WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney enters the final 37 days of the presidential campaign in desperate need of a change — and fast — as he attempts to peel off support from President Obama, whose standing has been growing among swing state voters but remains tenuous.
Heading into perhaps the most crucial week of the general election — one that could solidify Obama’s standing as the front-runner or reshape the race — Romney is looking to the first presidential debate on Wednesday night and an updated jobs report 36 hours later as key events to try to jolt his campaign. This follows a three-week period that has left his supporters dispirited and hoping for a revival.
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It is hard to understand why Romney does not have a big lead at this point. Clearly, Obama has bee a failure as president. Yet, he is a likeable figure, whom the country appears unwilling to divorce. And the media is doing its part to create a sense of inevitability that Obama will be re elected.
Romney needs to find one or two issues that will fire up the people to come out and vote for a change. It can be Obamacare and its tax increases; it can be the joke of a mid east policy; it can be the horrific economy, slogging along at sub 2% growth and 8% unemployment; it can be the fiscal trai wreck that is scheduled to him on January 1.
But Romney MUST do so in a positive tone, that creates a strong sense of hope and a desire for an American revival under his leadership. It is not too late.
It's easy to understand why Obama has a big lead at this point. Clearly, Obama has been a success as President. The country understands that it was the failed Bush policies of unfunded wars in the middle east and tax breaks for the wealthy that caused the economic crash. They understand that we have had a slow economic recovery, but that we are in the process of recovering-- and they understand it will take more than four years to fix the devastation caused by Bush's policies. They also like Obamacare. They understand that Romney will be a return to Bush's policies, and far from being a cure for our economic situation, will return us to the dismal days of George W. Bush.
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The only hope for Willard at this point is to go into a hole and keep his mouth shut for 5 weeks and pray that Obama makes a major screwup. The electorate is realizing that Emperor Mitt has no clothes.
Certainly, you're not encouraging Mr. Romney to change AGAIN?
We can hardly remember anything he says because he changes so often.
He can't be convinced of his own proposals if he keeps changing his mind.
I believe he's even changed Conressman Ryan's message for him. That's not good.
We haven't even had a debate yet! Romney was always going to drift downward in the weeks after the conventions before the debates. The press can't coddle Obama very much in the debates as they have for the last three years. The peolple have never seen anyone hand Obama his tail!! Romney will get three points just by appearing at the debate. The press is desperate to sell the idea that this race is over when it hasn't even really started. This race goes into full-swing with the first debate. Romney has Obama right where you'd want a popular incumbent president.
That's one remarkable collection of Romney campaign talking points. Even the bit about having Obama right where you want him. Hmmm.... Eric is that you?
Well, esfsdfsdf, he at least admitted that Obama was "a popular incumbent president." Although I've had my disappointments with his 1st term, that's to be expected. I'm never satisfied. But nobody who votes for Obama will be holding their nose.
I think those on the right are probably envious.
He blew it aligning himself with Bibi and shooting his mouth off in Israel. He has surrounded himself with the same neo-conservatives that W did and they got us into two unwinnable wars. These guys never met a war that they didn't want someone else's kid to fight.
Mitt only has three real problems. Mitt. The Republican agenda. The Republican Party. Let's see his followers tell me how bad Obama is. Then he tells me a disabled vet I'm a leech, a freeloader. The Republican agenda, end Medicare, privatize SS, wipe out womens rights in terms of health care. The Party, well let's see they got, end the minimum eage, a guy who thinks there are different kinds of rape, Alan West, Michelle Bachman who still live in the 50's and see commies. The religious right, the anti-gay groups, we can't forget disliking Latino's.
Right the debate will fix that mess.
Maybe Romney's going to blow everyone's expectations and announce he's not really running, he's just standing in for someone perfect; just vote for him and it will be revealed.
"Fewer seniors are able to generate much income from their savings because interest rates have fallen so sharply." (BG)
Recently read another article on this. Seniors are getting crushed. Another casualty, along w/ blacks and the young, of Obama's policies.