Posted on 09/20/2012 11:20:44 AM PDT by nhwingut
Mitt Romney remains slightly ahead in the swing state of Iowa.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Iowa Voters shows Romney with 47% support to President Obama’s 44%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate in the race, and five percent (5%) are still undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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Is it my imagination, or does it seem that there is a trend towards Romney the past few days? Especially since his 47% remarks were publicized and all the mess in the Middle East?
Romey is up with Gallup and generally down with Ras.
The fanatical “dead enders” that voted O last time; may be deflated and sit out.
I really really really don’t get all the teeth gnashing folks are doing here..
Romney seems to be running a very solid, controlled, campaign.. while I don’t agree the polls are properly picking up what’s going on the ground fully, lets look at the trending.
NC was supposed to be a hold for Obama... So much so the DNC put their convention there based on it... Reality.. Its now OFF THE MAP.
IA again, going out of play.
FL, OH, WI and VA will also soon be out of play. While the campaign may not be flashy or have the red meat attacks we would personally like to see, the trending and movement is all going the right way.
I do not believe Obama has any chance in hell of holding any state he didn’t carry by at least 55% of the vote in 2008.
Time will tell.
In Iowa we need to get rid of Obayma and Leonard Boswell. I would love to add Tom Harkin into that mix as well.
I’m working to get King, Latham and any other Republican on the list elected. I’m sick of these libs.
The young man dating my daughter (a Democrat by the way) told me that he has heard from some of Boswell’s aids that they have to walk him to the chamber to vote and after he’s done voting they said he asks them “what did I just vote on?”. He swears this is true. Somehow I believe him.
From the sounds of it, Boswell is pretty much feeble and out of it quite a bit of the time.
Maybe that’s what makes him a perfect Democrat.
No it is alll about race. It just so happens we get good news in the whiter states this week, Iowa and NH, yet the blacker states of Ohio and Virginia seem to be slipping away.
Zero’s surge may be mostly in the ‘blue’ states.
“FL, OH, WI and VA will also soon be out of play.”
Out of play for whom?
Well, I’d hold the champagne on Wisconsin (look at RCP), but throw NC in there. My state of Virginia is having a few identity problems at present and I’m hoping voters here will see the light.
I’m hoping that the cheating isn’t so bad that the outrage, the seething disgust for America’s misguided foray into the folly of affirmative action for all cannot triumph. America’s First Black President - a joke, an incompetent one with evil intent not borne in this country. So much misguided hope, and so little change for anything good.
If you believe the garbage coming out of the MSM, Obama’s campaign is taking off like a rocket. The MSM aren’t even spinning facts anymore. They’re just spinning fiction.
Are you kidding? We are having a great day:
1. Gallup 7-day average has Obama 47, Romney 47, with Romney rising throughout the last several days; trend line is up, not down, for Romney
2. MSM getting egg on their faces with Libya bombing + hysteria over Romney 47% gaffe
3. Tim Kaine steps into verbal dog dirt in Virginia senate debate
4. Georgia Insider Advantage poll has poll has Romney +15 (McCain won the state by just 5)
5. Jake Tappert ABC Political Punch MSM blog flooded with anti-Obama anger re Libyan bombing and lies from the Obama Administration
6. Immediate layoffs announced from Bank of America + American Airlines among other employers; leading economic indicators down; manufacturing down for 5th straight month
7. Restore Our Future has new ad up in Wisconsin, Michigan called “Disappearing” that FINALLY addresses the real unemployment rate
8. Paul Ryan receives standing ovation from House colleagues at GOP conference
Out of play for Obama.
No, it makes sense. In swing states (by definition that means fairly balanced), there are more (53%++) voters who are glad that Romney will do something about the wagon load full of freeloaders they are pulling.
The one interesting thing that is happening (and IA is a key part) is that it is becoming theoretically possible for Romney to (barely) win without winning Ohio.
I suspect we may as well resign ourselves to the fact the polling is all over the place because the pollsters are not real sure how to poll anymore. They are trying to figure out how to poll a country that overwhelmingly voted FOR Obama in 2008 then overwhelmingly rejected him in 2010.
I really think Romney, if things aren’t better after the first debate, should abandon Ohio and Virginia and focus on Florida, Nevada, and the Midwest.
It is very possible to have a winner of the popular vote but not win the electoral college again. I can see that happening to either side.
I agree with Dick Morris. Historically, 80 percent of the undecideds break for the challenger on Election day. That would make it Romney: 51% Obama: 46% (I gave Obama the 1 percent who did not want to answer; apparently.
Take out the polls that over samples Democrat +11 in WI and things do not look so dark in WI
The problem with RCP is they treat all polls as equal. They are not.
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