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Bad news: Obama campaign starting to think they might lose
Hot Air ^ | MAY 25, 2012 | ALLAHPUNDIT

Posted on 05/24/2012 6:18:45 PM PDT by RobinMasters

It’s amazing what a few competitive polls can do to concentrate the mind.

Democrats had taken comfort for months in the Republican Party’s seeming inability to get behind Mitt Romney, Obama’s healthy lead in the polls, and equally healthy job growth. And for a few, fleeting, moments, Democrats thought the election might just be easy. But Republican division appears to have been merely an artifact of primary politics, and Mitt Romney has proved a consistent, if unglamorous campaigner…

“There was this sense maybe a month or two ago that Obama was really riding high — that he had gotten his base behind him and the economy was doing better and it had this Clinton vs. Bob Dole 1996 feeling — that he was going to cruise,” said one 2008 Obama aide who does not work for this year’s campaign. “And now it feels like it’s going to be really tough — a 2004 race.”

Indeed the campaign is shaping up to be a close-combat battle for one percent of swing voters in a few hundred precincts across three or four states…

Moreover, a campaign that two months ago seemed infallible has proven to be very capable of making mistakes. Obama’s aides were taken aback when Vice President Joe Biden publicly backed same sex marriage — and spent a week punishing him for speaking out in the press. Long preparation for attacks on Romney’s time at Bain Capital, aimed at changing the narrative, nevertheless left them flat-footed when Republicans (and even a few Democrats) counter-attacked. Romney, who stumbled into the Republican nomination, scored his first tactical victory of the general election and further shored up the Republican base in the process.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012election; 57states; baincapital; election2012; kenyanbornmuzzie; mediawingofthednc; mittromney; mymuslimfaith; occubots; occutardation; occutards; occuturds; partisanmediashills
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To: The Duke

That’s crossed my mind, too.

But we can’t have that evil bastard in our White House for another four years.


41 posted on 05/24/2012 9:52:57 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: Tennessean4Bush

I like your thinking.


42 posted on 05/24/2012 9:56:06 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks RobinMasters.


43 posted on 05/24/2012 10:04:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: FReepers; FRiends


We can do this! Make it happen!

LESS THAN $7k to GO!

GIT-R-DONE








44 posted on 05/24/2012 10:14:47 PM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY!!!)
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To: TexasNative2000
I live in NC and I have said ever since the beginning of his term that Obama never had a snowball's chance in h**l of winning NC again. In 2008, even with his flawless campaign and the largest Black turn out in NC history, his margin of victory was only 0.3%.
45 posted on 05/24/2012 10:19:39 PM PDT by srmorton (Deut. 30 19: "..I have set before you life and death,....therefore, choose life..")
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To: RobinMasters
Here's how you'll know if he thinks he's in trouble......Michelle and the girls' VACATIONS!!!! If they don't go on their USUAL EXOTIC, EXPENSIVE trips, the you'll KNOW he's in trouble with the polls!!!

OTOH, if the polls REALLY stink and he thinks they are going down anyone, they could all go on the most EXPENSIVE trip ever!

If they are at County Fairs, they think they have a shot.

Just watch the vacations.

46 posted on 05/25/2012 2:18:09 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: RobinMasters
Here's how you'll know if he thinks he's in trouble......Michelle and the girls' VACATIONS!!!! If they don't go on their USUAL EXOTIC, EXPENSIVE trips, the you'll KNOW he's in trouble with the polls!!!

OTOH, if the polls REALLY stink and he thinks they are going down anyone, they could all go on the most EXPENSIVE trip ever!

If they are at County Fairs, they think they have a shot.

Just watch the vacations.

47 posted on 05/25/2012 2:18:56 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: manc

Megyn Kelly is a HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT! What a LIBERAL she’s turned out to be.


48 posted on 05/25/2012 2:20:49 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Vince Ferrer
The question(s) I'd have asked if I'd been at that hearing:

Ms. Fluke, were you aware that ordinary birth control pills were a ten dollar item at WalMart these days? Also, were you aware that doing it with fifty or a hundred guys doesn't require fifty or a hundred times the number of pills........

49 posted on 05/25/2012 3:44:23 AM PDT by varmintman
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To: varmintman
that doing it with fifty or a hundred guys doesn't require fifty or a hundred times the number of pills........

Obama and his leftist band of traitors are going to screw her many more times than the screwing she's getting by being a slut. She, like many Americans, won't get it until it's too late. Our FIRST Muslim President is counting on outright stupidity, in her case, Obama will not be disappointed.

50 posted on 05/25/2012 6:56:50 AM PDT by politicianslie (Obama: Our first Muslim PRESIDENT,destroying America $1 Trillion at a time! And America sleeps)
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To: Ann Archy
agreed about Kelly.
When she was in the morning she gave some hard hitting interviews, never let either side B/S but since she has been off having her kids, probably mulling around her new found homosexuals , cross dressing , self mutilating friends she has come back to her show with such a pro homosexual. cross dressing agenda.

I had to stop watching her when she attacked the shrink DOc, then I came back and saw that every day in the last two weeks she has been harping on about homosexual marriage, cutting those off if they oppose that agenda and never questioning those on the left.

Agreed, she has become a massive disappointment and what stuns my wife and I is when we hear a couple of dopey men say they don't care they see her legs or what ever and so they will watch just for that.

51 posted on 05/25/2012 6:57:21 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Standing Wolf
Has there even been an "October Surprise" since Regan?
52 posted on 05/25/2012 7:05:46 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Cloud storage? Dropbox rocks! Sign up at http://db.tt/nQqWGd3 for 2GB free (and I get more too).)
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To: The Duke

A defanged snake can still strangle prey. It’s slippery, hard to stop, grows, gets into all kinds of places, and retains its nature as a hardcore predator. When it’s a threat, you don’t try to work with it and make it self-destruct - you stop it with one swift stroke.


53 posted on 05/25/2012 7:13:03 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Cloud storage? Dropbox rocks! Sign up at http://db.tt/nQqWGd3 for 2GB free (and I get more too).)
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To: unkus

It’s VERY scary. When my daughter, who works in a hotbed of liberals told me she thought Obama would win, a cold terror hit my heart.

It made me want to go and get an Elect Romney sign for my yard and I may do just that.


54 posted on 05/25/2012 7:40:10 AM PDT by altura
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To: EDINVA

Amen to that Ed. He was the one candidate who never stumbled.

I doubt there is a single person on FR who was originally for Mitt. I was for Perry.

Now I doubt if there is a single sane person on FR who is NOT for Mitt.

He’s all that stands between us and the purgatory of Obama.

And don’t even try consoling yourself with a Republican house and senate. Obama can get around them in various crooked ways and he would.


55 posted on 05/25/2012 7:49:10 AM PDT by altura
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To: Ann Archy

I know. I never watch Megyn Kelly any more. Why does she look so stern and cranky all the time? I used to like her.

I set my DVR to tape Fox and Friends every morning. You get all the news, a lot of guests—some funny, some informative ... have three hosts, all conservative, all likeable.

I told my husband this morning that they are my Best Friends.

He wasn’t that tickled aboutit.


56 posted on 05/25/2012 7:56:33 AM PDT by altura
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To: The Duke

Oh HELL no!! I don’t want Obama anywhere NEAR the White House after Inauguration Day, in 2013!


57 posted on 05/25/2012 10:00:38 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ
Oh HELL no!! I don’t want Obama anywhere NEAR the White House after Inauguration Day, in 2013!

Well, I am a self-described "rabid conservative" ... but my question is, do we really want conservatives to blamed for the nasty stuff that's about to happen because we occupy the White House.

And, if we control the Senate we force Obama to continue to trash the separation of powers and expose himself to the serious possibility of impeachment.

It all brings to mind the old addage ... "Watch what you wish for!"

58 posted on 05/25/2012 12:25:12 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: EDINVA
he won it with discipline and staying on message.

Yes. "Conservatives are evil". Great message, Mitt.

59 posted on 05/25/2012 12:30:23 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Obama vs. Romney: Zero x Zero = Zero.)
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To: altura

When my daughter, who works in a hotbed of liberals told me she thought Obama would win, a cold terror hit my heart.


Your poor daughter. It’s understandable that she might think that because she’s outnumbered and some of their scary thinking is bound to wear off.


60 posted on 05/25/2012 9:24:33 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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