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WI_DEM

(33,497 posts)
Mon Jun 11, 2012, 12:44 PM Jun 2012

Romney to launch six state bus tour (including thru Michigan)

The Washington Post reports Mitt Romney "is trying to seize momentum with a five-day bus tour through small towns across six battleground states."

"This will be Romney's most intense campaign swing since the Republican primaries effectively ended in early April. Over the past two months, Romney has spent most of his time raising money at private donor receptions and has been staging just three or four campaign events a week, many of them formal speeches."

Mark Halperin: "Interesting thing about Romney's just-announced battleground state bus trip: (1) It includes Michigan; if Romney can put his father's home state in play, it is an Electoral College game changer; (2) all of these states have small towns and rural areas that are not the President's electoral strength and where Romney can gain an advantage if he runs up the kinds of margins George W. Bush did in 2004; and (3) watch to see if this trip draws network correspondents and/or big-foot print reporters, who, on most every day for the last several months, have been absent from the Romney roadshow. (4) notice what family members and surrogates join the journey and what roles they are assigned."

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/06/11/romney_launches_six_state_bus_tour.html

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Romney to launch six state bus tour (including thru Michigan) (Original Post) WI_DEM Jun 2012 OP
Friday, June 15 – New Hampshire Kolesar Jun 2012 #1
How many dogs fit on the roof of a bus? Warren Stupidity Jun 2012 #2
Opportunity knocks for DUers........ yellowcanine Jun 2012 #3
Greyhound. Warren Stupidity Jun 2012 #4
Is he using Sarah Palin's old bus? JoePhilly Jun 2012 #5
Has anyone seen the bus??? ailsagirl Jun 2012 #6
Halperin is clowning around alcibiades_mystery Jun 2012 #7
I think Obama will win Michigan but the latest MI poll has Romney ahead 46-45. former9thward Jun 2012 #8
The EPIC-MRA poll? alcibiades_mystery Jun 2012 #9
I just provided the link. former9thward Jun 2012 #10
The poll is an obvious outlier by your own link alcibiades_mystery Jun 2012 #12
There are a grand total of three polls. former9thward Jun 2012 #13
Look at all the Michigan polls on RCP. boxman15 Jun 2012 #15
My link in the earlier post went to the RCP. former9thward Jun 2012 #16
I don't dismiss "any poll not favoring my side" alcibiades_mystery Jun 2012 #17
He should go to Colorado and tell them they don't need so many firefighters. JoePhilly Jun 2012 #11
Ack, he's coming here. Denninmi Jun 2012 #14

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)
1. Friday, June 15 – New Hampshire
Mon Jun 11, 2012, 12:52 PM
Jun 2012

Friday, June 15 – New Hampshire
Saturday, June 16 – Pennsylvania
Sunday, June 17 – Ohio
Monday, June 18 – Wisconsin and Iowa
Tuesday, June 19 – Michigan
More details will be announced in the coming days.

Ideas for signs:
Corporations are not people, my friends
Let Detroit go bankrupt?
I enjoy firing people

yellowcanine

(35,704 posts)
3. Opportunity knocks for DUers........
Mon Jun 11, 2012, 01:32 PM
Jun 2012

I am thinking a big old 60s station wagon painted with Romney logos and a crate with stuffed dog following the Romney bus tour around.

 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
4. Greyhound.
Mon Jun 11, 2012, 02:03 PM
Jun 2012

Has to be Greyhound. And one pooch after another each on top, each shitting its brains out onto the one behind it, with Mr. Oblivious at the wheel smiling, careening down the highway.

ailsagirl

(22,907 posts)
6. Has anyone seen the bus???
Mon Jun 11, 2012, 06:43 PM
Jun 2012

It's a ridiculous contraption but Nitt is very prooud of it.
(I hate his logo)

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
7. Halperin is clowning around
Mon Jun 11, 2012, 06:50 PM
Jun 2012

McCain also fought for Michigan hard - until he saw that it was hopeless and gave up on it. It was a big to-do that he was pulling his Michigan ads...and it was after the conventions. Halperin is pretending that making a play for Michigan is some big deal. It's not. He's be admitting defeat if he didn't make a play for it. But Obama will win Michigan by 8-10%. It doesn't cost Halperin anything to make silly comments on what is a fairly standard campaign swing through these states.

former9thward

(32,146 posts)
10. I just provided the link.
Tue Jun 12, 2012, 12:06 PM
Jun 2012

You have the typical DU response about polls. If it is good news then the poll is reliable. If it is bad news then the poll over samples Republicans, its an outlier, doesn't do cellphones, the list goes on an on.

former9thward

(32,146 posts)
13. There are a grand total of three polls.
Tue Jun 12, 2012, 04:22 PM
Jun 2012

One poll, the latest, out of three does not make it an "outier". It may be an outlier but just because it does not fall in line with two others does not make it so. Don't be daft.

boxman15

(1,033 posts)
15. Look at all the Michigan polls on RCP.
Tue Jun 12, 2012, 04:34 PM
Jun 2012

The only ones that have Romney ahead in Michigan are EPIC/MRA polls. Every other one has Obama ahead by a healthy margin. I'm not saying Obama is up 14, like the NBC poll says. That one is probably an outlier, too. But Obama would probably win the state by about 7-10 points if the election were held today. It will take a lot for Mitt "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" Romney to win in Michigan.

former9thward

(32,146 posts)
16. My link in the earlier post went to the RCP.
Tue Jun 12, 2012, 04:49 PM
Jun 2012

As I posted before I think Obama will win MI in November. I am just not one of those who dismiss any poll not favoring my side and salute any poll that I like. Posters said the polls were all wrong in 2010. We saw how that worked out.

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
17. I don't dismiss "any poll not favoring my side"
Tue Jun 12, 2012, 05:13 PM
Jun 2012

I dismiss this particular outlier poll which is an obvious outlier even by the evidence you yourself posted. It's as foolish to be alarmed by any poll favoring the other side as it is to dismiss any poll not favoring one's own. I'm doing neither of those things. How about you?

Denninmi

(6,581 posts)
14. Ack, he's coming here.
Tue Jun 12, 2012, 04:27 PM
Jun 2012

Perhaps he can stop at Cranbrook and wax nostalgic about the good old days when he assaulted a gay classmate. Maybe put on a Michigan State Police trooper's uniform and pull over some folks on I-75.

God spare us!



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