Those elections were different. McCain was up before the financial crisis. People seem to forget that simple fact. And 2004 was a base election turnout. This election is about the independents, the undecideds. This election is closer to 1980 than any other about which I can think.
This election is closer to 2000, IMO. Tell the republicans standing in line to vote in western florida that the state is already won by gore so they go home and not bother to vote.
I went back to 1980 because of a President running for re-election with a failed incumbency. IMO, Bush lost in 1992 because of Perot and Gore lost in 2000 because of Nader. I don't think Gary Johnson will garner enough votes to make a difference to either side (he pulls from both parties).
[video=youtube;tpAOwJvTOio]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tpAOwJvTOio[/video] The gift that keeps giving.
Romney should be offering her a bigger and better phone and other assorted free stuff she might want.
Too bad this phone program is actually a Reagan-era initiative. This lady really should give credit where it's due. http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/cellphone.asp
If Obama were running against your local congressman, he'd clearly lose. But he's running against Mitt Romney. That's the difference between 2010 and 2012.
That's a fair point. Romney has yet to make his case. However, I wonder which way the undecideds are going. In that sense, Romney has a lower bar as President Obama has had four years to convince them. If he hasn't done it yet, they're looking for something else.
A little of both. But in all honesty Obama's idea of compromise ahs been to see it way 100%. Not that I'm holding the GOP blameless, but he's a very dificult person to work with.
Which is why I think Romney has a chance, if he just came across more likeable. And again, I don't think the camera is his friend, which in today's age makes it very tough on him.
What makes me wonder is how this is the best the GOP can do. I mean, here's the most divisive President in US history and has placed the country squarely on a downward spiral to full insolvency that cannot be stopped and one would think he'd be a dead man walking when it comes to reelection. But Romney?? Hell, they might as well have nominated Palin.
I get a sense he can't 'connect' well with people. He doesn't with me. And that just makes him very blah as a candidate.
He may seem divisive to you because you lean to the right -- I still think Bush was far more divisive (probably because I lean left.)
