days ago Ritholtz had this
GOP Sours on Romney
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Romney looks like he?s toast. Which means four more years of more or less the same crap we?ve seen. Great for big banks?Michael Lewis has a piece out where he talks about how no one realizes just how good Obama (and he really means Geithner) were to Wall Street. Did you ever read that Lawrence Baxter piece I sent you? You should. Terrible title, but goes into detail on Obama doubling down on even bigger banks. ?Betting Big: Value, Caution and Accountability in an Era of Large Banks and Complex Finance,? 31 Rev. Banking & Fin. L. XXX (Oct. 2012))
Republicans are up in arms about QE whatever. The big complaint seems to be that it may actually make things better. Funny part is imagining what Romney would want if he were president; surely he wouldn?t want the Fed choking off his recovery by tightening up. (Bit that no one picked up on: Hubbard talking about how great a job Bernanke had done and was doing, only to have Romney turn around a week later and say no way would he reappoint Bernanke as Fed chairman. Either the campaign is clueless and disorganized, or Romney really will say anything to be president.)
Some articles today talked about how Wall Street was starting to have second thoughts about a candidate who wants to turn off the spigot
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his republican readers callled the WWWWWWWAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH-mbulance - he said
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the post was validated the next morning by Politico, whose discussion of infighting, leaking, and disdain for Romney in an article Inside the campaign: How Mitt Romney stumbled, was the talk of DC. (We haven?t even seen the fall out of the leaked video, shown here).
This campaign just got a lot more interesting.
Last, a few questions came up on the polling data. I have found most of the polling data across the board to be mediocre, so I instead rely on 2 different sets of polls: 1) Real Clear Politics All Polls; and 2) Nate Silver?s 538. RCP is a composite of ALL the polls, and so theoretically shows all denominations; 538 was the most accurate pollster the past few elections.
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http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/09...liers-discuss/
finally the "mainstream" catches on...
What's behind Mitt's meltdown
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(CNN) -- For students of journalistic feeding frenzies in presidential politics, the Romney campaign-meltdown story merits close study.
The first striking feature is that the flashpoint story that pulled together his missteps -- the bungled foreign trip, his lackluster convention, his widely denounced response to the Libya carnage, to name a few -- appeared in the new media. It was on the Politico website Sunday under the headline "Inside the Campaign: How Mitt Stumbled," rather than in mainstream newspapers or on the networks' evening news shows, the traditional pacesetters in campaign coverage.
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this is all your fault, republicans - history could not have given you a better chance to kick out that uncle tom, but no, you picked romney, possibly the worst republican candidate ever.