and everybody but them knows it

I've never heard of a Presidential campaign packing it in in the most important swing state 6 weeks before the election.

Even if Romney is behind, you would assume that with all the money he has from Rove & Koch etc. that it's still worthwhile to keep trying.

It may not be about giving up on or abandoning a state.

There is a rabid tea-party out there looking for raw meat, and then there is a Romney desperately looking for (perhaps mythic) moderate voters who share some of the 'middleclass values" Mitt says he's marketing.

It seems to me that their thinking is if a state requires a radical message it can be left to the superpacs. On the otherhand if a state is a place where Romney can speak using more mainstream middleclass values, he's going to be there. The result is campaigning on two levels, and attempting to be associated with only the kinder-gentler level.

I think that's how the republican approach is shaping up here in Wisconsin, too.

They leave it up the the dirty KKK Rove groups and Romney can say "we have nothing to do with that". The problem is most people know the groups are tied to Romney and that will continue to drive up his unfavorable numbers.

Boy, to be ready for giving up on Ohio THIS early...and we're not even out of September yet !!!

Even if the campaign doesn't spend a nickle in Ohio, there are tens (perhaps hundreds) of millions on the sidelines right now in the superpacs. They will not give up Ohio this early.

I thought I read somewhere that no GOP candidate in the last 50 years has won without taking Ohio. Wouldn't he have to win like all of the tossup states plus Michigan & Pennsylvania or some convoluted algebra like that if you take Ohio out of the equation? Am I right?



Mom to Taz, Nigel, and baby brother Sammy, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"Dogs Aren’t Luggage--HISS!”
and
“THANK YOU, DU, FOR SAVING OUR HOME–PURR!”

Of course in reality, if they pull out of Ohio, that's it, they are toast.

Assuming that Obama wins WI & PA. If they lose OH, then they have to win CO, FL, VA, NC and two of these three: NV, NH, and IA.

No republican has ever won the presidency without Ohio. To give this up means he's surrendered the race already.

They have sooooooo much more money than Obama with the super pacs and they don't exactly lack in financial backing. I'm calling bs on that one.