October 28, 2012
Is New Romney Ad in Ohio a Sign He's Losing?
The Detroit Free Press reports Mitt Romney's new ad in Ohio is an attempt to turn the auto bailout against President Obama in a state that could make or break Romney's presidential hopes.
Think Progress says the ad contains "four myths."
It's also a fairly clear indication -- despite surrogates claiming Romney is now leading in Ohio -- that he's more likely running behind as the polling averages show.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/ ... osing.html
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October 28, 2012
A Cold Civil War
Andrew Sullivan notes that if Virginia, Florida and North Carolina flip back to the GOP from President Obama this November, Mitt Romney will have won every state in the old Confederacy.
"I think America is currently in a Cold Civil War.
The parties, of course, have switched sides since the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
The party of the Union and Lincoln is now the Democratic party.
The party of the Confederacy is now the GOP.
And racial polarization is at record levels, with whites entirely responsible for reversing Obama's 2008 inroads into the old Confederacy in three Southern states.
You only have to look at the electoral map in 1992 and 1996, when Clinton won, to see how the consolidation of a Confederacy-based GOP and a Union-based Democratic party has intensified - and now even more under a black president from, ahem, Illinois."
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/ ... l_war.html
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October 28, 2012
Obama Holds Advantage Heading Into Final Week
An Associated Press analysis finds President Obama
"is poised to eke out a victory in the race for the 270 electoral votes needed to win re-election, having beaten back Republican Mitt Romney's attempts to convert momentum from the debates into support in all-important Ohio."
"While in a tight race with Obama for the popular vote, Romney continues to have fewer state-by-state paths than Obama to reach 270.
Without Ohio's 18 electoral votes, Romney would need last-minute victories in nearly all the remaining up-for-grabs states and manage to pick off key states now leaning Obama's way, such as Iowa or Wisconsin."
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/ ... _week.html