Politico’s battleground poll carries some bad news for President Obama: Mitt Romney has established his first lead in that poll since May.
A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Tracking Pollof 1,000 likely voters — taken from Sunday through Thursday of last week — shows Romney ahead of Obama by two points, 49 to 47 percent. That represents a three-point swing in the GOP nominee’s direction from a week ago but is still within the margin of error. Obama led 49 percent to 48 percent the week before.
Republicans and Democrats are also now tied on the generic congressional ballot; Democrats had held a slight lead.
Romney has pulled even with Obama in Ohio, according to a new Angus Reid poll.
Obama’s campaign has tried selling America on the idea that he needs four more years to finish what he has started. But a Wall Street Journal poll finds that a large majority of Americans want him to take a different direction even if he is re-elected. The Morning Joe crew read that number correctly: It means that his first-term agenda has failed and been rejected, and 62% don’t want four more years of what we have gotten from this president.
In the absence of a real, tangible agenda, the Obama campaign’s chief gambit has been to destroy Romney. They’re running ads with a new tagline in swing states: “Mitt Romney: Not One of Us.” If that sounds like a racial dog whistle, that’s because it is. The Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty calls the Obama campaign out.
That’s the tag line to a tough new ad the Obama campaign is airing in Ohio. But it is one that, ironically, echoes a slogan that has been used as a racial code over the last half century or more.
The context of the ad is very different from the one in which the phrase “one of us” was used to divide the country along racial lines, but Conservative commentators quickly seized on it.
Obama’s critics said the fact that he would use such loaded language in the hard-fought race to win Ohio shows how much he has changed from the politician whose famous “one America” speech at the 2004 Democratic convention denounced “those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes.”
Charles C.W. Cooke wrote in National Review’s The Corner blog that Obama was “moving a long way from the famous — if vacuous — ‘no red states or blue states’ speech.”
“Had Romney pulled this on him, we’d need a special two-hour episode of ‘Hardball’ to deal with the dog-whistle implications,” added Rick Moran on the American Thinker blog.
Indeed. Barack Obama and David Axelrod are making a big campaign for a big office, atop an America that faces big problems, about very small things.
the Fraud hasn’t changed an iota.
But his tactics have.
If he is willing to recycle old racist rallying cries three weeks out from the election, imagine what he will do in the next three weeks.
The criminals have no limits, because they have no morality. This is the logical end-point of situational ethics.
I do believe Sir, that you have neatly described chicago politics.
Yikes- that headline scared me for a sec. Reading it, my first thought was that Obama’s imperial powers had extended to quashing unfavorable polls.
The really disturbing part is, I actually thought that was possible.
Yeah, a riff on pole-axed.
“Not one of us?” Because he’s a Mormon? I’d rather a Mormon than a Black Liberation Theology marxist.
I grew up around Mormons, I think my town was mostly Mormon (I was in southwestern Wyoming- in that corner that looks stolen from Utah) and I like them. Though they keep to themselves a bit, they do play very well with others. I know for a fact that my town was much better off with a high Mormon population because we were 15 miles from another mining town that had a terrible reputation, and a much lower Mormon population.
Black liberation theology marxists just don’t seem to be able to lift up those around them very well, I’d say.
My first exposure to Mormons came at an early age, but filtered through the opinions of my aunt who lived in Utah for a number of years. A lifelong Catholic, she painted a picture of Mormons that was far from charitable — in retrospect not much different from the picture that might have been painted of Irish Catholics by Protestants 150 years ago.
My own interactions with Mormons since then helped me to see that my aunt’s issues with them were mostly inside her own head.
The polls are even better than this if you look at internals…almost all of them are still way, way over-sampling Dem voters…in some cases, using models with Dem turnout projected to be *higher* than in 2008. Ain’t. Gonna. Happen.
This is a guy who does his own “translation” of the polls using more reasonable turnout models. Take a look and you’ll begin to understand why the Obama campaign is sounding even more shrill and desperate than usual.
http://difpolls.blogspot.com/
Yeah, even a RINO, that has sucked up to the lamestream media is trying to redeem his bona fides:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82677.html?hp=l4.
TOOOOOOOOOOO late Joey.Change is coming
What confuses me is every election, the pundits detail the polling lies, frauds, and flights of fancy and then they all discuss the polls like they are real. Amazing
Yeah, even a RINO, that has sucked up to the lamestream media is trying to redeem his bona fides:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82677.html?hp=l4.
TOOOOOOOOOOO late Joey.Change is coming
What confuses me is every election, the pundits detail the polling lies, frauds, and flights of fancy and then they all discuss the polls like they are real. Amazing
Take a look at the cross-tabs on that POLITICO poll. Hispanics have broken for Romney in the last week, both on the economy (from 38-58% Obama to 47-47%) and overall (from 36-62 to 44-53). Hispanic men now favor Romney by 13%, up from even.
This is a disaster for Mr Ethnic.
More at my blog: http://not-yet-europe.com/2012/10/22/hispanics-break-towards-romney/
Is it any wonder that Dear Reader had to reconnect with Rev. ‘GD America’ Wright??!
All the high paid political columnists and talking heads can’t figure out why Hispanics are suddenly breaking for Romney. They scratch their heads in puzzlement.
Univision, aimed at Hispanic Spanish speakers, is the only network to have covered FAst & Furious in detail.
And it was after that the Hispanic vote started to shift.
I’m not a highly paid political commenter, so you can ignore this input if you want to. But… maybe you shouldn’t.
Good for Univision. If I recall correctly (and rather poorly, I’m afraid), they did some hard questioning of the Administration on another topic, as well. It’s always been my opinion that legal Hispanics actually have very little in common with blacks, and really line up better with conservatives on many issues. A lot of Hispanics are very family-oriented, work hard and want the American Dream for their kids. Treating minorities as any kind of a voting bloc is a very serious mistake, just like assuming all women really have free contraception as their primary concern.
Obama, Leading From Behind (TM) once again!
The polls are starting to reflect what is happening on the ground: The Won’s support is squishy, and may not show up.
Every Republican I speak to would crawl over broken glass to vote on November 6.
The Obama commercials here in Florida are getting more shrill by the minute: I’m almost expecting that by the end of the week, Obama will be on screen threatening to shoot a puppy if we vote for Romney.
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Setting the stage for voter fraud.
By that I mean diversion. If we all expect close, going one way is not surprising and we’ll just say, Huh…I guess it really was close, especially after some too-late-to-refute “October Surprise”.
Goo goo gobble, goo goo gobble, one of us, one of us.