Mitt Romney's October Surprise Is Going To Be Legendary
Walter Hickey | Sep. 18, 2012, 11:08 AM
This is what people are still not grasping about Romney: He's about to open up the money floodgates in a way that Obama can't match.
Right now, the Super PACs supporting either candidate are at an even larger financial disparity. Romney's Restore Our Future has $20.5 million in the bank at this point moving forward, and the anti-Obama American Crossroads is sitting on $29.5 million. Obama's Super PAC has a mere $4.2 million on hand right now.
Both Romney and Obama have been fundraising consistently for months. But Romney has kept his head down and his account flush, and didn't try to compete with the Olympics, the Conventions, or the recent mediocre press. He was competent enough to realize that the Obama campaign had to hemorrhage cash in order to maintain their numbers.
And now, he's got a massive upper hand, which very few people are talking about. Once he and his surrogates carpet bomb the swing states with adverts, by sheer mathematics Obama will take a small but predictable dive in the polls. In the middle of October, Mitt starts looking like a contender again.
The past few weeks of Mediocre Mitt are about to end. He's got more resources than the Obama campaign, and his ability to find cheap media markets and flex his muscle are just coming to the fore. This, plus a few more bad economic months, and he's in the White House. Mitt is undervalued.
The real race is just getting started.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/mitt...is-going-to-be-legendary-2012-9#ixzz26rSzusll
Walter Hickey | Sep. 18, 2012, 11:08 AM
This is what people are still not grasping about Romney: He's about to open up the money floodgates in a way that Obama can't match.
Right now, the Super PACs supporting either candidate are at an even larger financial disparity. Romney's Restore Our Future has $20.5 million in the bank at this point moving forward, and the anti-Obama American Crossroads is sitting on $29.5 million. Obama's Super PAC has a mere $4.2 million on hand right now.
Both Romney and Obama have been fundraising consistently for months. But Romney has kept his head down and his account flush, and didn't try to compete with the Olympics, the Conventions, or the recent mediocre press. He was competent enough to realize that the Obama campaign had to hemorrhage cash in order to maintain their numbers.
And now, he's got a massive upper hand, which very few people are talking about. Once he and his surrogates carpet bomb the swing states with adverts, by sheer mathematics Obama will take a small but predictable dive in the polls. In the middle of October, Mitt starts looking like a contender again.
The past few weeks of Mediocre Mitt are about to end. He's got more resources than the Obama campaign, and his ability to find cheap media markets and flex his muscle are just coming to the fore. This, plus a few more bad economic months, and he's in the White House. Mitt is undervalued.
The real race is just getting started.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/mitt...is-going-to-be-legendary-2012-9#ixzz26rSzusll
