Michael A. Walsh @ The New York Post:
To see why the choice of Clint Eastwood as the surprise guest speaker at last night’s close of the Republican Convention was so brilliant, look at the electoral map.
The Democrats, thanks to their dominance of the big cities, control the West Coast and the Northeast — plus (as long as the dead voters of Cook County can still get to the polls) President Obama’s home state of Illinois. The GOP dominates the South, the Plains and the Rocky Mountain states.
Up for grabs is the fading Democratic stronghold of the upper Midwest. Michigan-born Mitt Romney and Wisconsinite Paul Ryan aim to win the heartland and drive the Democrats back to their coastal enclaves in New England, New York, California and the Pacific Northwest.
And this strategy — call it the Heartland Campaign — is already paying off.
For decades, the Democrats could count on reliably liberal states like Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan (a total of 36 electoral votes) to anchor the middle of the nation, and then aim to flip normally Republican states such as Indiana and Ohio. It worked perfectly in 2008.
This year, Indiana (11 votes) will return to the Republican fold; Illinois will stay Democratic and most likely Minnesota, too — but Ohio and the rest of the nation’s industrial midsection are now in play.
This is not good news for Team Obama.
In Michigan, where Mitt’s father, George, was a popular governor and successful private-sector auto executive, Obama is up about 2 points in the polls; in Ryan’s Wisconsin, by little more than a single point. And in Iowa, which also went for Obama in ’08, the president’s lead is down to two-tenths of a percentage point.
In short, the trends are not good. Wisconsin’s Republican Gov. Scott Walker withstood wave after wave of Democratic sore-loser attempts to overturn the results of the Tea Party tsunami of 2010, finally triumphing in a recall election in June. Republicans also elected a Michigan governor in 2010, Rick Snyder, and took command of the Legislature. And Iowa, which put Republican Terry Branstad in the State House in 2010 by a wide margin, also appears to be suffering buyer’s remorse.
A rout of the Democrats along the Great Lakes would be huge not only electorally, but also culturally.
I know it’s wishful thinking to have Romney win in a landslide to silence the socialist Obama supporters. If Romney wins he needs to be a successful 2 term President this then would let Ryan step up for a term or two. My fear is the Democratic machine picks up and manages to weaken Romney/Ryan, Hillary steps up in 2016 or Obama tries again if Hillary’s done. The biggest fear is if Michelle thinks she could run this country, after all her husband thinks he can.
Looks like nearly EVERY black adult in all of Milwaukee has left the county in the last 4 fears!
There are 160,000 MISSING black voters from there!
Sounds like there was wholesale fraud to me.
Read it and weep:
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/01/where-are-milwaukees-missing-black-voters/
http://www.slate.com/blogs/victory_lab/2012/08/30/three_fifths_of_milwaukee_s_black_voters_have_vanished_without_a_trace_.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/55000.html
DOES it mean that OBAMA WAS VOTED BY AND WON BY DEAD PEOPLE?
AND DOUBLE VOTES?
I heard that one before, like after the election 2008,
@Nan G: They just went back to the cemeteries. Or maybe they went back to Chicago!
inthemiddle
yes, they did it to BUSH BEHIND HIS BACK, they sure will viciously
attack like hypocrites
MITT ROMNEY will need one just to watch them very close