Romney Looks Like the Next Pres

Discussion in 'Politics' started by jem, Apr 13, 2012.

  1. I mentioned Bush/Kerry,Kerry won the first debate and the polls went from Bush having a big lead to Bush leading by +1


    The most competent candidate for President we have had in two generations ? Big LOL on that one
     
    #2741     Oct 8, 2012
  2. http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/10/obama-raises-m-in-september-137688.html?hp=l1



    Obama raises $181M in September



    The president's reelection campaign and the DNC raised a combined $181 million last month, the Obama team announced on Twitter Saturday.


    It's a record-breaking sum that far exceeds anything Obama or Mitt Romney has previously raised in a given month, and is a sign of Obama's expansive liberal donor base reengaging in a big way for the final month of the race.
     
    #2742     Oct 8, 2012
  3. jem

    jem

    you mean the expansive base of overseas foreign donors using throw away credit cards to avoid detection.

    I wonder who could make those types of donations on throw away cards... that quickly...
     
    #2743     Oct 8, 2012
  4. jem

    jem

    your ads can't change this... not after that debate..

    http://www.people-press.org/files/legacy-pdf/10-8-12 Political Release.pdf


    More generally, the poll finds
    Romney’s supporters far
    more engaged in the
    campaign than they were in
    September. Fully 82% say
    they have given a lot of
    thought to the election, up
    from 73% in September. The
    new survey finds that Romney
    supporters hold a 15-point
    advantage over Obama
    backers on this key
    engagement measure.
    Supporters on both sides were
    about even in September.
    Coming out of the debate, Mitt Romney’s personal image has improved. His favorable
    rating has hit 50% among registered voters for the first time in Pew Research Center
    surveys and has risen five points since September. At the same time, Obama’s personal
    favorability rating has fallen from 55% to 49%.
    In the presidential horserace, Romney has made sizable gains over the past month
    among women voters, white non-Hispanics and those younger than 50. Currently,
    women are evenly divided (47% Obama, 47% Romney). Last month, Obama led Romney
    by 18 points (56% to 38%) among women likely voters.
     
    #2744     Oct 8, 2012
  5. jem

    jem

    http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/329669/democrats-bad-week-yuval-levin

    The Democrats also don’t seem to have fully considered what their excuses are communicating about Romney’s agenda. Romney advanced a series of principles and policies in the debate, and rather than argue that these are bad for the country, the Democrats are basically arguing that Romney’s ideas are too good to be true—so good, moderate, and sensible that they couldn’t really be Mitt Romney’s, and therefore that Romney is not telling the truth about his agenda. These charges of dishonesty aren’t just false (though they are false), they’re also downright strange. A Republican candidate stands before 60 million voters and commits to an agenda and his opponent responds that this isn’t really his agenda, and that voters should instead look to Democratic attack ads and liberal think-tank papers to learn what the Republican is proposing. That’s the strategy?

    One explanation for this bizarre (though surely temporary) breakdown on the left would have to be what psychologists call projection. On Face the Nation, David Axelrod said Romney “walked away from his record” in the debate. On Thursday, the president himself said “The man onstage last night, he does not want to be held accountable for the real Mitt Romney’s decisions and what he’s been saying for the last year, and that’s because he knows full well that we don’t want what he’s been selling for the last year.” Walking away from his record and trying not to be held accountable for his unpopular decisions—does that sound like anyone you know?

    And that really points to what must be the deepest reason for the Democrats’ strange response to the debate. The president can’t run on his record, and he isn’t proposing a second term agenda. All he has to run on is the caricature of Mitt Romney that his campaign, his surrogates, and liberal opinion makers in the press have been fashioning for a year. Their goal has been to prevent the election from becoming a referendum on the incumbent, which the Romney campaign had clearly hoped it could be, and to make it not even a choice election but a referendum on the challenger. Obama seemed to have a remarkable degree of success with this approach, but the debate represented Romney’s response: Rather than continue to insist that the election should simply be a referendum on Obama, Romney effectively presented a case for seeing it as a choice between two agendas, and presented his own proposals and vision in his own terms. The Obama campaign had been able to paint Romney in scary colors for months because Romney had declined to describe himself and his agenda much. Now that he’s finally running for president, the Democrats have a problem.
     
    #2745     Oct 8, 2012

  6. the Democrats problem was was overconfident dems leading to low turnout
     
    #2746     Oct 8, 2012
  7. More Obama conspiracy theories huh Jem :(
     
    #2747     Oct 8, 2012
  8. jem

    jem

    that is what the article said... you may have seen the thread here on ET.

    for me I don't care... the debate swung the independents by a massive amount...

    Pew showed a 12 point swing in likely voters...
    You may want to start looking for a condo in HI. Obama will be looking for loyal workers.

    You can put jem down as a reference, it was a pleasure sparring with you... but its too late for your candidate now... only external events or major screwups can swing this back to Obama.
     
    #2748     Oct 8, 2012
  9. Starting after I pay off my 2 months posting ban bets with Max and Mavrick

    If Obama wins you never post here again,If Romney wins I never post here again .Bet ?
     
    #2749     Oct 8, 2012
  10. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Why would we want you to stop posting here if Romney wins? It'll be such a riot to constantly bring up all your old confident posts about Obama winning in that case.
     
    #2750     Oct 8, 2012