Comments on: Sabato on Where We Are Now

By: Carl Eric Scott

Carl Eric Scott — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 02:58:59 +0000

57-41, eh?

Only if people are just a) lying now to pollsters, and/or b) will be having a moment of hesitation when in the booth.

By: Jy

Jy — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:16:56 +0000

I tend to agree with robert Cheeks here. Romney gets 51 is my gut.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:19:16 +0000

John: Since you feel the need to be openly rude, I’ll return the favor and point out that Libya isn’t that hard to spell correctly.

Also, the Libyan bombing campaign lasted for seven months. There was no approval “developing” and anyone arguing otherwise thinks we were all born yesterday and didn’t actually live through the time, when the administration showed complete and total contempt for Congressional oversight.

Even if you were correct (you’re not), it would be a clear indication that the Democrat leadership of both the White House and Senate are grossly incompetent and should immediately be replaced by someone who can actually get things done.

By: John Lewis

John Lewis — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:36:43 +0000

Isn’t Romney’s foreign policy distinguished from Bush’s by virtue of the position he has staked out on the deficit?

The foreign policy is distinguished on the level of the Vice Presidential Candidate.

Considerable contrast between Dick Cheney’s: “Deficit’s do not matter” and Paul Ryan’s: “Deficit’s are all that matter”.

Of course in terms of foreign policy debate, Bush himself said that he was not “a nation builder” and he (Bush) spent quite a bit of time in muslim areas of Michigan working on a sort of compassionate conservative synthesis. Lets just say that campaign speech isn’t worth much.

Lybia doesn’t necessarily hurt Obama. I am not sure what Obama did wrong other than move a bit sooner… but given everything that probably had to be worked out logistically, the way Obama got Gaddafi seems ok.

Of course the way Obama got gaddafi is a bit hands off…the actual guy who got gaddafi was killed in revenge.

In terms of “attacking” Obama for not getting congressional approval… anyone with a twitter account/or any sort of news feed knew it was developing. Congress actually had constructive if not explicit actual notice.

Pace Ron Paul, It does seem to be bad Con Law and bad overall responsibility not to actually ratify it.

By: Pseudoplotinus

Pseudoplotinus — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:22:57 +0000

Regarding point number 5: Ask and you shall receive…

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html

By: Robert Cheeks

Robert Cheeks — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:25:58 +0000

Romney in a landslide.
There’s not enough ‘useful idiots’, clowns, parasites, and progressivist ideologues to put the Gifted One over the top. His many flaws and derangements have long been revealed in his failed and costly policies.
Not even the American voter is dumb enough to give Him another term.

Romney 57%
Him 41%

By: Jy

Jy — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:57:49 +0000

If we had better candidates it wouldn’t be so long…

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:36:22 +0000

5. Also, Mitt should have a well-planned attack on Obama’s “after the election I’ll have more flexibility” nonsense to Russia. That should hit pretty hard.

6. Chin up. An incumbent sitting at 47% in mid-October in a two-man race can’t possibly get to 50%.

By: Peter Lawler

Peter Lawler — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:32:53 +0000

Sure, the more focus on Libya the better, just because, as you say, it can’t help Obama.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:18:06 +0000

1. I fail to see any undecided voter anywhere at this point who cares one bit about foreign policy.

2. The headlines from the final debate are bound to be about Libya, as are the ones from the second debate, which is absolutely not in any way, shape, or form to the advantage of the incumbent.

3. One new tack I thing Romney can and should take is to attack Obama for not getting Congressional approval for Libya. This would be a new twist on his bipartisanship-is-good-and-the-president-isn’t-but-I-am message.

4. Good grief, 90 minutes is absurdly long for these things.