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Rasmussen and Gallup both released polling Saturday/Sunday, averaged over the last 3 to 7 days. Rasmussen in particular has had a Republican lean for a long time, but they both showed Obama over Romney 49/45. In terms of approval ratings, Obama is at 52 approve vs 42 and 47 disapprove for Gallup and Rasmussen respectively. Romney is trying to respond with a wave of attack ads, but the problem with that is, while attack ads might damage your opponent, they also make you less likeable - and Romney doesn't have any likeability to spare. Newt Gingrich asked, "Why do people immediately dislike me?", to which Bob Dole replied, "It saves them time." That's Romney. Running attack ads is just going to make that worse.
Joe Scarborough - a smart conservative - says Romney is going to have to be much more specific, especially about his tax plan. He says he wants to cut all rates, spend more on defense and balance the budget by closing loopholes, and now, according to Scarborough, he's going to have to say which loopholes he's talking about. Romney's problem there is that the only way the numbers work is if he closes the mortgage interest deduction, the tuition credit, the health care expense credit, and basically all the "loopholes" that the middle class normally uses. And then you find that his plan raises taxes on the middle class, cuts them dramatically for the extreme-upper class, and is totally unacceptable to Americans. If you think his polling is bad now, wait until you see what that would do. He can't tell the truth. That's suicide.
To make things even worse, his electoral map is almost impossible. He's given up on Michigan and Pennsylvania. Now he has to win almost all the contestable states to win the election. He can't possibly do that.
Now do you see why I keep telling you conservatives that you nominated the wrong guy? He's trying to win the Presidency with the same tactics that you use in a private equity buyout. Tell them as little as possible and hope that they'll take whatever you give them. That's not a strategy to become President.
Oh, well, it doesn't matter that much anyway. He never really cared anything about doing the job, he just wanted to win the job.
Joe Scarborough - a smart conservative - says Romney is going to have to be much more specific, especially about his tax plan. He says he wants to cut all rates, spend more on defense and balance the budget by closing loopholes, and now, according to Scarborough, he's going to have to say which loopholes he's talking about. Romney's problem there is that the only way the numbers work is if he closes the mortgage interest deduction, the tuition credit, the health care expense credit, and basically all the "loopholes" that the middle class normally uses. And then you find that his plan raises taxes on the middle class, cuts them dramatically for the extreme-upper class, and is totally unacceptable to Americans. If you think his polling is bad now, wait until you see what that would do. He can't tell the truth. That's suicide.
To make things even worse, his electoral map is almost impossible. He's given up on Michigan and Pennsylvania. Now he has to win almost all the contestable states to win the election. He can't possibly do that.
Now do you see why I keep telling you conservatives that you nominated the wrong guy? He's trying to win the Presidency with the same tactics that you use in a private equity buyout. Tell them as little as possible and hope that they'll take whatever you give them. That's not a strategy to become President.
Oh, well, it doesn't matter that much anyway. He never really cared anything about doing the job, he just wanted to win the job.
