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Unlike the Corporate Media, Citizens Aren’t Buying Romney’s Debate Lies
A new tool was applied to social media following the presidential debate, and it showed that public sentiment was Obama won on substance, whereas Romney appeared to win by lying. The ability of social media to spread the word about fact-checks has changed the game.
NBC used a tool called ForSight, used to gauge public opinion in new media, to conclude that by Friday there was a sustained social media backlash against the punditry calling the Denver presidential debate for Romney. The new meme was that if Romney “won”, he did so by lying, whereas Obama had won on substance.
The immediate consensus that Mitt Romney won Wednesday’s presidential debate has eroded significantly as fact-checkers have weighed in and supporters of President Barack Obama have fought back, according to NBCPolitics’ computer-assisted analysis of more than 1.3 million post-debate comments on social media.
The analysis suggests that as debate over a news event continues unmediated over time, the impact of the conventional wisdom of journalists and partisan commentators can be mitigated…
By Friday morning, the counterargument that Obama had actually won on substance had taken root, with online sentiment now favoring the president.
I am not presenting these revelations to argue that Obama won the debate. It was established by the media that Romney won the debate, even if this study — based upon the post mortem fact-checking that damaged Romney’s “win” — says otherwise. Romney has also gotten a small bounce in post debate polls so far among undecideds.
However, to the point of the social media backlash, the debate bounce is not a shift in the electorate precisely for the reasons people were citing on social media; the public does not find Romney trustworthy or presidential. According to numbers from a Reuters/Ipsos survey released Saturday, the bounce is not a shift in the electorate, but a short term bounce. “We haven’t seen additional gains from Romney. This suggests to me that this is more of a bounce than a permanent shift,” Ipsos pollster Julia Clark concluded.
Furthermore, Obama gained ground post debate on matters of character and who understands the electorate more, even among voters who thought Romney “won” the debate. Obama is still more liked than Romney (53-29), and he still has a slim overall lead over Romney. Voters feel Obama has right values needed for a President by 43 to 37. Ironically given the narrative that came out of Denver’s debate, Obama still leads 42-38 on who is “tough” enough to be President.
So, Romney “won” the debate but did nothing he needed to do in order to present himself as more presidential. Worse, our media gave a debate to the person who by all fact-checkers’ accounts, lied his way through the entire debate to such an astonishing degree that there were times we did not know who was standing on that stage. This was not the Mitt Romney who has been campaigning for the past six years. Mitt Romney “won” by disavowing himself of Mitt Romney. How is that a real “win”? Perhaps he won the debate only to lose himself.
Not bothered in the least by Romney stabbing Republican ideology in the back in order to present himself as Obama lite during Denver’s debate, the Romney camp were out with champagne and snarls the day after the debate — high on their first “win” in a long and rather embarrassing campaign season for them. Republicans took to the airwaves to gloat like frat boys, demonstrating the very reason why they should not be in charge of anything. Ambition happily sacrificed principles in the Romney camp.
If this is “winning”, then we need to redefine the purpose of these debates. Ostensibly, they exist to inform the people. How exactly did Mitt Romney inform the people of his policy positions so that they were better equipped to vote their conscience? He misled them, if anything, and he seemed to only confirm voters’ already dim opinions of his character. The media dropped the ball on this one, including the allegedly liberal media.
Things are so bad in our corporate media that we were told a liar won a debate for the Presidency because the other guy didn’t hit him back hard enough. These folks are paid for their ability to see past the trees, even if they are the right height, and focus on more than political theater.
The debate is supposed to be about who is best suited to be President, not about who won the WWE show, unless the media is conceding that our presidential debates are nothing but entertainment not subject to rules. The Denver debate and the post debate coverage was an unmitigated fail.
Just like the trolled Town Halls of 2010, the media got punked by manic hysteria and distortions meant to distract from the very issues at hand. The media did nothing to clear the air. But citizens took to social media to point through the crazed haze, revealing the little man behind the curtain of lies.
Romney won the debate, but failed to achieve what should have been his biggest goals; to change public perception of him and to come off as presidential.
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buckeyewill
Oct. 6th, 2012 at 7:51 pm
Sarah J THE MSM WANTS A HORSE RACE. Romney HAD TO FIGHT for his political life, or face being defeated before the polls open. HOW he did it was terrible; he repeated the same lies that were already debunk by factcheckers and investigation. If he fell on his face, the money would have flowed to Congressional races.
Like him or not, Obama either was ill-prepared or gave Romney the rope to hang himself. After sounding like Moderate Mitt, he tosses a bone to the Tea Party reactionaries, and became Wishy-washy Willard wanting to gut PBS/NPR. The debate was something to think about….and learn.
Sugapea
Oct. 6th, 2012 at 8:09 pm
It was the later…the Tea Party/reactionaries got a bone. And they are more vicious than I’ve ever seen before. They think Romney’s big Presidential win is now a done-deal.
FOX&RADIO-FRIENDS have done the greatest disservice to our American Unity. They have worked the RightWing into a Frenzy!
I have never seen this level of vitriol coming from our fellow Americans before.
I only hope America can heal after this election.
James Huffer
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 4:27 pm
Perhaps your not old enough to remember that we of the 60s peace and love were not as wasted as we sometimes appeared. Remember we removed a couple of crooked republicans named Nixon and Agnew as well as many of the radical right wing John Birchers that were little more than poorly masked Communists. Keep this thought well versed in your mind as we again fight for the common man in America,”A nation of sheep begets a government of Wolves”. After Bush Cheney and the 9/11 Silverstien affair you should never again doubt those words. Romney/Ryan will make Bush/Cheney pale in comparison and you will loose what little the Bush Mafia left you quickly and completely, of that you may rest assured!
Thomas Bishop
Oct. 6th, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Do Americans really care whether they are being lied to?
Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite wrote: “The problem to me is that if the American people find aggressive lying entertaining, will they eventually be unable to tell the difference between lies and reality? I fear that time, indeed, is approaching.
We have entered the age of ‘post-truth’ and our entire political process has degenerated as a result. Our politics looks more and more like episodes of ‘Survivor.’
Be warned: ‘post-truthfulness’ will inevitably bleed into all areas of our lives as a result, from intimate relations to our social and work lives. It is the essence of the amoral, where individuals or whole nations are unable to perceive or are indifferent to questions of right or wrong.”
It’s been my experience that progressives welcome a civic forum in which all ideas are examined, scrutinized, studied and debated on an ongoing basis – and in which the best ideas win.
But honest debate dies when some folks decide that complete counter-to-fact non-vetted nonsense is just another “opinion” or “viewpoint”.
The key is that this actually appears to be the Republican playbook. Science doesn’t matter. Factual truths don’t matter. Arithmetic doesn’t matter. What you said last week doesn’t matter if you are Etch a Sketch Romney and can deny you ever said what you said.
When actual facts matter, open rational discussion and informed debate will lead to the ultimate value on which to build the strongest moral foundation: Truth. That’s really what we should be about as a nation, who we are, what we do, what we work for, and what we believe.
Sandra
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 12:38 pm
I’m glad to see the truth about the debate is finally being aired. I watched it on CBC(Canada) and yes, we voted that PO would win prior to the start of the debate. I would wish he had shown more passion, but overall I though he was thoughtful and measured and his points were factual for the most part. Mitt Romney? OMG, I heard the same tired, retried, rethreaded nonsense and lies he has been spewing throughout the campaign and by Republicans since Reagan.
I’m left wondering if they should do away with the debates altogether or bring back the League of Women Voters? who adminsitered debates previously. They seem to have done a better job than these current nitwits calling themselves journalists. Dick Gregory moderating the debate in MA was just insulting to thinking Americans and Canadians too.
Inez
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 10:40 pm
Enought of Mittshit,,,,this is a sad day in American when a Mormon can lie to anyone except another Mormon. The Whitehouse will becomeanother temple, with all new hires to be MORMONS…I’ll hold the bets.
Anne
Oct. 6th, 2012 at 8:40 pm
If someone doesn’t see anything wrong with the kind of pathological lying that Willard does on a regular basis, then something is equally wrong with that person. There are folks so invested in this president’s defeat that they are perfectly willing to overlook Willard’s mendacity. Then there are others who are so uninformed that they take his lies at face value. Either way, something is horribly wrong when a chronic liar is said to have “won” a debate because he was able to bully his way through with total disregard of protocol and with a total lack of manners. As we all know, Willard is proof that money can’t buy class or intelligence.
Reynardine
Oct. 6th, 2012 at 9:00 pm
Romney is also proof that ancestry can’t buy class or intelligence. His daddy, God rest him, had both; no doubt he diligently gave Mitt “everything”, but I don’t think that is the sole reason Sonny is a moral cretin. To put one of Lombroso’s few valid ideas into modern terms, Mitt was born missing a chip. Someone from humbler circumstances would have either been forced to conform his behavior or else wound up in jail; Mitt had no such pressure. He is a Lombroso reject writ large.
Notwithstanding the debate- or even because of it- I believe many people react to this trait with instinctive revulsion. I have stated before that I watched this debate with a friend and missed part of what was said because she kept yelping things like, “I may vomit!” “I’m going to throw up!” I told this to a couple of other female friends and my sister, and got, “Ooooh, YEAH!” I believe women are especially affected like this, and although I can’t pin it down, my mind goes back to the way he used to impersonate a police officer. You know who else did that? Caryl Chessman.
Eykis
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 10:09 am
Rey,
Great comment. I’ve read PoliticusUSA for years and post infrequently, but I am aware of who are the regulars here and I appreciate all of them. I do believe I am close to your age and being a female, it sounds like your friend and sister reacted EXACTLY the way I reacted – REVULSION that the LIES WERE BLATANT and not being called. I did see there is going to be Instant Fact-Checkers at the next one. This ought to be prove either good or ridiculous. Mittens needs to be called a LIAR, LIAR all day, everyday by EVERYONE in the MSM because that is all that he is – not a presidential character at all. Between Mittens and LyinRyan the entire GOP ticket is INSANE and DELUDED by the LIARS heading everything and MSM DOING NOTHING TO STOP IT.
James Huffer
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 4:40 pm
I believe that Richard Nixon outed the Republican mantra years ago when he stated that when he did it it is NOT illegal as justifacation for several feloneys he and his minions committed and then covered up. The Mutt didn’t fall very far from the republican tree did he? The voter is not quite as stupid as KKKarl Rove thought we were! The reelection of Mr. Obama and the removal of the republicans in congress will show whose correct in that assumption.
Inez
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 10:42 pm
Mormons can lie to anyone, except another Mormon!
Rocky in Texas said...
Oct. 6th, 2012 at 8:40 pm
I quit believing anything romney says quite a while back…
That guy lies about everything and anything.
He’s a complete fraud.
Paws
Oct. 6th, 2012 at 9:22 pm
It’s safe to say that if Romney is talking, he is lying.
With regard to the debate, I believe Pres. Obama stated his case succinctly and did call out Romney’s lies – not by yelling “liar” every five minutes (as the pundits on the left seemed to want), but by providing concrete information about Romney’s policies (especially in how they contrasted with his own). In other words, the President did not talk down to the American people – he spoke to us as if we are all intelligent enough to understand what he is saying. He gives us far more credit in that department than Romney and Ryan do.
People are judging the substance of the debate; the media is judging the theatrics. I must give credit where credit is due though: Mitt Romney put on a hell of a show. But that is all it was – a show.
HotFrmPhx
Oct. 6th, 2012 at 9:51 pm
I didn’t watch the debate on TV. I asked my wife what she thought of it, and she said: “Obama was the rotweiler that let the chihuahua, Romney hump his leg, safe in the knowledge the runt was impotent.”
I watched the debate on the internet, and she described it to a T.
Dicer
Oct. 6th, 2012 at 10:03 pm
We know Romney lies and is dishonest. He proved all of that and more at the debate.In terms of the Gish Gallop technique he used, only shows he will do and say anything to win.And what about those cheat notes?
The dark underbelly of this is, people like Dinesh Desouza (a master of this) and who probably helped prep Romney, are all being supported by the Koch brothers et al. A Romney president will be very dangerous as these are the people pulling the strings.
The media was played by the Romney gang and fell into the trap.Thank heavens for social media that helps us keep our sanity.
Reynardine
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 11:07 am
I have certainly encountered this vile method of argumentation before, in and out of court, but only know have I learned it is called a Gish gallop.
Deanne
Oct. 6th, 2012 at 10:31 pm
Another thing the media has failed at and put on full display that they are totally stunned & stupid — is they too, like Romney, follow ‘shiny objects’.
Big Bird is a distraction.
The massive amount of time and reporting being given to Big Bird — holy crap. So many segments are time limited and you add in a few pundits and ‘Big Bird’ ate the total segment. No other info or reference to the lies, etc provided. These people actually get paid — what a waste and a massive disservice to the citizens of the nation.
DobieTracker
Oct. 6th, 2012 at 10:40 pm
Mitt Romney is mentally unstable, same as Sarah Palin.
Both are maligneant narcissist–not name calling, just stating a fact.
Both have NO problem lying, both have NO problem doing ANYTHING to come out on top.
Romney was inappropriately aggressive, hostile, disrespectful and as we all know, completely dishonest.
He did take control of the situation, but he did it by disrespecting both President Obama and Jim Lehrer, both of whom expected a debate, not another of Romney’s split personalities to show up.
The President now knows who he is dealing with and needs to be prepared for Romney’s lying the next time. Advice from a mental health professional on handling narcissist is called for.
One problem will be how to QUICKLY undermine Romney’s narcissistic lying so that the President can spend his time explaining his own position rather than “wasting” time dealing with a sick personality.
A QUICK dispatch of Romney is called for so the President can discuss what he is FOR rather than what he (rightfully and necessarily) is against.
THE MODERATOR HAS TO DO THEIR JOB AS WELL.
Despite Lehrer’s excuses, it IS the moderator’s job to control the debate, to not let them interrupt each other and to stick to time limits. THAT is why they are called the MODERATOR.
Any moderator who allows themselves to be bullied and disrespected like Romney did to Lehrer is shameful.
These modertors have had plenty of time to know what kind of person they will be dealing with and especially NOW, AFTER seeing how poorly Lehrer did in response to being “slapped in the face on national television” like Romeny did to Lehrer.
robyn ryan
Oct. 6th, 2012 at 10:44 pm
The MSM just blew themselves up. They have been irrelevant for a few years now, and this showed them they are obsolete.
No one under 50 has a land line or sits and waits for the news to come on. The MSM is an antique. Lawrence Welk bad.
This may be the kick in the ass we need to start back to real journalism.
Tanya
Oct. 6th, 2012 at 11:17 pm
BEWARE!!!! Republican polls Gravis Marketing, Rass, Purple Stategies, We Ask America…
Gravis Marketing has Cybil (Mitt) winning the AA votes in Co 58-40… I know pick your lip up off the floor…
www.scrild.com/doc/109149...
Check crosstads on page 11… Its ridiculous..
Jenny S
Oct. 6th, 2012 at 11:24 pm
The dog analogy is beautiful. Thank you for that!
Obama allowed Romney to show America who he really is without saying a word. Obama took notes. Sometimes, a bad dress rehearsal means a fantastic opening night. So, we skip to closing night this time.
I think the world is beginning to see how easily Obama could humiliate and destroy Romney if he wanted to; however,Obama, is on the high road and would never stoop to the media level Romney is playing on. I couldn’t believe some of the pundits who I usually respect, screaming about Obama NOT ripping Romney to shreds! I hope we have not come to this mentality as a nation!
sabreen60
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 12:59 am
The pundits on the so-called left (I really don’t know what they are) provided fodder for the rightwingnuts. My question to most of them is what lesson are we teaching our children when we say a liar won?
Betsy
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 1:27 am
That is my concern as well.
Anne
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 9:27 am
The fact that there were pundits on the left who bought into the nonsense that Romney “won” shows that they have the same childish shallowness which mistakes bullying and bluster for strength and leadership that a lot of Americans do. It shows that like many other Americans, they are about judging things based on surface. I lost a lot of respect for both Ed Schultz and Chris Matthews for falling into a trap. Of all people, they should know better. The only one who made any sense was Al Sharpton, who pointed out that Romney’s theatrics didn’t hide or alter the fact that he told egregious lies throughout this travesty of a debate.
Paws
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 9:53 am
I agree with you completely, Anne. The pundits reacted to the theater and some of them said the President didn’t call Romney on his lies, but I don’t know what debate they were watching. The President DID do that, he just didn’t do it by stamping his feet and shouting “liar” every five minutes. He stated his case in a dignified manner, while Romney was totally disrespectful to the audience, the people watching at home, the moderator, and of course the President himself.
Romney just showed that he is NOT presidential material. He is an overgrown bully who has no business in the Oval Office.
Sandra
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 12:57 pm
Chris Matthews of MSNBC comes to mind. I don’t know anyone with an ounce of intelligence watch his show. He truly belongs on Faux Noise even if he’s a Democrat, he would fit right in with the blowhards over there.
mags
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 2:18 am
It was pointed out to me on another blog, when I stated I thought the President should have been more aggressive…that in the USA black men can’t appear to be angry. This was something I didn’t know being a “furriner”.
Jose Martinez MSQR
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 6:27 am
For days reality turned absurd after the debates. The WINNER BY TKO was immediately crowned by the MSM to the delight of the mob. The hollow victory that Mitt Romney took by by sheer gall will not be absolved by history. America, grace is shed on thee.
Ken Morgan
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 8:14 am
I saw thru romney’s lies 1 year ago, and feel the same. He is a carnival barker who can not be trusted. I painly watched the debate and still saw the bully he is. taking control of the debate is classless and interrupting Obama in mid-sentence pissed me off. for those who bought into his crap, romney showed his true ruthless stripes wheh he attacked NPR and Big Bird. He’s acting like he’s king already. this is the way he would govern. No thanks. He’s ten times worse than Bush on the hubris and total disregard for anything other than himself. at least Bush was semi-likable.
Reynardine
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 9:40 am
It is my understanding that an associate of Romney’s, who buys the debts of poor countries and then Bains them into cruel austerity measures, has used his leverage to impound an Argentine naval vessel in an African port. One of the oldest principles of admiralty and international law is that nations don’t impound the naval vessels of non-belligerants, and private individuals don’t impound naval vessels at all. Is this the kind of corporate “diplomacy” we’re looking at?
Reynardine
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 10:12 pm
In fact the distrained vessel is a tall ship called Libertad, a training vessel for Argentine cadets, and apparently when she put in at a Ghanan port, she was impounded. Note that vulture capitalists do not have the clangers to try to distrain a destroyer, frigate, or anything that could seriously shoot back.
soshal
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 4:07 pm
Of course willard lied and is hoping his bling blings will attract those with the litmus test for jealousy. Big Bird is a necessity in this as I have found when talking with people while volunteering for OFA, simply because elder America will NOT ALLOW for the defunding of PBS. They cringe at the very thought of this idea and recall the programs on PBS, their children growing up with BB. Willard struck at the soul of the democratic family and will never regain anyone that was once on the fence, no matter how shiny BBs feathers have gotten since. PBS can be used for many viable health related vehicles to train and educate, a bridge in the future that cannot be spanned via other technologies available to the elder and disabled communities that are aging in place. PBS needs anything BUT defunding in our future. Willard needs to go! The more this singular story gets out to Northern Nevada elders, about how Willard wishes to defund BB, he loses more and more bird nest! The elder loves PBS!!
Thelma T. Reyna
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 4:58 pm
We can always count on President Obama to be a model of grace and dignity. We can always count on Mitt Romney to be full of hubris, deception, and self-aggrandizement. When has he ever spoken up for disadvantaged Americans as Pres. Obama, Ted Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, and Bill and Hillary Clinton did and have systematically done? These five Americans are wealthy, yet they have deep compassion and understanding of the sufferings of others and advocate for action that shows this. Romney has always shown concern only for the wealthy, and for keeping the truth about himself hermetically sealed. As has been said, he has no core, no principles, no egalitarian convictions that we ordinary Americans have witnessed.
When an individual commits 100% to attaining his goal, this is admirable. But how that goal is reached is the crux of the matter. Cheating, lying, turning a blind eye to the needs and interests of others, disenfranchising people of their human and civil rights because they’re deemed to be obstacles to the goal attainment, stepping on the backs of others as if they were merely wooden rungs on the skyward ladder–these are abominable. These are the methods Romney and his cohorts use. These tactics don’t show us a winner who accomplished a goal. These tactics show us a weasel utterly unworthy of being granted what he sought so shamelessly. Romney did not win his debate and should not win the presidency. Cheaters should never win.
conphx
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 5:29 pm
This is why it’s important to donate whatever you can for truth:Here are some comments to my post (below) from Romney/Ryan supporters and donors-no one can make this stuff up-LMAO! Oh, my comment was eliminated by thumb downs but I forgot to add that since the activist extremist SCOTUS made my corporation, “people” and it’s money/profits, “free speech”, there have been larger corporate donations to Super-PACS. Thank God Independents and Democrats still control most of our nation’s wealth and are using it to recover from the Bush Depression!
“Thanks to the extremists who rant and rave with their insane ramblings that our President is a Muslim, foreign born, and similar nonsense, and fact checking Romney’s lies during the debate (he sure won the lying contest!) I’ve made considerable donations to the Obama Campaign-along with millions of others in the last month and this month. That is the people speaking, not the 1%, corporate, and foreign money. If the extremists don’t like it, try donating and shut up about it.”
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Simon
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 6:22 pm
What amazes me is an absence of the daily polls. They use to tramp Obama lead every day, day by day, and now sudden silence.
What is up, doc? Why pushed the brakes?
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 6:52 pm
Tramp?
They wernt daily polls. they are weekly and monthly
Not Blind
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 6:56 pm
Yo, the polls are cited in the article you are commenting on. They said Obama had a slight lead. Silence is in your head.
Simon
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Yes, silence is in my head, because I’m listener, because I’m sober, and because I have my hope
Thomas J
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 11:40 pm
Hi! This is my first time commenting, though I enjoy reading this site often because of its lack of corporate ties. I’m extremely liberal and, while I love Obama, am an avid supporter, and never have been this pumped up to vote before, the man is actually more conservative than me…much more. The reason I say this is so that you won’t think I’m a troll. I’m very concerned right now. I’ve had a lot of statistics and research training in my doctoral program. I’m a geek that reads internals and pours over the numbers for a large chunk of time every few days (more than I have time for, really). Though the ForSight survey is interesting, it seems like a highly inaccurate way to gauge public opinion. There’s no way to determine if the sample is representative, despite the large number of responses. Second, regarding the Reuters poll: online tracking polls are not regarded in the industry as being as trustworthy as live interviews (both landlines and cell phones). That poll has had a lot of variability this year. Third, and most devastating is that other surveys released show a considerable shift in Romney’s direction. Last week, Obama had leads in enough states to get 332 electoral votes. Now, it’s too close to call whether he would garner the 270 needed to win. I agree with the Reuter’s pollster about the bounce, but there does not seem to be evidence to me that ALL of it is a bounce. The president’s number have come DOWN in the past couple days in some key battleground states. It looked like he was running away with OH, VA, IA, and WI, but now Romney is either within or close to being within the margin of error. It’s tied in FL and CO. Almost every poll is a statistical tie. As painful and FRUSTRATING as it is to admit, I think Romney has tied the game late in the fourth quarter and has possession of the ball. Don’t know if the job #s are going to have a big impact or not, but my gut tells me that the president’s team needs a big defensive “play” this…
Thomas J
Oct. 7th, 2012 at 11:51 pm
…….(Continued from above) week in order to neutralize Romney’s momentum or I fear a “Carter-like” October collapse could be Obama’s fate. The Obama team is putting Biden in the game this week. This may be the most crucial debate of all of them, even though VP debates usually don’t matter. If Biden can paint Romney/Ryan in the same light the social media is, then that could definitely stop the momentum. My friends and I have prematurely been celebrating and have been planning to get together on election night for a “victory party.” Sad as I am to say it, regardless of what happens this week, I think we’re going to have start the night out with a Xanax and a shot to endure what I’m depressed to say is likely to be a nail-biter in the vein of 2004. I do hope I’m proven wrong by polls out this time next week, but I’m no longer counting on it. *Fingers crossed*
Mia Holl
Oct. 8th, 2012 at 9:19 am
I think it will work in President Obama’s favor that he is moderate. I used to be conservative and President Obama is one of the main reasons I became a liberal. I too am concerned about the elections post debate. I know the biggest issue is jobs. So the jobs report will help. The key is to prove that Mr. Romney can’t do better. I did an article on my blog explaining unemployment in America and it’s connection to increased productivity, automation and technology, offshoring, and lack of skills. Mr. Romney’s skills as a venture capitalist do not translate to job creator. Mr. Romney’s skills make him a moneymaker. To me it seems the election will be close since the real decision that will be made is wether voters want to pay off the deficit first (Mr. Romney) or lower unemployment first (President Obama).