Rove: Battleground State Polls Will Move Toward Romney

Newsmax ^ | 28 Oct 2012 | Stephen Feller

[Snuph]

Mitt Romney’s lead in national polls — which he’s enjoyed since the first presidential debate — soon should be seen in individual battleground-state polls, strong evidence that Romney will win the Nov. 6 election, Republican strategist Karl Rove said on “Fox News Sunday.”

And because the state polls reflect the national mood, Romney may begin to see states such as Minnesota, Michigan, and Pennsylvania come into play for his electoral vote count, Rove said.

“If the margin is as big nationally as it appears in these national polls, then you will have the state polls follow,” he said. “Now we may have something else at play here, though, which is, we're endowing all of these polls with the precision they don't have... These states have been states that have moved from Obama to lean Obama. If there is a national trend, as it appears to be since the first debate, moving in Romney's direction there might be [changing].”

[ez]

This cake is baked. State polls lag 1-2 weeks behind national polls. The trend is our friend.

[gswilder]

Hope Sandy doesn’t unbake this thing. We are in uncharted territory.

[Henry Hnyellar]

What else would Rove say?

[ez]

“Someone left the cake out in the rain?” LOL.

[Jet Jaguar]

Poll ping.

[bigbob]

and we’ll never have the recipe again....

I’m really hoping the Romney surge has coat-tails that help some of our Republican Senate candidates. The next sweetest thing to showing the Obama trash the door would be to make Harry Reid the minority leader.

[Steely Tom]

Hope Sandy doesn’t unbake this thing. We are in uncharted territory.

You mean Obama's going to take credit for the hurricane breaking up as soon as it hit land?

Is he going to give out $2K EBT cards to the entire population of NY, NJ, CT, and PA? That'll get everyone real excited.

[garjog]

Obama's cake is baked.

[keyesguy]

I have an issue or two with Rove, however he does know this stuff. I remember 2004 very well when all exit polls showed Kerry winning, he was confident that when the votes were counted he had his conservatives to the polls in Ohio - and he was right.

[Mygirlsmom]

One of my co workers thought Rove had an "if I could only tell you everything I know" kind of confidence when he spoke.

Kind of like Rush today.

[tflabo]

Rove: A solid leans magnificent tasbard.

[newfreep]

Don’t forget at his core he’s still TOKYO ROVE

[cruise_missile]

This is all negated if Obama moves the election or declares martial law because of the hurricane.

[scooby321]

He would lose bigger if he tried

[The Fop]

And it that comes to pass, we can bash Pelosi’s head with that giant gavel.

[Optimus Prime]

What happened on Rush today?

[okie01]

This is all negated if Obama moves the election or declares martial law because of the hurricane.

This issue seems to come up toward the end of every president's campaign.

FreeRepublic was awash with rumors like this in 1999 and 2000.

DummyUnderground was awash with rumors like this in 2007 and 2008. <

Hint: it hasn't happened yet.

[mlo]

"This is all negated if Obama moves the election or declares martial law because of the hurricane."

He has no power to do either. Don't be paranoid.

[centexan]

at least the poster said martial and not marshal. I remember all those internet rumors the last three elections.