How Repulicans will spin the inevitable Romney loss

[wt1531]

They probably will double down on the stupid and say he was not conservative enough. I can hear Rush spit some bs excuse on Nov 7th.

[TroyD]

1. Romney's loss is not 'inevitable'

This election is still close and we have no way of knowing what other shenanigans are going on.

Nothing should be taken for granted.

For example, Rasmussen's poll this morning still has Romney at 50% and 3 points ahead of Obama with a double-digit lead among Independents.

Who knows what is going on out there.

No one can relax until Obama is re-elected officially on the night of November 6.

[wt1531]

4. I agree we shouldnt let up but

Romney is racking up the margins in red states who were in the bag for him already. Swing states have shifted to 0bama decisively and as long as GOTV is good, what I sais in the title stands

[WeekendWarrior]

6. It's inevitable

It's been inevitable since the day he won the primary. The rest is all show, brought to you by a news media that desperately needs advertising dollars.

[TroyD]

11. How do you explain the close poll numbers?

And the concern by the Obama campaign about a close race?

[RomneyLies]

14. Go back to 2008, same thing happened. nt

[WeekendWarrior]

17. The poll numbers are largely in Obama's favor

and always have been. Why the concern?

Also, the Obama campaign wants you to think it's a close race because they don't want to take the risk of people getting complacent and not voting. But I guarantee that their internal numbers are telling them it's a lock. And I guarantee the internal numbers are even better than the ones we're seeing.

Obama won't be losing this thing. I've said that from the very beginning. I also said it in 2008 when all the concern trolls started freaking out about McCain/Palin.

[BlueDemKev]

12. Agreed

We first need to GIVE them a loss to spin! We need to keep our heads down and focused on the job at hand. That being, getting every single Obama supporter to the polls on (or before!) Nov. 6, especially in PA, OH, MI, WI, IA, and NV.

OBAMA-BIDEN 2012!!! The stakes are too high for us to stay home!

[Iris]

2. Yes - that's what I would have said.

Not conservative enough. Because, clearly, the undecideds are really just crying out for a dictator. The GOP simply hasn't put a big enough tyrant in front of the voters yet.

[nevergiveup]

3. If Romney loses but eeks out a popular vote win

it is all you will be hearing about in the press. It will diminish Obama's mandate. This is why it is so important that absolutely everyone votes. GOTV

[Cosmocat]

7. YEP

He has to have CLEAN popular vote win, not 100,000 or so ... And, pushing 300 EVs.

They are going to delegitimize it regardless, but the bigger the margins the better.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. He just has to get to 270 EV IMHO

I don't care about a PV win (which may yet happen if the LV screens turn out to be very off the mark). The media has been pushing that this is "tight" horse race this entire election so a narrow win should not make much of a difference to most people (though I don't think it's going to be super-close). And, as you said, they will de-legitimize an Obama victory anyway, so.............. His large margin of victory and a Congressional sweep meant absolutely NOTHING to the Republicans back in 2008.

[Cosmocat]

13. It just is harder to push back on it

They are going to be dicks, it is a given.

A REALLY close PV win and anything less than Bush II got in his reelect in the EC, 286, I think it was, will just be harder to push back against it.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

15. I know that they are going to be dicks about it

however, if Romney only wins the PV because the southern states drove up the vote totals, then doesn't that diminish their argument? Democrats don't usually win the south and their hatred of President Obama is pretty extreme.

[onehandle]

5. Romney will be eviscerated on November 7th. His name will be mud in the party. nt

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. Whatever/whoever they blame it on

they won't accept the legitimacy of an Obama re-election and will probably work hard to find a reason to call for his impeachment even before he is sworn back in. That's one reason that I'm concerned about polling this cycle- creating a "perception" that there was voter/election fraud that helped President Obama win re-election when the polling results that seemed to support Romney don't track with the actual election results. However, this narrative will eventually fade IMHO once they fail to convince anybody of this narrative. It will be quite fascinating (in a train-wreck sort of way) to see what happens to the Republican Party after this election. To me, it seems that they've either got to moderate (or at least put the lid back on the crazies) or they're eventually going to be seen (by more people) as sore losers, obstructionists, and will gradually fade into irrelevance, mostly due to more progressive demographics. I thought that maybe we were at this point in 2008 but they hadn't quite unleased the Tea Party Kraken yet- though I would argue that even though it was a short-term electoral success for them in 2010 it's been largely a long-term disaster for them.

[yesphan]

9. Bingo !

[LonePirate]

16. They will blame voter fraud by unions, minorities and immigrants