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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Mitt Romney would be elected president if the election were held today, the Republican National Committee's chairman boldly predicted Monday.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus predicted a Romney victory based on projected wins in several swing states (polls of which are less definitively optimistic for Romney).
"I feel real good that if the election was held today, we’d be winning today. If the election is tied, we’re going to win the election," Priebus said during a press conference today kicking off the GOP’s "rapid response" effort during the Democratic National Convention.
"Independents are not going to suddenly have an epiphany," Priebus continued, "and decide that everything is great."
Pressed by a reporter on which states Romney would win if the election were held today, Priebus doubled down.
"For one, I think we win Wisconsin today," Priebus said of his home state, adding: "I think we win Florida today. I think we win Virginia. I think that we win Iowa."
Priebus said Romney would be close in Ohio, a state he called a "toss-up."
Yet demonstrating the GOP’s not-so easy electoral map in November, Romney winning Wisconsin, Florida, Virginia, and Iowa would still leave him short of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency, especially if Romney doesn’t carry Ohio.
The GOP will hold press conferences several times daily this week, inside a television studio nestled in the basement of Charlotte’s NASCAR museum.
"Today, the thrill and pixie dust of Barack Obama’s presidency is gone. Americans feel no hope, and have seen a change for the worst," Priebus told reporters. "Democrats are dispirited. Enthusiasm is clearly on the Republican side."
Priebus was joined today by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT). Other officials slated to participate in the GOP effort here include Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.
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President-elect Barack Obama plans to order the closing of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo
but some how after he got elected he remodeled it for them...I wont vote for someone like him I dont believe he told the truth ..do you? Obama fails on promise to shut down Guantanamo.
If you libs would learn to read the news you would be voting for Romney to or do freebies count more than truth.
Joe66,, there is a lot more at stake than just closing down Gitmo...haven't you heard ?
WE ARE FRIGGIN BROKE!!!! IT WON'T BE LONG BEFORE WE ARE OFFERING CHINESE AS A FIRST LANGUAGE COURSE IN COLLEGE!
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And you actually dont know whos fault that is. I dont believe that and you against Romney. Obama put us trillions in debt not Bush...LOL Read the news sometimes. Romney IS NOT the President yet.
How misleading can you be. He wanted to close it but Senators and Congressmen had a fit not wanting the detainees to come to their states. Quit blaming the president for the actions of Congress.
Obama is the President hes the boss because he said he was. Ill admit not much of one. Bosses should be able to close it.
Romney--Ryan--2012
Reicy Piecy, You are in your own little world aren't you? You speak and everyone shall believe you?
MOST Americans are actually bright enough to know where all this sheet came from. The GOP. Thats right they have been creating this since the eighties.
Americans are not going to install another politician from the old camp.
We know what Obama is all about, and it actually makes much better sense than what you are pushing
Yea IF my aunt had balls she would be my uncle to.
They would win, said the man talking to his chair.
I predict that if the election were held today and only the RNC employees were allowed to vote, Romney would win by almost 100% percent! Well there are a couple of folks there that are there only for the paycheck. Those are the only jobs created by the Republicans in 12 years.
You're kidding right - What planet is the right wing nitemare on?? To John in Battle Creek - Yes the GOP will lose by a landslide - Right on John - Keep President Obama in office - The RNC is an affilliate of the GOP right wing nitemare. Last I checked The RNC got it's information from the FIX noise channel - we can sure use Keith Obermann right about now. 1 more thing I believe that President Obama when Re-elected will be committed to making things right by all of us. With Bill Clionton's help this will happen.
If the GOP really wants to help the American people, if they really want to get our government working toward solving the huge problems facing this country.....I have one very good suggestion to get the ball rolling.
Get Grover Norquist put of Washington....and no, you can't just replace him with a different bag man for the Koch brothers.
The RNC and the entire Republican Party is built on a galactice pack of lies. They all are pathological liars!
What has he been smoking?
GOP IS DOA
I saw an article last week that said Obama would win if the election was held that day. No one knows sh**. No one will know sh** til November.
Americans don't want communists running our country so NO Romney/Ryan would not win today. Besides even if he is elected, there is no guarantee he would make up the stairs to OUR WHITEHOUSE. Someone might stop both of them then what the Secretary of State takes over==better choice than Romney/Ryan making it up the stairs. Those two murderers never will be wanted in this country since they are going to kill elderly, disabled, and all of the extra children in the homes of REAL AMERICANS. Romney/Ryan the anti AMERICAN party leaders. That is how One American Feels about those Communistic Republicans who will never represent TRUE AMERICANS.
Nice try Priebus. Your bullish fake optimism is just annoyingly out of touch with reality.
I think he has been drinking too much of the "trickle down" kool aid.
Priebus is only showing off his TeaPublican credentials: Adept Liar. The Tampa Convention was notable for two things: (1) boring, self-gratulatory navel-gazing; (2) jaw-dropping Lies, Lies, Lies. The TeaPublicans, having nothing else for strategy, have borrowed the most famous German National Socialist tactic: The Big Lie. Make it outrageous enough; say it often enough; and a lot of thoughtless idiots will believe you. Trouble is: the thoughtless idiots are almost totally confined to true red TeaPublicans.
Will Obama be carrying Bill Clinton's bags at the convention ?
If Mitt Romney did win the election if it was held today, I would be worse off tomorrow than I am today. I work in the environmental industry that protect water and Romney definitely said to me that this industry has got to go. So, tomorrow I will be out of a job with a threat of the water no longer being protected.
thats right water is the most important thing for this environment. How many third world countries are without it. Look around people. Open your eyes. Water is important to the human race. Many, Many people are dying because of the lack there of. G Bush laughed at paul snow after he went with bono and found ways that it would be possible to help people with no means of getting water. Bone and Snow found that it would not be a large issue. Therefore Bush fired him. If you don't think water is important to the human race, think again. Read up on it it is going away unless we do something about it. forget your bottles. no more.
NEWS FLASH ! GOP candidate Mittens Romney has been detained by the IRS for tax evasion..... awww mitt... told ya not to show the ten years of tax returns..... oh well
If that happended Hussein Obummer wouldn't have a cabinet.
I read these comments and I have to wonder how so many people turned totally stupid. Yet these comments prove I am right. On one side we have democrats calling republicans liars. yet i remember and adv implying Romney was responsible for a womans death that died from cancer. Then we have the republuican side. You pull out the birth certificate issue thatis old and lame.
You all beleive your candidate can do no wrong. You are all wrong. I am a independent that did vote for Obama last round but unfortunantly I doubt I can this round. The reason is simple. Each election we ask ourselves are we better off now than we were when the last candidate took office. When Bush left office the answer was a simple no. So Obama got my vote because the republican party was not changing anything.
The answer is still applicable this election. The simple answer again is no. Unemployment is higher now than when he took office. Unemployment has not moved below 8%. My tax bill has actually went up not down. I am middle class that does own a business for everyones reference. Obama has not united this country which he campained on. This site and many others are proof of that. I understand he has had republican opposition however it is up to him to find that common ground and work with it. He simply has not. He lacks real leadership skills. He has sunk to new lows this election with his advertisements. I could care less if they are from his pacs. Obama was questioned about several of them and made clear he stood by his pacs.
I know we cannot afford another four years of Obama. Our ratings agencies are ready to downgrade us once again and then what. We cannot afford increased interest on our debt yet that is exactly where we are headed. China and Europe have told us to get our financial affairs in order. What do you think will happen when Europe and China will not buy our debt? Who do you think gets hurt first? The answer is simple. The poor, the elderly and children. Thats a fact. Last I do not want to run up debt on my grand children. That is a a cowards way out.
oh kevin...... u r just wrong wrong wrong ..... obama/biden 2012
Kevin - who wrote your message? You or the baby in the picture? It is difficult to tell. Instead of coming out with a load of empty arguments, just state in one sentence that you are voting for Romney.
You do know that under Ryan's and Romney's plan that the $4.3 trillion in tax cuts and increase in defense would explode the deficit, right? Ryan does not forecast a balanced budget until 2040. Obama agreed to 4 trillion in spending cuts, if the GOP would agree to go back to the Clinton taxation levels for the top 1%. The GOP refused.
Find common ground with Republicans? A number of Obama's policies are Republican in origin (health care reform with the individual mandate, for example). One-third of the stimulus was tax cuts. They refused to work with him. The American Jobs Act includes help for states to hire teachers and money for infrastructure projects which would provide jobs now. You know what, the GOP is blocking it. You should be pointing the finger at them. Your argument seems to suggest that a President who won with a clear mandate should abandon all of his policies and agree to whatever the GOP wants.
Also, you do realize that Romney is running blatantly false ads, don't you? Which he has personally approved. Obama has not done that.
Actually, Republicans were to blame for the credit downgrade because of their brinkmanship on the debt ceiling increase.
Lastly, if you want to see who will be hurting the poor, elderly and children, go and read Romney's and Ryan's budgets. It is these groups who will be getting hit badly in order to pay for massive tax cuts. Ryan's budget destroys medicaid, turns medicare into a voucher system, and will have to make massive cuts in educational finding.
Super ... you can't fix or reason with stupid (read Kevin Oxner). Of course he is entitled to his own opinion, but opinions that are a consequence of low-information, or no-information, or mis-information (read Fox News) can't be swayed, even if based in fact.
As has been stated many times already, this is the first campaign I've ever seen with such a distortion of facts, or outright lies, where fact-checking is being out-right disqualified or discredited. Fact-checking is the only thing we can rely on, and if one candidate (read Romeny) is deliberately distorting, or ignoring facts, then he should be disqualified from public service, unilaterally.
And Ryan's budget IS bad for America, and the Romney/Ryan ticket is a one-way ticket to h*ll.
I saw that ad, and it did not state or even imply that Romney was responsible for the cancer or the death - but it did accuse Romney of being heartless and uncaring, totally unconcerned about all those people he fired for his own profit.
Well, the Republican party is still not changing anything, and Romney's proposals are just like the Bush proposals, but with bigger tax cuts for the rich and more defense spending. If it was wrong in 2008, it's still wrong today.
Not quite. Unemployment is down slightly from 2008, and more importantly, we went from loosing tens of thousands of jobs each month when he took office to gaining thousands of jobs each month today. Not perfect, but better.
The Bush tax cuts are still in effect, and Obama pushed through a slight tax reduction in the payroll tax, so the only way your Federal tax bill could have gone up is if you are making more money now. More revenues means more taxes, but you really shouldn't be complaining about making more money! Well, I suppose your local or state tax rates may have been increased, but President Obama cannot be blamed for that.
Only if the Teapublicans once again threaten to refuse to provide sufficient funds to pay the bills. Ratings are not based on the amount of debt, it's based on the willingness and ability to pay the bills.
Not much. Most of the National debt is held by the wealthy in the US, not overseas investors. One of the reasons why the Republicans were unconcerned about deficits when they were in power is that those deficits were being financed by Treasury Bond sales to the rich, who had extra funds thanks to the same tax cuts that were causing those deficits.
The Teapublican plan is to literally sell the US to the rich, via tax cuts and deficit spending.
I believe and have always believed that this election is a toss-up. I will be voting for our President because I disagree with virtually everything in the Republican platform, but that doesn't mean I agree with everything Democrat either. I simply believe the Democrat platform is much better for our country than the Republican platform.
I think Obamacare is a step in the right direction but does not go nearly far enough to protect 250 million Americans from the devastating effects of for-profit health insurance, which is a National disgrace. One day enough Americans will wake up and wish to join the rest of the civilized world with some form of Universal health insurance which provides basic health protections to ALL The People.
Shame on Republicans for denying Americans the same soicalized health insurance Congress enjoys at taxpayer expense. Americans should be marching in the streets demanding equality. I have a dream..........that one day that will happen........a peaceful, well organized, well funded(by we the people)march for health insurance justice. Harry Truman, LBJ, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter all recognized that what Obama has accomplished is a SMALL step in the right direction.
Every citizen of this country who is not wealthy is one illness or job loss away from financial ruin thanks to our immoral health insurance system. Talk about Family Values. Christian Republicans, ask yourselves.......WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? I know the answer, do you?
Hi David ... as a dual citizen of both Canada and the US, I moved back to Canada last year solely for the purpose of having access to affordable, non-employer provided healthcare. And boy, am I glad I did. What the h*ll is wrong with the majority of Republicans in the US? To deny healthcare to any sick individual in the US because they can't afford it is morally and ethically wrong. Not to mention the fact that if more people had access to preventative medicine there would be fewer ER visits and unpaid bills.
The Republican Party ... the party of me, me, me and screw you if you didn't have access to income or education the way I did.
Typical Republican, don't address fact, let's just revel in ridiculous fiction and hope tomorrow gets better. Don't use the opportunity to put forth your platform or address any substantive issue. Just ramble on about "what if." What a huge exercise in stupidity! Mr. Reince Priebus, please keep your head in the clouds and in November when you loose the election, you can "if only" why! It won't solve anything, but you can rationalize until the elephants come home.
What's a Reince Priebus and why is it relevent to anything?
I think he was the drunk introducing everyone at the RNC convention I kept waiting for him to fall down or start throwing up on people.
I can't speak for other democrats, but I am far from dispirited, and have NEVER missied a vote since I was 21, in 1962!
ANYONE who works for a living and would even consider voting for a republican, against their own interest, would have to be a complete moron, or racist, or both, the corporations in this country are unamerican, they promise pensions, health care, then try every way they can to get out of them, look in to Patriot Coal, a part of Pea Body coal and see what they are doing to their retiree's,the CEO's of these companys need a target drawed on their heads, they don't deserve to live. The 99% better wake up before it's too late, we need a revolution in this country, and target people like the Koch sucker brothers, the Donald, Rush Limpballs, sean Hannity, and the rest of the morons in this country.
I almost feel sad for the pubbies. Had planned to vote for them if they got a good canidate which they didn't. Not a one of them can even tell a good half-truth and are still spouting trickle down! Unbelievable! I have many gop friends, co-workers, and family members-many of which will sit home. May they return to the real world and become a descent party once again.
We can only wish they'd be a "descent" party, Yoda; good post, though.
We need a "loyal honorable opposition" instead of the "win-at-all costs" Teapublican party we now have. Trying to make Obama a "1 term President" by trying to squelch any improvements to the economy will backfire.