Posted on 07/14/2012 1:29:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This week in the presidential campaign was driven by several stories, primarily Mitt Romney’s speech to the NAACP convention; the likely bogus rumor that Romney was considering Condoleeza Rice as his vice-presidential pick; and the hysterical, bogus claim that Romney may be a felon based on decade-old SEC filings. Let’s look at the common thread running through them.
Partisans on both sides of the aisle questioned Romney’s decision to appear at the NAACP convention, given that African-Americans have been a solidly reliable Democratic voting bloc for decades. However, a Romney campaign adviser told BuzzFeed that Romney’s attendance at the convention wasn’t primarily intended to break off a portion of the black vote, but to make clear to moderates that he intends to be an inclusive president. (I would suggest this was also part of the motivation for the Condi VP leak, if it came from the campaign.) It is really polite code for saying Romney was going after the votes of white college graduates, particularly women. Recall how the Emerging Democratic Majority theorists see this campaign:
[Ruy] Teixeira, writing with John Halpin, argues in “The Path to 270: Demographics versus Economics in the 2012 Presidential Election,” that in order to be re-elected, President Obama must keep his losses among white college graduates to the 4-point margin of 2008 (47-51). Why? Otherwise he will not be able to survive a repetition of 2010, when white working-class voters supported Republican House candidates by a record-setting margin of 63-33.
Obama’s alternative path to victory, according to Teixeira and Halpin, would be to keep his losses among all white voters at the same level John Kerry did in 2004, when he lost them by 17 points, 58-41. This would be a step backwards for Obama, who lost among all whites in 2008 by only 12 points (55-43). Obama can afford to drop to Kerry’s white margins because, between 2008 and 2012, the pro-Democratic minority share of the electorate is expected to grow by two percentage points and the white share to decline by the same amount, reflecting the changing composition of the national electorate.
Recent polling suggests Obama’s current support among non-college whites remains mired about where is was for Democrats in 2010. However, Obama has largely maintained his support with white college grads, still within the margin of error of that 47% he won in 2008. If he erodes much further in that demographic, it is also unlikely that he would be able to achieve the alternate target for the overall white vote.
Obama’s precarious position in this regard explains the increasingly negative, hysterical and defamatory campaign being waged by Team Obama, promoted by various establishment media outlets at different times over the past few weeks, culminating in the full flowering of Romney Derangement Syndrome at this week’s end. Team Obama must increasingly rely on the “otherization” of Romney (and his church) of the sort the very same people roundly condemned and marginalized when attempted against Obama in 2008. Indeed, Obama started painting himself into his current corner during the 2008 primaries. Obama ran — and has largely governed — against the Clintonian version of the Democratic Party, now extending to Obama’s weakening of welfare reform. It is thus not terribly surprising that Obama’s tenuous grip on white college grads has become the flashpoint of the 2012 campaign.
Was former Gov. Romney a member of the general authority prior to 1978? If not, you have no point, and you know it.
>>I know exactly who to blame. The idiots who voted FOR Obama.<<
An electorate has 4 voters. 2 vote for o, 1 for r, 1 has a tantrum and votes 3rd part.
Who wins the election? What would have happened had the tantrum not been thrown?
As far as the fools who foisted Romney on us: 100% agree. That is water under the bridge: we are stuck with him.
Voting 3rd party is voting for obama.
>>And I add yet another name to the list of morons who don’t understand how it works.<<
I see you join in the collective ignorance of arithmetic. Forced self-delusion.
“Who wins the election? What would have happened had the tantrum not been thrown?”
I am not throwing a tantrum you mindless moron.
You still can’t come up with any reason to vote for Romney except “He is not Obama”.
Because I won’t vote the way YOU want me to I am having a tantrum?
How about you go screw yourself?
Yes we need Conservatives. I wish Romney was one.
>>You still can’t come up with any reason to vote for Romney except “He is not Obama”.<<
Yep. Right now that is the only reason. If you want the result of your vote to be for obama, then vote 3rd party.
>>Because I won’t vote the way YOU want me to I am having a tantrum?<<
I note you don’t answer my question, Mr Voter 4.
>>How about you go screw yourself?<<
Sounds like a tantrum to me.
“Sounds like a tantrum to me.”
You no more understand what a tantrum is than understand what a conservative is.
You are just not as smart as you think you are.
The reality is that YOU are afraid. Too afraid to stand for what is right. You don’t have the GUTS to face what it is really going to take to save this country.
You are a CHICKEN. An UNPRINCIPLED CHICKEN. (That’s not a tantrum either, it is an observation of your character.)
>>You are a CHICKEN. An UNPRINCIPLED CHICKEN.<<
You are the one voting indirectly for obama. I fear another 4 year obama reign, yes. You, OTOH are willing to punish yourself, your family and your country by stomping your feet, throwing yourself on the floor and screaming your head off. You know, like you are doing on this and other threads.
if obama wins, it is on you and little babies like you who can’t come to grips with the fact that Romney, bad as he is, won the nomination. That is what a little baby does — ignore reality and scream when he doesn’t get his way.
No one is saying Romney is even close to a conservative. he is just not as bad as the alternative. You are saying the alternative is better.
Grow up.
“Grow up.”
Piss off.
See? I can do this all day.
But all it does is waste bandwidth.
So piss off.
(As if somebody who was not a KKK leader -- yet helped to bankroll the KKK -- was not culpable in some way...wow! Anything to excuse your fave liberal candidate...To remain consistent, you've already excused not only all KKK financial supporters, but all Planned Parenthood supporters, all ACLU supporters, all homosexual activist supporters ... all as long as they weren't leaders in those orgs/movements ... your philosophical gymnastics are amazing!)
What converts so-called "conservatives" into liberal voters quicker than snot running down on the hottest of days?
What proselytizes so-called "conservatives" into getting behind the guy who beat Hillary Clinton and Obama to the draw in getting socialist healthcare enabled?
What causes so-called "conservatives" to capitulate and support a candidate who less than 5 years ago told Katie Couric that parents had Option (a) -- give up their offspring for adoption; or Option (b) -- give up their offspring to "research"???
Why...fear...and fear on steroids!
Ya know, in April I thought there simply weren't enough voters in this country to support two liberals...The RomneyBots are proving me wrong...
Mind ZombieIsm makes the mind a terrible thing to waste!
What converts so-called "conservatives" into liberal voters quicker than snot running down on the hottest of days?
What proselytizes so-called "conservatives" into getting behind the guy who beat Hillary Clinton and Obama to the draw in getting socialist healthcare enabled?
What causes so-called "conservatives" to capitulate and support a candidate who less than 5 years ago told Katie Couric that parents had Option (a) -- give up their offspring for adoption; or Option (b) -- give up their offspring to "research"???
Why...fear...and fear on steroids!
Ya know, in April I thought there simply weren't enough voters in this country to support two liberals...The RomneyBots are proving me wrong...
Mind ZombieIsm makes the mind a terrible thing to waste!
(Oh, and while you're recounting Mormon hymns from the Mormon hymn book, don't forget Eliza Snow's verse about how there's a "mom God" in heaven who is married to THE God...y'all didn't know that God was married, eh? ... well, you can thank the Mormons -- and Mormon apologists like Maine-iac -- for that concept... oh, and then there's the Mormon hymn, "Praise to the Man" -- a worship song devoted NOT to God or Jesus Christ...but worshiping Joseph Smith!)
Lyrics to "Praise to the Man": LDS HYMN #27 "PRAISE TO THE MAN"
Main-iac is going to think i encourage this stuff.
They're much more comparable to Arator, and face the same fate.
Before offering such sage advice, do you think it might have been a good idea to see if Goode was even on the ballot in half of those "conservative states noted", so you don't look like a f****** idiot?
Because he's not on the ballot in half of the states you've listed. Not even one-third...
So who do we vote for?
Now, what is it about Romney you don't want exposed ~ and why?
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