A new poll out of North Carolina shows Romney pulling away from President Obama largely due to widespread dismay towards the Supreme Court’s ruling on ObamaCare and a mass change-of-mind among Independent voters. The Hill has the details:
Romney leads by 5 in North Carolina.
Mitt Romney continues to grow his lead in North Carolina, now leading President Obama by five points in the state where Democrats plan to hold their national convention.
Romney was the choice of half of the respondents surveyed in a poll released Tuesday by Civitas, versus 45 percent for Obama. That’s a slight improvement over Romney’s March showing, when he led the president 47 percent to 45 percent.
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Romney has built his lead among independents, who now favor the Republican challenger 54-35 percent. That’s a double-digit improvement from March, and a significant shift from February, when the president led by two points with Independents.
This is huge news from a state Obama won fours years ago and where Dems plan to hold their lackluster convention this fall. If Independents continue to gravitate towards the Republican ticket, Obama could be in for a real surprise come November.
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If Mitt doesn’t legalize pot, He’ll lose by a land slide.and let first time pot arrest to be set free, He’ll WIN.
This is where Mitt should take a stance on legalizing medical marijuana , not like lies of the Obama administration,and set free first time pot users.
Sounds like a pipe dream to me, Randy.
Forget pot…………vote for Obama and EVERYTHING goes up in smoke.
Great! It’s just bad timing for Gov Romney vacationing right after Obamacare chaos ruling :-( I hope Gov Romney will come out and reset the campaign debate about Economy, Freedom and Liberty.
We cannot afford Obama the big spender another 4 years. No more Govt Intrusion! Enough is enough!
Romney and McCrory both will win NC
Bank on it!
Mitt Romney will go down in history as one of Americas great and most loved presidents because he will save America from the ravages of socialism or worse. Mitt has the message…are you listening?
Why did Eric say Obamacare wasn’t a tax? Why is he trying to embroil everyone prior to the Convention? Now Romney has to either defend him or put his own Campaign Manager down and hard. The fact is Obamacare is the ticket to win this election. Romney will have to do something and very soon or he will loose his funding as well. I expect him to Repeal Obamacare like he said he would. Now his campaign manager has put his surrogates in a bad position. They are forced by the media to explain why Romney calls Obamacare not a tax since the Court has deemed it such. It makes Romney look soft and weak even when we know he’s not. The fact that it is a penalty or a tax doesn’t matter but it does to the conservative base and now Romney’s Campaign manager has punted. Why was any of that necessary is beyond me.
The best card Mitt has to winning this election is the Obamacare card. He better fix it and soon. Like tomorrow because people who have trusted him will pull back. I for one don’t get either. It seems everytime his manager speaks Romney spends the next week trying to get everything back to normal. Stop upsetting the base with stupid sidebar comments from the campaign manager. When the x CEO of general electric supported Mr. Romney to hear him now say Mitt is weak and needs to get on top of this issue gives me pause.
Romney needs to explain that it is a tax Obamatax. Pure and simple. That Obamatax is a national issue and Romneycare was a State issue and that he will repeal Obamatax immediately when he get in. It matters not what the left says.
Drob, Mitt has other things in mind and he’s avoiding the tax fray for good reason. Obamacare is not the winning card. He’s getting ready to define himself as the trustworthy devoted family man and patriot that he is. The more he separates himself from Obama’s melodrama the better. He wants to move beyond this and he did a good job not getting trapped. You should be proud. Stop being a scaredy cat. Mitt is in this to win. Forget the Obamatax. Mitt will not sully himself and the message is already out.
He confidently walked away to enjoy the country’s birthday with his beloved family while you and everybody else twisted in fear and pain, especially the dems who know something isn’t quite right.
I expect a big plug of his amazing feat at the Olympics when he turned it around. Most people don’t know about it. Soon they will and Mitt is timing it perfectly. Ann is going to be a fantastic surrogate for the campaign. If anyone stays above the fray, it’s Ann Romney. She is unfailingly positive and optimistic and I think the public will respond. It’s a mistake to be constantly reacting to Obama’s games.
For heavensake, Mitt Romney is not weak, no matter what jerk says what. He has his own style and plays the game his own way. He often pulls back, so get used to it. Then he comes out with amazing power and levels the competition. Has your memory failed you?
Everyone should avoid being manipulated by the media. It’s not really connected. The ground war is yet to start and contrary to what all these experts say, Mitt is good at it. Six men and Ann Romney are a force to be reckoned with. You haven’t seen anything yet.
I attended Mitt’s rally in Colorado the night he lost so badly to Santorum. It was heartbreaking but I still knew Mitt was going to be the next president. Right after that, well you know what he did.
If people would refuse to let Obama dangle them and throw them around like rag dolls, they’d enjoy this more.
Obama is irrelevant. Quit feeding this child.
Drob: Perhaps because the Individual Mandate (which was being argued) is NOT a tax, it is a penalty. If they agreed with the Court that it is a tax several things would have to happen.
1. Team Romney would have to agree with the Court that it is also Constitutional as stated by the Court.
2. Team Romney would have no defense when stating Mitt raised no taxes in MA.
3. Mitt would be considered a flip-flopper and a hypocrite.
No, Eric Fehrnstrom did the correct thing, he agreed with the dissenting voices in the Court in stating that the whole thing is unconstitutional, either under the commerce clause or by the powers of taxation.
Really, people are too willing to jump all over Romney’s case, to believe that he’ll be a failure. He’s not. Nothing in his past proves that he is a failure. We’ve lived with failure for so long, I can understand why the populace has the doomsday bug, but Romney is a positive guy and a winner.
Eric Fehnstorm is a smart guy, polite, but has no TV political personality at all. He should be banned from TV :-) Given Gov Romney’s records all over the map in MA for many issues, i kinda like Eric’s response so, there’s consistency for Gov Romney MA healthcare “penality” debate. It would be hard for Gov Romney to oppose Obamacare and avoiding MA tax hikes b/c of healthcare.
The burden is on Prez Obama. Obama is the lawless Prez who duped the congress, the court by not telling the whole truth. He needs to explain all his lies.
I want Obamacare to be the number ONE issue in this campaign. Obamacare covers all the problems that we’re facing. The national debt, the govt out of control spending, individual freedom and liberty. We paying so much taxes in the local level, state, fed. It got to stop! They can call it whatever they want, it has a tax code, the Fed- IRS is forcing us to pay for it. This is what the dictators do in 3rd world countries. It is UN-AMERICAN. It is unthinkable this is happening in America. Sad!
Gov Romney spoke”. “.Individual mandate is a TAX.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/politics/main250.shtml?tag=hdr;cnav
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57466432-503544/romney-individual-mandate-is-a-tax/?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMain
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