Posted on 05/15/2012 1:16:34 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Fifty-six percent of of Americans say President Barack Obama will win re-election, the Gallup polling organization said Tuesday, drily calling that prediction "perhaps a slightly more optimistic assessment than is currently warranted."
Thirty-six percent say presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney will be the one taking the oath of office in January.
Party affiliation shapes whether Americans are bullish or bearish on the odds of another term for Obama: 81 percent of Democrats but just 24 percent of Republicans predict he'll pull it off. But 58 percent of Independents agreed, compared to just 31 percent who said Romney would get the keys to the White House.
Gallup's latest daily tracking poll found the incumbent and the challenger in a dead heat, with Obama up a statistically meaningless 46 percent to 45 percent over Romney.
"It may be that Americans recognize the advantages Obama has as the incumbent and that historically, presidents seeking re-election usually win," according to Gallup's analysis.
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Yahoo/ABC news?
Now that’s funny as it gets.
Guilty.. They didn’t call me. But I would have told um he would likely win.
You can’t beat a socialist democrat with a socialist rino.
How do we know that's "optimistic?"
And even more predict that the world will end in December of 2012 because they read a twitter post on facebook based on something the Mayans once said.
I’m looking forward to that $10 a gallon pump bill. But at least it’s saving the planet...
Yea this is spin, spin, spin bigtime.
I guess this is a favor to that horrible NYT poll that came out today
Bill Clinton was the first Democrat to be twice-elected to the White House since Harry Truman.
Obama is going down like Jimmy Carter.
No internals published. Utter trash.
I guess this is a favor to that horrible NYT poll that came out today
I guess this is a favor to that horrible NYT poll that came out today
That makes me sick to my stomach.
A ham sandwich would beat Obama in November.
The economy is not going to get better by November no matter how much smoke the government throws around trying to obscure things. It is much more likely to get substantially worse.
Americans can be counted on to vote their pocket book. They always have.
I can say that 3 times
How many folks did they make contact, all 5 in the old phone booth?
Whenever a bad poll comes out against Obama notice how a supposed “Good” poll comes out in his favor. Give me a break Obama is gonna lose in a landslide my two poochies could beat Obama in a debate
Going all out for 1% of the population isn’t exactly a winning strategy for Obama, especially since they were already going to vote for him anyway.
They’re assuming there will be elections.
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