2016 Postmortem
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With exactly two weeks to go, the Obama campaign is feeling good: the president's advisers insist they are winning nationally and in battleground states. And they say this is the race they have always prepared for.
"This is a race we believe we're leading," said senior strategist David Axelrod on a conference call with reporters, "We believe we're leading nationally and we're leading in these battleground states."
He added that the Obama team "has the ball" and insinuated that the Romney camp may be lying to themselves about who holds the upper hand.
"We know what we know and they know what they know and I'm confident that we're going to win this race and we'll know who is bluffing and who isn't in two weeks," said Axelrod.
The latest CBS News national poll does show Mr. Obama in the lead (48 to 46 percent), but it's within the poll's margin of error. Today's ABC/Washington Post poll has the race within the margin of error as well. But others, like Gallup's daily tracking poll, put Romney ahead.
Axelrod maintains that the "90 public polls coming out every day" create volatility that just isn't there. He says the current state of the race is stable and exactly what the Obama team expected.
"This race has settled into exactly where we thought it would be and it's the race that we've prepared for," he said.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-34222_162-57538399/obama-campaign-confident-for-final-stretch/
speedoo
(11,229 posts)Much better than the pollsters do.
michello
(132 posts)before I will take stock in what the media and the polls are saying.
fugop
(1,828 posts)Between this piece and the one on msnbc pointing out, at long last, how the South is skewing the polls, perhaps they're finally looking at the writing on the wall.
I hope so anyway, because I'm so sick of the media trying to shape a narrative from polls they're cherrypicking.
Charlotte Little
(658 posts)Expect the "horse race" BS to stick due to a need for ratings. But watch the overall narrative begin to shift to one far more positive for O. He really did show up Romney last night no matter how much the Fox creeps want to spin it and although he may not get a huge bump, like Nate Silver wrote today (paraphrased), a slight bump may be all it takes. I do think O will get that (it's already begun from the last debate).
Interestingly, I read somewhere today that it wasn't just what was said last night but the tones/body language of each candidate. Romney came across "meek" while discussing FP, especially to the extreme right base (who hate peace & civility, the fucking warmongers). R's campaign apparently coached him and were trying to win points with women by toning him down, but they were wrong, wrong, wrong. Women DO want an aggressive, assertive president when it comes to protecting our country. But, we also want one who doesn't sweat under pressure.
Just go back and look at the debate from last night - Romney was a sweaty meek mess.