Romney Will Lose If He Continues To Play It Safe

If you only listen to Fox News and Rush Limbaugh you believe Romney is winning. He's not, he's losing. Both Real Clear Politics and Intrade have Obama with 281 electoral votes with 11 days til the election. You only need 270 to win. Intrade predicted every state correctly in 2004 and had two states reversed in 2008.

Move your cursor over each state "click here" to see the candidates chance of winning. Notice Virginia has moved back toward Obama and has more chance of going for Obama than Ohio does of going for Romney. There have been a lot of one-off polls showing Pennsylvania and Michigan in play, however Intrade shows otherwise. Colorado is a toss up and currently leans Obama. Iowa and New Hampshire are trending Obama, while Wisconsin and Nevada are currently dark blue.

This is a far different picture from the one being painted by Sean Hannity, Dick Morris and Karl Rove. So then why is Romney pulling his punches on Benghazi? It's becoming clearer every day Obama refused to send in a rescue mission because he's haunted by the Jimmy Carter failed rescue attempt back in 1980.

I believe the Benghazi scandal has the potential of becoming one of the biggest in U.S. history. So again, why is Romney sitting with his arms folded? Because he's just as risk averse as Obama. He's terrified the media will again accuse him of politicizing the death of these four men. What, and Obama is not playing politics by withholding virtually all information, for nearly two months, until after the election?

Forget about the politics for a moment, only Romney has a megaphone large enough to force the media to get off their butts. The families deserve the truth and the American people deserve the truth. Once the truth comes out, the political consequences for Obama will be well deserved. If people knew Obama did nothing for seven hours while four of our men were being murdered, the election would be over. The problem is most people don't know. Now imagine how you'll feel on Nov. 7th if Romney loses because he played it safe by letting Obama off the hook on Benghazi.

I took a little time to review the bread-crumbs you've left on the internet. I must admit, I am mistaken. You are not a troll. However, it was easy to mistake you, what with the fact you have the same markings: The mottlings and colorings along the throat area and the wingtips. You tend to post in a trolling tone: I've noticed that throughout your Free Republic posting history, most eveything you post to everyone who challenges you in nearly ANY way, Arrogance, a mock humility, and dripping with condenscension.

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Are you SURE you are not Obama during the third debate? After all, your demeanor is much like his.

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She's slipping Laz, you better straighten her out quick.

She's a grown woman. She can make up her own mind.

No c'mon, Intrade was just a joke. Obama with 281 ec votes, yeah right!. However Real Clear Politics shows Obama with 290 ec votes, so we better take that seriously. Then again I don't want to be presumptuous. How about this, you decide what we should take seriously and then you can ping us. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/2012_elections_electoral_college_map_no_toss_ups.html

I don't presume to know for sure what is meaningful and what is not, but if one looks at the larger trend, one can draw some meaningful conclusions. If you see one goose flying south, it does not matter. If you see two, or three, flying south, that is no indication of anything. However, if you see large groups of geese flying south, in the V formations they take, it JUST might be time to check your jackets for utility for the winter, and order some heating oil for the house.

I never said I don't want to be mocked. I think it's fun mocking overly sensitive people.

Bet you were a real hoot in High school and college. Hey, kids with Downs Syndrome are very sensitive. Did you mock them too?

"Oh, well, let's get Mitt on the phone! He can stop making his own strategy or relying on HIS strategists. I mean, shoot, all they did was turn a +3 Obama average advantage, nationally, to a +3 Romney advantage. What LOSERS! I mean, *obviously* he should dump THOSE guys, all of them, and listen to some lame, snarky, a-hole anonymous guy on Free Republic (however temporarily -- LOL!) who runs a poorly-written blog such that cannot even attract a reasonable readership! I mean, WHAT IS MITT THINKING! He could have YOU!!!! LOL (at you, Sparky -- not with you!) :) :) :)"

Laz did you forget the rules? Please: NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts

Oh my. Looks like I accidently mocked the overly sensitive. This is a rough and tumble forum sometimes. Man up. I broke no rules and you know it, except the rule about mocking the mocker. :)

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I see getting some people to take off the rose colored glasses is going to be harder than I thought. Yes mitt's up 3 if you cherry pick the polls and only quote the favorable ones.

Which cherry picked polls am I quoting.... since almost every poll looks like a bucket of cherries lately. Even polls by truely Democrat-oriented polling groups have Romney up in many swing states.

If you look at the electoral college he's losing, and losing big.

279 EV+ is losing? (shrugs)

Here are a few of the headlines today:

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NewsmaxZogby: Romney Leads by 1 Point; undecideds breaking towards Romney

Rasmussen Daily: TUE: 10/30: R:49 O:47 Obama -12%

NPR Poll: R 48%, O 47% (+4 D)

ABC News Moves Pennsylvania, Minnesota from ‘Safe’ to ‘Lean’ Obama

In U.S., 15% of Registered Voters Have Already Cast Ballots (Romney leads 52 to 45 per Gallup!)

Gallup Monday: Romney 51% Obama 46%

Rasmussen: Ohio: Romney 50%, Obama 48% (Poll taken 10/28/12)

I could go on ad infinitum, but you get the picture. In fact, I haven't really uncovered any articles that support your position. I'm willing to be educated, but I haven't seen them. Not here on FR, anyways.

Add to that the many news articles that show Obama doing more-desperate actions, and Mitt Romney doing more confident actions, and I believe you might correctly draw the conclusion that -- much to both of our surprise -- Mitt Romney is doing much better than we anticipated.

The real test is two-fold:

1) What will Tuesday, November 6 show us, and

2) Can you resist the urge to fill in the next line typically?

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