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Race in VA Remains The Same...For the Most Part
by Another Trope 10/8/2012 - 11:26 am
After the debate, the PPP on Virginia, probably sums up Romney's problem in Ohio, Wisconsin, and Iowa:
Much of the improvement in Romney’s image is people going from hating Romney and voting for Obama to respecting Romney but still voting for Obama.
President Obama leads 50 percent to Romney’s 47 percent, and more voters continue to trust Obama on the economy. That represents little change from PPP’s last poll of the state, when Obama held a 51 percent to 46 percent advantage over Romney in mid-September.
“We’ve been calling Virginia Obama’s firewall state the entire cycle and this is just more evidence for it,” Dean Debnam, president of PPP, said in a statement. “Even after one of his worst weeks of the campaign Obama continues to hold the lead there.”
Read the full article at
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/virginia-romney-poll-debate-bounce-obama.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
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That Romney is at the VMI today is of course no surprise. But I think his decision to go down the foreign policy rabbit hole at this point is a mistake, and potentially a huge mistake. When he should be leveraging his debate win and talking about how much he cares about the poor, he talking about intervening the US into the ME mess even more so than it already is. Talking to a war weary nation, esp the military families and personnel, about increasing our efforts and sacrifice in a region that has resisted our efforts and ignored our sacrifices seems like an unwise move.
Tim Kaine is now up by 7 and trending up. This makes Romney's task even harder, because he is going to have to get a number of people to vote for Kaine and then have them turn around and vote for the Republican.
Ohio and Virginia puts Obama just in need of 2 more electoral votes. Can anyone say New Hampshire. Then there is Wisconsin.