Romney SHOULD be winning, but isn’t. Why is that?

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 9/10/12 | Jay Bookman

[madprof98]

With unemployment still over 8 percent, household income continuing to fall and trillion-dollar deficits stretching out as far as the eye can see, the 2012 presidential race shouldn’t even be close. In fact, economic-based political models suggest that Mitt Romney ought to be strolling to an easy victory.

And yet Romney is losing. When your campaign pollster is forced to release an “OK, Nobody Panic!” memo, as Neil Newhouse did today, it’s never a good sign.

The same is true of the race to control the U.S. Senate. Of the 33 seats being contested this year, only 10 are held by the Republicans. That means that going into this election cycle, the GOP had 23 chances to pick up the four additional seats they need to claim a Senate majority. Given the public’s deep disenchantment with Congress and the willingness of wealthy conservatives to pump big money into those races, the GOP had every reason to be confident that Mitch McConnell would replace Harry Reid as Senate majority leader come January.

And yet that dream may also be slipping away.

[lentulusgracchus]

Three words:

Atlanta Urinal-Constipation.

One of the most tendentiously, tenaciously committed 'Rat journals in America today.

[Vendome]

I’m in KahLeeFawNeeYah. my vote is irrelevant.

But , come on. You know better than that. Dude has a crap product and is starting his BS equivocation stick again.

[Slyfox]

And yet Romney is losing.

Hey, people this is the Atlanta Urinal-Constipation.

'Nuff said.

[oneamericanvoice]

The race is very close, which means the Dems can and will cheat. This means that everyone needs to get out and do more than just vote for Romney. Make calls. Get people to vote. We’re at the tipping point. Let’s push it over. It’s for America.

[ansel12]

Really, you don’t need to hijack the thread by spamming it with that lengthy post.

[lentulusgracchus]

I believe he is not winning because he has failed to set the context for the election.

Mark Halperin of TIME and John Heilemann of New York Magazine made statements right after Clint Eastwood's speech at the GOP convention, to the effect that Romney's message and the GOP message won't get out because a partisan and committed media won't let it get out. Oh, various statements will be quoted ..... but as Halperin said, everything will be sliced, diced, spun, and reassembled so that the GOP message will be rendered incoherent.

They told that stuff to Charlie Rose on his show, right after Eastwood's speech. Eastwood had stung them, and Halperin was pointing out to Charlie that Eastwood's message wouldn't get out -- he was "timed out" by the MSM, which refused that night to carry anything but Romney's speech.

I think Clint's video going viral will help, but it's impossible to say how much -- you can just bet the 'RatRoots are chasing it through Cyberspace, trying to kill it.

Therefore, what you say is true, but not by any nonfeasance of the GOP ticket, but by the malicious interference of the LSM and the Regime (but I repeat myself).

[plain talk]

Bingo. Bush wouldn’t defend bush and romney won’t either. We aLl know it is more complex that that but for all his faults bush did not ruin the economy. It was imperfect but there are degrees of bad and it was nothing like what we face today.

They have to do 2 things
- contrast obama’s reign to bush’s and others and directly tie obama’s idealogy to the poor results

- sell how a pro growth platform will create jobs

Romney makes it sound like obama is a good guy but just tried and failed. He refuses to take on his failed idealogy as the root problem

[luvbach1]

You'll impose your will by force on the majority who disagree with you?

Isn't it possible that when the inevitable collapse occurs the majority will shift against the regime who imposed it?

[lentulusgracchus]

Don’t forget the tens of thousands of lawyers The Won’s regime has hired to contest elections in all 50 states.

Hadn't heard that one -- do you have a source?

[ex-snook]

"Romney SHOULD be winning, but isn’t. Why is that?"

Because, as pointed out in the primaries, he is an empty suit with money. In today's words, he sucks.

[ansel12]

I don’t believe that Mitt was ‘chosen to lose’, I think that it was his liberalism and instinctual opposition to conservatism that most interested the GOP-e in him, they had to find a man that could deal with this Palin/tea party/Reagan threat, and the man who so despises conservatism and who has fought that battle his entire life, was the perfect choice, it took two turns to get him, but they got him.

Either way they win, if Mitt wins then they get Mitt, if Mitt loses, then they still stopped the conservatives and gave themselves years to neuter and dilute the tea party.

[luvbach1]

It's because Romney is way too right wing Conservative for most Americans.[raucous laughter]

If the majority of the electorate agrees with Obama, Romney indeed would be too conservative.

[Fiji Hill]

Obama has a formidable get-out-the-vote operation. I’m on his mailing list and get e-mails from the Obama people and related PACs such as the Sierra Club every day.

[Vendome]

So you start with the name calling huh?

I’m all in if that’s how you want play.

It’s push poll and I still think Romney is a crap product and he is letting drawbacks show.

Same guy, same game and no backbone of a conscious and principled vision.

It’s just visions of his place in history and the grand savior who will fulfill “The White Horse Prophecy”

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Brute reality intrudes further still:

I’ve worked on many, many campaigns. I’ve witnessed even more than that. There is a common theme. When a campaign is behind, the pollster releases a memo explaining why they really are not that much behind and why there is nothing to worry about. It happened when Rick Perry began to slide. It happened when Newt Gingrich began to slide. It happened when Rick Santorum began to slide. It happened when John McCain began to slide in 2008. It happened when Hillary Clinton began to slide.

This is what campaigns do. I treat each and every one of them as an admission against interest that the campaign polling is going against them.

Yup. To coin a phrase: "It is what it is."

[INVAR]

The electoral process is not "run by Obama". It's run by 50 state governments, the majority of which are run by Republicans.

Continue telling yourself that in the era of Obama.

[newzjunkey]

One of these men is not like the others:

Given the historical nature of his presidency, the "rules" are thrown away. There is every reason to believe the electorate will err in his favor regardless of the objective merits of his case for reelection.

If he was John F Kerry or John McCain, a second term would not be in the cards.

Romney has to convince voters there's no reason to feel guilty, racist, afraid of judging Obama on his actual record and finding this president's not lived up the to challenge and, like predecessors similarly positioned, needs to be let go.

In light of his failure, Obama knows how critical the race card is to his reelection and that's why his surrogates used it everywhere they can. He is .

[MNJohnnie]

Most Conservatives realize that 85% of something is way better then 100% of nothing

What we have around here is a loud clique of sour grapes whiners who think if they squeal loud enough they can punish the GOP for not nominating their candidate of choice.

It is pathetic, childish and self defeating but very typical of the fringe “dogma uber alles” conservative purist around here who is not really interested in moving the political ball down the field. To rationalize their political cowardice and laziness they spend every election year screaming about the GOP not being perfect

[GlockThe Vote]

Romney is not ahead because he sucks! I will vote for RR no matter what but his campaigning is HORRIBLE!

I feel like I can make better arguments for him than he does himself!

He is not suited for politics at this level and is way too p$%^y in his approach to win against a communist and ghetto layabout like obama and his minions.

What Romney needs to do is openly mock obama for his record and say:

See staples where you shop - I helped build that.

See Sports Authority - I helped build that

See Dunkin Donues - I helped build that.

See Mass when i left? Balanced Budget \, rainey day fund 100% improvement in jobs picture.

Am I wealthy? Damn right - I worked hard and made a lot of money and don’t need this job, i want this job because ourt country is at stake and obama has no interest whatsoever in it succeeding.

something along those lines. Right now this mamby pamby nonsense is ridiculous.