Posted on 09/13/2012 6:05:13 PM PDT by Publius804
The post-Labor Day, post-conventions polls show President Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney in the three key swing states of Florida, Ohio and Virginia, which ratchets up pressure on Romney to turn things around in the debates in October.
Obama is ahead of Romney by five points among likely voters, 49 percent to 44 percent, in both Florida and Virginia, and in Ohio, he has a seven-point lead, 50 percent to 43 percent, according to new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls.
“You’d rather be in Obama’s shoes than Romney’s in these three critical states,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, NBC News reported, adding that the leads are not “insurmountable.”
Things could change when the candidates face off at the first presidential debate on Oct. 3 in Denver.
Obama won the three states in 2008 and George W. Bush won them in 2004, according to NBC. Romney likely needs to capture at least two of the three battleground states to win the White House but Obama can reach 270 electoral votes by winning just one or two of these battlegrounds as long as he wins the other states considered to be in the Democrat column.
Miringoff noted that most voters in these battleground states have already made up their minds.
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No Barack Criticism......
Stinks to high heaven. These idiots are just building Obama up so they can feign outrage and say the election was stolen when Obama eats a crap sandwich in November.
A.) Oversampled Dems - especially in Ohio (D+10)
B.) Polled 9/9 - 9/11 - tail end of DNC Bounce and anniversary of 9/11 - huge benefit for Obama
C.) Polled BEFORE Middle East blew up.
D.) Obama can’t break 50 in any poll - despite A, B,& C.
Obama will lose in a landslide.
Hugely over sampled democrats.
This is laughable.
Wow. Where did you see that? If you could link it, that would be very helpful.
Doesn’t Romney have to have all three of these states to win 270 electoral votes? Thre are so few surprises any more in presidential elections. The American people are as predictable as an old shoe.
Garbage poll, the Rasmussen poll shows no such movement in the states mentioned. This is more media “drive the political horse race story line” garbage polling
Brian Williams arrogance is going to get shipwrecked on the hard rocks of reality.
No this is just the usual garbage in garbage out media polling. The professional pollsters show no such dramatic movement in these states
A.) Oversampled Dems - especially in Ohio (D+10)
B.) Polled 9/9 - 9/11 - tail end of DNC Bounce and anniversary of 9/11 - huge benefit for Obama
C.) Polled BEFORE Middle East blew up.
D.) Obama can’t break 50 in any poll - despite A, B,& C.
Obama will lose in a landslide.
23 posted on 09/13/2012 6:21:46 PM PDT by nhwingut (Sarah Palin 12... No One Else)
In Ohio they also under sampled independent at only 10. I noticed this lately that now the Ind are leaning Romney they are not sampling them
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(Better News in this story): Ohio Is Neck and Neck
Breitbart.com ^ | 13 Sep 2012 | William Bigelow
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 8:21:29 PM by Publius804
Two new polls indicate that contrary to the media hype, Ohio is now a toss-up between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. The American Research poll, conducted between September 10-12, showed Obama ahead 47% to 46%. The latest Rasmussen poll shows exactly the same numbers.
There are positive subtexts for Romney in both polls. In the American Research poll, independents favored Romney by a whopping margin, 53% to 37%. This bodes well for Romney with those who remain undecided. In the Rasmussen poll, voters said they trusted Romney on the economy more, which will ultimately prove pivotal, but the biggest edge they gave Obama was, strangely enough, on issues of national security
What the hell happened to Newmax !
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/19536310/presidential-poll-for-the-michigan-general-election
I paid $4.35.9 for non ethanol Premium this moring in Mississippi.
LLS
2008 Presidential Election
The following list ranks the 23 organizations by the accuracy of their final, national preelection
polls (as reported on pollster.com)
2008 Notice Marixst is number 15 and NBC is number 13 on the list. Worse then even Daily Kos, a Leftist propaganda website
.
1. Rasmussen (11/1-3)**
1. Pew (10/29-11/1)**
2. YouGov/Polimetrix (10/18-11/1)
3. Harris Interactive (10/20-27)
4. GWU (Lake/Tarrance) (11/2-3)*
5. Diageo/Hotline (10/31-11/2)*
5. ARG (10/25-27)*
6. CNN (10/30-11/1)
6. Ipsos/McClatchy (10/30-11/1)
7. DailyKos.com (D)/Research 2000 (11/1-3)
8. AP/Yahoo/KN (10/17-27)
9. Democracy Corps (D) (10/30-11/2)
10. FOX (11/1-2)
11. Economist/YouGov (10/25-27)
12. IBD/TIPP (11/1-3)
13. NBC/WSJ (11/1-2)
14. ABC/Post (10/30-11/2)
15. Marist College (11/3)
16. CBS (10/31-11/2)
17. Gallup (10/31-11/2)
18. Reuters/ C-SPAN/ Zogby (10/31-11/3)
19. CBS/Times (10/25-29)
20. Newsweek (10/22-23
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