Posted on 09/08/2012 11:34:56 AM PDT by nhwingut
What other election for president has had this particular characteristic?
See why it may be showing up now?
“Obama’s getting a pass because yesterday did you see or hear ONE speech or comment from Romney or Ryan slamming the jobs report?”
Yes, they did, of course.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57508365-503544/romney-jobs-report-disappointing/
“Obviously, another disappointing monthly figure,” Romney said. “And I know the White House keeps saying that you can’t look at just monthly numbers. But if you look over the last several quarters, the last several years, you see the continued pattern, which is that we’re not creating the jobs we need to create to put Americans back to work. For every net new job created, about four people dropped out of the workforce. So we’re going in the wrong direction.”
August jobs report disappoints with tepid numbers
Romney also cited the lack of a rise in wages: “So no increase in wages, declining wages actually, declining number of people being able to find work, people dropping out of the workforce — it’s another continuation of very bleak news on the unemployment front.”
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Romney’s running mate, also castigated Obama for the jobs numbers. “This is not even close to what a recovery looks like,” Ryan said in an interview on CNBC.
Earlier, Romney threw cold water on President Obama’s promise for improving the country’s future, issuing a statement that referred to Thursday’s Democratic National Convention. “If last night was the party, this morning is the hangover,” said Romney in the statement
WTH, wingnut. This is your second doom and gloom, surrender monkey thread highlighting Buckwheat’s alleged lead. You’re starting to smell like a Soros troll trying to depress conservative turn-out. And God knows that Soros fascists have infested FR recently.
“If Romney thinks he can just let the bad economic news lift him to a win WITHOUT laying out how actual bad the numbers are for this country and offering SOME alternative, his ass is TOAST. Negative ads definitely help.”
Yes. It’s actually simple. All Romney has to do is explain how Obama’s policies are killing jobs. Not his words, but his policies. He needs to bring up Solyndra and that crony capitalism failure.
Romney needs to go out and make a full-throated attack on Obamacare. He needs to tie insurance rate increases with Obamacare. Talk about the tax hikes and regulations and how the kill jobs. He needs to find case after case where Obama directly killed jobs - such as keystone pipeline.
Obama deserves to lose, but Romney hasnt closed the sale - yet.
Carter was even with Reagan until the very end as well.
Hell will NOT freeze over.
>Granted, he has a convention bounce, but why?<
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Why not?
Romney is nothing more than Obama Lite. Do you see any true conservatism in his platform? That is what many American voters are waiting for but not getting at all.
All they talk about is the economy, economy, economy.... There are other issues beside the economy but they are not mentioned because, as always, the GOP does not dare to bring up social issues for fear that they are branded racist.
He and the GOP have not changed — it is 2008 all over again with the exception that the candidate is younger.
Why would it show up now if it didn’t show up in 2008?
I’m not convinced it didn’t show up in 2008.
In 2008 there was almost only one reason the effect was evident.
In 2012 there are more reasons. People still don’t want to be labeled racist [existed in 2008] but now they also do not want to be ridiculed, they don’t want to argue, they don’t want to even discuss. This is especially true for the slice of voters who previously voted for 0bama but will change.
That’s why.
They wanted to send a team of investigators over to Gallup to look at their polling techniques etc. Blah blah blah whine whine whine. Same old stuff when thing aren’t going their way.
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