Posted on 11/05/2012 1:00:46 PM PST by Anti-Hillary
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) predicted Monday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney would carry the state of Pennsylvania, pushing back against Obama campaign adviser David Plouffe's suggestion that GOP efforts in the state were a "desperate ploy" to find an alternative path to 270 electoral votes.
But Toomey noted that in 2010, Republicans swept statewide offices in Pennsylvania, and he predicted a similar electorate for Tuesday's presidential vote.
"If you take a look at what happened the last time Pennsylvanians went to the polls, which is 2010, Republicans swept," Toomey told CNN on "Starting Point." "I won a statewide office. We elected a Republican governor. The U.S. congressional delegation and the state House assembly. So the fact is Republicans control the government at all levels by big numbers, and I think that this election is going to be much more like 2010 than 2008. I think Gov. Romney's going to carry Pennsylvania."
President Obama has consistently led in polling of the state, although recent surveys show the race has been tightening. Both Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), campaigned in the state over the weekend, but a poll released Sunday by Muhlenberg College gave the president a 3-point advantage there.
Still, Toomey said he believed independents and undecideds would break hard for Romney in the hours before Election Day.
"One of the standard, time-honored rules in politics, which I happen to think is generally true, is that the undecided voters late in a race break for the challenger," Toomey said. "The person they know very well is the incumbent. Everybody knows who President Obama is. Everybody has an opinion of President Obama. If they're not with him now, they're not going to be with him tomorrow."
The Pennsylvania lawmaker added that Republicans in the state had "the enthusiasm and the momentum and energy."
"I've got to tell you the intensity and energy is absolutely electric," Toomey said. "That rally last night, almost 40,000 people ... that was just terrific. That's the way it's been across the commonwealth."
Can’t sleep. Can’t eat. Too excited and there will be tons at work.
Probably won’tget rest until Friday.
Spent the day with a friend from Ohio. He claims Ohio is going Romney but he is in a rural area.
good point
Catholic voters, that is the big unknown.
You were special. I wrote to him a couple of times (always very respectfully) and never once got a reply. Zero!
The same letters were always cc'd to my congresscritter and to our other US Senator, and I always got at least the decency of a reply from their offices even if the reply was not to my liking. But I appreciated at least being acknowledged by them.
It seems that snarlin arlin and his office staff thought he was some kind of Royal who had no reason to deal or communicate with us commoners unless it was campaign season.
My daughter called me tonight to inform me she is going to serve as a Republican poll watcher in PA tomorrow. She was on her way to the local RNC HQ to pick up her credentials. Good for her!
The other daughter... I went to her house today to fix a leaking toilet. She called to thank me and I told her no thanks needed other than getting her butt to the polls tomorrow or she loses her free handyman. ;~))
That was a hoax. Reagan lost Democrat counties by as large a margin as Ford — or larger. The reason he won PA is that he won counties that Ford won by even larger margins.
The collar counties (Bucks-Montgomery-Delaware) were a lot more Republican back then.
Good for your daughters! Wow! A Republican poll watcher! :-)) She’s not just talking; she’s DOING!
I was in Morrisville. It was electric!
The preponderance of Benghazi evidence conclusively shows that Obama is a Coward. As a Coward, Obama is unfit to be the Commander in Chief of the US Military.
Obama’s strategic retreat to Las Vegas, Nevada the day after he authorized that 4 Americans were to be left behind to be murdered, has brought indelible shame to his office, and the Democrat Party.
As parents, who among us wants to send our sons and daughters to a US Military that has a Commander In Chief who is a Coward?
May the heros of Benghazi be proud of how we vote today.
They gave their lives for us, now we need to give our votes for them.
Vote as if the lives of our Military Men and Women depended on it.
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