Posted on 10/23/2012 1:39:55 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
# Republican campaign sees chance to capitalise on President's struggles
# Set to launch new push in states where Obama had double-digit victory
# Election likely to come down to Florida, Virginia and above all Ohio
Mitt Romney is to travel to Wisconsin, a state Barack Obama won in a 14-point blowout four years ago, as the Republican candidate's surging campaign seeks to expand the 'chessboard' into previously safe Democratic territory.
At the same time, the Romney campaign has bought television advertising in the Boston market, which reaches screens in New Hampshire, a state Obama won by almost 10 points in 2008.
Asked whether Romney himself would be visiting Wisconsin in the closing days of the race, Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior Romney adviser, said: 'Yes. Paul Ryan was just in Pittsburgh. We'll be back in Wisconsin, sure. Wisconsin is definitely in play.'
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He should make a swing up to Marinette WI where the Littoral Combat Ship is made and ask the folks there what they think of Barry’s plans to s(hr)ink the Navy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_class_littoral_combat_ship
I see now who is the bitter clingers
Rubio and Biden are coming to Wisconsin this week.
Okay Freepers, I want to ask you for your opinions. Please, can someone explain to me how anyone in WI who voted for Scott Walker in the Recall Election would then vote for Zero for president? Seriously. Why shouldn’t the presidential election have the same Rep/Dem result as the Recall?
A vote for Scott Walker meant you were against union thuggery, and for easing the burden of tax payers funding the pensions/medical bills of state workers, and for putting a stop to having union dues automatically deducted from state paychecks and deposited straight into the union coffers that would then end up funding Dim campaigns, and so forth and so forth. A vote for Walker meant all of those things. SO HOW COULD anyone who voted for Walker turn around and vote for Zero?
Why shouldn’t we have every reason to expect the same result for Romney that Walker got?
And don’t forget: exit polls said the Recall was TOO CLOSE TO CALL. What a load of @#$@!
Okay Freepers, I want to ask you for your opinions. Please, can someone explain to me how anyone in WI who voted for Scott Walker in the Recall Election would then vote for Zero for president? Seriously. Why shouldn’t the presidential election have the same Rep/Dem result as the Recall?
A vote for Scott Walker meant you were against union thuggery, and for easing the burden of tax payers funding the pensions/medical bills of state workers, and for putting a stop to having union dues automatically deducted from state paychecks and deposited straight into the union coffers that would then end up funding Dim campaigns, and so forth and so forth. A vote for Walker meant all of those things. SO HOW COULD anyone who voted for Walker turn around and vote for Zero?
Why shouldn’t we have every reason to expect the same result for Romney that Walker got?
And don’t forget: exit polls said the Recall was TOO CLOSE TO CALL. What a load of @#$@!
It’s going to be a long night...as usual. Thank goodness Wednesday is one of my days off.
I’m planning on taking off on Wed too (assuming 0 looses)
The MSM will not call any surprise "R" states until late - at least until after the West Coast closes. They will say they are doing this in the interest of "fairness to Western voters" - but it will really be to prop up the Obama myth until the last possible second.
I’ll venture a guess that the polls are factoring in the longer electoral history of WI, weighting in favor of the Dems who’ve won most presidential elections n WI.
But a recall or off year election cannot be compared to a presidential election. Turnout for a presidential is probably at least twice that of an off year election. I don’t know what the turnout was for the recall, but imagine it was nowhere near the level of a presidential election.
So, even if every person who voted for Scott Walker votes for Romney, as will likely be pretty much the case, there remains a large segment of voters who didn’t participate in that recall election who will be voting in the presidential. Based on WI’s electgoral history, the majority of those voters would vote for Obama.
Why do I feel Romney will win Wisconsin?
For starters, at the peak of the hateful protests, the Wisconsin Democrats were unable to win control of the Supreme court with conservative Justice Prosser defeating the liberal Kloppenburg. This was their big chance to control the Supreme Court and have it rule against all of Governor Walker’s anti public union legislation. They failed.
Next step was to recall Governor Walker. While they succeeded in forcing a recall election, they lost and lost badly.
How does this relate to Romney winning? Simple....
Not all of the people in the public unions are moon-bat liberals, while they may have voted against Prosser and Walker in their own financial best interest, they will not automatically vote for Obama.
The biggest point is that Obama promised during his election campaign that he would stand side by side with the unions and would be there marching with them in support. He failed to keep his word, never showing up to support them. Even the national Democratic party ignored requests for more money to spend on the recall election. The liberals and the unions felt abandoned by Obama.
Obama did not do as he had promised them. So there should be little enthusiasm to vote for the liar in chief. It is their turn to abandon Obama.
OBAMA LIED AND THE WISCONSIN PUBLIC UNIONS DIED.
My memory fails in part, but I DO seem to recall that there was talk at the time that Obama managed to go to Chicago, but couldn’t find time to go to WI when it would have helped the unions. Or that he made a cameo appearance at best? He wasn’t there for them, that’s for sure.
I won’t be in the least surprised if R/R carry WI. At this point, little will surprise, it’s become fairly volatile, and all at this point moving in R/R’s direction.
Poll ping.
Liberals call on Obama to fulfill campaign promise, walk with Wisconsin union protesters
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20036133-503544.html
Wisconsin Protests: Labor Protesters Call On Obama To Join Them In Madison
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/18/wisconsin-protesters-call-on-obama_n_825361.html
On the campaign trail in 2007, Mr. Obama had this to say: “If American workers are being denied their right to organize when I’m in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes and I will walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States.”
“He owes it to us,” said Kathie Free, a retired Milwaukee public school social worker. “Obama was not put into office just by the big money. He was put into office by millions of poor and middle-class people who walk the neighborhoods, talking to neighbors, getting the votes, and that’s how Obama got in, and he has to start remember how he got in. He’d better start working for the middle class and poor people.”
OBAMA LIED AND THE WISCONSIN PUBLIC UNIONS DIED
My answer, for what it is worth, is that in the state wide elections rather than nationwide elections, the voter is a taxpayer but he sees the pain on the federal level as attenuated and not direct. Therefore the intensity is much less.
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