Rasmussen: WED: 10/03: O:49% R:47%: Obama -15%

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows President Obama attracting support from 49% of voters nationwide, while Mitt Romney earns the vote from 47%. One percent (1%) prefers some other candidate,...

Voters are attaching less significance to the outcome of tonight’s first presidential debate compared to the kick-off debate four years ago.

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When it comes to sex education in schools, the majority agrees that teaching both sex education and abstinence-only education is the best route for students.

You might be on to something, but here’s my take:

1. Your wife’s description isn’t apt (actually I’m surprised that ruthless and sneaky are attractive to her in a future President (Are you a pirate?). When I hear that I think LBJ, FDR, Clinton, etc.).

Romney’s a businessman. You have to have a killer instinct to succeed. We’ve all met salespeople who cannot close. You have to close and you have to win to eat. To do that you have to begin with an end in mind.

An election is like a marketing/sales campaign. You do a SWOT analysis. Deep pockets bury the competition, but in business execution is more important than money. Think of Perry or Cain or Newt or Santorum. They all executed their campaigns poorly.

Romney knew the field, understood his strengths and weaknesses, along with the opportunities and threats including all of the previous for each of his opponents. In politics second place might as well be tenth.

I don’t suspect that Romney is behind this all. He should use it and exploit it to its fullest. The reality is that Obama’s own policies, moral blinders and intransigence brought this about. There isn’t a natural affinity between any of the groups in the Democrat tent. They all have quite large differences in goals and objectives. Blacks and Hispanics have a long, long running animosity that goes both ways. Romney didn’t do that.

As a successful businessman or a successful politician, you don’t create the landscape you use it to your benefit. That’s how you win.

I was wrong last night. The media did not insist on an Obama win. I woke up this early AM, though, to an Obama campaign spokeswoman insisting that Obama

They pushed 2 things: 1. Romney misrepresented his 5 trillion dollar tax cut plan. 2. Romney stepped into the “no details to his plan” trap.

If that’s the spin, then we’ll hear more of it over the coming days.

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