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In reply to the discussion: HOLY SHIT!! Be honest...did you see this coming? This early? [View all]renie408
(9,854 posts)I don't think Barack Obama is going to make some huge 'the fundamentals of the economy are sound' mistake and anything along the lines of a foreign crisis or terrorist attack will just weld people to the President. And Barack Obama is a known quantity, which is the problem Mitt is having right now. Mitt, for all that he has spent since forever running for President, has never been on the NATIONAL stage and he can't take the heat. Obama has definitely been tested.
I just don't see Obama screwing up with less than six weeks to go. He will come off cool and collected in the debates, which will make him seem Presidential. Even if he looks 'too smart' for people, I think there are a lot of people who are looking at Mitt and starting to think that maybe smart ain't so bad.
We will know more after the first debate. But that is the only thing that could give Romney a bounce at this point. Everybody has heard what he has to say and they are not buying. And somebody pointed out today that the debates are likely to hurt Romney because he CAN'T get specific about what he wants to do after the election because he knows like hell people will not vote for him if he does.