Ham Sandwich but he chose not to run for President.
He has negatives so low as to be unbelievable and an astronomically high approval rating.
Posted on 10/30/2012 9:49:20 AM PDT by nhwingut
Rendell: "Startling upset’ for Romney ‘a possibility’ in Pennsylvania"
When Governor Ed Rendell made these comments last week, he was clearly sending a desperate call to Chicago for help in the Keystone State. At the time, his comments were met with derision and scorn from the Obama High Command who were feeling secure in their own predictions of a landslide victory.
What a difference a few days makes. Not only has Minnesota has been moved to “Lean Dem” and the Obama Campaign is up in that state with a significant television buy, but the Chicago gurus have heeded Governor Rendell’s plea and are buying television in Pennsylvania and sending the Vice-President in to help prop up their flagging campaign.
With one week to go, and 96% of the vote on the table on Election Day in Pennsylvania, this expansion of the electoral map demonstrates that Governor Romney’s momentum has jumped containment from the usual target states and has spread to deeper blue states that Chicago never anticipated defending.
In 2007, then candidate Obama said he would accept the Presidential public financing and its attendant limits on spending. We all know he broke that pledge and went on to raise $745 million while Senator McCain kept his word and ran under the limits of public financing.
Governor Romney’s strong fundraising efforts have enabled our campaign to compete with the Obama effort on a level playing field, helping us shape the landscape for this Presidential election.
As a campaign, we will put more resources into the target states in the final week, than previous GOP campaigns have been able to do in the final 10 weeks. The Romney campaign has the resources to expand the map in ways that weren’t possible in past cycles (without reducing any effort in any other target state). After fully funding the paid media effort, the ground operations and the voter contact programs, Governor Romney’s message of bringing real recovery continues to resonate with voters, volunteers, and donors.
Pennsylvania presents a unique opportunity for the Romney campaign. Over the past few years we have seen Pennsylvania voting for a Republican senator and a Republican governor, and Republicans win control of the State House in addition to the State Senate. The western part of the Keystone State has become more conservative (and President Obama’s war on coal is very unpopular there), and Mitt Romney is more competitive in the voter-rich Philadelphia suburbs than any Republican nominee since 1988. This makes Pennsylvania a natural next step as we expand the playing field.
While the Obama campaign would like to wish it is 2008, the reality is that they are now forced to “play defense” in least six states (Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Colorado, New Hampshire, Iowa and Wisconsin) that they once believed were “safe” Obama wins.
As the Romney-Ryan message continues to resonate and GOP momentum continues to build, we are adding Pennsylvania to the long list of states where we are expending significant resources in order to bring real recovery to the country, while continuing to implement and fund full-scale efforts in all the target states.
Without Sarah, McCain might have come close to killing the GOP
but you're wrong about Palin......we women LOVED her....still do....
she was borked....and quailed....the rats are good at that what with their compliant media....
if Romney wins, its because of a movement started by HER....
when you run your first Fortune 500 company or your first Olympics, get back to us with how smart you are okay?...
who knew that PA and Mich and MN would be “swing states”??
lol
agree...Romney was probably the best candidate as far as chance of winning....
Ham Sandwich but he chose not to run for President.
He has negatives so low as to be unbelievable and an astronomically high approval rating.
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