Posted on 09/10/2012 12:52:53 PM PDT by madprof98
With unemployment still over 8 percent, household income continuing to fall and trillion-dollar deficits stretching out as far as the eye can see, the 2012 presidential race shouldn’t even be close. In fact, economic-based political models suggest that Mitt Romney ought to be strolling to an easy victory.
And yet Romney is losing. When your campaign pollster is forced to release an “OK, Nobody Panic!” memo, as Neil Newhouse did today, it’s never a good sign.
The same is true of the race to control the U.S. Senate. Of the 33 seats being contested this year, only 10 are held by the Republicans. That means that going into this election cycle, the GOP had 23 chances to pick up the four additional seats they need to claim a Senate majority. Given the public’s deep disenchantment with Congress and the willingness of wealthy conservatives to pump big money into those races, the GOP had every reason to be confident that Mitch McConnell would replace Harry Reid as Senate majority leader come January.
And yet that dream may also be slipping away.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.ajc.com ...
The percentage of Americans receiving a monthly check from the Government is rapidly approaching 50%.
Same thing Reagan/Carter. Don’t listen to the liberal media.
As the saying goes “the only poll that counts is the one on Election Day”, there is a story out there via Dick Morris about how David Axelrod has been pushing and intimidating Gallup after one of their polls didn’t look so good for 0bama, in fact the inJustice Department is pursuing legal action against Gallup based on the accusations of a ‘whistleblower’ who coincidentally worked on the 0bamunist campaign in ‘08.
Nearly Half Of Americans Live In Households With Government Aid
Families were more dependent on government programs than ever last year.
Nearly half, 48.5 percent, of the population lived in a household that received some type of government benefit in the first quarter of 2010, according to Census data. Those numbers have risen since the middle of the recession when 44.4 percent lived households receiving benefits in the third quarter of 2008.
The share of people relying on government benefits has reached a historic high, in large part from the deep recession and meager recovery, but also because of the expansion of government programs over the years. (See a timeline on the history of government benefits programs here.)
Means-tested programs, designed to help the needy, accounted for the largest share of recipients last year. Some 34.2 percent of Americans lived in a household that received benefits such as food stamps, subsidized housing, cash welfare or Medicaid (the federal-state health care program for the poor).
If we can’t defend liberty with ballots..................................................................
And when they’re running “Vote As If Your Life Depended On It!” ads on the black network? That’s a sure sign of confidence.
Here’s the Democrat prayer....
“Oh Tinkerbell! Blow some magic dust up my nose!”
In other words, most voters are idiots.
There’s more stupid people in America than we could have possibly imagined.
Yeah, it would be really tragic if the millions upon millions of hollow point bullets that have been ordered by the feds ended up being used against them, I mean hey: ‘Fast & Furious’ proved it can happen, right?
Romney is only losing if you believe the polls...which by the way, are worthless.
I don’t believe this election will even be close.
Uh, ‘cause the only poll that counts is more than a month away and the peeps like to play with the pollsters?
Because his pitch and product are not demonstrably and measureably different and a real improvement over his competitor.
Rodney is just so “So Yawn”....
Shouldn’t we be asking why Obama is polling so high despite all his bad ideas?
Polls are more to shape public opinion than to uncover and report public opinion -- UNTIL faulty reporting could affect the polling companies' future.
The week or so before election day will be when the companies forget helping their favorites and concentrate on accuracy -- that's when their asses are on the line. History will remember those polls.
Figures commie Uncle Sam would use a Hi-power. Didn’t the artist know how to draw a 1911?
I think you are correct. The defeatism around here is unusually high lately.
Garbage-in, garbage-out.
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