These are not conventional times. Substantial number of Americans on both sides of the aisle are angry and scared. Mitts is not the best candidate the GOP offer. Worst he is a Wall Street businessman not a straight forward businessman. If Romney created a product or service that people needed, employed people to provide it, sold it for profit, he would be more acceptable to the guy on the street. Problem is Romney was involve in Wall Street type financing. Granted he saved failing companies, but Bain also brought failing companies with the intention to structure a bankruptcy strategy to sell of its parts of profit and firing all the workers in the process. If Romney was more like Perot and less like Dimon, he would be cleaning Obama’s clock by now. Good news, is many Americans do not like Obama either. So we are back to voting for the lesser of two evils. In the past bad economy sunk sitting POTUS. However with record amounts of Americans on food stamps, this election can be more like FDR re election. Unemployed must decide if they want to eat gov cheese today or no gov cheese so we can avoid the destruction of ballooning deficits. Right now it is very hard to say because all conventions of the past no longer applies today. IMHO I think Romney can win the popular vote but lose the EC count. CA, NY and IL provides the
Dems half of the EC needed to win. That is one hell of a baseline to start with.
All very true. Including the ongoing issue of the EV’s being all that matters, and that is an easier path for obama than Romney. Still: far from over.