Posted on 07/28/2014 7:17:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Polls which ask voters for their thoughts on how the last election should have shaped up a year or two years after the fact are pretty much meaningless. The latest CNN/ORC survey which asks voters that question is no exception to that rule. Nevertheless, with just 100 days remaining before the midterm elections, this question is an instructive measurement of voter satisfaction with the president.
If voters had it to do all over again, 53 percent would support Mitt Romney over the 44 percent who would continue to back Barack Obama. The president’s remaining coalition is what you would expect it to be; voters aged 18 – 34, Northeasterners, Democrats, self-identified liberals and moderates, urban and minority voters.
Where the president suffers the most in this survey is among women. CNN/ORC found that women voters backed Romney over Obama by 52 to 45 percent. That is almost identical to the margins among male voters (54/43 percent) and dramatic reversal from 2012 when the nationwide exit polls showed women backed Obama by double digits (55/44 percent).
There is not much in the way of good news for Obama in this poll. A majority say Obama is not a “strong and decisive leader.” By 56 to 43 percent, voters say Obama does not agree with them on the issues they “care about.” Only 42 percent say Obama can manage the government effectively; 57 percent believe he cannot.
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If my aunt had any balls, she’d be my uncle.
Well Mitt is itching to run again so we may all get a second chance. :-)
This is a disaster for this nation of unbelievable proportions.
This is a disaster for this nation of unbelievable proportions.
RE: the 44 percent who would continue to back Barack Obama
This is a disaster for this nation of unbelievable proportions.
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Romney might not have been politically correct when he noted this, but if you’re in the 47% who depend on government programs, it’s hard not to vote for Santa Claus Obama.
I think the 47% might have already risen to nearly 50% or even over.
In other words, we might have already hit the tipping point.
See here:
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/10/05/nearly-half-of-households-receive-some-government-benefit/
Theoretically, that sounds true. However, up to now the Republican Party always had fewer communists and fewer supporters of communists in it.
Voting democrat for some dear, local good ole’ boy feels good, but when he gets his charm machine parked in his seat in DC, he will be voting communist, supporting communists and exchanging funds with communists, or else he will be dispatched back home, pronto, and back to permanently enjoying his cigars in the local barber shop. (Oops, that would be before the communists wiped out smoking.)
All this is true, likwise, for Republicans of course. There are just fewer Marxists among them. So far. :)
ROTFL ... Well played !
No they are not the same. That remark smacks of a remark made awhile back that compared extreme lefties to extreme righties—a false analogy. Sure, there are prominent eGOP’ers who need to be sent packing, but the whole dam Rat party needs to be sent packing. My younger sister is a two-time Odumbo Rat voter and she makes a similar remark to make us (her) feel like we are all together in this, and to soften the fact that she really f’ed up. The Rat party and voters are light years ahead of destroying this country than voters and politicians on the right. I don’t care if you pick out 15-20 GOP politicians to counter my comments, that is still nothing.
We charted our course to Marx with Social Security years ago, followed in time by Roe v. Wade, etc., etc.
We can’t really be surprised, now, that he (Marx) lives best in Obama.
Janet Reno was on the AG shortlist in 93 due to facilitating vote fraud in Dade County IMHO.
Too bad that those Collier boys contracted SIDS-—Sudden Instant Death Syndrome.
Way to go. You are part of the group that gave us Obama.
No, I was not a Romney supporter, but I recognized that what Obama would do in a second term was unthinkable. It is coming to pass. At least we would have had some influence to pressure Romney to do the right thing. Eric Holder would not be Attorney General. All the Marxists and Muslims currently making policy in violation of the Constitution would not be there. Had Romney won, I would have joined you in the streets or with pitchforks in front of a Romney White House. We would have had some ability to force him to do the right thing. We have no power with Obama there.
There are people who hold religious beliefs that their children should not be treated by doctors. Yes, they hold true to their principles. But they have dead children.
Knowing what you know now and seeing what Obama has done, it is sickening that you would have made the same decision to stay home. You believe in suicide for this country. Hey, but at least you held to your principles. That should be great comfort to you.
It was lost when he deferred to Candy Crowley over the September 11 “terrorism” issue. Romney would not have been a strong and decisive leader either - he let some obese media cow and a skinny little fairy choomed up unindicted co-conspirator walk all over him.
Well, if people keep talking nonsense like this, maybe he’ll be nominated again. Is that what anyone really wants?
You can stick it. Whiny statist Republican that condemns conservative over Democrats. I voted for Milquetoast. Fat lot of good it did. Go harass a Democrat. That bleat don’t work no more.
Romney managed to lose an election that republicans couldn’t lose.
Coming out against the GOP pro-life platform and for abortion and running pro-choice ads in Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin, and reminding us that he supported gay Scout leaders, were among his in your face attacks against voters after he won the nomination.
If Romney won—would we be in this mess today? Even with the MSM and the Senate doing what they can against him—Romney would be a better president—on his worst day—than Obama on his best. Imagine now—Romney’s cabinate—John Bolton as Sec. of State?Palin as Sec. of Education? Trump as Treasurer? It would be a better USA-—Now, would I like anyone better than Mittens? Yes—but you got to admit-—Romney was cheated six ways to sunday in the election.
Doesnt matter now, the course has already been set.
re: “Actually, if I had it to do over again, I’d have stayed home and not voted for him like I did.”
I will give you an apology for misreading what you wrote. Apparently I cannot multitask as well as in my youth. I mistakenly read “not voted for him like I did” to mean you had not voted for him. I voted for him reluctantly.
A Whiny statist Republican? As someone who campaigned for Goldwater as a teenager and gave a speech at the Reagan Library after his death, I do not have to justify my long record of conservatism to you. But you do get the apology for my misreading.
Accepted. However, my main point was that it is personally offensive to a lot of conservatives to be fed the specious line about “a non-vote for a RINO is a vote for a Democrat.” Where is it written that a RINO automatically gets a Conservative’s vote.
Time is better spent on trying to convert Democrats over to Republicans than wasting time of condemning Conservatives for their intransigence of principles. It seems to me the Republican Party could stand for a little “principles” instead of exigency, the exigency of appeasement to mythical votes they think they can get - if only we......
I do not like the choices we have had. Of course, it is not written anywhere that a RINO gets the vote of conservatives. But we have to pick our battles. I would rather be fighting against Romney now than fighting against Obama. We might have actually had a real Attorney General who follows the law. And we might not have gone from an Iraq where people were proudly showing purple fingers to an Iraq that is systematically eliminating all Christians.
Those conservatives who did not vote can be proud to have stood up for principle, but where did it get them? With 5 million new illegal alien voters Obama will create with the stroke of a pen, conservatives are screwed.
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