The new and improved, fight-free Romney vs. Obama thread!

YF, you have to do better.

Take the South out of the polling, and Obama is remarkably popular. Plenty of pollsters have done this. You can look it up. He's remarkably unpopular in the South. He just is.

 

Therein lies the whole problem with the entire campaign. The base and the swing voters are so many miles apart that no human being can stretch so far as to entice both. Whatever the issue: gay marriage, immigration, taxes, health care, etc., the more you pander to one side, the more you alienate the other.

 

And, he's remarkably unpopular in huge sections of the mid-Atlantic, the Plains states, the Midwest, the upper Midwest, the Mountain West, the Desert Southwest, Texas, and the West.

 

So, by your math, he wins New England, New York and California? Why aren't you celebrating already?

 

Yeeeee hawwww. Wonder why.

 

Rural people tend to believe they know better how to take care of themselves than the government. I'm shocked they wouldn't vote for a hard-core, anti-American socialist.

 

Their brilliance.

 

Zeke mentioned geography. As has been pointed out, (by me, among others) folks in big cities like the President. So, in raw numbers, our nation is divided nearly 50/50.

Geographically, his support is split. City folks like him. Rural folks don't. There are some exceptions, like the Rio Grande Valley.

But, it's silly to act like he's popular in all kinds of places, except the deep South.

 

And educated people tend to vote with their brains instead of their bibles so that accounts for the rest of his support.

 

Let's define our issue: Obama is extremely unpopular with rural whites.

 

I guess you missed what rural Americans get in the form of various subsidies that enable them to be so self-sufficient.

 

Yep . . . not to mention that the bulk of the screw-the-POTUS states are the ones with the worst balance-of-payments deficits vis a vis fed funds. On the hook of the federal tit, big time? We know where you live.