Posted on 04/19/2012 8:46:37 PM PDT by lbryce
Newt Gingrich may not have got the memo but the battle for the Republican nomination is over. Some in the Romney campaign were hoping for a Febuary end but others were fearing it would go on until June and a small number of Republicans even predicted a convention fight in August.
All in all, April is not a bad result for Mitt Romney - long enough to test him, short enough to allow him to focus solely on the general for the final six months.
Despite the very recent and ugly and negative primaries, Romney's struggle with conservatives and the relative difficulty he had in overcoming a lacklustre field, Republicans - who tend to fall in line more readily than Democrats - are already uniting behind him.
Obama_1318962c President Barack Obama: in deep trouble
The RealClearPolitics poll average puts President Barack Obama at 47 percent and Romney at 44.2 percent - statistically insignificant lead of 2.2 percent.
Drill down into the numbers of the latest CBS poll and there are ominous signs for Obama. Only 33 percent of Americans believe the economy is moving in the right direction. A mere 16 percent feel they are getting ahead financiallty. Some 38 percent think their situation will get worse of Obama is re-elected, 26 percent think it will get better.
A cursory look back at incumbent versus challenger presidential races does not give Obama much comfort.
In April 1976, President Gerald Ford was in about the same position as Obama is now. He lost the 1976 general election to Jimmy Carter by two points. In April 1980, President Jimmy Carter was leading Ronald Reagan by 38 points to 32 points with John Anderson on 22. In November 1980, Reagan won by three points.
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“Couldn’t be A better time to say “Hot Diggity Dawg!”
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Yes, but do not underestimate the vote fraud that will be
worlds above what it was in the past.
On top of that, you now have an electorate that has been
dumbed down my Marxist education and media, far greater then anything in the past.
America is being turned upside down, and is nothing like it was, even 10 years ago.
Newt Gingrich has not "got" the memo because that particular memo does not currently exist.
Newt is still in, and Romney has not "got" the nomination.
Lets not get Cocky —Obama is a smart hustler, and a good speaker, he’s Got the Unions behind him, the American Black Community and a Billion dollar war chest. Its going to be a hard battle but, I think we can keep the House, Win the Senate
Gain the White House and a few Governors Mansions and state houses. Will hard work we can roll back the Obamacare—put conservatives in Congress and hold Mittens to a Conservative agenda.
Precisely. The nomination is not over.
This guy should fact check. Reagan beat Carter by nine, not three.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1980
BTTT
I admire the adept reaganophile that you are.
Yes there could => 11/06/2012
Amen!
Only to people who haven't two functioning brain cells to rub together.
No, he does not.
He announced he would like one, but the funds are not coming in like he thought.
” . . . Obama is a smart hustler, and a good speaker, . . . “
Only to people who haven’t two functioning brain cells to rub together.
Amen, brother. Even fans know that dazzling bullshit doesn’t work anymore on any but the crazies.
I still say if he is low enough in the polls, Hillary will be he VP on the ticket with him. Don’t underestimate what they will do to hold onto power.
Only to people who haven't two functioning brain cells to rub together.
That is so true.
Brother have you got that right. It's not the same country anyone over 40 grew up in , and in the past 4 years it's looking more like a turd world Latin American dictatorship than ever.
That should at least fire up his base.
Woof.
I’m hardly a Romney fan, but there’s no way I’m going to give Obama a free pass to re-election. And yeah, the nomination is over. People are fooling themselves if they think Newt is coming back. We conservatives know all about Romney’s flaws...there are plenty... but come campaign time we need to stop tearing down mittens. It only emboldens Obama’s minions. Hussein doesn’t need anymore friends.
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