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magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 12:39 PM Oct 2012

It's past time to quit the hand-wringing and get moving FORWARD

It was the 1st debate, not the final word. No debate makes or breaks a campaign. What's done is done. Lessons learned; ammunition gained courtesy of Romney's barrel of lies and contradictions.

It was a single, front-loaded poll that showed the immediate impact of the debate, but didn't reflect the flattening and downside of the Romney *bump* or the upside of the jobs and deficit numbers. Several other polls, including some pretty reasonable ones, tell a different story.

It was a bump, not a turning tide. Romney needed to turn the tide. The jobs and deficit numbers made sure he couldn't turn the tide.

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It's past time to quit the hand-wringing and get moving FORWARD (Original Post) magical thyme Oct 2012 OP
The media has a profit motive to portray this election as a horse race. porphyrian Oct 2012 #1
+1 leftstreet Oct 2012 #5
The only ones still stuck on the debates Glitterati Oct 2012 #2
I've seen at least half a dozen threads on the Pew Poll and the debate this morning magical thyme Oct 2012 #7
Pew Poll Glitterati Oct 2012 #8
the Pew Poll was new -- and hashed to death -- yesterday. magical thyme Oct 2012 #9
Let's call Willard's Wellstone ruled Oct 2012 #3
K&R one_voice Oct 2012 #4
Good! I wish everyone here had the same reaction! SunSeeker Oct 2012 #6
lets more FORWARD underoath Oct 2012 #10
 

porphyrian

(18,530 posts)
1. The media has a profit motive to portray this election as a horse race.
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 12:41 PM
Oct 2012

It is behaving as expected and its affect on people is sadly predictable.

 

Glitterati

(3,182 posts)
2. The only ones still stuck on the debates
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 12:41 PM
Oct 2012

Seem to be the folks who have so much fun calling DUers bedwetters, hand wringer, and idiots.

Posting threads like this just pull us all back to last week.

 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
7. I've seen at least half a dozen threads on the Pew Poll and the debate this morning
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 12:52 PM
Oct 2012

I say at least because that's how many of them I replied to. I didn't reply to all that I saw, either.

 

Glitterati

(3,182 posts)
8. Pew Poll
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 12:56 PM
Oct 2012

and the reaction the debate had on it.

Give me a break. The Pew Poll is new.

So, you are suggesting that we should just NOT discuss what is on the news?

This place has simply gone round the bend.

 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
9. the Pew Poll was new -- and hashed to death -- yesterday.
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 01:35 PM
Oct 2012

It is an outlier.

And yet the threads that seem to live on all this morning are the ones that claimed it's time to throw in the towel and give up on Obama, and new angst-ridden threads about continue to emerge.

Thank dog today's Gallups are out so there's something not so sturm and drang to discuss.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. Let's call Willard's
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 12:42 PM
Oct 2012

brief bump the Disney Bump. Disney-ABC-NBC-CBS needed a fake poll to sell Ads. It's all about the bottom line.

one_voice

(20,043 posts)
4. K&R
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 12:47 PM
Oct 2012

I just donated to Obama....I'll be damned if I'll let the media or the right tell me it's over and Obama is done. Fuck that noise!

I'm pissed now.

 

underoath

(269 posts)
10. lets more FORWARD
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 01:39 PM
Oct 2012

but lets also talk about all the great things our President has done for us in the PAST 4 YEARS!

I have always kinda had a problem with the slogan "FORWARD" I feel that it makes the Presidents first term bad and that we shouldn't look or talk about it but just go FORWARD.

that's just me though..

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