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Stuckinthebush

(10,847 posts)
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 10:37 AM Sep 2012

October is coming

Let's look at the Mittster with 41 days until the election. His campaign is in turmoil, his polling in swing states keeps getting worse, his message is ridiculed, his supporters are sick of him, and his running mate calls him the Stench.

Mitt is determined to be president of the United States. It is his birthright, for goodness sakes! The country owes it to him and by god he is going to be president!

He is a cornered wild animal looking for a way out. He is the most dangerous now that he has nothing to lose.

So, what do you think his October surprise will be?

Oh, we know there will be something. It could be as lame as an out of context video of Obama with Reverend Wright or a picture of him smoking marijuana in his 20s. These won't work.

But, the Romney campaign could have something in their back pocket. Or they could be working on manufacturing a fake controversy that would take too long to unravel before the election.

What do you think the October surprise will be for both campaigns?

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get the red out

(13,468 posts)
4. +1
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 10:45 AM
Sep 2012

If the rMoney team has an "October surprise" they've shown themselves fully capable of turning it around to hurt their candidate instead.

Stuckinthebush

(10,847 posts)
3. No surprise?
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 10:44 AM
Sep 2012

Yes, that would be a surprise for a campaign that is in such terrible shape as Romney's.

The surprise is likely lame and I bet Obama has a really good one - another damning video perhaps.

oldhippydude

(2,514 posts)
7. there is an excelent chance
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 11:10 AM
Sep 2012

that this is shaping into a landslide election... nate has us holding the Senate... and if things continue on ther present course we take the house back..

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
10. They wish. We might take the house, that's just how it is. We could.
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 11:47 AM
Sep 2012

and I intend to help that happen.

Brother Buzz

(36,464 posts)
9. The October surprise was delivered early this cycle, and refreshingly, by Jimmy Carter IV et al.
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 11:41 AM
Sep 2012

The best Mitt can do at this point is to stop digging.

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
13. They have nothing because there is nothing
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 12:22 PM
Sep 2012

Obama is a good, brilliant, hard-working man, and an excellent chief executive. Romney is an overly ambitious rich guy with very little substance. You can't invent your way out of that, if you're the Romney team or the GOP.

It's also the case that Obama is one of the most brilliant campaigners of modern political history, while Romney is a dud. The Obama campaign is run not just by competent people, but by the most innovative political team we've seen, perhaps ever.

Anything Romney tries at this point will fall flat. He can't change the fundamental dynamics.

Democat

(11,617 posts)
14. Obama may be the one to deliver an October surprise to Romney
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 12:25 PM
Sep 2012

Romney has been on the defensive for months.

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