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Obama Celebrates His Birthday by Devastating Romney With New Ad
On President Obama’s birthday his reelection campaign has released a new devastating ad targeting Mitt Romney’s position on women’s health issues.
Here is the ad:
The ad script:
Dawn: “I think Mitt Romney’s really out of touch with the average woman’s health issues…”
Alex: “This is not the 1950s. Contraception is so important to women…it’s about a woman being able to make decisions…”
Dawn “I don’t remember anyone as extreme as Romney.”
Mitt Romney: “I’ll cut off funding to Planned Parenthood.”
Alex: “I don’t think Mitt Romney can even understand the mindset of someone who has to go to Planned Parenthood.”
Mitt Romney: “Planned Parenthood. We’re going to get rid of that.”
Dawn: “I think Romney would definitely drag us back.”
President Obama has a solid lead among women voters, but his campaign continues to run these ads because they are devastating his opponent in swing states.
A recent Quinnipiac University poll of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida found that Obama holds double digit leads with female voters in two of the three states. In Pennsylvania, Obama leads by 24 points among women, 59%-35%. In Ohio, Obama leads Romney with women by 11 points, 48%-37%. In Florida, Obama’s margin over Romney is smaller, but still a significant 7 points, 51%-44%.
Focus group research shows that when women voters are told about Romney’s positions on their healthcare, they are much less likely to vote for the Republican nominee.
What the mainstream media doesn’t talk about is that polling reveals that there are two different campaigns taking place for the presidency in 2012. The national polls show a tight race in the popularity contest, but when the polling is examined on a state by state basis, President Obama has a clear advantage.
Obama is faring well in individual states because his campaign is running ads like this one that are targeting blocs of voters in each state. While the Romney campaign is focused on a national anti-Obama strategy, the president defining his opponent with a variety of targeted statewide ads. The Obama strategy against Romney is a sort of death by a thousand thirty second spots approach.
Perhaps, no other group of voters has as much at stake in 2012 as women, and they are the key to President Obama spending four more birthdays in the White House.
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Rmuse
Aug. 4th, 2012 at 4:02 pm
President Obama is spot on with women’s issues. Willard will set women back 50 years, and it is part and parcel of Mormon ideology. That Romney has staked out a decidedly anti-woman agenda needs to be pounded into the public’s consciousness for women and the men who love them.
Yellow Dog Yankee
Aug. 4th, 2012 at 4:09 pm
It became official midweek; Obama no longer needs to worry about reelection. That that tool Mark Halperin, you know the totally objective Politico reporter who called Obama a “dick” a few months ago, grudgingly conceded that it was possible for the President to win even with the current employment numbers. The pain on his face was tragic – and very funny.
NativeSonKY
Aug. 4th, 2012 at 4:18 pm
I don’t think it’s a good idea to proclaim the victory until after the election. Apathy among voters is still a real problem which could still endanger the election. The best course is to keep up the pressure and talk to people and let them know that you are voting and supporting the Obama re-election effort, which might inspire someone else to snap to attention and get out to vote. And remember, take a friend to vote (or 10)!
Elizabeth
Aug. 4th, 2012 at 6:33 pm
Amen! You can believe that if the Republicans think they are losing, they’ll work harder to get more folk out.
mjh
Aug. 4th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
“You can believe that if the Republicans think they are losing, they’ll work harder to get more folk out.”
Nah — they’ll work even harder to suppress the vote . . .
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Shiva (Moderator)
Aug. 4th, 2012 at 4:46 pm
I seen that. I thought he was on suicide watch
mjh
Aug. 4th, 2012 at 8:05 pm
Halperin called the sitting Commander-In-Chief a “dick”?
I remember when calling the POTUS any disrespectful name was considered “treasonous” — I wonder what changed . . .
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majii
Aug. 5th, 2012 at 12:18 am
He certainly did, mjh, and he did it on Morning Joe. MSNBC “suspended” him, but it was only for a short while. It was disgusting to me that MSNBC even gave him other opportunities to appear on its network, but I guess when you have the connections, you can be forgiven for saying/doing the most atrocious things. Halperin was so sure that McCain would be President #44. He would praise McCain to high heaven, and when McCain lost, it seems he decided to take out all of his frustration out on PBO. The president hasn’t done a thing to Halperin, but it doesn’t seem to matter because he can never pass up an opportunity to attack PBO for the most insignificant thing, like playing a round of golf.
craigtamy
Aug. 6th, 2012 at 10:29 pm
The color of the President’s skin.
Shiva (Moderator)
Aug. 4th, 2012 at 5:03 pm
does this mean that Gov. Romney is against private enterprise? Planned Parenthood is not a government function although it does get government funding. So does liberty University.
How can Gov. Romney get rid of a private organization? Doesn’t that tell anybody anything? Tells me two things, he has no idea what powers the president has and doesn’t have, and it tells me that he will try to get rid of whatever he can if it doesn’t fit his masters ideas of what the world should look like. Because it wasn’t that awful long ago that he was praising Planned Parenthood and telling people how important it was.
If you don’t like Mitt Romney or his policies, wait 5 min. and he will agree with you on whatever issue you have with him. Unfortunately in another 5 min. he will no longer agree with you
Churchlady
Aug. 6th, 2012 at 3:11 pm
Oh,my Shiva – just substitute Chick-fil-a and think of the difference!
Now Chicago has a law permitting any neighborhood to decide if it wants a bar or other questionable establishment in its environs. A NEIGHBORHOOD, my goodness, gets to determine who gets a permit. But when the mayor of Chicago says the city doesn’t want a chain that discriminates against many of its people – OMG the sky is falling!
So Chicago is “interfering” with ‘free enterprise’ but those supporters of Chick-fil-a would be the FIRST to shove out PP or any other women’s reproductive health care operation. And Romney would be leading the pack.
Double standards? Yup. Chicago has a history of local control. Romney is out of control. But who gets called on the carpet? Yeah – Chicago.
Catherine M
Aug. 4th, 2012 at 6:04 pm
Planned Parenthood provides the only health care some women ever receive. There is no way in hell that Mitt Romney could understand that.
diana
Aug. 4th, 2012 at 7:02 pm
Better watch Florida. Now they’ll be purging women’s names just so they can’t vote for Obama.
Victoria Lamb, MSHA
Aug. 7th, 2012 at 2:10 pm
Romney is already trying to target women (“single women”) in Virginia. Last week he invited Ken Cuccinelli, the Republican Attorney General, to conduct an investigation of the voter rolls specifically targeting Black and Hispanic voters, as well as unmarried women. According to Phyllis Schafly,a conservative activist and columnist, single women are more likely to vote for Obama because they are on welfare and he “takes care of them.”
Ennealogic
Aug. 4th, 2012 at 7:30 pm
I don’t know how I’d react/respond to women who would vote for Romney. There’s my sister – she used to be fairly well off as a tenured special ed teacher in New York State. She was making 70K and that was 15 years ago. We fought well and hard over Bush v Gore. I’m afraid to find out where her thinking is now, but I suspect it hasn’t changed much. Then again, she has a strict German husband who demands a certain obedience from his family… *sigh*
Too bad she had a son (an only son) and no daughters.
robyn ryan
Aug. 4th, 2012 at 10:32 pm
Give the man a ceegar.
Obama is running a 21st century, social media savvy campaign.
They know that ‘nation – wide’ commercials give the least bang for the buck. The increasingly irrelevant MSM doesn’t get that they are dinosaurs. Their methods of awarding points doesn’t connect to reality.
robyn ryan
Aug. 4th, 2012 at 10:33 pm
calling the spelling and grammar police myself.
john R.
Aug. 5th, 2012 at 1:49 pm
wish the PTB here would install a spell check… i’m dyslexic..when i mention it i’m told to use teh browser ect… im on an old machine and it’s clunky just responding..