Oh well. It is what it is...
The pain you feel today is the strength you'll have tomorrow.
Posted on 10/11/2012 8:36:56 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Rattled, dismayed, and shaken, President Obama's national campaign is divided into two camps: impassive warhorses and anxiety-ridden newbies.
The battle-scarred operatives have been doing nonstop psychic triage since the first presidential debate, calming nerves and reassuring the shaken that campaigns have their ups and downs.
"This is the first time in this entire campaign some of the new people have seen a bad run," said a senior Obama strategist. "The veterans are telling them they need to ride it out."
That became a bit easier around noon on Wednesday when the first patch of internal polls came back from key swing states. They revealed that Obama was not in free fall, as some feared, but that his support has returned to where it was in July and August.
"Voters haven't switched from us to him," the strategist said, referring to GOP nominee Mitt Romney. "But they are giving him a second look. They are thinking about him again. The question is, can he [Romney] close the deal."
That was supposed to be Obama's task at the first debate, one he clearly fumbled. Internal Obama swing-state polling now confirms this harsh reality: The president's lackluster performance cost him all of the advantages he built up through the Democratic National Convention and via Romney's now-infamous dismissal of the "47 percent" of the country that he said in a closed-door fundraiser would never vote for him.
In other words, in 90 minutes, Obama flushed a month's worth of convention and 47-percent bounce.
"We were in the lead, but that's all washed away," the president's strategist said. "Now it's up to us to make the case again against him. Most undecideds are making a choice about him, not the president."
...."Everybody's fully engaged now," [Ohio state chairman of Obama's statewide campaign Eric] Kearney said.......
(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...
I wonder if the audience for the 2nd presidential debate will be even LARGER than the first.
The WH-State Dept-Lybia coverup is making news and negatively effecting the adminstration’s campaign [possibly Dems all down the ticket].
The fact that they have to defend in so many swing states is draining their war chest.
If you thought the Spanish Inquisition was bad, just wait until you see what the Ohio Inquisition will do to heretics like you. Get back on your knees and worship us! :-)
Major Garrett is a Major A**HOLE!
We ALL need to PRAY for Ryan tonite!! PRAY HARD!!
Yeah, I love the fact that these internals are leaked now.
I think they are clearly nonsense. The GOP hasn’t released internals really either way.
Yeah, this is the spin the Obamugabe campaign is feeding the National Journal. And the National Journal is publishing it....
Does ANYONE think Obamugabe is going to let a scribbler for NJ really see the internal poll results? Gimme a break.
FYI Camile Paglia just announced she is voting for the Green Party rather than Obama.
Perhaps we should be trolling that information among Obama supporters.
Try this one (and the linked article): http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2943301/posts
I have read that 0bama spoke to a very large crowd at OSU yesterday and that his speech was rambling and incoherent. Anybody catch any of it?
Symptoms, as you are obviously aware, of drug abuse of some kind.
I have no proof, only speculation, but there is a very long list of behaviors which can be explained by drug abuse and we have the history as well.
I suppose it will only be history as written in the future which tells the tale.
Oh well. It is what it is...
The pain you feel today is the strength you'll have tomorrow.
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