Things are looking up for Mitt Romney lately.
It was announced today that Mr. Romney out-fundraised Barack Obama in May by $17 million. This marks the first time he's outraised the president this year.
Even more troubling for the Obama campaign is the latest news on the jobs front. On Friday, the Labor Department announced that the unemployment rate rose last month to 8.2 percent. To put that in perspective, The New York Times reports that no president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been re-elected to a second term when the unemployment rate on Election Day was higher than 7.2 percent.
In short, it has been a good month for Mitt Romney.
Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt told reporters yesterday that news of Mitt Romney's fundraising numbers was not unexpected.
"That should serve as a clarion call to our supporters and our donors," he said. "We anticipated that they would beat us this month."
Meanwhile, the Obama team is using big names to spark donations. Last month, two campaign donors won tickets to a celebrity dinner for the President at George Clooney's home. This month, Obama supporters could donate to the campaign for a chance to win an invitation to a dinner with President Obama, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Vogue editor Anna Wintour, followed by a concert featuring Mariah Carey.
With a faltering economy at stake, it's shaping up to be a tight race. A new poll shows Mr. Obama leading among swing state voters by just two points. Pollsters from Purple Strategies write, "Despite still trailing, Mitt Romney has reached his highest vote total since our tracking began in September of 2011." Expect the state of the economy in the coming months to play a huge roll in voting decisions this November.
What do you think of these latest numbers?
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Purging others' voices because you don't agree with them???? Hahaha
Since procrasta is from Canada she's not eligible to respond to this blog site??? Hahah... Jesus. Guest you are ridiculous.
I guess IT hadn't heard that my Socialist / Communist country was letting us Google beyond our borders now. Comrade Harper JUST enacted it into law. Along with shorter bread lines and Jersey Shore on cable!
I'd take Bush back in a second. Our country was united when he was in office. We were ONE. Now all we have is a President who only cares what TV shows he can get on.
Gotta love the Bush lovers, that is sad, just sad. Why would you want to go back? Clinton had a surplus when he left office and Bush ruined this country for 8 years! You want that again, you must be crazy, must be a tea partier. Bush also had a shoe thrown at him if I remember correctly. And Cheney did all kinds of fun stuff for us while he was in office. Those people don't care about anything but rich people, and most importantly, corporations with money.
Sorry rightside, job growth under Obama has been positive since March 2010.
After 3 years in office it got postive...yeah, you should be sorry for ringing that bell. I'm going to vote for Romney, who started improving job growth in his first few months as MA governor, and continued to create jobs at an accelerated rate for his entire term.
Tell me, do you have any other fabulous examples of how incompetent and ineffective Obama is - this is great stuff!
I would never vote for Romney. I'm from Michigan..his home state..a state he was more than willing to throw under the bus a few years ago and claims to love so much today! He'll probably win but either way, we are screwed for the next four years!