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Gallup Shocker: Romney Up Five Over Obama
breitbart ^ | 4/17/12 | John Nolte

Posted on 04/17/2012 12:21:04 PM PDT by Nachum

Row faster, Mainstream Media! Faster!

There are all kinds of polls out there, but except for a single outlier, even in polls that show Obama ahead of Romney, the President is still stuck in the mid-forties -- the last place any incumbent wants to be.

Today, Gallup's daily tracking poll gives the White House and Obama's Media Palace Guards another reason to gulp:

Romney 48%

Obama 43%

More bad news for Obama is that his challenger is already romantically close to that magic 50% number.

The bad news for us is that if these polls continue to show Obama in serious trouble, the media is going to absolutely freak out and start their salting-the-earth crusade early.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: 2012polls; gallup; obama; romney; shocker
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To: Longbow1969

I’m not postulating any weird conspiracy. Polls generally get pushed and talked about in MSM to influence opinion. They are using crowd logic- if everyone thinks “x”, then I’m more inclined to think “x” too, and a poll is the major way I learn what “x” is.


41 posted on 04/17/2012 1:27:39 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: Lurking Libertarian

“The Jeremiah Wright story would have sunk any candidate”

McCain never brought it up. The voting public has a short memory.


42 posted on 04/17/2012 1:29:39 PM PDT by bibo_ergo_sum
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To: Nachum

Hey, what do you think vote fraud is for? A few percentage points can be swept under the carpet. All that matters is who counts the votes. So relax.


43 posted on 04/17/2012 1:30:04 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Nachum

The Bro’ Gotsta Go!


44 posted on 04/17/2012 1:34:41 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Romney ruined Massachusetts. Now he wants to ruin the nation.)
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To: JediJones
Not true. 19 states with almost 1,000 delegates have left to vote. Romney isn't even close to having the 1,144 delegates he needs.

Okie dokie. You keep believing that. Eventually reality will hit you, but I know some people aren't ready to face it yet.

45 posted on 04/17/2012 1:50:15 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: Nachum

Looks like Free Republic needs to work harder. It’s early but increasing from 2 to 5 % in a day makes a Romney win seem more likely. That can’t be allowed to happen.


46 posted on 04/17/2012 1:59:55 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: oncebitten
I think anyone who is planning to skip the vote for Romney in the general should go on record. Then when we get four more years of weaselBama we will know to discount and ignore your every word of complaint.

I believe that too. Don't vote, can't complain about who is in office.

47 posted on 04/17/2012 2:31:26 PM PDT by Utah Girl (John 15:12, Matthew 5:44)
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To: Nachum

Since this is coming from Gallup, it’s probably more like 60%-40%.

If the American people had an honest Media, it would be 95%-5% in favor of a retarted clam running against Obama.


48 posted on 04/17/2012 2:34:41 PM PDT by Carbonsteel
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To: oncebitten

Why do Romney boosters sound just like the Leftist Stasi,
‘you must vote like we say’.


49 posted on 04/17/2012 2:38:08 PM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: Nachum
Yeah, I get headaches whenever I think of an American citizen assuming control of our Defense Department and our National Security. I am sure the people of Poland and Israel also hate the idea of an American being in charge of say, America.

What alleviates my headache is the idea of a Kenyan communist continuing to control our Soldiers and Marines.

Yeah, our military is much better off under Obama.

Good call.

50 posted on 04/17/2012 2:45:01 PM PDT by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them)
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To: gorush
You really wouldn't see a difference in our Defense Department, National Security Strategy and alliances with Poland and Israel if America actually has an American in charge again?

Do you even know anyone in the military?

51 posted on 04/17/2012 2:47:04 PM PDT by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them)
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To: Prole

To little, too late.
Don’t feel like you need to change my mind. I don’t feel like I need to change yours.


52 posted on 04/17/2012 2:50:13 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: gorush

Sorry... I meant “Too little, too late”


53 posted on 04/17/2012 2:51:29 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: samtheman

That’s white I think. I don’t say we won’t have to fight Romney on all the mushy liberal stuff, or even blatant liberal stuff. We’d have to fight Hiisein on all that too. But Hissein opens yet another front which Romney won’t-”get YT”. I don’t love or even like Rommey. Truthfully I despise him. But I can’t see fightimg him on all the things we’ll have to oppose Hissein on, plus Hissein’s added war on whites-and as you say, if he gets relected, the gloves come off. I wouldn’t put anything past him in his zeal to get back at whites for being a historically successful race. Taking our homes to give to the “disenfranchised blacks” isn’t beyond him in the second term, when all the brakes are off. South Africa’s ANC won’t have anything on him in his persecution of whites-just look at how brazen he and Holder have been with a second election to win.


54 posted on 04/17/2012 3:13:54 PM PDT by mrsmel
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To: Utah Girl

Obama supports abortion, Romney is on record supporting abortion, Obama supports the homosexual agenda, Romney is on record supporting the homosexual agenda, Obama supports gun restrictions, Romney is on record supporting gun restrictions, Obama supports big government healthcare, Romney has supported big government healthcare. What’s the difference? I’m only going to concentrate on the Congressional races. As for the presidential race, I will punish the establishment GOP in November if Romney emerges as the nominee. The GOP better get it through their head that the base is largely not going to support Romney just like McCain and just like Dole. Not to mention there are 50 million Evangelicals out there who are not going to cast a vote for someone who believes he can become a god and rule other planets.


55 posted on 04/17/2012 3:49:36 PM PDT by RDCOOPER101
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To: RDCOOPER101

All I said was if you don’t vote, you can’t complain. Where did I say if you don’t for Romney, you can’t complain? I didn’t. Vote for Gingrich, Santorum, Palin, write them in, write in Palin. All I am saying is if you don’t vote, IMO, you can’t complain. (At least vote for a presidential candidate, preferably not Obama. I truly believe if people don’t vote for a presidential candidate, that gives Obama another chance for a second term. And America won’t be around in 2016 if that happens.)


56 posted on 04/17/2012 4:12:49 PM PDT by Utah Girl (John 15:12, Matthew 5:44)
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To: oncebitten
Ok, you got it - I'm not voting for Romney.

Of course that's easy for me to say since I live in NJ which will go for Zero whether I vote for MittRhino or not. Quite honestly if I lived in a state where my vote actually mattered (VA, Fla, etc.) I might hold my nose and convince myself I was voting AGAINST Zero, not FOR MittRhino.

I will go vote for the rest of the ballot just like I always do. However, I couldn't bring myself to vote for John "I sell out conservatives for fun" McCain, and I can't justify a vote for Rombama on the same grounds.

57 posted on 04/17/2012 4:49:20 PM PDT by Cable225 (TACT is for those not witty enough for sarcasm!)
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To: Longbow1969
Not true. 19 states with almost 1,000 delegates have left to vote. Romney isn't even close to having the 1,144 delegates he needs.

Okie dokie. You keep believing that. Eventually reality will hit you, but I know some people aren't ready to face it yet.

Go on record, then. On what date do you think Mitt will reach his required delegate majority of 1,144?

58 posted on 04/17/2012 5:05:59 PM PDT by JediJones (From the makers of Romney, Bloomberg/Schwarzenegger 2016. Because the GOP can never go too far left.)
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To: mrsmel

The first chance we get to “fight” RINO Romney is at the ballot box.

What if the GOP officially said they’re changing their platform into a pro-choice platform? Would everyone here still vote GOP (not counting you libertards)? The logic you Romney supplicants are using would apply EVEN IF the GOP officially made their platform pro-choice. There are some issues where you have to be willing to hold other things hostage in order to get what you want. It’s not a strategy to say, “OK, fine, we’ll vote for you even if you give up that issue. We’ll just whine and moan and try to change your mind later, I guess, even as we fall into line behind you at the time when our opposition would REALLY carry some weight!”

Well, I’m not going to let them use the stealth method of picking a candidate who every informed voter knows, or soon will know, has stood on the wrong side of that issue among many others. They have said frequently they are trying to win “moderate” or “independent” voters over with this candidate. The point is to put up a candidate who does NOT represent conservative values to try to win those additional voters. To me that’s little different than officially changing the platform. They are sending the message that this candidate does not and will not stand for conservative values intentionally and for a purpose. Their strategy only works if conservative voters fall into line anyway like good little supplicants. My intention is for their strategy to fail.


59 posted on 04/17/2012 5:20:53 PM PDT by JediJones (From the makers of Romney, Bloomberg/Schwarzenegger 2016. Because the GOP can never go too far left.)
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To: gorush
"Do you think Romney is the same as a crazed Black Liberationist marxist who wants to destroy white AmeriKKKa?"

Pretty much

Sorry. Please forgive my earlier posts. I thought I was talking to a rational being.

Cripes..

60 posted on 04/17/2012 5:39:56 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Newt Gingrich was part of the Reagan Revolution's Murderers' Row." - Jeffrey Lord, Reagan Admin.)
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