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Republicans cry foul at swing state polls
Thu, 11/01/2012 - 8:12am | posted by Jason Pye
Yesterday wasn’t a good day for Mitt Romney’s campaign. Polls conducted CBS, The New York Times, and Quinnipiac showing his campaign trailing in three must-win, swing states, meaning that an Electoral College victory remains out of reach. Others have noted that the polls don’t make much sense because — in Virginia, for example — Romney leads among independents by such a wide margin.
Ed Morrissey also points out that enthusiasm is on the side of Republicans in the CBS/NYT/Qunnipiac poll, which he says spells bad news for Obama. With enthusiasm on their side and signs pointing to voter turnout being down this year, Republicans could squeek out an expected victory. But with the campaigns concentrating on their ground games in states like Ohio and Virginia, it’s hard to see how voter turnout won’t be up at least in those states.
Another point worth noting is what Gallup is showing in their look at the makeup of the electorate this year. As far as demographic go, the 2012 electorate looks like that of four years ago. However, more Republicans are in the mix — a sign of that enthusiasm advantage, which leads Conn Carroll of the Washington Examiner to say, “[I]f Gallup is right about the 2012 electorate looking a lot like the 2008 electorate, then Romney should win convincingly next Tuesday.”
Meanwhile, David Alexrod, Obama’s chief strategist, is having an hard time explaining why Romney is doing so much better among independents, hinting that more conservatives are identifying themselves as indpendents, which seems to the line du jour among Democrats.
While Republicans have to be optimistic, they should also prepare for the worst. Nick Gillespie points to two reasons Republicans should brace themselves for a Romney loss next week.
The reason we don’t have thousands dead here is because GOVERNMENT FUNDED scientists were able to predict the path of the hurricane A WEEK IN ADVANCE. Romney of course believes we don’t need science. Obama stops his campaigning so he can watch over the disaster relief and run the country like a good president should. Romney pushes on and lines up a bunch of fake photo shoots like his boy Ryan at the soup kitchen washing clean dishes. We already know what the republican version of presidential duty is, clearing brush at the ranch for a week and THEN flying over storm damaged areas before declaring “Looks like you’re doing a heck of a job Brownie”. There is your republican disaster relief in a nutshell, either give the job to your crony horse trainer friend or dissolve FEMA. Romney is nothing more than a draft dodging liar. You can bet that he isn’t going to invest his money in disaster recovery, unless of course it’s being handled by China.
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Sad, CBS, The New York Times, and Quinnipiac polls and others just grabbing samples of Major city areas and inner city samples. Of coarse they are going to poll high for Obama. Yet rural areas tend more Republican and those more spred polls across states show that having Romney tied or ahead.
If They keep pushing just polls in the cities, and Romney wins by the rural area votes off setting the skewd city votes….
There will be riots saying Romney stole the vote some how. Or that gives Obama the right to tie up election counting if that happens. SHAME on the selective sampling.
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