We keep hearing the 'tactics' of the campaign. Santorum may have lost Michigan but he made Romney spend money in his own state, that he won't have to spend elsewhere. We heard talk of how Romney gaffed in the past couple of weeks by constantly pointing out how moneyed he is and allowing people to speculate how little he knows about the issues of the blue collar or middle class.
Santorum blew it by saying he wants to vomit when he hears what Kennedy said about separation of church and state. Santorum vehemently violates the essence of the constitution by proclaiming he is not for separation of church and state. But most importantly to me is the way percentages are thrown around. If there was one person running and that person got one vote that would be 100% of the votes. Despite the good attempts at polls, no one really knows how many people change their minds after the poll was taken and how small the pool is. We are hearing that Santorum has lost 10% of the woman's vote in the past week or two, nationally. We also need to look at the votes those legislators who are putting in the rape bill (intrusion by the state into a woman's vagina without her permission) in Virginia and, I think, Pennsylvania or perhaps it was Georgia. Too many states are jumping on that losing bandwagon.
This rush to understand what is happening before it happens is useful only to the journalists who are getting paid to try to do it. To the rest of us, it does little but influence those who always want to vote with the majority, to feel with the 'in' group.or maybe to feel good they are with a winner. At this point we have won nothing. It was announced that 30% of the post ballot collecting, we learned the Catholic vote went to Romney. Where did the other 70 % go?. After 75 minutes of 'too close to call', finally Romney was announced the projected winner.
To borrow a phrase from Santorum, when I heard him say "we need to get big government out of our lives, thinking they know better than we do about what we need in lives...." 'I wanted to vomit'. Either Santorum didn't realize he had lost or he just doesn't know when to stop speaking his lies...he went on for several minutes while the TV screen kept projecting the running banner saying 'Romney the winner in Michigan'.
Santorum blew it by saying he wants to vomit when he hears what Kennedy said about separation of church and state. Santorum vehemently violates the essence of the constitution by proclaiming he is not for separation of church and state. But most importantly to me is the way percentages are thrown around. If there was one person running and that person got one vote that would be 100% of the votes. Despite the good attempts at polls, no one really knows how many people change their minds after the poll was taken and how small the pool is. We are hearing that Santorum has lost 10% of the woman's vote in the past week or two, nationally. We also need to look at the votes those legislators who are putting in the rape bill (intrusion by the state into a woman's vagina without her permission) in Virginia and, I think, Pennsylvania or perhaps it was Georgia. Too many states are jumping on that losing bandwagon.
This rush to understand what is happening before it happens is useful only to the journalists who are getting paid to try to do it. To the rest of us, it does little but influence those who always want to vote with the majority, to feel with the 'in' group.or maybe to feel good they are with a winner. At this point we have won nothing. It was announced that 30% of the post ballot collecting, we learned the Catholic vote went to Romney. Where did the other 70 % go?. After 75 minutes of 'too close to call', finally Romney was announced the projected winner.
To borrow a phrase from Santorum, when I heard him say "we need to get big government out of our lives, thinking they know better than we do about what we need in lives...." 'I wanted to vomit'. Either Santorum didn't realize he had lost or he just doesn't know when to stop speaking his lies...he went on for several minutes while the TV screen kept projecting the running banner saying 'Romney the winner in Michigan'.
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