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Tightened race sees Obama and Biden misplace themselves; I am surprised they don't know where they are.
Topic Started: Oct 26 2012, 11:38 AM (143 Views)
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Tightened race sees Obama and Biden misplace themselves


It's understandable for Barack Obama and Joe Biden to be flustered after dropping a king's ransom to demolish Mitt Romney the person and the candidacy. And then to find the Republican and his annoyingly fit VP partner not only unflustered but tied or leading polls in numerous crucial places with but 12 days left.

It seems many Americans are waking up to the Democrats' empty record and coming to see the former state chief executive as a national chief executive. As a reminder of what's at stake on Nov. 6, an iconic voice and face has also returned to the campaign fray. Scroll down for the video.

But meanwhile Barack the Barnstormer and Joe the Jester were on the stumps Wednesday. Trouble was neither seemed to know where he was.

In Colorado, Obama was touting his record and vague plans for future good things. "I want to build on the progress we’ve made doubling clean energy. I want fuel-efficient cars and long-lasting batteries and wind turbines manufactured here in China."

Looking out at the crowd of suddenly puzzled faces, the president corrected himself to say here in the United States because China is where he's suggested certain others would send American jobs, even though it's his multi-billion dollar bets on American green energy companies that have so often gone sour, leaving markets to Chinese competition.

Colorado is a crucial swing state. It only has nine electoral votes and they were a crucial part of Obama's attempted strategy to peel the Rocky Mountain states away from their traditional Republican allegiance in 2008. Obama did win Colorado then and also next door New Mexico (5). This time the incumbent would like to repeat at least that much success.

However, a Rasmussen Reports poll there Monday revealed that Mitt Romney has achieved the magic 50% support level in Colorado for the first time, currently holding a 51%-47% lead among likely voters.

Two weeks ago on the all-important issue of the economy the two men were essentially tied in Colorado. Today, Romney has constructed a growing lead, 51%-44%, on handling the economy, and 51%-45% on national security.

Politically, Ohio's 18 electoral votes (down two since 2008) loom more than twice as large as Colorado's nine. The state's importance is historical too. No Republican has ever won the White House without also winning Ohio. Once thought to be virtually certain to end up in Obama's column, the Buckeye state is now a statistical tie.

Uncle Joe came down from the attic Wednesday to campaign some more in Marion. The unpredictable vice president of the United States had just finished calling Gov. Romney "a quacking duck."

Then, he added:

"This is the guy who’s running all the ads here in Iowa saying that he’s going to get tough on China.”

Audience members turned to each other whispering because they knew something the Democrat didn't; they knew they were not in Marion, Iowa. They were in Marion, Ohio.

Last summer the nearly 70-year-old, who entered the Senate when Obama was a sixth grader, misplaced himself in North Carolina when he was actually in Virginia.

But he was close.

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