Posted on 08/06/2012 4:27:26 PM PDT by neverdem
Favor is fickle, and hope and change was easier to promise than deliver on.
A new Gallup poll shows that nearly 10 percent of voters who supported Barack Obama during his 2008 run have decamped and will be supporting Republican challenger Mitt Romney in this next election. At nine percent, the rate of Obama ’08 defectors is nearly double the five percent of former McCain ’08 supporters who now say they’ll cast a vote for Obama.
Partly loyalty is higher in the Republican camp too, with 92 percent of former McCain supporters saying they’re sticking with the red ticket, while only 86 percent of Obama’s 2008 base say they’re staying true.
The poll surveyed more than 2,000 registered voters who punched a ballot in 2008.
Now for some number play: if we make the broad assumption that the poll data is representative of the general population and do some extrapolation, tallying nine percent of 69,456,897 (Obama’s 2008 vote count) and subtracting five percent of John McCain’s 59,934,814 votes, we end up with a potential 3.25 million more votes for Romney than McCain had four years ago. It’s nothing concrete, but it’s becoming clear that election 2012 will be a far different race than 2008 was.
Now go post another silly picture.
What drives a man to lie openly when ha knows there are more than 2 choices on the ballot?
What do you have to talk to me about Finster... i.e. ping
I’m not a conservative... I’m a radical..
I will vote for Myth this time but will leave the party after that.. 2013...
You seem to think your pretty smart.. I’m not..
After all I’m a republican..
Proof: I voted for all three Shrubs several times.. AND believed that the last 5 presidential elections was not a comedy cartoon.. a Kubuki Theater skit..
This election surely is absolutely a cartoon.. Running the inventor of Romney-care against the inventor of Obama-care is a cartoon.. I’ve had with cartoon elections.. I’m through.. The american people are being played like Pavlov’s dogs.. When I hear the dog whistle it now pisses me off.. I’m not amused anymore.. My mouth does not water-up..
I have dreams of a gang gallows on the White House lawn with a long line of entertainment waiting.. I would voluteer to pull the trap in a second.. with 12 hour shifts.. and I see Myth Romney in the line..
After all if the people of Mass. love Romney he’s dirty..
He has ten foot pole marks all over him..
Your tagline is REALLY false advertising. Wow.
WTF? You wouldn't vote for this commie POS last time but now you will??? I hope that doesn't include any FReepers.
No, there are many choices more than two. You are so conditioned to think a certain way that you fail to see the other options. That’s all.
It is what it is. You've been slacking on the derisive pictures, dude. What's up?
You seem to think you're pretty smart..
No, I think I'm careful. YOU think I think I'm smart; that's your deal, not mine. But man o manischevitz, you're right about "I'm not, after all, I'm a Republican." I hear ya -- I've voted in every major and mid-term election since 1976 and voted straight Republican ticket in every single one of them. This November will be the first time in my life, in 36 years of voting, that I will have ever declined a Republican on any ballot, let alone at the top of the ticket.
It will take the most courage I've ever needed to muster in an election -- voting for Romney would be the path of least resistance. But I'm just "radical" and "conservative" enough finally to have figured out Einstein's definition of insanity. And it only took me 55 years!
I like your gang gallows fantasy.
One crisis at a time. First, let's get that black communist out of office and THEN we can worry about dealing with Romney's liberal urges. If you push against Romney so hard that Obama wins, what have you gained?
If Romney wins, the economy jumps back to life. Let's celebrate that and THEN we can start keeping Romney in check. If Obama wins, we have four more years of excrement on a shingle, plus a lawless president that won't care how many laws he breaks or how many executive orders he signs to circumvent Congress and now has no re-election to keep his communism in check.
If you think Romney is liberal, you just wait to see what Obama would do in a second term. I can't risk that happening. NO SANE AMERICAN CAN RISK THAT HAPPENING.
So stop doing Obama's bidding which is the only think you can possibly hope to accomplish with your sophistry.
Your Post #14 is very encouraging. Thanks.
Wrong. Look at the course you're plotting to avoid lethal shoals altogether, because if you get in them, navigating them "one crisis at a time" with a liberal behind the wheel is guaranteed to have bad results.
You want to get "the black communist" out of office because you are so certain that a Repubican congress, even if Obama only won on a plurlaity (very likely the best he could do, reading the tea leaves), wouldn't have the courage to fight him -- yet you think that same Congress would defy the defacto leader of their own party who won with a solid popular mandate majority?
Wishful thinking, anyone?
Romney sure as heck didn't do much for the economy of Massachusetts. Really, there's so much wishful thinking that must be engaged in anticipating Romney. Obama is a weak fraud -- but you are so terrified of his imaginary power that you refuse point blank to consider means to make him vulnerable and take advantage of it. Instead, you advocate voting to make liberalism more powerful in the Republican party. It is quite, quite that simple: that is what you are proposing to do, and then wishing, wishing, wishing that the liberal you elect will not act like the liberal you KNOW him to be.
Because you cannot handle the REAL risks of Romney winning on a landslide and the REAL sense of at least voting for a plurality to prevent a mandate of either liberal, you are reduced to accusing me of sophistry, ironic because you then accuse me of doing "Obama's bidding." YOU are doing liberalism's bidding. FACE IT. And then face that crisis FIRST.
OK, now to more serious stuff. What part of Florida do you hail?
Personally I recommend Romney nominates Palin as VP.
Then we can all vote for him.
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Wishful thinking. Some people on here would not vote for Romney if he chose Jesus Christ as his Running Mate.
Personally I recommend Romney nominates Palin as VP.
Then we can all vote for him.
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Wishful thinking. Some people on here would not vote for Romney if he chose Jesus Christ as his Running Mate.
“A new Gallup poll shows that nearly 10 percent of voters who supported Barack Obama during his 2008 run have decamped and will be supporting Republican challenger Mitt Romney in this next election.”
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And this does not include the roughy 10% (IMHO) of Obama 2008 voters who will likely stay home in November. In other words, Obama is in deep dodo.
How, they never say.
Even with TeaParty victories, the Senate will still be controlled by the RINOs, and they will have to deal with a last term President who will be emboldened to finish what he started in his first term, the destruction of the US.
Obamacare will be funded and it will destroy the economy.
You have this 'advanced plan' thinking Obama will be 'weakened' if he wins reelection!
When Democrats win elections, they always see it as a mandate, no matter how close the election.
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