It is still close enough that Romney could win. The Romney team hasn’t given up yet. We’ll know when the Romney team has given up. It will be when anonymous Romney staffers start leaking to liberal-leaning news outlets that Romney is losing because of the Tea . . . . Continue Reading »
I basically agree with Ramesh Ponnuru. I think Romney is behind. I don’t think that Gallup and Fox News have joined the vast media conspiracy to demoralize Republican voters and I don’t think that they misplaced their calendars and still think it is 2008. But I don’t think Romney . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m not sure we are seeing all the sources of resentment against the fabled 47% who don’t pay income taxes. Romney was caught affecting to despise and write off this 47% who, according to Romney: a) Don’t pay income taxes. b) Are going to vote for Obama. c) Are dependent and think . . . . Continue Reading »
I found the map referenced in Peter Lawler’s below post to be striking. I went over to Real Clear Politics to look at how Romney’s polling against Obama compared with John McCain’s polling against Obama. According to Real Clear’s average of head-to-head . . . . Continue Reading »
1. The administration’s gyrations on the murder of Libyan ambassador Stevens are disgusting. There was a well coordinated terrorist attack on American interests and personnel. There seems to have been a series of intelligence failures that left our ambassador exposed. That is bad enough, but . . . . Continue Reading »
1. The circumstances (even taking account demographic changes favorable to the Democrats) are favorable to a narrow Republican win. The circumstances of 2008 were the most favorable for a Democratic win that I’ve ever seen. So Romney has that going for him. 2. I don’t . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So I have an article on the frontpage of First Things today. It adapts part of the first chapter of my Master’s Thesis to the 47% flap (sorry about that Mrs. Romney.) 2. Great Medicare speech by Paul Ryan at the AARP today. It hit all the right notes in . . . . Continue Reading »
even as Obama’s RCP average job approval rating gets up near 50%, 1. The economic fundamentals are still pretty bad. Median income is still down. The unemployment rate is both high and stagnant. This is the raw material for a campaign message. What Romney needs . . . . Continue Reading »
Sometimes, when Romney is trying so hard to convince an audience that he agrees with them (on what? who cares? Romney doesn’t), he comes off like the Matt Dillon character in There’s Something About Mary , when Dillon is trying to explain how much he likes the mentally handicapped. . . . . Continue Reading »
1. As Reihan Salam , Rich Lowry and others have pointed out, Romney’s comment about the “47 percent who are with him [Obama], who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they . . . . Continue Reading »
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