Romney Looks Like the Next Pres

I would add that since millions of Dems left the party and are now independents... its actually a double whammy on Obama's 2008 numbers.

Instead of winning smaller group of Independents, he is losing a larger group of them, and some of the the Independents are larger is that the were his voters.

 

All this poll BS is a good thing. All it'll take is a few Fox News zombies in swing states not make it to vote because according to Fox, Romney has it in the bag and it isn't close. And maybe it'll do the opposite and motivate those voting Obama to get out and make a good showing and help put Obama over the top. Go Obama ! Go Fox News.

 

I agree that the Gallup propaganda is an advantage for the turnout of DEM voters.

 

Sorry, I'm not sure I follow you on that.

 

You're not as motivated to vote if your candidate is leading.

 

I have not seen a single person on fox other than morris say Romney has it in the bag.

Fox is definitely treating this the same way the liberal networks are working this. At least so far.

If anything Greata's panel acts like the polls are real and Romney may be trailing.

Like I said very few people are addressing the fact that Romney is taking the independents.

If fact the only guy who really seems to get it, is Bob Bechel he said if Gallup is right its over. ... but he sort of held out hope that Gallup was wrong.

 

Bob Beckel has been in a real foul mood the last 2 or 3 weeks. I keep expecting him to slit his throat right on TV. He's having a real problem accepting that things have swung against Obama.

 

yes he looks like a guy who is quitting smoking or caffeine, like I get when I try to quit drinking cokes.

 

I'm surprised they don't put one of the girls between him and Eric Bolling. Bolling just jabs him constantly. I think we may see one of them show up one day before the election with a black eye.

 

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/20/when-desperation-strikes-incumbents/


When desperation strikes incumbents
POSTED AT 8:31 AM ON OCTOBER 20, 2012 BY ED MORRISSEY


It’s been a while since we’ve had an incumbent President lose an election. In fact, it was 20 years ago, when George H. W. Bush lost in a three-way fight to Bill Clinton. What made that election remarkable was that Bush had enjoyed some of the best-ever job approval ratings of any modern American President just a little over a year earlier, into the 80s — unthinkable these days for anyone, Republican or Democrat. Bush, a decorated veteran of World War II and a longtime player in diplomacy and national security, lost the election to an upstart Governor when the economy turned somewhat sour.

I recall the moment when I realized for the first time — not feared, but realized — that Bush would lose the election. Bush was campaigning in Michigan at the end of October, trying to whip some energy back into his campaign in the home stretch, a task that would fall far short just a few days later. Then-Governor John Engler told the Warren, MI crowd that the Bush campaign was “hot” and the Democrats “dead in the water,” which was merely the kind of fantasy all campaigns spin toward the end.

Bush then spoke, and went after Clinton and Al Gore in a personal, demeaning way I’d not heard from the President before then:

At a midday GOP rally at Macomb Community College, the president unleashed a rhetorical fusillade on Bill Clinton and running mate Sen. Albert Gore Jr., attacking their fitness for office, their character and charging, “My dog Millie knows more about foreign policy than these two bozos.”

In particular, Bush targeted Gore, whom he now calls “Ozone Man,” or just plain “Ozone.” “You know why I call him Ozone Man?” Bush said. “This guy is so far out in the environmental extreme, we’ll be up to our neck in owls and outta work for every American. He is way out, far out, man.”

When I heard that, I thought to myself, “What President talks like that?” Part of the advantage the office gives an incumbent is its gravitas. Bush’s own history as a diplomat, intelligence executive, and war hero gave him plenty more of that. Bush abandoned that in the final week in schoolyard name-calling. That’s not why Bush lost the election, of course. It was, however, the moment that I knew he’d lost it — and was pretty sure he knew he was losing, too.

Keep that in mind when you hear Barack Obama on the stump talking about “Romnesia.” Those elementary-school attacks using people’s names are something one usually farms out to surrogates (and is pretty lame regardless). That comes with the grasping of “binders,” literally grasping in Joe Biden’s case (and literally literally, not Bidenesque “literally”), as a major campaign theme. When the President himself starts using attacks like this, it speaks to his desperation more than his opponent’s positions. It adds more heft to the argument that the first debate wasn’t a fluke, but demonstrated an actual gap in presidential stature between the two men.