It's very close right now with romney and Obama. Who's leading the polls right now depends on which polls you read. USA Today/Gallup has them tied 47-47. Reuters has Romney leading 44-43. ABC News/Washington Post has Romney leading 47-46. NBC News/Wall St. Journal has Obama leading 49-43. There are enough polls out there that anyone can look at them and point out that their preferred candidate is leading. Until a Republican winds the party's nomination and we are closer to Election Day 2012 there's no way to tell where anyone really stands in the polls and I think it's a bit optimistic on your part to call it a definite win for Obama if Romney is nominated considering he's leading or tied in 3 polls released within the past few days.
Obama's ahead of all the Republican's in the polls, with Romney being the closest. And if Romney's nominated, it's a definate win for Obama. All Obama needs is an economic trickle where unemployment is on a downward trend. The more support that Ron Paul gets, the more his agenda will be incorporated into the other candidates agenda's, which makes it even less likely Paul gets nominated.
It's very close right now with romney and Obama. Who's leading the polls right now depends on which polls you read. USA Today/Gallup has them tied 47-47. Reuters has Romney leading 44-43. ABC News/Washington Post has Romney leading 47-46. NBC News/Wall St. Journal has Obama leading 49-43. There are enough polls out there that anyone can look at them and point out that their preferred candidate is leading. Until a Republican winds the party's nomination and we are closer to Election Day 2012 there's no way to tell where anyone really stands in the polls and I think it's a bit optimistic on your part to call it a definite win for Obama if Romney is nominated considering he's leading or tied in 3 polls released within the past few days.
No Republican has a statistically significant lead, and the polls obviously show where people are at currently. My point anyway was to counter inlet's overconfidence in Obama losing. I mentioned it before, but I think Romney loses against Obama because all that would be needed is some ads about him being an LDS and that's a good 3 or 4 point swing.
Not going to say the Republican party is flawless... they are filled with flaws... so, yes, they are responsible for a lot of the problems he loathes. But, from Paul's perspective to equate them with the Democrats is laughable.
I don't think he'd run as an independent because I think he really does understand he would basically re-elect Obama by doing so.
To me, there's only a few things that could re-elect Obama. A solid libertarian candidate, like Paul is one. The other is the beginnings of a World War. The third is an economic bounce like none we've ever seen.
Out of the three options, I think the first is the most likely... but, I don't see it happening.
i think most people who think partisanship is problematic and also a joke would say the two party system is perpetuating the same problems over and over again ...
either way - ron paul is doing what politicians do ... which is sell themselves to gain power ... i mean the dude actually said he only watches abc news in that interview ... obviously, i hope it was a joke but it does re-iterate that he is part of the entity that is most tied with the military industrial complex ...
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No Republican has a statistically significant lead, and the polls obviously show where people are at currently. My point anyway was to counter inlet's overconfidence in Obama losing. I mentioned it before, but I think Romney loses against Obama because all that would be needed is some ads about him being an LDS and that's a good 3 or 4 point swing.
i think most people who think partisanship is problematic and also a joke would say the two party system is perpetuating the same problems over and over again ...
either way - ron paul is doing what politicians do ... which is sell themselves to gain power ... i mean the dude actually said he only watches abc news in that interview ... obviously, i hope it was a joke but it does re-iterate that he is part of the entity that is most tied with the military industrial complex ...