I'm talking places like Snellville, GA; Escondido, CA; Naperville, IL; Chelmsford, MA; Scottsdale, AZ; and on and on.
Almost all these heavily populated and prosperous suburbs swung towards Obama in 2008. They are not going to swing that way in 2012. Why? Because Mitt Romney appeals to most of these suburbanites. He's a Republican but he's not a "dangerous or scary" Republican like Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum would have been. These suburbanites had their fling with Obama and now the honeymoon is over. Romney represents to them a "safe" Republican and a competent person who can get the economy moving again. Romney doesn't scare these people. He's the kind of person they see out on the golf course or at Gentlemen's Wearhouse trying on a blue blazer and getting some slacks and dress shirts. He's also the type of guy that is executive VP at the high tech company they work at or maybe senior partner at the law firm they belong to.
Obama lost all this suburban base. And that is why places like Pennsylvania are in play this election. Sure, Obama is going to turn out the inner city welfare crowd and all the immigrants who think our government owes them something. That's why he's going to still end up with around 47% of the vote.
But these suburbs are going to deliver the 6-7% of the vote that McCain couldn't get four years ago. So we are going to see something like a 53-47 or 54-46% victory for Romney.
Lets keep our fingers crossed. I’m headed tmrw Sunday to see Romney come to PA for huge rally in Bucks county (Yardley PA) 5:30pm starts 2pm!