Posted on 09/02/2012 7:12:26 AM PDT by nhwingut
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 48% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns 44% of the vote. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided.
Just prior to this past week's Republican National Convention, Romney trailed the president by two. Today’s four-point advantage confirms that the GOP hopeful has received the expected convention bounce. See daily tracking history. Romney also has gained ground in the swing state tracking results updated daily for subscribers at 10:00 a.m. Eastern.
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2012 will hinge on turnout. We know the Dems will cheat. The only question is whether the Republicans can get enough people to care about going to the polls to overcome that.
My friends (three families) voted for Obama in 2008. They said that they won’t make that mistake again and will voted for Romney/Ryan this time.
The question is whether Hugh will turn out or not.
I know 12 people who voted for Obama and are not doing so again. Five of those 12 have never voted for a Republican for President (to my knowledge).
Much larger racial/ethnic protected class as well.
I guess that's my point. There is such a deep philosophical divide between the European socialism-loving current democrat party, and even RINOs, that I can't imaging having to even think about it. That, to me, is like waiting for the convention to decide whether you're going to back Karl Marx or Ronald Reagan.
I think in 08, despite his so-called “maverick” status, McCain was the “incumbent.” Obama was the unknown. I agree with several of you that barring some truly unbelievable development, he can’t get above 47% this time around.
Mitt needs to give Clint Eastwood a Cabinet position....
Obama is consistently in the 44-47 range which is where his approval ratings are. Additionally all projection models based on economic data put his percentage in the same range.
Yep. The GOP was the incumbent party making McCain effectively the incumbent candidate.
“I don’t see how 0 gets any higher in the polls there were he is now.”
Wait until zer0 pulls the HildeBeast out of the hat to replace Biden.
And this lead will continue to widen. 0’s Intrade numbers are still at 57% for re-election though, I would love to see that number go down.
Obama will be up by 10 even if they have to oversample Dems by 20.
So in reality it is Romney 58-42. The Polls are all going to be way off this election and that is the way he is going to blame and fight the results.
They don't even have to do that. Just stay home on November 6th.
Turnout. Supress theirs, increase ours. Do that; we win.
We have to make it clear to black Americans that they can do better than the chump change the Democrats throw to them for their votes.
Despite what some Freepers believe, independents (not just in terms of party registration) do exist. Unlike Freepers or DUers, they don’t care much about ideology, or more precisely, about conservative or liberal ideology. Their ideology is what they perceive as “work for them” today. It may change over time,as needed. So, their voting decision depends on the issue of the day, and who they think can deliver better.
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