I get rasmussens logic, but how can the economic situation be anything but clear cut. We are slowing down, unemployment is not eating better after 43 months. The statistics are getting more and more comparable to 1980. What would need to happen to be clearcut? If someone said two years ago we would be in September 2012 where we are...does Obama get reelected, everyone, including most democrats would have said no...he’ll no.
Frankly, I think almost anything that could have occurred would have been considered mixed news, and ‘could go either way’. The expectations keep eating dumbed down This is Romney’s to win...he has to make the case why this is so bad, and what he will do differently.
The Romney campaign has not even started to run the negative economy ads blaming Obama yet.Let’s face it.In reelection battles with a dismal economy, it is all about the incumbent not the challenger.If Romney wins it will because most folks will not so much have voted for Romney as against the incumbent.That is the purpose of the negative ad campaign to reinforce voters’ suspicions.How many of you have seen concentrated negative ads on the economy in your areas. Very few because I suspect Romney does not want to play his strong suit until the later stages of the campaign where he wants it to be concentrated in the end game leaving the incumbent little time to rebut the carpet bombing that this is indeed a Obama recession.Romney need only look back 4 years ago for a model on how to win the Presidency.Airing solutions is not necessary. Show the imagery of foreclosure signs, mushroom clouds and unemployment lines and end the commercial with the candidate’s photo above the words A New Dawn (or some other silly version of Hope and Change).
The economy will not get better if Obama is reelected due to capitalists not putting their money at risk and hedging that they can ride out another 4-years. The Democrats on the other hand may want to come up with a Presidential Signature commanding that all funds not being put to use are confiscated for the good of the state....