Posted on 03/14/2012 9:01:30 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Could Howard Dean be the worst political prognosticator ever? Could a former DNC Chairman really be this clueless about the electoral map? Apparently.
On MSNBC's Ed Show this evening, Dean claimed it was possible that in a match-up against Barack Obama, Mitt Romney might win fewer than the six states Barry Goldwater carried in 1964. Seriously, Dr. Dean? You see President Barack Obama carrying, oh, I don't know, Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Nebraska and Idaho--all states Goldwater lost--plus some others Goldwater won. Utah, maybe?
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Interesting that since that electoral map was formed in `64, Minnesota has gone GOP only once (1972). Even the Peoples Republics of HI, MA and VT have more recency as “red” states.
About 70% of Primary voters are voting against Romney, and many of his current primary voters in this race voted for Obama in 2008 against Palin.
Not since Abe Lincoln's election in 1860, with major parties split six or eight ways from Sunday, has the electoral situation so much favored a third-party win.
Romney and Obama would be competing for many of the same voters -- liberal Republicans and liberal Democrats -- totaling only half of the voters in a general election.
I would prefer an Open Convention with a conservative Republican to run against Obama. Barring that, our best chance to save mankind is a direct hit from that asteroid resulting in a near ELE.
Romney is Dole with better hair. We have a real chance with a president who has approval ratings at 40% or less, but we are going to blow it.
Obama has a much larger solid base of people who will vote for him even if the country is aflame, no matter what.
There are large portions of our base who will refuse to vote for Romney.
I can’t believe it. I think Romney will be the candidate. We have allowed the MSM to pick our candidate for us AGAIN.
Personally, I’m finding these projections for 2012 have become a big puzzle.
They’re all over the board, with some saying Obama’s toast and others saying he’s a shoo-in.
It can’t be both, and the thought of voters sticking with Obama after the past three moronic years is unspeakably depressing.
Can Americans really be this stupid?
Even tho I actually am dreading the idea of a Romney nomination, if he is the nominee, he will carry more states than Goldwater in ‘64. We’ve become far more set politically/geographically.
Also, Obama doesn’t have the post-JFK assassination sympathy/ shock/vote going for him. At the time Goldwater was looked at as an extremist by a huge part of the population; his views today would be considered mainstream conservative; Romney is considerably more oderate-liberal (wishy-washy) than Goldwater (to put it mildly).
Looks more to me that the GOP elitists and the MSM worked together (in a manner of speaking) to choose our candidate.
This whole Pubbie primary process smells like week old diapers to me.
Yes, they can, they are, and they will be again.
Every day that I talk to my BIL, his idiot wife and his New Deal uncle I am more convinced than ever that we are totally screwed.
You know that alcoholics can rationalize anything to support their drinking. Well, liberals make them look like amateurs.
The other day a reporter interviewed a lady that is really having a hard time. Her husband lost his good job and the job he has now pays little more than minimum wage, her job has really cut her hours; their home was forclosed on and one of their vehicles was reposessed. The woman was telling the reporter they could barely afford fuel to get to work and groceries to feed the family. All this and when the reporter asked her who she planned to vote for she said Obama because all this is not his fault and he is doing the best he can.
Good plan. Give Obama a chance to pack the federal courts for decades...
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