Obama's Support Faltering In Iowa

Townhall.com ^ | January 1, 2012 | Salena Zito

[Darkwolf377]

the president lacks a message (although he has shopped a few of them, such as "We can't wait")

Oh, I'd stick with that one, Barack!

[MulberryDraw]

If his vote is going for Mitt Romney, then he hasn’t seen the light.

[ronnie raygun]

Looks like Bobby Burns recieved a brain from the great wizard of OZ. There is hope, and its not obama hope

[livius]

Exactly. One of the problems with Iowa is that it’s virtually an open primary because voters can change parties on the day of the election, and thus what are essentially Dems get to pick the GOP candidate.

[Venturer]

I was thinking the same thing. A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for a white Obama.

Although I can see no way Romney could possibly compete with the insanity of an Obama administration , he wouldn’t be much better either.

[jjotto]

Iowa has around 620,000 registered Republicans. A good caucus turnout would be 130,000.

Contrary to FR hysteria, the number of crossover Democrats will be negligible. There are over 1,700 precinct locations for those 130,000 attendees. Do the math. How much caucus-crashing would be tolerated when people recognize each other?

[livius]

I don’t think it would necessarily be caucus crashing, that is, done with malicious intent. But I do think that the ease with which people who have no track record as GOPers can switch parties that day will certainly lead to a Dem influence, which would probably be translated into voting for the person who is most like a Dem, who would be Romney.

I think that’s one of the reasons he’s so confident about Iowa and also one of the reasons that his attacks have been directed at the other candidates and not at Obama. He doesn’t want to alienate potential Dem support.

[MestaMachine]

All that ‘light’ must have blinded him.

[6SJ7]

Although I can see no way Romney could possibly compete with the insanity of an Obama administration , he wouldn’t be much better either.

Romney would be the slow road to Hell; pretty much what's been going on in Washington for the last 100 years as Washington grows and grows and regulates and regulates. Obama, on the other hand, is the express elevator to Hell.

[trebb]

If his vote is going for Mitt Romney, then he hasn’t seen the light.

Maybe he has seen a flicker of light. The real test will be if they vote for someone other than Romney and Obama in the real election. I fear too many who prefer a RINO to Obama will still vote for the Won if a conservative is nominated for our side. I still think we can win it with a conservative, but have no delusions that it's in the bag. Lots of educational opportunities need to be leveraged to shed more light on how terrible Obama is.

[central_va]

Until the first primaries are moved South, they only candidates we will EVER get from Cornholia and Bluebloodia are RINO’s.

[Senator_Blutarski]

Less than a year out, the president lacks a message (although he has shopped a few of them, such as "We can't wait") or a policy that he can run on.

As we get into the election season the ability of the media to gloss over Obama's record (or lack thereof) will diminish. The question "Are you better off now than 4 years ago?" will resonate with voters.

Obama is the walking, talking embodiment of the "tax and spend" Democrat. How can he hide his contribution to the national debt?

While I think we have a lot of work to do it appears that Obama has problems that union and Wall Street money can't overcome.

On this New Year's Day, paint me optimistic.

[jjotto]

Crossovers work both ways.

Iowa has about the same percent of evangelicals as the national average, but DOUBLE the percent of mainstream liberal denomination adherents. In other words, Iowa, even Iowa Republicans, aren’t especially conservative.

The popular theory is that Democrat crossovers would support a weak candidate like Paul - or Santorum - instead of Messiah Gingrich or Messiah Perry.

Unfortunately, Iowegian Republicans don’t need Democrat push to support Romney!

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

In the state that gives us Tom Harkin? Say it ain’t so!

[ghostrider]

Burns, 23, was one of those young people swept up in Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.... he cannot imagine a scenario in which he would consider voting for the president's re-election....His vote will go for Mitt Romney.

This is precisely why we will probably be stuck with another preplanned Eastern Royalist President. The Democrats are infiltrating the Republican Party and changing it to the RINO Party. There is nothing left for people to choose.

[TalBlack]

“He will not support Obama again, he added”

Comment self edited.

Well, good luck finding another job, pal.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

That’s why the Establishment Republicans give us Iowa and N.H. first - to tip the scales to RINOs.

We need a complete shakeup - Wyoming and South Carolina first in ‘16.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Harkin brings home the bacon...

[who knows what evil?]

"I guess you could say I have seen the light," he said.

Apparently not...