Aim your fire here.
Tipping point. If successful, this would be the American populace committing collective suicide.
Those on the public dole are, nearly by definition, unmotivated and stupid. They're anesthetized by their TVs into a numb, ignorant state of servitude. And, generally speaking, they love to put the blame for their condition on someone else.
Who will that scapegoat be? As the journalists and comedians who form the sheeple's opinions begin to waver, Axelrod is losing control. The economy's failing, foreign affairs are perpetually on the brink of another war (how many does that make? 4? 5?), and the President seems to be disinterested and incapable of any effective leadership.
Even the telescreens can't hide it. And Obama is a very easy scapegoat.
I think if the election were held today, OMG DID YOU SEE what Kim Kardashian was WEARING the other day?
Math is never simple in American politics. I would not be surprised at all to see Romney win the popular vote on election day, but see Obama win the electoral victory by winning the really big states by narrow margins. It’s never discussed, but if you have the right states, you can win with 11 and lose the other 39.
Exactly. The part of the populace that is living on weelfare is not going to vote for someone who they perceive would take it away from them. And since that part of the poulation has grown immensely, they you are.
I keep on reading on threads that this is going to be a willard “blowout” or “landslide.” I think that’s bordering on delusional. Willard has been doing a lot better since he picked Paul Ryan, and if he continues to play his cards well that buys him a close election and a possible victory, not a landslide.
The author rather superficially puts forward a digest of hundreds of Free Republic posts over recent time. As some here say...... Captain Obvious.
What concerns me most is the potential for high-tech ward-heeler tactics to assure that the deadbeat element does vote.
The Democrats have websites and smartphone apps that show the location of every household where registered Dem’s reside. The next step is to have a goon squad visit each of these homes — carrots, sticks, and absentee ballots in hand, to make sure they are voting, and voting as instructed. This is how trade union organizers coerce workers to “petition” for unionization votes — and why unions tried to do away with secret ballots (since absent goon squad coercion, union often lose). Community organizers, ACORNistas, and SEIU types are well aware of these concepts. Communists do not relinquish power quietly; expect them to pull out all the stops this year.
Obama is going to lose by a landslide.
Especially since those RECENTLY forced on the dole aren't too keen on the meager offerings given to them. They'd rather work.
It’s going to be a close election. It’s going to take a lot of hard work to unseat the usurper.
I do believe that from a pure electoral mathematics point of view, Obama has the advantage.
You're overlooking one very important poll...The Electoral College.
Saw it in the 90's after the government shutdown in 1995 (which was Tom Daschel's idea -- same guy who brought us the Obama campaign in 2008).
Two Reagan Democrat women friends of mine were shaken up by the shutdown (and threat to their finances) to the point that, like St. Peter, they denied Reagan and ever having voted for him, and they began denouncing Republicans and Republicanism vociferously.
Reminiscent of what a former slave once said in 1870: "You tell me how a man gets his money, and I'll tell you what his opinions is."
But wait. Aren’t we supposed to hate Romney because he is a RINO, he is a Mormon, and he is just the same as Obama? Some think it does not matter who wins. Some think our republic will survive four more years of Obama. Yeah, some have a United States of America suicide wish.
Sadly, the land of the free is becoming the home of the slaves. One half of the people dependent, virtual wards of the state, and the other half taxed into oblivion, at the point of a gun, to support them.
The fix?
Elect folks who understand the obligations of their oaths to support the Constitution of the United States, to defend the God-given, unalienable rights of the people, while staying within the Enumerated Powers.
None of which Obama Democrats nor Romney Republicans can be counted upon to do, of course.