Election 2012: Ohio President Ohio: Obama 50%, Romney 49%

Rasmussen Reports ^ | 10/5 | Rasmussen

[tatown]

Friday, October 05, 2012

The critical battleground state of Ohio remains a draw, with President Obama holding a one-point lead in the first post-debate survey of the contest there.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Ohio Voters, taken last night, finds Obama with 50% support to Mitt Romney’s 49%. One percent (1%) likes another candidate, and another one percent (1%) is undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

[MrDem]

We win this one on turn out!

[stephenjohnbanker]

Yep

[stephenjohnbanker]

Ping

[tatown]

It’s nice to see this one within the margin of error once again.

[MrDem]

Should float a few more points towards Romney when the debate is fully baked in.

[wny]

this can’t be right....Obama is supposed to be up by 10 in Ohio

[RoseofTexas]

Quick question, when the DNC convention finished RIGHT away perhaps even the next day the pollsters gave Omuslim a big bounce. They didn’t even wait for the numbers to bake, they just gave him the bounce the very next day! What’s going on here? I’m sick of the way the Chicago thugs have taken over all govt. and pollster establishments....THEY ARE EVIL!!

[b4its2late]

Yes, as Ras is a 5 day floating avg.

[LS]

According to the REAL NUMBERS we are seeing in the OH absentee voting, Ras is still oversampling Ds by 3%. See the OH absentee/ early thread posted here daily.

[mmichaels1970]

Ohio will NOT go to Obama. I was active and was a poll observer in 2008. Levels of enthusiasm towards O aren't even close to what they were in 2008.

In 2008, we had thousands of 30something/40something year old people who had never voted before lining up to check one box (and only one box) on their ballot. They knew nothing of any other candidate or issue. They only knew about O.

I just don't see this happening nearly as much in '12 as in '08.

If O wins Ohio, I'll eat my hat.

[Rennes Templar]

How can this be? The headlines Romney are was lying all through the debate! He really lost, even though he won!

[rwfromkansas]

This is only a ONE-DAY Ohio poll guys.

This is NOT the national rolling average poll. It will not move toward Romney anymore unless they take another poll there in a couple days.

Great news to see it tied again.

[lodi90]

“Levels of enthusiasm towards O aren’t even close to what they were in 2008.”

Did you follow the NV Senate race in 2010? Dims will roll out their vote Soviet style in OH because they know how critical it is. Don’t just assume that because dim voters are less enthusiastic about Obama that they won’t vote for him again when prodded by the dim machine.

[xzins]

Rasmussen is normally pretty straight with his numbers.

I think Ohio is evenly split, so a 3% Dem advantage is hard for me to believe given that our entire statewide government is Republican.

Governor, House, Senate, Sec of State, Treasurer, Supreme Court...all republican

You don’t get that with some big democrat advantage. If anything, there’s a repub advantage in our state.

[mmichaels1970]

Dims will roll out their vote Soviet style in OH because they know how critical it is. Don’t just assume that because dim voters are less enthusiastic about Obama that they won’t vote for him again when prodded by the dim machine.

We should certainly continue to work hard and remain vigilant. This will be the fourth general election I've worked. But IMHO O's going to need the red friggin army to roll through here if he wants Ohio.

[MrDem]

I know that but I still believe a few more voters will switch to Romney over the coming days.

[DAC21]

Apparently Eric Holder is now in charge of the Dept. of Labor, and Mitt should say as much.

[DAC21]

Apparently Eric Holder is now in charge of the Dept. of Labor, and Mitt should say as much.

[Grampa Dave]

These polls remind of how the pollsters predicted that Carter would beat Reagan.

Remember when Jimmy Carter beat Ronald Reagan in 1980?

http://spectator.org/archives/2012/09/25/how-carter-beat-reagan/print