Democrat States Moving to Romney (NH, WI, MN and MI)

Newsmax ^ | August 6, 2012 | Ronald Kessler

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States that traditionally have been considered Democrat strongholds are now moving toward Mitt Romney, Bay Buchanan, a senior adviser to Romney, tells Newsmax.

“When we came into this general election, it was assumed that the battleground states would be the same ones that they were in the past,” says Buchanan, who was treasurer of the U.S. under President Reagan. “Well what’s happened is a lot of the Democratic states are now looking like Mitt Romney could win them. They are now swing states.”

That means that Democrats have to focus on an additional five states: New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, Buchanan says. As it is, Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee have about $25 million more cash on hand than the Democrats.

Based on polls the campaign considers reliable, “Romney is running very, very strong in some traditionally swing states,” Buchanan says. “We feel very good about Indiana now. I don’t think it’s even a swing state. In North Carolina, the numbers show us up as high as five or six percentage points. Florida looks very, very good. It is still within the margin of error, but it’s certainly very strong for us.”

While Virginia looks tougher, “We’re in play,” Buchanan says. “That’s clearly going to go down to the wire. But we’re looking strong in Wisconsin. We got some two dozen offices in Wisconsin. We’re all over the state running very strong grass roots. It’s going to be up on TV, and so we’re going to force the Democrats to use some of their money if they want to hold on to Wisconsin...

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“Every pair of the body politic parts in Minnesota is blue...there are two many people that like that socialism stuff...Much better to get for free what others work for.

Minnesota...the land of the white out weather, and the white hearts and empty heads. Stupid, but honest...”

Hey~ MN political maps following the last several Pres. elections show the same pattern of city vs rural as in other places.

It is true that we have a history of losts of outright socialism in the 1930’s which is still lingering in the populace in NE MN, but is beginning to crack up with the Democrats stubborn resistance to all mining interests. The laborers are restless - witness the defeat of James Oberstar in 2010 by Chip Cravaak.

My concern is that the GOP continues to ignore our state and therefore it is hard to overcome the liberal biases of the Twin Cities and Duluth metro areas as well as all the dimwits on our university campuses. Does MN have a higher percentage of universities than average? College professors are hopeless unless they are in the sciences or business/econ subjects.

Central MN GOP is poised to capture every single elective office in the MN House and Senate in Nov. 2012.