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Nate Silver: Romney now a 60/40 favorite in Florida after addition of Mason-Dixon poll.
New York Times ^ | October 12, 2012 | Nate Silver

Posted on 10/11/2012 9:03:20 PM PDT by Arec Barrwin

Florida now in Romney column per Nate Silver (60.1% chance of winning) -- as is Colorado.

Romney is surging hard.

(Excerpt) Read more at fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2012polls; 2012swingstates; fl2012; florida; obama; romney
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Democrats are panicking. The sweet smell of a come from behind win would be so awesome.
1 posted on 10/11/2012 9:03:20 PM PDT by Arec Barrwin
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To: Arec Barrwin

Romney needs to be going after Pennsylvania and Ohio even harder.


2 posted on 10/11/2012 9:05:03 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Arec Barrwin

If Nate Silver were back peddling any faster, he would need a damned back up beeper....


3 posted on 10/11/2012 9:05:34 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright ("You Might Be a Liberal" (YMBAL) Coming out Sept 1 by C. Edmund Wright)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

When you’ve lost Nate Silver, you should pull out of Florida. It’s gone.


4 posted on 10/11/2012 9:06:46 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Arec Barrwin

Nate Silver is wrong about VA and OH. I predict Romney will pick up both as well carry FL. And he’ll carry CO which has gone with the winning candidate in every election since 2000. Its the new MO.


5 posted on 10/11/2012 9:11:40 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

and yet the clueless dolt Bob “F” Beckel said tonight on O’Reilly that the Suffolk Polling guy was an idiot for pulling out of Florida because Obama had no chance to win there.

One more good shellacking of the empty chair and real panic will set in.


6 posted on 10/11/2012 9:12:21 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: bigbob

The Democrats have offset the loss of the South with the megastates of NY, CA, IL and PA. Demographics ensure Democrats will win them outright for a generation. They are not swing states in presidential elections. No GOP presidential candidate visits them because they have zero chance of ever carrying them.


7 posted on 10/11/2012 9:16:20 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: GeronL

“Romney needs to be going after Pennsylvania and Ohio even harder.”

OK, so if he has Florida, then he only needs one more big mid west state, right?


8 posted on 10/11/2012 9:20:44 PM PDT by garjog (We do not want another four more years of the last four years.)
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To: garjog

You can’t just eat one


9 posted on 10/11/2012 9:21:40 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Arec Barrwin

There was a poll today on Politico which had Obama only leading by 4 points in MAINE, and Romney leading by 4 points in the one congressional district that could give him one electoral vote from Maine.

Light blue states are going purple, and the VP debate tonight won’t change the momentum that Romney-Ryan have right now.


10 posted on 10/11/2012 9:23:16 PM PDT by plushaye (Election 2012 Prayer Force)
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To: garjog

The old adage holds true: no Republican has ever been elected President since the 19th Century without carrying OH. Its a true swing state.

You can be sure if Romney is up in FL, he’s ahead in OH. Obama will win PA next door - too much liberal deadwood in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh for a Republican to carry the Alabama rural counties in between - they don’t have the votes to take a GOP presidential candidate over the top there.


11 posted on 10/11/2012 9:25:21 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

You are correct. And CA, IL, Ny have the worst budget problems. CA has horrible jobs & housing situation with the other three well below national averages. But the 47% could’nt care less so long as they keep getting free money in the mail.


12 posted on 10/11/2012 9:26:43 PM PDT by entropy12 (Romney/Ryan 2012... Please send more campaign cash to them.)
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To: goldstategop
The Democrats have offset the loss of the South with the megastates of NY, CA, IL and PA.

Those are the states that are going to be hit the hardest when the RATs cause the big SHTF die off.

13 posted on 10/11/2012 9:27:02 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,)
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To: goldstategop

If Mitt Romney has Ohio, he probably has Iowa, Wisconsin and maybe even Minnesota.


14 posted on 10/11/2012 9:27:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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I think IA and WI are winnable - but MN is just too deep a Blue State for a GOP presidential candidate to win there. MI is going to go to Obama because Detroit votes early and often. And the auto industry workers are grateful to the One for saving their jobs.


15 posted on 10/11/2012 9:32:46 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

Uggh, good lord. I bet the Democrats were hearing those same kinds of comments about North Carolina, Virginia and Indiana before they actually tried for them in 2008.


16 posted on 10/11/2012 9:50:03 PM PDT by MitchellC (President Evil: Redistribution)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Who is Nate Silver ?


17 posted on 10/11/2012 10:03:30 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: Arec Barrwin

Libs are going to hate this. They idolize Nate Silver.


18 posted on 10/11/2012 10:26:37 PM PDT by publana (Beware the olive branch extended by a Dem for it disguises a clenched fist.)
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To: libh8er

Nate Silver is a guy who is getting run over by a train called voter dynamics.


19 posted on 10/11/2012 10:27:45 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: libh8er
Sabermetrician turned electoral statistician.

Used to blog for the Daily Kos.

20 posted on 10/11/2012 10:40:06 PM PDT by OddLane (If Lionel Hutz and Guy Smiley had a lovechild together, his name would be "Mitt Romney." -KAJ)
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