RELATED: New Fox News Poll Shows Growing Lead For Obama, Decreased Support For Romney
The bright polling analyst, The Weekly Standard's Jay Cost, recently examined presidential approval ratings as an indicator of likely electoral outcomes and found that the election is still Romney's to win. While Obama could rescue his own electoral prospects, the uphill battle he faces with a majority of skeptical voters is historically difficult to overcome.
If you look carefully at the national horserace polls, you will notice that these are the only people supporting Obama over Romney, more or less. And if you look carefully at the presidential job approval polls, you will notice that these are also the only people approving of his job performance, more or less.
In other words, Obama's polling right now suggests that he has only locked down the core Democratic vote; what's more, those not currently in his voting coalition tend to disapprove of his job as president. Indeed, the Gallup job approval poll finds him with just 31 percent support from 'pure' independents, i.e. those with no party affiliation whatsoever.
A Republican analyst with Resurgent Republic told Talking Points Memo on Friday that the Republican party enjoys a significant enthusiasm boost over Democratic voters and the momentum is on their side ' despite what today's polls show.
'Republican-leaning voting blocs are more enthusiastic to vote this November, which could be the deciding factor in a turnout election,' Resurgent wrote, referring to the closely contested election that will put party machinery to the test. 'As we head into the final campaign stretch, President Obama faces the unwelcoming reality that he must close the voter enthusiasm gap and improve his performance among key voting subgroups if he is to be successful in his bid for reelection.'
'Take this to the bank,' Republican pollster Whit Ayers told TMP. 'Republicans will turn out in higher proportions than Democrats come November.'
With each new poll that arises showing President Obama opening up a lead against Romney, there is an steady stream of conservatives that emerge to challenge the poll's methodology, sample breakdown or question wording. But the realization that Obama' s 'kill Romney' strategy is working is hard to avoid.
While averages of a variety of polls should be taken worth a grain of salt ' comparing the results of surveys with differing methodologies, voter screens and sample sizes to determine a true sample of voter opinion is dubious ' what averages are excellent at doing well is identifying a trend. The trend is unmistakably moving in Obama's direction.
Real Clear Politics average of polls, which showed the presidential contenders within one point of each other just two weeks ago, now show's Obama with a 4.4 percent lead over Romney. Talking Points Memo's poll tracker shows Obama with a 5.9 percent lead over Romney.
While every average contains some polls which certainly oversample Democratic voters when compared to the 2008 and 2004 general election exit polls, Thursday's Fox News and CNN/ORC surveys show independent voters turning towards the President for the first time in months. That fact should be a screaming Drudge siren for Team Romney.
Whether they are attuned to the warning signs is a question up for debate. In an editorial examining the Romney campaign's thinking as to who they will select as a vice presidential nominee, the Washington Examiner's Byron York noted that his sources tell him 'Romney believes his current course is working.' That could indicate that the former Massachusetts governor sees a dip in his numbers resulting from a withering assault on his character and record as a passing phase. But several prominent conservative opinion leaders are offering the Romney campaign unsolicited advice, noting that he cannot afford to simply wait out this damaging storm.
Commentary Magazine political analysts John Podhoretz notes that Romney needs to become more visible and release comprehensible plans and new talking points nearly every day to drive the news cycle. Otherwise, as Romney has witnessed over the last two weeks, the news cycle will drive him and his campaign:
So here's why [Romney] should be talking about other things, releasing plans, giving speeches on big topics'because it's the only way he can control the discussion. If he says the same thing about the economy every single day, he bores. He provides nothing new for anyone to fix on. He has to feed the beast. And it can't just be that he puts his toe gingerly in the welfare-reform pool one day and then defend himself for three days after. It all has to keep moving.
Former speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, Peggy Noonan, writes that Romney needs to get specific on policy details ' notably to outline why the blue state model (typified by California and Illinois) is failing. Also, he needs to get angry and show some passion and not second guess his own instincts:
Romney is not over-managed by others'he isn't surrounded by what George H.W. Bush called 'gurus''but he over-manages himself. He second guesses, doubts his own instincts. Up to a certain point that's good: Self-possession is a necessary quality in a political leader. But people don't choose a leader based solely on his ability to moderate himself. They're more interested in his confidence in his own judgment, or an ease that signals the candidate has an earned respect for his own instincts.
Charles Krauthammer, a syndicated columnist and conservative political analyst, echoes Noonan with the notable variation that Romney's policy specificity should be focused on broad ideological distinctions between Romney and his party and the governing vision of President Obama and the Democrats:
If Republicans want to win, Obama's deeply revealing, teleprompter-free you-didn't-build-that confession of faith needs to be hung around his neck until Election Day. The third consecutive summer-of-recovery-that-never-came is attributable not just to Obama being in over his head but, even more important, to what's in his head: a government-centered vision of the economy and society, and the policies that flow from it.
Four years of that and this is what you get.
Make the case and you win the White House.
No well-run campaign that is moving the needle in their direction needs, much less gets, this amount of unsolicited advice. These are politely worded clamors of nervous and earnest supporters. Notice that not one of these conservative opinion leaders placed any faith that Romney's vice presidential pick would make a bit of difference in how the daily media narrative is shaped. Only Romney can save his own campaign.
At the moment, it is not clear that the Romney campaign knows they are in trouble ' there are plenty of voices who are willing to tell them they are doing just fine. Who the Romney campaign listens to will define how the fall campaign shapes up, and who will win the White House in November.
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face it, Willard is a loser. he has the personality of a gnat, people skills of a flee and tax returns in hiding.
not a pretty candidate.
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Truth of the matter is that Romney should win all the support McCain got last time around. If they didnt support BO during all the euphoria of 2008 they arent going to support the guy after 4 years of so so leadership. Other fact McCain didnt really lose by as much as everyone thought.
BO has nowhere to go but down from last times high so this election points to a close race if Romney does nothing. With a good VP it will be a good horse race.
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Teabags know that if Romney is elected President, the White House and both houses of Congress will be controlled by Democrats from 2016 to 2046.
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By the time he finally release his return (which I doubt), there would be several contenders to take his place at the convention.
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Let's at least wait until Romney gets the Portman bump.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
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The basic problem seems to be that Mitt Romney has campaigned as the candidate who is entitled to the nomination. There has never been any specifics, never any true position that he is not willing to do a complete 180 degree turn against, no heart and soul or fire and brimstone. He comes across as what he basically seems to be-an empty suit who feels entitled to be president. The other problem is that the republican party let him have the nomination because he was the least awful of a truly awful field of candidates. The lesson here-don't let your party get hijacked by a bunch of ideologues who would just as soon bring down their party and their country based on principles that most people find intolerable.
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SOME REAL FACTS ABOUT MITT for Repubaggers!
Take this to your convention!
* In late 2002, Mitt described himself as 'a progressive-on-social-issues governor of Massachusetts.'
* In 1994, Romney opposed the Contract with America without even reading it
* Mitt proclaimed he wasn't a Republican during the Reagan years, saying 'I was an independent duringthe time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.'
* Mitt was an independent until deciding to run for the Senate in 1994.
* Mitt Left The State GOP Weaker Than When He Took Over As Governor
* Mitt Has Made Political Contributions To Democratic Candidates
* Mitt Supported A bortion Rights And G ays In The Boy Scouts
* Prominent Conservative Group Un-Endorsed Romney's 1994 Campaign
YEAH He's one of you!'.NOT!
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Conservative Group Launches 'Dump Romney' Campaign
http://bit.ly/S7yCJz
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Noah, do you know what makes time on 'your side'? Losing. Time is always crucial to the losing candidate.
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Willard 'Mitt' Romney is the absolute worst Republican candidate i have ever seen.
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'Obama's deeply revealing, teleprompter-free you-didn't-build-that confession of faith'???????
The only thing that speech revealed was that the right is all too eager to willfully misinterpret the president in order to pander to their low information voter base. You can try and pretend, all you want, that the President was talking about businesses, but everyone knows he was talking about roads, bridges and infrastructure.
But hey, if at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
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