'Romney in a landslide?'

[elleng]

"Some Romney advisers sound especially bullish, with one positing that a big win by their side is now more likely than a narrow Obama victory ..."

That's a quote from a Time Magazine article saying Republicans are getting confident this race is theirs.

Let's cut through it: This election isn't going to be a landslide in either direction, and nothing is even close to being over.

Donate $5 or whatever you can today and show you're willing to fight.

We're facing a tough political climate and an opponent who will stoop as low as he needs to -- backed by a billion dollars pledged in outside-group spending.

Just a few days ago, one of Romney's allies, billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, wrote a single check for $10 million. For him, and for many of Romney's wealthy donors, that's equivalent to $40 from an American family worth $100,000.

Here's what I know. Their candidate wants to cut jobs for teachers, firefighters, and police officers. He wants to enshrine discrimination in the Constitution, repeal health reform, and gut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Romney is out of touch -- he doesn't understand the problems middle-class Americans face, and you can't fix problems you don't understand.

Team Romney thinks this is already over.

What do you say about it? Pitch in $5 or more today:

https://donate.barackobama.com/Fight-Back

Let's go win this thing.

Stephanie

Stephanie Cutter
Deputy Campaign Manager
Obama for America

[broiles]

1. But-but-but....

they have the black box voting machines on their side.

[jberryhill]

2. There's a headline I'd like to see

His CA house is not that far from the cliffs.

[KatChatter]

3. If Pres Obama needs money

He should hit up his pals in the Pharmaceutical Industry.

The sold out unwashed masses are broke.

He gets my vote, for what it is worth.

[siligut]

6. Your vote is worth the same as everyone else's. nt

[KatChatter]

31. yeah meaningless, programmed computers count the vote now

"I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how. "
J. Stalin

and yes I go throught the emotions and have never missed an election since I could vote.

[steve2470]

4. k&r nt

[JHB]

5. I suppose "buried under" counts as "in". n/t

[DiverDave]

7. No,NO,NOPE.

He is gonna take a beating, The President is gonna wipe the
floor with him.

It's a mortal lock.

[flamingdem]

9. Can't wait to see Rmoney's face when he loses big

.. but until then to be on the safe side I'll donate!

[Scootaloo]

11. I can't wait for six months of litigation

When R. Money contests the 10-point Obama victory.

You know it's gonna fucking happen.

[Ken Burch]

13. He'll blame the two Panthers in Philly for the whole thing.

[Scootaloo]

14. Well, since they're black, they're CLEARLY in cahoots with Obama!

After all, he's black too! And it's a well-known fact that all black people know each other!

[flamingdem]

15. I remember how they played that "Panther" video over

and over and over

[nxylas]

17. And Eric Holder refused to prosecute

They probably all met up at the black people's country club and agreed the whole thing over a sherry and a secret handshake. After all, that's how normal people do business.

[Ken Burch]

18. ...and they ALWAYS do beatdowns on everybody they disagree with...

as opposed to white folks, who NEVER do anything like that:

[Scootaloo]

21. Those are just good samaritans removing a thug from the establishment!

[Ken Burch]

22. They were just mad because the guy was a lousy tipper!

(they weren't segregationists at all...they were just defending the waitresses. Yeah, that's it, the waitresses)

[Scootaloo]

23. Well, you know you can't trust those people around the white waitresses

...Or was that the other way around?

[Ken Burch]

25. Let's just be safe and say

you can't trust anybody around anybody...and some days you can't trust yourself around yourself(at least until your medication kicks in).

[Dawson Leery]

30. With the hard liners who have taken the Republican party hostage,

such action is realistic.

[siligut]

8. Acting confident is a standard psych out

They are only acting like it is already over, or why would there be big news of another 35 million or why would Romney be on the campaign trail?

It is far from over.

[AynRandCollectedSS]

10. $25 from me!

OBAMA 2012!!!!!

[elleng]

26. THANKS, Ayn!

[Ford_Prefect]

12. This sounds very like some of the remarks just prior to the vote in 2000.

It was a setup line then to cover the massive theft of votes. Similar remarks were circulated in 2004. No reason to think that the GOP do not have a plan and remarks such as this are there to enable cover for vote theft in November.

Wisconsin was the field test IMHO.

[Bluenorthwest]

16. The President needs to raise money, but when advisors paid to pump up Willard pump him up

I do not exactly see that as honest confidence. I mean what else would paid advisers say this far out? 'Romney is doomed to a degrading defeat'? I mean that is the truth, he is doomed to a degrading defeat, but those cats are paid to blow wind up his magic undies, and that's what they are doing.

[NorthCarolina]

19. GOP control the voting machines and to a large degree who can even vote;

why shouldn't they be confident?

[secondwind]

20. LET'S DONATE!!!! I'M IN!!!

I've donated a couple of times already, so what's another donation???

[elleng]

27. Thanks, wind!

That's what we need around here.

[Domingo Tavella]

24. It is premature to say

that Romney will win in a landslide, but this is the direction things are headed, per the indicators that matter - unfortunately. The European economy is helping Romney enormously, and the billionaires have a good sense where to invest, that is why they become billionaires in the first place, and that is why they are flocking to Romney in ever-larger numbers.

Unless Obama supporters start donating very, very heavily, it won't be possible for Obama to withstand Romney's onslaught of negative ads. Unfortunately, outdoing the large number of billionaires willing to buy the election will be very hard if not impossible.

I know not many in this cite like to hear things like this, but being objective is important. When you have an election for sale where the outcome decides how much in taxes the super-rich will pay, coupled with the ignorance of the white working class who are not just racist, but also have no capacity for critical thinking, it is only a matter of few weeks before the tide turns against Obama. In betting markets, Obama was 60 to 40 just a month ago, now he is 52 to 48. Every news event has caused a further slide. There is a reason why the Republicans are smelling victory and why billionaires feel confident in their investment.

[elleng]

28. I think I agree with your premise, about elections for sale, so

want to encourage DUers to contribute.

I DON"T agree that many b/millionaires actually agree with rmoney; they're smart to have accumulated fortunes, and must know that actually its under Democratic administrations when the markets do best. (Adelson is an exception, imo.) Citizens United is, unfortunately, contributing to our concerns.

[demwing]

29. Got the same email earlier, already tossed in $4

wish I could do more...

[Aerows]

32. I'm waiting for a debate

Romney can't avoid gaffes if ANYTHING goes off script. Obama is an affable, socially competent person - you can see it in how he responds to people and situations that arise.

Romney is so rigid, and used to control that he can't handle it when something out of control happens. He has the social competence and appeal in the real world of a fire hydrant with a smiley face painted on it and dog pee running down the side.