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.
B/c he’s bitter. I’m ignoring him from now on. Go away, fly, shoo!
It is talking trash behind their backs.
Couldn’t agree more with your post that the real enemy is Obama. I wanted a more conservative candidate but Palin didn’t run, Newt imploded, Perry came across as a dunce, and Santorium connected with no one. Fundamentally, Romney is a capitalist and a patriot; Obama is a communist who hates America. To equate the two is ridiculous.
When was the last time a president literally gave our country to the dogs?
OMG! PERFECT!
Your vote for Romney will usher in an otherwise unbidden, unannounced Apocalypse ~ just the same as if you voted for Obama.
This is not the guy wanted by the voters ~
Now, what is it you want bad words about:
OBAMA
AXELROD
REID
PELOSI
???????
Why do you bring them up?
Obama is, of course, your typical acolyte of the anti-christ, a man much like ~ well exactly the same as Romney. We don't need his kind around here.
Axelrod's mother worked for IF Stone who was on Joe Stalin's payroll. He is, in fact, a child of another acolyte of the anti-christ, and if he could find her he'd probably trot out the Great Whore of Babylon to claim she played tata rubbing with Herman Cain, or maybe even Michelle Bachmann. Man has no scruples; has no idea what scruples are; was raised from childhood to be a dangerous sociopathic monster.
Now, about Reid ~ he's a Mormon convert ~ for what that's worth. He's made plenty of other mistakes too. But basically he has no integrity. Just another criminal in the Congress. And Pelosi ~ her father was involved with organized crime and he taught her everything he knew about leading the life. She's scum.
You want to engage in a contest where we badmouth the opposition, we can do that, but your boy gets tossed in there too. He's not different than them ~ he is one of them!
We don't need his kind around here either.
If Diogenesis was upset about it, I’m sure he/she could do it without you.
Speaking of annoying, you know it’s rude to not mind your own business?
I know exactly who to blame:
1. The GOP elite who got a man nominated who is so repulsive he can't beat the worst President we have ever had.
2. RINOs ( Romney Is Not Obama ) such as yourself who have actively supported the liberal so early in the game, he feels no need whatsoever to do anything to convince the real conservatives he will be on their side.
I’m sure that he/she was so busy working on another super clever awesome cool graphic that there would be no time to respond to you anyway.
I couldn't agree more.
There’s no evidence whatsoever that Romney is a patriot. He sat out the Viet Nam War in France.
That’s true...my bad.
Rush says you nuts, he right. Romney is 1000 times better than Zero,
People who oppose Romney are Helping Obama.
I hate the STUPID THINKING,that they are the same.
I hate Romneycare, But it ain’t OBAMACARE.
I repeat:
How can ANYONE with one brain cell possibly consider voting to re-elect Obama? Answer
1. You are black
2. Welfare or government aid receiptant
3. Hispanic (go with the illegal tribe)
4. Liberal moonbat
AND
5. Stupid conservative that can’t tell the difference between Romney and Obama and love conservatism more than American.
Looks like FR is going to be allowed to become little more than a BASH ROMNEY forum from here to Nov.
DU, obaomamama, PeelFace Nancy, Reid et all, approve this drival - ah, drive.
AFter all, you are helping their cause. You look rediculous and your deep-seated prejucide is showing...even if you do hide behind others as they spew hatred and ignorance.
What a shame.
The rules are these are open threads. You have no exclusive business on an open thread ~ we are free to pounce on your inanities as well as your insults and ignorant utterances should you have them. We might even praise you should you come around to a Conservative point of view.
Hate Obama, not America.
Guess Romney isn't a Mormon after all. He engaged in using the power of government to facilitate killing babies.
You'll probably have to take that up with your prophet. I really can't help you when it comes to certifying Mormon faithfulness.
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