By NBC's Dave Carl
President Obama kicks off his bus tour today hitting large cities in Ohio and Pennsylvania. But does the president really need stops in the Keystone state? The latest Quinnipiac poll has the president ahead by six percentage points among registered voters in Pennsylvania. Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter explains why the President is campaigning in a state where Mitt Romney hasn’t spent a single dollar on TV ads.
Curious about those poll results? Quinnipiac gives you all the info on key swing states, including Pennsylvania.


Job numbers....not a surprise....under current conditions small businesses have no reason to hire. More so to become more efficient! That is even true during the good time$$$$! Businesses not exist to hire but toe generate increasing bottom line$$$$! Hire if demand for products increases! ...reason for seasonal hiring, Huh!..what else is new? Have not we learned that? same for LARGE manufacturing! Work force numbres behave like an accordeon in-out, up-down according to demand for production! SO THEN??? ...need id for have an entity which increases DEMAND! ...who, Mitt? Ha! Ha! his experience is in reducing demand, eliminating workers, shutting down facilities just in time prior to going under! I've lived, been affected, participated, seen that sort of operation! While the top exec's walk with millions!...what else is new?.... so while the trillions driven into the sidelines remain there with no incentive (market demand for increasing number of old or new products)...the $$$$$ will remain there.
The only solution is to devise a drastic method to loosen up that $$$$ and let it reach the ECONOMY.... with the obvious purpose to benefit the owners of the $$$$ and the COMMON GOOD!...BUT IF it continues to lie there for a long distance jumping up and down the QOW-NASDAQ-S&P soso....then will this nation reach the need to take the drastic step to nationalize these funds!!!????...and drop them from "aircrafts" to accelerate the $$$$ reaching the economy!!!!
Miss Romney IS a very nice, delicate, beautiful, exciting, outgoing, energetic young woman whose weakness arisose from center of thinking topic is Mitt.
This was demonstrated in the interview alongside the Mitt. Paranoia...'the opposition wants to "kill" Mitt! WHAT!!! .....Needing to defend the undefendable and whose mindset has been skewed by a very dilusional individual! ...and please do not justify any intelligence to having made $300MM along with the guy! The case for this ccouple can be included in episodes of American Greed!...after all...Madoff's psycho was caught way into the billions disappeared, Nixon's (no money) psycho behavior was caught after years in presidency....
As one watches and hears Mitt speak, it is evident that he is pulling out of a very deep pocket and swallowing as he throughs out out unrealistic "plans" to recover the economy... 59 steps .... all of which as a business person he executed oppositely!!!! ....
Mitt consulting benefactor over the weekend; Mr Koch. To increase funding for possible Presidency election. What a waste of PAC money. When the majority of American find this Presidents re-election, will help Americans fight for a better jobs market and benefiits for all. Congress is holding Americans hostage for these same jobs and benefits. So Chuck Todd look to the Presidents long term plan and quit talking points you are paid for from the Super PAC funds.
On top of everything that's known (strike that: mostly unknown) about Mitt Romney, two issues remain perpetually unresolved, and thoroughly disturbing.
(1) Why is Mitt Romney so secretive about almost every aspect of his life, particularly aspects involving finances, personal and business dealings, plans for the economy (or whatever it is that he purports to give him leverage over Obama as problem solver), opinions on issues of women and the middle class (now, largely considered hoi polloi). The secretiveness impinges on any and everything, from the sublime to the ridiculous. In fact, there is a certain degree of cultish behavior that surrounds this man's actions. Unfortunately, the press and public remain oblivious or unconcerned, whereas alarm bells ought to be sounding loudly. Yes, I feel concerned, given, that Mitt Romney already has deceived or hoodwinked the GOP to become their nominee for president, and might pull the same shtick with the rest of America to become president (alas, what a shattering thought!).
(2) Why did Mitt Romney serve only one term as governor of Massachussetts? There's not much exposition on this issue, so I'm inclined to draw some parallels with the notion of another Sarah Palinesque apparition; vis 'a vis, the tiresome prima-donaism, whimsicality or capriciousness that seems to mark the tendencies of these persons. At a minimum, I think the press (and, especially, the Obama Campaign) owes it to the American People to examine more closely issues that help shed focused light on these bugging questions.