Posted on 07/07/2012 1:19:43 PM PDT by Innovative
According to a new Investor's Business Daily/Christian Science Monitor/TIPP Poll of 825 registered voters taken just after the court's ruling, Obama's lead over Romney has slipped from four percentage points to just one point (43-42).
While a plurality (48-44 percent) approve of Obama's overall job performance, only about one-third of those polled think he's doing a good job on the economy; 42 percent say he's doing a 'poor' or 'unacceptable' job in this category.
By a wide margin - 61-34 percent - most Americans disapprove of the individual mandate requiring everyone to have health care insurance or pay a fine.
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I don't think this will matter a whit.
This election will be people for Obama or against Obama, and little else.
The liberals have said that the court ruling will help Obama in the election.
Are the liberals mistaken? How can Obama be down in the polls when the liberals said this helps Obama?
And now the liberals love John Roberts. Go figure. A number of liberal senators, including Senator Obama himself, voted against confirming Roberts to the Supreme Court.
a poll of registered voters has romney tied... bad news for 0dumbo.
Christian Science Monitor! Coming from this hotbed of hard core leftists this is hugh.
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All I see on FR is how Romney leads Obama. Hard sometimes to know what on FR is reliable reporting since just about any goofy article can be posted.
Has Obama actually been leading Romney up to now?
Also, if Obama runs a dirty campaign, I think it will work against him. Romney needs to run an assertive, clear, and honest campaign that isn't nasty on a personal level, but hits big government, big taxes, and miserable economy directly.
This poll doesn’t many any sense to me. It suggests that there are a few percentage points of people who would have voted for Obama, except that the SCOTUS didn’t strike down Obamacare, therefore, they will vote for Romney instead. What must those people be thinking? “So long as SCOTUS strikes down his signature legislation, I’ll vote for him!”?
I see this election a bit like the O.J.Simpson trial. The people who wanted O.J. acquitted didn't argue for him on the basis of his innocence, but on the basis of the color of his skin. It seemed to me that those who felt he was guilty by and large felt that way because of the facts, not his race.
Likewise, it seems to me, the people for Obama do not argue on the basis of his record but because he's Obama. However, those that are against Obama are fighting for the Constitution and their freedom. They have plenty of substantive arguments against his record and administration. So there is not a pro/con equivalency here.
The court decision did NOT help Obama. If you want to claim he won a victory because his signature legislation was (sort of)upheld then fine, but the victory is a Pyrrhic one when 60% of those asked about the health care law want no part of it.
Obama expected to lose this decision and was all prepared to run against an “Activist Right Wing USSC”. Instead he finds himself having to defend what the court has said is a tax on everyone choosing to not buy health insurance with the added problem of having to explain why this increase does not apply to illegal aliens who are the main beneficiaries of the health care law.
Any incumbent at 43 with registered voters is looking at a landslide defeat. Even pathetic Romney should be able to pull away as the summer moves along.
Party ID of sample: Democrat(33.5%), Republican (29.3%), Independent/Other(33.4%), Not sure/Refused(3.8%)
Also, Gary Johnson is in this poll and takes 2%.
This is good news for anyone who wants Obama defeated and Obamacare repealed.
We’ll be hearing from the others soon enough, I expect.
I am here to tell you Brad, Obamugabe doesn’t really HAVE a lead. America knows he sucks.
Pro Obama: it's not about substantive issues, it's about skin color.
Con Obama: it's about substance not skin color. It's about our unalienable God-given rights of life, liberty, and pursuits protected from unjust government coercion and from a non-natural citizen by the U.S. Constitution.
Side note: the O.J. trail was over before it began because the prosecution allowed the defense to seat all minorities in the jury. As far as I know, not one white guy in the jury. Game, set, match.
The Christian Science Monitor has for countless years been a Liberal/Leftist rag; anything printed in its pages can safely be disregarded.
Obama’s numbers are nowhere near this high.
What is missing in 90% of the MSM and even the conservative sites - NRO, Rush, Daily Caller, etc. etc - the direction of county has been in the “wrong direction” by 61 to 30 for over a year. Folks say they like Obama, because of the BRadley effect - they can’t wait for him to be gone. BTW if the republicans knew anything about marketing everytime the prez says, “Thye own’t work wiht me.” they need to say, “The prz had a commission on tax and budget he picked the bipartisan people and he did not offer ONE of their ideas/suggestions in his next two budgets. HE DOES NOT WORK WITH ANYONE BUT Nancy and Harry PERIOD” that would shut up the MSM
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