Mitt Romney gains his first lead on RCP!

[Maxwell]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html

The first since people started paying attention to the race.

[Eraserhead]

And Intrade finally starts to react (although Obama remains the heavy favorite for now).

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Oh joy.

[tmthforu94]

[Jacob]

This will be quite short lived. Remember the Republican primaries? Candidates would shoot above Romney (the candidate no one liked) then come back down again. Well Romney is Newt Gingrich in this analogy. Romney is Herman Cain. Romney is Rick Perry.

The polls will start to swing back toward a tie or an Obama lead by the end of this week.

[afleitch]

It reminds me those heady days of the fuel crisis in 2000 when the Tories overtook Labour.

[NHI]

[Maxwell]

This will be quite short lived. Remember the Republican primaries? Candidates would shoot above Romney (the candidate no one liked) then come back down again. Well Romney is Newt Gingrich in this analogy. Romney is Herman Cain. Romney is Rick Perry.

The polls will start to swing back toward a tie or an Obama lead by the end of this week.

It all depends on his performance in the next couple debates. If the next couple of debates prove the first one is a fluke, then Obama returns to the lead. Otherwise, Romney might be looking at a win.

[後援会]

Probably won't last but guess what - we've got the horse race everyone's been hoping for!

[GLPman]

Probably won't last but guess what - we've got the horse race everyone's been hoping for!

[krazen1211]

Glorious news!

[Averroës Nix]

It's a madhouse, a madhouse!

[Jacob]

It all depends on his performance in the next couple debates. If the next couple of debates prove the first one is a fluke, then Obama returns to the lead. Otherwise, Romney might be looking at a win.

Obama will still win the election even if he loses the next two debates. Of course the first debate was a fluke. It was Obama's worst presidential debate (he never performed that badly in the 3 against McCain and the 15 or so in the primaries) ever, and it was Mitt Romney's best debate ever. It isn't that Romney was so good in debate #1, it's that Obama was so bad. The campaign is obviously going to change up their debate strategy for him and it's unthinkable that he will be that bad again in the next two. Like I said, even if he loses the next two, Obama will still win. Kerry beat Bush in the debates and lost. Unfortunately for Romney, the next debate is a town-hall debate, not exactly a suitable forum for a robotic candidate. Also unfortunately for Romney, the third debate is on foreign policy, which is Obama's strong-suit and Romney's weakness.

[Franzl]

Amazing how telling nothing but lies and fairy tales can help you that much.

[krazen1211]

It's Romney Time!

[opebo]

Amazing how telling nothing but lies and fairy tales can help you that much.

I have oft explained why it took so little to move things so much.  There is an underlying and very powerful factor at play.

[Maxwell]

Amazing how telling nothing but lies and fairy tales can help you that much.

That''s all the debates are... appearance and lies.

[opebo]

Amazing how telling nothing but lies and fairy tales can help you that much.

That''s all the debates are... appearance and lies.

And it is through appearance - closely juxtapositioned on the stage - that we see the trigger pulled in those white voters well conditioned 'minds'.

[5280]

I can't wait for this election to be over with.

[Maxwell]

Amazing how telling nothing but lies and fairy tales can help you that much.

That''s all the debates are... appearance and lies.

And it is through appearance - closely juxtapositioned on the stage - that we see the trigger pulled in those white voters well conditioned 'minds'.

seriously?

[Lief 🗽]

"These are all junk polls of course. Obama is still leading and will win."

It's time to take your heads out of the sand, fellow Dems. We're in big trouble.

[5280]

Sounds like the Democrats saying the polls are junk are coming back to bite them. 

[opebo]

And it is through appearance - closely juxtapositioned on the stage - that we see the trigger pulled in those white voters well conditioned 'minds'.

seriously?

Yes, this election is 100% about race.

[5280]

And it is through appearance - closely juxtapositioned on the stage - that we see the trigger pulled in those white voters well conditioned 'minds'.

seriously?

Yes, this election is 100% about race.

You should get over yourself, it isn't about the president. It was his performance that is a reflection of the polls.  Do you want another 4 years of below mediocre performance coming from this guy?

[Joe Biden is your president. Deal with it.]

ITS A INVASION!!! THEY ARE HERE!!!!!