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State of the race: Advantage, Obama (Politico propaganda piece)
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Posted on 09/08/2012 6:20:33 PM PDT by Perdogg

President Barack Obama heads out of the national political conventions with a much clearer path to winning, top advisers to Mitt Romney privately concede.

The Romney campaign, while pleasantly surprised by Obama’s lackluster prime-time performance, said the post-convention bounce they hoped for fell well short of expectations and privately lament that state-by-state polling numbers — most glaringly in Ohio — are working in the president’s favor.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012polls
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1 posted on 09/08/2012 6:20:36 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: LS; AuH2ORepublican; randita; Impy; GOPJ; TheBigB; DarthVader; Norman Bates

ping


2 posted on 09/08/2012 6:22:32 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

I read this (link from Drudge). I’m stunned. But it’s very believable.

I cannot fathom that these guys went this risky and now are stuck with a hope and prayer. God help us. I have never been more down today. I need to give it a rest and watch some football.


3 posted on 09/08/2012 6:23:58 PM PDT by nhwingut (Sarah Palin 12... No One Else)
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To: Perdogg

Why would the Romney campaign be giving inside information to Politico?


4 posted on 09/08/2012 6:24:56 PM PDT by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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To: nhwingut

Me too its very depressing. If people want Communism I dont know what can be said. I never thought in my lifetime instead of a Capitalist society we would end up living in a Communist one


5 posted on 09/08/2012 6:25:51 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Perdogg

It’s tough to run against a nanny state in a nation full of foreigners and illegal aliens. America has become the Great Pinata. Bash away and the goodies fall out.


6 posted on 09/08/2012 6:26:01 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The DNC convention is proof that Americans still love a good freak show.)
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To: Perdogg

I’m inclined to believe it, unfortunately. I also believe Romney can pull it out.


7 posted on 09/08/2012 6:26:25 PM PDT by TonyInOhio (Obama, a ship sailing on yesterday's wind)
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To: Perdogg

I don’t believe it. If Romney aids are pleased with the lackluster Obama speech, they would not be concerned about state polls right now. They have not even began to campaign aggressively. . They chose specifically to play nice in the convention just a week ago. They didn’t even try to go after Obama nor begin laying out the specific agenda. If they were concerned about polls, they would not have chosen the strategy they did. They were doing what they did for the long view....to counter he democratic narratives and present a better view of Mitt. It was building a base for the next two months. A losing campaign would have gone a whole different direction.


8 posted on 09/08/2012 6:27:02 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: KansasGirl

Sabotage... or disinformation.


9 posted on 09/08/2012 6:27:38 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: ilgipper; TonyInOhio; LS

If this were true why was Biden in Ohio today?


10 posted on 09/08/2012 6:28:47 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: ilgipper

I agree. The risky part in my post (was getting defined all summer and then waiting too long to reply). The only thing I can think of is they didn’t get the bounce they were hoping for from Ryan/convention and are now stuck playing catch up from much further behind than anticipated. Unreal.


11 posted on 09/08/2012 6:31:32 PM PDT by nhwingut (Sarah Palin 12... No One Else)
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To: Perdogg

“privately lament that state-by-state polling numbers — most glaringly in Ohio — are working in the president’s favor.”


that’s funny because according to RCP the Ohio numbers are trending towards Romney is recent polling:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/oh/ohio_romney_vs_obama-1860.html

and the Quinn/See BS poll from 8/1 oversampled rats by 8%:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/103619714/Quinn-FL-OH-WI-8-23?secret_password=hemgtlli0hz43auizbq


12 posted on 09/08/2012 6:31:45 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: ilgipper

Also notice that they are focusing on VA, WI, OH, IA, NV. These are two must win swing saws and some ‘nice to wins’ Obama is back to IA for the third time in a three week period, NH, and FL. He’s trying to sew up his core states that he should have in the bag . FL is not on Romney’s radar this week,,,Obama is making an effort to save it as he is down. Obama is working from behind.


13 posted on 09/08/2012 6:32:34 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: Perdogg

I think it’s wrong to say that people are choosing a Communist system. What they’re choosing is freebies—lots of them—and a “live for today” mindset that is reflected in both the fiscal policies and the social policies of the Democratic party. Notice what the Dems highlighted at their convention? They LOVE abortion and gay sex, and they hate God. That pretty much sums up where we are as a country.


14 posted on 09/08/2012 6:32:41 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: Perdogg

Why is Drudge pushing this story?


15 posted on 09/08/2012 6:33:36 PM PDT by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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To: TonyInOhio

Doesn’t comport at all with Ras’s swing state poll, or ANY demographic within any of the polls, but, it must be true cause this is Politico. It never lies.


16 posted on 09/08/2012 6:34:09 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
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To: Perdogg
If this were true why was Biden in Ohio today?

I don't believe the bit in the article about Ohio, though, obviously, I'm no expert. My own guess is that if Romney were that far back, he'd be living here, or Paul Ryan would be. The last several statewide polls have shown things pretty much tied, and that seems about right.

The race sure looks like a tie at this point, but Romney has to overcome the incumbency and racial advantages that Obama enjoys.

17 posted on 09/08/2012 6:34:19 PM PDT by TonyInOhio (Obama, a ship sailing on yesterday's wind)
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To: Perdogg

Well, if Mitt’s “top advisors” have already conceded, I guess I don’t need to send any money to his campaign. I’m glad they told me this. I’ll send it to somebody else.


18 posted on 09/08/2012 6:35:16 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The DNC convention is proof that Americans still love a good freak show.)
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To: Perdogg

Maybe they needed some laughs today in Ohio...


19 posted on 09/08/2012 6:35:20 PM PDT by 103198
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To: Perdogg

We got a couple of October Surprises to go through, so things ain’t settled yet.


20 posted on 09/08/2012 6:35:49 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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