Dick Morris: Romney by a Landslide: 325 – 213
Latest update: November 7th, 2012
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Dick Morris
It’s refreshing to see a guy willing to bet his career on what looks from this end of the time tunnel to be a gross example of wishful thinking – except that in this case, pundit Dick Morris has been through a few careers already, first as a Republican, then as advisor and campaign manager for Bill Clinton, then as a Republican again, with enough strange and off-color anecdotes to keep an entire lineup of political comics in business.
I believe the above introduction is necessary so that you would go get whatever grains of salt you’ve got left in your political cupboards and rely on them heavily when reading the following predictions. Because, let’s face it, they’re incredibly seductive.
“That’s right,” says Dick Morris, it’s going to be “a landslide for Romney approaching the magnitude of Obama’s against McCain. That’s my prediction.”
Morris contends that Romney will win the McCain states from 2008, as well as Florida, Indiana, Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, Iowa, Ohio, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
In other words, all the baby-blue states Democrats have grown to love and think of as their own (with the exception of Indiana, Virginia and North Carolina) are really pink states. Romney is going to sweep them, and end up with 55% to Obama’s 45% of the national vote, if not an even wider margin.
Morris says that even though the Romney campaign was “brilliant,” as he puts it, the Obama side will lose because of their own mistakes.
The Obama negative ads in swing states were refuted by Romney’s congenial appearances during all three debates. He turned out not to be the monstrous robot they said he was.
Obama never made a convincing defense of his record, other than to say that it was GW Bush’s fault, and he had no vision to sell for the next four years. He didn’t ignite anyone’s imagination. So once people stopped fearing Romney, there was no other reason left to vote Obama.
Obama took too many states for granted, like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota. He was misled by his own echo chamber. He should have treated them as swing states and invested heavily there. That’s what Romney did in North Carolina.
Obama looks tired. It’s not only his actual lack of sleep, there’s a sense that the man is used up, that, deep inside, he wouldn’t mind losing this one and go get a much deserved rest. McCain looked that way, four years ago. Bob Dole did in 1996. It’s hard to shake that feeling, no matter how many times he and his circle insist you’re “energized.”
And he looked mean and angry. He started talking about revenge in the last week of the campaign – voting for me is the best revenge, he said (I’m paraphrasing).
(To be perfectly frank, Obama is showing signs of being normal with his subtexted reluctance to do another four years of this hellish chore. I’m not sure that when we say someone is a “political animal” it’s such a big compliment. And yet, we don’t call our leaders “political humans.”)
Benghazi was a terrible mess, a collapse of the Intelligence network in Libya – and Obama should have said so on day 1. And Hurricane Sandy, with all the accolades from Gov. Christie and Mayor Bloomberg, was a very traumatic moment for many millions of Americans who might not be so wild about their incumbent president just now. Both events exposed an incompetence on the part of the Administration. Maybe the Benghazi failure didn’t touch so many voters, but, trust me, Sandy did.
Granted, Obama didn’t come across as callused and aloof as did GW Bush with Katrina, he jumped on his plane and went places right away – but a week later, people are still hungry and without power. You think they have a soft spot for the man at the top?
So, there it is, Dick Morris’s extremely convincing arguments why Team Romney is going to run away with the ball today. Like I said, very seductive…
tell a friendAbout the Author: JewishPress.com Senior Internet Editor Yori Yanover has been a working journalist since age 17, before he enlisted and worked for Ba'Machane Nachal. Since then he has worked for Israel Shelanu, the US supplement of Yedioth, JCN18.com, USAJewish.com, Lubavitch News Service, Arutz 7 (as DJ on the high seas), and the Grand Street News. He has published two fun books: The Cabalist's Daughter: A Novel of Practical Messianic Redemption, and How Would God REALLY Vote.
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Uh, mark this career over for Mr Morris if it keeps going the way things are going.. Pensylvania went Obama and Ohio is not going to go Romney either..
Uh, mark this career over for Mr Morris if it keeps going the way things are going.. Pensylvania went Obama and Ohio is not going to go Romney either..
Good call on Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota etc.
Good call on Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota etc.
Dick Morris is hopelessly optimistic. A landslide would be great; however, Romney has already lost Pennsylvania, and Ohio and Florida are next. I sadly believe that Obama will maintain his presidency for the next 4 years. And Americans are the stupidest people on the planet. Devastation from Obamanomics is all around us: loss of homes, jobs, more people on foodstamps, more people unemployed; coal country doomed; higher taxes, gas and food prices, yet Obama still maintains his lead. It tells me that America is no longer the America we once knew, a strong, self-supporting, hard-working America. It has changed. It is a European America where we have been inundated with those who want everything for nothing. It’s a new Socialist America.
Sadly, the loser half are taking me and my family down with them. It’s discouraging and disheartening.
I think Dick Morris better change his career. I remember when he said we’d take the Senate — WRONG! We did not. And then he comes up with this landslide stuff?
When Obama wins, my family has VOWED to stop watching news of any kind. Fox tried to educate the people to the truth, and no one listens. Fox was preaching to the choir. The corrupt liberal media has been in Obama’s pocket.
What a very sad day for America.
I was right again.
Dick Morris is hopelessly optimistic. A landslide would be great; however, Romney has already lost Pennsylvania, and Ohio and Florida are next. I sadly believe that Obama will maintain his presidency for the next 4 years. And Americans are the stupidest people on the planet. Devastation from Obamanomics is all around us: loss of homes, jobs, more people on foodstamps, more people unemployed; coal country doomed; higher taxes, gas and food prices, yet Obama still maintains his lead. It tells me that America is no longer the America we once knew, a strong, self-supporting, hard-working America. It has changed. It is a European America where we have been inundated with those who want everything for nothing. It’s a new Socialist America.
Sadly, the loser half are taking me and my family down with them. It’s discouraging and disheartening.
I think Dick Morris better change his career. I remember when he said we’d take the Senate — WRONG! We did not. And then he comes up with this landslide stuff?
When Obama wins, my family has VOWED to stop watching news of any kind. Fox tried to educate the people to the truth, and no one listens. Fox was preaching to the choir. The corrupt liberal media has been in Obama’s pocket.
What a very sad day for America.
I was right again.
Wow. Delusional…
Wow. Delusional…
Nice call Dick! Your numbers were correct, you simply transposed the names. But that’s an honest mistake.
Nice call Dick! Your numbers were correct, you simply transposed the names. But that’s an honest mistake.
Dick,you moron! Obama won,we lost,mainly due to you personally putting in your two cents on Ron Paul who was far more qualified. If he was the candidate things would be way different!
Dick,you moron! Obama won,we lost,mainly due to you personally putting in your two cents on Ron Paul who was far more qualified. If he was the candidate things would be way different!
What a joke. He means Obama by a landslide. Dick Morris! Get a new job! Your polling days are over! No more Fox news for me! I don’t want to see the LIBS gloat. I’m sick that Fox panders to the liberals. I am sick of their “fair and balanced”. Liberals have their media. We only had one. It failed us too. Tried to tell America the truth. America wouldn’t listen. Now I’m no longer going to listen. Obama will destroy America. Watch him complete his “fundamental transformation” of America.
What a joke. He means Obama by a landslide. Dick Morris! Get a new job! Your polling days are over! No more Fox news for me! I don’t want to see the LIBS gloat. I’m sick that Fox panders to the liberals. I am sick of their “fair and balanced”. Liberals have their media. We only had one. It failed us too. Tried to tell America the truth. America wouldn’t listen. Now I’m no longer going to listen. Obama will destroy America. Watch him complete his “fundamental transformation” of America.
Dick is a Dick…he guessed wrong. Now Obama will destroy Israel and have no one to object. Thanks Dick…you are a Dick.
Dick is a Dick…he guessed wrong. Now Obama will destroy Israel and have no one to object. Thanks Dick…you are a Dick.
And now we get to see the Republican agenda turn from smug “haha Obummer is gone, no way he wins a second term” to smug “well Americans are stupid anyways, but I’m not, I’m smart, I voted for Mitt”. You know, I have a ton of respect for people who can eat their own words. If you were laughing at Obama and posting cute little images of a bar saying “Obama 99.99% uninstalled” and declaring with certainty, “Obama will lose,” prove that you’re a real man (or woman) and say: I WAS WRONG, I made a mistake, I acted like a child. Just say it. Yell it. Don’t be shy. Lord knows you weren’t shy the last 4 years. If you said, “I don’t know who will win but I hope it’s Mitt”, that’s one thing, but the smug arrogance of some of you who were so sure Obama was toast. EAT. YOUR. WORDS. You were wrong. Dead wrong. And if you were that wrong about analyzing polls and the national mood, how can you be so sure that your politics are right, either? Maybe your political viewpoints are just as ignorant and based in fantasy rather than reality.
Exactly. No apology or explanation from so many who were so certain.
And now we get to see the Republican agenda turn from smug “haha Obummer is gone, no way he wins a second term” to smug “well Americans are stupid anyways, but I’m not, I’m smart, I voted for Mitt”. You know, I have a ton of respect for people who can eat their own words. If you were laughing at Obama and posting cute little images of a bar saying “Obama 99.99% uninstalled” and declaring with certainty, “Obama will lose,” prove that you’re a real man (or woman) and say: I WAS WRONG, I made a mistake, I acted like a child. Just say it. Yell it. Don’t be shy. Lord knows you weren’t shy the last 4 years. If you said, “I don’t know who will win but I hope it’s Mitt”, that’s one thing, but the smug arrogance of some of you who were so sure Obama was toast. EAT. YOUR. WORDS. You were wrong. Dead wrong. And if you were that wrong about analyzing polls and the national mood, how can you be so sure that your politics are right, either? Maybe your political viewpoints are just as ignorant and based in fantasy rather than reality.
Exactly. No apology or explanation from so many who were so certain.
Now how do you so called experts feel thinking the Romney would be victorious in the election! The people of America have spoken!
Now how do you so called experts feel thinking the Romney would be victorious in the election! The people of America have spoken!
LOL Dick Morris
…this is hilarious. Now lets see what happens over the next 4 years…
LOL Dick Morris
…this is hilarious. Now lets see what happens over the next 4 years…
I think Dick was talking about his own political career
I think Dick was talking about his own political career
Rick and Bibi and all you others who prayed for the election of a hawk draft-dodging, tax-evading, flipflopping, platidudinous empty slogan dispenser…. eat your hearts out. The result was just, intelligent and marvelous.
right on, Daddy!
right on, Daddy!