Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan After winning last week's debate, Romney has now moved ahead in some national polls. It's amazing to me that at this late date, people are still wavering back and forth to this degree. If Biden does poorly this week and Ryan does well, it could be a whole new ballgame. maybe that whole Etch-a-Sketch thing is true after all.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 After winning last week's debate, Romney has now moved ahead in some national polls. It's amazing to me that at this late date, people are still wavering back and forth to this degree. If Biden does poorly this week and Ryan does well, it could be a whole new ballgame. maybe that whole Etch-a-Sketch thing is true after all.<< Just shows how fickle some Americans are... The funny thing is, Romney has basically shot himself in the shoot for the past 3 months, has one good debate showing and people are jumping on his bandwagon like there is no tomorrow... I am sure he is going to say or do something that eliminates the lead he has just give him time...
Originally Posted By ecdc Fortunately these are nationwide polls, which essentially are meaningless. All we need are polls out of Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Wisconsin, Colorado, North Carolina, Iowa, and New Hampshire. I'm not saying the debate performance wasn't a train wreck for Obama. But the reality remains the same: The path to 280 is much, much more difficult for Romney. Obama: Win Ohio and one other state; Romney: Win all but one or two of these contested states. Lose Florida, win every single other one. Lose Ohio, win every single other one. Lose Ohio and Florida, enjoy your Wikipedia article.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Tonight during golf I realized my golf game is just like my politics. My tee shots and such go to the right a lot, I'm trying to go to the middle and on occasion I go to the left. But every time I take that I Side With quiz every time it comes up Gary Johnson and it's 95 -97% of the time. Maybe I am a Libertarian.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 I don't want to move to Canada!<< Are you really going there? The "If so and so wins I am going to leave this country" card? I love it when grown Americans act like children who don't get their own way...
Originally Posted By Tikiduck Casually responding to a poll is one thing, casting your vote for the next President, with all that's riding on it, is another. People will come to their senses. I also suspect Obama will be taking his "A" game into the next debate.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 <<Are you really going there? The "If so and so wins I am going to leave this country" card? I love it when grown Americans act like children who don't get their own way..>> Speak it brother.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Leading in some polls? Is the U.S. that far right? That they want to screw themselves over? Good thing I'm in Australia. Citizenship not that far off!
Originally Posted By barboy ///I don't want to move to Canada!/// Oh God, another empty 'Baldwin' claim.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper I don't think these polls speak to how much people are starting to like Romney but more so maybe expressing how much people are staring to show the doubt that they have felt over the past four years with President Obama. I don't think Romney will win because people love him or think he will make a great President. But, I think he might win because people are disenchanted with President Obama. Which is really saying something when you consider the overwhelming support candidate Obama had. It makes you wonder how many people voted FOR Candidate Obama versus how many voted for him because they were tired of the Bush doctrine.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>It makes you wonder how many people voted FOR Candidate Obama versus how many voted for him because they were tired of the Bush doctrine.<< And yet they're going to give the keys back to the guys that rolled the car into the ditch in the first place. What short memories we have.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 I also think, that like several of you have said already, this makes for interesting TV. The media wants this to be a close race, so of course, they are mentioning polls that have Romney ahead. They need it to be "exciting" down to the wire so they have something to talk about all day long.
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Originally Posted By mawnck >>But every time I take that I Side With quiz every time it comes up Gary Johnson and it's 95 -97% of the time. Maybe I am a Libertarian.<< Try this one. <a href="http://www.roboromney.com" target="_blank">http://www.roboromney.com</a>
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Back when President Obama was elected I said that if he couldn't get things turned around pretty quickly then he would be a one term President. I think our nation is so split right now and we are so much afflicted with the short attention span syndrome that we might bounce back and forth between the parties for a while. If the President doesn't win reelection then I think we are in the midst of the beginnings of a cycle of one term Presidents.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <I also think, that like several of you have said already, this makes for interesting TV. The media wants this to be a close race, so of course, they are mentioning polls that have Romney ahead. They need it to be "exciting" down to the wire so they have something to talk about all day long. > There is definitely that. Also, there's the fact that 8 out of 10 times since 1976, the challenger was the perceived winner of the first debate. People forget, but Reagan had an absolutely terrible first debate against Mondale. Worse than Obama. Obama looked passive and listless, but Reagan looked forgetful, old... people were whispering he might be going senile. The polls went from huge Reagan lead to competitive. Then Reagan performed much better at the second debate and reversed all of that. fivethirtyeight remains my preferred source - he's such a wonky numbers guy that he doesn't really let any bias in (if indeed he even has any), and his take is that although Romney definitely picked up support after the first debate, Obama remains a slight favorite. It could go either way, but there's no reason for either man's supporters to panic.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan If these last 4 years have set the template of what's to come, with the whipsawing between two play opposites, with zero cooperation on even the smallest and previously non-controversial matters, we really won't do very well as a nation. I blame the GOP for this right now, but sadly, I think the Democrats will follow the exact same pattern of non-cooperation and zero compromise should Romney win. It would be a shame, in my opinion, that such childish, selfish tactics would prove politically viable. I am hoping 2010 was a one-off.
