posted this twice previously, in the AP/Rueters & Ras poll threads....
i heard Ras on Kudlow this morning....basically his message was this is Romney’s election to lose yet Romney has not done enough to win the election....
Ras said no one (electorate) believes obama has any idea or ability how to improve the economy yet at the same time Romney has blown it to date by not giving enough detail on his plan to improve the economy or reduce the deficit (i agree with the latter)...
Ras also said the rats have seen a massive short term bounce in voter enthusiasm....he credits clinton’s speech for it and said that while the rats think obama and clinton compare favorably when it comes to the economy and economic growth, Republicans disagree and more importantly, unaffiliated voters think its a joke...
bottom line- Romney needs to show more detail and according to Ras, his campaign executives told him they plan on doing exactly that this month....
If Romney thinks he can just let the bad economic news lift him to a win WITHOUT laying out how actual bad the numbers are for this country and offering SOME alternative, his ass is TOAST. Negative ads definitely help.
I wouldnt be surprised if Romney won the delegate count and Obama won the popular vote. Even though Obama is a massive prick he is still popular with the celebrities and the young people who want whatever they can get their hands on for free. Romney HAS to go out and explain these job numbers, all people are seeing is 8.1 percent unemployment, they think that number is a good thing, Romney and Ryan have to go on TV and say over and over again the ONLY reason why the number went down is because people quit looking for work. The REAL unemployment number is close to 12 percent
Ras said no one (electorate) believes obama has any idea or ability how to improve the economy yet at the same time Romney has blown it to date by not giving enough detail on his plan to improve the economy or reduce the deficit (i agree with the latter).
Funny, o hasn’t given any details either, but gets a pass. I guess we all know his plan - tax and spend and take over the country by fiat.
The debates are about specific plans. Unless he blows the debates, this is Mitt’s to lose.
“Ras said no one (electorate) believes obama has any idea or ability how to improve the economy yet at the same time Romney has blown it to date by not giving enough detail on his plan to improve the economy or reduce the deficit (i agree with the latter)...”
This is exactly the correct analysis.
Romney did some good things in the RNC convention to highlight why to vote for Romney and rebut some of the Democrat smears. But not enough was done to tie Obama’s policies to the failure in the economy. Just telling people the economy is bad isnt enough... we haveto debunk the Clinton BS that ‘nobody could have done any better’.
That’s BS indeed, when you think of all the jobs killed when Obama said no to the keystone pipeline. The jobs lost with the Obamaare medical device tax. The jobs lost because overregulating community banks in Frank-Dodd is making small business loans harder, even while the wall st TBTF banks get favored treatment under Frank-Dodd; jobs lost because Obamacare imposes huge burdens on hiring now, forcing massive health insurance rate increases.
The list goes on. It’s a target rich environment.