Two Focus Groups

++This morning is all Obama is doomed--Democrats questioning strategy and National security groupies crying that leak probe will bring down Obama. 


++All maybe true and Sheldon Adelson , the Casino mogul and Likud financier, decided to give Romney $10 million for his SuperPac. As Newt Gingrich said yesterday, our elections are rigged for the wealthy.


++Meanwhile in a country far-far-away named America , not Amercia James Carville and Stan Greenberg have been conducting focus groups for the Democracy Corps in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Non-college educated voters and younger college educated voters without prompting told the interviewers that Romney is rich, too out of touch, in the pocket of Wall Street and Big Finance. The group said that Romney would put in policies to keep himself and his class where they are. One working-class women said that,"After years of making so much money, you lose some of your humanity and don't care." 


++Carville and Greenberg found that the Focus Group was extremely sensitive about any cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, disability and food stamps. This also applied to younger respondents who were worried about starting out on a career but not having a safety net in place. The group also was extremely worried and nervous about Paul Ryan's budget, especially his attitude to Social Security and Medicare being turned into voucher care. 


++If people are wondering where the Obama voters are or why he is polling lower than people had thought, WalMart of all people conducted a bipartisan Focus Group in Nevada and found that the group was inclined to President Obama but haven't made a choice yet. Women responded the best to the President saying that three years digging out of the economic mess wasn't enough. Women really didn't like Romney. They felt he was too snooty. Others in the group felt very reluctant to change Presidents at this time. One respondent said that whatever progress had been made would be disrupted by a whole new team being brought in. Another felt he didn't want to learn about a whole new administration. Basically, they were there for the taking if President Obama articulated a future for the middle class.


++The President is supposed to outline the differences between himself and Romney on economic policies tomorrow in Ohio. Romney is supposed to be campaigning with John Boehner in his district tomorrow. A strange message since the press finally is writing about the Republican strategy of sabotaging the economy.