| August hasn't been too kind to Mitt Romney. He started the month trying to recover from a summer jaunt abroad at the end of July, which was supposed to be an easy string of photo-ops but turned into a Griswoldian comedy of errors. It all might have been forgotten if the running-mate rollout went well. But that didn’t happen, with Paul Ryan receiving the lowest approval rating among voters since Dan Quayle. |
The bad news didn't stop there. Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin, a former nobody, caused a stir on Sunday by saying that rape did not lead to pregnancy, forcing the Romney campaign to tread into abortion politics—territory Mitt typically shies away from. To top it all off, major newspapers have finally starting to take note of Romney's lies on policy matters. Add it all up, and it explains why the former Massachusetts governor still can't break the 45 percent barrier in national polls. Nate Silver puts Obama as a 67 percent favorite in November, and the Prospect's own polling guru thinks Obama will take 297 Electoral College votes.
Given all this, no one would fault Romney if he wasn't exactly in the partying mood for the Republican National Convention in Tampa next week. Wait, what's that? The Republican convention might be canceled? Tropical Storm Isaac looks like it might turn into a hurricane just in time to hit Tampa next week. The mayor of Tampa told CCN that he is “fully prepared” to shut it down if need be, while everyone's favorite governor Rick Scott reassured the public that officials have planned for the possibility of a hurricane. Four years ago, a hurricane also threatened the GOP convention in Minnesota, which led party planners to reconfigure the schedule a bit. Natural disasters are awful and our hearts go out to anyone who suffers on account of them. That said, there is something poetic about an angry storm threatening the festivities of a party that denies global warming and plugs its ears anytime a scientist suggests that imminent climate change carries an increased risk of severe weather.
Given all this, no one would fault Romney if he wasn't exactly in the partying mood for the Republican National Convention in Tampa next week. Wait, what's that? The Republican convention might be canceled? Tropical Storm Isaac looks like it might turn into a hurricane just in time to hit Tampa next week. The mayor of Tampa told CCN that he is “fully prepared” to shut it down if need be, while everyone's favorite governor Rick Scott reassured the public that officials have planned for the possibility of a hurricane. Four years ago, a hurricane also threatened the GOP convention in Minnesota, which led party planners to reconfigure the schedule a bit. Natural disasters are awful and our hearts go out to anyone who suffers on account of them. That said, there is something poetic about an angry storm threatening the festivities of a party that denies global warming and plugs its ears anytime a scientist suggests that imminent climate change carries an increased risk of severe weather.
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