Posted on 08/17/2012 4:14:28 PM PDT by RobinMasters
These are the results when registered voters are asked: "Suppose the presidential election were held today. If Barack Obama were the Democratic Party's candidate and Mitt Romney were the Republican Party's candidate, who would you vote for Barack Obama, the Democrat or Mitt Romney, the Republican?" Those who are undecided are further asked if they lean more toward Obama or Romney and their leanings are incorporated into the results. Each seven-day rolling average is based on telephone interviews with approximately 3,050 registered voters; Margin of error is ±2 percentage points. Results from April 15 through May 6 are based on five-day rolling averages with approximately 2,200 registered voters each; Margin of error is ±3 percentage points. Editorial note: Due to a technical issue, the May 1-5 data point is not displayed at this time.
(Excerpt) Read more at gallup.com ...
It gave them 10 million extra votes ~ another way to look at it is that when the GOP-e ran McCain we instantly lost 5 million Conservative voters. That way the Democrats needed only to come up with 5 million new Democrat voters ~ a much easier task than getting the whole 10 million de novo.
They continue to have a great deal of resilience with a buffer of 5 to 10 million voters.
In contrast we have prepared for this contest by running yet another leftwing candidate.
Somebody at the top of the Republican party has several screws loose.
ACTUALLY, AT THIS POINT rEAGAN WAS 9 POINTS DOWN!
Well, we sure can see the effect FR haters of Romney are having. Who would have thought they couldn’t topple the Ticket? All three hundred of them. Fire away.
wHOA!
Reagan was about 20 points behind prior to the convention.
I think Reagan was nine points down three to four weeks before the election, At this point, he was 20 behind. After the convention he started up and the debates shot him upwards till the weekend before the election when he went ahead of Carter.
Also note the polling ended May 6th.
Lick your chops on this:
Carter up 39%— Reagan 32%. This is like the 1990 congressional elections where no pollster saw how much people hared Hillarycare. This poll does not factor in how much democrats and indies hate Obamacare.
Hmmm, I did NOT know that (well, I knew about Kasich). And most of my family lives in Ohio. Thanks!
“Somebody at the top of the Republican party has several screws loose.”
I must have missed the memo. Look, Romney won the most votes and the most primaries. I supported Newt, but this guy won the process fair and square. No GOP-e clown in New York or Boston anointed this guy. He won. I plan on supporting him against the communist, anti-Christian bigot currently in power.
And this is the convention speech that turned it all around back in 1980. I remember watching that speech on the couch at home as a 17-year-old and when it was over, my father, who was a lifelong Democrat, turned to me and said "That's the next president of the United States."
If you haven't seen this speech or it's been a long time since you saw it, I recommend you take 45 minutes out of your time this weekend and view the video at my link above in its entirety. It starts off a little slow, but once you get past Reagan's sop to the ERA crowd (a big social issue at that time), it turns into a rousing barnburner of a speech and I believe this one speech sealed the deal for Reagan that election year.
If Mitt Romney can give a speech half this good later this month at the RNC, Democrat heads will explode all across this country.
Too bad for Gallup and the rest of the Leftist propaganda outlets, likely voters, not register voters is the real professional polling standard. Too bad for Gallup about 40-45% of these “registered voters” do not vote.
Romney got a bump because he is nominating Ryan as his VP. You can’t dispute that Ryan is a conservative, and so some of the conservatives have jumped on board Romney’s bus. What’s surprising to me is that the bump is only 1 or 2%. Hard to believe that conservatives can give Romney only a 1 or 2% bump. Some of them are still holding back, and frankly, they are fools if they don’t take Romney’s side in the epic battle between Romney/Ryan and Obama/Biden.
Didn’t Obama just give a bunch of illegals a quick pathway to citizenship this week. The lines were around the block in most cities. That is going to be a problem for Republicans.
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