Maybe Romney isn’t down by 10 points, they argue, but the GOP presidential nominee seems destined to lose by a solid 5 points – and in closely divided Ohio that represents a loss of nearly landslide proportions. (That would mean that Obama would slightly improve his 2008 victory margin against John McCain.)
Never mind that the most accurate poll -- Rasmussen's -- has the Ohio race locked in a virtual tie. Shapiro's absurd "reporting" was eagerly marketed by the usual propagandists -- including Taegan Goddard and Doug Mataconis -- as pure gospel.
Now stop and consider just how deranged your thought processes have to be in order to believe this rubbish:
• The Debt: you have to believe that Obama's act of adding $6 trillion -- 60 percent -- to the national debt, which has resulted in the country's first credit downgrade, is wildly popular
• Unemployment: you have to believe that Obama's horrific unemployment record is a winning one
• 2010: you have to believe that the 2010 tidal wave election never happened
• Obamacare: you have to believe that spiking health care premiums and a huge number of employers who are dropping coverage have somehow transformed the Statists' health care takeover into a program beloved by the citizenry
• Foreign Policy: you have to believe that Obama's bizarre handling of the Middle East, now aflame, is popular
• Energy: you have to believe that Obama's war on coal -- a critical state industry -- is supported by the majority of Ohioans
• Illegal Immigration: you have to believe that Ohioans embrace illegal immigration and Obama's extra-Constitutional executive orders implementing the DREAM Act
• Obama himself: you have to believe that the known quantity -- a narcissistic, hyper-partisan,, hard Left demagogue -- is more popular now than the unknown candidate marketed by media as some sort of messianic, post-partisan cult figure
If you believe any one of these things, it's possible you have some sort of neurological deficiency. And if you believe all of them, you might be a hapless propagandist named Walter Shapiro, Taegan Goddard or Doug Mataconis.
The polls completely missed the 2010 landslide. And the polls have no freaking clue just how pissed off the American people are.
check this out: http://www.redstate.com/2012/09/27/tracking-ohios-absentee-ballot-requests/
ReplyDeleteThe link to the google docs spreadsheet is to the right, under the title. This is being updated daily with absentee ballot request numbers from Ohio, by county. It compares 2008 and now.
Looking at the counties which went heavily for Obama, they are quite a bit to drastically down in ballot requests. The counties which went McCain or are Rep-leaning are showing large to huge ballot request numbers. This trend has been continuing for days.
At the minimum, this shows voter intensity falling heavily on the Republican side this election, compared to the Democrats. No D+7 in these results.
There are simple assumptions, like Dem registered ballot request will end up with a Dem vote, and registered Reps will vote Republican. Also indie/unaffiliated will vote split. We can’t tell if Dems or indies are breaking for Romney but if they are, watch out Obama campaign. It was the reverse in 2008.
With these assumptions, the trend is not looking good so far in Ohio for Democrats - even in their own counties - who push early voting. These are still early days but the "trend is our friend".