Posted on 08/17/2012 9:58:42 AM PDT by JerseyanExile
Despite pouring resources into scores of voter-registration events in the last week alone, a Boston Globe analysis found that the Obama campaign has failed to significantly swell the rolls of Democratic voters in battleground states.
In five battleground states the for which the Globe was able to analyze registration data, Democratic registration increased by 39,580 voters, while Republican registration increased by 145,085.
The Obama campaign says that its successful registration efforts in 2008 largely exhausted the pool of unregistered Democrats, while the Republican primaries earlier this year provided a registration opportunity that Democrats were not afforded.
The Globe cited a study released earlier this week by Third Way, a left-leaning think tank, that showed Democratic registration down 800,000 people in eight battleground states and Republican registration down by 80,000 in those same states. Independent registration, on the other hand, has grown by nearly half a million voters in those states.
“Well, I can’t vote for Romney or Obama. Romney is much worse than McCain, and I regret voting for RINO McCain. I still stink from it”
There may not be a dime’s worth of difference between the two in most areas....but life issues are a notable exception.
The Supreme Court is looking pretty geriatric....and I can see as many as 3 appoinments in the next 4 years. The wrong appointments could lead us down a path of teenage abortion without parental notification, euthenasia, and death panels...and I don’t think that is hyperbole.
The right appointments might just move the court more in line with the constitution; and, abortion would once again become a state issue.
I KNOW what Barry would do. So I plan to place my bets with Romney. He could not possibly be worse.
BTW, I don’t live in a swing state, so my vote is largely symbolic...but I’ll vote for a Romney/Ryan ticket.
This is big.
If pollsters are not taking this into consideration when making their assumptions as to what the actual electorate will be in November, they are missing what would be a landslide in Romney/Ryan’s favor.
It seems that the polls reflecting a D+4 or greater should be highly suspect.
Is he running for President? Does he have a better Conservative voting record than ~ let’s say ~ Richard Lugar? (Giving you a few points on that one eh).
(BUT, not many points. Let's look at ACU ~ 2011 saw Lugar at 75 and Ryan at 80.
Looks pretty questionable to me ~ )
“It seems that the polls reflecting a D+4 or greater should be highly suspect”
Especially because the 2010 exit polls the, if anything over-sampled the Ds, came up with a 35-35 D vs. R split. Looks to me like an accurate poll would use that split.
Some of Obama's core are definitely pushing it.
Who cares? There is a real principled conservative on the ballot — a genuinely good man with a legitimate conservative plan to right this ship ... to fix the tax code, to dismantle ObamaCare, to fix Medicare, to spur the economy, to bring America back to where it ought to be.
Paul Ryan is a better advocate for a real conservative vision than anyone in the GOP primary was. This country would unquestionably be better off with Paul Ryan in office, and with his plan — now a centerpiece of Romney’s campaign — on the as a blueprint for recovery. If Mitt Romney embraces Paul Ryan’s economic plan, as he seems to be doing, he will be a great President ... and he will bring this country back from the brink. If not, he won’t ... but, after the Ryan nomination, I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
There is no reason a conservative shouldn’t be able to enthusiastically vote for that. If you can’t ... its you.
SnakeDoc
A real principled Conservative whose career would be ended, and whose ideas would likely be buried, if those on our side continue to advocate, directly or indirectly, for a second term for Obama.
Can we afford a guy with that trendline?
It's likely to backfire on them, but this bunch of Democrats play dirty and we are sending sweet little snookem's shortbread types out to challenge them.
Believe you are exactly right. And, it’s disappointing that the fact you are bothers freepers.
I’ve heard of Freepers not voting for Romney
Are you referring to Ryan?
Can we afford anybody else?
Paul Ryan has a great plan. He is right about ObamaCare (and RomneyCare). He is right about budget cuts. He is right about Medicare. He is right about gun rights. He is right about abortion. He is right about taxes. He is right about job creation. And, better yet, he understands, and can explain, the ideological underpinnings of it all. There is simply no way for a conservative to argue otherwise.
We now have a good ticket that any reasonable conservative should be able to not only support, but advocate for.
People looking for a reason to complain will always manage to find one. People who define themselves by being dissatisfied will always manage to be.
SnakeDoc
Can’t please everybody. I genuinely think that conservatives that won’t vote for Romney/Ryan are an insignificantly small minority ... but they do exist. Intentionally inconsequential.
SnakeDoc
Here is my only concern with that: Say a kid is raised a good conservative. He votes for the first time at age 18 in '08 for Palin. But then, he goes to college. Four years later, he has been totally indoctrinated by his commie professors and is convinced that his parents are morons for being conservative, thus votes for his new hero and savior in '12 - BHO.
This is the only thing I can think of that would give Emperor 0 votes that he didn't get in '08.
you still have a bad ticket ~ a remarkably bad ticket ~ really. you got that Romney guy on it. might as well be Obama for what that’s worth.
Ryan had a good start ~ he blew it.
I won’t go so far as to say a Romney loss would end Ryan’s career. I think he’ll be around a LONG time ... he’d still be a legit leader in the House, and he’d be a real contender in a 2016 and/or 2020 GOP Primary.
That being said, we’d all be better off with him as Vice President come January.
SnakeDoc
Even granting your premise (which is arguable), you do realize that the choice isn't Romney or McCain, right?
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