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Obama Campaign to Supporters: Don’t Panic Over Early Exit Polls
Politicker ^ | 11/05/2012 | Colin Campbell

Posted on 11/05/2012 3:23:30 PM PST by nhwingut

In a conference call this afternoon, President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign had one central message for their supporters when Election Day arrives tomorrow: They should “keep calm,” even if they hear snippets of information favoring Republican Mitt Romney.

“My warning, we need to stay calm for much of the day,” Stephanie Cutter, Mr. Obama’s deputy campaign manager, said, touting thousands of early ballots already submitted by voters. “We’ve already banked a pretty big portion of our vote.”

The fear, she explained, was early numbers leaking before voters have finished going to the polls, creating unnecessary panic and pessimism among Democrats.

(Excerpt) Read more at politicker.com ...


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To: nhwingut

I was just watchin CNN while I ate my dinner. They showed a clip of Romney - calm, smiling, firm. They showed a clip of Obama - yelling, frowning, panicked (imo).


61 posted on 11/05/2012 3:53:06 PM PST by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: linn37

You would think so, especially since they and the press have put forth the story for months that Obama has this election in the bag.


62 posted on 11/05/2012 3:53:30 PM PST by CatOwner
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To: nhwingut

Every little breeze seems to whisper Romnise!

63 posted on 11/05/2012 3:53:43 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper (WINNING IS EVERYTHING!)
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To: MomwithHope

lol Romney has a snowballs chance in California.


64 posted on 11/05/2012 3:54:43 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: nhwingut

They are right...the national disgrace called “early voting” is the biggest single incidence of voter fraud in American history.


65 posted on 11/05/2012 3:54:59 PM PST by montag813
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Click

66 posted on 11/05/2012 3:55:44 PM PST by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=om93destr)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

This is what I heard Cutter say. “Obama is going to lose, but don’t panic because we need you to still vote down ticket.”


67 posted on 11/05/2012 3:57:01 PM PST by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: CatOwner
I think NV is a tough pickup no matter what, but CA at -14 is clearly out of the question. Our only hope there is to get the Central Valley to secede. However, bad early numbers could have an impact in down-ticket races -- even IN Senate, where it's closer than it should be, or Montana.

I don't believe the claim that they're playing a head-fake expectations game. No campaign tells their insiders that they may see bad news across-the-board; especially not when they and their allies in the media have worked so hard to convince everyone -- not least their base -- that it's close.

68 posted on 11/05/2012 3:57:24 PM PST by FredZarguna ("Post Hoc, ergo propter hoc," is no way to reason through life, son.)
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To: nhwingut

This has more to do with the election in 2000 and the suppression of the Florida Panhandle vote and areas further West for Bush than it does any voter fraud margins. The Democrats recognize that it can happen both ways.


69 posted on 11/05/2012 3:58:14 PM PST by Styria
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To: nhwingut

I have no, zero, zip, nilch, nada faith in the outcome until the fat lady sings. Obamacare and Roberts settled that.


70 posted on 11/05/2012 3:58:22 PM PST by APatientMan (Pick a side)
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To: nhwingut

71 posted on 11/05/2012 3:59:04 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: tomkat

Oh it is not just early votes that you have to worry about. Worry about who tallies the votes. Worry about the machines. Worry about who is voting. Worry about suddenly discovered boxes of Ballots. Everyone thinks the tampering will be insignificant. But I don’t believe that. I have watched them steal elections way too many times. And the stakes have never been so high for them as they are now.


72 posted on 11/05/2012 3:59:17 PM PST by Revel
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To: FredZarguna

Another point she made is that they already had banked a good portion of their vote (via early voting), and this is what Romney’s people were talking about last week. The dems target their high propensity voters while GOP were targeting those low propensity voters knowing they will get the rest to come on election day.


73 posted on 11/05/2012 3:59:41 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: DJ Frisat
In other words, ‘Hang on until we see how many votes we have to manufacture...’

And this is the main reason the polls have been using an assorted number of models- they need to know how much and where they need to to the vote vault.

74 posted on 11/05/2012 4:00:31 PM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment (Is this field required?)
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To: APatientMan

75 posted on 11/05/2012 4:01:37 PM PST by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: johncocktoasten
Scott Rasmussen is using a D+3 model, and says Romney is up +1. He said today that if that moves even 1 point, Romney gets 313 EV. If it's actually an R+2 instead of a D+3, that would be HUGHTM (and SERIESTM) especially, I think, for some of the down-ticket races we need.
76 posted on 11/05/2012 4:03:34 PM PST by FredZarguna ("Post Hoc, ergo propter hoc," is no way to reason through life, son.)
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To: snarkytart

Obama wanted to run uup the early lead hoping that that + polls would make him appear inevitable. The emperor has no clothes.


77 posted on 11/05/2012 4:05:16 PM PST by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: APatientMan

I have no, zero, zip, nilch, nada faith in the outcome until the fat lady sings. Obamacare and Roberts settled that.
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Exactly.


78 posted on 11/05/2012 4:06:07 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: liberlog

Didn’t the media agree to stop releasing exit poll data while voting was still on? They did so after the egregious poll data in 04 that had Kerry winning NCarolina and Va. At 3 in the afternoon.


79 posted on 11/05/2012 4:06:07 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: trappedincanuckistan
This is what I heard Cutter say. “Obama is going to lose, but don’t panic because we need you to still vote down ticket.”

I hope you are correct and that sounds about right. However, those comments sent shivers down my spine and my massive vote fraud senses went way past tingling into hammering.

These people have palpable contempt for America, it's people and their system of government and I put NOTHING past them.

80 posted on 11/05/2012 4:07:13 PM PST by bayliving (I suffer from democrat induced tourette syndrome...)
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