Image of the Day

Thurston Howell Romney takes a break from debate preparation. Show those moochers who make up 47% of America what you're made of, T.H.!

(image: courtesy of Daily Kos and, of course, Gilligan's Island)

More Good News for Obama

We noted on Monday that a number of polls showed President Obama leading in several swing states, including Ohio and Florida. Now, a new daily Gallup poll shows an Obama lead of 6 points nationally, seeming to confirm a noticeable shift in other polls. What's significant about this poll is that, along with the Rethug-biased Rasmussen poll, the Gallup poll tends to skew toward Rethugs.

Again, the only polls that count are the one voters go to on November 6, but with only a few weeks left in the campaign, the trends are very favorable to the President's reelection. Many voters seem to have made a decision on who they're voting for, and the "undecideds" appear to be breaking for President Obama. His campaign's focus on Willard "One Percenter" Romney's "47%" comments seem to be cementing the image of him as an out-of-touch, arrogant greed head that has no real interest in middle class issues.

UPDATE: And more good news: Catholics breaking for Obama (so sad, Cardinal Dolan!).

UPDATE II: Good jobs news, too.

Mitt's Mendacity, Cont.

If it's Friday... Steve Benen has this week's collection of smarmy untruths uncoiling from the tongue of silk stocking plutocrat Willard "Mitt the Twit" Romney. This week's tally is 28(!). We would highlight for your amusement/ outrage #2, wherein Mitt the Twit says President Obama doesn't have a jobs plan. Um, actually, he does; it's the "American Jobs Act," the legislation Rethugs in Congress have refused to pass so they can continue to sabotage the economy in the hopes of victory in November.

As far as a knee slapper, we would offer up #26, wherein the trust fund baby claims in an ad that he knows what it's like "to wonder whether you're going to be able to make ends meet." Trust us. Willard Romney never, never spent one moment of his silver-spoon-fed life wondering about ends meeting. We'll bet Willard $10,000 on that.

Tweet Pic of the Day - Mitt's Horsey House Edition

Check out the digs Romney's Olympian tango horsey lives in:



Mahvelous, darling!

One Percenter Vacation Photo of the Day

Willard "Cap'n Flipper" Romney takes his family for a spin in his boat at the Romney vacation home on Lake Winnipesaukee, Wolfboro, NH.

"Ahoy, my good man! Make way for your betters, and pardon the wake!"

BONUS: As a biting editorial in the right-wing Wall Street Journal put it,

"the Obama campaign is assailing Mr. Romney as an out-of-touch rich man, and the rich man obliged by vacationing this week at his lake-side home with a jet-ski cameo."

Priceless.