13 thoughts on “Wayne Allyn Root”

1. As Niels Bohr and Yogi Berra pointed out, “Predictions are difficult, especially about the future.”

   Still, I think he may be right. We’ll all know soon, if not soon enough.

2. Glad to see W. A. Root agrees with me 😉

3. I’m predicting Romney victories in Ohio, Florida, Colorado, Virginia, Iowa, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Indiana. I predict a Romney victory by 100 to 120 electoral votes.

   His math is wrong. That would be a flip of two states compared to 2004; WI and NH. Final electoral college margin of ~60. I guess I’d agree that a margin of 100 could be classified as a “landslide”, but I do not see where the other 40 comes from. MI + PA is only 36. I’ll believe IL votes for Romney when I see it.

   Still, good news.

   1. He wasn’t comparing 2012 with 2004. He was looking at states Obama won in 2008.

      1. I doubt Obama’s going to win any states he lost in ’08.

         1. I doubt that, too. It seems likely that he’s going to lose several of the states he won in 2008.

            1. Bottom line, I won’t consider an electoral college margin of 60 to be a landslide. And I really would like to see a landslide. Anything less and the likelihood of re-doing the whole thing over again in 4 years is too high.

            2. There are a total of 538 electors in the Electoral College with 270 votes being required to win. A 60 vote margin would be on the order of 299-239, or a 25% margin of victory. I’d call that a landslide.

            3. 2008 was 365-173. 1980 was 489-49. I only consider one of those a landslide, so we differ.

4. I’ve been saying for a while that the media has been lying to us. They are manufacturing a “Romney Surge” now so they can realign their polls with reality. They lied for a long time to make it look like Obama has a chance. Face it, if you knew two months ago that Romney would win in a walk, would you have bothered to pay attention to the news media’s coverage? They would have lost millions in ad revenue.

   They have to pretend that there is a surge so that their final polls can be withing shouting distance of reality. They don’t want to be caught still lying about it and lose any more credibility.
   http://www.ncgunblog.com/2012/10/08/there-is-no-romney-surge/

   1. They’re continuing to lie to us. Look next for the “Obama Comeback!” stories when the polls swing yet again after the upcoming debates. The Pew poll a week or so had a Democrat sample advantage of about 8%. The new poll that shows Romney leading has a Republican advantage of about 5%. Does anyone seriously believe either of those percentages reflect reality or that the population’s partisan association has swung about 13% in a week or two?

      Recent stories indicate only about 9% of people called cooperate with pollsters, and that doesn’t take into account how many of them might be lying. If true, it seems none of these polls are going to be accurate. I guess we’ll have to wait until the election is held and the votes are counted.

5. I have no doubt that the networks plan for “Weekend at Bernie’s.” Too little, too late. Too many voters saw the real unfiltered Obama with their own eyes. An illusion once shattered is gone forever.

   Obama’s focus on softball “eye candy” interviews does not speak well for his confidence. It’s like even he knows.

6. Yup.

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