know competent leadership when they see it, so this is no surprise. It also figures that the Dems will work hard to keep military votes from being counted, as in Florida in 2000.
 
I think some Active Duty voted for Obama just because he promised to end Iraq and they had no desire to go back there again ever. Pragmatic votes if you will, which were probably the most honest and logical votes for somebody cast in 2008.
 
Vets are one group which I would expect to know competent leadership when they see it, so this is no surprise. It also figures that the Dems will work hard to keep military votes from being counted, as in Florida in 2000.

Obama has total disdain for Military vets and we know it...........
 
Obama has total disdain for Military vets and we know it...........

Absolutely, he hates their guts because having an enemy gets you off in your head.
 
Based off of what evidence Navy? (The voice in your head isnt a reliable source)

By his $500 billion in cuts and the $500. billion more he wants to cut in defense.........I know you don't like to here it vut the military and veterans as a whole always vote Republican........Get use to it...
 
From a military point of view I can see how our troops would think republicans would be better for business. Especially THEIR business. No wars, no jobs. YIKES!

When I served, our president was the guy in the picture frame behind the Master Cheif's desk. He was the Commander in Cheif guy.

Frankly, we could have cared less who he was. We were all about our battalion. Our ship. Our battle group. Our team. Politics were left up to those unsat civillians. We were so far above this.

Times must be a changin'.
 
I found that most vets voted for whomever would give them a pay raise, politics be damned!
 
By his $500 billion in cuts and the $500. billion more he wants to cut in defense.........I know you don't like to here it vut the military and veterans as a whole always vote Republican........Get use to it...

Obama has not cut vet benefits bud.
 
Ryan Williams, a Romney campaign spokesman, said the Republican’s lead among veterans comes from their resistance to the looming potential defense cuts under the budget sequester, problems with Obama’s foreign policy positions and the backdrop of the stagnant economy that’s left the post-Sept. 11 generation of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with a difficult time finding work when they return home.

Read more: Veterans retreating from President Obama - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.com

Oh, looky here.
 
Wait a minute...they are retreating? I didn't know they were ever on his side!
 
Hmmmm... I believe that historically, the military typically sways towards the GOP but I could be wrong. I hardly remember discussing politics when I served.

But, come to think of it, being the fact that the poorer classes tend to make up the majority of enlisted personel and the minorities are well represented, it really doesn't make sense, in 2012, that Romney would hold the lead.

Unless, it was some kind of John Wayne, Texas type thing where the peer pressure to conform is beyond human resistance.

Puzzling, just the same. Do we have any REAL stats on this? It would be interesting to note the trends over the last 50 years.
 
The military has trended GOP except when wars were lingering in Vietnam and Iraq I think.
 
Here are the national averages. Not sure what the actual military stats are but my dime is on the GOP. But, like I said, I could be wrong. I can't visualize the lower financial classes or minorities going for Romney or any other clear thinking individual ever thinking he would make a better CiC than that bad-ass Obama. But stranger things have happened. Look at last nights Packer's game. LOL!

Obama Looks to Veterans, Military for Support | RealClearPolitics
 
Who is feeding the 'vets for Romney' the propaganda that Obama hates them?

Senate GOP Obstructionists Throw Veterans Under The Bus-Vote Down Bill To Help Vets In Need Of Jobs

For those who continue to believe that obstructionism at any cost is not the goal of the Senate Republicans, consider the behavior of the GOP Senators who, on Friday, blocked a bi-partisan effort to pass a bill that would put veterans to work in jobs that look after the nation’s federal land while also giving our fighting men and women a leg up when it comes to getting them hired by local police and fire departments.

In order to bring the bill to the floor, a procedural vote was required to waive a technical limit placed on such spending as agreed to in Congress during last year’s budgetary fiasco. Despite the sum of money having been fully offset by cuts and modifications to other planned expenditures, Senate Republicans used the required vote to shoot down the proposed legislation as the Democrats, with some Republican assistance, were able to manage only 58 of the 60 votes required to accomplish the waiver.

GOP Senator Tom Coburn provided the rationale for those who were in opposition—

“We ought to do nothing now that makes the problem worse for our kids and grandkids,”


Time and time again Congressional Republicans have shown that their one and only concern is getting rid of Obama, the fact that they are doing harm to hundreds of thousands of fellow Americans is of no consequence to their shrivelled little hearts. It is all about power and getting rid of the 'black guy'
 
The democrats have never done well with the military vote - that is why they send their ballots late..

I received my ballot two days ago. I am debating whether or not I should go ahead and send it in. If I send it in this early I run the risk of one of my candidates getting drunk and running someone over. Then I will be the douche who voted for that guy. Maybe I'll wait a couple weeks. :)
 
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