Yep. I am just dumbfounded. If you told me after the 2010 election that Obama would be up by 2-3 points with less than 60 days to go - with the economy in even worse condition (higher gas prices, still over 8% UE, $16 trillion debt) I’d have laughed at you.
The Tea Party won on ideology - framing Obama as a radical leftist. The GOPe and Romney are running on incompetence, i.e. “He’s a nice guy in over his head.”
But here we are... Not saying Romney will lose, but he basically has to string together a royal flush now to win it (essentially take every swing state up for grabs). It’s way riskier than it ever needed to be.
Romney let himself get badly defined all summer (with he excuse that he would carpet bomb in the fall). Well the ads that went out yesterday are weak sauce. Very generic. Not hard hitting whatsoever.
If you look at my history I’ve always predicted Romney would take it in a landslide. Not anymore.
The Democrats have had their high mark, it is all downhill from here.
“Romney let himself get badly defined all summer (with he excuse that he would carpet bomb in the fall). Well the ads that went out yesterday are weak sauce. Very generic. Not hard hitting whatsoever.”
He couldn’t spend money until after the Rep convention.
Romney knows what he is doing. He will get this done - he has spent his whole life getting things done, not chooming and community agitating. You can fret all you want about a modest and normal convention bounce for Obama. Obama had a one sided platform all week and still can’t poll beyond 46 -47 percent that’s weak