"The Obama team must face the possibility that it is unloading some of its only rhetorical ammunition without result"

And you know it's got to be completely ticking them off:

Weeks of vicious attacks by the Obama campaign assailing Mitt Romney’s character and making questionable charges about his stewardship of Bain Capital have yielded the following result: the latest national poll, released by the New York Times, shows Romney with a slight edge.

With little record to run on, an economy mired in slow growth, and unemployment stuck above eight percent, the Obama team must face the possibility that it is unloading some of its only rhetorical ammunition without result. And after burning through $100 million of his money on campaign ads, Obama has failed to establish a lead over his rival.

The poll suggests an extraordinarily dangerous possibility for the Obama campaign: that concerns about the dismal economy trump all other issues and provide Romney with a teflon coating with which he can deflect the bullets of the grinding Obama attack machine.

Romney, with an exception here or there, seems to be running a smart campaign and has especially been effective in the last few days.

Let's hope it continues.

The country cannot withstand another 4 years of The One.

Comments

[tim aka The Godless Heathen]

“…concerns about the dismal economy trump all other issues…”

Wrong! CONCERNS!!! There is no concerning going on, it’s real, people are hurting.

The sentence should read “the dismal economy trump all other issues”.