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Rasmussen: Among Military Vets: Romney 59% Obama 35%
rasmussenreports.com ^ | July 22, 2012 | staff

Posted on 07/22/2012 10:07:02 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion

Most military veterans don’t like the job President Obama is doing and prefer Mitt Romney in November’s election.

New Rasmussen Reports polling finds that 59% of Likely U.S. Voters who have served in the military favor the Republican challenger, while 35% support the president. Five percent (5%) of these voters like some other candidate in the race, but only two percent (2%) are undecided.

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1 posted on 07/22/2012 10:07:07 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: BarnacleCenturion

I’m surprised it’s still that close. But maybe that’s because Romney is the worst possible candidate that the GOP could have chosen.


2 posted on 07/22/2012 10:13:16 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Too bad the libs will null and void the military vote. Absentee ballots will mysteriously vanish. And the GOP will do little to thwart this attack on liberty. It’s the same thing year after year.


3 posted on 07/22/2012 10:16:09 AM PDT by albie
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To: albie
Yeah, look for the ballots to be mailed late or otherwise be ruled ineligible.
4 posted on 07/22/2012 10:18:01 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (I didn't post this. Someone else did.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Obama being the commander in chief is telling. It’s like a boss getting a 35% vote of confidence. That’s not good by any standard.


5 posted on 07/22/2012 10:25:12 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: BarnacleCenturion; albie

What truly disturbs is, that anything as high as 35% support the Kenyan.

And Albie’s right - Indecision 2000 saw exactly that chicanery in/around Jacksonville.


6 posted on 07/22/2012 10:29:13 AM PDT by Old Sarge (We are now officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Compared to other polls, this one sounds legit.


7 posted on 07/22/2012 10:30:52 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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To: Dutch Boy

Most of the swing states have republican governors this year (FL, OH, VA, PA, WI, MI, etc..).

I doubt that it will be so easy for the dems to pull off their usual dirty tricks but we’ll see.


8 posted on 07/22/2012 10:35:02 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Thank God somebody in the R party finally figured out Soros SOS plotting.


9 posted on 07/22/2012 10:38:21 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: BarnacleCenturion

I am shocked and amazed that 35% of US military vets support Obama. I wouldn’t have expected a number nearly that high.


10 posted on 07/22/2012 10:38:38 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: Old Sarge

Don’t be too surprised. The 35% are overwhelmingly PAC clerks, finance clerks, and general combat service support troops. Jobs that are essentially make-work easy-retirement positions that should have been outsourced or privatized.

The closer you get to the tip of the spear, the faster support for Obama declines.


11 posted on 07/22/2012 10:40:47 AM PDT by Steel Wolf ("Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." - Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
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To: Steel Wolf

If you got a link to that, Wolf, I’d be glad to get it from you.

There’s a few vets under the VFW/Legion umbrella I need to show that to.

Thanks from a career spook.


12 posted on 07/22/2012 10:46:31 AM PDT by Old Sarge (We are now officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet)
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To: Sooth2222

The only cars with Obama stickers that I’ve seen at MacDill AFB were driven by blacks.


13 posted on 07/22/2012 10:50:47 AM PDT by RightWingConspirator (Obamanation--the most corrupt regime since Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

How come so many still support 0Bammy? He deserves absolutely no military veterans’ support! This person doe not “support and defend the Constitution,” as stated in the oath he falsefully stated on January 20, 2009. He mocks our Constitution and his philosophy of change is to run the USA. He is an evil, destructive individual!


14 posted on 07/22/2012 11:06:25 AM PDT by Ranger Warrior ("To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: New Jersey Realist

http://www.heritage.org/static/reportimages/3E59D41279449CAB99F8C7CF54E02351.gif


15 posted on 07/22/2012 11:08:56 AM PDT by mazda77 ("Defeating the Totalitarian Lie" By: Hilmar von Campe. Everybody should read it.)
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To: Old Sarge

Sorry, no link, just more than a long weekend spent in Afghanistan and Iraq. People in certain MOSs that are non combat, de-facto unionized office jobs seem to have a much higher rate of people who are socioeconomically inclined to be Obama voters. Unfortunately, some jobs are magnets for people who love military benefits but don’t like the idea of personal danger.

In combat arms and combat support folks are either conservative going in or conservative coming out due to the nature of the work. (I was the latter; fairly liberal going in, then maturing as time went on.). They may not be pro-Romney, per se, but they have no love for what Obama is selling. It’s hard to be a good NCO without adhering to conservative principles; and vice versa. Liberals are emotionally based people who make terrible combat leaders.

An interesting thing with the officer corps is that it is also functionally very conservative, but has a thick liberal streak that seems partially a college-days holdover, but also a bit of nanny-state philosophy that is inherent from running a big centralized organization.


16 posted on 07/22/2012 11:10:30 AM PDT by Steel Wolf ("Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." - Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
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To: Steel Wolf
It’s hard to be a good NCO without adhering to conservative principles

No argument there, brother...

An interesting thing with the officer corps is that it is also functionally very conservative, but has a thick liberal streak that seems partially a college-days holdover

Also agree. Having been both, I can recall not a few fellow officers who had that Leftist streak. They didn't make careers of it...

17 posted on 07/22/2012 11:23:56 AM PDT by Old Sarge (We are now officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet)
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To: fwdude

“I’m surprised it’s still that close. But maybe that’s because Romney is the worst possible candidate that the GOP could have chosen.”

It’s also ( apart from the sampling nonsense) the reason that Romney is still “neck and neck” with FUBO.


18 posted on 07/22/2012 11:24:31 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: BarnacleCenturion

I find it absolutely astounding that 35% of the people who offered to sacrifice to uphold the Constitution and defend the Nation are that STUPID.

What the health are they thinking? Are they thinking?


19 posted on 07/22/2012 11:29:23 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Half the people are below average, they voted for oblabla.)
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To: Old Sarge

“What truly disturbs is, that anything as high as 35% support the Kenyan.”

Just took a look at the stats. In 2008 the combined percentage of Blacks (22%) and Hispanics (13%) in the military gives you the answer. It’s still skin color uber alles with the minorities! They want that second job over at the USPS when they “retire” from military service.


20 posted on 07/22/2012 11:31:51 AM PDT by vette6387
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