MSNBC just said Romney will be holding a campaign event on election day in OH

[octoberlib]

Alex Wagner said it was unprecedented. I can't find a link to any news source reporting this yet. What's the strategy here? The people who haven't voted yet will be at the polls.

[cash__whatiwant]

1. Didn't McCain do this?? nt

[octoberlib]

3. Did he ? I can't remember lol . Still don't understand the strategy.nt

[crazylikafox]

2. Wouldn't he be better off to use his resources to GOTV???

[SingleSeatBiggerMeat]

20. (Psssst - He Doesn't Have A GOTV Plan)

[SoapBox]

26. Oh but I thought he did...

FuksNews?!?

[Mass]

4. I do not think it is unprecedented, but it is not a sign that the campaign is confident.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. No, way. That's asinine strategy.

That's the day you devote all your resources to getting people TO the polls. you don't want them at a rally.

It's ass backward.

[TeamPooka]

8. that is correct

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. Romney's plan is to cause a traffic jam that prevents Democrats and Independents from voting

[BootinUp]

11. You may be on to something....nt

[FarPoint]

12. You probably aren't too far off the mark with that one.

I'm thinking he is planning on shoring up the plan to disenfranchise voters with Husted and company.

[NYC Liberal]

23. LOL I don't think enough people would show up to a Romney rally to cause a traffic jam

let alone one on Election Day when everyone will be voting, not going to a rally.

[MSMITH33156]

30. If this is in the hood in Cleveland

then arrest him for a Civil Rights Violation.

[southernyankeebelle]

7. Well maybe if he goes and the election is stolen by the republicans in charge they can say

Romney's last minute stop helped him pull it out. Just saying that could be. But I tell you Obama is going to win over the electoral college for sure.

[liberalmuse]

9. If he will be there all day...

The paranoid side of me would have to wonder what asshattery he, Husted and Kasich are up to. I would wonder if their final strategy, aside from intimidating voters, limiting polling places for largely Democratic and minority districts and throwing out provisional ballots - which they're already attempting, would be to tout the "ASTRONOMICAL, UNPRECIDENTED" Republican turnout for the psychological hit it would provide. We know that a large part of Rove's tactics were attempts to deflate and demoralize Democrats. I'll take off my tinfoil hat now.

[FarPoint]

14. Yeap.

My thoughts exactly.

[liberalmuse]

18. I can see him now...

the nightmare of James Baker and his thugs contesting everything and running their propaganda machine in high gear in 2000 Florida is running through my mind. Make it stop!

[progressivebydesign]

31. that's kind of worrisome to me, too. What legal thing will they be pulling???

Will it be another Bush "equal protection" lawsuit?? Will Romney be in Ohio, have it called by FOX news first, then go on the air in Ohio as the winner before the ballots are finished, then sue because he thought he was the winner?? Most people don't know this is how Bush one, by manipulating a law meant to protect the people that Bush and Romney despise.

This is a possibility. He may be there because it's the epicenter of the fraud this year... watch for some drama around Ohio if the President does not clean his clock all over the Country, first. My biggest hope is that the President does NOT need Ohio, and Mitt the Shit can concede from there.

[hrmjustin]

10. Candidates do rallies on election day. Helps with GOTV in some cases.

[S_E_Fudd]

13. Maybe unprecedented in Ohio...but McCain did hold rallies on election day in 2008...

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/mccain-to-stump-on-election-day/

[Lone_Star_Dem]

22. In two sates they lost.

I cannot see how it's a good idea to have your supporters tied up at a rally and not at the polls.

I know how long it took me to get out of the Austin Obama rally this year. Traffic was a bloody nightmare. I realize Romney doesn't have that volume of support, but still. It just seems foolish to tie up supporters time when they should be driving people too the polls to vote for you.

[Life Long Dem]

15. Didn't Bush do this in 2004

http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=116923.0;wap2

"Then he made the unusual move for him of having a campaign event on Election Day, went to Columbus, Ohio,..."

[Robbins]

16. 2008

Mccain was doing rally In Nevada and maybe New Mexico.I am going by memory here.

[WI_DEM]

17. Call me paranoid but maybe we better counter this in some way.

[progressivebydesign]

19. Seems like a stupid idea. Tuesday is for voting. Period.

Makes him look very very desperate.

[onehandle]

21. Ah, The desperation of a loser. But there is no reason for him to be in one of his home states...

He will lose. Period.

Might as well be in the Cayman Islands.

[kaiden]

24. In 1992, Bill Clinton had a rally on election day in Colorado at 5 a.m.

We were there! United Airlines Hangar at the old Stapleton Airport. Approximately 5,000 people joined us.

[CoffeeCat]

25. The strategy is: Desperation!!

I saw this reported on Fox News.

Romney aids interviewed, who said that it was just one more push. Obama pundit interviewed about it too. Brushed it off.

This just in: Romney schedules Kid Rock concert Wednesday in Ohio; Embarks on a Tour of Denial, across the battleground states.

[bigdarryl]

27. Just goes to prove they know they don't have Ohio despite what his handlers say about him winning

[madrchsod]

28. i guess he wants to double down on his double down on his jeep and gm lies...

[Brewinblue]

29. In keeping with the blackjack theme

Romney isn't doubling down, more like splitting fives or sixes.

[apnu]

32. Of course he his. There is no way he can win without OH.

No credible way that is. If Obama wins OH, Romney would have to flip MI and WI to make up for it. He's also have to take IA, NH and CO too. That's also giving him NC and FL, which is much more likely than Romney winning OH.