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‘Real News’ War Room: How Can Romney Beat the Loser Narrative?

Oct. 2, 2012 10:25pm Christopher Santarelli

Mitt Romney and his campaign have had a black cloud overhead of late with erratic showings in recent polling, and frequently having to defend themselves against a growing media narrative that they are in a deep hole or have already lost this election. While many polls still have Romney within the margin of error against the president, how can the Republican challanger keep the negative press around him from turning into a self-fulfilling prophecy ?

Watch the ‘Real News’ panel in a clip below make their arguments for the best case that the Romney folks could make to change the perception of this campaign:

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Individualism
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 11:40am
simple by having real elections, maybe instead of machines count paper. maybe ID stuff as well. Maybe have knowledge tests to ban stupid voters from voting. but that wouldn’t help either of the two would it? Romney and the campaign have done all they needed to lose and there is nothing they can do now but watch the baggage crush them into pancakes.

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teatime79
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 8:26am
Ohio! Romney needs Ohio to win. That is the key state to watch.

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stotlaat
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 2:26am
About the polls: the often repeated thought that poll numbers are low for Romney is likely calculated not only to demoralize those who can be persuaded to stay home from voting, but to enrage and agitate mobs when he defies the made up numbers and wins. This preemptively supports the idea that the election was rigged especially if the win is solid. It’s another dirty trick, thinking ahead.

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E.Z. Las Vegas
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 1:17am
We Conservatives and Republicans have grown jaded and cynical. We are craving approval from the MSM that only 8 percent of us trust. Why? Are we nuts?

We are petrified that Mitt is the second coming of Bob Dole, or John McCain. He isn’t. Listening to Mitt’s book “No Apologies” is like listening to Reagan’s radio commentaries in the 1970′s. You may not agree with all of his positions, but you know they come from principal, and sound reasoning, and you will agree with a whole lot more of them than you disagree with, unless you are a progressive.

What did Mitt do for a living for 30 years. He project managed like the Apprentice, He also resurrected failing businesses like Gordon Ramsay, John Taffer, and Robert Irvine among others do on television. The key to a successful turnaround is waiting for the correct timing to introduce the radical changes in thought and procedures that will make the business successful.

Too soon, and the owner shuts down and will not accept the restructuring. Too late, and it will do no good, because the business is already lost. With early voting starting today, the Overton Window is now open. Those who vote in the next two weeks are either completely set on their choices, or terminally ill, but the rest are persuadeable.

Finally, the media still believes that Reagan was a dufus, and he took full advantage of being underestimated to run rings around them. Let’s see if Mitt can pull off a similar head fake.

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saranda
Posted on October 2, 2012 at 11:23pm
Watching this group on the war rom is really tough. Like a bunch of college kids arguing after a couple drinks.

And the gas prices “fact has to to stop. Gas prices have not reached the highs of the summer of 2008 under Obama. Should have, could have but never did. Cupp and gb use that one all the time and it is cringeworthy.

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justangry
Posted on October 2, 2012 at 11:12pm
They are both losers if you believe in the Bill of Rights.

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- riseandshine
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 1:34am
  …and the Constitution…and George Washington’s foreign policy.
  
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kaydeebeau
Posted on October 2, 2012 at 11:04pm
Simple really – don’t buy into the state controlled media narrative…..Readn overcame the media because he didn’t let himself be limited by their meme, Newt was effective because he overwhelmed the media narrative,

No real world people actually believe the state controlled media…

Try this little experiment – the next time you are waiting in line or in a group of strangers, make some little comment about taxes, inflation, foreign policy, corruption, see waht the response is – O is losing and hwe is losing big

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308forfreedom
Posted on October 2, 2012 at 11:01pm
The polls are such nonsense and part of the false narrative the lib media try to spin. obummer is going after the idiot vote and thankfully we out number them.

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Verceofreason
Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:52pm
I NEVER take anyone seriously – who stand in front of a blackboard.
Why IS that?

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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on October 2, 2012 at 11:05pm
  “Cause you slept through school and are an abject failure???
  
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- antitheist
  Posted on October 2, 2012 at 11:33pm
  @Kaydee
  How would sleeping through school make him a loser? Wouldn’t that mean that he slept through the brainwashing that you neocons claim happens in public schools? I for one can’t take people who cry on a pre-recorded show seriously.
  
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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on October 2, 2012 at 11:50pm
  @ Anti – yuck yuck – hint – read verce’s comment again, then re-read mine – then hide yourself in shame.
  
  But just to make it more effective –
  
  Verceofreason
  Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:52pm
  I NEVER take anyone seriously – who stand in front of a blackboard.
  Why IS that?
  
  So according to Verce – no matter what is being taught – he isn’t taking it seriously – so he is admitting he is an uneducat-able moron
  
  And somehow you read something totally unrelated (as in content and quality of the education) into the thread – thus proving you are an un-educatable moron also
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on October 2, 2012 at 11:51pm
  Maybe why your posts usually are written in ghetto grammar?
  
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- antitheist
  Posted on October 2, 2012 at 11:59pm
  @Kaydee
  Refusing to see the value of a pathetic imitation of a lecture by a self-described rodeo clown crybaby does not make me an “un-educatable moron”. Beleiving that underwear somehow protects you from evil is what would make one a moron.
  
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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 12:27am
  @ Anti – thanks for again proving my point…
  
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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 12:41am
  @ Anti – and just to be really clear – let’s read verce yet again – I suggest you read slower and then re-read your lame comments
  
  Verceofreason
  Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:52pm
  I NEVER take anyone seriously – who stand in front of a blackboard.
  Why IS that?
  
  So perhaps if I type slower – Verce made no qualifications as to “a lecture by a self-described rodeo clown crybaby” or “Beleiving that underwear somehow protects you from evil ”
  
  Verce said ANYONE who stands before a blackboard (and while technically schools now use dry erase white boards the concept is the same) therefore – since ANYONE (teachers are included in the anyone umbrella) who stands before a blackboard (or white board) is not to be taken seriously, verce is, by his own admssion, an uneducateable moron. And since I have had to try to explain the rhetoric to you mulitple times, you are still proven to be an uneducateable moron
  
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- antitheist
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 1:14am
  @Kaydee
  Typing slower in this case does not have the same effect as speaking slower as to be heard by someone. All I see is already typed text that has no indication of typing speed. I could call you a moron for that, but I’ll resist the temptation.
  
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Jenasus
Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:39pm
The truth is that Obama is the loser because everything he said he would do has been a lie.
Lame Stream Media turns everything around and blames anyone but Obama for his failures.
All Romney has to do is expose the truth about Obama’s deception and lies and than simply focus on the truth of his vision for restoring America and the Presidency as the shining beacon on the hill.
Obama and the media have been saying the opposite of what is true the past four years.
When the media says Romney is behind in the polls you can bet that the truth is that Obama is behind in the polls.

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Mutiny
Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:34pm
He could build a time machine and go back in time. Then he could then go back and not do or say all the liberal progressive things from his past.

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- Marine25
  Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:44pm
  He can’t. After all, this ‘loser narrative’ started not with the media, but with the commentators right here on The Blaze a year ago before the primaries even began. So many here, it turns out, were right. And I am sure they will be quite vocal agreeing with me in 35 days.
  
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