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Akin Controversy Costing Romney, Obama Now Leads Missouri
Life News ^ | August 24, 2012 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 08/24/2012 8:13:11 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 08/24/2012 8:13:16 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Akin may be the best thing that ever happened to the Democrat party. If he doesn’t withdraw he may earn a footnote In the history books as the guy who wrecked the Republicans chances in this election.


2 posted on 08/24/2012 8:17:03 AM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Missouri: Home of meth labs and weak beer.

Also lots of Democrats, homosexuals and peckerwoods.


3 posted on 08/24/2012 8:17:17 AM PDT by IbJensen (Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

People are just stupid. Missourians will actually vote for Obama because of this??? I have no words


4 posted on 08/24/2012 8:17:24 AM PDT by GoCards (I am a Hobbit)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“...voters not affiliated with either major party still favor Romney by 20 points. But Republican support in Missouri for the party’s likely nominee has fallen from 94% in late July to 85% now,” Rasmussen continues. “

Akin caused a drop in Republican support for Romney?

The only possible connection I can see is that Republicans were angry at Romney’s overly harsh response to Akin’s retracted remarks.

But my best guess is that there is no connection.


5 posted on 08/24/2012 8:21:28 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Starve the Beast. I just told the Republican National Committee that as long as they have people as stubborn as this guy in the Party I will send my money to the Tea Party.


6 posted on 08/24/2012 8:21:33 AM PDT by kempster
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; DarthVader
people in Missouri need to slow down and take a deep breath and think about their senate and presidential votes very carefully and what it means for America.

God's people need to intensely pray for these folks as well as all the voters in America.

7 posted on 08/24/2012 8:21:33 AM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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To: GoCards

Yep, I find it hard to believe that Missouri would go to Obama because Todd Akin said something stupid.

McCain carried Missouri. All of the projections we talk about in the election have been giving Romney every single state McCain carried, and building up from there. If Missouri could be lost, we need to re-calculate.

If Romney wins, it will be a narrow margin in the electoral college, so every state is critical.


8 posted on 08/24/2012 8:22:32 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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—People are just stupid. Missourians will actually vote for Obama because of this??? I have no words—

Well, yeah, but you are stating the obvious. Look at who they elected in 2008...


9 posted on 08/24/2012 8:22:32 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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People are just stupid. Missourians will actually vote for Obama because of this??? I have no words

This points out what we are up against. I know one very nice, older woman in my church (in Pennsylvania, not Missouri) who said she heard that Paul Ryan said that some rape was legitimate. She is a "low information" voter who gets her information from the networks and hears soundbites from the Dems. I bet there are a lot of low information voters in Missouri who are convinced that Romney or Ryan said that some rape is legitimate. Or who know that Akin is a Republican and simply tar all Republicans with the same brush -- that they don't care about rape. And the media actively promotes this to keep the Dems in power. And these people aren't morons. They are average people who just don't pay attention.

People who post on these political boards just don't understand how little most of America cares about politics and how little they know about it.

10 posted on 08/24/2012 8:22:32 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; saganite; IbJensen; GoCards
Better read the internals. They aren't pissed at Akin, they are pissed at Romnney for asking Akin to leave.

It would be best if the Conservative/GOP movement quit obsessing about Akin, you are cutting your own throats.

“Obama’s Democratic support in the state remains largely unchanged at 96%, and voters not affiliated with either major party still favor Romney by 20 points. But Republican support in Missouri for the party’s likely nominee has fallen from 94% in late July to 85% now,” Rasmussen continues.

11 posted on 08/24/2012 8:23:52 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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It really looks like the best thing would be to mount a write-in campaign with some articulate conservative candidate, and have both Romney and Palin campaign for him or her so that Romney is seen as really rejecting Akin. (We can debate whether it’s fair or right or giving in to the left-wing media another time. The country is at stake. Akin’s brand is damaged beyond repair, and besides pulling party funding something more public is needed so that the ‘Rats can’t uses him to drag the national ticked down — Romney falling in behind a Palin-backed write-in campaign in Missouri would be just the thing. Even better add funding for the write-in from the national GOP.)


12 posted on 08/24/2012 8:24:53 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: GoCards

I’m with you!!!

Either the poll is the usual BEE ESS, or the state of Missouri is in worse shape than we all thought.

Of course there is no denying they voted for McRascal.


13 posted on 08/24/2012 8:25:18 AM PDT by wita
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You are right. Read the internals of the poll

“Obama’s Democratic support in the state remains largely unchanged at 96%, and voters not affiliated with either major party still favor Romney by 20 points. But Republican support in Missouri for the party’s likely nominee has fallen from 94% in late July to 85% now,” Rasmussen continues

14 posted on 08/24/2012 8:25:33 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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15 posted on 08/24/2012 8:25:42 AM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My personal view: The Dems have climbed, reached and now passed their “Akin Peak”. They won’t recognize that fact at first but it will slowly sink in.

Patience is in order.


16 posted on 08/24/2012 8:25:42 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (.)
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To: IbJensen

You seem to be proof of your tag line.


17 posted on 08/24/2012 8:26:48 AM PDT by A Cyrenian (Timothy Geithner - proving TurboTax is not idiot proof.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

To: Rep. Todd Akin
Fm: Senator Claire McCaskill

Dear Todd,

I can’t thank you enough for bringing my candidacy back from the brink. This plan is unfolding amazingly well!

I urge you to continue with forebearance against the voices in your party to drop out from this race. I couldn’t have picked a better partner to help see me to victory. Remember, we’re in this together, and your rewards after election day will be many!

With much appreciation and affection,

Your biggest BFF, Claire


18 posted on 08/24/2012 8:27:07 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Stop the bleeding, Todd Akin. Do the right thing and step aside!!)
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To: GoCards
Missourians will actually vote for Obama because of this???

Unlikely but some folks need an excuse for why people don't like moderate Mitty.
19 posted on 08/24/2012 8:27:15 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is starting to look very convenient. Without delving too much into conspiracy theory, a republican candidate is funded by the democrats in a three way race, succeeds and then makes a unbelievably stupid statement two days before a withdrawal deadline which is allowed to pass by the candidate. Then the poll number switch to Obama. These are machinations typical of the likes of Shumer, Reid and Obama.

Akin may be being paid off.


20 posted on 08/24/2012 8:28:02 AM PDT by cotton1706
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