Have to side with Christie here. People made up there minds long before Sandy came along.
Wrong. 42% of those who voted said Sandy impacted their vote.
[Have to side with Christie here. People made up there minds long before Sandy came along.]
Nope. Before hurricane Christie both Gallup and Ras had Romney up five. After Christie, err I mean Sandy, he fell back to tied and then plus 1.
That's not what the national polls said. Romney was leading by a point in the RCP average, quite consistently, until the storm hit. After the storm hit, Romney was down by a point in the RCP average of the national polls. He saw a 3 point negative swing in Pew and WaPo polls.
So "siding with him" on the basis you've chosen is an emotional, but fact-free decision.
Congratulations! That makes you a liberal.
This eletion was very close. I listened to Rassmussen on BOR a short time ago.
The truth is that Christie and Sandy raised Obama’s job approval numbers to 50%. Rassmussen said he re-adjusted his final poll numbers because if you get 50% job approval, you win.
So Christie indeed may have tipped the scale in Obama’s favor with his slobbering praise. He looked so pathetic schlumping along after Obama like the little wussy fat kid on the block.
“Have to side with Christie here. People made up there minds long before Sandy came along.”
Don’t be a dumbass. Sucking Hitler’s little giggle pin doesn’t make it okay just cause you did it AFTER he gained power.
9% said they made up their minds a day or two before the election, 64% said they approved 0bama’s handling of hurricane Sandy.
I didn’t see the whole Christie-0bama lovefest because I didn’t have power or Tv for five days because of the hurricane.
0bama has done nothing in the relief effort except for the photo op, things are a mess and getting worse.
“People made up there minds long before Sandy came along.”
I guess you mean people made up THEIR minds. In any case, Fox exit polling showed that about 50% of those who had been undecided a week before the election went to Obama because of Sandy. They thought that his canoodling with Christie made him “look bipartisan”. Christie gave a wonderful gift to the Muslim.
“People made up there minds long before Sandy came along.”
I guess you mean people made up THEIR minds. In any case, Fox exit polling showed that about 50% of those who had been undecided a week before the election went to Obama because of Sandy. They thought that his canoodling with Christie made him “look bipartisan”. Christie gave a wonderful gift to the Muslim.
Perhaps, but even Democrats admit it was a stroke of positive luck for them.
Having one of Romney's top surrogates embracing Obama and stressing what a wonderful job he was doing just a few days before a presidential election.... I mean, come on. You can't see how this at least helped Obama some?
Fox reported last night that 46% of voters, especially women, said that Obama’s handling of Hurricane Sandy helped them make up their mind to vote for him.
Letting women vote was obviously a mistake.
Most people made up their minds before the hurricane struck, but usually the wishy-washy undecideds break for the challenger. Obviously Romney needed them to break his way, but they didn't in spite of the historical trend. So without question the hurricane helped Obama and on top of that the star-struck governor gave him a further boost up, going far beyond what was required of him in that situation.
Maybe Christie is right in saying he worked hard for Romney. Yet when it counted most he stood with Obama, not with Romney. Both literally and figuratively. Either he is completely artless and didn't understand how to handle Obama in a politically astute way, or else he simply decided to take the opportunity to undercut Romney.
Given the level he has risen to as a politician it is hard to believe the first scenario. But given that he is prone to lowering state flags when a pop singer dies and allegedly becomes overwhelmed when another of his music idols gives him a call, i wouldn't rule it out.
Early on many of us were impressed by Christie's outspokenness. It could be though that he simply doesn't have the skill to be a crafty statesman when the situation calls for it. Sort of like a pitcher who can throw 95 mph fastballs and you think, wow, he's great! Except you finally realize that's the only pitch he can throw. And in the long run that's not so great.
“Have to side with Christie here. People made up there minds long before Sandy came along.”
Not so. I heard Frank Luntz on the radio yesterday. Over 50% of the folks who made up their minds at the last minute did so because of Zero’s handling of Sandy (subtext, because of Christie’s praise of Zero’s handling of Sandy—one day of photo ops would not, by itself, have accomplished that).