Posted on 09/26/2012 4:10:04 PM PDT by Kaslin
Norah O'Donnell was ready to tie the toe tag on Mitt Romney's presidential campaign on Wednesday's CBS This Morning, as the morning newscast hyped the latest numbers from the Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times poll, especially President Obama's 10-point lead in Ohio. After mentioning Romney's latest 60-second TV spot, O'Donnell twice wondered, "Is it too late? The voting in Ohio starts next week."
As Charlie Rose spotlighted the President's "growing lead" in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida, according to his network's poll. But it took the program more than an hour to mention only in passing that "Republican voters remain more enthusiastic about voting than the Democrats," without mentioning the specific numbers.
O'Donnell zeroed in on Ohio during her lead-in to correspondent Jan Crawford's report on the poll numbers: "The poll shows...[in] Ohio - look at this - the President leads Governor Mitt Romney by ten points. And, of course...no Republican has ever won the election while losing Ohio." The CBS journalist pointed out that besides Obama's lead, "there are other troubling signs for Romney. Voters in Ohio and the two other swing states we surveyed now give the President the edge on the economy, the cornerstone of Romney's campaign. And those voters also say they believe Romney's policies will favor the rich."
After Crawford's report, Rose and O'Donnell brought on new CBS News political analyst Frank Luntz, who immediately affirmed the network's polling:
LUNTZ: ...[T]he Romney campaign's whole philosophy behind this election said this would be a referendum on Barack Obama. The Obama campaign thought that this was going to be a choice. Both of them are wrong. It has become a referendum on Mitt Romney, and because they didn't do the ads early enough. They didn't explain who Mitt Romney was early enough. It mean that all of the Obama attacks of the last three or four weeks - they're showing results. You see it in your own surveys.
The PBS veteran followed up by asking, "Looking at this widening gap, is President Obama winning, or is Governor Romney losing?" Luntz answered that "it has to be a combination of both, but it is very easy for someone's perceptions to be destroyed if they don't know anything about you. In the polling that we've done in some of these swing states, still a third of Americans don't know what Bain Capital actually does, and when you have that little awareness, that little knowledge, it makes the negative attacks effective."
O'Donnell then chimed in with her doom and gloom, "is it too late" prodding about Romney:
O'DONNELL: So, I spent a lot of time last night talking to a lot of Republicans and Democrats myself to, sort of, see what was going on. This 47 percent ad - that secret video from inside that fundraiser ad – the Obama team was running it just in Ohio. Now, they've gone up in seven other swing states with it. There are Republicans that I talked to – acknowledge that ad is working, and that's why they went up, and that's why we see these numbers in Ohio stretching out. What does Romney do now? I mean, we see this morning he's got this new ad where he's speaking directly to the camera for 60 seconds. But is it too late? The voting in Ohio starts next week.
LUNTZ: Well, two points: one is, the reason why that 47 percent is working, is because it's new information. We don't want to hear the same thing over and over again. And so, voters pay attention to it, to see what Mitt Romney is saying-
O'DONNELL: But look at this ad now. For the first time, Romney is now speaking directly to the people in a 60-second ad. Is that too late?
LUNTZ: Yes – in a simple answer, yes. That should have been done three or four months ago. Mitt Romney solidified his control of the Republican Party back in late April. Why is this ad only running now? I think, when we look back at this campaign, we're going to realize that you can't have the same impact in September that you could have in June, July, and August.Luntz would later give a caveat about the remaining weeks of the presidential race: "These debates can and do make a difference. If there is a defining moment – and it won't be an issue - if there's a defining moment in the debate, it can still shift. But Mitt Romney has 90 seconds in the opening of that first debate to make a difference."
The CBS morning show anchor been in death watch mode towards the Republican presidential campaign for almost two weeks. After Romney's slam of the U.S. embassy in Egypt's reaction to a destructive protest that stormed its wall, O'Donnell emphasized on September 13 that "Republicans...are saying that Governor Romney stepped in it." When the hidden camera video from the far left magazine Mother Jones emerged, she wondered, "Did Mitt Romney just insult many of the people who end up voting Republican?"
Crawford mentioned the enthusiasm gap at the end of her report recapping the poll results just after the top of the 8 am Eastern hour - more than an hour after her first report: "The Romney campaign says it is not worried. Their internal polling has these numbers much closer together. They say this is still a very tight race. And they also point to enthusiasm. That is actually reflected in our poll. The Republican voters remain more enthusiastic about voting than the Democrats."
CBS This Morning did something similar back on September 19, 2012. It took them over an hour to acknowledge that "this race is not over for Mitt Romney," based on the network's own polling. O'Donnell herself noted that "Republicans are more enthusiastic than Democrats about voting this year in general, and that enthusiasm has actually...grown since early August."
Geez, they pretty much used the same angles.
“Is that too late?
LUNTZ: Yes – in a simple answer, yes. That should have been done three or four months ago. “
What a pathetic joke. In Canada, federal election campaigns last a total of six weeks, from the time the writ is issued, until ballots are cast. IMHO, U.S. Presidential election campaigns last an insanely long time. Other than political junkies (such as FReepers, and their opposite numbers in the DUmp), who can pay attention for that long?
“Republicans are more enthusiastic than Democrats about voting this year in general, and that enthusiasm has actually...grown since early August.”
Voter intensity for Republicans is much higher than for Democrats and this is being seen in absentee voter request numbers and early vote returns.Just the absentee requests In Ohio being tracked here by LS and LdSentinal at FR gives definite hope.
Even new voter registration in Florida is sharply DOWN among Democrats and sharply up among Republicans. Look at these numbers, according to a Chicago Tribune article.
2004/2008/2012
Reps 111586/95525/128039
Dems 158957/259894/11365 (11,365 is not a typo)
Even in CHICAGO, Obama’s hometown, there are 225,000 less people on the voting rolls than 2008 with only 4 more weeks to register. This is again according to a Chicago Tribune article. You know most of these voters will be Dems.
If voter intensity is on the Republicans’ side, than how can ANY of these MSM polls predicting a Dems turnout exceeding that of the “perfect storm” 2008 election be valid??
QU cooked poll for the left wing Orlando Slantinel had Gov Scott losing by
5 pts on Election Day !!!
He won by one !
How many voters did that fraudulent poll impact in central Fl ???
Did anyone ask QU why it is was so wrong and demand an apology ??
No , the Slantinel wanted to dismay Scott voters and paid QU
For a push poll !
Polling has been banned overseas before elections for years because of these
Push polls meant to dismay voters !!
It's QU created psych ops created for Obama media !
I
QU cooked poll for the left wing Orlando Slantinel had Gov Scott losing by
5 pts on Election Day !!!
He won by one !
How many voters did that fraudulent poll impact in central Fl ???
Did anyone ask QU why it is was so wrong and demand an apology ??
No , the Slantinel wanted to dismay Scott voters and paid QU
For a push poll !
Polling has been banned overseas before elections for years because of these
Push polls meant to dismay voters !!
It's QU created psych ops created for Obama media !
I
QU cooked poll for the left wing Orlando Slantinel had Gov Scott losing by
5 pts on Election Day !!!
He won by one !
How many voters did that fraudulent poll impact in central Fl ???
Did anyone ask QU why it is was so wrong and demand an apology ??
No , the Slantinel wanted to dismay Scott voters and paid QU
For a push poll !
Polling has been banned overseas before elections for years because of these
Push polls meant to dismay voters !!
It's QU created psych ops created for Obama media !
I
QU cooked poll for the left wing Orlando Slantinel had Gov Scott losing by
5 pts on Election Day !!!
He won by one !
How many voters did that fraudulent poll impact in central Fl ???
Did anyone ask QU why it is was so wrong and demand an apology ??
No , the Slantinel wanted to dismay Scott voters and paid QU
For a push poll !
Polling has been banned overseas before elections for years because of these
Push polls meant to dismay voters !!
It's QU created psych ops created for Obama media !
I
in FL the voter rolls are cleaned up and Ids are required !
Crist is not around to leave the polls open well after the legal dates !
I was wondering back then if Crist was a Dem
Plant after he let early voting go on illegally !
Fl is not going Obama in 2012 without the phony Acorn voters !
I can’t wait to see the smirk wiped of the faces of these commies.
Me too. I am always the cheerleader for my non FR addicted friends who put too much stock into MSM reports. But I am a bit worried about today. It was just number after number flying at us. Hubby says that numbers change depending on who is writing the equation. But still....
cross-posting:
Yes, and the CBS news was pimping their biased poll tonight, and decided to try to highlight an undecided voter in Ohio.
Do you know who it was? You’ve guessed it before I even tell you, right?
A supposedly “moderate Republican” female karate instructor, who is leaning toward Obama because Romney hasn’t “moved toward the middle,” and doesn’t understand “regular people.”
WTF?? WTF?? WTF?? WTF??
Are you freaking kidding me? No wonder the country is doomed, if these people are the “undecided”.
And you know CBS went out of their way to find a (phony) Republican dissatisfied with Romney who reinforces the stereotypes about Romney that only the media agree with. The only people who think Mitt is “too extreme” are left-wing media-types.
There’s no way any REAL “Moderate Republican” could possibly think Romney’s too right-wing. Mitt is tailor-made for moderate Repubs and swing-voters.
Yet these scumbags highlight this woman to help Zero, of course.
The Fourth Estate are truly a bunch of bastards - I despise them. The Romney campaign might not want to complain about the media, but I WILL.
If Obama is re-elected its proof that America as we know it is finished. Our founding fathers will be rolling over in their graves. If people want to reject Capitalism and instead embrace Socialism its truly a sad day for our nation..but this is what the media wants, and this is what the Dems want, total power by controlling every aspect of our lives..This is what Obama said in 1998 in that Loyota University tape, and it turns out he was right, give enough people free goodies and they will vote for you.
Do I think Romney is a flawed candidate, absolutely..but if Obama is re-elected it won’t have anything to do with Romney sucking, it will have to do with people wanting to live under Socialist control. It wouldn’t matter who the GOP chose as their nominee, if this is what people want, America as we know it will never be the same again
I agree with you about Florida. The Chicago Tribune was griping about the voter ID restrictions causing the very sharp drop in Dem registrations. I truly believe another major factor is Republican enthusiasm and Democrats unenthused.
I truly don’t believe FL is going to be in the Obama column this year. I notice that Romney-Ryan don’t seem very panicked about it. I think they’ve seen the voter registration figures as well.
Its either going to be that Obama wins re-election or the media is doing this because they know that Obama will lose and they want a reason to scream Racism and call for violence in the streets because of the Voter ID law..I dont believe the Ohio poll about Obama being up 10 points its pure BS..as my 8 year old cousin asked me today “If Obama is winning how come he keeps campaigning in Ohio?” gee even an 8 year old can see that something doesn’t smell right
Yes, and also why was Obama campaigning in Wisconsin the other day? Clues, so many clues, that the underlying facts don’t match the wicked web of deception that the media is spinning about the state of the election.
In 2010 , the Obama media kept harping that if Dem Gov were elected in Fl and Ohio and Va then Obama would win. !
Now all these states have Repub Govs so that Dem
Talking point is shelved by the 2012 Obama media lie and spin .
The media dropped the voter purge impact spin too because it conflicts with these push poll lies and spin saying the Messiah is way ahead !
Now we know why most of Europe BANNED polling before any election .
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