An Ohio Democrat predicted that President Obama will win the swing state by being “judged on his record here.”
“Thirty-plus months of growth, job growth, we’re no — no one is celebrating this. No one think we’re where we need to be, but in Ohio we’re in a significantly better position than we were in 2008 and 2009,” Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) said this morning on CNN.
A post-debate Rasmussen Report poll has Obama up by just one point in Ohio. A pre-debate NBC/WSJ/Marist poll had Obama up by 8 points.
Attorney General Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) said after the debate that “Romney’s going to carry Ohio.”
“It’s going to be a very, very close race but this race fundamentally changed Wednesday night in Ohio at least,” DeWine said.
Ryan said he doesn’t see a fundamental change.
“I’m not feeling it on the ground. I’ve been here in Ohio. I don’t really feel it. I think people definitely have an opinion about how the debate went, but at the end of the day it’s going to matter about what policies,” the congressman said.
“When they see the Romney/Ryan budget when it hits the ground, he’s going to lose. He’s just not going to be able to carry enough independent voters. As I said on top of the auto rescue, we have people that have actually felt the Obama policies help them,” Ryan added.
Right. Sure. The Obama campaign hasn’t come to a complete stop but a number of icebergs have been crashing along side since the debate, and all your cap’n can do is glower. Among the many bergs grinding past (debate, Libya, money-raising scandal) one of them was that report about Cleveland and environs losing registered Dems.
So keep talkin’ Timmy, my boyo. Don’t think about the water and how awful cold and dark it is outside.
An Préachán
I wonder which Ohioans Mr. Ryan is talking to. Because around here, Romney/Ryan signs are sprouting up like mushrooms.
Notice the little twit saying how he’s “not feeling it on the ground”. LOL. Presumably he’s also not ‘smelling it in the air’, but that’s just my guess, like I’m also guessing that his reason would be a nose excessively full of “choom” from hangin’ ’round O’bozo too much. Just a guess. Arrrgh! All those “touchy-feely” Demtards. If only they thought more and felt less …. Arrrgh!
In my part of Ohio, NO ONE thinks we are doing better now than 2008 or 2009 and what growth we have gotten is in part-time, no benefits jobs. Obama can’t run on his record here either.
I won’t say that Obama can’t win Ohio, but any poll that is more than a point or two difference is flawed. I haven’t seen many signs but the majority of the few that I have seen are for Romney/Ryan.