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NO!!! Its not my statement Im posting this for any interested to read and give their own opinion.
My opinion is that Romney isnt smashing Barack Obama for much more simplistic reason. The teaparty far right. Romney has lost much of the Moderate Independent vote and the moderate traditional Republican Vote because of the hard right turn of the republican party.
Some people that oppose abortion and gay marriage and illegal immigration etc all the side issues that the one side needs to draw people in to get their votes...have become secondary issues to what they percieve as an assault on the working class of this country.
Like it or not that is a factor in this election and proving to be a bigger factor that most thought it would be. The looney toons in the Primary and all the rhetoric leading up to the GOP looney toon primary created these thoughts and nothing has been said to change them. Being forced to choose Paul Ryan as his running mate...hurt him. Maybe the republican Party will wake up "IF" Mitt loses and realize that being "CONSERVATIVE" and having a conservative agenda is not being the Far Right NutJob Party. Americans always reject the far left and the far right.
Unemployment is over 8 percent. Nearly 60 percent of Americans, according to a new poll, believe the country is on the wrong track. The number of people on food stamps is at a historic high and the median net worth of American families is at a 20-year low.
If it was true that winning elections is mostly a matter of numbers — as some political scientists and campaign operatives like to argue — Barack Obama’s reelection as president should be close to a mathematical impossibility. For much of this presidential election cycle, Republicans were counting on precisely this.
The phenomenon is the result of three powerful factors, according to interviews with some two dozen political veterans from both parties.
The first is a rapidly changing, deeply polarized electorate — one in which external circumstances don’t necessarily swing large numbers of voters whose minds are deeply made up — and also one that, on balance, is becoming more Democratic due to demographic trends. In an environment like this, Obama has not seen his political bottom fall out, as happened to George H.W. Bush in 1992, when Al Gore cited a barrage of statistics and taunted, “Everything that should be down is up, and everything that should be up is down.”
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Why Barack Obama is winning - Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com
My opinion is that Romney isnt smashing Barack Obama for much more simplistic reason. The teaparty far right. Romney has lost much of the Moderate Independent vote and the moderate traditional Republican Vote because of the hard right turn of the republican party.
Some people that oppose abortion and gay marriage and illegal immigration etc all the side issues that the one side needs to draw people in to get their votes...have become secondary issues to what they percieve as an assault on the working class of this country.
Like it or not that is a factor in this election and proving to be a bigger factor that most thought it would be. The looney toons in the Primary and all the rhetoric leading up to the GOP looney toon primary created these thoughts and nothing has been said to change them. Being forced to choose Paul Ryan as his running mate...hurt him. Maybe the republican Party will wake up "IF" Mitt loses and realize that being "CONSERVATIVE" and having a conservative agenda is not being the Far Right NutJob Party. Americans always reject the far left and the far right.
Unemployment is over 8 percent. Nearly 60 percent of Americans, according to a new poll, believe the country is on the wrong track. The number of people on food stamps is at a historic high and the median net worth of American families is at a 20-year low.
If it was true that winning elections is mostly a matter of numbers — as some political scientists and campaign operatives like to argue — Barack Obama’s reelection as president should be close to a mathematical impossibility. For much of this presidential election cycle, Republicans were counting on precisely this.
But 2012 is proving that politics isn’t just about numbers, and some traditional leading indicators look as if they are losing their predictive power.
With Obama holding a narrow but so far sturdy lead over Mitt Romney in polls, many incredulous Republicans sound like the Michael Dukakis character in a 1988 Saturday Night Live skit: “I can’t believe I’m losing to this guy.”
The phenomenon is the result of three powerful factors, according to interviews with some two dozen political veterans from both parties.
The first is a rapidly changing, deeply polarized electorate — one in which external circumstances don’t necessarily swing large numbers of voters whose minds are deeply made up — and also one that, on balance, is becoming more Democratic due to demographic trends. In an environment like this, Obama has not seen his political bottom fall out, as happened to George H.W. Bush in 1992, when Al Gore cited a barrage of statistics and taunted, “Everything that should be down is up, and everything that should be up is down.”
You can read the rest here.
Why Barack Obama is winning - Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com