Why Romney needs to talk about himself
I mentioned in a brief comment yesterday that Mitt Romney has to do more than attack President Obama’s record if he’s to win this election. He has to convince voters he’s a credible alternative they can trust with the job.
I planned to expound on that thought in a future blog post, but Sean Trende of Real Clear Politics beat me to the punch.
Trende begins his piece — worth reading in its entirety — by noting some key findings of a recent Pew poll:
- Just 8 percent of registered voters say they need to know more about Obama.
- More than three times as many, 28 percent, say they need to know more about Romney.
Specifically, Trende writes, among the voters most likely to still be making up their minds, independents,
… 42 percent say they want to know more about his record as governor, 37 percent want to know more about his record as CEO of Bain Capital, and 35 percent want to know more about his tax returns. Just 21 percent of independents want to know more about his wealth, 19 percent want to know more about his family and upbringing, and 16 percent want to know more about his religious beliefs.”
This, Trende explains, is indicative of the kind of election which is a referendum on the incumbent. In such contests, he says, voters ask themselves two questions: “First, do I want the president to be re-elected? Second, is the challenger so unacceptable that I simply can’t bring myself to vote for him?”
Almost all voters have made up their minds about Obama, so question 2 is clearly in play at this point. And yet, the Romney campaign is spending almost its time and money attacking Obama rather than explaining who Romney is — leaving it to the Obama campaign to define Romney on its own. Negatively, of course.
Trende theorizes that Obama’s negative ads may not have moved the needle in opinion polls yet because undecided voters are waiting to hear what Romney has to say about himself.
Right or wrong about that last point — I’m not really sure — Trende is spot-on correct about the rest in my view. Pointing out that the economy is still stagnant is fine, but it’s inadequate. Romney has to explain who he is, what he wants to do, and how the former proves he can accomplish the latter.
There will be opportunities to do that: The Republican Party’s convention late next month will (or should) be a time for the GOP to burnish Romney’s image and tell his story. The question is whether he can wait until Labor Day to begin defining himself. I tend to think not.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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HDB
July 25th, 2012
3:59 pm
Romney in 2002: Olympians ‘didn’t get here solely on your own power’
“Romney’s own remarks to Olympians, offered during the opening ceremonies for the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City that Romney led, hewed closely to Obama’s suggestion that success is communal.
“You Olympians, however, know you didn’t get here solely on your own power. For most of you, loving parents, sisters or brothers encouraged your hopes,” he said after praising the competitors in footage unearthed by NBC News. “Coaches guided, communities built venues in order to organize competitions. All Olympians stand on the shoulders of those who lifted them. We’ve already cheered the Olympians, let’s also cheer the parents, coaches and communities.”
….Romney said virtually the SAME THING as Obama…but he wants to rail against Obama, huh??
I was FOR it before I was AGAINST it……
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/23/news/la-pn-romney-in-2002-olympians-didnt-get-here-solely-on-your-own-power-20120723
Interested Observer
July 25th, 2012
3:59 pm
RE: “…wonder what kind of spending discipline they’d [Democrats ] ever favor…”
This comment perpetuates the myth that Republicans spend less than Democrats. Bush and his Republican congresses should have put that myth to rest.
Republicans don’t want to spend less than Democrats; they just want to spend less on the poor and middle class while seeking to spend more on corporations and the wealthy.
Jefferson
July 25th, 2012
3:59 pm
Kyle is right btw, its not working.
independent thinker
July 25th, 2012
4:00 pm
Kyle – I saw the interview and heard Anne Romney say “we have given YOU PEOPLE all you need to know” . Please explain who altered her words and lip movements. Obama? Or was that someone impersonating her???????? Was she taken out of context like her husband did about Obama’s comments concerning infrastructure and business??? Please explain.
Road Scholar
July 25th, 2012
4:01 pm
Kyle: Does the Republican Party do a platform any more before/during the convention? Does it or other official documents (sorry bloggers your opinion doesn’t count) outline the items and issues Romney and/ or the repubs stand for/are directed by? Something with specifics?
East Lake Ira
July 25th, 2012
4:05 pm
I for one would like to know more about Mitt’s taxes and why he lies so easily.
Do tell Mitt. Please.
They BOTH suck
July 25th, 2012
4:06 pm
Regardless of how people see it, the Pres always gets too much credit or blame for the economy. That is nothing new in how campaigns play out or how people see what is going on.
Debates imo will send Romney to victory or send him home. Either way it will not be a whooping like McCain was administered. Going to be close regardless who wins.
I see an 04 coming. A President with less than 50% approval but still winning the WH.
Common Cents
July 25th, 2012
4:08 pm
Curious
July 25, 2012
1:59 PM
“About the only thing Romney can accuse Obama of being guilty of, that Romney himself is not quilty of is:
Obama is only half white”
How would we know? He might be all black. He might be white with a great tan. We can’t seem to get a birth certificate…
Hillbilly D
July 25th, 2012
4:08 pm
I’ve said before that the fact that neither candidate has walked away with this race, shows how weak both candidates are. It’s depressing that out of 300 million people, give or take, these two are the last ones left.
Jefferson
July 25th, 2012
4:08 pm
What is being held back to swift boat ? You know its coming .
Ayn Rant
July 25th, 2012
4:09 pm
Enough talk and self-definition! We want to see his tax returns for the last 8 years.
They BOTH suck
July 25th, 2012
4:11 pm
Kyle
I have heard and read how the attacks on Bain and the money spent by Obama and the Democrats are not working.
With that said, a better candidate (whether I agree with thier politics or not) should have been able to accentuate the sluggish economy to a degree better than tied or even losing, we wont even get into Electoral College projections.
Again, like 04, Obama like Bush will not win because people are sold……… he will win because the challenger was not up to the task in the majority of the electorates’ minds. And it will not matter how much talk radio riles the base that was going to vote for Romney or whomever regardless
They BOTH suck
July 25th, 2012
4:12 pm
Hilbilly D @ 4:08
Agree 100%
Forget Party affiliation, this country can do better. We better be able to do better
Thomas Heyward Jr.
July 25th, 2012
4:12 pm
All anyone needs to know about Romney is that he supports the indefinite detention of American citizens without due process.(NDAA of 2012).
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Voting for him…….renders one a traitor……….to the ENTIRE human race.
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A Romney/Obama voter deserves being Gitmo’ed….and I hope that they are….post haste.
Then..and only then..will our country get back its republic.
Hillbilly D
July 25th, 2012
4:21 pm
They BOTH Suck
From the Presidential race, right down to the smallest local race, there’s not one person that I actually want to vote for, in elections that I can vote in. I’ll go vote and in each and every race, it’ll be a matter of which one I detest the least. This is the worst slate of candidates, top to bottom, that I can remember, and I’ve been voting nearly 40 years.
Common Cents
July 25th, 2012
4:24 pm
Independent Thinker
July 25, 2012
3:06 pm
“Here is what I already know about Willard Mitt Romney :
1. He is a Mormon and will not answer any questions about his faith or his support of racist and antisemitic policies of the Mormon Church;
2, Hides all records of past business and government dealings for no obvious reason;
3. Draft dodger who hid in France during the Vietnam War;
4. Keeps money and business dealings offshore and created a fake blind trust while governor run allegedly by his wife and son;
5. Changed his position on every major conservative “hot button” issue once or more;
6. Knows nothing about foreign policy and national security and will rely on the same fools as did George W. and make the same mistakes;
7. Will give bankers the same rope to hang themselves and wreck the economy as did George W.
8. Has the same plan for universal health care as Obama and
9. Sounds terrible when singing
Other than that he claims to be the job creator with no proven track record to prove that but is a nice guy.”
Here is what I already know about Barrack Hussein Obama
1. He is a Christian (maybe?) who refuses to discuss his dealing with Jerimiah Wright who definitely has some extremely racist views.
2. He hides his birth certificate and college transcripts for no obvious reasons.
3. Military Experience? Yeah, that’s a big no. (Giess you needed a birth certificate to get in…)
4. Wouldn’t know if Obama has any money hiding anywhere as he has NEVER worked in the private sector. Been on the government teat his whole career…
5. Changes his position constantly, and not just on hot button issues. (Remember the “I will sign no bill without giving the American people 48 hours to review it”? spiel. Yeah, we all know how THAT worked out…)
6. Believes in the “Barney” approach to foreign policy (I love you; you love me! Let’s all be friends…) and National Security?!? (We can’t beat them so we’ll just let everybody stay even though they’re here illegally!)
7. Who drafted the bill that allowed all those CEO’s to keep their golden parachutes when they got bailed out? Oh, that would be then-senator Barrack Obama! Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner…
8. Universal ealtcare plan in MA? Bi-partisan effort with concessions on both sides that the PEOPLE ( you remember them, right?) wanted. Universal Healthcare? Democratic nightmare that most of America did NOT want and had to have crammed down their throats and are still trying to spit out. Also MA healthcare was well-funded and didn’t cause the State to go broke – Unlike Obeymecare.
9. Who cares if he can sing? But since he can’t do anything else, I doubt he can sing either…
Other than he claims to build jobs yet unemployment is creeping back up again and he created a debt that my children’s children will still be paying. So he has a proven record… of failure! No, thanks. I can’t afford another four years. I have to work until well past retirement to pay for the first four years.
They BOTH suck
July 25th, 2012
4:27 pm
Hillybilly
Only been voting since 87, but you are right, it is bad
Requesta
July 25th, 2012
4:31 pm
“1.Just 8 percent of registered voters say they need to know more about Obama.”
That tells me he’s going to lose. The other 92 percent already know everything they need to know about him…and it ain’t all that good.
independent thinker
July 25th, 2012
4:34 pm
Road Scholar- here is the GOP platform:
1. Tax breaks for the top 1% and 5% capital gains tax;
2.cut all public benefits by 25%;
3. eliminate social security and medicare and make them privately run;
4. no bid contracts for all defense contractors;
5. Prepare to attack China and Iran; restart cold war with Russia;
6. allow bankers and investment brokers to operate without any regulation;
7. fire and arrest federal workers who have distant or dead relatives who knew someone whose friends were members at some time in the Muslim Brotherhood;
8. allow unlimited profits to be earned by individuals with offshore accounts and businesses without any tax consequences;
9. Increased tax deductions for plants that close down and ship work overseas;
10. Making it easier for lenders to seize all pensions and other benefits of a company as collateral;
11. allowing health insurance companies to make unlimited profits;
12. Making women’s wombs public property ;
13. Allowing the purchase and sale of any type of gun and ammo in any quantity without regulation and ;
14, Getting more justices like Antonin Scalia, Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas on the bench
What else you need to know?
fair and balanced
July 25th, 2012
4:45 pm
Common cents:”"”" Also MA healthcare was well-funded and didn’t cause the State to go broke – Unlike Obeymecare. “”"
Obviously you are unaware that in order to fund Romney care which was created because the fund for free emergency room care in Mass was empty ( n unfunded mandate created by Reagan) the state has now borrowed and gone over its Medicaid allotment by 8.5 billion dollars. Guess who is covering that shortfall? you as an American taxpayer.
Please tell me about all these government jobs that Obama had as an attorney before he became a US and State Senator -name one.
You must have been asleep when Obama gave a speech in 2008 condemning and disavowing Jeremiah Wright. When has Romney done that about racists in the Mormon Church?
What do you expect to find in his college transcript that would effect his ability to be president? That he really did not attend Harvard law school and become president of the prestigious law review?
Thomas Heyward Jr.
July 25th, 2012
4:48 pm
RESOLUTION CONDEMNING THE 2012 NDAA
•WHEREAS, the most recently enacted National Defense Authorization Act passed the Congress by an overwhelming bipartisan majority and was signed into law by the president and,
•WHEREAS, provisions in this law provide agents of the federal government and the military the authority to indefinitely detain both citizens and non citizens, on US soil, without charge and,
•WHEREAS said detention can be effected solely on the basis of an unsubstantiated accusation that the detainee poses a threat and,
•WHEREAS, there is no provision for due process or judicial review of said actions and,
•WHEREAS, said detainees can have their right to legal counsel withheld and,
•WHEREAS, detainees are denied their right to be informed of specific charges and be confronted by their accuser and,
•WHEREAS, detention can be indefinite with no fixed term, and at the whim of the detaining authorities and,
•WHEREAS, such authority confers upon the government of the United States unprecedented power to usurp the rights of the people in a direct violation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights,
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Libertarian Party calls on every candidate running for elected office, national, state, or local, to denounce this abrogation of constitutional due process rights, and to do everything in their power once elected to repeal and nullify this brazen violation of Constitutional protection and natural law.
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Gary Johnson or Ron Paul.
All the rest are mere traitors.
That Black guy
July 25th, 2012
4:57 pm
Hillbilly D
July 25th, 2012
4:08 pm
I’ve said before that the fact that neither candidate has walked away with this race, shows how weak both candidates are. It’s depressing that out of 300 million people, give or take, these two are the last ones left.
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We are picking the midget with the best jumper.
Common Cents
July 25th, 2012
5:05 pm
Fair and Balanced
You pick one line and m iss the point. I forgot; that’s the strategy.
1. Medicaid is a whole nother ball of wax. The changes that need to be made to that program and the abuses that occur could take pages in and of themselves. But again, this plan was DESIRED by the people of MA and it was a BI-PARTISAN effort. Neither of which is true for Obeymecare.
2. Please re-read the bullet point more slowly… I didn’t say he had a bunch of government jobs. I said he had NEVER worked in the private sector. e has ALWAYS worked for the government. (Maybe that’s the issue; you Dems don’t realize that working as a Senator and President means you work FOR the government- i.e. the people- not the other way around…)
3.Please don’t tell me that you HONESTLY believe that after attending Jerimiah Wright’s church for all those years Obama suddenly realized that the crap he was spewing was racist. I would rather im have refused to discuss it than to play the dumb card of “I didn’t know this was racist rhetoric for all the years I associated with him!”
4. Ummm… If he lied about Harvard and his grades and being editor of the law review and his birth certificate that definitely affects my opinion of what kind of job he would do as President. The fact that Mitt Romney has made lots of money in the private sector tells me he could probably do a better job of running the economy as opposed to the ruining of the economy that your current President has done.
CDC
July 25th, 2012
5:19 pm
Well today we learned that he is an Anglo Saxon…unlike our President whom he obviously thinks is some sort of heathen. But that is just the way the ultra rich talk. Like Ann Romney saying “we’ve given all you people need to know” in regards to her husband opening up his tax records. Just the way the 1% speaks to us low-lifes.
The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers
July 25th, 2012
5:22 pm
We’re all voting for whom the special interest groups are hand feeding us, and getting the lipstick put on these pigs by Fox News and Msnbc. And most are too stupid to know it.
Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer's ineptocracy
July 25th, 2012
5:23 pm
Kyle, go back to 2008 and think of all the people wanted to know about Barry. He revealed nothing then and his background is sealed much tighter today, than national security information is concealed in his WH. Didn’t seem to hurt him, people must have liked voting for some mystery man. I think they hated GWB so much, they would have voted for a turnip. I think the same conditions exist today.
Obama is winning all the groups he is after, but not to the same extent he did in 2008, and he is losing white voters at a much greater rate than 2008. If I was Romney, I would only talk about what I wanted to reveal, he is not going to change the mind of one Obama Koolaid drinker, now matter what he reveals about himself.
fair and balanced
July 25th, 2012
5:30 pm
Common cents-
1. If you are going to suck 8.5 billion dollars out of the feds the state does not have available in the treasury, no wonder it had bipartisan effort.
2. Romney has never disavowed anything connected with the Mormon church;
3. Obviously you are misinformed as to Obama’s career after Harvard;
4. Prove to me that Obama faked being the president of the Harvard Law Review.
Bruno
July 25th, 2012
5:38 pm
Great to see TBG on board. The man is so cool, he actually knows Victoria’s Secret.
If you missed it earlier, my GF and I will be visiting Jersey in about 3 weeks. Really looking forward to the trip.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
July 25th, 2012
5:42 pm
I’d rather see a man’s academic records, to be able to discern whether he’s a total dimwit or not, then to find out the methods he used to make a bunch of money.
Wait a minute. We already know that obozo is a total dimwit. I forgot.
Never mind.
saywhat?
July 25th, 2012
5:47 pm
Hmmmmmm. What ever happened to the right wing “Obama is the most unvetted President in history” meme? Oh wait, there’s the ever enlightened Rafe Hollister spouting that made up nonsense right below the column where Kyle quotes the Pew poll “Just 8 percent of registered voters say they need to know more about Obama”.
Dude, do you even read the column? This kind of blind stupidity in the face of facts is frickin’ hilarious.
JamVet
July 25th, 2012
5:47 pm
Of course, Flip Robme doesn’t want to talk about Flip Robme!
When it comes to campaigning, he and his handlers are obviously not very good, but they ain’t crazy!
On the one hand, he must feel like amazingly lucky. Kinda like the Chicago White Sox being in the Pansy Division of baseball. And if Flip’s competition had not been a bunch of laughable nimrods, he’d wouldn’t even be on anyone’s radar today.
On the other hand, he is truly unfortunate, in terms of timing, at least. No doubt, that a huge part of his problem is the fact that the fake conservatives, as led by George Walker Bush have poisoned the nation so badly against their abysmal neoconservatism that it may well take the GOP another 12 years to win the White House back.
His staggering mistake is not only has he not denounced the Bush Reign of Error, he has actually cozied up to it! And has numerous of George’s thugs and goons on his staff!
What in the name of Great Caesar’s Ghost are these people thinking?!
The man is a walking train wreck of a nominee. With so many problems that he makes the middling BHO look like one of the Founding Fathers.
THE CONS DON’T EVEN LIKE HIM!
Simply stated, he is, hands down, the weakest GOP candidate for POTUS in my lifetime. The guy makes Bob Dole and John McCain look like invincible juggernauts in comparison.
And at least McCain had integrity, valor, service before self and supreme sacrifice on his side.
But Flip? He is completely without any of those traits.
The election is over. And has been for months. The effete, northeastern, Holy Father of Socialist Medicine, severely conservative RINO is a dead man walking.
But his fellow zombies want to pretend otherwise.
Which makes for great spectacle and comedy.
So go ahead and endure what promises to be an insufferable summer and fall, neocons.
I’m stocking up on popcorn…
Just saying..
July 25th, 2012
5:48 pm
“35 percent want to know more about his tax returns.”
Just crazy if, after 8 years running for the office, the election turns on that…
saywhat?
July 25th, 2012
5:50 pm
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin…
July 25th, 2012
5:42 pm
“I’d rather see a man’s academic records, to be able to discern whether he’s a total dimwit or not, then to find out the methods he used to make a bunch of money.”
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Especially if you support the guy who made lots of money by being an unethical, un-American crook. Gotta keep that swept under the rug, don’t you cupcake?
@@
July 25th, 2012
5:53 pm
A departing gift?
Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, doesn’t get his way very often in Congress.
But the House overwhelmingly adopted his longstanding proposal to audit the Federal Reserve Wednesday, in a 327-98 vote.
Meanwhile, Democrats like House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., argued a full audit would politicize the Federal Reserve.
“The Fed, like every other major central bank in the world, is independent and Congress has rightly insulated the Fed from short-term political pressures,” Hoyer said.
Hoyer declared earlier in the week he would advise Democratic members to vote no. Ninety-seven did. But 89 voted yes, ushering Paul’s bill to passage with a comfortable margin.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/25/house-approves-audit-fed-bill-marking-capstone-on-rep-paul-career/?intcmp=trending
No harm in an audit, right?
Kewl!
Matz
July 25th, 2012
5:55 pm
What could Rmoney tell us about himself?
Once he’s demonstrated that his word is only a tool to get what he wants, and that tool changes based on which faction he’s attempting to manipulate to get what he wants, then it doesn’t really matter what his message is, because there’s no reason whatsoever to believe a word of it. Put me down in the “it would be virtually impossible for me to care less than I already do now” column.
I know enough to know I don’t want to know any more.
@@
July 25th, 2012
6:00 pm
Iran Nuclear Plants Hit By Virus Playing AC/DC.
Helo, Ahmadenijad!!!
Tres KEWL!
Common Cents
July 25th, 2012
6:00 pm
Fair and Balanced
1. Still does not change the fact that MA wanted the health care.
2. So, false platitudes about what you knew was racist rhetoric don’t impress me; better off saying nothing.
3. What private sector job did Obama hold after (supposedly) Harvard?
4. Why is it ok for Obama to withhold his information for privacy reasons but it’s not ok for Mitt to do the same?
Joe Biden
July 25th, 2012
6:01 pm
Glad to hear Romney camp is pandering for that white Southern vote while overseas and emphasizing
those Anglo-Saxon blood ties. Maybe when he is in Israel he will appeal to the Jewish vote and say that the Mormons are so concerned about the Holocaust victims that they felt they were blessed to be baptized by the Mormons.
Bruno
July 25th, 2012
6:01 pm
He revealed nothing then and his background is sealed much tighter today
My personal guess about his college records is that he applied as a foreign student in order to qualify for financial aid. If that’s the case, I wouldn’t necessarily hold it against him, though I do hold his lack of forthrightness against him.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
July 25th, 2012
6:02 pm
Especially if you support the guy who made lots of money by being an unethical, un-American crook. Gotta keep that swept under the rug, don’t you cupcake?
blah, blah, blah, bla zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
First it’s DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz who as revealed to have invested in Swiss Banks, Foreign Drug Companies and State Bank of India. Democrat Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has between $1 million and $5 million in partnership income from ”Matthews International Capital Management LLC,” a group that emphasizes that it has a “A Singular Focus on Investing in Asia.” The Obamas paid a total federal tax rate of 20.5 percent on a gross adjusted income $789,674, which would typically fall within the top federal rate of 35 percent.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
July 25th, 2012
6:05 pm
Would anyone like to discuss the Kennedy family tax shelters, while we’re on the subject?
Bob Baldwin
July 25th, 2012
6:06 pm
Common Cents
“that your current President has done.”
What country are you from?
That Black guy
July 25th, 2012
6:08 pm
Bruno
July 25th, 2012
5:38 pm
Great to see TBG on board. The man is so cool, he actually knows Victoria’s Secret.
If you missed it earlier, my GF and I will be visiting Jersey in about 3 weeks. Really looking forward to the trip.
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My Homeboy Bruno, what’s up. How did the road race go for you and PB?
Yeah, I saw that you were heating up top (Jerzey for those not in the know). How do I place my order for chocolate ecliar Tasty Kake and Deitz and Watson HOT sausage (although I’ll settle for Parks)?
Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer's ineptocracy
July 25th, 2012
6:10 pm
saywhat
Rafe Hollister spouting that made up nonsense right below the column where Kyle quotes the Pew poll “Just 8 percent of registered voters say they need to know more about Obama”.
First of all, I don’t believe polls for the most part. Second, I read that to mean that folks know enough about the loser we currently have and want to know more about Romney, to determine if he is a better choice. They know what they have and are terribly disappointed, and have given up on the media ever vetting him, so they hope the media will do better with Romney. Keep drinking the Koolaid, and remember he is going down. First, Joe PA then Obom MA.
Bob Baldwin
July 25th, 2012
6:12 pm
I see where Ann Romney’s Dressage expenses are medical expenses.
That’s great news!
All my future bird hunting trips will be medical expenses; walking is good physical exercise.
Dusty
July 25th, 2012
6:13 pm
If Obama called himself a “foreign student” for school admission, how can he be an American citizen when it comes to elections?
Or is it the old”what a web we weave when first we practive to deceive.”?
Bruno
July 25th, 2012
6:13 pm
How did the road race go for you and PB?
We set an easy pace, and did great. We’re heading out the door for a 5K tonight in the 100 degree heat.
How do I place my order for chocolate ecliar Tasty Kake and Deitz and Watson HOT sausage (although I’ll settle for Parks)?
LOL–I’ve been dying for a REAL cheese steak for the longest, as well as some of that great South Jersey pizza.
Great to chat with you, gotta run (literally).
Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer's ineptocracy
July 25th, 2012
6:14 pm
Saywhat
Here is why you can’t trust polls. The polls are used to push public opinion rather than reflect it and since the MSM is in the tank for Barry, here is how it goes.
Last night, I noted how NBC News was swimming against historical trends in pushing a poll with a deeply partisan skew in its sample. The poll, produced in conjunction with The Wall Street Journal, had a D+11 sample, i.e. 46% of the sample identified as Democrat, 35% identified as Republican. In 2008, a very big year for Democrats, the electorate was D+7, 39% Democrat, 32% Republican. In fact, you have to go back nearly thirty years to find an election with such a partisan skew.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/07/25/nbcs-chuck-todd-our-poll-was-skewed
JamVet
July 25th, 2012
6:14 pm
Joe B,
American Jews always vote overwhelmingly against Republicans. (Maybe they see them as too quasi-fascist?)
This election will be no different. I doubt that Flip will get 25% of the MOT vote.
Selah…
Dusty
July 25th, 2012
6:18 pm
Bob Baldwin, 6:12
If your aim in bird hunting is as accurate as your comments here you might be able to claim medical expenses in the emergency room.