Posted on 08/24/2012 6:43:31 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote
As the controversy over Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” comment continues, Mitt Romney’s lead in Missouri has vanished.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Missouri Voters finds President Obama with 47% support to Romney’s 46%. Three percent (3%) favor some other candidate in the race, and three percent (3%) more are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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You can't be serious, but perhaps you are. Read the Missouri statute. He can and will be replaced by a good, conservative candidate who can win and bring the state with him/her into the GOP column for the Presidential race.
You are the gift that keeps on giving to the Democrats.
Any GOP $$$ going into to MO will be to help Romney and Republican congressional candidates. No one wants to sink money into a chunk of radioactive matter like Akin.
Ohh -- so that is what this is all about. And the people in Missouri thought that this was all about getting rid of McCaskill.
People in Missouri cross over all the time, and there will be a whole lot of it this time as well.
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Obama had all but written off Missouri, and Romney didn't need to work about it until Akin opened his mouth. Now Romney will have to spend to defend Missouri, and that money could be important in picking off another state like Wisconsin.
Most of the GOP learned the lesson from Sharron Angle's crushing defeat in 2010; run a weak but ideologically correct candidate in a swing state and hand the race to your Democrat opponent. Image how different the last two years would have been if Harry Reid would have lost.
Stupid remarks followed up by bumbling interviews are no way to win, and they have consequences. Akin must go, and go now.
Hope you enjoy Obamacare for the remainder of your life.
If Akin stays and Dems hold the Senate, every pro-abortion provision buried in Obamacare will remain federal law forever.
This is no ordinary election. Unseating ANY incumbent president is serious, difficult and expensive business. The powers of the presidency are tremendous. Obama still has the Rose Garden, and he is not going down without a bitter fight.
This has reached a point that has now surpassed the Senate seat, which at this point is starting to look irretrievable. The GOP should get behind a decent, solid, SANE, conservative candidate who is willing to mount a write-in campaign. The Republican Party can not allow this nut to be the unopposed standard bearer in this election.
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Maybe the Reps should have been a little less vocal and public in their piling on of Akin. This was a massive orchestrated effort by the RNC to get rid of Akin before the Tuesday deadline. It was a big gamble that backfired on them. The GOP made this a much bigger issue than it had to be. Romney and Ryan should never have got so involved. Hell, here in VA we had George “Macaca” Allen condenming Akin for his verbal gaffe. How is that for chutzpah?
Where are you getting this ignorant nonsense? Is this what passes for political thinking amongst the Akin crowd? There are at least a score of solid, pro life conservatives who can run for and win this seat with ease, and the laws of Missouri have a clear process in place to make it happen. You do not know what you are talking about.
Good Lord. Wake the **** up.
from Rassmussen
In Missouri, Romney has lost his lead and now trails by a point. This is in the wake of Senate Republican hopeful Todd Akin’s comments about “legitimate rape.” The Show Me State has moved from Leans Romney to Toss-Up in the Rasmussen Reports Electoral College Projections.
Akin trails incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill by 10 in the Missouri Senate race. That race had been leaning Republican but is now ranked as Safely Democratic in the Rasmussen Reports Senate Balance of Power projections. The New Mexico Senate race has moved from Toss-Up status to Leans Democratic.
Indeed - in the midst of a strong Democratic wind, McCain still carried this bellweather state...so arguing that McCain only “barely” won it is not an argument in favor of your point - quite the opposite. Up until now, there was no democratic wind and things were showing signs, indeed, of blowing in the direction of the GOP - MO was squarely in the GOP column...not even considered a top tier battleground state that was going to be focused on. Thanks solely to Todd Akin, he has given strong momentum to the entire Democratic ticket they otherwise did not have and would not have been able to achieve. I doubt the momentum is contained only within Missouri.
Extraordinary that the selfishness of a single person could bring down the very foundations of our Republic by keeping Obama and Harry Reid in power - and all of the policy implications that come with it.
Akin spent six terms in Congress and was backed by the missouri GOP for the Senate. He's as "Establishment" as it gets. And, the Tea Party Express has already called on him to withdraw.
You can paint this as a fight against the "GOP Leadership" all you want, but he brought this on himself, and only his stubborn hubris (and Huckabee's money) are keeping him from doing the honorable thing.
We have no place for morons who in their zeal will bring down the house.
I’m so sick of these near clinical psychotics ruining things for the GOP in close elections.
I agree with everyone that this jerk screwed us with his stupid quip, and HE MUST GO NOW!.. But, it calls into focus how absurd our culture has become..
We can’t blame this on the left, or the media, although they are feeding the frenzy, this is directly attributed to our failing moral pilings..
Akin is going to be a household word at the Democratic Convention and could erase any bounce that Romney gets next week. Akin is toxic, and will hurt Romney in critical suburbs like Philadelphia, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh. Suburban women don’t want to hear his crap or associate themselves with a party that does.
All Akin had to do was sit on his front porch for ten weeks and keep his damned mouth shut. He couldn’t even manage that.
That said, hard to believe MO voters are this stupid. Since Akin said something totally stupid about one issue, they now support Barack Obama and Obamacare? This country is doomed if voters are this stupid.
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It’s not that, per se; however, the Democrats and the bulk of the media will relentlessly hammer home the theme that the GOP as a party, is an American, Christianized version of the Taliban. In other words, ignorant fanatics.
And they will echo that theme ad infinitum between now and election day.
Even though Mitt Romney will win the election, I am very concerned about the Senate.
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