The president "breaking it open" in nearly all swing states

[sg0508]

Trigger event for this, or just the general:

1) Romney is running a poor campaign with high unlikability
2) The president actually is running a pretty good campaign given the record he's got

This seems somewhat similar to the last few weeks of 1980 where Reagan turned a tight race into an electoral college blowout (we won't see 489 to 49 obviously) following the one liner in the final debate against Carter.

My personal opinion:

1) Romney's arrogance
2) The Top 1%, smug, corp. executive smirk
3) No message and no base to stand on
4) The president's message at the DNC was far, far more effective in the message and tone

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I agree, but I'd add one more thing: Romney is increasingly being perceived as an incompetent.  I think there's some fraction of potential Romney voters who were willing to vote for an arrogant elitist weasel so long as they thought he'd be a competent (Republican) President. Romney can trumpet his executive experience all he likes, but if it looks like he can't even run a halfway decent campaign...

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Sorry, what is the point of this thread?

[sg0508]

Sorry, what is the point of this thread?

I think a person of halfway reasonable intelligence would have read it and clearly understood the point was to discuss why the president is breaking it open in many of the swing states.

[Politico]

Sorry, what is the point of this thread?

I think a person of halfway reasonable intelligence would have read it and clearly understood the point was to discuss why the president is breaking it open in many of the swing states.

The fact of the matter is that George W. Bush had much larger leads over Al Gore in many of these places after the debates. Romney has gone has low as he can after a bad month, but let's not get carried away...

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Sorry, what is the point of this thread?

I think a person of halfway reasonable intelligence would have read it and clearly understood the point was to discuss why the president is breaking it open in many of the swing states.

The fact of the matter is that George W. Bush had much larger leads over Al Gore in many of these places after the debates. Romney has gone has low as he can after a bad month, but let's not get carried away...

Bush led Kerry pretty substantially until his first debate which went pretty poorly. Romney's only chance now is for Obama to have a bad debate performance while he looks good. Barring that, this race is close to being over.

[Craigo]

Fun fact: Iowa Democrats have already requested over 100,000 early ballots, compared to less than 20,000 for Republicans, out of a total of 176,000. Iowa cast 1.5 million ballots total in 2008..

[Yank2133]

Sorry, what is the point of this thread?

I think a person of halfway reasonable intelligence would have read it and clearly understood the point was to discuss why the president is breaking it open in many of the swing states.

The fact of the matter is that George W. Bush had much larger leads over Al Gore in many of these places after the debates. Romney has gone has low as he can after a bad month, but let's not get carried away...

Bush led Kerry pretty substantially until his first debate which went pretty poorly. Romney's only chance now is for Obama to have a bad debate performance while he looks good. Barring that, this race is close to being over.

This.

It is Obama's election to lose, Mitt really has no control of his fate anymore.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Romney has gone has low as he can after a bad month, but let's not get carried away...

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