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New York Daily News Endorses Mitt Romney For President

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ENDORSES MITT ROMNEY

Our Choice For America’s Future
New York Daily News
Editorial
November 4, 2012

http://goo.gl/7WgX4
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Paychecks are shrunken after more than a decade in which the workplace has asked more of wage earners and rewarded them less. The decline has knocked someone at the midpoint of the salary scale back to where he or she would have been in 1996.

Then, the subway fare, still paid by token, was $1.50, gasoline was $1.23 a gallon and the median rent for a stabilized apartment was $600 a month. Today, the base MetroCard subway fare is $2.25, gasoline is in the $3.90 range and the median stabilized rent is $1,050, with all the increases outpacing wage growth.
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Our leaders owed us better than lower standards of living, and we must have better if the U.S. is to remain a beacon of prosperity where mothers and fathers can be confident of providing for their children and seeing them climb higher on the ladder.

Revival of the U.S. as a land of opportunity and upward mobility is the central challenge facing the next President. The question for Americans: Who is more likely to accomplish the mission — Barack Obama or Mitt Romney?

Four years ago, the Daily News endorsed Obama, seeing a historic figure whose intelligence, political skills and empathy with common folk positioned him to build on the small practical experience he would bring to the world’s toughest job. We valued Obama’s pledge to govern with bold pragmatism and bipartisanship.

The hopes of those days went unfulfilled.
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The official unemployment rate stands at 7.9%, marking only the second month below 8% after 43 months above that level. Worse, add people who are working part-time because they have no better choice and the rate leaps to almost 15%. Still worse, add 8 million people who have given up looking for employment and the number who are out of jobs or who are cobbling together hours to scrape by hits some 23 million people.
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The regrettable truth is that Obama built a record of miscalculations and missed opportunities.

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But those pluses and minuses pale in comparison with middle-class prospects in recommending whether to entrust Obama or Romney with the future.
 
Romney’s approach is the stronger.
 
Critically, he has tailored his policies to create jobs, jobs, jobs.

The centerpieces of Romney’s plan call for spending restraint and rewriting the Internal Revenue code to lower rates by 20%. He would make up much of the lost revenue by eliminating deductions and loopholes that have made the tax system a thicket of strangling complexities. On its own, paring the personal and corporate rules to the basics would catalyze business and consumer spending.

Romney has pledged that, as a group, the wealthy will bear no less a share of the burden than they do now, while individuals lower down would enjoy breaks. Many contest as mathematically impossible the Republican’s ability to cut rates and balance the books through tax reform. He disputes the points but, in an encouraging show of pragmatism, he has made clear that moving the nation toward balance may require sacrificing the size of his rate cut.

Romney’s energy plan calls for reemphasizing oil and natural gas production, in a shift away from Obama’s tilt toward trying to develop wind and solar into workable alternatives.

His proposal for Medicare would permit future retirees to choose between tried-and-true health care and private insurance to produce savings through competition. It took political bravery even to broach such concepts, and they are well worth exploring.

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Offering a rosy vision of a country already on the rise, Obama argues that he would lead a resurgence by staying the course. He posits that spending in areas such as education and clean energy would be beneficial, and he sees raising taxes on high-income earners as key to “balanced” deficit reduction. Each on its own is attractive, but the whole comes up short.

The presidential imperative of the times is to energize the economy and get deficits under control to empower the working and middle classes to again enjoy the fruits of an ascendant America.

So The News is compelled to stand with Romney.

**In compliance with copyright laws, this version of the editorial is excerpted**

Wisconsin State Journal Endorses Mitt Romney For President

WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL ENDORSES MITT ROMNEY

Our Pick: Mitt Romney
Wisconsin State Journal
Editorial

November 4, 2012

http://goo.gl/H2Nsj

Not enough hope and too little change.

That is President Barack Obama's record on the economy, debt and Washington gridlock after four years in the White House.

The State Journal editorial board endorses Mitt Romney in Tuesday's presidential election.

Romney showed as the Republican governor of Democratic-leaning Massachusetts that he can find agreement across the partisan divide. And his vice presidential pick — Wisconsin's U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Janesville — suggests Romney is serious about tackling America's fiscal mess.

Romney has an impressive record of success in the private and public sectors. He's a numbers guy who focuses more on results than ideology. That's why so many of his fellow Republicans during the GOP primary criticized him for not being conservative enough.

Romney has been a strong leader in business and civic life. This includes turning around many troubled companies and the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Romney better understands how and why entrepreneurs and employers decide to expand and add jobs. He's more likely to get the private-sector going strong again.
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We endorsed Obama for change last time around. Now we're endorsing change again: Mitt Romney.
 
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Romney For President Releases New Television Ad, “Bigger, Better America”

ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT RELEASES NEW TELEVISION AD, “BIGGER, BETTER AMERICA”

Boston, MA – Today, Romney for President released a new television advertisement, “Bigger, Better America.” The differences between Mitt Romney and President Obama are clear. He says it has to be this way. Mitt Romney says it can’t stay this way. President Obama is hoping Americans settle, but Americans don’t settle. We build. We aspire.

AD FACTS: Script For “Bigger, Better America”

VIDEO TEXT: “West Chester, OH”

MITT ROMNEY: “My conviction that better days are ahead is not based on promises and hollow rhetoric but on solid plans and proven results. And it's based on an unshakable faith in the American spirit. If there's anyone worried that the last four years are the best we can do, if there's anyone who fears that the American Dream is fading, if there's anyone who wonders whether better jobs and better paychecks are things of the past, I have a clear and unequivocal message: With the right leadership, America is coming roaring back.”

MITT ROMNEY: “And you saw the differences when President Obama and I were side to side in our debates. He says it has to be this way. I say it can't stay this way. He’s offering excuses. I've got a plan. I can't wait for us to get started. He's hoping we'll settle. Americans don't settle. We build. We aspire. We listen to that voice inside us that says we can do better – a better job, a better life for our kids, a bigger, better country.”

MITT ROMNEY: “And I know we can't lose on Tuesday. … I need your help.”

MITT ROMNEY: “I’m Mitt Romney and I approved this message.”

Mitt Romney 2012 Page Takeover Blog Ads “Education” “Jobs” “Middle Class” Sioux City Journal, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, 940x300

North Dakota Senate Candidate Rick Berg Television Ad "Romney"

Governor Mitt Romney:

The country has big challenges ahead.

America needs a Republican Senate to solve them.

Rick Berg will be the 51^st Senator to help reduce the size of government, repeal the government takeover of healthcare, and cut taxes on small business.

John Hoeven needs a conservative teammate to help stop the liberal Reid-Pelosi agenda.

With so much at stake I hope you’ll join me in supporting Rick Berg for Senate.

Rick Berg: I'm Rick Berg and I approve this message

Gov. Bobby Jindal, Senators Jim Talent & John Thune, and Rep. Marsha Blackburn In Mason City, Iowa On November 4, 2012

Gov. Bobby Jindal, Senators Jim Talent & John Thune, and Rep. Marsha Blackburn In Mason City, Iowa On November 4, 2012

Mason City Victory Office
1314 4th Street SW
Mason City, IA 50401

Paul Ryan Minnesota Victory Event Blog Ad, StarTribune Website, November 3, 2012