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Deja vu All Over Again. (or how to lose Ohio)

By: golfermike (Diary)  |  July 2nd, 2012 at 06:51 PM  | 

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I’m sitting here on a Monday night just after dinner when yet another Obama commercial comes on USA Network. I’ve seen about 3 of these a night on the nights when I’m watching TV. I have yet to see a Romney or a anti-Obama ad.

The issue at hand is we are losing the narrative in a must win state. It’s Deja vu because it reminds me exactly of what happened with the SB5 referendum last year. If conservatives would have set the narrative from the get go instead of having to defend against the lies put out by the unions, etc., that could have come out differently.

So here, once again, in a state Romney must win, he’s let Obama set the initiative. It won’t matter if Romney spends 5 times as much from September until November if the narrative is set. How come we always react and never attack. It’s like Romney is trying to lose. Like McCain and SB5 all over again.

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  • ww2nd95

    And it doesn’t make any sense. It’s like he’s waiting.. Sure 6 months is forever in political terms, but if gas prices stay where they are, the economy stagnates along, and more and more people start to either (A not care about the healthcare debate or (B start to receive benefits from it, and good or bad, a lot of people like a lot of parts of the bill individually… that leaves Romney without all that much time in reality.

    So he can ill afford to let Obama roll out the attack ads in a must win state without timely responses. As you said, he waits until Sept/Oct to start attacking, people are going to have had 2 months of Obama telling them why Romney is an evil, out of touch, vulture capitalist, blah blah blah.. and Romney will be 15 points behind in the polls before you know it.

  • sulmak

    I’m in Texas, and I can honestly say I’ve never seen a presidential election TV ad except on youtube. In fact I don’t think I’ve seen any political ad ever during prime time, though I have at cheaper times of the day.

    If you get 3 a night at this time of year, how packed are the airways with them in October?

  • gflyer3364qt

    Ohio also voted DOWN Obamacare at the same times as the referendum on the union issue. I doubt it brought high consrervative voter turnout either. Also, Romney is outraising Obama and Obama is panicking. He’s letting Obama spend all his money now and not have any when it gets closer to the election. Not only is Romney outraising Obama, Romney’s superpac’s have close to 300 million on hand. Obama’s have about 10 million. Let Obama run all the ads he wants now. It gives people more time to figure out that he’s lying. We live in the age of computers. Political ads aren’t as effective as they used to be. Most people can’t stand them and get sick and tired of hearing them because most of them are spin and distortion and people know this. In the Wisconsin recall, 90% of the people had made up their minds before the campaigning even started. Obama didn’t win in 2008 by running attack ads against McCain. He won because of his charisma, promises, and people’s anger at Bush was taken out on McCain. The election will be a referendum on Obama’s record. Furthermore, I would be willing to bet Romney will win by a bigger margin electorally than any of the “experts” could have imagined. I bet we see several states that haven’t gone red for a while go red this year. Talking like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and New Hampshire. It won’t be a Reagan landslide, but it will be decisive for Romney.

    Obama: solid blue only California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Minnesota, Illinois, New York, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Vermont, Maine, Connecticut, Massachussetts, Rhode Island, and DC for 201 electors.

    Romney: all solid red states, all swing states, Michigan, Wisconsin, and New Hampshire, and every other state that I didn’t list under Obama for 337 electors.

  • gflyer3364qt

    Every other ad usually. First thing that comes on when shows go to break. Sometimes the same ad is even played twice in row consecutively. Everyone gets tired of them regardless of who they support and just mutes them from who I’ve talked to. That’s the thing a lot of times they’re played so much they’re ineffective because people get tired of them and just go for the mute button every time they see one come on.

  • golfermike

    If you believe for one minute that Obama’s lack of funding will stop him from spending and that the mainstream media will cut him off when he can’t pay, you all are dreaming.

    Think about it, the MSM is all in for Obama, so why would they care if he can’t pay his bills. He could easily run up $1B in dept and they would forgive it. Why? They know he’d compensate them with taxpayer $$s to make them whole again.

    You guys are thinking strategy with the other side playing by the same rules. The other side has no rules. They are all in, we need to be all in too. I’m not saying we stoop to their level. I’m saying we need to be prepared for them to do anything. They have to win or their house of cards collapses. We have to win or there is no turning back.