It felt like Bush I's speech for reelection (Or Carter's).
I actually wondered if slacker Obama didn’t just say screw it, I’m not really up for this, I want to move to my new mansion in Hawaii in January - so I’ll just give my 2008 speech and let it go at that.
This guy was right and his spread sheet matched mine. This is from a post earlier today in another thread on the ARG poll:
Well this survey corresponds pretty with the economic projection from the Univ of Colorado.
They are projecting a D+4 turnout, less than the +7 in 2008. However in 2010 the turnout was even between the r’s and D’s. It that turnout model holds with the splits in this poll, assuming the 30% ind turnout from 2010, the race is
Romney 50.75%
Obama 44.70%
In this scenario ~4.5% undecided, if we assume 1.5% third party (consistent with other elections, that leaves 3% going to Romney & Obama assume a 2-1 split to the challenger (little lower than historical results), we end up at 53-46% Romney.
This tracks very closely to the results from the economic model.
If we plug in the +4 R-D split favoring R’s from Rasmussen the numbers become a huge blowout 54.8-43.9, seems almost too good to be true OTOH there are 23M unemployed and 89M of working age who don’t have a job.
“His speech was lack of heart that it’s almost as if Obama has given up...”
Yes, that’s pretty much what it sounded like when we heard the end of it.
And that’s pretty much how Jim Geraghty put it over at NRO: Obama has said all he has to say, he’s just out of ideas.
The guy really has a lot of nerve though, 4 years ago he was going to still the oceans, heal the sick and employ the idle, now he says: gee being president is hard....I need more time.
As the Rolling Stones sang: you’re obsolete my baby.....baby, baby, oh baby you’re out of time!