Mitt has no idea how to be subtle. Very clumsy statement that screams to anyone listening, "I am lowering expectations". You've finally come around to my feelings about Mitt since the 2008 GOP nomination race.
Romney now up by 3 points according to 2008's most accurate poll http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub...ministration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
I'll give rasmussen credit for going against the tide! http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html
Oh yeah. Being up 3 points explains the two week roid rage from Romney's camp. Mitt just exudes confidence right now.
As Romney gets more desperate he'll hatch up some crazy plan like getting himself shot or something. Don't rule anything out.
Oh my. Michigan is a lock for Obama. http://www.freep.com/article/201209...s-michigan?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
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Romney is losing control of the narrative. The peril to Romney’s candidacy of being seen through the lens of desperation can’t be overstated. The paramount strategic objective of any campaign is to maintain control of the candidate’s public image—and if the media filter begins to view his every move through a dark or unflattering prism, things can quickly spin out of control, to a point where nothing he says or does is taken at face value. “Romney is in a very bad place,” says another senior Republican strategist. “He’s got the Republican intelligentsia second-guessing him, publicly and privately. The party base has never trusted him and thinks that everything bad it ever thought about him is being borne out now. And he’s got the media believing that he can’t win. He’s right on the edge of a self-*fulfilling downward spiral.” Don’t Say “Desperate”
If I can respond to both of you at the same time I think you are focusing too much on the substance of the debates rather than the impression of them. This is where things could be dangerous for Obama and the 2000 debates show why. I think Romney knows that on substance Obama will win just like it was accepted that Gore would be more substantive than GW Bush. GW Bush like Romney was prone to gaffes and occasionally goofy. He also ignored questions and just answered with talking points our just about something else yet in two of out three debates GW Bush fared better than Gore. Gore was caught up in proving his point right but that just made him look cold and petty. Romney doesn't need to win the debates on substance. He just needs to leave with the impression that he is capable of being president and counting on Obama to act like a condescending law professor.
My neighbor who ran communications for Perry and Dewhurst told me that in politics, you need to frame your opponent and define yourself before your opponent does. Obama with the help of Clinton has done that to Mitt. Mitt is going to be swimming upstream the rest of the way, and unless Obama makes a major mistake, it his election. Mitt just doesn't appear presidential to swing voters. Too many unforced errors and not enough personality.
Obama with the help of Gingrich and Santorum. Romney appearing as a rich out of touch guy that flip flops position was already established well before the DNC.
I think you are underestimating the President if you're concerned about him pulling an Al Gore. Their personalities could hardly be more different. I can't recall ever seeing the President acting condescending, aloof, superior. He doesn't have the background for it, like both Gore and Romney do. I'm not concerned about that. It doesn't mean Barack isn't capable of a gaff, but if he has some in the debates, they won't be anything like Al Gore's. They will be the sort of comment someone highly intelligent, with a deep education, makes that assumes, without a bit of ego, that everyone will understand the meaning of. Those kinds of comments (if he has any), which some may see as a gaff, certainly Fox News (who'll be grasping at anything to attack him with), will come from a far different place than Gore or Romney reside in. They both come from a different world, a world of wealth and privilege.
