Posted on 04/16/2012 4:41:23 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
(CNN) - President Barack Obama holds a nine-point lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney thanks in part to the perception that the president is more likeable and more in touch with the problems facing women and middle class Americans, according to a new national poll.
A CNN/ORC International poll released Monday also indicates a large gender gap that benefits Obama, but the public is divided on which candidate can best jump-start the economy.
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When you look at the poll internals they show Romney doing slightly better among pubs than Obama is doing among dems, and that Romney is +2 among independents.
So in order for Obama to lead by 9% they had to massivly oversample dems. This is OBama PR not a poll, funny that both Rasmussen and Gallup have Romney ahead slightly but more significent they have Obama getting 44 & 45% of the vote this is a losing # for an incumbent at this point.
People ‘know’ Obama and whether they will vote for him or not. Obama’s results in the general will be very close to what he is pulling now.
Also rasmussen’s generic ballot shows the pubs ahead 46% to 36% a disaster for the rats.
Guenie, National Grassroots for Santorum on FB is good.
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