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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The most recent trends are looking good for Romney
My guess is that romney may know how deep a hole we're in. Maybe he doesn't want to take 4 years of blame for the growing disaster.
How did he do it? He did it with substance. Perot bought (hour or half-hour) of network time for 3 shows. Perot presented information using his charts.
I'm a news junkie and I haven't seen a thing about Romney other than his "gaffe", since the Dem Convention. The media is blacking him out. He has to go around the media straight to the American People. Romney needs to give a "CEO" presentation on the situation in the US and the risk of complete financial collapse going with Obama. Then present his plan to turn this thing around.
Romney is betting everything on the debates. Romney has a distinct strategic disadvantage in the debates. The questioners are liberals out to protect Obama. Obama will be allowed to lie, lie, lie. The media will then back Obama up with his lies and scream about how Romney "lost" the debate.
Mitt, you're a CEO. Play to your strength, not Obama's. Put together a power point presentation for the American People, buy the time and do a Perot. That's how you get your precious independents, who are concerned about the deficit and debt.
Going State to State with rallies ain't gonna hack it.
“Romney is some 22 points behind Obama on the empathy issue”
But that doesn’t mean they’ll vote for Obama.
Someone said, maybe Levin yesterday, that this is not a race between two individuals but between two ways of running the country. Hopefully citizens will see that our Socialism experiment now under way is not working and must be abandoned.
“The current way of campaigning needs to be revamped”
The candidates can campaign any way they wish.
Whenever I need to find out what’s going on with the Romney campaign, I immediately turn to the left wing liars and propagandists at the LA Times.
The conditioning of women to vote Democrat was set up with the Great Society. No longer do men have to stick around and raise their children. U.S. taxpayers will do it for him.
Men can just alley cat around siring child after child, then just slink along to the next warm bed they can find. No strings attached. Kids get free lunches, free daycare, free healthcare, free clothing, and free housing.
Women are not blameless. Why should they care if the father of their children is never seen again? More fun to have the soup of the day. The check will come in the mail and they don’t have to worry about being smacked around at night. If the government check stops, they may actually have to keep their legs shut and demand accountability from the slugs that shirk the responsibilities of being a man.
It’s a horribly destructive cycle brought to you by your “caring” Democrats. The whole nation is being brought to its knees because of it.
It’s 49% today, tomorrow it may be 50% or 55% or more if we don’t elect R/R. We still have a chance short term. Long term, I don’t know. It will be up to the young adults of today to decide what kind of future they want. There aren’t enough of us mature adults to determine that any more.
Go Romney/Ryan.
This election will be decided by the debates. The small percentage of undecideds will move one way or another based on what they see there. If Romney is prepared, and does well, this will just end up being more sniping by people who like attention but don’t have a clue as to what it takes to win a presidential election with a hostile media.
Fully agree. No matter what, the MSM will spin Obama as being cool, in command of the facts, Romney as a flip-flopper, and show Obama as the winner. We don’t have an educated electorate anymore where despite Obama’s dismal record, nearly 50% automatically support him. I don’t agree with the Perot charts either. Romney must run non-stop 24/7 ads on the Rats booing God during the DNC, Obama in 2008 and Obama in 2012 in his own words, broken promises. Run ads showing the ME in flames and intersperse extracts from his Cairo speech. In short appeal to emotion. This is sad but true. Times have changed. It works for the Rats.
We’ll see how it shakes out; at this point it has become clear that anything Romney says will be twisted into something anti-women, anti-black, anti-gay, blah blah blah.
You are exactly right. It is a well established fact that overwhelming majority of MSM reporters are liberal democrats. SO Romney or any other republican is not likely to get favorable press coverage in any big city.
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