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Gallup: More Obama Voters Switching to GOP
Weekly Standard ^ | August 6, 2012 | Michael Warren

Posted on 08/06/2012 12:29:18 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

A new poll from Gallup looks at how many 2008 voters say they will switch parties in the presidential race. According to the poll, more Americans who voted for Barack Obama will be voting for Mitt Romney than John McCain voters will switch to vote for Obama. Here are Gallup's results:

But as Gallup notes in its analysis of the poll, even though Obama looks likely to win fewer votes than he did in 2008, his margin of victory was large enough that the race between the president and Romney remains close.


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; 2012election; 2012polls; 2012swingvote; elections; gallup; obama; romney; vote
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1 posted on 08/06/2012 12:29:25 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

” More Obama Voters Switching to GOP “

In the process, even further lowering the collective IQ of the GOP...


2 posted on 08/06/2012 12:33:18 PM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Naturally it remains close. Gallup’s prospectus is banking on it. They couldn’t stand the reduction in revenues if they were to call it now.


3 posted on 08/06/2012 12:35:14 PM PDT by mazda77 ("Defeating the Totalitarian Lie" By: Hilmar von Campe. Everybody should read it.)
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To: Uncle Ike

J-O-B-S!


4 posted on 08/06/2012 12:36:47 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

As a side note, the undead are still reliable democrat voters, with 100% of dead registered voters casting one or more ballots for a straight democrat ticket.


5 posted on 08/06/2012 12:36:55 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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Who are the 5% McCain voters who plan to vote for Obama? They prefer Obama than Romney or third party candidate? To teach the GOP ?


6 posted on 08/06/2012 12:38:13 PM PDT by paudio (Two stubborn facts remain: (1) Romney is better than 0bama, and (2) Romney is the Republican Nominee)
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It’s not rocket science...there are less people in the workforce today than in 2008 and there will be less Obama voters than 2008.


7 posted on 08/06/2012 12:38:26 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (Resurrect the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)...before there is no America!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Never let them know we're coming.

It remains necessary to always lie to pollsters. The left must think they are going into this election in good shape. If they are confident, they will not prepare for full-on fraud. We must tell exit pollsters the opposite of our votes so they, and the democrat press will be even more upset after the dust clears.

8 posted on 08/06/2012 12:43:59 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Uncle Ike

Exactly.


9 posted on 08/06/2012 12:47:06 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Here are 48 things that Barack Obama has done which should make his supporters feel ashamed and embarrassed
10 posted on 08/06/2012 12:47:14 PM PDT by grundle
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how on earth are there a full 2-3% of the voting population that opposed Obama in ‘08 but plan to vote for him now?!? I would love to interview one of these idiots: “so, exactly which brand of dart DO you throw when deciding who to vote for?”


11 posted on 08/06/2012 12:50:29 PM PDT by Libertarian4Bush (if you voted for obama, I have no respect for you. you're either a loser or a sucker. sorry!)
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Liberals who understand that Romney is a more competent and accomplished pro-choice democrat socialist than Obama.


12 posted on 08/06/2012 12:52:56 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (The saving of America starts the day conservatives stop supporting what they say they hate.)
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If only 61.7% of eligible voters voted in the 2008 Election, it might be more useful to consider how many plan to vote in 2012. And who they plan to vote for. I have this idea that the intensity of the “ABOs” is greater than the “Hope n’ Change 2.0” intensity.


13 posted on 08/06/2012 12:54:10 PM 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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“Who are the 5% McCain voters who plan to vote for Obama? They prefer Obama than Romney or third party candidate? To teach the GOP ?”

They were probably never conservatives to begin with... most likely just part of the “huge number of moderates” out there that a McCain nominee was supposed to be able to pick up.

So much for that.


14 posted on 08/06/2012 12:54:58 PM PDT by libdestroyer
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To: Sgt_Schultze
It remains necessary to always lie to pollsters.

Not to mention the sheer entertainment value of watching their jaws hit the table and the blood drain out of their faces during election night TV coverage.


15 posted on 08/06/2012 1:13:58 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

If this doesn’t wake up the conservatives that Romney is a big liberal, nothing will. When Obama Voters are wanting Romney you know there is nothing good there. Kick Romney to the curb at the convention! It can be done and the United States of America would be better off.


16 posted on 08/06/2012 1:23:57 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Attention Republican National Convention voters....Santorum/Bachmann 2012! Dump liberal Romney NOW!)
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To: EternalVigilance
Liberals who understand that Romney is a more competent and accomplished pro-choice democrat socialist than Obama.

I'll tell you a HUGE difference between Romney and Obama that even you can see EV.

Mitt Romney LOVES this country and the idea of American exceptionalism. He wants people employed and our economy back.

Obama does not like America or what we stand for and he is doing everything he can to depress our economy and collapse the middle class.

17 posted on 08/06/2012 1:25:31 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Who can forget James Carville with the wastebasket on his head? We can only imagine the grief counseling that will be necessary among the media if the Bamster and the Democrat Party crashes and burns this November.

As for pollsters, I tell them I’m undecided. It’s not a lie. I am often undecided about voting early or voting on election day.


18 posted on 08/06/2012 1:27:41 PM PDT by txrefugee
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....When Obama Voters are wanting Romney you know there is nothing good there.....

The "Oh, we won't be called racists anymore" voters wised up. They found out that Obama is the most race-baiting, class warfare president to come down the pike.

19 posted on 08/06/2012 1:28:12 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Mitt Romney loves whatever he thinks serves the ambition of Mitt Romney.

Subject to change at any time, of course.


20 posted on 08/06/2012 1:34:24 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (The saving of America starts the day conservatives stop supporting what they say they hate.)
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