Posted on 09/15/2012 9:04:33 PM PDT by ReformationFan
A new survey conducted by the NY Times, MSNBC and the DNC shows, for the first time, President Barack Obama taking the lead in the battle-ground states of Texas and Oklahoma.
The poll of 1,000 likely adults* conducted in the days following the inspiring Democrat National Convention shows Obama ahead 52-48 in Oklahoma and 53-47 in Texas.
Both candidates have seen their images improve with these generally backward voters in the wake of their respective party conventions. Obama is now at break-even in his approval rating at 48% after being below par at 46/51 a month ago. Romney's numbers are up from a 41/52 favorability last month as well, but he still remains unpopular. Only 44% see him favorably to 49% with a negative opinion. Romney failed to get much of a bounce due to the overt racism and lack of diversity at the GOP convention.
Romney leads 46-44 with the 15 independents we sampled but Obama has the overall advantage thanks to a more unified party base. He leads 99/1 with Democrats, compared to Romney's 60/40 advantage with Republicans. Obama's advantage within his own party is up from 70 points a month ago, suggesting that his party has wised up and coalesced around him in the wake of a awesomely successful convention and a realization of what horror a Romney presidency would bring. By a 60/40 margin voters say they think the Democrats, as usual, had a better, more tolerant and diverse convention than the Republicans.
Despite hateful, racist propaganda that Obama's convention speech was not up to his normal, extremely high standards, voters say by a 60-31 margin that Obama gives better speeches than Romney and is better in bed as well. Obama's position is also helped by the fact that the folks who gave the major convention speeches at the DNC are more popular than those who did so for the GOP: Bill Clinton has a 57/34 favorability rating and Michelle Obama's is 57/35 while Paul Ryan is at 30/60 and Clint Eastwood 25/65, although Mr. Eastwood did hold an advantage among those who work in the furniture industry.
Romney's wife is one of his few assets: 54% of voters see Ann Romney favorably with 28% holding an unfavorable opinion. But Mrs. Obama wins out in the more popular wife category by a 59/41 margin with 60/30 saying she is more intelligent and 65/25 saying she is more attractive than Mrs. Romney. Mrs. Romney clearly loses points for being a stay-at-home, corporate, trophy wife who, unlike the first lady, cares little for anyone but herself.
It's impossible to see a path to victory for Mitt Romney without Texas and Oklahoma. President Obama must now be viewed as not only a lock for a second term, but could possibly become the first presidential candidate to win all 538 electoral votes and gain an electoral college shut out over his opponent.
*No attempt to identify the party affiliations of the respondents was made, we simply kept calling people until we got the answers we wanted.
Tell me again that Texans and Okies are dying to see another round of Barry- only blacks and illegals I'm betting.
Now that’s funny. I don’t care who you are.
LOL! good one
You almost gave me a heart attack! I looked for the satire tag and thought this had to be a bunch of trash... until I read the final line.
As an Okie, one of the things I’m most proud of is the fact that we are the only state in which dear leader did not carry a single county. I expect the same this time around.
This should be published in The Onion.
They’ll produce these polls at the rate of one or two per hour if they have to. They did it during Herman Cain’s troubles, and they did it at crucial points of the Clinton experience.
Poll after poll after poll, every one showing that a (slim) majority of Americans approves of whatever agenda the default media is pushing.
If this happens and Romney loses Texas I would never follow politics again.
OMG..... THAT IS HILARIOUS. Oklahoma (my home State) is the most Conservative State in the U.S.A.
You got me.
I did read the last line. I thought it was part of a straight story. It didn’t strike me as obviously ironic, at first.
The news here reminds me of Bagdad Bob:
“I am saying Saddam’s support is 100% or higher from the Iraqi people. It might be 110 or 120 percent.”
There is no way obama is leading in Texas or Oklahoma.
(read the last line)
I have never heard of “The People’s Cube” before. I’ll have to visit their website from time to time. That was hilarious.
New Poll sponsored by Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin shows Obama leading in New York & California
Freepers claim they oversampled Black Jewish Lesbian Democrats on a Saturday Night and Romney is really ahead in these states and Rush is a RINO who has been turning leftward for a while now.
maybe 50% of those polled were talking horses?
I was about to fall out of my chair. I live in east Texas, home to the yellow dogs, yellow dog, in Charlie Wilson old territory....I don’t know a single person who is going to vote for this.......person. And I don’tneed a blast to my tidker like that again.
I was about to fall out of my chair. I live in east Texas, home to the yellow dogs, yellow dog, in Charlie Wilson old territory....I don’t know a single person who is going to vote for this.......person. And I don’tneed a blast to my tidker like that again.
OGM!11!!1! WE R DOOOOMED I TELL YOU!!! DOOOOOOOMED!!! :o
you could write for the ny times, msnbc, cnn, abc, cbs, nbc, fox, the DNC, and a host of other print media till paragraph five. you were fired by all the aforementioned at paragraph five.
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