So why is he still more or less dead even with Romney? Answer: Romney!
Mitt Romney, the younger Dole/McLame Emulator. Somebody check his pulse!
No, the real answer is: July!
Reagan was nowhere near Carter - today on this forum we'd be wringing our hands that he was hopelessly behind - at this time in 1980.
Americans passionately hate politics more than they hate anything in our society. They won't pay attention to it until mid-October...mostly to save their sanity.
It is to make you just nuts.
Mitt Romney goes after the Republican NOMINATION for the candidacy to be President, with almost savage determination, but he has either much less enthusiasm for actually BEING President, or he is still not ready for prime time.
The great nagging doubt, that Mitt would not actually go “all in” for the marathon that is the general Presidential campaign, now seems to grip at the edge of consciousness for many of us.
Give us something, Mitt. We NEED red meat, and our craving cannot be denied much longer. Obama is vulnerable, he lacks many of the life skills to successfully stand on his own, and he as an identifiable legislative/executive record.
Melanin should NOT be a protective armor against criticism, and the moment ANYBODY shouts “Racist!” in response to that criticism, is the moment to turn to the heckler and ask how THEY would solve the problem, which clearly was the basis for the criticism.
NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE ARE IN PRODUCTIVE JOBS! Make-work, in industries that have been given Federal loan guaranties so they may keep their doors open, but have no viable business model to become self-supporting; extended benefits programs for those out of work; excessive regulations on small businesses and start-up enterprises which prevent their further expansion or even lead to collapse; imposing of new taxes that are much more coercive than persuasive; and general disregard for lawful execution of duties under existing statutes.
These are just a few of the weaknesses in the record of the titular head of the current regime, which cannot honestly be called an “administration”, because they fail at so many of the responsibilities of the position.
So why is he still more or less dead even with Romney? Answer: Romney!
True, but Reagan was down by over 12 points to Jimmy Catah in September of 1980. We all know how that turned out.
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All you’re seeing are polls that show a dead heat for two reasons:
1 - The media will not admit they were wrong in ‘08 until zerO is so obviously going to lose that everyone knows it without question.
2 -If the MSM were to admit that even as of now zerO is toast, nobody would tune in for the next 4 months, and they really need to be relevant.
To these ends, almost all the polls you see are of adults or registered voters, not likely voters. When likely voters are polled, zerO is losing badly, especially for an incumbent. (Pollsters’ research shows that as many as 40% of registered voters do not actually vote, and that likely voters skew overwhelmingly toward the conservative side. As well, since 1960, when an incumbent has polled under 50%, most, if not all of the undecided votes go to the challenger.)