You know what's funny about a question in this poll, it asks "Who Would Help the Middle Class?", and in the past month, Romney has surged 8 points on that question. And you know who's driving that surge? Upper Income Americans who 47% said he did last month, and now 68% do now.
Huh? Do you really think the message that elderly people, disabled people and students need to pay more taxes/are free-riding is a winning one outside of Tea Party circles?
The commercial has the audio of Romney speaking, which when (as I said) you don't look at the intellectual stretch/leap/unfounded pictures on the screen and LISTEN TO THE AD it sounds good and bad. Bad because Romney is inarticulately hitting on a great and important point, but good because he is touching on them. The inarticulate part is leaving out little bits of info/words that everyone knows he meant to say... so when you know the info it sounds really good. It also makes Obama look small and petty if you think about it for more than a second.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9xCCaseop4"There are
47% (An alarming number) of the people who will vote for the president no matter what ..."
"... who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it ..."
"... And they will
(largely) vote for this president no matter what ..."
"... And so my job is not to worry about
(gearing my political campaign toward) those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
...That's a winning message, That's a populist message, why would you put all your ad money into the other guy making a good point?
