Posted on 09/12/2012 6:19:53 AM PDT by Ravi
see above
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I really wish there were some swing state polls from Rass or Mason-Dixon coming out; all there is is crap from PPP and a bunch of outfits I’ve never heard of before.
Agreed. It can be much better, but it is far from terrible. From a campaign manager perspective they probably are looking at it differently. For example, there is no core theme that they are resonating on Obama. Think back to the flip/flop mantra Bush used in 2004. Everyone could have recited it. With this campaign, there is no core message resonating on the opponent. The convention had that missing. They hit him on failures, but there was no overarching take-away.
To me Cadell is over the top here. It is like ESPN when they see one game and vastly over-react in their analysis.
He needs to expose the fraud that the current unemployment rate is.
The real rate, if the number of job seekers were calculated in a fair manner would be 12%+.
I think these are accurate.
Remember unemployment is high. Obama has thrown a basket of stuff at the unemployed to counter.
But unemployment is high.
This is a critical election. Romney needs, to do something about unemployment from his first day in office. Strongly.
Otherwise we pass the point of return.
We’re not past the point of return yet though.
(yet)
Is there so much smoke that something is really going wrong in Ohio? Lose Ohio and lose the election, imo.
@JimPethokoukis: As I said during the RNC, a top GOP operative who knows Ohio well says the state is lost
Pat Caddell is probably the most honest/accurate pundit out there. He NEVER shies away from criticizing Democrats, so we should listen when calls Romney’s campaign the worst in history. I just don’t understand what happened to the Romney who was so fired up after the Ryan pick? He seemed energized, went on the attack more, and had momentum. The the GOP convention came, it mostly was passive crap, and things went to heck after.
Oops. Make that 9:30 ET.
What would Romney be saving? We were told for months they were holing their fire for that blistering “shock and awe” ad campaign that would blow Obama out of the water. Well, those ads came and they were typical passive Romney weak sauce. I just don’t think the guy has anything that can really hurt The Messiah. None of this makes any sense.
I answered a survey from NBC-Marist yesterday for a Virginia poll. Look for that one to come out soon. Given their history, it'll be hugely slanted toward the 0-boy. Virginia, however, is righting itself and moving toward Romney.
With Egypt and Libya, this election is his for the taking...but he needs to attack Obama mercilessly for his disastrous foreign policy, while still fresh in peoples’ minds.
I actually don’t think the University polls are nearly as bad as people make them out to be. I’d prefer them over PPP, or-random-new-organization-of-the-week.
Just out of curiousity, were you polled on a landline?
I don’t even have one (just a cellphone) I know that’s been an issue for pollers for years now.
with leaners included its R48 and o 47
We in are the last minutes of the last days. And I don't mean just for America.
The foreign policy debate will be the last one, 1 week before the election, I think. First one is domestic, second is that idiotic town hall nonsense which will end up all domestic, I assume.
They need to come up with ads, like yesterday, attacking Obama’s disastrous foreign policy. And Mitt needs to clearly state his foreign policy goals. It cannot wait.
I was polled on my cell, took the call from an actual live poll worker on the way home.
The problem is that people basically just want foreign policy to go away.
And polling finds wide support among both Republicans and Democrats for cutting the defense budget.
massive, although given the establishment media- probably temporary, sigh of relief.
Sure, I would love to eliminate the waste in the defense budget, which is considerable, I don’t believe that necessarily means cutting our defense capabilities.
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