Posted on 09/16/2012 8:15:35 AM PDT by teg_76
While i do believe that most polls are over sampling democrats, i think it's clear Romney would lose if the election were held today...Rasmussen has him up only one but the swing state picture is much worse when you look at the individual states...especially Ohio. We are kiddig ourselves if we think were going to match the 2010 turnout model with Obama at the top of the ticket. It will probably be somewhere between 2008 and 2010.
The only time Romney made progress in the polls was when he added Ryan to the ticket. THats the one of the few times he has sowed any guts in this campaign.....
Mitt, unshackle Ryan and start attaking Obama hard, because if you continue this McCain style campaign you are headed for the same result.
he addedRyan to the ticke.
ok, thanks.
Your concern troll has been noted.
There needs to be a three prong attack! Attack the Obama, his policies and the leftist media. In other words, stick a fork in them!
Think about this, McCain picks Palin and loses (no fault of Palin) and Romney picks Ryan, and is literally snatching defeat from the jaws of victory,by doing absolutely nothing to win?
The sign I am looking for, and hoping for, is that one of the "surprises" R2 makes, is to get Palin and the TP fired up to act? If Palin endorses late in the game, it would solidify millions of voters to act/move.
Waiting and wondering...
Thoughts?
Romney needs to lose the yes men and listen to the conservatives who don’t like him. He’ll be a better candidate if he does. This race shouldn’t be close.
Conservatism works when tried.
Keep kidding yourself....were u the same poster on fr that said obamacare would go down on a 9-0 decision? Wake up! Having blinders on isnt helpful...i bet everybody u know is voting for Romney..with that scientific piece of evidence he must be a lock...
Mitt has to take the gloves off (like he did to his Republican opponents). I don’t think this will cost him any votes from independents. They already know the country’s in deep trouble and would probably welcome some aggressive tactics and bold moves.
Mindlessly believe massively biases media polls, ignore the serious polls, get threads like this one.
Does anyone REALLY believe a north eastern liberal like Romney will do anything as President but delay the inevitable ?
They ALL know their socialist experiment will collapse the economy.
Obama/Soetoro lusts to make it happen ASAP
Romney can do nothing to stop it, only delay it by tweaking socialist “free” programs not devolving them all to the States as the Constitution requires.
So, pick your poison.
The first debate will show how he has decided to drive for the prize. If he doesn’t leverage all the ammo that has been handed to him during the first debate we can give him more advice. He seems to be setting the stage with some pre-debate comments 9Obama tends to say things that aren’t true, etc.) and he might surprise a bunch of us. I also can’t wait to see Ryan face off with Biden - “Joe, let’s call this thing off; I feel a bit guilty engaging in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent...”
Ryan is merely a GOP-E bromide for the tea party to ensure their vote. All the usual suspects of liberal-moderate republicans are whispering in Mitt’s willing ear to reach out to (disaffected) liberals. They are his people.
Having said all that, he is getting my anti-obama vote with little or no expectation of dramatic results.
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I do think the economy would improve significantly under Mitt. But agree with you about not expectating much else in the way of dramatic results.
At this point, however, we are in a sinking ship about to capsize and we’ll all drown if we don’t at least stop the leaks, replace the “captain”, and right the ship. If we can accomplish that we have a chance to make it into port for another voyage.
Say... has anyone seen both Romney and McCain together at the same time any place live? Hmmm... more than coincidence?
See post 7...and by the way..Rass has us losing in VA and OH...do some math...
Why must everyone who doesn’t view things the way you do be a troll... this is a legit concern, if Romney can’t put this thing over the top we are f’ed, and it does appear that the fight is not in his belly, likely for fear and probably lack of conviction. On the other hand, Paul Ryan is a totally different story, he’s got wit, charm and cuts to the quick on issues of eminent concern, so much so that it leaves Obama with indignant-indigestion.
No. But thanks for asking all the same!
And I’m sure you must, because you sit around all day watching CNN and CBS, think that everyone love Obama, hates Romney, and cant wait to give him 4 more years.
Then you show up here emoting all over the site in some blind panic looking for similar people sitting on their butts all day watching MSM programming to cry with.
Last time I remember that moronic display was during the Wisconsin recall.
“A native of Jackson, Mississippi, Stewart Stevens is a veteran of American political campaigns at the highest levels. In addition to his work for Gov. Romney, he has also worked in the presidential campaigns of Bob Dole, George W. Bush, and John McCain.”
Stewart Stevens managed the losing campaigns of McLame and Dole so now Romney expects to win?
http://pcfna.org/pembrokian/?p=155
Obama has run a personally negative campaign on Romney coloring him as a tax evader with offshore accounts, greedy, and uncaring about people. Basically Obama has no record to run on and the surprising thing is he has temporarily with the help of the MSM changed this from a referendum on a dismally performing incumbent to a choice between two personalities.Romney needs to go negative by saturating the airwaves that the economy is abysmal and at the fail point because of one person - Obama and here are the reasons why he has brought it to the fail point. He needs to stay with that message so Obama cannot foist this thing back to Bush. Eventually it will sink in.
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