By John Stark
Political analysts of every stripe are weighing in on the significance of the upcoming presidential debate on Wednesday, and the conventional wisdom is that this is Mitt Romney’s best hope to reverse Obama’s recent gains and pick up some momentum in the final weeks before the election.
In the Wall Street Journal, Gerald Seib offers a thoughtful and refreshingly non-partisan overview of the debate. Key excerpt:
“… the difficulty Mr. Romney faces is that the kinds of attacks most likely to change the dynamic of the race or produce a memorable moment also happen to undermine a parallel Romney need, which is to make more voters warm up to him. Even candidates who successfully attack in a debate often make themselves less likable in the process. And Mr. Romney doesn’t have much likability to spare. On the other hand, he has less to lose at this point, which can be a liberating condition.”
In the Boston Globe, Callum Borchers notes recent poll data that shows Obama widening his lead over Romney in key swing states, even as the two men appear to be neck-and-neck in the overall popular vote.
Borchers offers this quote from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, predicting that the debate will shift many voters back to Romney.
“You saw the change in those polls happen very quickly, and I’m here to tell you this morning it can happen very quickly back the other way,” Christie said. “And I think the beginning of that is Wednesday night, when Governor Romney, for the first time, gets on the same stage as the president of the United States, and people can make a direct comparison about them and their visions for the future.’’
BTW– if you or your organization is planning any kind of public-invited debate-watching event in Bellingham and Whatcom County, feel free to post that info here as a comment.
The Romney campaign is so dead that the LDS are ready to baptize it
Yeah just as dead as Reagan was at about this point in time in 1980!
There is one thing for sure in politics, change can happen quickly, don’t ya know!
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Don’t wait; vote today!
http://pages.townhall.com/campaign/th-presidential-election-held-today/
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Governor Christie’s optimism rings pretty hollow.
Considering he himself used his keynote address at the convention to NOT talk about Romney.
(wasn’t it like 20 minutes b4 he even mentioned the nominee’s name??)
Definition of self serving blowhard if you ask most…
I doubt you even listened to Christie’s speech. It was about the differences between the party’s and how one party makes the tough decisions, and one does not. Due to the nature of the speech Romney wasn’t mentioned early. Go on living in your false reality if you want.
Oh, silly unoriginal copycats.
How would one even know (other than all the pundits laughing at Christies self serving “keynote”), that the blowhard was just trying to posture himself for a run in ’16 ??
“Due to the nature…” lol.
The nature was SUPPOSED to be ABOUT Mitt!!
Worst keynote.
Ever.
“…If Christie were on stage at Wednesday night’s debate, how would he respond, Stephanopoulos asked. “Stop lying, Mr. President.”
….Christie defends Romney’s tax plan by explaining, as Romney has, that tax rates would go down while deductions would be removed. Stephanopoulos may want to check the Washington Post, which awarded Obama’s declaration on “trickle-down policies that led to the crisis in the first place,” Three Pinnocchios, concluding “[i]t’s time for Obama to retire this talking point.”
….(Obama’s) His claim that Bush’s policies led to 90 percent of the current deficit? Four Pinnocchios, so look out for both of those Wednesday…..
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/01/christie-responds-to-obama-whopper-stop-lying-mr-president/
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“….by Thursday morning, as long as Obama shows up for the debate, the narrative will be that Obama has closed the deal with the electorate. After that narrative is repeated enough, it stands a good chance of becoming reality.
So the superficial answer to how Obama won the upcoming debate is that liberals control the news media that shape the thinking of voters in the middle, the ones who do not define themselves as liberal or conservative and who supposedly are still making up their minds. The deeper — and more significant — answer is that conservatives do not understand political strategy, and the left does.
The conservative idea of political strategy is to figure out how to win elections in spite of the fact that the left controls the news media…..
Perhaps the fundamental reason, then, for America’s precarious state is that conservatives, by nature, mind our own business. We have been too busy taking care of our families and our businesses and running our own lives to devote much time to meddling in what the next generation of voters will be taught, or in changing the direction of the news media. Obama, on the other hand, won the upcoming debate because earlier generations of liberals made it their business to make sure that, one day, leftists like him could not lose.
Besides, Obama gives people free cell phones.”
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/how_obama_won_the_upcoming_debate.html#ixzz28HcIYSTN
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Just the other day, Chris Christie said the guy who’s losing is the one who complains about media bias, and so he wasn’t going to do that in this race. In my experience, that is also true even at the local level.
mutuelle optique