Posted on 09/19/2012 1:18:18 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Oh yes it can.
It can happen here. If it fails to happen in 2012, they will never give up.
Neither will I.
If Romney wins you are going to be plesantly surprised. He will make a good president.
Thanks. That’s all I’m trying to say. Accusing the polling organizations of being in the tank for Obama is stupid. They have nothing to gain and everything to lose by behaving that way. However, will they take a poll that a partisan organization (like a news network or a publication)can then spin? Oh yeah!
By the way, this is why internal polls used by a campaign are so different from what we see. When they want something to spin, campaigns and interested parties go to polling organization and say, “Here’s my check. Please do a national poll on the outcome of the election. Please assume that turnout will be the same as it was in 2008.” When they want to know what’s really going on for their own information, they say, “Here’s my check. Take poll that is completely objective and tells me exactly what in reality is going on with this election.” They guard that information zealously.
Precisely. It's not the pollsters who are in the tank for Obama -- it is their customers in the media who are neck deep.
OMG, that is too funny!
Yes, STAY nervous!
I can’t wait to vote against the O, even though I already know he is going to be soundly beaten in my state.
I can’t wait to vote against the O, even though I already know he is going to be soundly beaten in my state.
Prominent Members of Chicago Black Community: Those closest to Obama know there’s no 2nd term
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2931779/posts
I watched the Political Insiders show on Fox this week (with Pat Cadell). They all agreed the debates this time, especially the first one, will be more important in determining the election outcome than any since Reagan/Carter. I think they said it’s a situation where people want to pick a new president, but the new guy has to prove that he’s an acceptable alternative first. And they said Reagan met that standard in the debates.
”He didn’t help me, so I ain’t helping him!” is the motto this year. Count on black turnout to be at 2004 levels, not 2008 numbers the way the corrupt media is baking into all those polls that get conservatives worked up where they show Obama leading. Without blacks voting at 2008 numbers, Obama loses Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia with no hope of making up those numbers with other groups. It’s as simple as that.
Along with this one too...
the Think Squaders don’t see too long of a post-presidency for Obama. Some think he’s sick (with Parkinson’s, as we’ve talked about on this site for years) and others think he might even have HIV (due to his inexplicable weight loss). ”He’s got the Slims and it shows”, somebody at the table said, drawing an awkward silence as a waitress walked around picking up trash while trying not to seem like she was listening to the boisterous group in the corner. ”The Slims” is slang in Chicago’s black community for HIV/AIDS.
Exactly!
Obimbo should be in jail right along with Arianna Huffing-Paint. Can we a least get people who have created and substained (even a tiny) business and understands the economic laws of substainbilty in office?!
Cell phones to welfare whores. This country is going down the toilet at light speed.
How could this be? I just saw a poll claiming that all of the (R) enthusiasm over the (D) zombies had evaporated. That the Dems were now leading in that area.
IMO, that “poll” is designed to energize Dems and demoralize Pubbies.
Every four years I tell myself the media’s fake polling and blatant full court press for the Dems can’t get any more extreme. And again I am proven wrong.
I remember that....glad you're still around.
Ok, this is getting freaky.
I heard an Obama ad on the radio just a few minutes ago. On a station that plays Rush, so typically conservative except for weekends, when they have morons on.
That ad obviously targeted CA. Why would they waste money?
Well now look at the presidency. Does Obama have a clue about money? Nope.
After all it's other people's money he is spending on his campaign. But it is weird to see ads in California when it should be locked in.
I saw an Obama Ad while I was channel surfing(Saw the Ad on HLN) quickly changed the channel, the site of Obama makes me sick..I dont know if they are deciding what stations put on these ads or how it works but yes I find it VERY odd that they are paying for Ads to play in a state Obama already won(probably by a 12 point margin) so it makes no sense unless the internal poll numbers don’t show this state as a slam dunk
We’re not enthusiastic about voting.
We’re not enthusiastic? I am I want this loser out of office pronto!!! In fact I think we need the election right now!! Not in Nov!!!
“If there isn’t a tsunami against the president and the Democrats in general this election then there is probably not much of a country left to be saved.”
You’re not going to be the only one who comes away from this election disillusioned, even if Romney wins.
I’d like to see a “tsunami” against Obama and what he represents as much as you, but I don’t think that’s going to happen. Romney may win, but it will be quite close, perhaps even a highly-contested “squeaker”.
The country has become too divided, and there are large chunks of it that simply -cannot- be “saved”, in the conservative sense of that concept. Mr. Romney was entirely correct in his estimation that roughly “47%” of Americans have no reason to vote for him, or vote for what are generally understood to be “principles of tradition and the right”.
This election will make the divisions between “the producers” and “the takers” clear and undeniable — it will no longer be possible to gloss over the chasm that has grown between Americans. The United States is no longer a spiritually unified nation, but is becoming increasingly Balkanized, not only politically but ethnically as well.
I expect the disdain for and misrepresentations of Romney by the media to increase after he wins. There will be no “coming together” of Americans after this election. There will be no “honeymoon” in the country or in Congress. Particularly if the Republicans eke out a majority in the Senate, I predict a continuous and coordinated effort at obstruction in the halls of Congress, “Wisconsin style”. The more Republicans struggle to right the listing ship of state and the economy, the louder I expect the left (in Congress, the media, and on the street) to scream — as you’ve never heard before.
These days, I look around and wonder just how much of a country there -is- “left to be saved”. Hard to tell right now, so much of it has sunk below the surface, like the bow of the Titanic.
Will the remaining bulkheads hold?
You’re right. Even if he wins it won’t change the fact that we have two different cultures with opposite moral codes living side by side. No election will change that. I look at the situation and I really think that this country is headed for some type of civil war. It is one way or the other. There is no place to compromise on basic principles like freedom vs. control or socialism vs. capitalism.
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