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Slice the Demographics Any Way You Want, But Obama Is In Trouble
The New Republic ^
| November 30, 2011
| William Galston
Posted on 04/22/2012 6:33:41 AM PDT by lbryce
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He may be in trouble but he still has to lose, otherwise we lose, we've already lost. With Romney as the nominee, Americans are facing a uniquely odious political happenstance. For the first time in memory, there are no lesser of two evils. Romney is no less odious than the Communist-in-Chief, are in fact each others' Doppelganger. Romney is as imperfect, flawed a candidate as Obama.
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posted on
04/22/2012 6:33:45 AM PDT
by
lbryce
To: lbryce
Obamas overall approval rating stood at 43 percent, as it has for more than a montha level inconsistent with a successful reelection campaign unless theres a significant third party candidate on the right. Or a GOP nominee with a 34 percent approval rating.
Like Romney.
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posted on
04/22/2012 6:36:41 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: lbryce
He’ll be alright. Plenty of Freepers are doing the dirty work for him already in opponent research.
To: lbryce
As in 2008, Obama’s biggest strength is who the R’s put up against him, assuming Romney gets the nom.
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posted on
04/22/2012 6:37:39 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: chargers fan
Problem is, though I would never vote for Obama, I’m not so sure he’d be worse than Romney. Romney is much more competent and, looking at his track record, that is not a good thing.
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posted on
04/22/2012 6:40:32 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: lbryce
Slice the Demographics Any Way You Want, But Obama Is In Trouble Putting a loser up against someone who is in trouble when they both tote the same dogma can make a winner out of trouble in no time at all.
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posted on
04/22/2012 6:42:54 AM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: lbryce
We got Johnson because of Lee Harvey Oswald.
We got Carter because of Watergate.
We got Clinton the first time because of Perot.
We got Clinton the second time because of Perot and Dole.
We got Obama the first time because of McCain.
We'll get Obama the second time because of Romney.
You have to got waaaaaaay back to before I was born to find a Democrat who won an election because people actually liked him. I think you might have to go back to JFK -- but plenty of people say he stole the election from Nixon. So maybe you have to go back to Harry Truman.
People just don't like Democrats. But we still get them.
Odd, ain't it?
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posted on
04/22/2012 6:55:52 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Like Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin has become simply a stick with which to beat Whites.)
To: lbryce
“unless theres a significant third party candidate on the right.”
Enter Ron Paul, who isn't running for reelection to Congress and would like nothing more than to destroy the party that rejected his nut-ball ideas for years.
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posted on
04/22/2012 6:57:57 AM PDT
by
Beagle8U
(Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
To: lbryce
Couldn’t use any off your links...circular reference.
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posted on
04/22/2012 7:02:28 AM PDT
by
capt. norm
(Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never run out of material. c)
To: chargers fan
Man do you have that right.
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posted on
04/22/2012 7:02:39 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: lbryce
It’s a good thing for Zero that the GOP chose a gun grabbing socialist as their candidate, or else he would have been in trouble.
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posted on
04/22/2012 7:06:40 AM PDT
by
vmivol00
(I won't be reconstructed.)
To: ClearCase_guy
We got Johnson because Johnson had Kennedy hit. Oswald, the lone nut assassin, who was killed by a lone nut assassin (sure) is nothing but a fairy tale the msm has told the American people about for fifty years.
Just sayin’
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posted on
04/22/2012 7:16:23 AM PDT
by
kjo
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To: lbryce
He's lost the Evangelicals and the Catholics. A Democrat has never won without them. Republicans have, but not Democrats.
But he's probably hijacked the vote-counting system, so it's all moot.
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posted on
04/22/2012 7:24:19 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(For every black person murdered by a white, thirty-nine white people are murdered by blacks.)
To: Admin Moderator; lbryce
I apologize for my attempt at posting this article, the source of which, "The New Republic", not approved as a source for posting here at FR, was something I was unaware of, as the links to the original article having been removed.
I am aware of the list of sources not welcome here at FR. In determining whether or not a news source is one that is approved, I will first do a search to see whether the publication has a posting history, then proceed with attempts at posting it. Banned or unapproved sources as you know quite well will prompt a message stating it as being unapproved.
My search turned up no history for the New Republic, which gave me cause to believe it wouldn't be posted but the subject matter, title was too compelling not to try.
Again, my sincerest apologies, will know better for now on.
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posted on
04/22/2012 7:24:25 AM PDT
by
lbryce
(BHO:The Infestation of Washington, DC Ends When the Cockroach- in-Chief is Evicted in 2013)
To: capt. norm
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posted on
04/22/2012 7:25:40 AM PDT
by
lbryce
(BHO:The Infestation of Washington, DC Ends When the Cockroach- in-Chief is Evicted in 2013)
To: lbryce
Give out free marijuana and crack to the urbanites on election day and only the dead vote will show up.
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posted on
04/22/2012 7:41:53 AM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: lbryce
Give out free marijuana and crack to the urbanites on election day and only the dead vote will show up.
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posted on
04/22/2012 7:42:46 AM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: lbryce
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posted on
04/22/2012 7:45:41 AM PDT
by
Brandonmark
(2012: Our Hope IS Change!)
To: ClearCase_guy
Great points, but I imagine someone on the other side could make similar assertions:
We got Nixon because of Johnson and Vietnam (in 1968)
We got Ford because of Nixon
We got Reagan because of Carter (i.e. Carter sucked)
We got Bush 1 because of Dukakis
We got Bush 2 because of Gore
Ofcourse, you could point to Nixon-Reagan 49-state landslides, but those were re-elections.
"People just don't like Democrats" may be too simplistic, and perhaps ok in an echo chamber like FR, just like I can imagine similar observations ("People just hate Republicans") at Upper East Side cocktail parties...
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posted on
04/22/2012 7:48:11 AM PDT
by
nwrep
To: cuban leaf
though I would never vote for Obama, Im not so sure hed be worse than Romney
If you really believe that, you're absolutely delusional.
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04/22/2012 8:07:25 AM PDT
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