State Of The Race: Advantage, Obama

Politico:

President Barack Obama heads out of the national political conventions with a much clearer path to winning, top advisers to Mitt Romney privately concede.

Read the whole story: Politico

Comments

[rybalaw]

10:02 PM on 09/10/2012

With Jim Crow alive and well in all the midwest battleground states, I would not be so certain of this. Voter id laws are the new Jim Crow and Obama will lose every state in the midwest in which the Democrats lost the statehouse in 2010. The GOP knows that Jim Crow works well and that it takes 20 or 30 years for its effects to be proven in the courts.

[charleshbuchannan]

01:07 PM on 09/10/2012

Oh, yeah.

Over at 538 Obama's numbers just get better.

He's at 80.7% chance of winning.

Romney simply CANNOT win on the debates alone.

Nate has only NC and FL as less than a 75% chance for one candidate or the other. With FL a 2:1 fave for Obama.

Assume they both go for Romney and all the others states break as they stand now.

Obama wins with 303 EVs.

[onwisco]

10:40 AM on 09/10/2012

It must be bad for Romney/Ryan - my righty co-worker won't even discuss politics right now. LOL

[okayigive]

10:36 AM on 09/10/2012

The former President Clinton said it best, it's the arithmatics. Romney and his campaign continually add without explaining how they will at least equally subtract without hurting the middle class. What we know: (1) The 2000 tax cuts came at a cost of at least 1.3 trillion dollars over nine years; (2)The tax cuts went into effect when we had a surplus and not during a recession; (3 ) Knowledge of how to pay the cost of tax cuts was hidden; and (4) 9 years have passed and we are living with the outcome. Now Romney and Ryan propose to add an additional tax cuts, to replace 716bn back into medicare, and to increase military spending by 2.1 trillion over 10 years without saying how these cost will be paid for. We should also remember that Romney disagrees with time-table for current war at a cost of more than $2.3 trillion to $2.7 trillion and still counting and does not include the toll of lost lives nor the cost of future obligations to both Afghanistan and the wounded. Oh yeah, mind you that the unspoken payment for the above does not include the projected cuts to decrease deficit and debt.

[Mac1000]

10:32 AM on 09/10/2012

House and Senate races are EXTREMELY important. Dems MUST take back the House!

[chomedey]

10:40 AM on 09/10/2012

2x

[Andrikos]

10:15 AM on 09/10/2012

GOP's newest message:

Summin/Summin 2016!

Crisp Crisco, time to start losing weight for 2016.
100 lbs per year and you're there! Almost...

[TruthSender]

10:00 AM on 09/10/2012

The Bible says we are a deceived nation that has no fear of God, and that He is giving people up to what they think they want. Romans l:16-32, God shows Himself to Americans but they prefer their own way. Because when they boo God, verse 21, their foolish hearts were darkened and God gave them up to their vile affections and they chose the creature over the creator. Any country who trust in a man more that Almighty God is doomed.

[Mac1000]

10:33 AM on 09/10/2012

America is mentioned in the Bible?

[TruthSender]

01:28 PM on 09/10/2012

The Bible is the Truth and that is why it is so rejected. The Bible says to "any" nation who turns away from God that If they continue, there will be a time when God will give them up to their choices. Many believe that Isaiah's Words to the "young lions" and to the "Isles" may be directly speaking to America.

[Idrinkcoffee]

10:39 AM on 09/10/2012

What's the matter, you can't think for yourself? You can only post sayings from a very old, worn out book? You aren't sending truth, you are sending myths written by men. I respect people who can put into words what they think, not what some book tells them to think.

[geddy lee is a god]

09:52 AM on 09/10/2012

This is not the time to get complacent and comfy. Continue to assist with voter registration and ID drives, keep donating money to campaigns (to President Obama's as well as to the Congressional candidates'), and continue all grassroots efforts.

[YoBear]

10:21 AM on 09/10/2012

Yeah, I didn't like how the article makes the election a foregone conclusion. I would like to see the Dems take back more seats in the House and Senate.

[geddy lee is a god]

12:23 PM on 09/10/2012

Seems like there is more emphasis on the top job rather than other races. We definitely need a new Congress.

[LibertarianCentrist]

09:46 AM on 09/10/2012

Choice of who I would rather play golf with??? Obama, Hands down.
Choice of who I would like to run the country?? NEITHER, Hands down!

[gochenaur8]

09:38 AM on 09/10/2012

Romneys top advisers are now coming out with a new campaign slogan, " Help, I've fallen and I can't get up".

[Idrinkcoffee]

10:40 AM on 09/10/2012

A true republican would step on him and keep going. :)

[gochenaur8]

10:49 AM on 09/10/2012

That is exactly what they are doing.

[Robin Rae Overholt]

09:36 AM on 09/10/2012

Never under estimate American's!. We will not let Corporate America buy or surpress this election. We will not allow Willard and Ryan to lie and be secretive about how they will lead this Country! The GOP/T-bags allowed Willard to smash his rivals and now you got, what you paid for! Obama 2012!

[bloodclot]

09:29 AM on 09/10/2012

Here in SE Pennsylvania, there is no shortage of republicans STILL driving cars with McCain/Palin or even Bush/Cheney bumperstickers

I see them everyday

I have yet to see a Romney/Ryan car and it's getting real close to November

Romney is toast

[Andrikos]

10:18 AM on 09/10/2012

That's very telling:
Republicans are driving very old cars.
They're still waiting for that "trickle down" effect...

[ApolloSpeaks2U]

09:11 AM on 09/10/2012

BARACK OBAMA AND THE POLITICS OF THE SMILE

After reading in POLITICO yesterday that top Romney advisors privately concede that their man is losing to Obama (Politico wouldn't lie about this) I realized that I was wrong about the race and that Obama is invincible, his reelection inevitable, and that voting for Mitt Romney is a waste. I realized that voters care less about unemployment, the debt, energy costs and loss of wealth than about losing that MILLION DOLLAR SMILE in the White House. The smile that got Obama elected in 08, that caused scores of awestruck fans to weep and faint at rallies, that brightens our lives and enriches us immensely; that gives us confidence in the future, hope for our kids and makes us forget our woes. Indeed, yesterday I realized that the smile is indispensable to our national survival, that without it we are lost and that things would get worse; indeed, after November 6th it will go down in history as the "smile that launched a second term," or perhaps a life time presidency. As it took decades of GOP misrule to create this economic mess we need decades of Obama's smile to sustain us while it mends. In short, judgment, good sense and experience will do nothing for Mitt Romney. He'll lose to Barack Obama 'cause he lacks his great charisma and can't out-smile him in the end. Obama's Politics of the Smile is the wonder of the age.

[gochenaur8]

09:21 AM on 09/10/2012

You should learn to smile, see what it did for President Obama? Just admit it, Romney just can't be elected, what ever the reason, the most part of why he will lose, he won't tell the voters anything, and hiding his tax records don't help. You never know from day to day what Romneys policy is, they don't even know. The bottom line, Obama took over one hell of a mess made by GWB. McCain would have finished it off, Obama has turned it around, not as he likes, but he has turned it around. So you vote for the candidate who does nothing but lies and watch Obama win.

[Robin Rae Overholt]

09:42 AM on 09/10/2012

Their own party realizes this and Clinton really mapped it out! Dang about time!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ApolloSpeaks2U]

10:37 AM on 09/10/2012

That's what the Left was saying about Scott Walker in June. Given the fact that Ronald Reagan and Calvin Coolidge inherited economies just as bad, and had booming, rip roaring recoveries in their third years, spells doom for Obama in November-as the public learns the truth about government stimulus spending and its failures from FDR to the Japanese for 22 years. Obama is responsible for this horrible, pathetic trickle growth recovery. He chose a model to fix the economy that failed for EVERYONE who's used it. And he will pay for his ignorant choices on Election Day.

[Robin Rae Overholt]

09:39 AM on 09/10/2012

The "smile" is not the problem the "shark" is his own worst enemy, that you need to open your eyes too! Your own party see this!!!!

[loco48]

09:00 AM on 09/10/2012

46% is as high as he ever gets in the polls all year. 11/6/2012 Obama 53% Mitt 47%.

[WilliamCooke]

08:58 AM on 09/10/2012

Only if intellect and integrity are important in a president. Remember, the American voter gave Ralph Nader enough votes to give us W the first time around and it RE-elected W in 2004. If you never thought your vote mattered, think how different the world would be.

[GravitonX]

09:06 AM on 09/10/2012

True, but there was a silver lining. Obama is a better President than Gore or Kerry would have ever been.

[Roy49]

09:28 AM on 09/10/2012

No doubt about that. Gore would have been okay but Kerry scares me!