Posted on 05/24/2012 6:18:45 PM PDT by RobinMasters
It’s amazing what a few competitive polls can do to concentrate the mind.
Democrats had taken comfort for months in the Republican Party’s seeming inability to get behind Mitt Romney, Obama’s healthy lead in the polls, and equally healthy job growth. And for a few, fleeting, moments, Democrats thought the election might just be easy. But Republican division appears to have been merely an artifact of primary politics, and Mitt Romney has proved a consistent, if unglamorous campaigner…
“There was this sense maybe a month or two ago that Obama was really riding high — that he had gotten his base behind him and the economy was doing better and it had this Clinton vs. Bob Dole 1996 feeling — that he was going to cruise,” said one 2008 Obama aide who does not work for this year’s campaign. “And now it feels like it’s going to be really tough — a 2004 race.”
Indeed the campaign is shaping up to be a close-combat battle for one percent of swing voters in a few hundred precincts across three or four states…
Moreover, a campaign that two months ago seemed infallible has proven to be very capable of making mistakes. Obama’s aides were taken aback when Vice President Joe Biden publicly backed same sex marriage — and spent a week punishing him for speaking out in the press. Long preparation for attacks on Romney’s time at Bain Capital, aimed at changing the narrative, nevertheless left them flat-footed when Republicans (and even a few Democrats) counter-attacked. Romney, who stumbled into the Republican nomination, scored his first tactical victory of the general election and further shored up the Republican base in the process.
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Unless you already know what the October surprise consists of, I wouldn’t start popping champagne corks just yet.
Bad news? I think it is Great News! However I sincerely doubt Obama thinks he will lose.
What the hell.....?
Actually, your picture looks more like Jehovah’s Witlesses. Mormons are the two clean-cut guys in white shirts/ties and on bikes.
“Bad news?”
The bad news is that the Going On Progressive party gives us assclowns like McCain and flaming liberals like Romney instead of true conservatives to run against the ‘Rats.
I can’t drink that pretty. And I’ve been drinkin’.
Well the ol’ October Surprise isn’t here yet so we shall see. But if this keeps up all Romney has to do is watch Obama loose.
Well the ol’ October Surprise isn’t here yet so we shall see. But if this keeps up all Romney has to do is watch Obama loose.
I'm starting to think that the best outcome might be for Obama to win, but for Republicans to gain control of the House and Senate (if that outcome is possible).
That outcome would let Obama be a defanged figurehead for four years and the socialists take full blame for the economy. It could also lead to his impeachment and removal from office.
That might be better than Republicans taking control of this disaster he has brought about, and then getting tarred when it's more than anybody can handle.
The campaign insults stay-at-home moms by saying they don't work.
The campaign attaches itself to government-sponsored promiscuity with Sandra Fluke.
The campaign chooses gays over traditional-value, churchgoing blacks.
The campaign attacks Catholic institutions via its Obamacare legislation.
Peel 10% off of each voter group and Obama loses NC, FL, VA, CO, WI and maybe MI.
Worry? Why worry?
Just remember that an animal is most dangerous when cornered.
It’s very scary to even think he might be re-elected.Romney will win and it will not be remotely close.
The weather, the Sierra Nevadas, the ocean.
Until they see how the exit polls are looking, then they'll call an emergency session to pass new legislation returning it to the way it was.
WTF? What "job growth?" As far as I can see the economy is still shedding jobs. The unemployment rate (percentage) is being artificially manipulated down by subtracting workers from the workforce.
“Romney, who stumbled into the Republican nomination,...”
The heck, you say. He didn’t stumble into it; he won it with discipline and staying on message. He wasn’t my choice, and I’m still not happy about it, but he ran a tight and well-executed primary campaign. There was no ‘stumbling’ about it.
Or it will give the California supreme court a shot at reinstating Obozo
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