PA is easily within striking distance. It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.
I think Romney has a chance in all 3 of those states. I think Wisconsin most likely, and Michigan probably least likely, but none of them (IMHO) are write-offs (i.e. not like California, Vermont, etc.).
If nothing else, Romney can use his money advantage to force Obama to spend money and other resources defending territory that might otherwise be “safe ground.”
It is interesting.
Obama spent millions to destroy Romney over the past couple months.
It didn’t make a dent in the polls.
Romney raised $300 million over the last 3 months and couldn’t spend the money until now.
I think Romney will pull ahead now that he can spend his war chest.
Its close in PA
The Railroad unions and the UMW rank-and-file are against Zero because of his war on coal. The UMW for obvious reasons, and the IBET because the three railroads here, (NW, CSX, AVR), all depend on King Coal for most of their revenue.
I have been thinking for a while that Romney has a chance in New Jersey And Connecticut. Would love to see some Rassmussen polls from there
What???? You expect me to believe the MSM was not truthful when they said Romney/Ryan were surrendering WI, MI and PA to 0bama?????
Good luck with Michigan. We have a spineless governor who early on handed the goonions an issue they can/will run on in ‘12 and ‘14 when he instituted taxes on pension income. All of the NOT Taxed Enough Already Party non-conservative Snyder sycophants celebrated the move in the true spirit of getevenwithemism. Maobama handed big labor two car companies who’s original home is Michigan, the home of those noble “workers” of the UAW which also controls a huge portion of State of Michigan “workers”, but it is an industrial goonion fighting for the little guy don’t you know. Snyder has avoided taking on any of the State public employee “workers” exorbitant wages and pension benefits in any meaningful way. And, we have Pete Hoaxtra taking on she’s hardly li’l Debbie Stabemall who will probably clean his moderate clock. So yeah, I understand if the Romney camp is reluctant to engage here in any meaningful financial manner.
Why, it was just the other day that all the FR Chicken Littles were proclaiming the truth in MSM reporting the sky is falling and R&R had thrown in the towel.
Maybe now some will see that MSM is more than happy to assist dems in propaganda.
Its been said before and well worth remembering that politics on this grand a scale is Chess not Checkers.
Wisconsin will go with Romney-Ryan if we control voter fraud.
The Democrats killed 10,000 union jobs for a mine in Northern WI.
Gov Walker has proved that fiscal conservatism works and the public is behind him. The unions and the democrats took him on and lost big (and spent too much money)and Obama didn’t back them. There is a lot of resentment against Obama and the democrats.
Paul Ryan is well liked in Wisconsin and will help carry the state.
WI will be the last one they give up on, strong conservative momentum now.
1) Our new Voter ID law IS going to have an impact. No one with any sense assumes it will completely stop the fraud/theft, but barring wholesale (criminal) non-compliance at the polls, it should negate several tens of thousands of bogus ballots.
2) PA's nascent energy boom, having brought much good employment/wages to rural areas that previously offered few opportunities, and with more hiring to follow, is under threat of attack by the marxist watermelons in particular, and Ø's anti-business regime generally. Folks who've finally found some work that pays worth a damn, knowing the Dhimms will try to take it away from them, should be turning out in droves with their votes to see that that doesn't happen.
3) Gas prices are once again within spitting distance of $4/gal as a result of Ø's deliberate Luddite attack on our energy industries. Not only are peoples' wallets being raped when filling their vehicles, the winter heating season will soon be ushering in concomitantly absurd bills for heating oil and electrity. Coupled with grocery prices spiraling ever upward as a result of artificially usurious energy costs, folks bringing in less than $100k/yr are being slowly strangled, while those trying to make do with less are effectively being written off. Political maxim #1 = it's the ECONOMY !
4) Though things have yet to reach quite the levels of anarchy currently present in Chicago, American citizens in PA's urban areas are doubtless feeling the fear and outrage caused by Ø's tacitly condoning the untouchable entitlement attitudes and general lawlessness of feral urban barbarians, overwhelmingly of the black variety. In the part of their minds that hold those things that are thought about as rarely as possible, most rational people know that there's very likely a big storm coming, and that there's no way the cops will be able to deal with it. They also know that, while things weren't rosy, the situation four years ago seemed much less dire. Average moms and dads don't like to be made to think those thoughts and feel those fears in a state that used to be a reasonably safe place to raise their kids. And in that same seldom-visited mind corner lurks the dark realization that, given the enormous disparity in numbers between city cops and bangers, if widespread urban violence/rioting breaks out following this election, it will almost necessarily have to be met with massive and deadly citizen resistance - which means THEM - if their families and property are to be protected.
Given all the above, and with a moderate PR drive by the R/R team to crystallize what's at stake, Pennsylvania should deliver 20 EVs to the saner side of the equation this year.
Finally.
Wisconsin is very winnable. Michigan and Pennsylvania not so much. Better to concentrate on Virginia.
Bump to Ms. Rubin for having the wherewithal to check this out and not just blindly accept the nobama lies.
They need to attack to the point where Obama and his superpacs must defend and spend money that they should be spending in VA and Ohio on what was once thought of as a safe state.
This is what we call “strategery”..
Wisconsin will go with Romney-Ryan if we control voter fraud.
The Democrats killed 10,000 union jobs for a mine in Northern WI.
Gov Walker has proved that fiscal conservatism works and the public is behind him. The unions and the democrats took him on and lost big (and spent too much money)and Obama didn’t back them. There is a lot of resentment against Obama and the democrats.
Paul Ryan is well liked in Wisconsin and will help carry the state.