How Romneyworld sees Mitt winning tomorrow
If Romney bags Ohio, he’s on 266 electoral college votes and has multiple opportunities to get the four more he needs. Colorado’s nine, New Hampshire’s four, Iowa’s six and Wisconsin’s 10 look most likely. It’s very hard to see Romney winning Florida, Virginia and Ohio and Obama keeping the White House.
Romney’s aides seem very bullish about Iowa – more so, even, than Colorado, where they say he took a hit in their internal polling with women independents after Obama’s handling of Hurricane Sandy. The latest Des Moines Register poll gives Obama a five-point advantage. But the Romney campaigns that the same poll put Obama up 17 in 2008 and he won the state by 10 points.
Privately, the Romney campaign has effectively conceded Nevada, which has six votes. ‘Nevada, we’ll probably fall short,’ said the Romney adviser. ‘That’s just tough.’ Romney hasn’t travelled there since October 24th, just as Obama has stayed away from North Carolina.
More remarkably, the adviser said that Minnesota, 10 votes, and Pennsylvania, 20 votes, were distinct possibilties. He even predicted a possible win in Minnesota.









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PA!
MN!!
MI!!!
EYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!1!
RedNewEnglander on November 5, 2012 at 4:42 PM
Can we start mucking each other’s cards yet?
lorien1973 on November 5, 2012 at 4:44 PM
Slow down please….Let’s vote first.
Oil Can on November 5, 2012 at 4:46 PM
Also, it’s scary and lonely without the facebook comments.
Wait, no it’s not.
lorien1973 on November 5, 2012 at 4:46 PM
Seriously if Romney takes Minnesota.
I am going to crow on this board for a month.
gophergirl on November 5, 2012 at 4:47 PM
Just up
Schadenfreude on November 5, 2012 at 4:48 PM
we got family in st cloud, strong gop base there
cmsinaz on November 5, 2012 at 4:50 PM
He WILL take Minnesota.
Then someone will find a few thousand uncounted ballots in the trunk of a car.
The Rogue Tomato on November 5, 2012 at 4:50 PM
Curse that 19th Amendment!
SAZMD on November 5, 2012 at 4:51 PM
[aunursa is sad]
aunursa on November 5, 2012 at 4:52 PM
I always get worried when internal polls are released. Makes me think desparation. Hope I’m wrong.
SAZMD on November 5, 2012 at 4:52 PM
If Romney wins, they better beef up the profanity filter, cuz I’m gonaa let the expletives fly.
lorien1973 on November 5, 2012 at 4:54 PM
If Romney wins Minnesota, trying to pull a Franken recount will be a waste of time for the Dems because he’ll have already blown way past 300 EVs.
fiatboomer on November 5, 2012 at 4:54 PM
What “handling”? He didn’t crap himself while phoning Christie and Bloomie? I know the bar’s pretty low for him anyway, but that is ridiculous.
changer1701 on November 5, 2012 at 4:55 PM
Meh. Obama released internals earlier this month. Who knows, really. Either candidate could win tomorrow. And, that’s pretty sad, if you think about it.
lorien1973 on November 5, 2012 at 4:55 PM
why I sometimes question the wisdom of the voting public.
joey24007 on November 5, 2012 at 4:56 PM
What in the bloody hell is wrong with the people of Nevada. Nevada is supposed to be a rugged individualist state, libertarian.
Here we have the most libertarian Republican presidential ticket in our lifetimes, Romney a fiscal conservative/social moderate, Ryan a downright Ayn Rand individualist, and the people of Nevada are balking?
I say if Romney/Ryan loses Nevada, we cease and desist in ever calling Nevada liberty-loving ever again. The state will have become a welfare statist, moocher-loving socialist hellhole.
Big ‘F’ you Nevada if you go with the Marxist Muslim America-hater.
LIBERTARIANS FOR ROMNEY!!
ericdondero on November 5, 2012 at 4:58 PM
A lot of folks already have.
hawksruleva on November 5, 2012 at 5:01 PM
Nevada would rather vote for the guy who tells people they can’t vacation in Nevada.
If that’s how they want to roll, good luck with that.
hawksruleva on November 5, 2012 at 5:02 PM
Vegas is a huge SEIU town.
John the Libertarian on November 5, 2012 at 5:04 PM
I don’t understand how rational people can look at the polls and see an edge for the President, I just don’t. Romney’s lead among independents. Obama’s inability to get to 50%. Romney’s clear expansion of the map.
WTF am I missing? How in the world are people like Larry Sabato looking at the polls and with a straight face see Obama getting to 300 electoral votes? I am seriously flummoxed.
Red Cloud on November 5, 2012 at 5:04 PM
Don’t worry, the morons have it all covered.
ROTFLMAO…
H/T: AoS
CPT. Charles on November 5, 2012 at 5:04 PM
Easy marks for a Con Man.
Buy Danish on November 5, 2012 at 5:04 PM
We only do that at Ace’s site. This is a “family friendly” blog!
Doomberg on November 5, 2012 at 5:08 PM
That was all sorts of teh awesomeness
John the Libertarian on November 5, 2012 at 5:10 PM
Really? Romney will still win Colorado, as the number of female independent voters in Colorado has to be pretty small in its own right, and is really microscopic when you imagine that only a very small percentage of them actually shifted their vote one way or another.
Even so, this speaks quite poorly of our system. That anyone could be so stupid, so fickle as to think Obama did anything special with Sandy. These people are mindless drones who fall for the media’s antics. People like this are probably why the Founding Fathers wanted an Electoral College, instead of a direct democracy.
TheDriver on November 5, 2012 at 5:16 PM
I could be wrong, but I think he has it at 290-248, but I agree with what you said.
GOPRanknFile on November 5, 2012 at 5:24 PM
At least we didn’t have to drag him to the finish line like we did with McCain.
vityas on November 5, 2012 at 5:30 PM
No more Facebook comments? Tis a happy omen indeed. Kunta Kinte and his ilk have been offered up as a sacrifice to ensure tomorrow’s victory.
Let us bow our heads in a moment of silence for those Facebook commenters who were not trolls. Their sacrifice will not be forgotten.
RINO in Name Only on November 5, 2012 at 5:37 PM
Ha Ha Ha!
Night Owl on November 5, 2012 at 5:48 PM
Hey!
RedCrow on November 5, 2012 at 7:43 PM