Posted on 05/02/2012 5:31:33 AM PDT by C19fan
Barack Obama won Virginia by six points in 2008, and if he were up against his almost-certain 2012 opponent Mitt Romney today, he would win it again by a similar margin. If Romney hopes to close that gap, the state’s governor Bob McDonnell would not help, and there is no question that one potential running mate would hurt: Eric Cantor. The Constitution Party candidacy of the state’s former congressman Virgil Goode could also draw votes away from Romney, to Obama’s advantage. Obama tops Romney by eight points, 51-43, up from a six-point (48-42) lead when PPP last polled the state last Demember. These results come among an electorate that reports voting for Obama by only four points over John McCain four years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at publicpolicypolling.com ...
PPP is a Democrat polling outfit so adjust those numbers by 10 to 15 points.
Obama will not win Virginia or North Carolina. As a matter of fact this thing could be a landslide for the GOP.
CORRECTION: it should be called the Public Policy PUSH Poll as this is what they want the public to believe. here is no basis for this kind of support regardless of the amount of make-work jobs that Obama fictitious lay creates for the short term. A can of dog food can beat him in an election right now and I am telling you he is a landslide loser in November.
The GOP has been doing very well in Fairfax County since 2008. If the GOP can minimize the damage in Fairfax, 0bama does not stand a chance in VA.
CORRECTION: it should be called the Public Policy PUSH Poll as this is what they want the public to believe. here is no basis for this kind of support regardless of the amount of make-work jobs that Obama fictitious lay creates for the short term. A can of dog food can beat him in an election right now and I am telling you he is a landslide loser in November.
An effort to discourage people from voting in November.
Romney drops to 51-38 when the poll includes Virgil Goode. It’s likely he has even worse numbers in PA, OH, IA and MI.
So why again was he considered to be electable? He needs to win states like VA and NC, and he’s down in both of them.
At this point it looks unlikely that Romney will do as well as McCain.
I live in Virginia and that would be a terrible thing if we elected this thing again.
GOP swept last night in some local elections.
I don’t see Obama repeating his last trick.
Romney has to STAY ON MESSAGE. The biggest problem with the GOP is that they LET the media carry the distractions the DNC wants.
What is the matter with us Americans? Three years ago, we (as a country) decided to see what it would be like to bang our head on the wall. Now, Today, after 3 1/2 years of CONSTANT banging our collective (sic) heads against our collective (sic!) walls, we are deciding, by 8 percentage points, to continue banging our collective (yep, dittoes) heads against our walls?
One of the founders was exactly right when he said - a republic can be sustained only while there is virtue in its populace.
Gallup and Ras are really the only two I look at any more.
Doesn’t surprise me. A lot of blacks in VA and a lot of limosine liberals in Northern Virginia. If the bible beaters stay home, which it looks like they might and I reside in that part of the state, Obama could win VA big.
This is a BAROMETER.
Romney, the RINO choice of the DNC, cannot win.
Which is why Obama, Soros, Kerry, Clinton, and Carter
all LOVE/WANT Mitt Romney.
And the GOPe has given them and the MSM what they want.
VA used to be a very conservative state. WTF happened?
Northern Virginia. I remember when I was a kid and you felt you were in the South when you hit NoVa but now it is all Yankees, I am one, so now it is the southern end of the Northeast corridor.
I am voting for Goode not evil and the lesser of two evils...sorry...held my nose to vote for McCain because of Sarah....I don’t care who Mittens picks for VP the die is cast in my voting booth...
We nominate conservatives or I wont vote GOP in national. I still vote conservatives down the ticket I simply can’t pull the lever on POTUS anymore...
Freegards
Lex
“This is a BAROMETER.
Romney, the RINO choice of the DNC, cannot win.”
There you go! Woooohoooo! Great news!
Much different demograqphics in VA than in PA, OH, and IA. IA is one of the whitest states in the coutry and a much smaller ratio of bible beaters in PA and OH. Romney could easily win PA, OH, and IA, yet lose VA. Romney being a New England liberal Mormon changes the electoral red/blue map.
“What is the matter with us Americans? “
Are you new here? No Romney, no way.
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