Election 2012: Ohio President - Ohio: Obama 45%, Romney 45%

Rasmussen Reports ^ | 8/14/2012 | Rasmussen Reports

[PrinceOfCups]

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Rasmussen Reports’ latest look at the presidential race in Ohio shows President Obama and Mitt Romney running dead even at 45% each.

A new telephone survey of Likely Ohio Voters finds that six percent (6%) prefer some other candidate and four percent (4%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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The survey of 500 Likely Voters in Ohio was conducted on August 13, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

[PrinceOfCups]

45% - 45% after Ryan pick.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Obama will lose Ohio..he is polling way under 50 percent and Independents will break for Romney

[FlingWingFlyer]

Ain’t “lookin’ good” for Barry the Incumbent. I imagine the state run “media” will be able to ‘splain it to us.

[ilgipper]

I cannot recall how Ras looked in previous OH polls. Didn’t Obama have a slight edge?

[cotton1706]

Then I guess Romney’s up in Ohio!

[MNJohnnie]

Amazing that that many people in Ohio are this stupid.

$4 a gallon gas, 20% unemployed/underemployed despite $5 trillion in new spending, an economy stuttering around on the verge of another recession, massive tax hikes coming due to the President's rabid ideological incompetence, just about total political corruption in the 0 regime....etc etc etc

Just what is going to take to wake up the moron herd to what a complete disaster 0 has been as President?

[DarthVader]

Yes and with a smaller sample. If the sample size is increased to 1,200 you can extrapolate at least a 4-8% lead for Romney.

[Political Junkie Too]

Obama was up by 4 in May, Romney was up by 2 in June, Obama was up by 2 in July, it's now tied in August.

-PJ

[LucianOfSamasota]

Ohio Chapter of Concerned Rust Belt Citizens for Welfare & Handouts supports BHO all the way! /s

Amazing that HALF of the people in Ohio will vote for the communist.

[wny]

Ohio economy must be doing pretty good if they want to put this puke back in office for 4 more years...I don’t buy it.
I say R&R win Ohio 52-47

[Samogon]

I was pondering the same thing, and to add to the mystery: everybody I talk to are against 0! Where do pollsters get their numbers?

[henkster]

You need to go to the M & J Liquors down in the hood and get some purple drank. You will find many 0bama supporters there.

They, and their dead uncles, will all vote. Many times.

[drypowder]

the crowds showing at the candidate's venues are roughly a 6 to 1 ratio of republicans to democraps respectively. conclusion of the published poll 50 / 50 split; obviously the pollsters are lying

[ilgipper]

Thanks!

Seeing Obama at 45% is very positive. That’s a terrible number for an incumbent. This is Romney’s to win or lose. There just aren’t 50% ready to sign up for 4 more years of this. Hopefully we see his number stay as close to 45% as possible.

[Sark]

I think that both campaigns are now assuming that Romney has the edge in Ohio. The three key states this cycle are now Florida, Virginia, and Wisconsin. If Obama loses two, I’m almost certain he’ll lose. Well, unless he wins Florida. That could be tricky.

[pburgh01]

For Obama Wisconsin and Virginia are goners, bank it, as is Ohio, Indiana, Co, NH and a few other Obama states he won in 2008. Cue the FR handwringers.....

[who_would_fardels_bear]

A lot of the polls show Obama with about 247 likely electoral votes.

If this is true then Romney has to pretty much sweep the toss-up states.

However bad Obama has been, it seems he has a good chance of being reelected.

It's not hopeless, but it's not all sunshine and lemonade for the Republicans either.

[WashingtonSource]

Also today Rasmuusen reported that Ryan scored at 51 percent approval rate in Ohio and a 50 percent approval rate nationally.

[LibsRJerks]

I heard one caller on a C-SPAN show ask this question: If we institute tax cuts as described, how can we stop corporations from continuing to ship jobs overseas to China if they continue to find it profitable?
******

I felt it was an honest question. If repubs could answer this clearly and sufficiently with a strong plan, they could sway a lot of independents. It’s a complex thing — and I will admit, even I don’t understand it. We have this global market now ...how we best address this is on a lot of people’s minds ...

[WashingtonSource]

Those tallies of 247 votes for Obama include states that are “leaning Democratic.” It’s not all states solidly Obama. Some of those states could actually be toss-ups if you consider Obama is scoring somewhat BELOW 50 percent. If the undecideds break for the challenger, Obama could lose some of the “leaning Dem” states.