I’ll use this post to update as pictures and info comes across:
RT @TomFitzgerald: GOP say they passed out just under 34K tix for the Bucks County rally. There'll be no-shows but there's a huge crowd here
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Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) November 04, 2012Trying to send some wild crowd shots, but no cell service. Estimates around 30,000 here to see Romney in the freezing cold
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Colby Itkowitz (@DCMorningCall) November 04, 2012Temp in Morrisville is 40 degrees w/ 12 mph winds - wind chill temperature is 32 degrees and 30,000 people waiting for @MittRomney!
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Donna Cahill (@DTCahill) November 04, 2012Just talked to two voters who have been waiting at Bucks County, PA event since 3pm to see Romney. And they're in the back.
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Garrett Haake (@GarrettNBCNews) November 04, 2012People in crowd at PA event got here at 2 pm. Romney just walked on stage w Ann at 6:45 pm. long wait. But 1 guy said "well worth the wait"
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Jon Ward (@jonward11) November 04, 2012This was the line to get in a couple hours ago and then in a photo by Kevin Sheridan, the nighttime swarm:
Now below are photos from earlier that I would have gotten to if not for so many computer problems today. Check out our on-the-scene reporter jackgdovin’s flickr page for these awesome shots of the line to get in:
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looks fantastic
For those who missed the speech, here’s the full speech with the camera showing the crowd size. Very impressive.
http://www.therightscoop.com/watch-live-mitt-romney-rally-in-morrisville-pa/
Mitt was delayed. He’s apparently minutes out.
Currently 39 degrees windchill 30 degrees. Tell me these folks aren’t MOTIVATED!!
amazing, a lot of people got out on this cold weather… Go Romney!
What do you think?
How is he getting his info? Where is he getting his info?
Probably CNN filling out the ballots. LOL
Yikes! Not what I want to hear about Ohio!
Any truth to this? That is the one county that needs to be down in the EV…
Most likely propaganda. Early voting polls only open 1-5pm today in Ohio with Browns and Bengals both playing during that time.
Nobody gives a crap about the bengals anymore…they have lost me…that takes some doing.
I’ve been studying the EV statistics from these counties in a spreadsheet today. The total EV in the largest OH counties will fall short of 2008 by 10%. Franklin county is actually 17% behind 2008 numbers as of yesterday. The largely Republican rural counties are on track to exceed 2008 EV totals by an average of 20%. I did some further analysis and it seems that the counties with the largest increase in EV in 2012 are overwhelmingly white.
could be, this was the first sunday that the polls were open. Only open 1-5 pm though. yesterday there were lines in Cuyahoga county and only 3125 people voted in 6 hours. So how many can vote in 4?
Reports of Cuyahoga blowing up may be exaggerated.
Nice work blackloud, my post below. Fuck the so called mainstream media.
cnn being cnn
Official numbers. Down about 1000 from 2008. Ohio is not following their template. Sorry.
Glitter, they are 30% below their levels from 2008 on this same day. 2200 votes today as to 3500 Sunday 2008.
Yeah, they are blowing it up alright. The problem is it’s a suicide mission!!
Numbers as of 6 pm.
Was I the only one who LOL’d at the suicide mission line? I burst out laughing. Brightened my day. Thanks.
These are small crowds showing up. Early voting does not pick up that many votes in reality. Obama is still going to trail way behind his early vote totals. GOP turnout will be heavier than 2008. Margin will be over 150,000 for Romney.
D.M. Hawkins@HawkinsUSA
@PeterHambyCNN Ahem. Only 2,200 had voted in Cuyahoga County as of 6PM. That’s 30% below the 3,500 who voted in Sunday before in 2008
Sure doesn’t look like it:
http://boe.cuyahogacounty.us/pdf_boe/en-US/2012/2008_2012InHouseVotingDailyComparison.pdf
All they have left is lies and desperation. They know it’s over, they just won’t admit.
Which is understandable. The second you admit you’re losing, everyone goes home and your vote collapses. And the map turns all R the next day. They have to keep a stiff upper lip or they’ll be seeing a rout in the Senate and House, too, on top of an electoral college route that spells “Romney Mandate.”
The DEMs still going to lose..
Rally web streamed live at http://www.c-span.org/Events/Mitt-Romney-Campaigns-in-Pennsylvania/10737435600-1/ .Mother of all crowd awaiting Romney supercharged .This is the Poll numbers which should be seen.The faces in crowd ,the expectancy for change
Hello there, I’m new around here. Just found this place as I’ve tried to use RCP for deciphering the state of the race.
Wow! I am cautiously optimistic about Governor Romney’s chances, yet crowds like this give me comfort.
In your opinion, and everyone else’s, how confident are you about a Romney win? I try not to be pessimistic but… it seems like everyone is in bed with the Obama campaign.
I don’t know how it’ll turn out, but I’ve prepared myself for bitter disappointment. The race is basically tied, and it’s going to depend on turnout, the makeup of the electorate (do GOPers show up in great numbers, do minorities, etc), and how indies go. It’s a coin flip.
I’m with Barone. The underlying economic factors, together with GOP intensity, together with the message sent in 2010 which Obama turned a deaf ear to, together with the decreased early voting by Dems, together with new indications that the Dems can forget about making headway in the House, together with OH being basically a conservative GOP state–all this weighs in Romneys favor.
To me it could still go either way. But I can’t not trust my eyes and not see the momentum that RR has right now. The polls are all over the place and this site is of course an excellent resource to find out why. I stated in another thread that I have been a voter since 1988 and my gut feeling is that this one feels better than all except ’88.
Everyone IS in bed with the Obama campaign. We have to stop being told what to believe and make the conclusions for ourselves.
Welcome to the board.
While the polls may be all over the place, the left is chagrined. It knows it’s facing a formidable candidate. The whole country can see Romney’s a political heavyweight. He makes Obama look weak and incompetent. That’s got to be galling.
I am confident. There has never been a turn out org like this that I’ve seen here in Florida. We already believe we are ahead when we look at early and absentee ballot totals. We have no doubt we will win election day turnout. McCain won that here in Florida with pretty much no GOTV effort.
I have talked to family in Ohio and they believe Romney will win by 5. They didn’t think Bush would win in ’04 and they didn’t think McCain would win in ’08 when I talked to them. They say Romney enthusiasm is higher than Obama’s ’08 enthusiasm in Ohio.
The early vote numbers looked strong and I don’t believe the Obama GOTV operation will even equal their ’08 election day turnout while Romney’s operation will exceed McCain’s. McCain won election day turnout, but Obama banked millions of votes before then. It appears that Romney has held his own in early voting. Now it’s up to his supporters to surge on election day.
Extremely confident. Obama has made absolutely NO forays into red or even pink territory since the convention. That alone tells me the writing has been on the walls for quite some months now. Nothing has happened to turn voters towards Obama in that time, and I count Sandy in that. He’s campaigned solely to his base and made no efforts to reach out to the middle. Look at the campaign schedule and work out which side is winning and winning decisively. Polls schmolls. There are better indicators of the race than free polls who serve different masters than the public, or the truth.
Who’s speaking currently? Poor guy is dying out their trying to kill the time.
Btw, in case you didn’t notice, the Panthers beat the Redskins today.
Obama moves ahead in ABC/WaPo tracking poll. Was tied yesterday. Looks like a genuine late break to the incumbent ala 2004.
Ah, trux, you’re such a nice concern troll.
No it means they have fiddled the sample. Nice try though.
Went from D+2 to D+4
ahahahaha. I said what I said above, before even looking. LOL!
Well that makes it a little bit easier to understand…but what do you think about all of these polls finding greatly increased Democratic enthusiasm? Gallup find it, pew finds it…maybe D+4 is really what it is going to look like.
Where did either Gallup or Pew show that? Early voting totals show Dem enthusiasm is down from ’08, and GOP enthusiasm is up. D +4 seems awfully optimistic towards the Dems.
But, worrying about that stuff now, or a one point movement in a tracking poll, is pointless. We’ll know shortly what it is.
Trux, honestly! Why is this so hard for some to understand. They want OBAMA to win, therefore they are oversampling DEMS, so we have PEW going to D+6, and now this one going from D+2 to D+4. it is utter nonsense.
PEW say the party affilitation is even, gallup R+1 I think and Ras R+2-3. But PEW does D+6??? Think about it!
Actually, I forgot that it was D+4 yesterday, so it is real movement.
well if its plus 4 then someone better tell rasmussen and gallup
trux, OMG you’re right. Time to take out a second mortgage and bet it all on the 0…
or it could be rounding up
What break in ’04? The polls were skewed in ’04 on purpose because they (media) hated Bush. They way undersampled evangelicals because they hate us. Too many of us sat home in ’08 wanting a conservative purist, and gave our country away because of it. Now we’re being undersampled again.
Yes, exactly the same as 2004…. Unemployment Nov 1 2004 5.4% (currently 7.9%), U.S. GDP growth 2004 3.67% (currently 1.7%), U.S. national debt end of 2004 $7.4 Trillion (currently $16 Trillion). Everything is the same as 2004 election – NOT!
I think it is quite clear that I was talking about polling data, and only polling data, from 2004. What the unemployment rate and GDP growth from that year have to do with the price of tea in China, I can’t say….
Yes, it’s quite clear you’re putting all your eggs into the top lines of polls (not polling data – you’re hurling all the polling data not contained in the top lines out the window).
And yes, we know that 0bama running the American economy off the rails has nothing to do with how you’re voting.
United Auto Workers? Acorn secretary? C’mon, tell us, tell us…
Check out this picture. All I can say is, Yowzer!
http://twitter.yfrog.com/ntmxzvhj
Philip Klein@philipaklein
RT @PostRoz: Still people in line, but Cuyahoga reports 2,211 voted today by 6 p.m. Total for same day ’08: 3,534. Bad omen for Obama?
That makes me feel a little better.
Thank goodness! Do not fret! We are on the verge of a marvellous victory!
Probably depressed about the Browns loss today.
someone should tell cnn…they are wetting themselves….d’s blowing up early voting
Over 50% drop.
heard they passed out 34k tickets
Nevada Early Vote Indicates Possible Romney Win
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/19145
NV’s a long hard slog from here.
Everyone keeps saying NV is done. But I don’t think so. The numbers are right there where they were in 04 when Bush won NV. I think he takes Washoe by 55-45 and takes the state by a hair.
Joe Trippi on FOX just brought up a point that has had me concerned. Basically, he said that he thought it was a mistake for Romney to come to PA insofar as it revved up the dem. base that may not have been that energized to get out to vote. That, coupled with the Christie/Sandy situation may get more dems. out. In other words, if Mitt had stayed “under the radar”, might he have simply quietly won PA? Sorry if I sound negative, believe me, I am invested in a Romney win with my whole heart and soul!
Jeni,
It is too late for Obama/Dems at this point. We have less than 2 days before the election. Obama will lose.
maybe, but it can democrats weeks to get really riled up and motivated. If they haven’t planned to vote in 2 days they probably won’t bother.
Clinton will be there too, so that won’t energize them. I think it is important for Romney GOTV team to know he is committed to win to motivate them in their efforts and woo undecideds. Plus he gets exposure on the local news cycles (print and broadcast).
Trippi is a Dem, so he is going to spin things his way.
No, I think he made the right choice. Let the people in western PA know that he is confident and not to trust the polls. If he didn’t go the O campaign would be pointing out that if he thought he could win he would be there.
Interesting….cant imagine you can catch a campaign sleeping. But to play the other side of the coin to Trippi this late break could fire up a bunch that didnt think of voting for romney because they figured it a lost cause.
I am hoping it will have the same effect on national voters, particularly independents who may feel a vote for Romney was wasted because of all the national media coverage.
Lol…lol…lol
notice Old Joe did state same re Bubba Clinton going to Minnesota? methinks Joe spent too much time with Howard Dean
excuse me, tried typing one handed … Joe did NOT say same re Bubba
Maybe Obama finally uncorked some of that walking around money that is required to get the vote out in Cleveland and Philly.
tripi was blowing smoke…he hates what he is seeing right now
I like Trippi – he seems like an honest broker.
I didn’t see the piece, but it sounds like he was thinking out loud, not saying for sure that’s the way he would have done it. Plus he clearly didn’t have the data the Romney camp had, so he can’t possibly know the calculations that went into the decision.
Lastly, having done some work similar to this (not on this scale), personal contact is the best way to let people know they aren’t alone.
An event like Bucks country is going to give a lot of people, and not just the ones who are there, confidence to go vote for a republican presidential candiate because he looks like a winner and people like to vote for winners.
Thanks to all who replied. What he said was something I’d thought about, so I hated hearing it out loud although I should have known it would be spun that way. So happy to see this crowd…proud of my state!
You need a GOTV operation in place for months. They didn’t take this seriously enough. But is there enough split in the votes in the East? PA West of Harrisburg is 60% R.
That doesn’t make any sense to me. Does Trippi also believe, then, that Obama should’ve stayed away from FL so as to not goose GOP turnout against him and sneak in a victory there? The bottom line is this is very close, and a stop in PA makes just as much sense, with possibly more upside, as does yet another rally in OH or VA.
It makes some sense. Throughout the past few months there have been no ads from either side in PA, not even after Susquehanna came out with a plus4 Romney poll. Then R and the GOPacs started to run ads and immediately Obama began with the negative ads. Things then began to tighten. But I still think Romney will win PA. People are super-charged up on our side and Obama took PA for granted for too long. That was some rally for Mitt–folks waited in the cold for hours. That’s commitment!
Yeah, I doubt it. I think he’s just hoping that’s what’ll happen. Romney is eyeing the suburbs and I’d say any Obama supporter in Philly that saw the crowd on TV would be disheartened because they can see the difference in enthusiasm.
I think Mitt fired up the Philly suburbs and caused the soft support inside Philly to have doubts, so we’ll see slightly depressed turnout there. I also think the lingering Sandy issues will cause Obama voters to be more likely to stay home. Romney voters would crawl over broken glass that was on fire to vote. If it’s a rainy election day in any swing state, the Dems will be in real trouble.
I agree with all less the Sandy stuff…the area, Philly itself, really was minimally impacted. Bucks county, where the rally was, was hit the hardest and is just about getting back to normal,,,unlike NJ I don’t see Sandy as an impact.
Clinton wouldn’t be spending his day in PA Monday if there weren’t deep concerns about it.
Interesting that he’s going to NE PA–big Catholic population angry about religious freedom issue. Won’t help much, though he’s popular here. But his popularity isn’t transferable imo. Local churches read PA bishops’ letter this Sunday–on voting for religious freedom. If Lackawanna and Luzerne counties don’t come through with Philly and Pittsburgh, O is toast.
@ Ron..grew up in Luzerne County they vote the straight ticket. They aren’t Catholics or Protestants they are Democrats. That’s their identity. Luzerne is mostly E European descent but will vote Obama +5. Lackawanna is Irish and + Obama by 18-20. You can’t talk to them maybe a few at the margins. Very frustrating.
I agree with half of what you say. One half are–as you say–Democrats first, Catholics second. But the other half’s a powerful pro-life contingent that is seriously pissed. One barometer of that is Casey’s weakness in the polls. He’s perceived as a traitor.
If Dems are depressed about their candidate on the basis of his record and actions over the last 4 years, why would they suddenly care if Mitt visits PA? Besides, it’s not like their tuning in to hear him. It’s too late for the Dems to do anything anyway.
The Dems base are way past being revved up at this late stage. Especially with Bubba there boring everyone to death. Mitt will make a lot of net gains by visiting PA.
I don’t take what Joe Trippi says with the much creedence what I do take seriously is Romneys guy that was on before that and when he said that Mitt Romney will win the presidency I mean he did not blink unless he had 1 hell of a poker face he believes 100 percent that they are going to win his confidence was eerie
Nope I think that if Romney doesn’t win PA, we may have to look back as say maybe he should have waited 24-48 hours more. There are people with clipboards everywhere and stickers and signs have come out in the last 4 days or so BUUUUUUUTTT whether that actually translates into votes we shall see! For what it’s worth anectdotally I have painted on my trucks rear glass “FIRE OBAMA” in huge letters. We got honks and thumbs up all over outsie of the city. Inside, I am careful where I go….lol but thus far have gotten nothing worse than a couple glares…I had expected far more hissing and venom. Much of their base still seems sleepy…
I disagree. Romney has to fight for “optics” because the media’s so far in the tank for 0.
Joe is a major TROLL in the DEM party…..people take him serious come on?
haha. Rocky theme on intro
Go Rocky!
Where is Bucks County….is this “alabama country” as has been described before or is this suburbs outside one of the big cities?
right outside philly.
DAMN…thats surprising. Outside a big city in ohio Obama gets 4000. This crowd sounds like a freakin football stadium on sunday they are WILD
If romney wins, i will be so happy to admit im wrong and ill shave my RALLY BEARD FOR ROMNEY
Bucks Co is critical to winning PA. It went to O by 8, in 2008 but it can swing as it’s filled with those upper and middle class rich white voters that Barone likes to crow about. It’s a great move. It gets coverage in the entire Philly area and fires up conservatives in the Philly suburbs.
Biggest swing county in PA. It’s where the election will be decided. ie, can Romney win by a big enough margin to majorly offset the 400K Obama Philly margin.
It is a Philly suburb, northernmost of the four collar counties. Affluent, highly educated, socially liberal and fiscally conservative. The kind of place tailored for Romney and where a Southern or Midwestern GOP candidate is likely to bomb. It swung hard blue in ’06 and ’08, swung red in ’10.
There are a couple of different demographics. My parents are from Quakertown. In the surrounding areas, there are a lot of Evangelical Christians.
N Philly suburb hugging Delaware river. Pop about 600,000.
Some Dems there keep booing? Cheap cheap tactic.
Romney is just starting to speak now. Go to FoxNews.
Poor fella in Virginia waiting are in for a long night.
Oh how I want to see Romney take Pennsylvania.
What a massive rally. Love the Rocky music
yes wonderful. all we need is stallone to turn up!
Ummm… Chicago turn out way down???? http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/massive-decrease-early-and-absentee-voting-chicago_660299.html
Yes I read this earlier. So how do DEMS explain that one??? Of course if GOP enthusiasm UP and DEM DOWN, makes perfect sense!!
Amazing that the media polls say that Dem enthusiasm is going to be equal or higher to 2008 YET everyone is predicting that Republicans keep control of the House and Republicans have neutralized the Democrat advantage in early voting. This can’t all be reality.
That’s a good point. They’re only skewing the Presidential polls to be completely unrealistic. Funny eh?
~ Brittany
Its a pretty neat trick!
If Romney wins this thing just to the good side of a by the fingernails margin, he’ll have done a good deed that resonates far beyond the next 4 years; he’ll have put the lid on the pollsters’ coffins and hammered 3 nails into it.
And that’s a very, very good thing. Anything as easily abused by money and power as polls needs to die.
I was surprised by several PAC anit-Obama adverts in Chicago suburbs last night, caught one during the steelers game this evening. could be nothing (maybe national cable ads).
jeni, saying sorry is a sign of weakness….
I apologize!
Point taken!
Yes, be Strong! Tuesday will be great!
Sorry, John, but that’s just nit-picky.
This man knows he is going to be President. His attitude at these speeches says it all.
~ Brittany
Agreed. Completely different tone. He seems to have gone slightly more negative in the last week or so. But at least it is a respectable negative. The first weeks of October he rarely mentioned the President as all, now he is pointing out more of his faults. But still, the attitude is a complete 180 from the President,
There was a great article posted this morning on the Red Rocks Rally. And how at that moment something seemed to change…..if somebody can remember where it was please repost.
The article you talking about literally brought me to tears, touched my heart deeply!
I think this is what you’re referring to:
http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/10/25/white-house-insider-mitt-romneys-quiet-prayer-amidst-the-sound-of-thunder/
That’s it. Thanks.
http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/10/25/white-house-insider-mitt-romneys-quiet-prayer-amidst-the-sound-of-thunder/
Dang it, something wrong with my browser. Refreshing late so my responses are always lagging behind :\
Prayer is powerful. Atheists who believe otherwise should listen to this agnostic.
This crowd is really fired up!
If Romney wins I imagine the first book written on the election will be titled: “For Love of Country”
and the second book will be:
I Lost My Model by Nate Silver
…and my job.
@Ken in Bama…Still feel the the Bama portion will come out huge. PS Roll Tide!
just for a laugh…
http://i813.photobucket.com/albums/zz59/thdrx/obamaprayer.jpg
Pennsylvania is looking good, but it may be gravy.
I am from Alabama…I put gravy on everything.
LOL!
~ Brittany
Mmmmm. Vanilla ice cream smothered in gravy. Mmmmm.
What’s better than biscuits and gravy for breakfast? Think I’ll have some Wednesday morning, if things go the way I think they will.
30,000 – more than Obama’s margin of victory in swing Bucks county in 2008 (population 625,000).
If McCain had a crowd a tenth of this in the Delaware Valley I would be surprised.
Nice….toward the end, it almost had the feeling of an inaugural address.
Something just hit me like a ton of lead. I was standing outside smoking a cigarette and thinking…this is happening! The Obama campaign has not prepared for what is happening. Their whole plan was to destroy Romney during the summer and they did just that, Romney was down in the polls, not getting many people at his rallies then the 1st debate came and Romney did away with all the negatives and hundreds of millions of dollars Obama had spent in just 90 minutes. Obama’s campaign never anticipated this, they thought they could cruise through the debates and on to victory but something started happening in the month of October, Republican enthusiam started to well up inside and now all of the huge crowds coming out of the woodwork, Republicans that stayed home in 2008. Obama’s campaign never thought Romney could consolidate the Republican base, they thought they would be running against a destroyed candidate at this point in time, they never imagined Romney could draw huge crowds resembling Obama’s crowds in 2008, they just never thought it was possible, that it would never happen. And before Oct. 3, I would have thought the same thing. Obama’s entire campaign has built itself around the idea that by destroying Romney, Republicans would just stay home like they did 2008. But lo and behold something organic happened, an undertow of enthusiam for Romney, in one month all the Republicans have consolidated, they are ready, they are motivated, they know now we have a candidate that can and will win. I believe on Tuesday we will see so many Republicans voting it will scare the hell out of Obama’s campaign and there will be many Reagan democrats that will vote for Romney. I also believe inside the Obama campaign is nervous, very nervous. The polls are picking up on this enthusiam, the media is trying to tamp down Republican enthusiam because they know something is happening, that’s what Michael Barone is seeing along with Pat Caddel. Just think about what I am saying, this has hit Obama’s campaign like a asteroid falling out of the sky, they never prepared for this! This was not how it was supposed to turn out. Reporters on the ground know it but they don’t want the people to know it. A huge tsumami is coming, can’t you feel it, it will be here in about 48 hours!
I meant to say the polls AREN’T picking up on this…sorry
Interesting comment about the enthusiam gap. Note where O was today and yesterday, and will be tomorrow. Milwaukee–a two hour bus ride from Chicago. Fairfax County–right near DC. Madison–ground zero for liberal nuttiness.
They are trying and trying to gin up enthusiasm, since they want the momentum and inevitability.
had to steal this and post it to my Facebook. Hope you do not mind. Perfect observation…
Also, at the end of the week Obama’s campaign saw how huge Romney’s rallies were becoming and now they have started busing people in from surrounding areas to give the appearance of enthusiam and trying to gin it up with all the celebrities, but Romney doesn’t need them, he’s doing it on his own and that should be very disturbing to Obama’s campaign.
Don’t mind, love it! Like I said, it just hit me. I go from exited to fearful and earlier I was a little fearful then I started thinking about all of this and it just came to me especially after seeing almost 35,000 showing up to see Romney, damn that’s a ton of people in the cold, windy weather. Nobody would stand out there in that unless they were motivated!
Lol…I stole it, too!
That is pretty much how I see it. The whole strategy was to Attack Attack Attack. What they did not think about is what happens if that did not work! That is when their campaign started to fall apart. They had no other strategy.
It reminds me of the 2010 Governors Republican Primary here in Alabama. We had two candidates that expected to be the nominee. (Alabama’s Gov’s are always Republican, so the Election is just a formality. The battle is in the primary). The two just tore into each other…negative upon negative ad. The 3rd guy, nobody really knew. But all his ads were positive and he seemed like a great guy. People got sick of all the negativity after a while. The finals had one of the negative Nancy’s at the top and the nice guy finished second by just a hair over the other negative guy in 3rd. We had a runoff and the nice guy (Bentley) won easily.
My point is that normal people get tired of hearing people pound on others relentlessly for so long. Might be a factor in why Indy’s are moving.
My take is that all these bubble people forgot they’re the minority. They poll one another and think that’s America. They call Americans racist if they don’t agree (shades of “I love the party comrade!”), then they’re surprised when this silent majority votes.
M, it’s sort of a revolution going on. The MSM is doing everything it can to keep things quiet on the Romney front, going so far as not even airing Romney’s rally speeches but airing every one of Obama’s, and lying about the number of people at Romney’s stops to make it seem smaller. Yet it isn’t keeping Romney’s supporters down at all, the numbers just keep getting bigger and the polls are being skewed further and further towards Democrats to just show a tie between them. It’s a major uprising that cannot be stopped and they (the MSM and the Obama campaign) have tried everything they could to stop it.
~ Brittany
What channel is airing “every one of” Obama’s rally speeches?
The guy form the New York Times (of all places) on Fox News Sunday commented on this. He has been to the swings recently and said the organic enthusiasm is strong for Romney. He noted that this is not just a “he’s not Obama” enthusiasm. People have begun to like Romney. You can see it in the favorable numbers that have skyrocketed. Romney is no longer the out of touch plutocrat. People said that in the beginning of October it was not enough for Romney to just be a competent guy against an unpopular President. He had to turn it into a choice election and define himself.
That first debate ignited the charge. And then we saw things like the magnificent Red Rocks rally. Romney has risen to the moment and in doing so has rallied millions of people.
So many of those 30,000 or so in Pennsylvania have been standing outside in the cold since 3PM. I saw the same thing here in Florida minus the cold. People parking along the side of the road and WALKING two miles to get to the event after driving 15 miles north from Tampa. Some staying in traffic an hour to drive those two miles. And at that rally I met several disaffected Democrats who were warmly welcomed and respected by the Republicans in our audience. I think a few of them were stunned. Even some people who admitted voting for Obama were welcomed and not castigated.
Romney has talked about his campaign growing into a movement. I think he’s right.
I read a piece in the NYT today about Paul Ryan’s role in a Romney Administration to meet with people from both parties in Congress regularly, to construct a budget plan to cut the size of government and create realistic ways to save Medicare and SS. Romney has a plan and this is the time. I have said for a while to many doubting friends and family that in twenty years we will have a much smaller debt, years of surplus, and we will speak of the Romney Revolution. I truly believe that. Mitt Romney is a man who gets things done and for those that have hoped for a smaller, more efficient Federal Gov’t, our time is coming. The restoration of our Founding Principles is at hand and our greatest days are ahead.
Great post. I think two things are very revealing in this campaign. One, conservatives and moderates alike on the right aligned behind Romney and Ryan so it became real support instead of just anybody but Obama. I confess I had no clue about Mitt until the convention and the first debate. Now I think he was sent on purpose to save America.
Secondly, this election has proved that the Left simply doesn’t understand Americans. They don’t know how Americans react when the hammer is down, how they respond to challenge and to adversity. The Left thinks that everyone will just stick their hand out to the government and let go of their pride and self-respect, because that is all THEY know how to do.
Romney knows that Americans are special and will rise to any challenge. He brings hope, but he also respects and admires his people. That is worth a million votes.
I just caught the speech on Right Scoop. Never in my life have I ever seen this large, and this enthusiastic of a crowd in Pennsylvania for a Republican Candidate. The tide has changed.
More impressive when you consider that Republican crowds are “self-motivated.”…they don’t get bussed in by unions and various issue groups.
That’s a GREAT point there, we just got back and there were NO convoys or anything of the sort just thousands of cars creating a NIGHTMARE of a traffic jam!
I accept your apology Jeni…keep yor chin up..we will win this thing.
That’s why i come here. To keep positive. I am sure my wife can’t wait until Tuesday so she won’t have to see my click F5 every couple of minutes.
Thanks, John! Being here today has certainly strengthened my faith!
Final PPP numbers came out for Ohio. He’s 52-47. If you account for the house impact OBama will win by 3 points.
And Obama will win PA by 5-6 points. Obama will rock it.
I will give you Ohio and PA if you give me Wisconsin and Iowa. Deal?
Hey Brian, here’s a dose of reality for you.
The Public Partisan Polling numbers over sampled Democrats by 10 percentage points in Pennsylvania,
They over sampled Democrats by 8 percentage points in Ohio.
Rock that, would you.
D+8 in Ohio is it, to get Obama up 5?
No wonder Axelrod looked downcast about Ohio today.
PPP is a good poll for Romney when you re-weight w/ something realistic like D+2
Well if those #’s keep you won’t have to get a job.
now that was a stemwinder–loved the quote from America the Beautiful.
very Reaganesque, I thought.
I am glad Jeni, Thats why I come here, for encouragment.
The media want to beat us down.
They told us in 1980 that Jimmy Carter would win by 8. Reagan won by 10.
But now we have people like Keith and many others like those at Red State and elsewhere that can fight back. I recommend people read Dan McLaughlin too (The Baseball Crank). He did a fantastic take down of the state polling and showed statistically why they don’t make sense. Keith’s been doing the same stuff. I believe both are in NYC.
We are blessed with so much talent on our side that can cut through the garbage and find the truth.
These polls are now reaching the point of repetitive stupidity. Why even bother having a poll at all, with a Democratic turn out advantage of 6-8 % which many of them are now doing. If Dems get a 6-8 % turnout edge, Obama wins decisively. None of us need a poll to tell us us that. Its a waste of time. Yet, all the media hacks pour over them like its some kind of marvelous revelation of truth. Of course, few reasonable people really expect that kind of Dem turnout edge. There are too few polls that tell us anything useful, like who is really going to show up and vote. That’s why I like this website, it actually tries to answer this very important question.
The only poll which can show the truth is the faces of people in rallies,the passion the energy and vibe.Clearly Romney scores over that by a mile
Vote suppression.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/04/People-Walk-Out-On-Obama-At-Virginia-Rally
New CNN poll, tied at 49. Big takeaway from the internals:94% say the economy is very or extremely important 43% said the economy will get better if Romney is elected compared to only 34% who said it would get better if Obama is elected.
What is the partisan bteakdown? It looks like a D+3
Good grief:
CNN national poll tied at 49%. Romney up 22 with independents. Sample is D+11 (was D+7 in 08, even in 2004/2010). Taken 11/2-4.
Wow, WTF?
Wow, just wow.
Still that +22 number is very telling, foreshadowing if you will
Hmmm. So CNN had to oversample. Ds by. at least 9 to 12. to get them even. Looks like Romney is ahead by at least 9 points. Me thinks this is going to be 1980 again.
I’m thinking Barone was right on the mark
Earlier I wrote that if Dems got their fantasy of a 6-8 percent turnout edge, Obama would win. This CNN poll puts even that rosy assumption for the Dems into question. Has Obama become that pathetic?
Yes. This is what political correctness does. It makes you stupid. It makes you ignore reality, and then cry and gnash your teeth when it bites you on the @ss.
Applies to a different state but I just read on one of the blogs here that McCain and Obama drew roughly the same number of votes on election day last year in Ohio…it was O’s massive EV push that pushed him across.
If that is true then Obama is in a world of hurt come Tuesday evening. If true.
Did anybody see Mitt Romney’s pollster interviewed on TV for the first time by Chris Wallace he seems 100 percent certain that meant mom is going to win by over 300 electoral College votes
Mitt Romney not mom voice text sucks sometimes
We JUST got back from this event and I can confirm there were A LOT and I mean A LOT of people. We arrived at 3 and didn’t get in until 6 something. The crowd control and security were completely overwhelmed..not nearly enough people taking tickets backed up a snaking line that ended in a mass that resembled entering a New England Patriots football game at Foxboro, Massachusetts…only it took 3 hours to get in!? It is always hard to gauge crowd size but I would be surprised of it was below 25k+ and perhaps even 30k. The drive out once the rally ended was a real nightmare and we got lucky and did a little off-roading and cut out of the lot we were in with at least 750 cars up a hill and out of a massive bottleneck, but the traffic is going to back up real bad for many miles. All in all it was an stunning show of strength and impressive since it was delayed hours. There were a lot of different people a lot of 18-25, a surprising number of Jewish supporters. plenty of military and a lot of Catholics! Saw some democrats for Romney people. At one point people started heckling the media people with cameras, NBC and CNN I believe …that made me happy! Corbet zinged them too when he said that the media reported Ryan had a few hundred at the 3500 rally in Harrisburg. Glad to have been a part and optimistic about PA for Romney!
We were there. Was quite a site to see! Amazing. Hope to see PA go to Romney!
That Rachel Maddow just lied and said that the Obama crowds are dwarfing the Romney ones. I guess the people at MSNBC are in their delusional state.
Die-hard libtards have a very…flexible relationship with the truth.
A “depends on what your definition of is is” type relationship with the truth.
Thats INSANE which crowds and where…? Did she cite any? I heard that there may have been 20k in Cleveland….?That sounds well below his 2008 draw and fairly unimpressive when you consider that that’s having a rally in a high population political stronghold…
Obama camp is claiming 23,000 at rally in South Florida, and 24,000 in Virginia; Can anyone confirm this?
Just found out that they needed Katy Perry to get to those figures.
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