Random Ruminations: Romney Strategy and Polls

[golf lover]

Why won’t Romney release all his academic marks (SAT’s, high school, college, grad school,etc.) and complete medical (not 1 page like Obama in 08) records and challenge Obama to do likewise. The Democrats mocked Bush because he had no gravitas and only had an 85 average at Yale. They shut right up when we found out JF’n Kerry had an 84 average at Yale.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

If Free Republic would have been around at this time in 1980 we would have seen much the same comments as now. Reagan was down in the polls to the worst President in history (up to that time)and the media was having a field day trying to disparage Reagan at every turn. He didn’t really turn it around until the debates. This is by no means over.

By this time in 1980, Reagan held, on average, a small lead over Carter. While it is true that the lead increased substantially after the debate (there was only one), and while it is of course true that the media disparaged Reagan at every turn (when have they not done so to the R candidate??), the notion that Reagan staged some miracle comeback after the debates is incorrect: