I agree a candidate who could take the idological fight to the people and articulate it will would get 60%+ of the popular vote. However Romney as much as he doesn’t excite anyone will get 55%+ of the vote.
Obama has a ceiling of 43-45%, if he makes absolutely no mistakes he won’t get more than that much of the vote. He can’t. So, short of something drastically changing, 3rd party candidate out of nowhere, or war or natural disaster or something, Mickey Mouse would beat OBama by ~ 55-45. Romney will run a safe boring campaign and beat him in that range.
Someone like a Gingrich who would have made it completely ideological battle every step and could articulate it would have I agree made it a 60-40 or 65-35 victory. But wasn’t to happen.
>> Someone like a Gingrich who would have made it completely ideological battle every step and could articulate it would have I agree made it a 60-40 or 65-35 victory <<
Oh c’mon, good FRiend. Gee whiz. Let’s be real:
Your “someone like” poor ole Newt — genuinely superb orator though he truly is — couldn’t even carry Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi or Louisiana in the ‘pubbie primaries.
So how on earth can a rational person imagine that Gingrich could carry any NON-SOUTHERN states in the general election, other than maybe a few “electoral-vote-rich” states like Alaska, Wyoming and Nebraska?