Election Results. Obama-50.3% (303) Romney-48.1% (206)

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Obama/Biden 50.3% (303)   Romney/Ryan 48.1% (206)Refresh

7:00PM ET	Obama	Romney			Obama	Romney
Georgia (16) 45.4 53.4 (100%)				Indiana (11) 43.8 54.3 (100%)
Kentucky (8) 37.8 60.5 (100%)				South Carolina (9) 43.7 54.9 (100%)
Vermont (3) 67.0 31.2 (97%)				Virginia (13) 50.7 47.8 (100%)
7:30PM ET	Obama	Romney			Obama	Romney
North Carolina (15) 48.4 50.6 (100%)				Ohio (18) 50.1 48.2 (100%)
West Virginia (5) 35.5 62.3 (100%)
8:00PM ET	Obama	Romney			Obama	Romney
Alabama (9) 38.4 60.7 (100%)				Connecticut (7) 57.9 40.9 (91%)
Delaware (3) 58.6 40.0 (100%)				DC (3) 91.4 7.1 (100%)
Florida (29) 49.8 49.3 (100%)				Illinois (20) 57.3 41.1 (100%)
Maine (4) 56.4 40.3 (78%)				Maryland (10) 61.2 37.0 (98%)
Massachusetts (11) 60.9 37.5 (98%)				Mississippi (6) 43.7 55.4 (99%)
Missouri (10) 44.3 53.9 (100%)				New Hampshire (4) 52.2 46.4 (95%)
New Jersey (14) 57.9 41.0 (99%)				Oklahoma (7) 33.2 66.8 (100%)
Pennsylvania (20) 51.9 46.8 (99%)				Rhode Island (4) 63.1 35.2 (97%)
Tennessee (11) 39.0 59.5 (99%)
8:30PM ET	Obama	Romney			Obama	Romney
Arkansas (6) 36.9 60.5 (97%)
9:00PM ET	Obama	Romney			Obama	Romney
Arizona (11) 43.4 55.0 (100%)				Colorado (9) 51.2 46.5 (81%)
Kansas (6) 37.9 59.9 (99%)				Louisiana (8) 39.8 58.5 (100%)
Michigan (16) 53.7 45.4 (95%)				Minnesota (10) 52.8 45.2 (100%)
Nebraska (5) 37.8 60.5 (100%)				New Mexico (5) 52.9 43.0 (100%)
New York (29) 62.7 35.9 (98%)				North Dakota (3) 38.9 58.7 (100%)
South Dakota (3) 39.9 57.9 (100%)				Texas (38) 41.4 57.2 (100%)
Wisconsin (10) 52.7 46.2 (100%)				Wyoming (3) 28.0 69.3 (100%)
10:00PM ET	Obama	Romney			Obama	Romney
Iowa (6) 52.1 46.5 (100%)				Montana (3) 42.1 55.0 (85%)
Nevada (6) 52.3 45.7 (99%)				Utah (6) 24.9 72.7 (100%)
11:00PM ET	Obama	Romney			Obama	Romney
California (55) 59.2 38.5 (98%)				Hawaii (4) 70.6 27.8 (100%)
Idaho (4) 32.6 64.6 (98%)				Oregon (7) 53.4 43.9 (77%)
Washington (12) 55.2 42.8 (52%)
1:00AM ET	Obama	Romney			Obama	Romney
Alaska (3) 41.5 55.0 (99%)

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New weapon is Holy Grail of electronic warfare

The holy grail of electronic warfare has made it's debut.  Boeing’s Phantom Works demonstrated its Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile (CHAMP) last month over the Utah Test and Training Range.  The advanced missile successfully defeated electronic targets with little to no collateral damage when tested on an unoccupied building in the Utah desert.  The CHAMP weapon discharged a burst of High Power Microwaves onto the unoccupied test building and brought down the the entire spectrum of electronic systems; disabling the camera recording the test in the process.

This new missile is an important development and it adds a powerful punch to the U.S. weapons arsenal.  The missile renders enemy radar inoperable and permanently destroys electronic equipment.  It is said that CHAMP can penetrate underground bunkers, disable fighter planes, tanks, ships, and missile systems.  It's similar to a miniature electromagnetic pulse (EMP) bomb, except CHAMP can be used to take out the electronic systems we want to render useless.  EMP's will affect a wide area, depending on altitude of explosion, energy yield and gamma ray output.  CHAMP uses a selective high-frequency radio wave to target enemy electronics.

This new weapon would allow our air-force to penetrate the airspace of our enemies at will and grant unimpeded access to our bombers to destroy targets at will.  If the United States fails to confront the Iranians in their quest for nuclear weapons, and instead places that burden on the Israelis, then the next President of the United States must offer this weapon to the Israeli military.  If the Israelis had the CHAMP weapon system and some advanced bunker-busting bombs, they could defend themselves much easier than they can at present.      

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CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack

BREAKING NEWS FROM FOX NEWS***
Fox News has learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that an urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. Consulate and subsequent attack several hours later was denied by U.S. officials -- who also told the CIA operators twice to "stand down" rather than help the ambassador's team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/26/cia-operators-were-denied-request-for-help-during-benghazi-attack-sources-say/#ixzz2AQG4N7Zm

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Colin Powell questions a Romney foreign policy?

Former Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell endorsed President Barack Obama for a second term Thursday, telling “CBS This Morning” that he voted for Obama in 2008 but this time was going further and publicly backing him.  One of the reasons Mr. Powell endorsed President Obama is because he has concerns with a Romney foreign policy.  "I'm not quite sure which Governor Romney we would be getting with respect to foreign policy," Powell stated. “One day he has a certain strong view about staying in Afghanistan but then on Monday night he agrees with the withdrawal — same thing in Iraq.”

Former Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell has concerns with a Romney foreign policy?
I guess he likes the way Obama conducts his foreign policy.  People don't remember that Colin Powell shared some responsibility for the deaths of Americans in Mogadishu during Clinton's term.   A Senate report into a disastrous 1993 Army raid in Somalia portrays Gen. Colin Powell bending to pressure to keep U.S. involvement to a minimum when field commanders sought greater firepower. The report quotes Gen. Wayne Downing, head of the United States Special Forces, as saying "we were under incredible pressure" from the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  "I advised that I would like to have the AC-130s," he said. "Gen. Powell advised that we needed to keep the numbers down."  Powell was rightly criticized for refusing to send AC-130 gunships along with Task Force Ranger, a force of 460 Army troops to reinforce the troops that were trying to capture the Somali warlord.

In the end, 18 America soldiers were killed and many more injured.  I guess Colin Powell had a case of amnesia, because he later said he didn't recall that his officers on the ground requested the reinforcements...even though he was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  Judging by Powell's past decisions, I can see why he would prefer Obama's weak foreign policy over one of strength.          

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Is Benghazi Obama's Mogadishu?

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday attempted to take one for Team Obama. While in Lima Peru, Secretary Clinton stated, "I take responsibility, I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts. The president and the vice president wouldn't be knowledgeable about specific decisions that are made by security professionals. They're the ones who weigh all of the threats and the risks and the needs and make a considered decision."

Is Hillary Clinton the new Les Aspin?  In 1994, then Secretary of Defense Les Aspin, was ousted from the Clinton administration in large part because of the failed raid in Mogadishu Somalia (Blackhawk Down) and his decision not to send tanks.  According to a Senate Armed Services Committee report on the deaths of 18 U.S. service members, Defense Secretary Les Aspin and his deputies rejected sending needed tanks and armored vehicles to Somalia because they feared a political backlash would undermine their pro-United Nations policy.

Fast forward to 2012. The late Ambassador Stevens and the diplomatic mission in Libya made multiple security related requests that were turned down by Washington based officials.  Ambassador Stevens even wrote in his diary that he feared for his safety shortly before he and three other Americans were murdered by terrorists.  Lt. Col. Andrew Wood has stated that U.S. Ambassador Stevens wanted a Security Support Team, made up of 16 special operations soldiers, to stay with him in Libya after their deployment was scheduled to end in August. The embassy staff’s first choice was for us to stay and "that would have been the choice of the embassy people in Tripoli” Lt. Col. Andrew's continued.

Why would the Obama administration deny adequate security to our diplomatic team in Libya?  Especially during the 11th anniversary of 9/11 and in a country rife with anti-American Islamists.   Liberals have this unfounded view that if the United States keeps a low profile and doesn't project power, then somehow our enemies will like us and not try to kill us.  President Obama has spent the better part of four years apologizing to Muslim extremists; projecting weakness in the process.

Benghazi is Obama's Mogadishu, the only difference is 18 Army Rangers died in Somalia and four diplomats died in Libya.  Defense Secretary Les Aspin took the blame for Bill Clinton's failed foreign policy in 1994 and Hillary Clinton is attempting to take the blame for Obama's failed foreign policy today.  

I find it ironic that a 2008 Hillary Clinton campaign ad featured a telephone ringing at 3 a.m. It strongly suggested that Barack Obama was not prepared to take that phone call at that critical hour. Somewhere a crisis would mount, and she wanted primary voters to understand that the inexperienced Illinois senator was not ready to tackle it.  That 3 a.m. phone did in fact ring..and Obama didn't answer, Hillary did, and they both failed miserably.  

Senate Report on Somalia 

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Muslims Rape and Kill American Ambassador and Three Other Americans

This is the thanks you get when you help a Muslim country gain their freedom.  President Obama praised the "Arab Spring" and led from behind to help the Libyans gain their freedom.  The Muslims that dragged our Ambassador through the streets in Libya are of a lower life form than most humans.  US Ambassador Christopher Stevens was trying to leave the consulate building for a safer location as part of an evacuation when gunmen launched an intense attack, apparently forcing security personnel to withdraw.  "The American ambassador and three staff members were killed when gunmen fired rockets in their direction," a Libyan official in Benghazi told Reuters.

Obama threw our long time ally, Hosni Mubarak, under the bus last year in favor of the Muslim extremists in Egypt and they have slapped us in the face ever since.  After the Egyptians stormed our embassy in Cairo, Obama's State Department (Embassy in Cairo) released a statement saying that it condemns “the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims — as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions.”  This weak statement was rightly condemned by presidential candidate Mitt Romney.  Hours after the apologetic statement, Muslim terrorists stormed our consulate in Benghazi and Killed the ambassador and three other Americans.

President Obama's foreign policy is misguided and dangerous to our national interests.  He goes out of his way to avoid offending the very people that hate us.  The perception of Barack Obama in the Middle East is one of weakness and that weakness only invites more aggression towards America.  Mr. Obama has made many mistakes in that part of world and it exposes the fact he is in way over his head.  We cannot afford four more years of this type of weak foreign policy.  God bless the Americans that were killed by Muslims and God bless their families.    

******UPDATE*****
Lebanese paper Tayyar is reporting Ambassador Stevens was raped before being murdered by Muslim terrorists.  Which part of the Koran dictates that you rape your victim before murdering them??  You can use Google Chrome to translate Tayyar.org                  

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Governor Christie, Ann Romney and Ted Cruz speaking at Republican Convention

Great speeches tonight from Ann Romney, Governor Chris Christie and the next Senator from the Great State of Texas Ted Cruz.

Transcript of Christie speech:

Transcript of Ann Romney speech: 






Excerpts from Reagan's 1980 acceptance speech that are apropos today. 

"I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose. We have come together here because the American people deserve better from those to whom they entrust our nation's highest offices, and we stand united in our resolve to do something about it."

"The first Republican president once said, "While the people retain their virtue and their vigilance, no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can seriously injure the government in the short space of four years. If Mr. Lincoln could see what's happened in these last three-and-a-half years, he might hedge a little on that statement." 

"First, we must overcome something the present administration has cooked up: a new and altogether indigestible economic stew, one part inflation, one part high unemployment, one part recession, one part runaway taxes, one party deficit spending and seasoned by an energy crisis. It's an economic stew that has turned the national stomach."

"High taxes, we are told, are somehow good for us, as if, when government spends our money it isn't inflationary, but when we spend it, it is."

"America must get to work producing more energy. The Republican program for solving economic problems is based on growth and productivity. Large amounts of oil and natural gas lay beneath our land and off our shores, untouched because the present administration seems to believe the American people would rather see more regulation, taxes and controls than more energy."

And one of the best lines that applies today: 
"Can anyone look at the record of this administration and say, "Well done?" Can anyone compare the state of our economy when the Carter Administration took office with where we are today and say, "Keep up the good work?" Can anyone look at our reduced standing in the world today and say, "Let's have four more years of this?" 
I believe the American people are going to answer these questions the first week of November and their answer will be, "No--we've had enough." And, then it will be up to us--beginning next January 20th--to offer an administration and congressional leadership of competence and more than a little courage."

http://www.4president.org/speeches/reagan1980convention.htm

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