Differences between Obama and Romney Strategies in Swing States

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At the end of the day, it all comes down to the jobs report due out on Friday.

If it's good (or at least shows something positive), Obama will probably win. It'll be a post convention momentum booster Team Romney will not be able to overcome.

But, if it's bad, it'll kill any momentum Team Obama gets out of the convention. It'll also allow Team Romney to begin the relentless assault via their ad buys in key states. The assault will continue until election day.

In sum:

Good jobs report on Friday: Obama wins

Bad jobs report (or no change from last month's report): Obama loses.
 

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at some point them money is pointless. there are only so many 30 second spots you can buy. both will spend over a billion dollars plus another couple billion from super pacs. its not like romney has a billion and obama 100 million.
 

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:heh: at the ridiculous people in this thread that think obama is going to lose. Give me a fukking break. If obama's reelection doesn't get them turned out to vote, the republican platform will, it's already extremely hard to beat an incumbent president. Some of you are acting like the economy is tanking right now, the economy COULD do better but lets not act like we are in dire straights here.
 

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Please inform us what blue states are suddenly up for grabs. I swear you nikkas just make shyt up just to sound smart.

Nobody said that any of the Blue States were up for grabs. The point made was that Romney and his Pacs will begin carpetbombing those states with attack ads as a way to force the Obama side to spend money defending themselves there when they normally wouldn't have to do so.
Its the same thing Obama did to McCain in 08.
Back then it was devestating to Mccain because he was running for office with about $6.89 in the bank; for Obama it will just be a huge annoyance and distraction that forces them to do more in states that they had no plans to work hard in.
 

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Nobody said that any of the Blue States were up for grabs. The point made was that Romney and his Pacs will begin carpetbombing those states with attack ads as a way to force the Obama side to spend money defending themselves there when they normally wouldn't have to do so.
Its the same thing Obama did to McCain in 08.
Back then it was devestating to Mccain because he was running for office with about $6.89 in the bank; for Obama it will just be a huge annoyance and distraction that forces them to do more in states that they had no plans to work hard in.

Lets be honest here though, you don't know how much obama is going to spend in blue states vs swing states, you are just doing alot of assuming. You also assume that what romney is doing is going to work, there have been many congressional races where money was not as big a factor as people thought.
 

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Lets be honest here though, you don't know how much obama is going to spend in blue states vs swing states, you are just doing alot of assuming. You also assume that what romney is doing is going to work, there have been many congressional races where money was not as big a factor as people thought.

I never said it was going to win Romney the race, just that it was going to be a tactic he will use. And history shows that a candidate doesn't spend as much in areas that are solidly leaning his way because he doesn't have to which is why this tactic is used by opposing candidates with deeper pockets.
 

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You nikkas are too cocky. Turnout won't be anywhere close to 08 And the cacs hate :obama:

The turnout wont be like 08 but who said it needs to be, democrats will turnout because of what the republican platform has become, and the independants will side with obama more than romney in swing states. No one is saying its going to be a landslide but if you think romney is going to win well then there nothing I can say about that shyt.
 

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Obama's ground game is unmatched. A lot of those offices have been in place for 4 years already since the last go round.

I know a chick who was in charge of organizing in Cleveland Ohio in 08. The pay is decent at best and you have to work literally 12-14 hour days pretty much every day from convention to election day.

You have to actually believe in your candidate and have to get people to agree with that. It also helps when you have young people and students working for you.

Romney could never match that with old rich men. He'd have to pay probably twice as much as the Obama campaign to get people to work that hard...
 

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The turnout wont be like 08 but who said it needs to be, democrats will turnout because of what the republican platform has become, and the independants will side with obama more than romney in swing states. No one is saying its going to be a landslide but if you think romney is going to win well then there nothing I can say about that shyt.

you're underestimating things breh

people in this country are mad and are believing their own bullshid about lower taxes and deregulation as the ways to get the economy back on track

the hate for Obama is strong
 

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you're underestimating things breh

people in this country are mad and are believing their own bullshid about lower taxes and deregulation as the ways to get the economy back on track

the hate for Obama is strong

Like I said obama is not losing, he has the black vote, hispanic vote, women vote, asian vote, and independants the only vote he doesn't have is the middle age republican white vote. So how exactly is obama gonna lose?
 

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You nikkas are too cocky. Turnout won't be anywhere close to 08 And the cacs hate :obama:

My bad seeing your post in other threads you are just an obama hater I thought I was just speaking neutral person.
 
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