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Election Here Are a Collection of Romney Win Predictions from Conservative Bloggers
Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:07 AM
Red State commenter Sybile was nice enough to aggregate many of Red State's most egregious Romney win predictions into a single post. Let's take a look at some of those, shall we?
Yes…that’s right…the “great” Paul Krugman, writing for the New York Times, is calling anyone who thinks the election doesn’t currently reflect an impending Obama blowout STUPID.
And who does Krugman cite in defending his oh-so-brilliant assertion? Why it’s none other than fellow left-wing pundit, Daily Kos blogger and poll cherry-picker, Nate Silver.
In other words, according to an Obama acolyte relying on the prediction of another, Obama is winning big…and anyone who doesn’t recognize this is…STUPID.
Some foolishly think the Tea Party has disappeared. That it was nothing more than a temporary flash in the pan. Nothing more than a way for frustrated Americans to ventilate their grievances and move on. But they are so wrong....If I had to say where I think we are in terms of winning this war, I would wager that we may be about a fourth to a half of the way there.
I’m looking forward to the election next week. It is one of the most substantive ways we measure our progress.
1. Race...many whites will not tell pollsters they are voting against Barack Obama for fear of being labeled a racist...2. Enthusiasm: The overwhelming majority of polls that have been run over this election cycle have greatly oversampled Democrats while simultaneously undersampling Republicans...3. Hurricane Sandy: The aftermath of hurricane Sandy will not be good for Barack Obama...4. Undecided voters
There are so many more, including:
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Indeed.
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"Romney could not even win his home state, his second home state, or his vacation home state."
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What was commenter Mister G saying over and over before election day? That Silver was simply telling liberals what they wanted to hear and they were only too happy to drink the kool-aid? That historical models showed that an Obama victory was impossible?
"The elections for president and governor will be close."
http://crosscut.com/2012/11/04/elections…
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Most of these posts are already en-route to The Memory Hole, and by this time next week you won't find a single GOP pundit who will admit to having uttered them.
Never mind that you can back-link to them ad infinitum; these are people who simply ignore any piece of factual evidence that doesn't already reflect their preconceived world-view, so why would they treat their own words any differently?
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Dems won hands down!
Repubs made racist, sexist dinosaur fools of themselves.
Congrats, Obama.
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So, we have proven conclusively that if an incumbent president spends four years campaigning at taxpayer expense, he doesn't even need to have a successful record at all to beat a challenger that has a proven track record of outstanding leadership.
Welp. We're done.
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