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Strategist Karl Rove says that Obama is winning
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
April 29th, 2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
April 29th, 2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
While Mitt Romney has won the Republican nomination for the U.S. 2012 presidential election, according to GOP strategist Karl Rove, Romney has his work cut out for him. According to Rove, if the election were held today, Obama could destroy Romney by as many as 100 votes.
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Rove has debuted his first Electoral Map of 2012. The map clearly shows that Obama is in the lead. According to the map, if Romney, even in the event he wins all of the as-yet undecided 82 electoral votes, he would still have to flip a state that leans toward Obama in order to win. The most likely states are seen as Pennsylvania, Ohio or Michigan.Romney has at least one home court advantage in all of those states, as all of them have Republican Governors. Unfortunately for Romney, Obama also has a home court advantages in those states, as all of them have organized labor as a strong presence.
Romney's advantage is also hindered by a serious problem. All of the Republican Governors in those states, which include John Kasich, Rick Snyder and Tom Corbett have low approval ratings. Romney won't necessarily be able to rely on endorsements to make his case where the Governors are concerned.
Romney does have a second home court advantage in Ohio and Pennsylvania, in spite of their unpopular Republican Governors - each have popular Republican Senators. And it just so happens that one of those Senators has been often floated as on the short list for Romney's Vice Presidential pick - Ohio Senator Rob Portman.
Business Insider's Joe Wiesenthal has an interesting comment on the west's economic recovery, which shows that the U.S. is far ahead of its European brethren. "You frequently hear people debate the Obama recovery against the Reagan recovery, but it's pretty dicey," Wiesenthal writes.
"The times were totally different (and the recessions were very different) so you're left with just a lot of speculation and counterfactuals and so forth.
"The first thing to note is that the U.S. has recovered WAY better than either the Eurozone or the U.K. So if you think Obama has been a disaster, you might first acknowledge that the US has performed better than all its major Western peers."
Wiesenthal also notes the sudden halt of economic growth in the U.K. "The UK was recovering on a fine trajectory right up until early 2010, at which point UK growth hit a brick wall.
"What happened in 2010? That's when conservative David Cameron came to power with an agenda of reigning in the debt. Sound familiar?
"Basically we have a life test of a country that wants to do what conservatives in the US want to do: reduce national debt . Doing so is a growth disaster," Wiesenthal says.
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