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Election Archive => 2012 Elections => Topic started by: RogueBeaver on April 20, 2012, 08:13:36 PM



Title: Rubio to campaign with Romney... in PA
Post by: RogueBeaver on April 20, 2012, 08:13:36 PM
Of all places.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/romney-and-rubio-to-campaign-together-for-first-time-next-week/


Title: Re: Rubio to campaign with Romney... in PA
Post by: Yank2133 on April 20, 2012, 09:50:33 PM
Incompetence thy name is Romney campaign.


Title: Re: Rubio to campaign with Romney... in PA
Post by: Lincoln Republican on April 20, 2012, 11:31:52 PM
Actually, campaigning with one of the most charismatic and popular Senators in America today is a very smart political move on the part of the Romney campaign.


Title: Re: Rubio to campaign with Romney... in PA
Post by: redcommander on April 21, 2012, 01:34:48 AM
I seriously hope Rubio won't be the VP pick.


Title: Re: Rubio to campaign with Romney... in PA
Post by: Chaddyr23 on April 21, 2012, 01:48:27 AM
Actually, campaigning with one of the most charismatic and popular Senators in America today is a very smart political move on the part of the Romney campaign.

Really, I understand your track record of fawning over the man that's flip flopped more than a dying fish on a pier but, Rubio's not even up there in popularity and charisma, not so much. He's more popular on paper than in FL or anywhere so that's why they are deploying him up there.


Title: Re: Rubio to campaign with Romney... in PA
Post by: Joe Republic on April 21, 2012, 01:50:03 AM
According to the principle that possibly-maybe VP nominees can help make next-door-but-five home states competitive, this should most certainly swing Pennsylvania into Romney's column.


Title: Re: Rubio to campaign with Romney... in PA
Post by: cavalcade on April 21, 2012, 07:58:36 AM
Makes sense.  Rubio works better as a Hispanic Friend in middle-class suburbia than as a VP in any actual state.


Title: Re: Rubio to campaign with Romney... in PA
Post by: Lambsbread on April 21, 2012, 10:33:09 AM
Meh, poor move. I won't be able to go either.


Title: Re: Rubio to campaign with Romney... in PA
Post by: Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee on April 21, 2012, 06:24:55 PM
He is doing to avoid potential embarrassment of an underwhelming performance in the primary.


Title: Re: Rubio to campaign with Romney... in PA
Post by: ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ on April 21, 2012, 06:27:24 PM
According to the principle that possibly-maybe VP nominees can help make next-door-but-five home states competitive, this should most certainly swing Pennsylvania into Romney's column.

But before the Civil War, it was a next-door-but-four home state, which changes everything.


Title: Re: Rubio to campaign with Romney... in PA
Post by: 🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸 on April 22, 2012, 08:31:56 PM
He is doing to avoid potential embarrassment of an underwhelming performance in the primary.
If you lose a state to someone not in the race anymore, it's a lot less embarrassing if you didn't contest it.