Mitt Romney gains his first lead on RCP!

[Jacob]

This will be quite short lived. Remember the Republican primaries? Candidates would shoot above Romney (the candidate no one liked) then come back down again. Well Romney is Newt Gingrich in this analogy. Romney is Herman Cain. Romney is Rick Perry.

The polls will start to swing back toward a tie or an Obama lead by the end of this week.

[Jacob]

It all depends on his performance in the next couple debates. If the next couple of debates prove the first one is a fluke, then Obama returns to the lead. Otherwise, Romney might be looking at a win.

Obama will still win the election even if he loses the next two debates. Of course the first debate was a fluke. It was Obama's worst presidential debate (he never performed that badly in the 3 against McCain and the 15 or so in the primaries) ever, and it was Mitt Romney's best debate ever. It isn't that Romney was so good in debate #1, it's that Obama was so bad. The campaign is obviously going to change up their debate strategy for him and it's unthinkable that he will be that bad again in the next two. Like I said, even if he loses the next two, Obama will still win. Kerry beat Bush in the debates and lost. Unfortunately for Romney, the next debate is a town-hall debate, not exactly a suitable forum for a robotic candidate. Also unfortunately for Romney, the third debate is on foreign policy, which is Obama's strong-suit and Romney's weakness.

[Jacob]

ITS A INVASION!!! THEY ARE HERE!!!!!

Can you picture a pig rolling around in mud with a Glenn Beck shirt on? That's what I'm picturing.

[Jacob]

And it is through appearance - closely juxtapositioned on the stage - that we see the trigger pulled in those white voters well conditioned 'minds'.

seriously?

Yes, this election is 100% about race.

Jesus effing Christ, Opebo! We get it! Congratulations on about your 1000th redundant post during the last week alone pronouncing with all the ingratiating wit of a street corner evangelist that most Americans are ignorant racists who vote entirely by skin color, notwithstanding their obviously being able to do otherwise in the millions just 4 years ago.

Even IF someone agreed with you, your inserting your broken record rant into every thread with an absolute moral certainty that a discussion on Romney's gains in CO simply can't do without your chiming in and educating we collective dunces on the "realities" of race in America, would have nevertheless grown excruciating long ago from sheer repetitiveness alone.

Good God, man, either expand your argument meaningfully above the level of rote haranguing or just give it a rest already!

Amen. Democrats don't want any part of him.