Posted on 09/02/2012 3:23:35 PM PDT by kingattax
Wanda Snead wants the same thing for her family, her community and her country: “Someone who will take charge of this mess that is happening in our economy and get the country moving again.”
Snead, 56, and her husband, Sam, 64, run a real estate company in this charming Northern Virginia town at the base of Shenandoah National Park, where majestic Skyline Drive meanders down to North Carolina.
They have owned the company for more than 30 years. In 2009 they had ten agents and two offices; today they have three agents and one office.
“We are very fortunate and blessed to be able to keep our doors open still, but it has been a struggle,” she said. Housing keeps America’s economy going, she said, and “Obama has clearly never understood that.”
Snead and her husband are not fanatical Republicans. They are independent voters who, for the first time, have a political sign in front of their business along John Marshall Highway, which runs through the center of town
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
But...but...didn't we already get rid of Bush and replace him with somebody who would do just that back in '08? /s
There is hope for this country for the first time since HopeyChangey got elected.
We have an opportunity to overwhelmingly reject socialism in its tracks.
Then we have to stop it.
Was there an earthquake there???
Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, New Hampshire, Maine, Colorado, Pennsylvania & Nevada. All states Obama won in 08 that I think will go Romney/Ryan.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say Romney is within a couple of points in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Minnesota. I would love to see Ras poll those states.
The fact that Obama is going to have to spend money in MI & WI is going to drain away his resources. I doubt he ever thought he would be defending these upper midwest states.
Romney Ryan will take Wisconsin and Iowa as well.
I’m thinking 341-197 EV for Romney/Ryan
The Skyline Drive ends at Afton. This also marks the beginning of the Blue Ridge Pkwy, which meanders down into North Carolina. Other than that, the Shenandoah Valley is full of Sneads.
Well it might sound crazy, but I would add Massachusetts to that list too. Mitt Romney was elected governor here and Scott Brown is running for re-election against an insufferable woman named Elizabeth Warren. A lot of Democrats are going to vote for Scott Brown and they might just pull the lever for Romney while they are at it.
This is potentially very good news, although Virginia is still going to have to contend with the drooling packs of Virgil Goode zombies who fail to understand that in their zeal to ‘make a statement’, they have the potential of tilting Virginia’s electoral votes into 0bama’s column by virtue of Goode sapping off votes that would otherwise go to Romney & Ryan. If Virginia ends up in the ‘Rat column it will be Virgil Goode and the fools following him that can be cursed for another 4 years of 0bamugabe and the likely end of our Nation.
They know what side their bread is buttered on.
Doesn’t sound crazy at all. If Mass goes on that list then we got to add Oregon and New Mexico to.
Might sound a little out there at first but, the more Obama keeps talking the more he loses in the polls.
Interesting article, but these are the kinds of voters who are likely to be very disappointed no matter who wins in November. For most of the U.S., the real estate market isn’t going to be recovering anytime soon. The days of easy mortgages and an idiotic run-up in real estate prices are over, and they ain’t coming back.
There's always debate about which way Fairfax or Prince William will go in each election, but it's painfully obvious that they will vote for Obama this time. They have plenty of jobs thanks to defense spending so the economy is not an issue. There are 40% hardcore liberals, no mystery which way they will vote. The only question is whether the sentimental housewives of NoVa and their clueless husbands will get out and vote.
Keeping them home and perhaps swinging a few against Obama can only be accomplished one way. There must be 24x7 coverage of Obama's inner jerk. That Eastwood skit was a great start. Everyone knows that Obama really did tell Eastwood to go f himself. That is how Obama thinks and he's only protected by the teleprompter. The compliant media will roll the cameras with Obama hugging his kids, but we need to counter that every chance with a true depiction of his Chicago character. Best case is we get him to unhinge a time or two.
Snead and her husband are not fanatical Republicans. They are independent voters...
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Makes me wonder if they voted for Obama. This nation is full of people with buyer’s remorse from ‘08.
There's always debate about which way Fairfax or Prince William will go in each election, but it's painfully obvious that they will vote for Obama this time. They have plenty of jobs thanks to defense spending so the economy is not an issue. There are 40% hardcore liberals, no mystery which way they will vote. The only question is whether the sentimental housewives of NoVa and their clueless husbands will get out and vote.
Keeping them home and perhaps swinging a few against Obama can only be accomplished one way. There must be 24x7 coverage of Obama's inner jerk. That Eastwood skit was a great start. Everyone knows that Obama really did tell Eastwood to go f himself. That is how Obama thinks and he's only protected by the teleprompter. The compliant media will roll the cameras with Obama hugging his kids, but we need to counter that every chance with a true depiction of his Chicago character. Best case is we get him to unhinge a time or two.
Not in PA, too much fraud in Philly and Pittsburgh.
Hope and pray you are correct.........
I sincerely hope you are right, those people have to know that voting for Goode is essentially a default vote for 0bama and his ‘Rats, perhaps common sense will prevail in the voting booth as you said.
Sounds good to me!
And that is all he has done for 4 years-talk!
Right now, this is not the time for 3rd parties. We have a country to save.
Maine is quite a stretch IMO
Nevada should be interesting.
We will see what kind of stranglehold Reid has with the Mormon Community.
Even if Romney doesn’t win Maine or Pennsylvania it won’t matter. Iowa, Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, & wisconsin will win it.
And all of this is judging by skewed polling data.
Even if Romney doesn’t win Maine or Pennsylvania it won’t matter. Iowa, Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, & wisconsin will win it.
And all of this is judging by skewed polling data.
Once O’Bumbler is shown the door and if Romney can push trough legislation to eliminate the penalties for companies to bring their money back from overseas, that would free up what is estimated to be close to four trillion in PRIVATE corporate overseas profit.
If he makes good on his promise to reign in the EPA and Eliminate ObamaCare, that would unleash another three trillion in business CASH that is being hoarded in country. A massive jolt of REAL Private equity to our economy could stimulate a massive boom. Couple that with the promise to limit government spending to 20% of GPD (Should be 17%, but it is a start) and Romney could be one of the best fiscal presidents in the modern era.
Of course, we could be doomed, O’Bumbler and the Democrats could steel just enough votes to win the election.
Right after the convention I was a 100 percent guarantee type to vote for Virgil Goode, but since, I have soften and will vote for Romney. The reasons for softening my original guarantee was Romney picked a VP that I absolutely think is 100 percent Conservative. Second, although Romney will talk both sides of his mouth and I know that. He would sell his first born if it would make him President. Obama is WORSE!!!!!
That is a very ambitious list. I am not ready to go there. I want to wait and see what stupid rabbit they pull out of their hat during the DNC Convention. I am very interested to see the “excitement” if it is really there or is it just BS. The stadium is going to be very telling! I am most interested to see if there are 20K people or 78K people. If it is 20K than they are completely done and we might get 40 states.
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They will be bussing in every unionist and Public School teacher in the surounding ten states to fill that stadium. Look to the buses parked outside and the states they are charterred from.
I am sure that they will start out in the early AM on thursdday, pump them full of coffee and donuts in Chicago, Detroit, New York, New Jersey,and every iother union stronghold and bus them right back in after the speach
True, but there are a good many active duty military who are Democrats and they know that Obama will cut the military and Romney will not. They're not too thrilled with hopey-changey.
For Obama to carry Hampton Roads, he needs to run up huge margins among the minority vote in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Hampton and Newport News. Meanwhile, Romney's a lock to carry the 2nd District, which begins in York County, on the peninsula, and southside suburban areas like Suffolk, Chesapeake and the military areas of Virginia Beach and Norfolk.
There will be an interesting bellwether event in Hampton Roads this week. The Zero has scheduled a visit to Norfolk State University, the region's largest historically black college. The students are back on campus and I believe classes were scheduled to start on Tuesday.
The Dims are predicting 20,000 will turn out at the NSU event, but that raises an interesting question. If Obama is focusing on the college crowd with his visit, why not include nearby Old Dominion University, and hold the event a ODU’s Ted Constant Convocation Center, a 10,000 seat basketball arena. The real answer? There would be too many empty seats. Obama’s going to one of the few places in Hampton Roads where he can still draw a significant crowd, but not enough to fil a 10,000 seat arena on a majority white college campus.
BTW, I heard the line to see Mitt Romney in Cincinnati was five blocks long on Saturday. Can't wait to see how the media tries to spin the Norfolk State event.
Maryland lost the most residents in the mid-Atlantic between 2007 and 2010 — and many of them moved to Virginia, according to a study released Tuesday.Let's hope they're not all RATs...Almost 40,000 Marylanders crossed the Potomac River for new homes in Virginia, taking $2.17 billion with them, according to the Internal Revenue Service data used in the study conducted by Change Maryland, a nonpartisan group advocating for less state spending and lower taxes.
Well, if they moved to VA to escape the taxes, they can’t be dumb, so maybe they aren’t Rats.
There is no way the state goes 10% for Romney. The MSM has a lock on Northern Virginia media. The largest radio station is 99% liberal and uses Politico for most of their in depth analysis. Fairfax and the other surrounding suburbs have had a mixed influx, not just the young and stupid women, but older stupid men and women as well as smarter ones.
The best that can be said for Fairfax is that there are a lot "Reagan Democrats" (or similar philosophy if they are younger). That means they are liberals who went for Reagan (or would go) and would reject Obama who like Carter is an utter failure. The question is whether they will see that in time or not. Many of them voted for Obama.
If Obama wins then many people in the defense will be layed off due to sequestration. By law defense companies have to give notice by October 31st. Obama wants the companies to break the law.
Here is a list of articles:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=defense+layoff+notices+obama&form=APMCS1
So...what do they talk about, what is the most important issue to them and what is it that Obama does to inspire them to support him? Well we know that it's abortion, and same-sex marriage, but lately, and most importantly to them... it's free contraceptives (which is actually funny since we are all in our 60's).
But, I started thinking - this whole free contraceptive topic was a brilliant play by the Democrats. It hit women at the core of their "feely meely, warm and fuzzy" emotional center because selfish, self-centered, shallow thinking women want personal attention more than anything else. So many of them can overlook any sins as long as someone is pretending to care about them. Bingo - it hit me! So...Obama is buying women's votes for the price of $9.00/month - the cost of a box of contraceptives.
These women cannot see that at the same time Obama has INCREASED every other expenditure they have for their household. They are hung up on that idea of Free birth control...believing Obama "understands and appreciates" their needs (and cravings). It is infuriating.
However...if we can not convince women to face the reality of this manipulative ploy, we must find a way to play the same game and win these women over. There must be something the GOP can offer women. Some symbolic item that would save them that costly $9.00 per month and that is every bit as important to them as a box of free condoms.
How about a lifetime supply of chocolates, with a heart-shaped box of sweets sent once a month? The GOP can play St. Valentine to women by making them feel secure and appreciated; satisfying their cravings; giving them something that they associate with love; and appealing to their need to be romanced. That's what the focus of this condom issue is - giving women a false sense of being cared for and about by the Democrat politicians who are all too willing to play them for fools.
Obama reminds me of the sneaky, cheating husband who comes home late with chocolates (or flowers) to try to woo his wife, keep her in line, alleviate her suspicions, manipulate her into passivity, and cover his own guilt. And the women under his spell fall for it every time.
So, Republicans should just buy them off, play the Democrats' game and fool them into believing that their lives will improve if they never have to buy their own chocolates again! They will save so much. It will improve their emotional health. And it will surely show that the GOP cares about their personal lives. Because right now they are so easily being bought off by this absurd promise to save them $9.00 per month! And, I bet any day most women would rather have a box of chocolates than condoms for sex! LOL
“... Pennsylvania Obama won in 08 that I think will go Romney/Ryan.” The Catholic factor alone will swing Pennsylvania which is 53% Catholic. On the demographics alone Romney wins.
i live in Fairfax near the Vienna metro and work in DC and i have been amazed at the LACK of obama signage and how many Romney signs i see at houses that have never displayed any sort of signs before. Even the three houses in my actual neighborhood where i KNOW libs live from past years, i see no obama signs, and i have been pleasantly surprised at how much i see for Romney. I’d never go so so far as to predict a win, bc i do think it will be tight, but my personal observations bear out the polls edging towards Romney. Also, my 18 yo daughter is interning with the Fairfax Co republicans and has been calling and door knocking all summer and she has gotten positive feedback from unlikely places.
My daughter interns in the Fairfax City HQ, she took over a Romney yard sign to our next door neighbor on Friday. He was happy to have it and requested that she get him a Perkins sign as well.
That’s promising and give my thanks to your daughter for her help. I don’t see much signage for either candidate yet, but I see lots of Obama bumper stickers and not many for Romney. Perhaps your neighbors want to do the right thing and finally realize Obama had not lived up to his media billing.
On Saturday i drove on Prosperity Ave from Route 50 to Route 236 and was surprised at the Romney signage i saw, some even HOMEMADE! there was a lone obama sign. i DESPISE gerry connolly. i honestly thought that Fimian had him beat, and i think even Connolly thought so, as he was chastened for maybe 5 minutes or so by the near loss before he went back to being arrogant.
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