Posted on 09/08/2012 8:51:38 PM PDT by smoothsailing
September 8, 2012
Jim Hoft
Gallup polling today put Obama ahead of Mitt Romney by 4 points after the godless DNC Convention.
Back in 1980 Gallup had Jimmy Carter up over Ronald Reagan by 4 points in September.
Ronald Reagan ended up winning by 9 points and taking 44 states.
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I suspect that the polls are not that far off. Unfortunately, we are not the same country we were in 1980, and it probably is not going back. L&L.
Palin was up 5. McCain lost that and more.
Totally agree. There is now a much larger percentage of the population that votes for a living, rather than working for it.
I think the race is essentially tied. I think it all comes down to turnout and the few persuadable undecideds. I think the majority of undecideds will go Repub, so if the Democrat turnout is lower in the battleground states, Obama should lose. All bets are off if Romney gets clobbered in the debates.
I woke up to the media bias when I went to the Rally for Life in Washington in April, 1990. It was one of the largest crowds to ever attend a rally in Washington. UPI reported 800,000 people in their first wire report. The next day, CNN said “60,000 attended”(!), and the rest of the media said 150-200,000(when they covered the event at all). It was a real eye opener.
I think we make a pretty sad crowd if we’re going back to a bad Gallup poll in 1980 to make ourselves feel better.
Here's an example I used in another thread:
If 56 people vote for Obozo out of 100 people voting that's 56%
But
if 23 people vote for Obozo out of 50 people voting that's also 56%
This is why voter turnout for your side is so important. If you only look at the percentages then you wouldn't know 50 less people bothered to show up to vote for your guy.
Right now, Obozo is running ads in California....and several freepers have commented that if this is true than Obozo must be in real trouble.
I as well as others think its voter apathy...they just aren't going to get off their butts to vote.
However, I've also wondered if its the gay marriage evolution by Obozo that's turning them (Blacks and Hispanics in particular) off. After all, they where the ones who made sure the gay marriage prop didn't pass in California to all our astonishment.
Nothing new there, the did the same thing with Goldwater.
And looking at the chart, had Carter up by 8 points in October.
My political awareness of the bias of the media happened much the same way. I watched Oliver North's testimony to congress on Cspan (I think) and remember coming away thinking that he was a straight shooter and was absolutely being honest and straight forward about what he was saying. THEN later I watched the news and read the newspaper. Night and day. Knew right then I couldn't trust the media to tell me how to think.
I also canceled all my newspaper and news magazine subscriptions right around 1993 too. Interesting?....
....and I'd started to listen to Rush in 1992.
Of course, then I watched us kick out the Democrats in the House and Senate in 1994 and laughed all night watching those same media genius's gape at what was happening.
I'm hoping for more of this in this election cycle but I'm pretty sure the Lamestream media are already composing a database full of all the excuses they're going to pump into the teleprompters for election night coverage.
Have you ever noticed that the only time the media actually is "physically working" these days is when they're busy making up excuses for Democratic failures?
Well the MSM is going to do everything within their power to make Romney look bad in the debates. I hope he is prepping w/ that in mind. Actually, I fully expect obama to be given the questions in advance so his answers will flow instead of that stumbling, bumbling act he typically displays when speaking off the cuff.
Worth remembering. Thanks.
Worth remembering. Thanks.
“Romney’s strategy is not promising, it is defensive. He is treating as normal election, he should exploit current poor economy and make every state in play.”
He doesn’t need every state, that would be a waste of resources.
what hasn’t gotten much play yet from the press or pundits, is the ground game or the GOTV campaign.
Romney will have a distinct cash advantage to apply towards a GOTV campaign, and in the end this is always the deciding factor in a close election ex: Bush 2004.
We have to have a little patients and let the Romney campaign unfold. They are not handicapped buy a shortfall of cash.
Yes but as usual, one key point is missed by these guys - the MSM blasted Carter night after night for the hostage crisis. Carter did not own the MSM the way 0 does...
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