Five reasons the presidential race is over, or at least almost over [Do NOT BELIEVE this crap]

Examiner ^ | 9/17/12 | Ryan Witt

[SoFloFreeper]

The United States presidential election is still 49 days, but there is a large amount of evidence that suggests the race for the biggest prize of the day, that being the White House of course, has already been decided. The media is still trying to sell the presidential race as a close one, because that narrative will help increase their television ratings and page views between now and November. However, at the risk of losing my own future page views, allow me to outline five reasons the race may already be over...

Reason #1 – The economy is getting slightly better, and favors Obama...

Reason #2 – The polling numbers are starting to favor Obama too much..

Reason #3 – Romney has lost his significant money advantage...

Reason #4 – Romney is running out of options...

Reason #5 - The lack of a "gamechanger"

[Breto]

Her is a key indicator to watch for. When Romney’s consultants and campaign staff starts to attack each other you know they smell a loss...

just saying

[aheckle]

Obama may have outraised Romney by 3 million in Aug but Romney has way more cash on than that from other months of fundraising

[throwback]

I just hope people start believing this. Usually whenever people think “somebody else is taking care of it”, they don't show. And Obama’s constituency is definitely the crowd that thinks somebody else is taking care of the check, so why not the vote? On the other hand, people like me will vote for Romney even if a nuclear weapon goes off, and I don't like Romney.

[WOSG]

“Reason #2 – The polling numbers are starting to favor Obama too much.. “

Ras has Romney up 2 today.
Nobody wins by 2% in popular vote and loses the election.

If September polling decides the election ... Game over.

[a fool in paradise]

"Mitt Romney is stuck in the swamp!"

[Chances Are]

This is closer to the truth than you and many people realize...

CA....

[lacrew]

Last week, I heard a ‘matter of fact’ story on QE3...and the gist was ‘your 401k will be bigger’.

Unbelievable.

[Chewbarkah]

“What planet is this person writing from?”

That would be the “Talking Points” Planet in the DNC Galaxy.

Isn’t it odd that all the left-wing outlets are running variations on this and the “Romney campaign is in disarray” memes — almost as if some sort of coordination was happening. Journolist lives.

[GeronL]

These talking points are coming straight from the White House, they probably even provide all the quotes and stuff too

[CyberAnt]

I hope people have not forgotten what we went through with the two Bush elections.

In 2000, the dems were over-sampled by 12-14%

In 2004, the dems were over-sampled by 16-18%

The dems started padding the polls about a month ago by 10%.

So, whenever anybody quotes a poll, there are 2 things to check for: What are the internals of the polls. A recent one connected with this story, only polled 4% of independents. Funny, the most current polls from Rasmussen showed that the independents are for Romney by 11%. Hmmmm .. no wonder they left out the independents.

Actually, unless the poll is with “likely voters” - IT’S NO GOOD. Secondly, right now, the polls are not that accurate - and they won’t be until after the debates.

Just remember, “likely voters” .. and “internals of polls”.

[longtermmemmory]

QE3 equals “I have to have more money, there are still blank checks in the checkbook”