Speakeasy forum: Hey, Mitt -- know that growing lead Obama now has?

the double digit lead Carter had over Reagan right up until the last week before the votes??? Isn't that the year that 'everyone in the know' figured Carter was a shoe-in because Reagan was nothing but an 'actor', too old, and a sort of 'aww shucks' dumb as dirt candidate?

Don't count your braggin' rights quite yet, Josh.......BO is in a lot of trouble and it ain't over yet....in fact, it's getting worse now that the Admin has tried to cover their 'no protection for their embassies and consulates' butts and have kept that "it's all about that movie" narrative going.

parent's basement that spends his days searching the net looking for gotchas to spin that will make grandpa proud,as evidenced by this latest video.

The absolute,kindest thing I can say about him is that he very much reminds me of a "Slinky".

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Was it recorded at an event held in somebody's private home in Georgia? If so, was it legal to record it?
Ga law says you may record a conversation or phone call if you are a party to the conversation or you get permission from one party to the conversation in advance. Carter's grandson said it was not done by an invited guest. So who gave permission for it to be legally recorded?

in which case courts throw out such evidence and juries are instructed to ignore it. It's different when in done in public as damage can regardless of whether or not the entire conversation was permitted to be heard within its context. We all know that, in the public arena, being accused can mean the same as being convicted.

a jury to disregard testimony they heard?

Of course, in this case you also get into the grey areas of people who are seeking public attention then claiming privacy when it gets too public, so to speak.

I suspect the instances of sneaky videos and tape recorders are about equal among all stripes of politicians.

Then another aspect (if you're a fan of black helicopter stories) is that if anyone addressed a large group and said something that he and they didn't want the general population to know they must be planning a conspiracy to take control.

It's just another ploy by politicians to use whatever they can. It may be informational but that is just a side effect. Politicians don't want logical or rational, they want positive emotional reaction to everything they say.........which is why they say something different for each group they address.

.....those tapes were being used in a legal proceeding. You can't use illegally obtained tapes in a court case. This isn't a court case.

and get more publicity...just what he doesn't want.

Carter had that double-digit lead over Gerry Ford in '76, and lost a lot of it after his interview for Playboy magazine was published. He still won, but not by as much.

http://millercenter.org/president/carter/essays/biography/3

Even Romney's own people are admitting he's in trouble. I don't make predictions but I'd be very surprised if he managed to win, especially after this and the things he said last week.

One of the links at the top goes to a 404 error. The other goes to this:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,924541,00.html

That article states clearly that the race was too close to call until the last week of the campaign, when Reagan surged ahead. At no time did Carter have a double-digit lead. Remember that this was during the Iran hostage crisis and after four years of double-digit inflation (maybe those are the double-digits you're thinking of). Carter's approval ratings were in the toilet. That it was even close is surprising.