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Published: 2012-08-06 12:49:00
Updated: 2012-08-07 10:34:44

Romney bus tour to stop in Morrisville


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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will make a stop in Morrisville Sunday as part of a four-day, four-state bus tour.

The "Romney Plan For A Stronger Middle Class” bus tour begins Saturday in Virginia, visits the Tar Heel State Sunday and continues in Florida and Ohio.

All four states on the tour voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and have already seen an influx of television ad spending in anticipation of a tight November outcome. Polls have shown that Romney and Obama have been running almost dead even for months. 

Romney will appear at Smokey's Shack, a barbecue restaurant at 10800 Chapel Hill Road, at 4 p.m. Sunday. Doors to the event open at 3 p.m.


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Interesting to see that (king) Mitt is coming to see the peasants (his subjects) in Morrisville on Sunday. Just a regular guy! Of note, he calls it a “Bus Tour”, he flies a luxury jet into RDU and has a campaign bus drive for 5 min him down the road to a very small barbecue pit on Chapel Hill Rd, that is closed on Sundays, yep he sure is just a simple politician, eh? The small restaurant, not usually open on Sundays and would appear crowded with 20 customers, is almost hidden off the road with little to no parking and not much room for any possible onlookers. So the Repubs are busing in some ‘volunteers’ to fill up the space and crowd the little area with ‘supporters’ to make a media show (typical staged event)and insure that there is no room for the opposition groups to get close enough to be found on the TV camera. A contrast to the Obama team that hold gatherings in large auditoriums and stadiums that fill without effort.

Romney will release his taxes when Obama releases his college transcripts. Obama was accepted into Occidental and Harvard on a foreign exchange scholarship. He could only go to school in Indonesia if he were a citizen. Don't point at Romney, he's already explained what he did for 2 years when he lived outside of the US!!!

Crabbit Cratur: Deep recession is over??? Tell that to the 13 million Americans without a job,or to the 8% of Americans who have been out of work for 42 straight months, or to the thousands who have lost or who are losing their homes.; The war in Iraq is over?? Then why do we still have troops on the ground there? And what about the war in Afghan.? Oh the car companies---GM still owes hundreds of millions of dollars to the taxpayers--and some analysts are predicting that this money will be like the money from Solyndra--it'll never be paid back. And yet people persist in saying Obama is a Success"???? Do you want to throw in the ever increasing price of gasoline--which Obama has the power to significantly reduce but he won't do it.

woohoo2: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/08/gsa-urged-to-stand-down-on-occupy-portland-protests-by-white-house-documents/ I would not expect any of the B3ON's to carry anything like this..too much news for them to handle.

If Romney has nothing to hide, what's the big deal in showing his taxes like everyone before has done. McCain was quoted saying he couldn't ask Romney to be a running mate because his taxes were toxic and that Palin was the better choice. Wow, Palin a better choice?? Doesn't say much for Romney does it?

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