Posted on 05/28/2012 10:23:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Good one Scott!! I will pass that on. In his neighborhood they would all freak out!
The real story here is the companion poll on veterans. Don’t forget, within the past month, Reuters claimed Obama was ahead in that group by seven points, and a survey from the WSJ-NBC News said Romney was up by only eight points. Now, according to Gallup, Romney has a 24-point lead. Yes, veterans represent only 13% of the voting population, but they are a key demographic in states like VA, NC, FL and NV, to name a few.
Obviously, the pollsters for Reuters and the WSJ must have borrowed a bottle of Zogby’s secret sauce to come up with their results. But even if those polls had any degree of accuracy/credibility, it suggests that vets are breaking for Romney in a big way. Obama can’t give Romney that sort of lead (even among a relatively small segment of the electorate) and win re-election.
Long primary campaigns are disastrous for the parties that wage them, for the same reason that Roman civil wars left the empire exposed to foreign invasion - the swords were pointed inward instead of outward. Romney has spent the past year getting napalmed by both his GOP opponents and the Democrats and their media allies. That Romney's level with Obama even as Obama has spent $100m attacking him with ads and carefully orchestrated events through people like Fluke and the fictive "Julia" even while Romney had no money to fight back is pretty impressive.
“Obama finds himself stuck in the mid-40s”
Against a fellow lib no less. What is the world coming too?
When you ocnsider that the polling sample was 68% registered Dems and 32% Republican, that ain’t bad.
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