Posted on 10/19/2012 12:20:42 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
These are words I never thought I’d have to write: William F Buckley Jnr,I’m sorry.
Actually,my apology isn’t really directed towards that titan of modern conservatism;he’s galloping proudly across the eternal range with the Gipper. It’s more a mea culpa to my good friends at National Review,who have kept Buckley’s flame flourishing during the long days and dark nights of the Obama administration.
Yesterday,I let them down. In this piece admiring the strange beauty of the US electoral college,I wavered. Or at least,I gave columnist John O’Sullivan the impression that I had finally allowed the cold needle of doubt to pierce my soul. “[Hodges] seems to concede implicitly that Romney might have a chance,albeit a slim one,of passing the post first”,he wrote, with the same panache he used to pen speeches for Margaret Thatcher. “I was saddened to read this. I pray he’s not losing his brio. So I make this appeal: Don’t do it,Dan. Don’t join the massed ranks of desiccated calculating machines,of green-eye-shaded statisticians with liquid nitrogen in our veins. Keep swashing your buckle. Stay Cavalier!”
John, rest easy. The laddie is not for turning.Obama has this.
Not that you’d know it from the latest wave of panic that has swept through liberal ranks. First we had the debate meltdown. Now we have the Gallup meltdown. At this rate when Obama is declared the winner a fortnight next Tuesday,half the blogosphere will still be fretting: “He’s going to trip and bang his head on the lectern before he delivers his victory speech,and Joe Biden will collapse in shock,and Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter will mount a coup and Romney will become president!”. Apparently Gallup’s private polling has the chances of this scenario occurring at a healthy 67 per cent.
So what is the basis for my arrogant,long-range,Leftie, pinko,assumption of victory?....
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
lol.
Gallup might be an outlier but all the other polls have it close to tied with Dems oversampled
He must have some other inside information. The RCP averages include some really weak polls that oversample Dems by a TON.
All he ended up doing is validating Romney's 47% comment.
The guy looks like a Union Thug.
"Dan Hodges is a Blairite cuckoo in the Miliband nest. He has worked for the Labour Party, the GMB trade union and managed numerous independent political campaigns. He writes about Labour with tribal loyalty and without reservation."
IOW, just another überlib.
I love these UK leftists who somehow think they’re experts on US elections.
When our home-grown leftists are as clueless as they are, how much less should we expect from this guy?
He looks like the inbred mutant that played the bango from Deliverance.
If Obama takes Ohio, Tuesday may turn out to have been the turning point.But not because of the debate. An even bigger development Tuesday was the Supreme Court's decision not to review a lower court's ruling that early voting in Ohio on the weekend before the election must be allowed for everyone, not just members of the military. That gives the Obama campaign a few extra days to take advantage of its superior get-out-the-vote organization.By some estimates, up to one-third of Ohioans will vote before Election Day. The higher the percentage of early voters, the better Romney has to do on Nov. 6 to overcome the cushion Obama will build up among early voters. There's no conspiracy here. Obama's team decided early in the campaign to devote a lot of time, effort and money to early voting operations in key states, and it's paying off in Ohio, where Democrats are voting early in much larger numbers than Republicans
He looks like the inbred mutant that played the bango from Deliverance.
I know it’s shallow but this man is so terribly, terribly ugly. Inside and out. He is can’t-help-but-stare ugly.
Bump!
He looks like the poster boy for a soccer hooligan, and also like someone who still believes he’s living in post-World War I England and the poor dockworkers are still striking against the evil aristocracy and capitalists.
Looks like he was beaten by a union thug. :-)
Ohio has been the key all along. Various polls may be dim-oversampled, yet they are reporting that Romney has taken the lead in VA, FL, and NC. Also it is unlikely that a pollster like Ras would be in the tank for 0bama in OH, but nowhere else. Until there is a trend for Romney in OH, 0bama is the favorite.
And a broken clock is right once a day. Obama has not come in ANY poll in the last few days over 50% while Romney has broken it.
You have to be a delusional Lefty to deny reality. They’re good at it and this article from Dan Hodges is proof it. The late William F. Buckley surely wouldn’t disagree.
They’d like to see Obama get re-elected and you can see here how far desperation goes! Its not a pretty sight.
The Gaydar is on red alert defcon 5.
I don't really see ANY scenario in which Romney carries MO by double digits and goes on to lose OH. Not on this site of The Twilight Zone.
Dan Hodge's fantasy notwithstanding. The trend is our friend.
Bonzo blasts his bango at Madison Square Garden.
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