Crossroads spends millions mocking Obama’s ‘forward’ slogan

[el_em_en_oh]

(CNN) – The conservative super PAC Crossroads GPS said Wednesday it would spend upwards of $6 million to air a television spot knocking President Barack Obama’s record on the economy, saying his policies are the opposite of his campaign’s ‘forward’ motto.

The new ad, titled “Forward?” will air in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia, a spokesman for Crossroads said, with $6.6 million going toward the ad buy.

“President Obama says he’ll move us forward,” a narrator says in the spot. “But where’s he taken us so far? America’s worst economic recovery ever. 23 million of us without full time work. Family incomes down. Forty percent living paycheck to paycheck. And Obamacare’s new tax on middle class families. All while Obama racked up 5 trillion more in debt. Is that really forward, or backward?”

The ad’s opening shot of Obama walking through the White House colonnade is similar to a shot used in the president’s own political ads, and the ‘forward’ theme is a riff on his campaign’s slogan, which was unveiled last Spring.

A second ad from Crossroads airing in North Dakota goes after Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Heidi Heitkamp, who is running against Rep. Rick Berg to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad.

The ad hits Heitkamp for her support of Obama’s health care law, saying it increases federal spending at a time of skyrocketing federal debt.

Crossroads said it would spent $110,000 to air the ad in North Dakota.

SOURCE: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/05/crossroads-spends-millions-mocking-obamas-forward-slogan/?hpt=po_c2

[brice1967]

That's it.  I'm convinced.... I'm voting for Obama so I can listen to excuses for the next 4 years.  (Bush.... I know, he did it.)

[el_em_en_oh]

Hijack my post, much?

[mikesimon]

Romney's good failure
Posted by James Alan Fox, Crime and Punishment  
September 5, 2012 11:00 AM


On stage in front of thousands of delighted delegates to the DNC in Charlotte, Governor Deval Patrick detailed the many ways in which his predecessor in the corner office on Beacon Hill failed the citizens of Massachusetts. And there was much to Governor Mitt Romney's record for Patrick to work with.

Never mind Mitt Romney’s outrageous attempts to abuse the Commonwealth as the butt of his anti-liberal barbs, even while still holding the state’s highest elective office, as he toured the country garnering momentum for his eventual run for the Presidency. According to Patrick, Mitt Romney left the Commonwealth in worse shape than when he assumed the leadership post four years earlier. Not only did Romney raise fees and cut education, but Massachusetts ranked 47th in job creation during his term as Governor.

There is, however, one failure to Romney’s administration -- and a significant one according to his own assessment -- for which we in Massachusetts are fortunate, at least financially. And that is Romney’s unsuccessful bid to restore capital punishment in Massachusetts.

I vividly recall Romney’s December 2005 press conference in which he announced his intention not to seek re-election as Governor. Apparently, he had accomplished so many of his goals, including instituting universal health insurance. But his one big disappointment was not realizing his dream of bringing back the death penalty to liberal Massachusetts.

Romney’s failure in this attempt was not for lack of effort on his part. Having commissioned a talented group of scientists and attorneys to develop best practices, Romney touted his proposal for a virtually “fool-proof” system for administering the death penalty as the “Gold Standard,” a model for the nation. With layer upon layer of procedural safeguards designed to eliminate the risk of error, it was a gold standard alright. But the gold was more reflective of the tremendous price tag for implementing the complex approach to punishing a small handful of criminals. Had Romney been successful in reinstituting capital punishment along these lines, there’s no telling how much worse off financially the state would be today.

Curiously, even while Romney endeavored to reinstitute the Massachusetts death penalty, several other states moved in the opposite direction, abolishing the barbaric and flawed practice partially, if not largely, because of the high cost. Apparently, this is just one more way in which Millionaire Mitt was out of touch and out of step. Thank goodness that Romney failed in this one particular area of job creation -- and that is the position of state executioner.

http://boston.com/community/blogs/crime_punishment/2012/09/romneys_good_failure.html

[mikesimon]

September 5, 2012, 12:17 pm8 Comments
Polls: Little to No Bounce for Romney
By ALLISON KOPICKI

Several new polls show that in the immediate days after the Republican National Convention, Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, did not see much of a boost to his campaign, although slightly more Americans now see him as someone who can understand the needs of the middle class.

A Gallup daily tracking poll conducted Aug. 31 to Sept. 3 showed that Mr. Romney’s support after the convention stood at 46 percent of registered voters, no different than the 47 percent who supported him in the days before the speeches and festivities in Tampa, Fla.

According to Gallup’s analysis of polling results after previous conventions, Mr. Romney is the third nominee in recent history — and the first Republican — to gain little or no improvement in the polls in the days after his party’s convention. The other nominees who saw little movement were George McGovern in 1972 and Senator John Kerry in 2004.

A CNN/ORC poll conducted at the same time as Gallup’s recent one showed Mr. Romney’s support at 48 percent in the wake of the convention. He is tied with President Obama, but at virtually the same level of support among likely voters polled Aug. 22 to 23.

However, the CNN poll did show a small tightening of the gap that existed on which candidate was more in touch with the problems facing middle-class Americans. Before the Republican convention, Mr. Obama held a 14-point advantage among likely voters over Mr. Romney on the issue; afterward, Mr. Obama held a 6-point edge.

Perhaps most tellingly, nearly half of registered voters said what they saw or read of the Republican convention made them less likely to vote for Mr. Romney than said it made them more likely to vote for him, while just over a third said they were more likely, and 1 in 8 said it made no difference. And the 46 percent who said they were less likely to vote for Mr. Romney was the highest negative response for either party’s candidate following conventions going back to 1984, according to CNN polls.

But the Democrats will also have their work cut out for them during their time in Charlotte, N.C. A new ABC News/Washington Post poll found Mr. Obama’s favorability at 47 percent, his lowest rating since December among registered voters. In the poll, Mr. Romney had a slight 5-point boost in his favorability post-convention, but at 43 percent, he is experiencing the same doldrums as his opponent.

And the CNN poll also found that a majority of registered voters said the Republicans spent too much of their convention criticizing the Democrats and saying positive things about themselves, including 58 percent of independents. Just about a third said the Republicans maintained the right balance.

At the opening day of their convention, Democrats did their fair share of attacking the other party, and it remains to be seen if that approach will help or hurt their own candidate.

The Gallup tracking surveys interviewed 1,827 registered voters, with a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points. The CNN/ORC poll interviewed 1,005 adults, including 877 registered voters and 735 likely voters, with a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points for the likely voters. All three surveys included cellphones and landlines. The ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted Aug. 29 to Sept. 2 among 1,002 adults and 842 registered voters, with a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four points for the registered voters.