Some are wondering if Obama isn’t weaker than he seems.
So the Obama team has shot its wad. Its opponent has more ammo and more money now. Romney hasn’t been mortally wounded. And there isn’t money from Obama to keep up the 4-to-1 spending barrage. In fact without it, Obama might well have fallen behind in the race. So the Obama team pleads for money and turns up the volume of the attacks. (After calling Romney a criminal in July, what’s left for September and October?)
William Galeston claims that Obama is running a Bush 2004 style campaign, but wonders if that can win for Obama. After all, Obama is an a worse position than Bush was in 2004.
[I]t’s not too early to say that Obama’s vital signs look dicey. Over the past 33 months, his job approval has been lower than George W. Bush’s at a comparable time in his presidency for all but one week. Bush averaged above 50 percent in the quarter before his successful reelection campaign, while Obama has been stuck in the 46-48 percent range for months. And the famous “wrong track” measure now stands at 63 percent, versus 55 percent in the days preceding the vote in 2004. If these two numbers don’t improve for Obama, his presidency will be in jeopardy. And they probably won’t—unless the economy perks up noticeably.
One thing that has to be remembered, though, is that Bain is notObama’s Big Attack.
Surely that can be remedied before November . . .
“Corporations are people, my friend… of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People’s pockets. Human beings, my friend.” (August 2011)
“I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.” (January 2012)
“I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there.” (January 2012)
“I should tell my story. I’m also unemployed.” (2011, to unemployed people in Florida)
“There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip” (January 2012)
“I get speaker’s fees from time to time, but not very much.” (January 2012) (Mitt earned $374,000 in speaking fees in one year alone, according to his personal financial disclosure statement.)
“I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.” (January 2012)
If Romney is elected, I suppose it would at least be good news for the Presidential Quote of the Day calendar people, who have been seeing hard times since GWB left office.
My thought all along was what BHO would come out with in October. A war would not be out of reach for BHO. Anything and I mean anything to be re-elected.
@Greg:
I’m pretty sure Obama has been good for at least one WTF!?! quote a day since taking office, and probably a good bit before then too. If you are posting this as a challenge, I’m sure that the conservatives amongst us can deluge this post with all sorts of quotes from Obama. I’ll offer the first ones;
“If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own”
“Washington feels as broken as it did four years ago.” – No, it is much more broken than it was four years ago
About 20% of the $100 million was spent in Ohio.
At the start of it, Obama was up by 2 points.
After $20,000,000.00 he is up by 4 points!
For all Obama’s whining that he is being ”outspent” and ”out-donated to,” Obama has plenty of cash for moves like this in the few (10 or less) all-important swing states.
And Obama’s negative ads seem to be working….in Ohio at least.
@Greg: Hey Greg, what has 0-bama done during his presidency?? Clue, he has failed. Please try and grow up and recognize this fact.