On Saturday my family and I went to downtown Austin to watch the Longhorns host the New Mexico Lobos. It was a glorious afternoon filled with all the chants and colors of a typical Horns home game.
The crowd of more than 100,000 was fired up, Mack Brown prowled the sidelines as he always does, Big Bertha and Bevo were on hand, and the team had their game faces on. But the outcome was never seriously in doubt. The Longhorns came into the game ranked #17 in the country, while New Mexico is unranked and unloved nationally. The Lobos hadn’t even scored against the Horns in their previous three meetings. Fundamentally, the two teams are from two different planets. The Lobos are far far down the NCAA pecking order, while the Horns own one of the most valuable brands in sports. So even when the Lobos were able to move the ball with ease early against the Longhorn defense, hardly anyone thought the game would be anything but a spanking for the visitors.
Final score, Longhorns 45, Lobos 0. It was over by halftime.
The presidential campaign is not going to be like that Longhorns game. It’s unrealistic to think that both teams don’t have experienced personnel on the field who are capable of winning the game. If the presidential race is like a football game, then it might be more like the Saturday matchup between the Florida Gators and the Texas A&M Aggies.
The Aggies were the home team and wanted to make a statment in their new conference, the SEC. Hosting the Gators, they led most of the way and looked like they might pull off the win. But the fundamentals caught up with them: They’re just not as good as Florida. Final score: Florida 20, A&M 17.
As the incumbent in the election, President Obama is the home team. He just had a mostly disastrous convention, but Bill Clinton managed to make a circus catch to put Team Obama ahead. We’re about midway through the third quarter.
But the fundamentals will catch up. Team Romney has been outthinking and mostly outraising Team Obama, until this month when Team Obama won the fundraising race by a field goal. The economy is not only not improving, it is getting worse. Here’s how Mort Zuckerman sees the Obama economy now.
The alarming numbers proliferate the deeper you look: 40.7% of the people counted as unemployed have been out of work for 27 weeks or more—that’s 5.2 million “long-term” unemployed. Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, even though the population since then has grown by 31 million.
We are still almost five million payrolls shy of where we were at the end of 2007, when the recession began. Think about that when you hear the Obama administration’s talk of an economic recovery.
The key indicator of our employment health, in all the statistics, is what the government calls U-6. This is the number who have applied for work in the past six months and includes people who are involuntary part-time workers—government-speak for those individuals whose jobs have been cut back to two or three days a week.
They are working part-time only because they’ve been unable to find full-time work. This involuntary army of what’s called “underutilized labor” has been hovering for months at about 15% of the workforce. Include the eight million who have simply given up looking, and the real unemployment rate is closer to 19%.
I’m curious if foreign affairs will have an impact. When you have Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper taking the lead in dealing with the current Iranian government, via shutting down the Canadian embassy in Teheran – the tendency is there for the Obamaniacs to look sluggish, slow, and long in the tooth by comparison.
As one who defended the US from second guessers, and still sticks up for those Americans who get it right, when they get it right (Romney & Ryan on dissidents in Iran, for instance) – I don’t have an unlimited supply of patience to defend the US when the US is right, and the second guessers are long.
Let nobody sneer at “Canadian initiatives” ever again!
“Let nobody sneer at worthwhile “Canadian initiatives” ever again!” Fixed it for ya, no charge.
Canadians got smart and elected a Conservative with commonsense! I live on the Northern Border and visit Canada regularly. They are awesome people who grieved for years over their liberal government’s decisions. They finally were able to change it. Maybe they are lighting the way for us Americans to find our way back. On every visit I am told by Canadians to make sure I vote and change what is happening in our country and they warned “You have to get rid of that health care, believe me, it is not good for anyone.” Over and over I heard horror stories about their health care and living on the border I see them in doctor’s offices paying for care they need now not 5 or 10 years later.
These days, I trust the Canadian perspective on world affairs more than I do our American one (at least the “American” one so far promulgated by our State Department, White House, and legacy media). If Canada pulled their embassy out of Iran, they must be looking at reality. Too bad we can’t say the same.
One thing’s for sure – These are proud days to be Canadian. Canadians are richer on average than Americans, and they are taking a lead in the national stage with an intractable problem that no one else will touch. Hats off to the Canucks.
I agree with you on much of what you said but your groceries, clothing and just things you need are outrageous. We see Canadians every day coming down to shop. Last I checked we were near par in value so there is a problem with inflation but I do have great faith that your conservative government will get that fixed soon as well.
Sixteen years ago I often thought of those “Crazy Canadians”, that had let their money drop in value, was always quite ‘left’ in politics as a country that was in serious trouble. One trip to Whistler, I handed my son $50 US to buy lunch, he comes back with a full tray and hands me $CAN 53 back, yes a Looney and Twoney included. What serious country would have a coin called the Looney?
Now that Looney is basically Par, their economy is doing all right even though they border a Banana Republic, and their policies seem to work. They have a bunch of the social programs that are ‘good’, but they are hard on crime, seem to have balance between the environment and the economy, as well as having a sense of direction. It is a huge turnaround.
What makes the contrast so bright is they have improved a lot, we have slid a lot. Yes they are only 10% the size of us, but their international presence is much more an equal.
Obama foreign policy is a national disgrace. I feel disgraced. I feel it with every leader Obama bowed down to. I feel it with every despot that supports Obama.
I can’t believe anyone could be proud of what this horrible administration has done with our national pride.
Canada is leading us? Oh my gosh, I hang my head in shame.
John, its called a loonie, because of the loon being on one side of the dollar coin, with Queen Elizabeth on the other side.
The cry of the Loon, as far as I can tell, one of the things that is quintessentially Canadian.
I’m a pragmatist: Romney is all we have!!!
How many times have we either stated or seen quoted the Republicans propensity of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Well that’s what I’m seeing on far too many ‘conservative’ sites, all the negative fruitless second guessing of Romney only helps Obama.
We need to be in lockstep (Yeah, with arms, legs and fingers crossed if need be) and unconditionally support and promote Romney-NOW!!!
Let’s wait until AFTER the election to be typical negative conservatives eating our own.
if Romney wins the election, we can hold his feet to the fire, figuratively speaking. But I don’t think it will be that hard. After all, holding Obama’s feet to the fire was an exercise in futility so far, and there can’t be that many politicians so oblivous as he is.
When you’re walking on water after making the oceans recede, you’re probably not going to feel much of the burn of the TEA Party.
As an aside, remember Operation Counterweight. And for those (L/l)ibertarians who want to vote third party, do it on a smaller scale for the House and Senate. Work from the bottom up (like the TEA Party) and start growing from there, rather than constantly trying to aim for the head honcho and missing. Once you have the foundation, it may make the Presidency actually obtainable.
AA makes a great point.
All Gary Johnson, and Virgil Goode are going to do is sap votes from Romney. Start small and grow it from there!
Don’t worry, RebeccaH. The democrats and their “Newsworthy” allies will be switching into high gear from screaming “Hurray for B Hussein Obama” to “Misguided voters for Romney”, if the election goes the way of the tax-paying voters polls. And it will be just like the line in “As good as it gets” by Jack Nickleson when he said, “When I make a woman character in my books, I just take a man and remove logic and accountability”; whenever you read, see or hear a newsman make a statement about anything that is related to the successes or failures of either candidate. And remember, the reporter is a Democrat.
Hear, Hear!!! I agree with you totally. The alternative to Romney is just to grim to consider. I am sad Obama was not able to pull off a Clintonesque strategic move after his first two years but alas Obama got stubborn as did Harry Reid. It is absolutely disgraceful that the House has send so many important bills to the Senate and Reid has put them in the trash. First time in history Democrats have played so dirty and with their ideology making them unable to even consider a compromise. I do have to admit Obama submitted a budget but it did not receive a single Democrat vote. There is something very, very sick in our Congress.
There’s another reason not to panic about the latest polls: they’re probably bogus. So be of good cheer.
While we are talking sports:
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Title IX we call on the President & First Lady to extend the same invitation that was extended to the University of Alabama National Championship football team to the 2012 University of Alabama Women’s Gymnastics, Golf, and Softball National Championship teams to visit the White House. These young women have worked hard and dedicated their lives to this pursuit and have earned (and deserve) the same respect and treatment as their male counterparts.
Celebrate the 40th Anniv. of Title IX by Inviting the U of Alabama Women’s Softball, Gymnastics, & Golf Teams to the WH. | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government
You’ll have to create a whitehouse.gov account to sign the petition, but it will take you maybe a minute. So far there are 79 signatures out of the 25,000 needed. Let’s do this folks.
Lets give credit, where credit is due!
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/celebrate-40th-anniv-title-ix-inviting-u-alabama-women039s-softball-gymnastics-amp-golf-teams-wh/JNbx4jLM?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl
And here is the link
Title IX is nothing to celebrate. It takes opportunities from men to give to women using gender quotas, so any male athletes who weren’t playing major sports got their programs cut over “fairness”.
Watch this video from John Stossel of Fox News about Title IX.
http://youtu.be/ttC_d4nSq8s
Title IX: destructive and divisive. Go peddle this politically correct garbage somewhere else.
Doesn’t the White House already invite all the various NCAA champions?
Maybe not on the same day as the football champions.
IIRC on the day when my UCSB Gauchos visited the WH for the 2006 men’s soccer title they won, there were other championship teams also being honored.
Plus the polls are ridiculous. Theres a PPP poll out today that has Obama by 1 in NC… except that there is a 13 point advantage in the sample for Democrats over Republicans. In North Carolina.
And one of the questions is “Who do you think deserves more credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden: Barack Obama or Mitt Romney?” That, friends, is what we call ‘push polling’.
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_NC_910.pdf
Looking at the Crosstabs of the PPP poll, the only way I can get the top level #’s (49% Obama & 48% Romney) given the marked preference of R’s for Romney vs D’s for Obama is for the Survey to be 47.4% D and 33.6% R.
If you chnage the %’s to 42% D and 38% R, its a 7 point lead for Romney.
“Lies, …Damn Lies,… Statistics…. and Polling data”
Find a way to make this public.
Not only that, the question is a non sequitur. Mitt Romney has never been President. The question should not have even been included, and undoubtedly was included to reinforce Obama’s carting around of the corpse of bin Laden as an electoral trophy. But of course, the DOJ undoubtedly finds their polling practices to be completely transparent and aboveboard. I look at the designation of “PPP” next to a poll, and see only an extreme liberally biased survey. They invariably show far higher numbers than anyone else, even ABC/CNN.
I’ve long held the view that people are afraid to tell pollsters what they really think of Obama for fear of being seen as racist, and I still believe it. But I’m wondering if it even matters. I remember 2008 and we were saying the same thing. Some of us were also saying that the country would not vote for a man whose middle name was “Hussein” a mere seven years after 9-11, or that people in the southern states-such as North Carolina–would never vote for a mixed-race candidate–always careful to ascribe to others the inferred prejudice. We were wrong about that too. Maybe people were so accustomed to blandly and blindly repeating mantras such as “….but I like the guy personally”, or ” He seems like a nice man. Speaks well too!” to themselves and to everyone else within earshot, that in the end, they came to believe it. Maybe Mitt Romney–like John McCain– is a stiff, who doesn’t want to go too hard after Obama, or really even want to win, realizing that they will be presiding over a divided nation, and facing a media that will be as hard and vicious on THEM as they were soft and friendly and obsequious to Obama. Maybe I just can’t get my mind around the fact that -with the economy as bad as it is that this is even a race and Obama should be far behind in the polls, not ahead, if only by a few points. Maybe we should come up with new material.
You can color me demoralized, too. I also remember how we all scoffed at the polls in 2008 and assured ourselves that voters would have a “come to Jesus” moment in the booth. I don’t agree that Romney is as indifferent to victory as McCain was, but I do think his campaign has certain gaps. Sigh, let’s hope the debates go well.
Just can’t buy the doom and gloom. Remember what happened in 2008 – the race was close until the Lehman Bros collapse, at which point Bozo the Clown would have won as long as there was a D after his name (in fact, that’s pretty much exactly what happened). Plus, go revisit some of the Obama videos from the ’08 campaign – many of us recognized what a charlatan this man was, but he certainly came across as reasonable and serious at the time. He hid his Alinskyite radicalism well, but everyone knows the score now. Keep the faith.
My husband and I are considering messing with the pollsters by giving them the exact opposite answers of the ones we would honestly give … just because. The polls are mostly crap anyhow.
I did that very thing last week in a presidential poll in Florida. It was a robo-poll. I identified my self as opposite for every question.
Indeed. I hope Romney cleans Barry’s clock. And there is no doubt Paul Ryan will wipe the floor with Bite-Me.
Sorry, but there were a whole lot of us (not in the voting majority in 2008, obviously) who didn’t buy the soft-racism media presentation that Obama was a moderate, post-racial, post-partisan candidate, because we had investigated and paid attention to his socialist-liberal, Trinity-Church leftism. The internet hadn’t reached so many back then (yes, it’s hard to believe so few years have passed since the Personal Information Age took over).
That’s all water under the bridge. The fact remains, Obama is still what he was, only more so. Opposition seems to have hardened his positions, which demonstrates that he is a rigid ideologue, unable to consider any other viewpoint. What he has done to this country with his policies is what he intends to do in his second term in spades.
(I am well aware that “spades” is a racial dog whistle, but that’s not how I meant it, and you dog whistlers can go do what Clint Eastwood said was impossible.)
Maybe every moderate voter in the process of losing his job immediately decides to vote democrat so that nothing messes with the unemployment checks. Sure, it’s a rather unthinking reaction, but maybe it’s just as unthinking on our part to assume that people who have just lost their jobs will automatically start voting for the party out of power. I can see how it could be — paradoxically — that the worse the economy gets, the more newly unemployed voters there are voting for the Democrats.
This sort of dynamic would explain how the Democrats kept getting elected and re-elected all during the 1930′s even though their economic policies manifestly did not end the great depression…
Hey Y’all
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are patriots and deserve our support. We can go for it knowing that both our candidates will be fine if BHO prevails. Romney is loaded and Ryan can go back to representing the folks from Janesville WI. At this moment, Mitt is getting it from every corner based on the polls. Do this, no emphasize that, capitalize here….
I can’t forecast what is coming, but my gut tells me our team is going to win BIG. If I were a part of it, my say would be debunk these myths that BHO saved our economy and we’re making progress: the “heavy lifting” in relation to saving the financial system occurred in 2008; our economy is stagnant at this point, on the precipice of major decline without corrective action. There are four presidents this century that reduced tax rates significantly and were rewarded greatly. The BS that this is what caused our problems must be addressed.
Why should we believe the money raising numbers? The Obama campaign waited well after Romney released his so they could phony them up for a “win”. just another slight of hand to make it appear that he is doing better than he is, so they don’t scare off potential doners who don’t want to back a loser.
Yeah, Bryan…but the refs in our game are bought and paid for, the game is rigged.
Every call goes against us, every decision is crooked. No calls for infractions against the other team, ever. They get away with every dirty trick and the refs pull a few dirty tricks of their own.
That doesn’t just tilt the playing field, it makes our end of the field a sheer cliff face.
That’s much to overcome. In a fair contest, this would be a blow out and would have been over in the first quarter. But, it isn’t a fair contest.
We have to overcome lies, propaganda and fraud. And the score reflects that.
There is way to counter that. My Wildcats have it. You play a flawless, technically perfect game giving them no openings to exploit.
Romney won the Primary without the media. Romney didn’t have the support of one right wing website or Fox or one radio talker.
And he won anyway.
Romney does connect with real people. The media is wrong. And neither side, the left or the right really knows the American people any more.
But Romney does, because he is one of us. Rich or not, the man understands what’s up, and what’s important.
Jobs and family.
That’s it.
Romney will win because he is offering a way out of this financial mess. He is sending us a lifeline… and we will take it.
Well done Shauna!
Glad you didn’t bring up that my Aggies have given up 8 1st half leads in the last year. Oh darn. I just did.
Do you know why an Aggie displays his diploma on the dash of his car?
So that he can legally park in handicapped parking.
The problem I see with all this hyperactivity over polling is that most of us are political junkies. We have self-selected for sensitivity to shifts in electoral sentiment. The electorate overall, however, is not paying that much attention. One shouldn’t read much into the laughable efforts by the leftwing MFM and their pollster handmaidens to create manufactured momentum for Zero.
States that have newly elected Republican governors, such as Michigan, Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, should not be plausibly considered more than at parity between R and D. We know that Independents are on the order of +10 to +15 trending Republican this year. We also know that Republican turnout will be much closer to 2010 than to 2008. At the same time, it will be virtually impossible to believe that Zero supporters will be able to equal the enthusiasm or voting activity of 2008, especially with the younger crowd.
I think what we will find as we get within 30 days of the election, is that GOP absentee ballots are going to be running far ahead of Gimmedats. Look for this to explained away with the usual rubbish from the MFM. This will be a wave election, but the wave will take a while to build before it arrives and washes the corrupt Marxists, Statists, Corporatists and Media Buffoons in Washington out to sea.
I love the term “Gimmedats”, I’m going to use that from now on.
“Gimmedats”! Hah! Me too.
“GOP absentee ballots are going to be,”
Chucked in the dumpster.
Sent through the shredder.
Lost in the mail.
Folded, spindled and mutilated.
If you vote absentee you aren’t really getting counted unless you vote D!
Chiming in…
I, too, love “Gimmedats!”
Congrats, you may have spawned a meme.
Best is to be scared, paranoid and worried. The other guys will cheat so act like you are 10 pts down no matter waht
All that, and VOTE!!! And hope they are so cocksure of his re-election that they figure they don’t have to vote this time. That, and pray for rain. The lazies, aka “Gimmedats” (love it!) don’t venture out to the polls if it rains. Just make sure we do.
I’m still trying to figure out who is funnier.
There are Republicans who look at the recent polls and scream “All is lost!”. Considering that the real game has just started and the margins are slim this is pretty funny and I laugh at these people a lot. Republicans did not score a post-convention bounce (or a very small one) while the Democrats got a big bounce. Post-convention bounces don’t last long. Expect the numbers to shift towards Romney by next week.
Another group that is about as funny as the “We’re doomed!!” crowd is the seriously overconfident. They say things like “I’ve talked to all my friends and family and they all think the way I do. It’s obvious that Romney will win 49 states, including Illinois, with a chance at winning the District of Columbia.” These people are deluded into thinking it will be a landslide because they don’t personally know any Obama supporters. Of course people tend to stick with people who agree with them. There was a genius writing for Pajamas Media back in 2008 who predicted McCain would win New York State because all his friends in the Empire State were Republicans. You can look it up, but I think he was a tiny bit wrong.
This is going to be a close one. Ignore the polls until October and don’t assume polling your friends is scientific.
Thank you Sir. Yes it’s going to be close — it shouldn’t be, but it will. Everyone has to show up at the polls. NO third party, NO sitting it out. Everybody on “our” side shows, and Romney is likely to win a close election.
“Baby Daddy” Romney (http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/durbin-romneys-baby-daddy-obamacare_652107.html) just won’t shut up about his plans to morph Obamacare into Romneycare. He consistently thumbs his nose at conservatives who want repeal.
Forget Mitt, it’s the Senate, stupid.
Winning the Senate won’t do it. Got to win the executive level too; otherwise it is 2010 and a draw.
Not if we can elect enough conservatives to pass no appropriations and shut the government down.
Two words: Executive orders.
Expect more of them. Want to know one of the items that was big on the Won’s agenda as well: filibuster reform.
You can’t afford to NOT vote for Romney.
Defeatism. We are all aware that Romney is a Massachussetts Republican, and he has a stubborn pride of ownership about Romneycare. But these are battles for 2013, NOT for the election cycle. Romney needs to be president so that Obama is not, and also so the economy, and the hope and morale that comes with it, are revived. There are many philosophical battles to be fought in the coming years. It will be easier to fight them with a GOP-controlled federal government than a Democrat one, and that also means a Republican president. You are forgetting that Obama has every intention of bypassing Congress at every step that he can — he knows he has gotten away with it so far. A Republican Congress will serve only ONE purpose if Obama is still President: they will be perpetual scapegoats for any economic failure. Do you not get that?
Debates will actually be important this year and this election will still be close. And I think people are going to watch. And Obama is one lame debater – neither fast on his feet or terribly bright. And he is no longer an unknown quality, mouthing platitudes that can’t be rejected.
We already know Obama’s responses: for the middle class, tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, I inherited a mess and it was worse than it looked, Osama and GM, the economy is growing slowly but that’s not good enough, yada yada yada.
Mitt should come loaded for bear as the responses already telegraphed. I’d have the facts memorized now that would rip Obama a new one – every broken promise on the tip of the tongue. 80% of the posters on PJMedia would beat Obama in a debate this time around.
Surely, a professional used to debating can do likewise.
If Romney can’t, he is not nearly as smart as I think he is.
I am not discouraged by any polls at this point. I was discouraged by Paul Ryan’s poor performance on This Week With Stephie yesterday however. He tried to fend off some tough questions with lame excuses and doublespeak.
Republicans have a credibility problem that dates back to the first two years of G.W. Bush and I have yet to see either Romney or Ryan attempt to overcome it.
Moby much?
Mr. Preston,
Consider the following “Non-News” that are huge GOTV factors for 2012:
1) The Youth vote is not coming for Obama in 2012. He isn’t “Cool” anymore.
2) The Independent voter isn’t coming for Obama either. He is too much of a Hard Left Democratic partisan for them.
3) The Anti-Obama Catholic Church vote, however, *is* coming.
Number 3) above is where the lack of MSM religious reporting is going to bite the Left square in the butt. The Left won’t pay attention to it’s coming, so they are going to be blind sided by it’s effect on election day.
The Obamacare contraception/abortion/gay hiring mandates on Catholic Religious and Healthcare institutions plus Devout Catholic owned businesses are going to be in 2012 what the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act was in 1994.
The Obama Administration has made a survival issue of the continuing independence of the Catholic Church in America.
The Knights of Columbus e-mail lists, Catholic radio and cable EWTN station are all hot with out takes from the Democratic National Convention “Abortion-paloza”.
The Obama EPA shutting down of coal fired power plants and coal mines, plus the attack on the Catholic church, gives a lot of Mid-Western white ethnic union voters a different & non-Democratic Party identity to vote with.
Pennsylvania is 53% Catholic.
An 80,000 to 100,000 vote wing from Obama to Romney in Pennsylvania is on the table, with White ethnic working class Catholic voters going for Romney in 2012 at rates Hispanic voters went for Obama (AKA at 70(+)%) being on the table.
Do your own the math if you don’t like mine.
The full extent of the Catholic Church’s intervention into American politics in 2012 won’t be clear for years, but the negative political impact of it on Obama — and Democrats in general — will be known on the second Wednesday in November 2012.
This is the price of Democratic identity politics.
I tjink you may be right..i just mailed today… A note to Cardiinal Dolan to finally take a hard line on the Biden/Pelosi/Kennedy imitation Catholics who openly and defiantly snub the Church’s positions on abortion. a smaller Catholic Church that adheres to principles is far better off than a BIG TENT of sanctimonious idiots..I hope he takes my plea to throw them all out on their arses seriously before we are taken over by these socialists who appear to be intent on one thing only… A womans right to abortion on demand.
I don’t know, they 1 and 2 are true, but at the same time, they still hate Republicans and many will vote simply for that.
Young people and moderates are afraid of social conservatism. Unfortunately, the GOP has made this a central part of their 2012 election platform, including stupid things like cracking down on porn, rather than simply focusing on the economy.
As to 3, a lot of Catholics don’t actually follow the church’s dictates.
The formative political experience for young college age voters in 2008 was the disappointment of Obama’s performance in office. Taking the Bush Recession and turning it into the Obama Depression.
At least 1/3 and as many as 45% of those college graduates who voted in 2008 are back in their parents home stressing how they are going to pay off their student loans. Student loans that many of their parent co-signed.
Most of those voters are going to stay home in 2012, thinking the system is rigged or their vote does not matter. Some of those young people who voted Obama will vote Republican in 2012.
Both of those results hurt Obama and help elect Romney.
According to the “polls” Carter was ahead of Reagan by 11 points 2 weeks before the election.
That is a strangely comforting factoid. Thanks.
Another way the Texas A&M-Florida game reflected sentiments that were those of Republicans: We were friendly, hospitable Texans instead of Chicago thugs.
Gator fan Jeff Whittle blogged that Texas A&M provided “the most pervasive positive culture I had ever seen.”
“That kind of culture doesn’t just happen. It’s built, and it’s nourished. It’s taught and it’s passed on. Ultimately it becomes part of the fabric that makes up what and who you are. And the Aggies have it. In spades.”
http://tabmetrodallas.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/74/
Good link. As a member of the class of ’79, I can attest to the unique culture. It’s great to know that it’s been perpetuated despite the explosive growth of the school.
that made me feel better.
Well if I was a pollster and saw what Obama thugs did to Gallup, I’d spin like a top, too.
Sorry, but this isn’t 2008, Romney isn’t McCain, and something is going on out there, but it isn’t Obama winning. Intimidation will only work if it can follow into the voting booth.
My worst fear is vote count manipulation, which the bogus polls may support. In which case were are done as a country.
Remember the story back in April about the votes being counted in Spain by a company owned by Soros? Whatever happened with that? The prospect scares the crap out of me.
Zuckerman, give me a break, to h*ll with that clown..
Idiot voted for Obama and, unless I missed it, has not apologized or said he screwed up.
No, I’m not giving up yet.
We all know most of the same people that control the liberal media control the polls, so is it any wonder they read the way they do.
Also, Gallup on its final poll had Obama up 11 points over McCain in 2008! Yet somehow, we all defer to Gallup like we USED to defer to the Wahington Post and Walter Cronkite?
Even with biased polling, it’s basically within the margin of error, and that’s right after the Democrat National Convention. Turnout can overcome everything, as conservatives, we all have a duty to get friends and relatives that may not be politically engaged to get out and vote Obama out of office.
I am voting for Obama. I want the complete and utter collapse of our financial system laid at his feet. Mitt deserves better.
Or at least that’s what I told the Obamadrone who called yesterday. He was for universal sufferage – intergalactic, apparently, too. He said “everyone” has the right to vote for Obama. I said “Chinese people and dead people too?” He thought that was fine. If Obama wins it will be because we, as a nation, have failed to educate people to even a minimum level beyond stupid.
NOT people, just Obamabots. You were speaking above his level. Like, words and everything. I just call them every name under the sun — including in Portuguese and Spanish. I’ve told them to do unspeakable things to themselves in French. And yet they keep calling and asking me to volunteer for the one. CULTS!
You’re right, this Aggie hates this post. Don’t think that Obama will carry the TAMU campus. t.u. on the other hand…
– time off. You need to start working weekends.
But… but… Republicans are mean.
Obama gave a dreadful speech in Charlotte and yet so far as I am aware has not been attacked by any Democrat pundits. OTOH Mitt gave a very good speech in Tampa and yet he is being attacked by hacks like Kristol and Goldberg and the rank and file are in full panic mode after a few polls which oversample Democrats. The Party of Stupid is alive and well.
Yes, and that goes for what Mitt said about Obamacare… he supports Insurance selling accross statelines and competing with eachother for customers… so some providers will offer pre-existing condition coverage… at a price and even Mitt has an out on that by saying if they have stayed covered… and leaving the kids on for however long there is a market to support it! Young Adults don’t cost anything for insurers and don’t buy insurance because it is a waste of money for the young and healthy… of course market forces will offer that! As long as you let the insurers compete with each other for business…
Which is exactly Romney’s plan to “replace”
But no, the “conservatives” who are anything but conservative… get their panites in a wad!
If you actually paid attention to the plan Mitt offered clear back in May… you would know that.
What I’m glad of is that many youths who are/were Ron Paul supporters this years were supporters or voted for Obama. We can be sure he won’t get any of the Ron Paul votes (maybe a couple of crazy disappointed ones). The sad thing is that I’m not sure they will vote for Mitt.
So… let me get this straight: the Aggies are the Democratic Party?
That won’t play well in College Station. Not at all
The Ducks/Badgers game would have been a better fit.
Ducks vs bulldogs….beavers vs badgers…
I wish this was an election campaign more like the KSU/Miami game. It was supposed to be close with KSU winning by maybe 10 pts, but KSU came out and hit Miami hard early, played a flawless, technically correct game and steamrolled a team we were supposed to have a fairly tough time beating. Somehow, I don’t see the Republicans running that kind of game yet. Or maybe we’re still in the week leading up to the game and everyone is projecting a close battle.
Rasmussen has Democrats leading by 2% in the generic Congressional ballot. For several weeks it has been either a tie or a 1% GOP lead. Keep in mind this poll comes after Democrats made “Condoms not Jobs” the theme of their convention, and after the lousy jobs numbers from last Friday.
And don’t forget that after clinching the GOP nomination Mr. Romneycare went fetal in the face of months of MSM/DNC attacks. There were a number of conservatives such as myself who pointed out that after demonizing and dehumanizing conservatives during the Republican primary Romney might not be as rough on Obama in the fall. Sure looks like we were right!
This week, with its mend-it-don’t-end-it approach to Obamacare, the Romney campaign started its inevitable crackup. Sort of makes you wonder if Marxist community organizer can actually win a 57-state landslide in November.
You are so gullible. And you are fighting so hard to prove a stupid arguement.
Mitt is not McCain and it was expected there would be a bounce. It’s a bounce. Mitt got one too. Only nobody polled it. Did you notice?
Because they wanted this reaction from you.
You take their bait every time… get a clue will ya!
I often felt that a bump in Democrat House and Senate numbers were a reflection of the inevitability of a Romney/Ryan win. Ryan did not necessarily clinch victory for Romney, but I feel he will be the reason the Dems keep the Senate and gain House seats. The Ryan plan makes a lot of people squeamish but I think many of those squeamish voters recognize the absolute need for change at the top.
Recreate-y 1980!
I’d really like to agree with the authors theory, but, ‘reason’ doesn’t apply to obama voters.
What’s the difference between this dog, and the average obama voter?
The dog, actually LEARNS from his mistake, and won’t do it again…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87xBtldjasI
Keep remembering that Obama was elected by only 30% of registered voters. There was a 58% turnout and of the people who actually voted, 52% voted for Obama. Multiply 0.58 and 0.52 and you get 0.30. Just 30% of registered voters saddled us with Obama. Forget about the polls and just vote. He has not gained followers.
This is called pollster politics. Media and the pollsters have been bought off by the democrat croonies . They try to influence republicans just to stay home and not vote because they want you to think thaT romney can’t win. It will not work this time. Obama will get slaughtered. He will lose more states than any other presidential election including Carter. Just rememder the election of 2010 and what the republicans said they will do in 2012. They will finish obama and take control of congress also. ThE Obama BS IS OVER.
I agree that most of the polls are biased, and dont worry about them much. But the recent Gallup and Rasmussen polls worry me a bit. They had both been reliable polls in the past, and had often shown Romney in the lead. For them both to now give Obama a 5 pt lead is a bit of a worry. I think the Obama bounce might be real, but I hope it will prove temporary, because the bad fundamentals should eventually catch up with Obama. In any event, there is no reason to give up, no matter what any polls say. Obama must lose, and to do that Romney must win, and we must all do whatever we can to make sure that happens.
Hey, elite media, I just did a poll! ROMNEY IS PROJECTED TO LANDSLIDE OBAMA WITH 100% OF THE VOTE. My poll is every bit as accurate as yours!
Obama has the referees on his side.
Here’s the REAL deal:
2010 – Republicans win in landslide
2012 – Scott Walker recall – Walker wins by 7
Chick-Fil-A – Millions supporting their stance.
This is the only poll I believe in.
“Sure, younger voters tend to support SSM in greater numbers than older voters, but younger voters tend not to vote until they’re older and have learned a thing or two. More liberal when we’re young, we all tend to get more conservative as we see and experience a bit more.”
Yeah, because once young people get old and “learn a thing or two” about gay marriage they will suddenly reject it? “I was just so young, I just didn’t understand that letting consenting adults get married was evil! Thank God I got old and learned a thing or two about how gross gays are!”
This nonsense is laughable.
Here’s a perfect example of how bogus polls are:
With all the mess going on overseas, they claim obamas numbers are up.
NO ONE is THAT blind or stupid!