Mon Nov 12, 2012, 09:30 PM

Peggy Noonan (Nov. 5): Romney will win FL and OH cuz I saw few Obama yard signs there

November 5, 2012. --Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal:

" There is no denying the Republicans have the passion now, the enthusiasm. The Democrats do not. Independents are breaking for Romney. And there’s the thing about the yard signs. In Florida a few weeks ago I saw Romney signs, not Obama ones. From Ohio I hear the same. From tony Northwest Washington, D.C., I hear the same."

http://blogs.wsj.com/peggynoonan/2012/11/05/monday-morning/

Noonan can be mocked at her Twitter account @Peggynoonannyc

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Peggy Noonan (Nov. 5): Romney will win FL and OH cuz I saw few Obama yard signs there (Original post)	Welcome_hubby	Nov 2012	OP
Idiot.	narnian60	Nov 2012	#1
Well said!	hrmjustin	Nov 2012	#5
I'm surprised Noonan doesn't know a basic truth during	DonViejo	Nov 2012	#2
I saw more Romney yard signs in my area. Romney lost my state by 25 points. nt	bluestate10	Nov 2012	#3
HAHAHAHA! Yeah, disregard those pesky polls! Drive around & look at yard signs. nt	Honeycombe8	Nov 2012	#4
LOL. I didn't see any in my small Chicago suburb.	greatauntoftriplets	Nov 2012	#6
This is how Rmoney's "Orca" app functioned	BumRushDaShow	Nov 2012	#7
My neighborhood was filled with Rmoney signs	ladym55	Nov 2012	#8
Some tool who does business...	Mdterp01	Nov 2012	#9
The Obama campaign made a conscious decision to not spend money on yard signs this year.	Arugula Latte	Nov 2012	#10
In my neighborhood in Ohio Obama signs were stolen routinely	farmbo	Nov 2012	#11
She has also become an awful writer in the stylistic sense	nixonwasbetterthanW	Nov 2012	#12
All I saw around me was Rmoney signs & I'm in a burb of Los Angeles County. I saw no Obama signs	Raine	Nov 2012	#13
Andrea Mitchell was using that same narrative. n/t	IL Lib	Nov 2012	#14

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Mon Nov 12, 2012, 09:35 PM

narnian60 (574 posts)

1. Idiot.

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Mon Nov 12, 2012, 09:39 PM

hrmjustin (9,026 posts)

5. Well said!

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Mon Nov 12, 2012, 09:36 PM

DonViejo (4,518 posts)

2. I'm surprised Noonan doesn't know a basic truth during

campaigns; signs don't vote.

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Mon Nov 12, 2012, 09:37 PM

bluestate10 (8,571 posts)

3. I saw more Romney yard signs in my area. Romney lost my state by 25 points. nt

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Mon Nov 12, 2012, 09:38 PM

Honeycombe8 (18,006 posts)

4. HAHAHAHA! Yeah, disregard those pesky polls! Drive around & look at yard signs. nt

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Mon Nov 12, 2012, 09:41 PM

greatauntoftriplets (129,587 posts)

6. LOL. I didn't see any in my small Chicago suburb.

The town went 80 percent for Obama, though.

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Mon Nov 12, 2012, 09:52 PM

BumRushDaShow (11,955 posts)

7. This is how Rmoney's "Orca" app functioned

They would contact their operatives throughout a state and ask how the turnout and general mood was of the people in that area.

Conservative commentator Byron York wrote in the Washington Examiner following Romney's loss, "Early in the evening, one aide said that, as of 4 p.m., Orca still projected a Romney victory of somewhere between 290 and 300 electoral votes. Obviously that didn't happen. Later, another aide said Orca had pretty much crashed in the heat of the action. 'Somebody said Orca is lying on the beach with a harpoon in it,' said the aide."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57547183-38/why-romneys-orca-killer-app-beached-on-election-day/

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Mon Nov 12, 2012, 09:54 PM

ladym55 (1,670 posts)

8. My neighborhood was filled with Rmoney signs

Our city went for Obama, but slightly. Many of us didn't have Obama signs ... they went out as soon as they came into the campaign office.

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Mon Nov 12, 2012, 10:11 PM

Mdterp01 (144 posts)

9. Some tool who does business...

In Ohio told me the same thing. He said he does business all over the state and all he saw was Romney/Ryan signs and no Obama signs.

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Mon Nov 12, 2012, 10:15 PM

Arugula Latte (40,115 posts)

10. The Obama campaign made a conscious decision to not spend money on yard signs this year.

They put it into GOTV instead. Looks like a pretty darn good decision!

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Mon Nov 12, 2012, 10:44 PM

farmbo (2,725 posts)

11. In my neighborhood in Ohio Obama signs were stolen routinely

Tea party morons made nightly raids. I lost three sets.
Only an east coast elitist equates passion with sign stealing.

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Wed Nov 14, 2012, 02:55 AM

nixonwasbetterthanW (1,195 posts)

12. She has also become an awful writer in the stylistic sense

"And there's the thing about the yard signs"?

What lazy drivel!

To say nothing of the reams of nonpartisan analyses that showed that in those instances in which pollsters were finding a Romney lean among independents, it was the result of recently registered Republicans dropping their party ID. As about so much else in this election, Peggy didn't bother to read the fine print.

Oooh, numbers! Don't scare me and all the other low-information voters with your facts. Besides, Nate Silver is so geeky-looking and lacks the joy of a magic dolphin. How could he possibly know how to pick a winner? I'll take Orca any day of the week, though even that program seems too technocratic for a campaign that's obviously winning, what with all the yard signs.

What a vapid, barely veneer-deep pundit.

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Wed Nov 14, 2012, 03:39 AM

Raine (20,175 posts)

13. All I saw around me was Rmoney signs & I'm in a burb of Los Angeles County. I saw no Obama signs

I didn't even have one but Ca is the bluest of blue states.

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Wed Nov 14, 2012, 04:31 AM

IL Lib (109 posts)

14. Andrea Mitchell was using that same narrative. n/t

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