WORTHINGTON, Ohio — Facing a massive early voting deficit less than two weeks out from election day, the Romney campaign is projecting a mixed message as the candidate works to keep alive his claim to momentum.
At issue is the question of whether Republicans are losing the early voting battle on purpose, as they say, or whether simply can't get their base to break their habit of voting on election day.
are they to lazy to get out and vote early?
"The GOP is focusing on turning out 'low-propensity' voters and we are doing it succesfully — cutting into the Dems' advantage from 2008," Republican National Committee spokesman Tim Miller wrote in a memo to press Thursday. "The Democrats on the other-hand are investing heavily in turning out voters who were already going to vote on election day."But as Mitt Romney and Senator Rob Portman zig-zagged across Ohio Thursday, they repeatedly made a point of pleading for early votes from the cheering partisans who gathered at their rallies — the very group the campaign says they're not trying to get to the polls.
are they pandering to those they claimed were in the back pocket?
they are trying to reassure their base that all's well in mudville, when as with the majority of their rhetoric is just not true.
