Obama and McCaskill would like to thank you Akin backers for your support.
Posted on 08/24/2012 8:13:11 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The controversy over the abortion-rape comments made by Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin appear to be hurting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Whereas Rasmussen polling showed Romney leading pro-abortion President Barack Obama at the end of July and having Romney leading the race in the Show Me State all year, now Obama has the lead.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Missouri Voters finds President Obama with 47% support to Romney’s 46%. Three percent (3%) favor some other candidate in the race, and three percent (3%) more are undecided. At the end of July, Romney led by six percent and he has not trailed Obama in any Rasmussen poll all year.
“As the controversy over Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” comment continues, Mitt Romney’s lead in Missouri has vanished,” Ramussen says. “Missouri now moves from Leans Romney to a Toss-Up in the Rasmussen Reports Electoral College Projections.”
“Obama’s Democratic support in the state remains largely unchanged at 96%, and voters not affiliated with either major party still favor Romney by 20 points. But Republican support in Missouri for the party’s likely nominee has fallen from 94% in late July to 85% now,” Rasmussen continues.
In 2008, John McCain won Missouri on a slight 49.4% to 49.3% margin. Since then, Rasmussen now shows 48% of voters in the state now approve of the job Obama is doing as president, while 49% disapprove. This includes 26% who Strongly Approve versus 42% who Strongly Disapprove. Fifty-one percent (51%) have a favorable opinion of Romney, while 47% regard him unfavorably. This includes Very Favorables of 24% and Very Unfavorables of 27%.
“As for their running mates, 44% view Vice President Joe Biden favorably, but 50% have an unfavorable opinion of him. He earns Very Favorables of 19% and Very Unfavorables of 36%,” Rasmussen notes. “Ryan is seen favorably by 50% and unfavorably 40%, with Very Favorables of 34% and Very Unfavorables of 29%.”
Meanwhile, Akin now trails pro-abortion Sen. Claire McCaskill by ten percent in Missouri’s U.S. Senate race, Rasmussen polling shows, as he has refuses called from leading Republicans and conservatives to step aside so another candidate can take his place as the U.S. Senate nominee.
The survey of 500 Likely Voters in Missouri was conducted on August 22, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.
How do you reconcile this with your fantasy?
You people are the useful idiots of the Democrat propaganda machine.
So, voters are so pissed at Romney for asking Akin to leave, Akin went from 11% up to 10% down vs. McCaskill in a mere 10 days. Is that the line of logic here?
She sounds too gullible for her own good. Make sure she knows Election day is Nov. 7. You'll be doing everyone concerned a favor.
wouldn’t be the first time the Dems have put one of theirs into an election pretending to be a republican.
Hell they even tried to set up tea parties
People have become incapable of the kind of self government our Founding Fathers intended. Sadly, I’m not surprised.
“documented facts”?
You are just making the assumption that this drop was due to anything that took place weeks ago. For what? Just to try to shift the blame to Romney?
This poll was conducted far after that and reflects the reaction to Akin, not some phantom dislike of Romney for something he did which no one can remotely lay a finger on.
>Better read the internals. They aren’t pissed at Akin, they are pissed at Romnney for asking Akin to leave.
But of course...that’s why akin is now down 10 points since he spoke stupidly.
Deluded, ignorant or evil. Pick one.
If you’re asking whether you’re deluded, ignorant or evil, I’m going to go with all three.
Our government has gotten so big and so oppressive, people are beaten into submission. They don't remember what freedom really is. Most have never experienced it. It's hard to fight for something they're unfamiliar with.
Sadly to say, maybe an economic collapse is the only way to become a free people again. I'd be all for the dissolution of Washington and it's socialist programs if good, hard working innocent Americans wouldn't be hurt by it.
During the millennium of peace, after the great tribulation, there will be no politicians to lead us astray. Every man will sit under and tend to his own vine - and no man will be able to take it away from him.
Obama and McCaskill would like to thank you Akin backers for your support.
Obama and McCaskill would like to thank you Akin backers for your support.
Then the people of Missouri DESERVES what they get!! What a bunch of DUMBASSES some people are!! To care MORE about what one man SAID than what’s happening to AMERICA!!!!!! How MORONIC and VAPID!!
Have a friend like that. I have told her, yeah but you don’t have all the information and she said....I stay informed, I watch the news every night! lol When it is time to vote she always calls and asks me how to vote on the propositions though. ;)
Told ya. Idiots who want Obama in so they can be holier than thou will have helped elect the most pro-abortion duo of Obama and McCaskill in history through their pride and egotism. Disgusting.
This is really just a lot of SRM hype. I have to believe voters aren’t as fickle as the SRM would have us believe.
Akin may be the best thing that ever happened to abortion rights. All the people on our side want the abortionists to win this election, and at the top is McCaskill and Obama. It makes an utter mockery of their so-called “pro-life” positions. All they want is a holier-than-thou position. They aren’t concerned with saving babies.
Akin is in trouble because he is stupid.
As in IQ of an idiot.
Foot in mouth disease.
It has nothing to do with being conservative or not being conaservative.
We do not need more idiots in politics.
Sorry. I didn’t deliberately plan on goring your ox.
Make that, “all the people on our side still supporting Akin”-—obviously most of you know better.
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