Posted on 09/09/2012 6:17:22 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote
1500 LV - not good.
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For not being 10 points ahead after the other party had their convention?
When the numbers settle back to where they were, the angry people will go back to being happy.
Reagan was down by 4 Points in September
I see “Rasmussen,” and I just can’t believe it anymore.
“Reagan was down by 4 Points in September”
That’s because Reagan was a squishy tool of the GOP-E, and ran lousy commercials during a terrible economy where he should have been doing BLAH BLAH BLAH.
That is what you would have read on Freerepublic.com in 1980.
Too many people don’t feel the full results of this economy.
The media still wields the largest stick. They bashed the RNC and it was a lovefest, rockstar, party of fun at the DNC. War needs to begin with the media.
The secret for D party success...
I thought that the voters would want a regime change due to the awful economy and lack of jobs (and worse trend indicators). However, it appears that the worse things get, the more the public wants Democrats in charge???
If this is correct, then the secret for D party success is obvious, just keep making things worse and worse and worse and worse...(while singing songs like “we are trying to help you” and “we care about you” and, of course, “all your suffering is the fault of others, not us and not you.. but rather...those weird bogeymen lurking behind the “Bush” or under the bed,...”)
Or...????
Obama's convention bounce should fade next week. Then we have a weekend, and weekend polls are biased against Republicans, conservatives and libertarians. So look to the polls towards the end of the third week in September to get an idea of how this is going. IMO, Romney is in at least as good shape as Reagan was at this point in 1980.
Hmm. You watch. All of a sudden Rasmussen will become newsworthy. Despite the media never mentioning his polls all summer. You will see all the Sunday shows with a Rasmussen graphic.
Romney is not reason and this country is vastly different than 1980
“Reagan couldn't survive in today's GOP” was a mendacious premise put forth by the Left and echoed by RINO pols and pundits...pols and pundits Free Republic curse and scorn on a daily basis.
Perhaps you should reconsider your assumption.
I don’t think that is it, look how food prices have gone up. and everything else. I don’t know what it is.
Only I can think of is it part of a bigger plan. End days, why else would Obamaloney not be losing with his attacks on Israel (Jews), birth control (Catholics) and anti christianity attitude.
People can’t be that excited about getting $200 food stamps what kind of life is that?
Weekend effect.
I believe this happened the past two weekends; wait for Monday or Tuesday for a reversal.
Only worry about the battleground states. Rasmussen premium site has Romney up or tied that last few snapshots.
Rasmussen’s national poll does have Obama ahead right now (within Margin of Error), but this shows the effect of the POPULAR VOTE, not the ELECTORAL COLLEGE vote. Obama’s huge majority in California, New York, and Illinois is affecting this Rasmussen poll. DON’T BE SURPRISED if Obama wins the popular vote—and the Dems will be screaming later for a Presidential Popular Vote; however, there will never be 38 states to ratify such an Amendment.
Rasmussen’s generally accurate, though — it’s gonna be a nail-biter, I have it 272 EV for Romney.
Have you ever heard a Freeper condemning Ronald Reagan? All I hear is what a great Hero he was.
Turn around. See that? It’s called “Hindsight”.
Just because this is a conservative website does not mean everyone here operates on some higher level of emotional maturity than the average DU dupe.
The most certainly WOULD have been trotting out the same overly-dramatic claptrap if this site was around back during the 1980 election.
If you look at history the GOP gets only one chance exactly every 32 years to defeat a Democrat incumbent. 1916, 1948, 1980 and 2012. for some reason democrat incumbents are very difficult to defeat.
To the purist conservatives here who think if Romney loses we will get a “true conservative” in 2016, I have a prediction. The GOP candidate in 2016 will be to the left of 2012 Romney even if it’s Palin or Rubio. Why? The political center of American politics will shift left in the next four years:
Obamacare will be part of the American fabric just like Medicare was in 1968 or social security in 1940. The GOP won’t be able to repeal it or run against it. In fact the Dems in 2016 will be the ones running on repealing obamacare and replacing it with single payer. The right wing position will be obamacare
Amnesty will bring in 10-12 million new democrat voters. This will ensure identity politics is set in concrete in American elections.
The SCOTUS will hand down a Roe type ruling on gay marriage. The GOP will remove their plank on marriage in their platform and be silent on gay marriage issues.
Even a Palin or Scott Walker 2016 candidacy will be to the left of Romney 2012 or Gore 2000 for that matter.
This election is it. If we lose, we lose the country. There will be no going back no repeals, no constitutional amendents to fix the damage.
There are inflection points from which winning candidates leap ahead for good. In 2004 it was the swift boat veterans who did in Kerry in August 2004. In 2008 it was Lehman collapse for obama In 1992, it was Clinton’s successful DNC. The question is was the most leftwing in your face liberal DNC convention an inflection point? If it was, it says something horrible about America and Americans.
The undecideds are mostly unhappy Obama voters from 2008. Romney right now is polling about what McCain got. It looks like Romney didn’t convince the unhappy Obama 2008 voters and that Obama did indeed win a back about half of them with his convention. There is an outside chance Obama could again win 53%, if so the Dems will win the House as well, but more likely the election will be closer than 2008.
Dems are mysteriously worried, and consistently so:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2928532/posts
Just last week Carville was concerned that there wouldn't be the turnout. I teach college kids. It is NOTHING like it was in 08. I see no buttons, pins, stickers for Zero. Nothing. Will a few vote for him? Probably, just as some voted for Kerry.
Especially after the hissy fit Axelrod threw. I don’t buy this poll as being accurate for one second!
Really guys what kind of campaign did you think Romney was going to run?
Did you think righteous indignation?
Hitting obama where it hurt?
Did you really expect him to be a tough guy?
Romney is milk toast unless he is running against a conservative.
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