Posted on 06/23/2012 10:26:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When Erie County Democrats cast ballots in the Pennsylvania primary, 17 percent either didn't vote for President Barack Obama or wrote in someone else's name. In Crawford County, 23 percent of Democrats at the polls declined to vote for the president.
And the website www.PoliticsPA.com recently reported that in 27 of the state's 67 counties, primarily in central and southwestern Pennsylvania, more than 30 percent of the Democratic voters failed to vote for Obama on April 24.
Does that translate into a battleground-state problem for Obama against presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney in the Nov. 6 election?
Bill Cole, Erie County Democratic Party chairman, said he's not concerned. Some voters were focused on contested races and weren't concerned about an uncontested race, he said.
"The fall will be much more intense. ... It's like a party where the bands are starting to play,'' he said.
But two local political scientists said there's at least some cause for concern.
Robert Speel, associate political-science professor at Penn State Behrend, said, "It's never good if registered Democrats are not voting for a presidential candidate who doesn't have any opposition on a primary ballot.''
But Speel said he doesn't think the voters who took a pass on Obama in the primary will have an effect on his showing in Pennsylvania.
"I don't think it will hurt him in the fall,'' he said.
Speel pointed to recent history as the reason.
Four years ago, Obama lost the Pennsylvania primary to Hillary Rodham Clinton, yet easily won the state against John McCain in the general election, he said...
(Excerpt) Read more at goerie.com ...
Philadelphia wasn’t reporting 105 - 113% of the eligible aged voters in those days.
I think Mitt Romney could win by simply promissing to stay in the oval office at least four days a week and STAY OFF TV at least half the time Obama is on TV.
Also NO MAJOR policy speaches every week. Just STFU and do the job.
A taxpayer voting for Barack Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders!
Barack you got NO friends! QUIT!!
Fixed
Or to not rant and rave how he HAD to break the Constitution all those times because the Constitutional form of government is such an impediment to "progress".
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