Romney Campaign, Karl Rove Framing Hurricane Sandy For Possible Election Day Defeat
Three days remain until Election Day, but Mitt Romney's campaign has suggested that Hurricane Sandy would be to blame for a possible defeat.
Citing sources within the campaign, Jan Crawford of CBS News reported Saturday that Team Romney believes the storm, which devastated parts of the East Coast last week, is responsible for putting a halt on their much-touted momentum.
For eight straight days, polls showed him picking up support. The campaign's internal polling, which is using different turnout models than most public polls, had him on solid ground in Florida, Virginia, North Carolina and Iowa. He had a slight lead or was tied in Ohio, New Hampshire and Wisconsin and was in striking distance in Pennsylvania, a state Republicans hadn't won since Ronald Reagan in 1984.
Those leads in Florida, Virginia, North Carolina and Iowa still hold in the internal polls, campaign sources say, but Romney's movement flattened out or, as the campaign likes to say, "paused." Nevada is now off the table, and those neck-and-neck swing states are even tighter.
While Rove acknowledged that people in the Northeast would have little influence on the outcome of the election, his larger point was that the hurricane allowed President Barack Obama to step back into his role as president, while Romney could only watch from the sidelines.
Well, got to blame it on SOMETHING... It couldn't possibly be because the GOTP candidate is a loser, who hasn't got a core, who lies in every campaign ad, and who doesn't have a plan...And the plan he suggests doesn't come close to adding up...
Must be the hurricane...Yeah, that's it!!! :crossed:
Well, it's nice to know that Darth Rove already has a "Why we failed" narrative cooked up... It saves time.
FredHayek wrote: So LJ only trusts Rove when he says something she wants to hear?
OK....I read LJ's post a couple times and I still can't find where she said she trusted Rove. Surely you are not suggesting that quoting someone indicates you trust them....I'll bet you have quoted Obama at one time or another.
FredHayek wrote: So LJ only trusts Rove when he says something she wants to hear?
OK....I read LJ's post a couple times and I still can't find where she said she trusted Rove. Surely you are not suggesting that quoting someone indicates you trust them....I'll bet you have quoted Obama at one time or another.
Wow... I just read my own post, and I can't find anywhere that I said I trusted him either...
