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Ingraham Trashes Romney Camp For Trailing In The Polls: ‘Should Be Up By Five, Six Points’
Mediaite ^ | 9/11/12 | Noah Rothman

Posted on 09/11/2012 11:02:44 AM PDT by Mozilla

Mitt Romney‘s campaign has suffered in the head-to-head polls against President Barack Obama following his party’s national convention. Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham told Fox & Friends on Monday that the Romney campaign has no excuse for being behind in the polls in this economic environment. She went on to say that statements from some of Romney’s staffers asking supporters to ignore the polls reminds her of 2006, when Republicans lost control of Congress.

After introducing Ingraham, Gretchen Carlson played a clip of White House Press Sec. Jay Carney making the case that the economy President Obama inherited from President George W. Bush could not be fixed in four years. Brian Kilmeade noted that the recession of 2008 officially ended in June of 2009, prior to the full implementation of the stimulus.

“They are forever shifting the goalposts here and I think it is incumbent on the Romney campaign to make that very clear,” Ingraham said.

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She went on to say that the Romney/Ryan ticket should make a campaign issue of how the Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates the official adjusted unemployment rate.

Carlson accused two of the three major networks of failing to report accurately that the unemployment rate went down in the month of August because 365,000 people left the workforce. Fox then put up a graphic of ABC and NBC aligned with the official logo for the Democratic National Convention.

Ingraham said that the Romney camp needs to be “three times as good” at messaging and branding as Obama to overcome the inherent media bias in favor of the president. “Obama can get out there and get a choreographed bear hug, and it trends on twitter for two days,” said Ingraham.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: lauraingraham; obama; polls; riggedpolls; romney
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To: tsowellfan
You mean, blame the Palinbots, Akin or Conservatives if Romney fails to excite the base? [...] I still say: let's blame the candidate(s) for their own defeat

In the eyes of his shriller, more spittle-fueled adherents and apologists hereabouts, Mittens is much like a cow wandering placidly through the streets of downtown Cairo: immune to any/all criticism and/or impediment by divine principle, if not an object of abject veneration outright.

The cow is holy. The cow is perfect. If the cow, for whatever reason(s) -- by whatever unguessable confluence of events, in the course of its dull, plodding amblings -- doesn't end up wherever the hell it was it wanted to go to in the first place: that's your fault, not the cow's.

41 posted on 09/11/2012 12:38:23 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("If you're not fiscally AND socially conservative, you're not conservative!" - Jim Robinson, 9-1-10)
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To: Mozilla

Laura really needs to get out of the DC bubble, she was foaming at the mouth today.


42 posted on 09/11/2012 12:40:02 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: MNJohnnie

No one would want to be a useful idiot for a propaganda machine. No way.


43 posted on 09/11/2012 12:49:36 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Where would Christianity be if the early believers put their hopes and trust in the Roman empire?)
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To: markman46

She does really go off the rails at times. Her best gig is cultural reporting and analysis, IMO. Raymond Arroyo seems to bring out the best in her.


44 posted on 09/11/2012 12:52:18 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Where would Christianity be if the early believers put their hopes and trust in the Roman empire?)
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To: Venturer
DemonRats have no morals.

Republicans have no backbone.

45 posted on 09/11/2012 2:28:21 PM PDT by Tolkien (Grace is the Essence of the Gospel; Gratitude is the Essence of Ethics.)
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To: tsowellfan

No thanks. Not going there again. ;^)


46 posted on 09/11/2012 4:14:46 PM PDT by eureka! (Bless Our Troops. D*mn the Left.)
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To: Venturer

If I believed in conspiracies, I’d say that someone is picking the most inept candidates to run in order to keep the sitting President in office.

I mean John Kerry??? Why did they pick such an inept and unlikeable person? He had to be picked to run so he’d lose.

I mean Mitt Romney???


47 posted on 09/11/2012 4:22:57 PM PDT by turn_to
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To: turn_to
I mean John Kerry??? Why did they pick such an inept and unlikeable person?

Compared to Howard Dean and John Edwards?

There aren't that many skilled, competent, likable politicians out there to choose from.

48 posted on 09/11/2012 4:34:05 PM PDT by x
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To: Psalm 144

yes he does, it’s sad because I loved to listen to her, but when she get going,. i turn it off


49 posted on 09/11/2012 6:26:12 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: CreviceTool
The #1 bit of wisdom that I gleaned from George W. Bush was not to pay attention to the “tick-tock” of a 24x7 media.

Actually, Bush spent his entire second term letting the media define him because he didn't have to face another election. That was a colossal betrayal of his responsibilities. His lack of interest in challenging them is one of the key things that gave us Obama. And it is still letting them escape blame four years later. It cost republicans the congress, too.

Even if you are well ahead, doing nothing is a sure recipe for defeat. You can't assume people know anything, you have to keep communicating it.

50 posted on 09/11/2012 6:36:04 PM PDT by hopespringseternal
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