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Responding to the early polling showing President Obama with a bounce -- and lead -- after the two conventions, Romney pollster Neil Newhouse argues in a memo to reporters that the presidential contest "has not changed significantly."
"Don't get too worked up about the latest polling," Newhouse writes in the memo. "While some voters will feel a bit of a sugar-high from the conventions, the basic structure of the race has not changed significantly. The reality of the Obama economy will reassert itself as the ultimate downfall of the Obama presidency, and Mitt Romney will win this race."
Related: First Thoughts: After Tampa and Charlotte
Newhouse adds, "The key numbers in this election are the 43 straight months of 8% or higher unemployment, the 23 million Americans struggling to find work, and the 47 million Americans who are on food stamps."
However, as we wrote in First Thoughts this morning, Obama went into the conventions with the lead, and emerged from those conventions with the lead.
And as Politico reported over the weekend, “The Romney campaign … said the post-convention bounce they hoped for fell well short of expectations and privately lament that state-by-state polling numbers — most glaringly in Ohio — are working in the president’s favor.”
“Their map has many more routes to victory,” a top GOP official admitted to Politico.
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Now even the conservative pundits are calling Romney out and saying he is not going to win this election because he doesn't know what he stands for. Go listen to Laura Ingram, George Will, Stephan Hayes, Michael Gerson and many others are finally realizing that Romney is a lost cause. Laura even said it's over, and that the Republican Party needs to just shut everything down and start over. Face it Republicans, you chose to have a two-faced, flip-flopping, tax dodging, Cayman Islands account, job outsourcing, all about me, me, me guy to run for president. He is not a good leader and he'd make a worse commander and chief - even the pundits know this now! Wake up!
The freak show loses it's glitter.
Maybe people with common sense are finally seeing Romney for the lackluster boardroom manager that he is and NOT a seasoned politician or diplomat! Imagine Romney dealing with Putin or that N. Korea president! Scary, isn't it....he managed to offend the Brits on the Olympics, imagine what he could do with major foreign policy issues of the day, about which he knows nothing!! I'm waiting for the Foreign Policy debate....he knows nothing and it'll show. AND he has to spend all his time defending his ineptitude, tax returns and Ryan. But no....he's not worried about the polls!!
I agree with Rush Limbaugh. "The US can survive Barack Obama. What it can't survive is a people who would reelect him." With all the talk of providing health care, saving Medicare (for another eight years), etc. The country is on the road to finacial ruin. When that finally happens the infrastucture will break down and there will be no more "free ride" The ensuing chaos will be unlike anything we have ever known, including the great depression of the 20's and 30's.
now all obama need to do is provide more jobs in America, and stop the war of cause.