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Going Out on a Limb: Romney Beats Obama, Handily

Handwriting Wrote: Nov 08, 2012 2:01 AM

Both sides have their fair share of uninformed voters. Broad generalization is a weak platform for justification. I saw many, many conservative pundits flying off the handles with a prediction on a Romney Win, landside in most cases, based on whatever smart deductions they had. I'm not saying the ideas aren't valid, they just can't figure out how to be elected anymore.

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Going Out on a Limb: Romney Beats Obama, Handily

Fundamentals usually prevail in American elections. That's bad news for Barack Obama. True, Americans want to think well of their presidents, and many think it would be bad if Americans were perceived as rejecting the first black president.

But it's also true that most voters oppose Obama's major policies and consider unsatisfactory the very sluggish economic recovery -- Friday's job report showed an unemployment uptick.

Also, both national and target state polls show that independents -- voters who don't identify themselves as Democrats or Republicans -- break for Romney.

That might not matter if Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 39 to 32...

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