“...Mitt Romney attracting 46% of the vote, while President Obama earns 44%.”
I simply do not trust polls, but if those numbers are anywhere near the truth, I can’t see Romney winning.
If Romney doesn’t catch fire very soon, present new and bold ideas, and go after Obama, he is wasting everybody’s time.
Romney needs the votes of folks that can’t stand him (I am one of those), yet he seemingly refuses to give folks a reason to consider him. There is no vision, there is no excitement and there is no clear plan. Simply saying that he is going to fix sh!t just isn’t enough.
I hate Obama’s guts with everything I have within me. I truly believe that if Obama wins another 4 years, he and the dems will finish us off... but Romney shouldn’t count on that sentiment as being enough. He actually has to work at winning it.
To me, it seems as if Romney is simply running out the clock... I do not believe that will work against Obama.
I would have voted for Newt.
Folks need to settle down.
Romney will win, and he’ll win with the boring campaign he’s running... why?
SIMPLE
This election isn’t about ROMNEY, its about OBAMA.. this election is a referendum on OBAMA, and when you dig into the numbers he’s got zero chance of winning re-election.
Obama is viewed as extreme by 47% of the electorate vs 31% viewing Romney as extreme.. that right there tells you that Romney is going to win and win big.
Obamas only prayer at re-election was to paint his oponent as extreme and scaryier than 4 more years of him will be, and its just not happening nor will it happen.
He can’t top 42-43% of the vote if he handles everything perfectly.
I know we all want to see the republic tear Obama apart and have a strong ideological debate, but Romney isn’t going to do that, he’s just going to run a quiet safe campaign, and watch Obama continue to hang himself.
Romney doesn’t have to “catch fire”... the fire that’s burning is the revulsion with Obama, and its burning brigheter every day. Most folks who are going to vote for Romney aren’t going to do it because they are on fire for the guy, they are going to do it because he’s not Obama. Just like Obama won because most of the folks (with the exceptiosn of blacks and guilty white liberals) voted for him because they were on fire against Bush.
We are looking at a real possibility of a McGovern type election folks where the democrat won’t even pull 40% of the vote.
I would have prefered Newt personally as well because I know he would have take the ideological battle to Obama.. but that’s not what we got.
And yes Romney certainly can run out the clock on Obama, and even with that boring strategy he’ll win by 12-15 points or more.