Romney camp trusts own data, strategy, not public polls, in Ohio

[spanone]

VANDALIA, OH – For the Romney campaign, Tuesday brought yet more bad news from the Buckeye state: a new Washington Post poll showed the Republican presidential nominee trailing President Barack Obama by eight points in this critical battleground
state, with 52 percent of Ohio voters in favor of giving the incumbent another four years.

Before Mitt Romney's plane touched down at the Dayton airport today, two top aides were dispatched to the press cabin to put out possible fires the numbers might have sparked.

"The public polls are what the public polls are," Romney Political Director Rich Beeson told reporters. "I kind of hope the Obama campaign is basing their campaign on what the public polls say. We don’t. We have confidence in our data and our metrics."

What the Romney team’s data indicated about Ohio, Beeson wouldn't say. He argued that Romney was inside the margin of error here “by any stretch,” and dismissed the much-hyped Obama ground game in Ohio as activity confused with progress.

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/25/14102182-romney-camp-trusts-own-data-strategy-not-public-polls-in-ohio?lite

[MrSlayer]

1. The entire Republican party lives in a fantasy world.

What they want to be real, is real to them.

[spanone]

5. bingo....

[elleng]

2. Whatever.

I assume POTUS campaign has ITS own polls.

[Bobbie Jo]

3. He aced Rovian Math 101.

You know, THE math.

[beac]

4. This is them laying the groundwork to steal the election...

"SEE?? We TOLD you Romney was ahead/would win/etc."

[iemitsu]

7. i fear that is what's up too.

every time i hear the romney team speak so confidently about ohio, a state whose vote counting systems are suspect, i'm reminded of bush sitting in his daddy's texas flat watching the returns in 2000. florida had just been called for gore and W said,"oh, don't believe that, my brother said he'd deliver florida" (paraphrased).
it sends chills up my spine.
i hate that our votes are not sacrosanct.

[Trajan]

6. I love when they do this ....

They say Republicans cannot believe the 'real' polls .... We prefer to believe these cooked up poll numbers over here ...

WE'RE WINNING ! ... Yay ! ....


uh huh .....

[pampango]

8. New republican mantra - Polls and/or facts we don't agree with are wrong or irrelevant.

And we don't need no stinking fact-checkers in this campaign.

[sendero]

9. We live in our own reality..

.. unencumbered by silly things like facts, data or truth.

The hubris, it burns.