Posted on 09/19/2012 5:03:33 PM PDT by Abiotic
President Barack Obama has the edge over Republican Mitt Romney in three potentially decisive states in the presidential election.
Obama tops Romney by seven percentage points among likely voters in both Ohio (49-42 percent) and Virginia (50-43 percent). In Florida, the president holds a five-point edge (49-44 percent).
Obama’s lead is just outside the poll’s margin of sampling error in Ohio and Virginia, and within the margin of sampling error in Florida.
The good news for Romney is that among voters who are “extremely” interested in this year’s election, the races are much tighter. Obama is up by just two points with this group in Virginia (49-47 percent), Florida is tied (48-48 percent), and Romney is up by one point in Ohio (48-47 percent).
Independents are nearly evenly divided in each of the states, as well.
Majorities of voters are unhappy with how things are going in the country, yet in all three states more say they trust Obama than Romney to improve the economy.
Likewise, in each state more voters believe the Obama administration’s policies have helped rather than hurt the economy -- albeit by slim margins: By two points in Florida, three points in Ohio and five points in Virginia.
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Thank you!!! Finally someone else sees it.
Haven't you noticed how much time the media is spending on "Romney's gaffe"? Meanwhile the Mid East is going up in flames, 3 embassies have been attacked, 1 dead ambassador and 0boober is yucking it up on Late Nap with Letterman then partying with Beyonce and Jay Z. Really does anyone else want to puke!!! This party supposedly had one of those fountains as a centerpiece with French Champagne flowing out of it. I wonder how many families whose homes are being foreclosed would love to have 1/10th what's being spent by this clown and the Wookie in just 1 night.
Barry and Mooch are a modern day Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and nobody seems outraged at all.
2012 is NOT 2008. Different dynamics. It’s like the “experts” ignore 2010 and registration shifts
If 0bama wins, the American people, as a whole, suck. Not only because they voted for 0bama, but because they threw away the greatest economy and Constitutional republic in world history.
Romney might as well go down as a full bore conservative at this point. If 0bama wins, it won’t be possible to re-establish the republic in our lifetime. It will be full throttled prepping, revolution or making plans to leave the US.
Using Ohio PeeeeeW polling from Oct 30, 2008.
Nearly four-in-ten voters (38%) identified themselves as Democrats in 2008 surveys by the Pew Research Center; 34% self-identified as independents; and 28% identified themselves as Republicans. These data are based on more than 28,000 interviews conducted this year by the Pew Research Center. "
These guys are off by -13% for Indy/Other using 2008 stats.
And off by 8.2% IF Indy's in Ohio matches Rasmussen's 29.2% August 2012 for the whole country self-party ID.
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1015/democratic-party-identification-swing-states
Romney is finished unless he immediately sacks his campaign team leaders Stuart Stevens and Ed Gillespie. These guys are so yesterday and are throwing away an election.
Obama is also running all kinds of ads here in California he
has a new one out today bashing Romney and saying how Romney is going to give the middle class a huge tax increase. I just yelled at the TV and switched it off. Why do you think he needs to run ads here it is a deep blue state.
For Pete’s sake, here’s another Soros troll named Abiotic who joined up on 8-7-12.
Do we have any adminsrators left to hit the ZOT button or must we suffer with another DU infiltrator?
Ok, I’ll admit, I’m perplexed. Earlier tonight someone tweeted that Fox had Romney up by 1 in OH, and this person is usually reliable.
Folks, all polls with a news organization in it’s title, including especially Fox , is garbage. Look at 2008. the best media named poll was CNN coming in #8.
Stick with Rassmussen, he’s been “on” since 2008 even when it wasn’t what we wanted to hear.
I tend to agree.
Exactly
Another concerned troll posting crap to peddle
The Soros media psych ops strategy .
Gee another Obama troll posting the phony ouch ops push polls .
Well, hell, let’s see if I can get banned from FR.
This c*cks*cker Abiotic, joined 8-7-12, has posted a thread and 50 posts later this DU troll hasn’t written a single reply.
Does FR have any administrators left to throw this prick overboard? Like, call out the kitties and lightning?
“We didn’t believe the polls four years ago, and look what happened.”
And in 2010 not a single pollster picked up the conservative wins. So what’s your point, slick?
Whenhe won Virginia in 2008, what was his margin of victory?
After the September financial meltdown, I knew McCain was finished, and that Obama would win the White House. McCain wasn’t a great candidate, but in all honesty, no Republican, not even Reagan, could have won in that climate. People were sick of eight years of Bush and ready to move on.
I do think Romney can win, but the base needs to come out like they did in 2010, and this year in Wisconsin for the recall vote.
Fox has devolved into a joke .
It's ratings are dropping since its shift to the left .
We stopped watching it for quite awhile and do not miss that garbage .
They allow this Tamara Hall who is a certified whore for Jessie Jackson on the Hannity show to spit out lie after lie .
It's surreal now . I can only imagine how Sheppy Smirh is twisting the polls Criteria to help his messiah .
RE: oh+7 fl +5 so far
Ohio is +7 what? +7 more Democrats sampled?
Same question goes for Florida... +5 what? +5 more Democrats sampled?
Please clarify...
Here’s the question...
Why the eff does Fox buy into this crap?
Totally discrediting.....
Can I help?
I hate these a**holes....
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