What’s the difference between The New Black Panthers and the Pennsylvania voter ID law?

The New Black Panthers didn’t stop any illegal voters from voting.

urban elitist on September 6, 2012 at 7:49 PM

FTFY

Mitt will focus on the key states, and once those are secured, than move onto the others.

This ballot proposal will turn out massive numbers of public union members among teachers and police, which bodes well for the President, and bad for Governor Romney.

I sincerely hope that there is push-back from tax payers, and those in the private sector who pay double-digit percentages for their health care, and have to save for their pension, while some public employees enjoy higher wages, miniscule health care contributions, and have lavish pensions. (teachers and government employees) (not police officers)

They are a scourge on this once and future great Nation.

But to get to that future we need to refutiate the damage done by the godless and immoral Democrat liars.

Then we simply must govern better and be all those things that Obama pretended he was. Romney must be tranparent, he must be honest, he must even be bi-partisan… in a way that makes Democrats remember they really aren’t socialists and liars. That they too have a good and noble past.

Back back back when the Democrat party was a for decent things and union were actually for workers rights and not ruling the world… The Democrats have forgotten who they were and are so corrupt they can never be trusted with power.

But Republicans can barely be trusted. They/We can not be who we were in 2006.

This has to be a new thing… an honest thing. A two party system works because of checks and balances… we have to balance back to smart economic policies and honest by the people government.

Pennsylvania is a much more difficult state for Republicans. There are massive concentrations of Democrats in Philly, Pittsburgh, and Erie, and the Susquehanna Valley (Scranton / Wilkes-Barre / Hazleton) has a lot of Catholics that vote Democrat by tradition, and Biden could also attract votes in Scranton. Pennsylvania is also an expensive state to advertise in the Philly and Pittsburgh media markets.

Yeah … sigh …

While I’m going to be a poll watcher again and try to help with phone banking and handing out literature, I’m still very new to the whole local/precinct/committee scene. But what I have observed from the last couple years is that while there are some staunch conservative GOP politicians on the state and local level, it’s far more common that one who was formerly a Dem switched.

Nothing wrong with that, I suppose, if it’s on the order of the epiphany that Susanna Martinez and her husband had, but too often, it’s just another way to get elected in the first place. In that respect, that’s why it often seems to me that the GOP here in PA is just another way to say Dem-lite. If there’s anything the GOP really needs to work on, it’s to strengthen the brand among all those conservative, Catholic Dems who used to be called Reagan Democrats. They’re here, and many pay scant attention to what the Democrat party has turned into, but they might give a receptive ear to the party that now reflects their views.

And I’m sorry … where Biden lived from birth to age 10 would not be much of a factor to me in deciding whether to cast a vote for him. I could care less. Strike two is that he’s a horrible example as a Catholic (one among many in D.C., I know).

They are going to be taking feedback from your local GOP victory centers, and there, you need to sign up to make the calls, and you are going to phone people in your own state or an important state. It really matters and it comes before paid advertising is invested.

However, PA last time elected a republican governor, so GOP-ers do have something to work for, and in PA it looks like you can over ride the urban areas.

I think the dems do different things with their money, they pay off workers more than the GOP does. They also may be waiting to see the polls until after they Convene.

We have a Voter ID law in PA. That might make a difference.

jtdavies on September 6, 2012 at 7:09 PM

Don’t hold your breath. The dead will still find a way of making it to the polls in Philly. . .

There is so much outrageous outrage in Pittsburgh and Philly over the ID Law, sigh.

cmsciulli on September 6, 2012 at 7:38 PM

What’s the difference between The New Black Panthers and the Pennsylvania voter ID law?

The New Black Panthers didn’t stop any legal voters from voting.

We have a Voter ID law in PA. That might make a difference.

jtdavies on September 6, 2012 at 7:09 PM

Don’t hold your breath. The dead will still find a way of making it to the polls in Philly. . .

There is so much outrageous outrage in Pittsburgh and Philly over the ID Law, sigh.

American Crossroads has raised more than $150 million. They’re not going to spend all of it in 6 states.

rockmom on September 6, 2012 at 5:28 PM

Out of curiosity… why not?

He had better do it again, cause if he tries the McCain train we’re screwed.

Even blacks are going for Romney at 35%.

MrX on September 6, 2012 at 7:15 PM

You lost me right at the end there. I’m sorry, but I refuse to believe any poll that shows less than 90% of the black vote going for Obama.

Unless they’re using a really small sample size, in which case the poll shouldn’t be taken seriously anyway.

I just noticed above that you said the poll was by PPP. Mystery solved. ;-) That’s no poll, that’s a piece of psychological warfare.

PappyD61 on September 6, 2012 at 7:01 PM

I brought your points up with a guy in polling and got a blank look.

Nobody can see where the train is going.

Rasmussen can’t figure why we are so polarized.
I say, “Polarized?”

Wait for the 2020 0r 24 Dem nominee. Probably Chavez’s nephew.

President “Trash The Constitution” will look like a Founding Father.

Romney is the candidate, not Ryan. We can’t wish Romney off the ticket. Believe me, I’ve tried.

casuist on September 6, 2012 at 6:45 PM

And I would suggest that the GOP wouldn’t be as close to victory as they are now with Paul Ryan at the top of the ticket.

Obama has been running ads in Monmouth County for weeks.

Naturally Curly on September 6, 2012 at 5:46 PM

I don’t understand O’s strategy here. Admittedly, I know nothing about Monmouth county other than where it is and what I read on Wikipedia. Is it true that Monmouth county is Republican? Also, it doesn’t seem to overlap with a Pennsylvania market.

Still haven’t seen a pres. ad here in Houston.

DanMan on September 6, 2012 at 6:00 PM

That’s why the borders are still open my friend. The gop is finished and so is this country if Texas goes Democrat. Castro is going to run for Governor and might win and that begins the end.

He might find himself on the 2016 ticket with Cuomo and bingo.

The gop will NEVER be able to win a Presidential contest after that.

If the polls there start to tighten down the stretch, then they’ll almost certainly be tightening in purpler, more important states like Virginia and Colorado too. If you had $5 million to spend on ads, where would you rather roll the dice? On Virginia, where O might be up by a point in October, or in Pennsylvania, where he’s apt to be up by five points or more?

This may be the last election that the gop is competitive in Presidential contests. Just a couple of decades ago California was in play, in 1984 New York was in play. Now the Dems control California, Washington, Oregon, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin it’s also close in North Carolina, very close in Florida and the Dems might even pick up Ohio this cycle for good.

Texas is the only safe red state now………and Obama and the Castro Leprechaun of San Antonio are putting the gop on notice in that state as well. If Romney loses it may very well be all traceable back to the gop and their mimickry of the dems and their big government spending.

It’s do or die for the gop folks.