This story is pure BS
no- i think its pretty much true if you think the election will turn out as the polls predict- which i don’t since there’s 1) a 5% gap between the number of people who consider themselves Republican versus those who consider themselves rats and 2) the enthusiasm gap...
what these papers seem to avoid reporting are the polls that show obama watching his support in blue states (Connecticut, NJ, New Mexico) that gave him a huge advantage in ‘08 slowly diminish...
my point is not that Romney will win NJ or CT or NM rather don’t tell me that as obama struggles with single digit advantages in state he won by a 13%, 15%, 18% in ‘08, he’s going to win states he squeaked by in 2008 by 3%, 1%, 5%...
I saw a story earlier from The Examiner that showed Romney with a solid lead in Electoral College votes, so one of the stories is wrong.
I wish it was, but it’s not without merit. Romney’s soft-sell is not strong enough counter-action to the Team Obama lie-a-minute approach. Here’s a take that reflects my own thoughts...
I am very enthusiastic about the possibility of defeating Obama, in part because I want to 100% repeal Obamacare.
Romney is responsible for running a campaign that gins up and not tamps down enthusiasm, and step one is to STOP saying stupid things like he likes parts of Obamacare when 95% of his supporters and the majority of Americans already want it repealed; we need to hear why and how we should get rid of it. I cringed when I heard Romney say “repeal and replace Obamacare” in his convention speech, as if he needs his moderate-Mitt qualifier on it. I cringed further that he allowed the CBS folks to put up a headline that says he likes parts of Obamacare. UGGGGGHH! There is zero, nada, nothing good about Obamacare and the only ‘replace’ needed is a smoking hole in the ground. Apparently, my enthusiasm for this exceeds that of the candidate.
Romney Team shouldnt step on the story of what a rotten, dishonest, worthless, leftist, failed, jobkilling, marxist, arrogant, narcissist, jerkoff of a President Obama is, by feelign he has to be ‘fair’ to a side that calls him a murderer. lets compare the RNC softsell and the DNC hardsell, where they attacked Mitt mercilessly and went over the top to their base, while the RNC decided to have little in social conservative messaging, failed except in Ryan’s speech to go fullbore into Obama’s failures, and gave us feel-good-ism rather than conservatism … result: Obama lead Romney in the latest Ras poll by 4. Over-the-top gets the message through the media filter … soft-sell turns into dull dishwater that goes nowhere.
Clinton’s masterful dishonesty? Didnt see a blizzard of rebuttal press releases to that and the other DNC garbage.
The Obama team leftists want to destroy Mitt, attacking him personally incessently, while the Mitt team are using the failed McCain approach, being coy, subtle and not daring to rip the bark off of Obama’s thin skin and tell the story of exactly how and why Obama’s policies stink to high heaven.
I am so desperate to see Obama defeated, it pains me to see any setback in that quest. Wishing away Obama’s convention bounce doesnt mean it didnt happen. And that’s not the real concern. The real concern is this: The messages went head to head and the R&R message is not strong enough to overcome the media+Obama message.
Romney and Ryan are a good team, but the Romney team definitely need a wakeup call and its not defeatism to point it out: Romney’s campaign strategy of merely stating the economy is bad is not enough. He needs to go hammer and tong after failure after failure of Obama to make people tie their own misery and our failed to Obama’s actions.
I dont need a good campaign from Romney for ME … I’ll be voting no matter what to kick Obama out of office. But we need to work together to defeat Obama and R&R needs to sharpen up their game to get ahead of BO team.