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kpete

(71,994 posts)
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 09:30 AM Oct 2012

"We will win this election. We will finish what we started."

OBAMA: "We will win this election. We will finish what we started."


A couple of things of awesomeness:

The ABC Poll out late last night: 49-46

The new Politico/GWU Battleground poll released this morning: 48-47

And the new Newsmax/Zogby poll: 47-44

AND - the RAND POLL is almost over 50 again at 49.56-44.94. I LOVE THE SLOPE OF THAT POLL!!!!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/15/1144687/-BOUNCE-OVER-Obama-leads-Nationally-again
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"We will win this election. We will finish what we started." (Original Post) kpete Oct 2012 OP
We will be a lame duck with a veto without the House. onehandle Oct 2012 #1
K&R BumRushDaShow Oct 2012 #2
We must win this election. Major Hogwash Oct 2012 #3
How the polls will help us win.... CuriousAboutPolls Oct 2012 #4

Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)
3. We must win this election.
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 09:50 AM
Oct 2012

Romney is a disaster waiting in the wings for everyone to become complacent and then wade in and steal it at the last minute.

We need to gain enough seats in the Senate to overcome the crappy "60 vote" filibuster rule, too.
That BS rule has cost this country at least 1 Trillion dollars alone, right there.

4. How the polls will help us win....
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 03:54 PM
Oct 2012

A lot of discussion on the polls...like why so many started looking Pro Romney. I think it is great. The narrative constantly pushed is "Obama wins amongst registered voters, Romney has advantage amongst likely voters due to voter enthusiasm." Great! What to Democrats say constantly in their speeches now? "If your state is voting now, go do it! We need your vote!" And the Republicans push polls telling everyone Obama will lose because his voters won't vote. So....the Republicans are advertising our message for free. People aren't going to sit back and not vote when they are being told by both sides "if you don't vote, Romney will win." Thank you Republicans. Thank you "voter enthusiasm gap." Hey everyone, Obama is losing! He's gonna lose because you are not voting. Tell everyone you know. Victory party for us, day after the election. And then the Republicans get crazier and their validity as a party is further eroded.

Senior advantage is shrinking due to privatization schemes. Today's Obama voters are tomorrow's seniors.

Evangelicals vote overwhelmingly Republican amongst seniors, move towards Obama in the younger generations. Percentage of evangelicals vs. atheists, agnostics, unaligned to any church is shrinking...Uh oh, GOP.

Percentage of minority groups growing. Percentage voting Dem? Growing. Texas, Arizona, (right now VERY strong Republican) how long before you are blue states? Couple of decades? How do Republicans/Tea Partyiers replace 38 Texas electoral votes?

Women leaving GOP. Public trust of Democrats on defense growing. Trust on taxes, growing. Trust on social security, medicare, domestic issues. Growing.

We have work to do. Vote! Expect a few more very tight elections. Then watch as history passes the Tea Party and their Republican allies by. Begin building stronger third parties, watch as moderate Republicans quit their party or are kicked out of it. See them form new parties, or become conservative Democrats. See the debate on the issues leave the craziest of crazy policies behind. We are close to victory. Now let's get out there and get it done.

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