Romney Advisers: We're Losing State of the race: Advantage, Obama
The Romney campaign, while pleasantly surprised by Obama’s lackluster prime-time performance, said the post-convention bounce they hoped for fell well short of expectations and privately lament that state-by-state polling numbers — most glaringly in Ohio — are working in the president’s favor.
“Their map has many more routes to victory,” said a top Republican official. Two officials intimately involved in the GOP campaign said Ohio leans clearly in Obama’s favor now, with a high single-digit edge, based on their internal tracking numbers of conservative groups. Romney can still win the presidency if he loses Ohio, but it’s extremely difficult.
The Obama and Romney campaigns anticipate little movement in national polls before the first debate on Oct. 3, which both see as the most important day of this campaign. They also see eye-to-eye on their belief the election will come down to whether Romney can persuade voters he understands the problems of ordinary people and that his solutions are at least marginally better for turning things around economically.
“Many of them voted for Obama in 2008 and felt good about that vote, and still think Obama’s a good person who really tried hard, but the economy sucks for them,” said the Democratic official, who has access to reams of internal polls and focus groups.
Despite that, Obama officials have maintained for several weeks that there are too few undecided voters for Romney to get the bounce he needs from the debates. “Romney is not going to win undecided voters four-to-one,” a senior administration official told reporters on Air Force One on Friday. “If you are losing in Ohio by four or five points and trailing in Colorado by two points, if you are trailing in Nevada by two or three points, you are not going to win in those states.
“There is a small number of undecided voters, so you are not going to see tremendous movement out of these conventions, even out of the debates. … [W]e have a small but important lead in battleground states that is a huge problem for the Romney camp. … Ohio needs to be tied, Florida needs to be tied at least.”
Oh darn.... Somehow, I don't think Mitt-the-Twit is going to be able to convince that many undecideds that he "feels their pain"...(between trips to the Caymans, Switzerland and Bermuda)... But perhaps he can convince them that car elevators should be on everybody's "must have" list....
Joe Scarborough Slams Mitt Romney: 'A Real Conservative Would Be Winning'
Ouch.
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough offered some harsh words for Mitt Romney via Twitter on Saturday night.
"Romney will lose if he doesn't dramatically change his strategy," he said. "Negative ads won't substitute for conservative ideas."
The 'Morning Joe' host continued: "The Romney campaign is not conservative. It is just as cynical and risk-averse as Team Obama. A real conservative would be winning now."
Scarborough also on Saturday criticized Romney for his vague policies.
"Romney has been clear he will avoid specifics on balancing the budget and shrinking government. Not the Reagan and Thatcher way," he said. "The truth is that Thatcher would have lost in 1979 and Reagan would have lost in 1980 if they had run as timid a campaign ad Mitt Romney.
It looks like all that Voter Registration, canvassing and phone-bank work I've been doing is paying off... We still have a 2-3% lead in Colorado, which is one of the swing-states. If we can hold that, and we get Ohio, as expected, mathematically we can win this...
And how IS that anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-healthcare, anti-medicare, anti-medicaid, anti-SocialSecurity, anti-poor, anti-unemployed, anti-elderly, anti-black/voter-suppression thing working out for ya?
Democracy4Sale wrote: It looks like all that Voter Registration, canvassing and phone-bank work I've been doing is paying off... We still have a 2-3% lead in Colorado, which is one of the swing-states. If we can hold that, and we get Ohio, as expected, mathematically we can win this...
And how IS that anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-healthcare, anti-medicare, anti-medicaid, anti-SocialSecurity, anti-poor, anti-unemployed, anti-elderly, anti-black/voter-suppression thing working out for ya?
Shows how ignorant you are....most of these "categories" you pick are people who have been hurt badly by the democrat model of entitlement, and the "give it to me now....screw the next generation" mentality you believe in. Nothing we conservatives believe in are anti anything you say....just because you have no rational ability to discuss ideas...you just rant and hate all of us.
I have no doubt Obama will win. Dems have done a great job in the gift giving which is politics. Reps can never out promise in the freebie category, even if he is stealing from the next generation to do so.
I'll bet you today that if he is elected, unemployment will be over 7.5% in 4 yrs, and the debt will be over 20 trillion, gas over $4/gal.
Too bad future generations aren't here to see all the great things we are spending their $$ on!!
Obama is still significantly behind Romney in polls about who would do a better job with the economy. Democrats can't run on the economy, their only hope lies in a campaign rooted in Fear & Smear on social issues to change the topic of discussion away from the economy. Two more months of exceedingly bad employment numbers, continued unemployment above 8%, rising food prices as winter approaches and sustained high prices at the pump all will work against Obama as he tries to hold onto his slim leads. Hide and watch - the sprint to the finish is on. The Republican ticket contains an economic and budget Juggernaut, the Democrat ticket has a couple of good guys on it that can't accomplish anything.
Election night returns are going to be must see TV in 2012. Not only for the presidential race, but to see if the Republicans gain control of the Senate. The House stays in Republican hands, the Democrats have abandoned any hope of a change in that body. Not even Pelosi is harboring a thought about a return to being Speaker these days.
I think you are all wrong about this election- in the same way that everyone- including the polls- were wrong about the 2010 elections.
They were wrong about the Walker race- the polls had walker losing the recall and the press showed nothing but union picket signs and hippie drum circles. Still the left refuses to recognize the shift against Obama.
Republican Bob Turner won the special election to succeed Anthony Weiner, and conservatives are crowing that it signifies a tidal shift against President Obama.
The common theme between the two is not a national partisan pendulum swing but anger at the political establishment—a vote against the status quo.
The takeaway is that voters are angry at the status quo and looking to send a wake-up call to Washington.
There's a hell of a lot more people out there like me- who have never been a part of a political poll in the last few years, we are sitting silently by- waiting for Nov 6.
While Obama will carry Denver and Boulder and Pueblo- he stands little chance anywhere else in Colorado. If LJ is spending all her time calling folks in Denver and Boulder county- she's just preaching to the choir.
BearMtnHIB wrote: I think you are all wrong about this election- in the same way that everyone- including the polls- were wrong about the 2010 elections.
They were wrong about the Walker race- the polls had walker losing the recall and the press showed nothing but union picket signs and hippie drum circles. Still the left refuses to recognize the shift against Obama.
Republican Bob Turner won the special election to succeed Anthony Weiner, and conservatives are crowing that it signifies a tidal shift against President Obama.
The common theme between the two is not a national partisan pendulum swing but anger at the political establishment—a vote against the status quo.
The takeaway is that voters are angry at the status quo and looking to send a wake-up call to Washington.
There's a hell of a lot more people out there like me- who have never been a part of a political poll in the last few years, we are sitting silently by- waiting for Nov 6.
While Obama will carry Denver and Boulder and Pueblo- he stands little chance anywhere else in Colorado. If LJ is spending all her time calling folks in Denver and Boulder county- she's just preaching to the choir.
The polls are just wrong- you'll see.
I hope you are right. I think another 4 yrs without a leader of our country would be very bad. No guarantees that Romney would improve it, but he definitely can't make it worse.
Too bad future generations aren't here to see all the great things we are spending their $$ on!!
Democracy4Sale wrote: And how IS that anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-healthcare, anti-medicare, anti-medicaid, anti-SocialSecurity, anti-poor, anti-unemployed, anti-elderly, anti-black/voter-suppression thing working out for ya?
Don't you have anything except "anti-romney" to brag on?
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