Posted on 06/12/2012 3:28:41 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are in a near tie in Rasmussen Reports’ first look at the critical battleground state of Iowa.
A new telephone survey of Likely Iowa Voters shows Romney earning 47% support to Obama’s 46%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided
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Someone want to explain to me how 46% of the country (assuming) wants 4 more years of Communism, lies, a failing economy, joblessness, unimaginable debt, criminal behavior (Holder etc., ) czars, from an admitted addict, a mulatto, a homo, a fraud, a criminal, a liar, a prick, an anti-capitalist, anti-American, religion-hating muslim asshole???????????????????????
Politically, Iowa is the most liberal of the farm states and Obama won it by a comfortable margin in 2008. If Romney is pulling ahead there, it’s a very good sign.
Hard to believe those numbers, but if Mitt can only win Iowa by a point, he is not going to win many of the other swing states.
Unemployment is only 5.2% in Iowa. The voters there don’t care about the rest of us.
my first thought too.
really? iowa? 1 point?
may God have mercy on us.
Any incumbent who is polling less than 50% is in deep trouble. The vast majority of undecideds will go for Romney. The number of swing states is increasing. Hope and change now have a record and it ain’t good.
Keep in mind that many of these polls tend to oversample Democrats. The real numbers may be considerably more gapped.
The fact that Romney is already tied or ahead is very good this far out.
The MSM will spin this poll as very close.... blah blah blah. But what they don’t tell you is Obama, as a siting incumbent, should be very close to 50% to have a chance at wining. With 7% undecided or voting third party, he can’t get swing enough undecided votes to win. History is against him.
The MSM will spin this poll as very close.... blah blah blah. But what they don’t tell you is Obama, as a siting incumbent, should be very close to 50% to have a chance at wining. With 7% undecided or voting third party, he can’t get swing enough undecided votes to win. History is against him.
Iowa has been thought to be an automatic for Hussein. If he’s under 50% after 3 1/2 years in office, you can stick a fork in him.
Someone want to explain to me how 46% of the country (assuming) wants 4 more years of Communism, lies, a failing economy, joblessness, unimaginable debt, criminal behavior (Holder etc., ) czars, from an admitted addict, a mulatto, a homo, a fraud, a criminal, a liar, a prick, an anti-capitalist, anti-American, religion-hating muslim asshole???????????????????????
That question needs repeating over and over and over and ......
Iowa reelects Comrade Harkin every chance it gets. Pork is King in Iowa...in more ways than one.
Some Americans are like abused wives.. they know they`ve been treated horrendously, but are still so emotionally dependent upon and bonded to the abuser they`re willing to endure the treatment. Besides, they rationalize, they`re deserving of no better.
I would classify Minnesota as a farm state...and the most liberal. It last went GOP for....Nixon!
However, the RealClear Politics map shows it merely ‘leaning’ Obama - not ‘Solid’.
I take that as a good sign. You may recall that Barry went there to campaign two weeks ago...I find it encouraging that he has to keep ministering to the masses in a state like Minnesota. It keeps him out of Florida and Ohio.
Bush won Iowa by less than a point in 2004 and won most of the other swing states.
I respectfully disagree. Obama won Iowa in 2008 by a margin of 9.5%. So a 1% Romney lead is a 10.5% improvement. If Mitt gains 10.5% in other swing states, he flips Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Colorado, and the district of Nebraska that Obama won to the Republican side. That would add up to enough electoral votes to win the race.
Running neck-and-neck in the Hawkeye State is a good thing. Eastern Iowa, like much of the Upper Mississippi Valley (including much of adjacent Minnesota and Wisconsin), is historically Democratic. Compared to the rest of Iowa, the eastern part of the state is more industrialized, more Catholic, and more unionized. Western Iowa is much more Republican, but is unfortunately more lightly populated, being overwhelmingly agricultural.
I suspect Romney may be scoring gains especially among Catholics in eastern Iowa. Hopefully, he can also increase GOP margins in the agricultural areas in the west. The state could be critical.
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