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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAndrew Sullivan: "This might be getting close to over, mightn't it?"
Romney's Current 3.6 Percent Chance Of Winning:I don't think that Romney can buy this kind of shift back with casino money or Rovian slanders against a more popular man. He has to persuade those voters back. The debates are his last chance. But if Obama is seen as winning them - and the argument he has to make is simply more popular in specifics than Romney's - I can see this race breaking even more open.
We have found that Romney in general loses votes the more he opens his mouth in public and private (two categories fast merging). He's lost the core terms of this campaign (it's now a choice, not a referendum), he has lost the specifics (the vagueness of his tax plan is indeed a red flag), he is insisting you can cut the debt by cutting taxes for the very rich like him, then calls half the country deadbeats, leading to ads like this:
This might be getting close to over, mightn't it?
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Andrew Sullivan: "This might be getting close to over, mightn't it?" (Original Post)
brooklynite
Sep 2012
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gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)1. Sure hope so
grantcart
(53,061 posts)2. It shouldn't have gone on this long!
vinny9698
(1,016 posts)3. Voters were giving Mitt a chance to define his agenda, and
Undecided voters were giving Mitt a chance to present his case for the presidency. Now that they have seen his agenda and lack of details they are moving towards Obama. Like SNL said Obama's secret weapon is Mitt himself. The more voters know and hear Mitt the more they dislike him and his agenda.