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Pollwatch: Obama convention bounce continues to grow
LA Times ^

Posted on 09/08/2012 2:44:00 PM PDT by Arthurio

President Obama’s post-convention “bounce” continued to grow Saturday, as new polls showed him widening a lead over Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

Obama’s lead over Romney among registered voters grew to 49%-45% in Gallup’s tracking poll. The 49% for Obama was his highest point in the survey since late April. It represented an increase of 1 point since Friday and a 5-point swing from Romney’s 47%-46% lead in the Gallup survey just before the Republican convention began.

The poll combines small samples taken each night to present a seven-day average. Since three of the nights of the survey period preceded the Democratic convention, Obama’s lead in the survey is likely to grow further.

Gallup’s measure of job approval also continued to improve for Obama, with 52% of adults surveyed saying they approved of his performance in office, compared with 42% disapproving. That survey uses a three-day average.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012polls; galluppoll; obama; romney
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To: Sarah Barracuda

These polls are making me sick, but I have never been so strongly motivated to vote.

Obama must go....


41 posted on 09/08/2012 4:26:34 PM PDT by Gator113 (I would have voted for NEWT, now it's Ryan and the other guy.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: LongWayHome

What is the GOP selling?

A non-Christian liberal candidate whose as vague on his action plan as Obama was in 2008?

Do I care that Obama is back up? Not really.


42 posted on 09/08/2012 4:27:38 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

I think Romney is going to win, but it’s not going to be by any landslide.


43 posted on 09/08/2012 4:33:23 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Arthurio

Gallup?? Gallup?? Gallup has been in the pocket of the Democrats since JFK.


44 posted on 09/08/2012 4:37:32 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: Arthurio

R u effin’ kidding me?


45 posted on 09/08/2012 4:50:42 PM PDT by matginzac
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To: Arthurio

It appears as though Gallup made a deal with the DOJ. Drop the “lawsuit” and we’ll give your “messiah” a huge bump after the DNC freak sh...I mean convention.


46 posted on 09/08/2012 4:52:52 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The DNC convention is proof that Americans still love a good freak show.)
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To: funfan

It’s not looking good with less than 2 months to go . I don’t see the debates helping Romney with the left moderating and Obama more than likely getting the questions handed to him in advance . Add in the voter fraud and what do you get ? An Obama victory .


47 posted on 09/08/2012 5:35:22 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: SECURE AMERICA
Why would he get a bounce?

C'mon. Why do you think. It was on Television!

We live in a country where millions of brain dead idiots actually cared enough about "American Idol" to get off their asses and call in a vote for those half-assed phoney baloneys. Why shouldn't the drooling masses be swayed by their hero Billyboy, the rapist sodomizer, and his baggage handler?

48 posted on 09/08/2012 5:46:03 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Those Nigerian emails are scams?


49 posted on 09/08/2012 5:54:43 PM PDT by kempster
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To: Arthurio

I would like to see these pollster’s questions.


50 posted on 09/08/2012 6:02:08 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: Arthurio

Got agitprop?


51 posted on 09/08/2012 6:33:36 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Arthurio
PRESIDENT MITT
52 posted on 09/08/2012 6:47:03 PM PDT by jimsin (u)
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To: Arthurio

Dead cat bounce.


53 posted on 09/08/2012 7:59:40 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: OKSooner
Gallup accepting a deal they couldn’t refuse?

Yep - Now Obama's trouncing will be like the economic stats over the last few years - "unexpected".

54 posted on 09/09/2012 2:52:34 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: Arthurio
52% of adults surveyed saying they approved of his performance in office

Amazing that with those odds I haven't met a single one.

55 posted on 09/09/2012 9:10:52 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: Chode

NOT GUILTY!!! Jennifer Laurence *SWOON*


56 posted on 09/09/2012 9:12:50 AM PDT by AmericanSamurai
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To: AmericanSamurai
absolutely...
57 posted on 09/09/2012 9:47:53 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: LongWayHome

That’s true. My only point is that white Hispanics should be counted as part of the white population.


58 posted on 09/09/2012 12:24:52 PM PDT by rushmom
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