Is Romney finished?

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How can anyone in their right mind call a race where one candidate is up less than 5% and before any of the 3 debates over?

Agreed...

I would agree if Obama were up only 5, but he's up 7 and gaining. Plus, he's facing MITT ROMNEY....'nuf said...

Do you LOOK at the polls (I know the answer is no, PPP is Republican hacks, la-di-da, la-di-da)? Obama is up 5 and is losing support.

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IMHO, people are reading this situation incorrectly. This attack wasn't supposed to attract independents/undecideds, because, like someone said before, those aren't making up their minds based on speeches like this one. This attack was directed to the so-called "base". Romney has convinced himself he has to drive up conservative turnout to have a chance - after all, he knows the base dislikes him. To do so, he has to make Obama look "Jimmy Carter weak". On that sense, I think he might be successful.

Mitt Romney in France during the Vietnam war draft...



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You can't give Obama sole credit for killing bin Laden -- a pretty significant part of that has to go to Bush, imo. And it's good to see Mitt Romney staying healthy and choosing an environmentally friendly way to get around

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Let's not forget how Mitt Romney protested for the Vietnam War draft before he got his deferment and went to France.



Seriously...this guy is such the entitled elitist parody it is hard to imagine this isn't just some practical joke being played on America

Well, it would've been much harder to fight in Vietnam without the draft...

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Let's not forget how Mitt Romney protested for the Vietnam War draft before he got his deferment and went to France.



Seriously...this guy is such the entitled elitist parody it is hard to imagine this isn't just some practical joke being played on America

Well, it would've been much harder to fight in Vietnam without the draft...

It would have been much harder to have a draft if all the poor black kids could pull a "Romney" and just chill in France waiting out the war...

True enough, I suppose.

Let's not forget how Mitt Romney protested for the Vietnam War draft before he got his deferment and went to France.

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Seriously...this guy is such the entitled elitist parody it is hard to imagine this isn't just some practical joke being played on America

Well, it would've been much harder to fight in Vietnam without the draft...

Would've been easier if we had never gone there to begin with.

Shall we debate an issue 50 years stale? Alright. Had we not gone in there, the communist North Vietnamese would have taken over South Vietnam without a fight, and later on would also not have had as much of a fight taking over Laos and Cambodia. As such, communism was significantly impeded, and had we stayed for another few years the independence of South Vietnam could've been assured.

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Let's not get bogged down into the merits of the war in Vietnam. The point is, if you are going to get deferments from the draft it is just a bit unseemly to be holding counter-protests against those who are fighting the draft.

It just smacks of...well the draft is a good thing, but not for people like me of course. Only for, you know...those people.

We can all agree to this.