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
Romney Looks Like the Next Pres
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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
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.
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.
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
Romneyâs 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 Romneyâs 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, Obamaâs 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.
http://www.people-press.org/files/legacy-pdf/10-8-12 Political Release.pdf
More generally, the poll finds
Romneyâs 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 Romneyâs 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, Obamaâs 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.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/329669/democrats-bad-week-yuval-levin
The Democrats also donât seem to have fully considered what their excuses are communicating about Romneyâs 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 Romneyâs ideas are too good to be trueâso good, moderate, and sensible that they couldnât really be Mitt Romneyâs, and therefore that Romney is not telling the truth about his agenda. These charges of dishonesty arenât just false (though they are false), theyâre also downright strange. A Republican candidate stands before 60 million voters and commits to an agenda and his opponent responds that this isnât 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. Thatâs 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 âwalked away from his recordâ in the debate. On Thursday, the president himself said âThe man onstage last night, he does not want to be held accountable for the real Mitt Romneyâs decisions and what heâs been saying for the last year, and thatâs because he knows full well that we donât want what heâs been selling for the last year.â Walking away from his record and trying not to be held accountable for his unpopular decisionsâdoes that sound like anyone you know?
And that really points to what must be the deepest reason for the Democratsâ strange response to the debate. The president canât run on his record, and he isnât 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 Romneyâs 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 heâs finally running for president, the Democrats have a problem.
The Democrats also donât seem to have fully considered what their excuses are communicating about Romneyâs 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 Romneyâs ideas are too good to be trueâso good, moderate, and sensible that they couldnât really be Mitt Romneyâs, and therefore that Romney is not telling the truth about his agenda. These charges of dishonesty arenât just false (though they are false), theyâre also downright strange. A Republican candidate stands before 60 million voters and commits to an agenda and his opponent responds that this isnât 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. Thatâs 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 âwalked away from his recordâ in the debate. On Thursday, the president himself said âThe man onstage last night, he does not want to be held accountable for the real Mitt Romneyâs decisions and what heâs been saying for the last year, and thatâs because he knows full well that we donât want what heâs been selling for the last year.â Walking away from his record and trying not to be held accountable for his unpopular decisionsâdoes that sound like anyone you know?
And that really points to what must be the deepest reason for the Democratsâ strange response to the debate. The president canât run on his record, and he isnât 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 Romneyâs 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 heâs finally running for president, the Democrats have a problem.
the Democrats problem was was overconfident dems leading to low turnout
More Obama conspiracy theories huh Jem
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More Obama conspiracy theories huh 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.
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 ?
