Pew poll: Obama 50, Romney 43

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[Lakeshark]

Romney was never my choice, he's the last one on the stage I wanted to see.

Now that he is going to be the GOP nominee, we have two choices to vote for, one of them will win.

You've given a lot of words to the idea that "they are the same".

They aren't the same. It's not true. While we may not like Mitt, he's not into destroying everything we love and find good.

It's that simple, hold your nose and vote for someone who may disappoint you from time to time, maybe even a lot, or you help the one clear choice that is and will continue to destroy everything you hold dear.

[spacewarp]

http://www.people-press.org/files/legacy-detailed_tables/7-12-12%20Detailed%20Tables%201.pdf

686 Republicans to 837 Democrats to 771 Independants and they consider this anything close to a valid survey?

Wow. This is sick.

[xzins]

I am a conservative.

I will not vote for a radical liberal.

A few weeks back Romney came out in favor of gay couples. Then he said that gay couples should be allowed at the state level to adopt children.

I don’t need the man to say anything else. That told me who he is.

He’ll not get my vote.

[Lakeshark]

I don't care for him, but it's because he's a RINO squish, not a radical liberal.

If you live in a swing state, and vote third party, you are defacto voting for a genuine radical leftist that will likely make all our dreams of a decent country irreversible.

[xzins]

I live in Ohio. It is a swing state.

Virgil Goode’s name is already approved to be on the ballot. I will vote for Virgil Goode, a true conservative.

My vote will NOT tally in the Romney column.
It will NOT tally in the Obama column.
It will NOT tally in the Johnson column.
It will NOT tally in the Green Party column.

It WILL TALLY in the Virgil Goode column.

In other words, DE FACTO (facts) it is a vote for Virgil Goode and no one other than him.

You do not mean “de facto”. You mean that your ANALYSIS concludes that it helps Obama for me to vote for Goode.

My analysis says that it helps America by strengthening a legitimate alternative to America’s one party system.

[xzins]

Hi Laz, I looked up Rasmussen’s party affiliation numbers and he does use continuous polling to determine his numbers. He doesn’t appear to use historical or census data in determining his party affiliation weightings.

He has it as approximately:

35% Republican
34% Democrat
30% Independent

I’m not sure what the value of historic and census data is, but I know this pew poll did say that was part of their method for determining party affiliation. The best I can come up with is that they think that people don’t change that much, so you should include what they used to be as part of the balance.