Posted on 09/19/2012 9:49:06 PM PDT by Steelfish
Mitt Romney's Sparse Campaign Schedule Worries Some Republicans Mitt Romney has been holding fewer public campaign events than John McCain did in 2008. He has spent a lot of time fundraising away from key swing states.
By Seema Mehta and Mitchell Landsberg September 19, 2012
When the political conventions ended in 2008, GOP candidate John McCain bounded around the country like a jack rabbit. In three days, he went from Wisconsin to Michigan to Colorado to New Mexico to Missouri, with multiple campaign appearances in some of those states.
Mitt Romney's schedule this year has presented quite a contrast.
In his first two days of campaigning after the conventions, Romney visited Iowa, New Hampshire and Virginia, with one stop in each state. Then he went home to Boston and took a day off from the campaign trail.
That, as it turns out, has been Romney's most active period of campaigning since the presidential contest moved into its crucial post-convention stage. Although his campaign says he is about to accelerate his pace, Romney so far has held far fewer public events than either presidential candidate did four years ago, and has spent a significant amount of time in states — Massachusetts, California, New York, Texas — that are not considered up for grabs in November
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It puts you on all the local news and newspapers in the state, everyone knows that you are there, talking to them, looking at their town squares and cities, eating at their cafes, eating their local delicacies that they are known for, meeting and talking to THEIR local representatives and mayors and congressmen, kissing THEIR babies, it brings you to them, it brings you to life in their eyes.
Steelfish said white women, the republican ALWAYS wins the white women.
We live in a different world today. As far as my (not necessarily preferred) candidate beats the competition he doesn't need to shake my hand, kiss any babies or be brought to life on a local level.
It's a waste of time and money.
I don’t think that you are the kind of voter that republican candidates have to pursue, or search out, motivate, or compete for, with the democrat incumbent.
There are people in the world different than you and me, and most of us here at this activist, political junkie site.
Well, I thought about your post.
Perhaps you are right. There was a large contingency persuaded by mumbo jumbo the last election wasn’t there.
Romney, through his surrogates, won the primaries by eliminating his opponents one by one as soon as they showed relative strength, often with negative ads and personal attacks unrelated to true political issues.
Either he does the same with Obama (who is far more vulnerable than his fellow Republicans were) during the final weeks of the campaign, or he loses.
Well, if Peggy Noonan is for something - then I’m against it - whatever it is.
It is the nature of campaigning, there are many layers to what we call the voters, also, it isn’t enough for them to merely plan to vote for you, you need to imprint them enough, that if election day is wet and cold and they have to work overtime, they still force themselves to go to the voting booth for YOU, because they feel a connection to YOU, because they feel that you worked your tail off to campaign hard, and to take the time to campaign in THEIR state, and that you deserve their vote, that they owe you their vote.
The more layers, the more micro niches of voters that a campaign can reach, the better. Reality, time, and money limit how many layers and niches can be reached, but the more, the better, and in every campaign, people are watching how hard you work, and they are measuring YOUR work effort as a candidate, and from that they are measuring how much you care, and how much they should care for you.
These little things by a more energetic, harder working candidate, has knocked off many complacent, over-confident incumbents.
Romney & Ryan have both gotten debate prep in. This election might end up a coin toss with the edge to Obama and that's just a shame.
A traffic reporter (Art 'Mad Man' Mehring) said (closely paraphrased), "For a man who says he wants to get people back to work, he's not making it easy for people in Atlanta."
So obvious was the partisan commentary, afternoon host Rusty Humphries called attention to it. This happened during the 3pm break on 640 WGST.
Both Laura Ingraham and Peggy Noonan make me want to puke. I dislike both of them. I used to like Laura (never did like Peggy the extreme RINO at best), but Laura’s big mouth, which seems to open at the most inopportune times, and the sound of her strident voice drive me nutz. Shut up Laura, you are not helpful, to say the least, and your siding against our candidate does nothing for the cause. If Romney loses, you will be part of the reason.
Do we really need advice from Peggy Noonan who lost all credibility (and sanity, I might add) when she voted for Obama in 2008?
The thing that is confusing is that Romney is supposed to be this corporate genius. You would think that he would have the best organized campaign of all time. Maybe there are some general lessons to be learned about corporate management and professional campaign advisers.
Dr. GR_Jr ? consider the source..... the L.A. ( Lying A$$es ) Times.
And it’s always the same handful of posters. Interesting, no?
The notion that undecideds show up at these rallies hoping to be swayed one way or the other is fairly ridiculous.
We are a nation of over 300 million people in the age of instant/mass communications. With the click of a mouse, a presidential campaign can reach millions through email, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. Speaking for myself, I'm receiving scores of emails every week from the Romney campaign as well as other Republicans running for office. These messages are unfiltered by mainstream media.
I think even TV ads might be a waste of money because most people DVR their TV programs and FF through the commercials.
In 2008, Obama's campaign had a massive GOTV effort through social media. That basically won the campaign for them. The morning of the election, over 100 million Americans received instructions on their cell phones from the Obama people on where to show up to vote, etc.
Based on the massive amount of electronics communications I am receiving from the GOP, I think they are starting to get it.
“Campaign events” are for the already convinced.
Maybe Romney thinks he can win over 47 percent of the public by displaying a lack of personal responsibility in his campaign.
Agree. Women who are single, particularly urban women, are single for a reason. Nobody wants to bother to try to be with them, have a relationship with them. Sandra Fluke comes to mind. Angry, female, and alone in a city. Gee, how sad.
Single women should be replaced by “out of wedlock mothers”
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