No, the real answer is: July!
Reagan was nowhere near Carter - today on this forum we'd be wringing our hands that he was hopelessly behind - at this time in 1980.
Americans passionately hate politics more than they hate anything in our society. They won't pay attention to it until mid-October...mostly to save their sanity.
“No, the real answer is: July!”
Probably at least partially true, but Reagan was acting like a candidate and he didn’t have the GWB pox that still pervades the electorate. Romney just seems to be “lying low” and hoping that he gets elected. Maybe he watched the Eddie Murphy movie “The Distinguished Gentleman.” The Congressional approval is in the teens, so the people evidently don’t like the gridlock and they will blame the R’s preferentially. I just wished Romney looked and acted like a candidate.
Good post. Most people are focused on vacations and outdoor activities. Summer is relatively short. Barring some type of economic calamity, politics is not the first thing on their minds right now.
http://www.uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=115543.0
Reagan was slightly ahead of Carter by the end of July and significantly behind him in August (take a look at the link). Then it seemed like a horse race. If Gallup puts Romney ahead by late August, then we can assume he’ll win. If it’s close, it will be close. But yeah, I agree...no one’s really thinking about politics (other than crazy freepers...haha...me included).
I don’t like Romney all that much, but I think I’ll vote for him...just because Obama isn’t just another democrat...he’s horribly bad.
“They won’t pay attention to it until mid-October...mostly to save their sanity.”
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I am constitutionally unable to ignore it so I have been forced to go crazy to save my sanity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VO6bI-xrj8
How true, because it is July, the height of summer vacation season, with the children out of school for the summer, people are not really paying any attention right now to politics. Cannot blame them.
Plus also Romney is laying low and is getting ready to pounce when the time is right.
No, we would be complaining about how in the world did some ex-Democrat RINO governor of left-coast California ever get the nomination? He's nothing but a B-movie actor and will lose the race to this horrible President Carter. That we thought Howard Baker should have gotten the nomination, couldn't believe that Jack Kemp decided not to run and plan on voting for John Anderson instead of that no-good divorced Reagan.