The Romney campaign is in a state of flux, and he seems to be abandoning his state-specific ads for this new national ad released today. Two things: (1) He looks like shit. He looks like they woke him up at 3:00 a.m. (2) Statements like "We gotta balance the budget. We gotta bring down the deficit" are meaningless. Everybody agrees on … Read More
Politico Article Looks Inside The Romney Campaign
I'mma just going to point to the article — it's really inside baseball stuff about why the Romney campaign is doing so badly, drawing from friends of Romney and campaign insiders who wish to remain anonymous. This is pretty heavy stuff: “You design a campaign to reinforce the guy that you’ve got,” said a longtime Romney friend. “The campaign has … Read More
Foreign Service Corps Not Fans of Romney
From a Foreign Service Officer … It’s probably not a surprise. But can I just say that if Mitt Romney wins in November, he is going to have a very chilly reception from his employees every time he goes abroad? I don’t think I can quite state the rage we’re all feeling towards him. Via TPM
Poll Watch: It’s Over?
The real thing to note about the recent NBC/WSJ/Marist polls of Ohio, Florida, and Virginia isn't that Obama has a lead — it's the number of undecided. In Virginia, Obama leads 49 to 44, but only 5 are undecided. Furthermore, only 2% say they might switch before election day. That means even if Romney swept all the undecided vote, he'd still only have … Read More
New CNN Poll Shows Future Optimism About Economy
… and more than that, here's two revealing poll questions: Likely voters are TWICE as likely to blame Bush and the Republicans for the bad economic conditions we are in, as compared to blaming Obama. That's bad news for Romney. And Romney is running on a campaign of "Are you better off than you were four years ago". As the … Read More
Emails
The President and his wife have been bombarding with emails for several months asking for money. Today Beyonce sent me the email asking for money. I hate to admit this, but it almost made a difference.
Cartoon Nails It
Boy, if this Oliphant political cartoon doesn't accurately describe Romney's desparation over the past few days, nothing does: These past few days, Romney has been playing to the crowd that was so outraged by a mosque bgeing built at Ground Zero (by the way, I've been there — you can't see any mosque — it's blocks away). And he thinks this … Read More
Romney Condemns The Movie That The U.S. Consulate Criticized, After Which Romney Condemned For The Criticism
And now Romney's campaign is desperately circulating talking points to supporters, to try to deal with the fallout from his crass statements. Expect all of these to immediately start spouting from the right wing media and blogs:Romney Camp Tries to Manage Fallout From Libya Response. From the "Questions and Answers" section: Questions & Answers: Don't you think it was appropriate … Read More
The Attacks On U.S. Ambassador
Well, it's ugly no doubt. As you probably know by now, families are in mourning, and the diplomatic corps is dealing with the tragedy of four Americans — including the U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens — being killed in the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. It is the first time a U.S. ambassador has been killed in 33 years. Obviously, there … Read More
Where Race And Class Collide
Interesting Reuters article about an interesting demographic: (Reuters) – Sheryl Harris, a voluble 52-year-old with a Virginia drawl, voted twice for George W. Bush. Raised Baptist, she is convinced — despite all evidence to the contrary — that President Barack Obama, a practicing Christian, is Muslim. So in this year's presidential election, will she support Mitt Romney? Not a chance. … Read More
Strange Homage
So I read this, this morning: The AP reports that both presidential candidates are setting aside their attack ads for the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I don't quite understand this form of tribute — "It's 9/11… so we'll resume the name calling, lying and smearing tomorrow?" I think we can all be joined in our common acknowledgement of the … Read More
Our Stupid (Republican) Electorate
Public Policy Polling asked a question of Ohio likely voters – namely, who was more responsible for Osama bin Laden’s death: Barack Obama or Mitt Romney? In what some… have called “the greatest thing ever,” a full 15 percent of Ohio Republicans surveyed said Romney deserved more credit than the president. Another 47 percent said they were “unsure.” ….Oh, dear. … Read More
Romney Campaign Memo Says Don’t Panic
I'll post the full memo below the fold, but the fact that this memo is there is a bad sign for Romney. As Wonkette noted, it sounds like the Facebook statuses you put up right after a breakup to insinuate that you are balls deep in hot persons and laughs and fun and rainbows. For some reason, the memo invokes the … Read More
Bouncy Bouncy
Well, the daily tracking polls of Gallup and Rassmusson (as well as other polls) indicate there was a definite Obama bounce from the convention last week, despite blah economic numbers coming out last Friday. There are two state polls that I wanted to note: one from Ohio, and one from North Carolina (released a few minutes ago). Both are from … Read More
Wrong Answer
Fox News’s Brett Baier told Romney that “several speakers” at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte this week criticized the GOP presidential nominee for the omissions (actually it was right-wing foreign policy leader Bill Kristol who started the attacks) and asked him if he had any regrets. “I only regret you’re repeating it day in and day out,” Romney said, adding … Read More