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发帖数: 2980 | 1 Mitt Romney adviser Ed Gillespie expressed confidence Monday night that
Republican voters would turn up at the polls in greater numbers than
Democrats this election year, giving Romney a good chance to win several
swing states that Obama took in 2008.
"We have momentum and we're going to capitalize on that," he told Fox News'
Sean Hannity, predicting "a big, big win" for the GOP nominee in
Pennsylvania and Virginia, where Romney has been focusing much of his time
and money in the closing days of the 2012 presidential campaign.
"We've been impressed by the gap that we see in all of the polls where
Republican voters, Romney voters, are much more likely to vote than
President Obama's voters," Gillespie, adding that that could make the
difference in the race.
"Across the country, when you're the incumbent president of the United
States this close to Election Day and you're as far below 50 percent [in the
polls] as he is, you are in deep trouble," added Gillespie, a former
chairman of the Republican National Committee.
He said the campaign expects Romney's appeal to coal country voters in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Virginia to really pay off, given the administration
's current energy and regulation policies which have Republicans claim have
thrown thousands of miners and other energy workers out of jobs.
Gillespie said the focus in Virginia on the looming fiscal crisis prompted
by automatic spending cuts, or budget sequestration, at the end of the year
is also resonating with voters, many of whom work as government contractors.
Concerns about the loss of defense and other government contracts, he
suggested, will help drive the vote to Romney.
"Romney is going to carry Virginia," Gillespie said, adding: "We have a
great ground game. And most importantly, we have a great message that's
resonating very much in Virginia . . . where the sequestration, the effect
of these random, arbitrary, and deep defense cuts are going to have a very
dramatic impact."
Add to that "the coal economy" in the southwestern part of the state,
Gillespie continued, and Romney is likely "to have a good night in Virginia"
when the votes are finally tallied.
Asked about the possibility of taking the critical battleground of Ohio,
Gillespie said early voting appears to indicate that Romney is doing much
better than 2008 Republican nominee John McCain.
"We are over-performing in our early votes compared to where we were in 2008
and Democrats are underperforming, and that's consistently true," he told
Hannity.
Asked by how much, Gillespie replied, "About 253,000 votes."
"That a significant swing in Ohio. It depends on the state, Sean, but
everywhere that pattern is the case," he added. "And that's why we feel so
good because we know that we're going to perform very well."
Gillespie said Republicans still expect to turn out their "high-propensity
voters," as he called them, today, which is one more reason the Romney
campaign expects to surprise push that will take them past Obama in the vote
count tonight.
He said the problem for the Democrats is that they've "been cannibalizing
their election day vote" by pushing early and absentee voting so hard. As a
result, he suggested the Obama campaign doesn't have much of a voting base
left to turn out in any great numbers to vote in person.
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