Gallup today has ZEro at 43%. Sorry, Mitt-haters, but that’s landslide territory for Romney. NO president wins with that level of support: Clinton managed once, in a three-way race with a third-party candidate taking 17%. There’s no Ross Perot to save ZEro this time around.
I hope the elderly remember that FOR THE FIRST TIME...and 2 years in a row, they did not get a COLA.
I hope the youth realize that Obama shut up the job market with his industry killing moves AND HIS DAMN OBAMACARE.
Heaven help us if he has 4 more years.
I was taught in grade school in the 60’s that when there is a seriously disappointing wheat crop in the USSR, they get a new leader.
Same here. People kept worrying about Obama in the polls last year. I was not interested because the only remotely meaningful polls are the polls this year, and even then only very close to the election, and by then we will be in a REAL sh**storm. Obama will be blathering and drooling on national TV. Frankly, if you look at reviews of his last couple of speeches, even by liberals, it appears he is in the blathering stage.
This will be a VERY interesting year. Hell, it already is a record breaker. We may even get another September 1st, 1939 event if things keep going the way they are.
uh..RCP says “NO!”
Romney needs 100 more electoral votes from these “toss up states”:
Arizona (11)
Colorado (9)
Florida (29)
Iowa (6)
Michigan (16)
Missouri (10)
Nevada (6)
New Hampshire (4)
North Carolina (15)
Ohio (18)
Virginia (13)
Wisconsin (10)
So, we can only lose NV & NH and still win....
Doesn’t look like “landslide” potential to me!
But I gotta wonder how many Dems are wondering "if only we'd elected Hillary..."
We would see a political landslide, if a small government conservative was the final choice for ‘12 POTUS! Two leftists candidates, as the final, major candidate picks for ‘12 POTUS=the left has, already, won the race for ‘12 POTUS!
Demographic changes are making voters less responsive to policy failure.
In the past, the abject failure of performance of a president like Jimmy Carter could result in the voting public making an evaluation of his policies and rejecting him in a landslide.
In our day, the percentage of the voting public that evaluates presidents (and politicians generally) on the basis of policy success has declined.
Massive immigration, the emergence of unmarried women with children as the dominant family form in major population groups and the indoctrination by government schools and popular culture have created voting blocs that are impervious to conventional policy failure.
Consider that two giant states, California and New York, are beyond reach no matter how badly Obama does in office. His success or failure in conventional terms such as in how government policy affects the economy and how he has conducted foreign policy are for the most part irrelevant to the voting base that will hand him victory in these states.
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Yup.....
I think so...
Never forget about the (R)s inevitable wasy of screwing up a soup sandwich.
It's still too soon to tell where the polls are going to break. Many states are within the margin of error.
What's sad is that the Senate seems to be slipping from GOP control, according to the Rasmussen polls. The GOP better get on top of this fast, so they don't come out of the summer behind the curve.
-PJ
What’s a 20 point difference? A lahar?
Day by day Obama looks more and more like Hoover or Carter, only without the inherent decency of those two men.
Landslides only happen when a candidate generates cross-over support.
I think a LOT of disillusioned Democrats will vote for Romney. And why shouldn’t they?
In a normal election, conservatives migh not turn out with enthusiasm for Mitt Romney, but this is not a normal election. This is about throwing the most offensive president ever out of office. So I think conservatives will ultimately show up.
So, yes, I do believe we are in landslide territory. Not Reagan/Carter landslide territory, but probably 1988 Bush/Dukakis territory.
Allow me to suggest that if you wanted a landslide this year, you would have picked another candidate.
for what it’s worth, I see him losing big in states he loses and winning by a razor slim margin in states he wins. It’s the electoral vote game and it would not surprise me that it’s another 271-266 type of margin in the college (obama loses) but an overwhelming popular rebuke with long coat tails.
If we had Reagan running right now, it wouldn’t even be close. Remember this Romney we are talking about.