Posted on 09/19/2012 9:13:02 AM PDT by ReaganÜberAlles
It is beginning to occur to me, that at some point, it seems that no matter what the Dems throw at Romney it does not sink him. He bounces back. Rasmussen has him up and new polls shows him pulling away in NC and taking the lead in NH.
Could the narrative soon become that because of the dismal economy and seething dissatisfaction with the direction of the country that Romney has "rope a doped" Obama and nothing he throws at him will knock him out?
Agree most people have decided BUT I think either candidate can lose some support to a scandal, and I think a lot of people are waiting to abandon Obama if Romney does well in the debates.
Some of the recent polls show an increase in approval for Obama on the economy, but I frankly think that is largely just Dems coming home to support him on everything, not a real shift.
The reason is clear. The country is too polarized for things like this to matter. There aren’t enough voters in the middle to tip things (though Romney wins those by a comfortable margin). Even if Romney murdered someone, I’d still crawl through lava to vote for him. It’s the same for some on the other side with Obama. You either love Obama and free birth control, and you want to see him be president again, or you hate him with a passion.
This election will all come down to turnout, and seeing as we have the most hated Dem president among conservatives in the history of the nation, we have a big advantage there.
Bambi ain't particularly popular, even here.
We've made a record number of calls; walk to every single called person and do a lit drop; and have identified every switch voter from 2008 and every indie and every Republican. The county chairman, who has done informal indie polling since May is so optimistic I don't dare state his prediction.
I’ve said this from the beginning.. there is NOTHING Obama and his minions can throw at Romney and change the fact Obama is going to lose, because OTHER THAN THE KOOL AID DRINKERS NO ONE IS LISTENING TO OBAMA! THe electorate by and large WROTE HIM OFF LONG AGO!
This election is nothing more than bread and circuses, the press is doing to bend over backwards to try to save Obama, its not going to work.
The press is inventing controversy, and its blatant, even democratic voters can see the game going on, Obama is done. Its not going to be close people.. Obama has ZERO chance of holding any state he won by less than 55% of the vote in 08, period. He won’t get over 42-43$% of the popular vote on election day and very possibly could get under 40%
Hope you right, HJ.
Its also important to note that Michigan has been trending rightward for a while now. Kerry’s 04 win here wasn’t huge and 08 was a special case. 2010 was a massacre of the democrats and this year it looks like they’re mostly just trying to hold seats they have without really challenging for new pickups.
We are working for the Romney campaign in Michigan, it is a toss up here, the first time since 1984 that the dems might lose a presidential election in MI.
That being said, it's not really us working for Mitt, it's the genuine (and very defensible) fear of Bambi's administration for another four years.
I expect if we drag him over the finish line we will have to work very hard to drag him further to commons sense conservative principles, or at least towards them.
However, I am heartened by his tendency to be far more "conservative" during this campaign than he seemed to be, and more courageous in his statements, esp. about the ME.
I fear our RINO squish gubner will stall good conservative ideas from being implemented here.
my 18 yo has been interning with Romney HQ in Northern VA since the summer and his operation here is also very impressive. AND, he wasn’t even in the state for primaries, since no one but ronpaul was on the ballot here.
If that turns out true, I'm not going to be upset. If he does well, I can eat crow and say so.
Right now I just want to get rid of the Marxist stain in the white hut.
Rick Santorum has been making some campaign stops with Pete Hoekstra. He also has some good endorsements from Herman Cain and I believe Michele Bachmann.
After watching the ‘secret video’, I’m more hopeful. He gets it, I think.
The thing I love about that video is that the campaign has resigned itself to something very sensible - you haven’t got much to offer people getting things for free who lack the desire to provide for themselves.
I’m not sure he meant to do the next bit, but he also implied that either you are that kind of person, one of the 47%, or you are not, and if you’re not, you probably ought to be voting for Romney.
He almost said, “Look, if you believe that your working neighbors owe you a living, and that you shouldn’t have to do anything to earn it, vote for Obama, because that’s what he stands for. If you’re the kind of person that believes you should have the opportunity to earn your own living, and not be a burden to your neighbors, then vote for me, because that’s the difference between me and Obama.”
Of course it can be stopped. We can make the USA a massive energy exporter for the next century and not import a ml of foreign energy and we’d be on the right side of things in 10 years.
Even my kids are starting to get a sense of what Obamism is about at the cafeteria line. You’ve got entire schools boycotting the sh*tty, calorie-capped lunches that fat-assed first lady imposed by fiat on the scruel children.
I think a big part of it is just that Obama and his lapdog media have a huge credibility gap. Only the 20-30% of the country that are hardcore socialists actually pretend to believe what they say anymore, and I have a feeling even they know what is going on, even if they won’t admit it.
Mitt was right again about the dangerously large number of people in this country who sponge off government and have no financial stake in the country. They just saw Rahmbo cave in the the teachers union and government unions narrowly defeated in their attempt to take over Wisconsin.
I hope the MSM keep harping on these non-"gaffes."
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