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hollysmom

(5,946 posts)
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 01:07 PM Sep 2012

Has Mitt Romney introduced you to those sad Obama voters? He soon will.

From Slate.com By David Weigel

We Are the 5 or 6 or 7 Percent

We speak with voters across the country about their perceptions,” says Romney in the video. “The 5 to 6 or 7 percent that we have to bring onto our side—they all voted for Barack Obama four years ago. So … when you say to them, ‘Do you think Barack Obama is a failure?,’ they overwhelmingly say no. They like him. But when you say, ‘Are you disappointed that his policies haven't worked?,’ they say yes.”
Conveniently enough, this is the message that some of the biggest pro-Romney, anti-Obama super PACs are starting to deploy. For weeks, David Koch’s Americans for Prosperity has run ads in which former Obama voters explain why they’ve given up on the guy. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal scooped that Ameritrade’s Joe Ricketts would spend $10 million running commercials starring “disaffected Obama supporters talking about why they plan to support Mr. Romney.”


And so it begins.

My concern is not that this will change people to vote for Romney, but that they will become discouraged and stay home.
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Has Mitt Romney introduced you to those sad Obama voters? He soon will. (Original Post) hollysmom Sep 2012 OP
"disaffected Obama supporters" aka beac Sep 2012 #1
Not likely. Nearly every day, Romney hands the Dems an ad against him simply by opening his mouth. gkhouston Sep 2012 #2

beac

(9,992 posts)
1. "disaffected Obama supporters" aka
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:27 PM
Sep 2012

actors and/or Republican staffers.

And, Mittens, do I need to remind you AGAIN that his "policies haven't worked" b/c of the obstructionist a-holes in the Congress who ONLY care about destroying Obama and don't give a crap about the 5or6or7percent or ANY percent other than the 1%!!

gkhouston

(21,642 posts)
2. Not likely. Nearly every day, Romney hands the Dems an ad against him simply by opening his mouth.
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:32 PM
Sep 2012

Of course the Romney campaign will run ads trying to depict the President as a disappointment and a failure. The disarray and panic in the Romney campaign tells me that even they don't think such ads will have much effect.

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