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Romney Stops Pulling Punches
FOX News ^ | 09/26/2012 | Chris Stirewalt

Posted on 09/26/2012 11:37:41 AM PDT by nhwingut

Whatever Democratic skew may exist in the public polling on the presidential race, there’s no question about the current trajectory of the 2012 campaign: Republican Mitt Romney, who has steadily trailed by a small margin, is losing ground. Conservatives and the Romney campaign may say that the swing state polls which shows a widening lead for Obama are out of whack, but the trend is unmistakable. A month ago in must-win Ohio, Romney trailed in the Quinnipiac University poll commissioned by the New York Times and CBS News by 6 points. It’s now 10 points.

Polls may not be predictive, but even a poll that doesn’t reflect the actual condition of the electorate can still show you the trend line. And right now, there aren’t any indications that Romney is closing the gap. Romney may be closer than a double-digit deficit, but he’s sure not where he needs to be.

Romney’s attack slogan on President Obama has been “Obama isn’t working,” but it’s clear that Romney’s strategy hasn’t been working.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; ohio; romney
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To: nhwingut

“Whatever Democratic skew may exist in the public polling on the presidential race, there’s no question about the current trajectory of the 2012 campaign: Republican Mitt Romney, who has steadily trailed by a small margin, is losing ground.”

Really!?! A statement like this is hysterical. The author might as well have said: “Sure there is a skew in the polls making them unreliable, but if you ignore that there is no doubting that those polls show Romney losing ground. . .”


41 posted on 09/26/2012 1:55:53 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: drypowder
Let’s see, it has been reported by Gerome Corsi in the past week that the House of Saud was intricately involved in providing the obozo the means to attain higher education.

That was Frank Miele, who over the weekend turned up a 1979 newspaper column by Vernon Jarrett (Valerie Jarrett's father in law, and also a good friend of Frank Marshall Davis). To read it, go here and drag the paper to the right (Google couldn't identify Jarrett's headline). The column bolsters what Percy Sutton spilled in 2008: that Saudi-connected Khalid al-Mansour (aka Donald Warden) had introduced young Obama to him 20 years before and requested Sutton write a letter in support of Obama's admission to Harvard Law School. Miele writes:

Back in 2008, while actually supporting Hillary Clinton in the New York primary, Percy Sutton was interviewed on TV and said that he thought Barack Obama was nonetheless quite impressive. He also revealed that he had first heard about Obama 20 years previously in a letter where al-Mansour wrote, “there is a young man that has applied to Harvard. I know that you have a few friends up there because you used to go up there to speak. Would you please write a letter in support of him?”

Sutton concluded in the interview, “I wrote a letter of support of him to my friends at Harvard, saying to them I thought there was a genius that was going to be available and I certainly hoped they would treat him kindly.”

Given that Saudi money likely put him through law school, it casts a new light on that photo of Zero bowing to King of Saudi Arabia, doesn't it?

42 posted on 09/26/2012 2:01:33 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: paul544

Quote: “If what you’re saying were true, would Romney have to “take off the gloves”? He knows he’s behind and see no choice but to be more aggressive. Too little, too late in my opinion.”

Too little too late? Maybe it is more a case of keepiong his powder dry and letting Obama punch himself out. But I find it curious that until recently the polls were showing a large number of independents and/or undecideds. One trend to note is that Romney was way up with independents in most of those polls. Yet, yet, now suddenly those polls are dissapearing the independents from the polling data. Suddenly they only comprise 1%. Yeah, right, sure.

My simple question is this, if a Republican were in the White House right now with the state of country as it is, what would the polls be saying right now? I think we all know that they would be saying Democrat landslide. What I can’t believe is that election after election after election we see the MSM pull the same dirty tricks and in election after election after election too many eat what the MSM is feeding them.

I really don’t know the state of this race right now because those who are supposed to objectively report it took sides long ago. Anyone who tells you that they know the state of the race is lying.


43 posted on 09/26/2012 2:06:14 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: DAC21

Luckily he started doing that today. Now if only he continues that.


44 posted on 09/26/2012 2:40:24 PM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: cardinal4
All you have to do is look around your social circles and ask:
Who voted FOR Obama in 2008, and will NOT in 2012?
Who did NOT vote for Obama in 2008, but WILL in 2012?

Other than new-voting teens, I don't see many people in the second group... and really large numbers of people (and many of then very very eager) in the second group, from all walks of life.... rich, poor, liberal, old, young, retired...

Only the media and voter fraud can keep this close, and I'm not sure either can be done enough to save Obama's position.

45 posted on 09/26/2012 2:43:38 PM PDT by Teacher317 ('Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.)
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To: cynwoody
thanks for re-posting that article, it would do well if it were posted all over the web everyday. Corsi weighed in on the subject on WND last week.
46 posted on 09/26/2012 2:57:45 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: Teacher317

I know a lot of folks disdain FB, but it is a great indicator of what people are saying/thinking/doing. My friends list represents a good cross section of America, literally. Before it was about even Left or Right. Now it is about 80-20 Right to Left..

The biggest things that seems to have swung the meter? The Obama flag, media bias, and believe it or not, the faux war on women. And all of these are fairly recent things..


47 posted on 09/26/2012 3:19:15 PM PDT by cardinal4 (If Baraq Hussein Obama had a son he would look like Rageboy)
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To: cardinal4

one thing that has happened on my FB list is the lefties have become angrier and more deranged than usual.
It has gotten to the point where the libertarians and conservatives are so sick of it - that we/they don’t really post about politics anymore.
All it does is ignite the same ‘ole tired conversations over and over again.

So actually - my guess is that most people who remain quiet are more likely RR voters


48 posted on 09/26/2012 3:26:18 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Viennacon

What did the crowd look like?


49 posted on 09/26/2012 5:12:20 PM PDT by zt1053
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