Posted on 08/26/2012 11:23:44 PM PDT by middlegeorgian
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows Romney at 47 percent among registered voters and Obama at 46 percent barely changed from the deadlocked contest in early July.
The findings continue a months-long pattern, with neither the incumbent nor the challenger able to sustain clear momentum, despite airing hundreds of millions of dollars in television ads most of them negative and exchanging some of the harshest early rhetoric seen in a modern presidential campaign.
Romneys selection of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as his running mate also did not fundamentally reshape the race, although the GOPs conservative base has grown more enthusiastic about the ticket but no more so about the chances of beating Obama in November.
Enthusiasm or a lack thereof will be on display as Republicans and Democrats hold their conventions over the next two weeks. The two parties will make their pitches to an electorate stuck in a deeply pessimistic mood. More than eight in 10 give the economy negative marks and nearly seven in 10 see the country as seriously off track an assessment that has not changed significantly all year.
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I said this more than a year ago, Obama is going to lose in November by a landslide never before seen in this Country, sending shock waves across the liberal socialist who will all be in therapy for a very long time!
The American people have been voting with their pocket books for the last three and half years. In 2010, the American people took most of the power from the liberal socialist by taking back the U.S. House of Representatives, and numerous State Governors Offices all across this great Country!
Recently, the liberal socialist Nazi’s wanted to stand on the neck of Chic-Fil-a and had their heads handed to them all across this Country!
The polls are not close by no stretch of the imagination, except in the old media who have a vested interest in their candidate Obama win reelection.
Stop posting and reading this stupid ignorant polls where the old media over samples liberal socialist between +6 and +9 percentage in order to provide the perception Obama is still competitive! If the old media told the truth, the base would not even show up to vote and if the liberal socialist did show up, it would be to throw the election by writing in another candidate or vote for a conservative in order to split the vote.
This poll is a great result. Using ‘registered’ voters and a +9 D sample this result puts me in a good mood. Even 2008 wasnt a +8 D turnout and there’s no chance this year being close to that. It will be maybe D +1 or 2. With a more accurate sample romney would be up over 50% and leading by around 5 which is a voter fraud proof lead!
+9 democrat poll .this is great for Romney, if anybody believes that 9 pct more democrats are voting in nov call me I have a cure for baldness
A Romney lead with a +9 dem over sample among REGISTERED voters? Sorry, Romney haters but this equates to a 5% GOP win. This is exactly what Stephen Moore of the WSJ told us last week.
I think you stumbled upon something. The polls for all these last four races because that’s what the media wants to report. Not only does the media use that to boost rating and revenue, but they spin it as a negative for the republican in each of these. This poll is manufactured to be close with a huge dem advantage, where there real story is that Obama is way down, and Romney has a change to put this way in the next 30 days into the conventions and first debate
the +9 result some are referring to is of “Adult voters”...choose “Registered voters” from the pull down menu...unfortunately there is no choice of “Likely voters”
The rats and republicans are running neck and neck. That’s why the rats have lost every major election except one since Buckwheat was selected.
If you believe the pap the WaPo is trying to force on you, you're correct.
However, even a teensy bit of analysis yields a much rosier picture for Romney's standing. A poll of Registered voters always leans left, as do polls conducted on the weekend. And, as others have mentioned, the oversample in this poll is ridculously left-leaning.
This poll is actually telling us that Romney has a significant lead, after months of attack ads which cost Lil' Barry $150 million or more, and before Romney has spent any of his general election cash.
Axlerod must be crapping his pants.
The Romney campaign has hardly spent anything at all. Most of the ads on his behalf are PAC ads. After the convention, the Romney ad campaign will cut loose and it should be a sight to behold (at least I hope it is).
Y'see.
How about a poll of the audiences walking out after viewing the movie 2016?? Think it’s even?
“With as bad as Obama has been, this is not good for Romney.”
with a +9 % advantage to Dems, this means that Romney is probably up by at least 5.
Also consider its a poll of a mixture of adults and registered voters, means an even larger advantage Romney.
My theory is people claim to be independents rather than tell somebody ‘it’s none of your business’.
Agree and I believe at this stage of the nrace there are NO undecideds among people who are committed to vote.
All these “undecideds” are people looking for attention.
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