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.
my bad ... bad ... bad ... should have been dnc
Very good! I was also expecting to read, blacks support Obama by 155% - 0%, and God’s job approval rating dropping below 50%!
lol
I like it
The headline! The headline! It BURNS!!!
LOL
Remember that Stalin pointed to the Ultimate Reality.
"I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how." (The actual quote.)
Can any Dim actually justify their frantic struggle to stop or deflect Voter ID? They keep screeching about there is no such thing as "voter fraud" and that the poor fuzzies can't afford free ID, and that it's all a racist plot.
Since they are dims, and Holy Mother Party is the Revealed Truth, these limp, sorry excuses are Gospel.
War is coming. Are the ditches going to be filled with conservative bodies or communists?
Oh man, I had tears running down my face until I got to the end. :)
Harrumph!!
Having lived in Harris County for 20 years and having manned phone banks for Phil gramm, I can say that any suggestion that BHO was Texaan choice is totally, completely screwed up!
THERE IS NO WAY THAT FOOL IS LEADING IN TEXAS!
“generally backward voters”
Ok
What kind of dunce writes this drivel?
check out The People’s Cube, where this came from. The Onion has nothing on it.
Oklahoma was the only state in which Obama lost every single county last time around. From what I see, he has less support this time.
Hahaha, more desperate demorat human toilet logic.
It's not that Okies won't vote dimocRAT, just not Obama!
Taft Beats Truman...... enough said
OK ranks 7th.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/152459/mississippi-conservative-state-liberal.aspx
we full of illegals here. this is not good.
I heard texas is close..I hope someone it watching it.
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