Romney Campaign Admits: Down in Ohio by "High Single Digits"

[SunsetDreams]

Is Romney down by 9 in Ohio? A few days ago, David Shuster reported:

The Obama campaign, I'm told, did internal polling in Ohio the past two days and found President Obama beating Mitt Romney in the Buckeye State by more than 9 points. For weeks, the Obama campaign has been indicating that Ohio was moving more strongly in their direction. The post-convention bounce Mitt Romney was hoping for didn't materialize nationally, and the GOP convention appears not to have stopped Romney's slide in Ohio.

Now, this has been confirmed by the Romney campaign itself.

President Barack Obama heads out of the national political conventions with a much clearer path to winning, top advisers to Mitt Romney privately concede.

Two officials intimately involved in the GOP campaign said Ohio leans clearly in Obama’s favor now, with a high single-digit edge, based on their internal tracking numbers of conservative groups. Romney can still win the presidency if he loses Ohio, but it’s extremely difficult.

This differs significantly from the RCP average of Ohio polling, which shows the race within a single point.
However, when you look more closely, you'll notice that (aside from the somewhat unknown Gravis Marketing and a couple of local organizations) there has not been a major poll of Ohio since the middle of last month.

Must-win Ohio being that far out of reach - along with Virgil Goode getting on the ballot in Virginia - is terrible news for Romney with less than two months to go.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/08/1129483/-Romney-Campaign-Admits-Down-in-Ohio-by-High-Single-Digits

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[BeyondGeography]

1. Sorry to hear that

[bucolic_frolic]

28. Banana Republicans and Tea Party Economics

Is America waking up? Ohio seems to be.

Americans are beginning to realize the Party of Debt is mostly the GOP.

Now the GOP offers the solution to the Debt: Tea Party Austerity.

Their message to taxpayers: we spent your money. We gave it to Millionaires and Billionaires for tax cuts.

We spent it in Iraq. Do you feel the low prices at the pump?

Now we're going to pay off the debt by cutting everyone's benefits.

We're going to cut Food Stamps, Education, Student Loans, Welfare, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security.

You don't need those, do you?

But you'll enjoy it because we'll put guns in your home, and surveillance in your bedroom. Don't you feel safe?

And we'll drill for gas in your neighborhood. Does your water taste good? Breathing easier?

This sure is a winning formula for America, don't you think?

[ProSense]

2. "High Single Digits"

They probably subtracted the margin of error.

Liars gotta lie!

[MADem]

12. Great minds...so that would make it "low double digits!" nt

[ProSense]

13. LOL! n/t

[Panasonic]

3. High single digit = 9.99999999999999

about to break to double digits.

Ohio is Obama's, and Husted needs to be placed under arrest and sentenced to death for yet another attempt at voter suppression.

I hope the judge gives him a major reaming come September 13th because what he is doing is still not enough.

He needs to reinstate those two committeemen he fired and then resign in disgrace himself, and go move to Somalia to try to use his influence to find peace (or being in pieces).

[central scrutinizer]

8. maybe they will switch to hexadecimal

that would give them a few more single "digits" to go.

[eqfan592]

16. LOL! "We're now showing Pres. Obama with an E to F lead..." :P (nt)

[hatrack]

4. Lots of, uh . . . . auto plants (yeah, that's it!) in Ohio!

Lots of parts manufacturers and suppliers, too!



"Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" - kind of hard to nuance or spin that, isn't it?

[Honeycombe8]

5. I find it hard to believe that the Romney camp would concede anything, though.

Their M.O. is more like criticizing the methodology or who did the polling, etc.

[Drunken Irishman]

6. Aww, poor guy.

[central scrutinizer]

7. I've got a high single digit for ya

it's the one in the middle, in case there was any doubt which one I am holding up

[MADem]

14. +1,000,000! nt

[Tarheel_Dem]

25. !!!

[Tigress DEM]

9. Why do you think the Secretary of State was trying to blow up the elections?

Rethugs can't win Ohio in a fair election, so they've been stealing them or muddling them up so badly it's the same thing since Bush II's first term.

[Webster Green]

22. Yup.

[lexw]

23. Wow. That photo could be from Germany in 1940.

[Webster Green]

27. From election night 2004 when Rove & Blackwell conspired to steal Ohio.

Gives me the willies every time I see it. Rove should be behind bars for as long time. (obviously).

[Cha]

10. I had to look ol Virgil Goode

up.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/us/politics/virgil-goode-on-virginia-ballot-poses-worry-for-romney.html?_r=0

Is that why mitt's been endorsing Steve King and sitting with Pat Robertson? So he can get more repuke votes in Virginia than Virgil?

[JaneyVee]

11. "Romney can still win the presidency if he loses Ohio". Uh, no he can't.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

15. Actually He Can............

..................but he'd have to flip a whole lot of VERY blue States to do it. States where he's trailing by a lot more than he's trailing in Ohio right now. So, realistically, there's no way he can do it, but statistically, yes, it's still possible.

Hate to be a naysayer, especially since I've been saying that Rmoney can't win without Ohio (and there's no way he's winning Ohio) for a long time now. I was just hoping to point out how completely improbable it is. Rmoney NEEDS Ohio, and he ain't gonna get it. This is probably the first thing Mitt's Millions couldn't buy him in his entire life.

[Iliyah]

17. Mittens is ahead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK not but VOTE! They are cheating and I think its finally pissing off the sane GOP base.

[Snarkoleptic]

18. Ohioans realize that if Mittens had his way and Detroit tipped over, they'd be eating...

[SunSeeker]

20. Yeah, with tuna fish.

Ann Romney's recipe.

[Rhiannon12866]

21. Eaten on a "pull down ironing board..."

[RoccoR5955]

19. Those guys are such liars

They're probably behind by triple digits.

[lexw]

24. I'm just glad I'm not voting for Romney...

...it must be depressing.

[left on green only]

26. Wouldn't it be great if as a penalty for losing the election......

.....the RNC made him pay for the whole thing?

[Botany]

29. In central Ohio you see 20 to 30 Obama bumper stickers to the 1 Romney sticker

I go to rich and upper middle class neighborhoods and almost never see
any Romney yard signs too.

[daybranch]

31. Romney appeals best to farmers and teabaggers living near military bases.

Romney is popular here in Ohio with small republican farmers and teabaggers who live close to military bases. It is becoming increasingly clear that the message of the democratic convention is attracting more voters for Obama whereas the more voters listen to Romney the more they dislike him. Hopefully we can achieve a populist backlash against his support for billionaires over the people and the attempts by the Koch brothers etc. to buy our election, the attempt to suppress voting and the opposition to a fair districting commission and to collective bargaining by republicans. Soon the small farmers may start realizing that Romney and his rich patrons want to treat them and other working Americans like the Holsteins farmers prize when the cows are producing and then keep meticulous records so they can slaughter them as soon as they quit being a net asset. Romney plan for workers, use them up and throw them away.

[Botany]

32. please stop w/ the B.S.

"Romney is popular here in Ohio with small republican farmers and teabaggers who
live close to military bases."

Do you want to tell me where in Ohio we have small farms close to military bases?