Posted on 10/06/2012 10:39:32 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
A new poll shows Mitt Romney flipping a 5-point deficit in Colorado before the first presidential debate, which was held on Wednesday in Denver, to a 3.5-point advantage later in the week — another signal that Mr. Romney's comparatively strong debate performance has started to translate into rising poll numbers for the Republican.
A poll from Gravis Marketing, conducted Oct. 3-4, shows Mr. Romney with a 49.4 percent to 45.9 percent lead over Mr. Obama. The president had held nearly a 5-point lead in a poll conducted Sept. 25, at 50.2 percent to 45.5 percent.
Mr. Obama's job approval numbers are also significantly underwater in the new poll: 40.5 percent approve, while 50.9 percent disapprove. Just 36.8 percent of voters say the country is on the right track, compared to 53.5 percent who think it's on the wrong track.
The political party affiliation of the survey's sample was about 32 percent Republican, 28 percent Democrat and 40 percent "other."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
40% belonged to other parties, what?
I believe you have hit the nail on the head.
Prior to the debate, the BIG story floating around the blogosphere, just shy of needing to be voiced by the enemedia, was the poll agenda of disheartening, discouraging, and imminent capitulation of Romney voters.
I remember thinking after the debate Romney did well, and zer0 didn’t, not overwhelmingly so... but the “trouncing” story snowballed overnight.
This trouncing is the enemedia’s way to switch to “save face”, abandoning the “Romney is toast” meme, and move to more realistic apportionments of D’s/R’s/I’s/U’s.
Over sampling R?..
Weird. What are they up to?
I can’t ever remember a debate where there was such a dramatic impact on the loser’s supporters. Usually, debates will swing a few undecideds one way or the other, but I’ve run into a bunch of committed liberals who are shocked and disheartened by Obama’s debate performance.
In one case, it was a black guy in line in front of me in the store talking loudly on his cell phone, saying, “If I didn’t know ‘bama, I’d be votin’ for that other dude. I’m still rootin’ for ‘bama, but I scared, now.”
I still don’t trust Romney to govern as a conservative, but at least he’s head and shoulders above the empty chair we have right now. ...and I do know Paul Ryan and trust he will be an asset as VP.
Yep, the real Obama without the packaging and the script is a real empty suit. People saw that last week. I bet a lot of them are deflated and confused. His entire media-created image was a fraud and its been shown to be. They will try to put it back in the bottle, they do have the media on their side.
Building O up for a comeback after the next debate, bank on it.
Now they will oversample the Republicans so they can make Barack the comeback kid again.
Nothing new under the sun.
You can’t stand Romney, but you are fine with giving Obama 4 more years to further socialize the country and add another $6-7 Trillion in debt? You want us to be another Greece? Have you kept up with the hardships Greeks are undergoing right now? Are you a financial flunkie?
There is still hope.......I never celebrated a particular victory before, but if this Marxist loses I sure will. God help this nation to rid itself of this curse......and I do hope that a good portion of the public have learned their lesson!
The lazy liberal left likes its food raw and its politics processed (think Comedy Central and anything else pre-masticated and pre-digested by the MSM).
Time for some political roughage, people!
I detest pre-chewed politics.
Romney’s been ahead for a while already. The pollsters just want to start posting reality a month before the election so they don’t look so stupid when Obama loses big.
So pollsters often discount the number of Dem voters by the 'highly disapprove' percentage they find.
I don't know what that number is in Colorado, but it easily could be 3-4 percent - the difference between known registration and the poll results.
The debate was like a hard slap to the face of some marginal Obama voters that broke them out of their trance/delusion. “My God, where was I, what was I doing? ...”
My thoughts exactly. These numbers have been cooked for a long time. Now the MSM is trying to salvage what little reputation they thought they had. Problem is, once a reputation is lost, it’s hard to get back.
Either a misprint or something very strange.
Until the debate all major polls were over weighing the Dems based on the 2008 turnout - which was of historic proportions and will never happen again. And they ignored how high 'the anybody but Obama vote' was. So now they're factoring that in with a +4% R turnout or most Independents going R (like - Broken Glass Voters of 2000).
I don't think its been a secret, except to the MSM, that GOP voters, Tea Party, etc, have been really energized to get rid of Obama. And Dem voters have been down and dejected, plus 'the yute vote' is gone for Barry. Or has turned against him and are now voting for Romney.
Does this mix sound like Colorado? A D/R/I of 28/32/50?
I'm concerned that we are being set up for the big Obama comeback.
Never count in CO too soon; it usually disappoints.
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