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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's Sunday, many may be in church praying for a miracle, since polling data projects a Romney victory.   Obama favorables are sinking, Clinton can't save himat this point. [/quote]

You're plainly not paying attention to the polling data.  This election will likely be closer than was 2008, but Romney is still trailing in nearly every poll and has received no discernible convention bounce.  Nate Silver, who predicted the popular vote exactly and was only off by one state (Indiana) in the Electoral College in 2008, puts Obama's chances at reelection at 73%.  http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/sept-1-romneys-convention-bounce-appears-middling-so-far/  Rasmussen, by the way, has a track record of favoring the GOP (so much so that it is discounted by Silver and others).  Historically, it has discounted actual Democratic performance by 4-5 points.  http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/rasmussen-polls-were-biased-and-inaccurate-quinnipiac-surveyusa-performed-strongly/

The bottom line is that Romney is a bad candidate.  He ran for the Senate to the left of Ted Kennedy.  He was pro choice, pro gun control and spearheaded Romneycare as governor.  All of this is a nonstarter in the current GOP, so he's had to abandon his record.   He can't even run on "saving the Olympics," as he did that with bailout from Uncle Sam.  Notice how not a single GOP convention speaker was able to talk much about Romney?  If he was the same guy he was when he was governor, I might consider voting for him (though he never would've survived the primary).  As it stands, he's probably the weakest candidate put forward by a major party in a generation.  Couple this with the fact that the GOP platform is extremist (and this is coming from someone who used to consider himself a Republican), and the GOP is giving away a presidential election that should be theirs for the taking.  [/quote]

I could have written this word for word (minus the knowledge in the 1st paragraph - don't have that :-))[/quote]

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