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Will Obama Leave The US In Shambles If He Loses The Election?

May 9, 2012 by 85 Comments

 

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Just like a spoiled child who doesn’t know the word “NO”, I believe that if Obama loses the upcoming election, he and his communist regime will do everything in their lame-duck power to destroy America to a point of no return for the incoming President. New information on five treaties that are currently being negotiated by Hillary Clinton and other members of the regime’s state department could spell grave danger to the soverignty of the United States of America.

It is imperative that We the People keep the pressure up on our Senators to NOT ratify these treaties. This regime is selling America out to the United Nations, therefore giving them the power to override the US Constitution. If these treaties are ratified, any future President’s hands would be tied. This would surely be Obama’s last laugh at OUR country’s expense.

On May 1st, 2012 (mayday), Obama signed another executive order declaring international law for the United States which can be viewed here.

As I said, just like a spoiled child, if Obama can’t have the United States to do with what he wants, NO ONE WILL!  Please stay safe, and be aware of your surroundings.

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Why Hispanics Won’t Help Obama Win The Catholic Vote

May 4, 2012 by 5 Comments

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In it’s last survey, Pew found that among white Catholics, Barack Obama is trailing Mitt Romney 57/37. As clear as these numbers are, left alone and not attacked by the Left, they portend “game set match Mr. Romney” in November. In the history of such polling, no Democrat has ever lost the Catholic vote and won the general election for president. Obviously, this is a very dangerous statistic for Democrats, and the fact that it is so easily confirmed makes it more so. Enter Gallup. To obfuscate the power of Obama’s deficit with Catholics, Gallup has come to Obama’s recue with its new polling results on the Catholic vote saying “No it’s not 57/37, but actually tied at 46/46!”

Wow! Two well established polling companies have talked to thousands of respondents and come up with a twenty point difference in what they see as the Catholic vote – but how can that be?

The 57/37 lead Pew found for Romney comes among white Catholics. The number Gallup got for white Catholics shows a statistically identical 38/55.  Pew found that Hispanics support Obama 67/27. Gallup’s numbers were worse for Romney at 70/20 in Obama’s favor.

Now let’s peek under the numbers.

It is an established fact that Democrats are anywhere from 5 to 8 points less enthusiastic about voting in November. Nevertheless, compared to the average Democrat, Hispanics are even less enthused about voting for Obama again. The Census revealed some even more disheartening news about the possibilities of a big Hispanic turn-out for Democrats in November.

The Hispanic vote was 7% of the grand total in 2000, 8% in 2004, and 9% in 2008. This steady progression among a group that votes 2 to 1 Democrat sounds good for Obama, but this year, Hispanic enthusiasm to vote has not only dropped, but the raw number of registered Hispanic voters has fallen by 6% since 2008. Worse still for Obama is the most recent information showing just 38% of Hispanics report being enthusiastic about voting in November.

This lack of enthusiasm, when added to the numerically low turnout among Hispanics, will be toxic for Obama’s chances of winning the Catholic vote in November. In 2010, although 69% of eligible Hispanics voted, the raw number of Hispanic votes isn’t very significant since they were just 10.1% of America’s adult population. But it won’t appear that way to a liberal trying to put a happy face on Obama ’s chances of winning the Catholic vote.

The 2010 mid term Election was a national referendum on Obama that saw Republicans win the Catholic vote 53/45. That was before Obama declared war on the Catholic Church. Saying Obama is in a better position with Catholics now that he is locked in a life or death fight with the Conference of Catholic Bishops is simply not supportable.

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Obama And His “Youth Vote” Could Face “Grandparents’ Revenge”

April 28, 2012 by 35 Comments

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With his support rapidly drying up among almost every group, Barack Obama has turned to the so- called “youth vote.” He has personally visited or sent a representative to 130 college campuses across the country since March 2011. His obvious plan is to use the same lies he told in 2008 to appeal to people who have no life experience and don’t know any better. “They believed it then, maybe they’ll believe it now” is the Obama campaign motto, but is it working? Not yet, and nothing on the horizon suggests it will.

In 2008, whatever Obama told the empty-headed college kids worked. As the quintessential political prostitute, Obama put on ANY dress his customers wanted him to wear. “Lower student loan rates than those evil Republicans want you to have? You bet!” “More free stuff from the government? Coming right up!” “I’m the one you’ve been waiting for, can’t you see that?” “Blah blah blah, hope and change blah blah blah, you know what THAT means don’t you?” They didn’t, but that made no difference because voting for a black man PROVED that their generation was better than their parents’ generation. They ate up Obama’s Hope and Change babble and marched like zombies to vote for a man whom they really had no information about. Obama won their vote 2 to 1.

Today, all of that is gone. A new Gallup survey holds devastating news for Obama and his party regarding the 18 to 29 year old vote: only 60% are registered to vote, and of that, only 56% report they are likely to vote in November. Since that’s 56% of 60%, Obama is getting just 35% of the youth vote. That fact renders the “youth vote” that still goes 2 to 1 for Obama meaningless at best.

At the other end of the age scale, 92% of those 65 and over are registered to vote, and 86% of them are “definitely” voting in November. When they do, they will be voting 52/40 for Mitt Romney.

Obama’s empty “Hope and Change” produced three miserable results: it kept college graduates out of work, it put their parents out of work, and it forced their grandparents back to work.

With 50% of recent college graduates out of work and Wal Marts staffed by people who either had to return to work or were never able to retire since Obama came to office, these numbers are likely to get worse for Obama and better for Romney.

Call this what you’d like, but “Grandparents’ revenge” sounds about right.

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Can Romney Beat Obama?

April 28, 2012 by 40 Comments
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Mitt Romney faces a daunting task. In the best of circumstances, it is hard to beat an incumbent president. It hasn’t been done since Bill Clinton nosed ahead of George H. W. Bush, thanks to a strong showing by billionaire Ross Perot’s quixotic third-party candidacy.

Incumbents are hard to beat. They control the government, they normally have a fundraising advantage, and they generally can benefit from world affairs, wars, and the famous October surprises.

Couple the natural incumbent advantage with a group of talented advisors and strategists assembled by Barack Obama, and you begin to understand why Mitt Romney is the underdog in this race.

The challenge for Romney is twofold. First, he needs to control his own image. The Obama image is set in stone. Voters either like him or loathe him, but it is unlikely that this campaign will radically change opinion about Obama. But Romney’s image is not as stable. His campaign needs to attempt to introduce him to a wider audience and create a positive image or brand in these undecided or uninformed voters’ minds.

While Romney is busy introducing himself, Obama’s team will fighting to undercut the Romney message. In 1996, Bob Dole lost to Bill Clinton during this vital period before the summer conventions. Using his monetary advantage, Clinton savaged the Dole image before the campaign even got started. Dole lost before he was nominated. The Obama team has already started airing negative commercials attacking Romney. Romney cannot wait; he must fight back now.

But Romney cannot afford to just air negative ads about Obama. He has to also introduce himself. And Romney has the extra burden of still trying to convince conservatives that he is their guy.

Our advice to Romney is to carefully select a GOP running mate who can make conservative activists feel comfortable, and then execute his general election campaign.

A list of running mates should include Rick Santorum. Obama was smart to choose Biden because he was older, more experienced, and fully vetted. Santorum fits this description. His selection also closes the primary session wounds that are still open.

An inexperienced figure such as Marco Rubio, while attractive for his ability to excite an ethnic voting block, is fraught with the same problems presented by the Palin candidacy four years ago. It is a step into the unknown.

Current polling shows that the race is a deadlock. The state-by-state count doesn’t break at this point for either candidate. If Obama can turn out 90 percent plus of the black vote and suppress the Christian vote, he wins.

Romney must hold the McCain voters and excite Christians and Catholics enough to put him over the top. Because he is a Mormon, this excitement is not a given. Romney should also be diligent in fighting voter fraud. Eliminating fraud could swing the elections in Ohio, Virginia, and North Carolina.

Romney’s best tool is Obama’s record. The economy is still sluggish. Real estate is still slow-selling, and Obama’s Mideast policy has been a disaster. Keep the focus on the Obama record, solidify conservative/Catholic/Christian support, and Mitt Romney should live the impossible dream.

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Obama Fools Around On Fallon While Failing America

April 26, 2012 by 9 Comments
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It may be that the crowds of youth Obama is appealing to by appearing on Jimmy Fallon’s show and interviews in Rolling Stone Magazine are all he has got. Taxpayers, people at the gas pumps, veterans, Solyndra workers, Arizona ranchers and Governors, those who don’t want to be forced to buy insurance, and almost anyone over thirty five know they need the change Obama promised in 2008 now, more than ever. They see that change as electing a new president in 2012.

The crowd of high school seniors and college freshmen and sophomores who are still struggling with grammar school reading problems and who turn out online 50,000,000 strong to vote on American Idol may cheer him on, but this is the crowd that doesn’t want a clue. Obama is depending on that, as misinformation, truth twisting, and huge lies of omission lacing the rhetoric of Obama’s 2012 lame campaign are all that his humor offers.

It is doubtful that many youth even bother to watch liberal TV showmen like Chris Matthews (Much less O’Reilly), who with all the grace of a pregnant duck attempted to smear Romney for his view about evolution in an interview with former RNC Chairman Michael Steele. Later, O’Reilly countered with an explanation of how Romney actually believes in intelligent design as God’s means of creating man and our sundry scaled, furred, and feathered friends.

There is not much intelligence coming from either commentator because the one who came from the creator and was present during the creation (Jesus Christ) indicated that Adam and Eve were in fact historical people, not stages in evolutionary development. The “Big Bang, my papa was a chimp” crowd has decided that ‘theistic evolution’ is the best way to help God through an embarrassing spot and not give offense to the politically correct scientific community all at the same time.

A generation-long effort to remove all allusion to intelligent design in our academics does not seem to be working, even as more evidence for special creation is discovered daily. But why let a good crisis (the crushing of intellectual honesty, curiosity, and truth) go to waste? Chris Matthews, who likens anyone who dares to believe in intelligent design as a ‘flat earther’, prefers to live a little bit further ahead in time from the flat earth days; he is stuck in 1925 when the Scopes Monkey Trial took place. What is known about creation science and what has yet to be proven in the evolutionary model is actually what is very embarrassing. There will be no repeat of 1925.

American youth are more likely to believe what they see on a TV reality show than what they see or hear in a real non-old school media report of what Obama has failed to accomplish in nearly four years of trying (when he was not on the green.) Perhaps a reality show should be created to get the message across. Following the pattern of ‘he said – she said’ would be a great format to take off from. It might be, ‘he said – we said’

He said we needed to buy insurance. We said we don’t want the government to make us buy anything.

He said he would be transparent. We said, start by showing us your school grades, dissertations, and your real birth certificate.

He said he couldn’t control gas prices. We said, then stop blocking the Keystone pipeline and hold back your green dogs.

He said this is not the time to be raising school tuition. We said, then why didn’t you vote against that when you were a senator in Illinois?

The episodes of this reality show are too numerous to suggest here, but the point is clear; stop trying to hoodwink our kids. They are just kids who, after all, may not fully know which end is up just yet.

Taking the Obama campaign message on the road will not be so easy when it meets the ire of many Americans who feel betrayed, like Catholics, the jobless, homeowners, and taxpayers. But convincing kids is easy; let’s get down in the ring with someone who knows business and the economy like Mitt in a good solid debate. This is when the opponents will be more evenly matched.

This writer would have preferred Santorum or Gingrich, but that notwithstanding when Mr. Obama is done fooling the kids, let him come full circle and spar with a man who could debate economics with one hand tied behind his back and most likely leave the president in a state of abject embarrassment.

Comedy shows and children are one thing, but we are yet waiting for the rubber to meet the road, when the lies and nonsense are met by true men, statesmen and men of vision who know there is much more at stake here in America than a few laughs on a late night comedy show.

http://www.americanprophet.org has since 2005 featured the articles of columnist Rev Michael Bresciani along with news and reviews that have earned this site the title of The Website for Insight. Millions have read his timely reports and articles in online journals and print publications across the nation and the globe.

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The Crucial Hispanic Vote, Debunked

April 24, 2012 by 2 Comments
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After reading dozens of mainstream media newspaper and national magazine stories about the so-called “crucial” Latino November vote, I have sadly concluded that my journalism colleagues either can’t do simple math or have decided to forego fundamental research.

The stories are the same. If presumptive GOP candidate Mitt Romney expects to persuade Hispanics to support his candidacy, then he needs to begin a significant outreach program effective immediately. On the other hand, if President Obama is counting on as much success with Hispanic voters in 2012 as he had in 2008, he needs to get busy with his own appeal to that bloc.

While both candidates want to do well with all demographic subsections, to repeat ad nauseum that Hispanics will determine the next president is laugh out loud absurd.

To start at the beginning, in the 2010 mid-term election Hispanics represented only 6.9 percent of the electorate. The share of the Latino population eligible to vote is smaller than it is among any other group. Just 42.7 percent of the nation’s Latino population is voting eligible (older than 18) while more than three-in-four (77.7 percent) of whites, two-thirds of blacks (67.2 percent) and more than half of Asians (52.8 percent) are eligible.

If you were advising a presidential campaign would you suggest to your client that he focus on Hispanics, the smallest group of voters, or whites, the largest? The answer is obvious and becomes more crystal clear when you factor in that black voters are predicted to overwhelmingly support President Obama.

Significant Hispanic populations live in only a few states: California, Arizona, New Mexico, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Texas and Florida. Of those eight, only Florida is in play. California, New York, Illinois and New Jersey are solidly Democratic; Texas, Republican.

But let’s assume for the sake of this argument that the GOP decides to embark on the media’s highly touted, specially designed Hispanic platform. Maybe Mitt Romney picks up New Mexico (5 electoral votes). But when those New Mexico Hispanic-targeted sound bites are rebroadcast in Ohio and Pennsylvania on the evening news, Romney would risk losing both states and their 37 total electoral votes. Pennsylvania and Ohio have little immigration.

Even President Obama doesn’t buy the media’s urgent plea to design an especially tailored Hispanic platform. For example, when Obama’s stumps in the mid-Atlantic swing states, he knows better than to promote his reviled DREAM Act, talk up his prosecutorial discretion policy or tout his White House-based illegal alien liaison official. That would turn off the moderate majority.

Compounding the foolish idea of overt Latino pandering is that a recent analysis of Census Bureau data found that Hispanic voter registration has been in steep decline since 2010. As a result, Hispanics may cast fewer votes in 2012 than they did two years ago. The reason: Hispanics who lost jobs may have moved in search of new work without registering to vote at their new address.

Another variable escapes the clueless media. Hispanic voters are American citizens. And citizens of Hispanic ancestry often have loftier, more patriotic interests than the Washington D.C. pro-immigration lobby or the extreme Democratic left wing. During the 2005 Arizona vote on Proposition 200, the measure that would bar illegal aliens from collecting social services, exit polls indicated that 47 percent of Hispanics voted in favor. Even in Arizona, the nation’s immigration tinderbox, Hispanics rejected unchecked alien entitlements.

Even though the press remains in the dark, President Obama knows that November turns on the voters who elected him in 2008, moderates and Independents from both parties. To win, the president must recapture them. Ethnic identity politics is a risky game that often backfires.

Joe Guzzardi is a Californians for Population Stabilization Senior Writing Fellow.  Contact Joe at joeguzzardi@capsweb.org. 

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Teddy Roosevelt For President In 2012?

April 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment

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The 2012 presidential election is shaping up to be one of the most significant elections in American history. The outcome of major political issues such as Obamacare, carbon regulations, and our looming fiscal calamity hang in the balance.

In a larger sense, however, this year’s election sits in the shadow of a presidential election that occurred a century ago: The 1912 presidential election featured many of the same elements—and arguments—we are likely to see in the months leading to November.

In fact, President Obama has already framed the upcoming contest in the same terms as those of the 1912 election. When he traveled to Osawatomie, Kansas to give a major economic address, he intended to stake his claim as the heir to Theodore Roosevelt’s “New Nationalism,” the platform which would help define the 1912 election as a major turning point that put America on the path towards progressive-liberalism. It was during the 1912 election that Roosevelt led the creation of the Progressive Party, after he was rejected by his (former) Republican Party. That election, more than any other, offers important insights into the contemporary party struggle and the importance of the upcoming election.

Roosevelt gave his “New Nationalism” speech at Osawatomie in 1910 as the first signal that he was running for president in 1910, and that he would be willing to confront his own party for the sake of leading a progressive revolution. When the leaders of the Republican Party, such as Henry Cabot Lodge and Elihu Root, supported incumbent William Howard Taft over Roosevelt, the creation of the Progressive (or “Bull Moose”) Party was inevitable.

During the election, Roosevelt primarily argued for radical constitutional reforms, designed to permanently transform our republic into a direct democracy. He not only advocated direct primaries and the direct election of senators, but also supported the recall of the president and popular elections to overturn judicial decisions. (Obama’s recent comment that the Court will not take “an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically-elected congress” is just another example of Obama’s significant intellectual debt to Roosevelt.)

As Sidney Milkis has eloquently explained in his recent book “Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Transformation of American Democracy,” Roosevelt’s proposals—most of which were enacted shortly after the election—inaugurated “a new form of politics” in America. This new form of politics replaced party-centered elections (in which candidates stood for principles espoused by party leaders) with candidate-centered elections (in which the cult of personality prevented the discussion of real issues).

Roosevelt himself exemplified the power, and the danger, of this new approach to political campaigns. The 1912 Progressive Party convention was more of a spiritual gathering than a political meeting. Roosevelt delivered his “Confession of Faith” to the convention on the second day of its meeting, and ended by claiming that the party needed to “stand at Armageddon” and “battle for the Lord.” The audience responded by singing spiritual hymns, including one hymn in which they replaced the name of Jesus with Roosevelt! The religiosity of Roosevelt’s 1912 campaign helps explain the peculiar kind of fervor so many of Obama’s supporters expressed in 2008 (and likely will express in 2012).

In spite of its quasi-spiritual devotion to Roosevelt, the Progressive Party was hardly bereft of actual policy recommendations. The party’s platform in 1912 is nearly a carbon copy of the progressive-liberal playbook over the past 100 years.

In addition to Roosevelt’s plan for direct democracy, the platform called for “a more easy and expeditious method of amending the federal Constitution,” federal occupational safety standards, the minimum wage, “strong national regulation of inter-state corporations,” “the policy of conservation” (including public control of all national resources), the ratification of the 16th Amendment giving the federal government the power to levy an income tax, and “a single national health service.” In short, most of what progressive-liberalism has sought to achieve over the past 100 years was laid out by Roosevelt and his allies in the Progressive Party in 1912.

As Obama deliberately positions himself as the intellectual heir to Theodore Roosevelt, Americans would be wise to examine the transformative election whose centennial anniversary occurs this year. Despite all of the promises of “change” we heard four years ago, the truth is that very little about contemporary progressivism is novel. Barack Obama’s appeal today was foreshadowed a century ago by Roosevelt. In a profound sense, we are living in the world passed down to us by those 1912 progressives.

Dr. Joseph Postell is assistant professor of political science at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, the co-editor of “Rediscovering Political Economy,” and a contributor to The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College.

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How George Zimmerman Was Sacrificed For Another Obama Election

April 23, 2012 by 6 Comments
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Barack Obama’s “hate Whitey ‘cause he’s white” campaign of 2012 was to be based on the same dogma of class envy which had oozed from Democrat media and race hustling circles for decades. But worn out race baiting ploys were not going to guarantee the massive, black voter turn out the Manchurian Candidate would need in November. For the novelty of being the first black nominee and president was gone and finally, along with it, the decades-long effects of racial guilt implanted into the psyche of whites across the nation. Even with the 24/7 efforts of a dependably supportive media, Obama would have a difficult time generating the legal turnout necessary to remain in power.

Even more troublesome, without significant events to redirect the attention of voters, Obama would be forced to embrace a record of trillions in additional debt, high unemployment and ever-increasing prices for gas, food and virtually every staple of American life.

Obama needed a “hook” to get blacks back to the polls in record numbers, something other than promises of more “free” money wrenched from the racist, undeserving hands of “Whitey.

When he learned that Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the New Black Panthers were flocking to Florida to shed crocodile tears for a black teenager killed by the NON-black George Zimmerman, Barack Hussein Obama was the happiest usurper on earth. The opportunity he was so desperate to manufacture had been dropped right into his lap—the means of regenerating the black vote.  The shooting of Trayvon Martin provided a tailor-made backdrop for the typically Democrat mantra of black vs white and Obama had no intention of letting it slip by,  immediately joining his fellow race hustlers in portraying Martin as a poor black victim of cracker justice.

“If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon,” said Obama with a cynical shamelessness innate to all leftists. And while most Americans gagged at such an obvious attempt to manufacture political capital, blacks—especially the professional camera chasers—ate it up, delighted that the White House had provided approbation for virtually any manner of assault on whites nationwide.

But unfortunately for Obama, Florida Governor Rick Scott is a pretty savvy politician too. In his selection of special prosecutor Angela Corey, Scott replaced a local D.A. who was reportedly not going to file charges against George Zimmerman. The 2nd degree murder filing by Corey and concomitant arrest of Zimmerman took a red meat issue away from the Black Panthers, a thug President and the entire Democrat Party.  It was a political tour de force which brought an end to contrived media outrage and any excuses blacks might invent to break the law “for Trayvon.” The shooting immediately became a dead issue and will remain so through the election.

Tragically, the same political necessity responsible for Zimmerman’s arrest will hold dominion at his trial.  Corey brought a charge of 2nd degree murder in order that a jury might “mercifully” find Zimmerman guilty of the lesser crime of manslaughter.  And he MUST be convicted and imprisoned regardless of the facts presented.  Zimmerman’s plea of self-defense will mean nothing. Democrats AND Republicans knew this going in. In the end it will only be important to satiate the left, avert rioting and provide a reasonable degree of cover from conservative criticism of the “right.”  Florida’s Stand Your Ground statute will likely be repealed as further tribute for extortionists like Jesse Jackson and the Black Panthers. And George Zimmerman will spend the next 10 years in a Florida prison, the victim of having defended himself during an election year.

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Marine Slams “Obama Garbage”; Calls For Real Change

April 23, 2012 by 4 Comments

US Marines Major Christopher Miller at Missouri GOP Congressional District 3 convention, April 21, 2012. Do you think Mitt Romney can bring real change to the system? Tell us why or why not.

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Primary Stumbles Warnings For Romney Versus Obama

April 21, 2012 by 1 Comment
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The pregame warm-up is over.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s urgent task now: Learn the lessons of a primary season peppered with tactical and communications errors that cost time and money while reinforcing doubts about him.

It’s a must, even allies say, given that he now faces Democratic President Barack Obama’s well-oiled machine, battle-tested and prepared to face the eventual Republican nominee.

At first glance during the primary, Romney’s team appeared disciplined compared with his error-prone rivals. He also kept one eye on Obama the whole time.

Yet, Romney gave his primary rivals openings with a series of verbal gaffes that highlighted his vulnerabilities. And he let key states like South Carolina and Colorado slip away by failing to anticipate surging opponents. Unexpected losses in those states dragged out the primary season, preventing Romney from turning his attention to Obama in earnest until earlier this month, when chief GOP rival Rick Santorum dropped out.

Read more at Official Wire. By Thomas Beaumont, AP.

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