Posted on 07/14/2012 1:29:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This week in the presidential campaign was driven by several stories, primarily Mitt Romney’s speech to the NAACP convention; the likely bogus rumor that Romney was considering Condoleeza Rice as his vice-presidential pick; and the hysterical, bogus claim that Romney may be a felon based on decade-old SEC filings. Let’s look at the common thread running through them.
Partisans on both sides of the aisle questioned Romney’s decision to appear at the NAACP convention, given that African-Americans have been a solidly reliable Democratic voting bloc for decades. However, a Romney campaign adviser told BuzzFeed that Romney’s attendance at the convention wasn’t primarily intended to break off a portion of the black vote, but to make clear to moderates that he intends to be an inclusive president. (I would suggest this was also part of the motivation for the Condi VP leak, if it came from the campaign.) It is really polite code for saying Romney was going after the votes of white college graduates, particularly women. Recall how the Emerging Democratic Majority theorists see this campaign:
[Ruy] Teixeira, writing with John Halpin, argues in “The Path to 270: Demographics versus Economics in the 2012 Presidential Election,” that in order to be re-elected, President Obama must keep his losses among white college graduates to the 4-point margin of 2008 (47-51). Why? Otherwise he will not be able to survive a repetition of 2010, when white working-class voters supported Republican House candidates by a record-setting margin of 63-33.
Obama’s alternative path to victory, according to Teixeira and Halpin, would be to keep his losses among all white voters at the same level John Kerry did in 2004, when he lost them by 17 points, 58-41. This would be a step backwards for Obama, who lost among all whites in 2008 by only 12 points (55-43). Obama can afford to drop to Kerry’s white margins because, between 2008 and 2012, the pro-Democratic minority share of the electorate is expected to grow by two percentage points and the white share to decline by the same amount, reflecting the changing composition of the national electorate.
Recent polling suggests Obama’s current support among non-college whites remains mired about where is was for Democrats in 2010. However, Obama has largely maintained his support with white college grads, still within the margin of error of that 47% he won in 2008. If he erodes much further in that demographic, it is also unlikely that he would be able to achieve the alternate target for the overall white vote.
Obama’s precarious position in this regard explains the increasingly negative, hysterical and defamatory campaign being waged by Team Obama, promoted by various establishment media outlets at different times over the past few weeks, culminating in the full flowering of Romney Derangement Syndrome at this week’s end. Team Obama must increasingly rely on the “otherization” of Romney (and his church) of the sort the very same people roundly condemned and marginalized when attempted against Obama in 2008. Indeed, Obama started painting himself into his current corner during the 2008 primaries. Obama ran — and has largely governed — against the Clintonian version of the Democratic Party, now extending to Obama’s weakening of welfare reform. It is thus not terribly surprising that Obama’s tenuous grip on white college grads has become the flashpoint of the 2012 campaign.
Nope; I'll vote 3rd party rather than Socialist, even one with an 'R' next to his name.
He’s bucking for a spot next to A+Bert in the FReeper hall of fame.
A vote for any third party candidate is a vote for Obama.
Don’t forget Frantzie and JasonC.
Cannot is one word indicating the inability to do something, 'can not' indicates the ability to not do something. [/Grammar Nazi]
They both are for the killing of the innocent.
They are both comfortable with a big, intrusive government.
They are both socialists.
They both will sustain and feed an ever-growing government of injustice.
How are they significantly different?
One's a crazy Mormon and the other a crazy Muslim? I'm sorry but neither socialist is getting my vote; I've had it with the GOP's "vote for X because Y is worse" and by anointing Romney, who is IMO not different than Obama, they've opened my eyes to one simple fact: they have no intention of pursuing their stated party-planks.
The only difference between Democratic and Republican parties is Democrats openly scoff at "bible-thumping gun-clingers" while Republicans are more inclined to tell the goobers what they want to hear. McCain was the perfect nominee for them, and I am sorry I ever let them convince me to hold my nose and vote for him.
Who is Mitt Romney? His governing record speaks far more eloquently than his words on the campaign trail. And this is the major problem with his candidacy. What the people get is more words from an attractive suit.
I, for one, am sick of politicians’ words: I want politicians with the guts to take action to address and solve the real problems this country is facing without rewarding their cronies and worrying about re-election.
And while it is a given that Romney has business experience, his flip flops on issues that matter most to me make me physically ill at the idea of voting for him.
Why can’t the Republicans at least nominate someone with a consistent record? At least with Obama we knew exactly what we were getting...and we voted against him for another failure of a candidate! Is this is the best the GOP has to offer?!
Here in The People’s Republic of Maryland, Obama’s victory is a certainty. My vote won’t make one bit of difference in the upcoming election.
Furthermore, at this point in our nation’s history, I don’t really think it matters who is elected president. The die is cast: our fate is sealed. We are killing our unborn, moving aside our elderly and abandoning our ally Israel. Our debt to our our enemies is insurmountable. You think things are bad here now? Just wait until we increase the pressure on Israel to give up more land for a “promise” of peace!
God have mercy on us all, and may He prepare us and protect us from what is coming....
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Does that include Obama? |
At least he hasn’t promised to throw open the castle gates to the encircling barbarian hordes after the election, when he has “more flexibility”.
Speaking of Romney Derangement Syndrome...
Bwhahahaha!
I thought this thread was about certain FReepers...
But saw that the article itself was about Obmama and the democrats.
Then I started reading the comments, and see that I was right in the first place!
LOL — That made my day.
Literally laughed at that one.
Thanks. :D
what you said is just stupid
So then my vote in actuality means nothing.
If that be the case, then you shouldn't be concerned about it.
>>So who are you going to support for president oh wise muawiyah?<<
No point in arguing with the Romney haters. They have convinced themselves that throwing their vote away doesn’t help obozo. Logic doesn’t help, math doesn’t help, nothing helps.
Just remember who to blame if obozo gets another 4 (or more) years.
Diogenesis is from California and can’t elect anyone. His vote will be lost in the total Democrat control.
In the presidential election, he and the other California conservatives are basically irrelevant. Irrelevancy is the reason for the unrelenting strident tone
What a surprise, another stupid picture from Diogenesis...I’m shocked!
Nice thing to say about the owner of this website.
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