MS-PPP: All Republicans ahead of Obama

[Reaganfan]

The key for the GOP is to nail down red states by the Summer and focus all energy on swing states. Remember for a few weeks between late August and mid-September of 2008 when McCain soared ahead in North Carolina by double digits? He was leading or tied in New Mexico, Iowa, Ohio, Florida, ect. Had he been able to keep that (no meltdown) then he could have won or made the electoral vote very close.

We need to make sure whoever is on the ticket can nail down safe red states like Texas, Mississippi...hold on to red states (Missouri is still trending GOP, Indiana, North Carolina, pull Iowa back, ect) and then focus on Ohio, Florida, New Hampshire and Nevada.

[Reaganfan]

The key for the GOP is to nail down red states by the Summer and focus all energy on swing states.

This summer or next summer ?

Doesn't matter though. Fact is that Republicans will be bruised until the middle of next year because of the ongoing primary season and numbers will likely not change much until the conventions.

Remember for a few weeks between late August and mid-September of 2008 when McCain soared ahead in North Carolina by double digits? He was leading or tied in New Mexico, Iowa, Ohio, Florida, ect. Had he been able to keep that (no meltdown) then he could have won or made the electoral vote very close.

Yes, that was the convention bounce phase. After that, in early October normally Democrats wake up and get more engaged and then at the end of October, normally Republicans wake up a bit and close the margin ...

We need to make sure whoever is on the ticket can nail down safe red states like Texas, Mississippi...hold on to red states (Missouri is still trending GOP, Indiana, North Carolina, pull Iowa back, ect) and then focus on Ohio, Florida, New Hampshire and Nevada.

Of course, but Obama as the incumbent will already have campaign headquarters buzzing in each state by this time next year and his supporters hopefully mobilized, while the Republicans are still battling each other, with no GE infrastructure in place in the states.

Primaries mean nothing. Nothing could have been a more brutal primary season than the Democratic Primaries in 2008 and Barack Obama won the election by 7 pts.