Posted on 09/20/2012 6:31:22 PM PDT by Arthurio
By Mary O'Leary
Special to Middletown Press
STORRS – President Barack Obama has a slim lead over Republican Mitt Romney, according to a University of Connecticut/Courant poll, but the perception among voters is much higher that Obama will win the contest.
The poll of likely voters said Obama will win 46 percent to 43 percent for Romney, but 52 percent of those polled in the national survey say the president will win re-election, while 27 percent say it will be Romney.
UConn poll director Jennifer Necci Dineen said that prediction could influence turnout, which will be crucial in the contest.
“That’s the X factor for Obama right now,” Dineen said in a statement. “If Democrats can convince voters that Obama’s re-election is inevitable, Republicans who are less enthusiastic about Romney are more likely to stay home on Election Day.”
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I honestly don’t know what if anything I will do with the top of the ticket in November, but there is no way I am going to squander an opportunity to vote conservatives where there are any, from Senator to schoolboard.
I would think that the specter of 0 winning would make Republicans MORE enthusiastic about voting.
Good. I’d hate to see “true conservatives” allow Pelosi to retake power because they sat this one out.
Insanity.
This is the most important election of our lifetime. Get your conservative friends and take them with you to vote.
Yeah, but If Obummer’s 47% think their goodies are in the bag, maybe they’ll stay home. Cuts both ways. They also forget the down slate races.
It may be like 2010. Those of us voting for our Senators and Representatives may just drag Mitt along with us.
I am already looking into the specifics of renouncing my citizenship should Bambi win. I just don’t want to be a co-citizen sodaspeak with so many stupid people. I mean, do you really want to live in a country where upwards of 70M people voted for Obama? I think not. The US, as I understand it, is one of the few countries which allows you give up your citizenship and remain stateless. I can continue to live here, but have the glorious satisfaction of saying, “He ain’t my f*****g president.”
If you go to the homepages of some of the more notorious search websites like Yahoo, MSN, etc., Barry already has all 57 states locked up. According to MSN, Soetoro now has Colorado, Iowa and Wisconsin in the bag. Rasmussen doesn’t seem to see it that way.
If Romney does not defeat Obama somehow-someway, it is on the GOP-E not the conservative voters!
subtext: Republicans are lazy and won’t bother to stop to vote for Romney on the way back from the polo club, whereas hard working Democrats will literally crawl over in their prius to make sure their vote is counted.
That nearly happened in Florida in 2000, when the MSM called it for Gore early. Don't let the MSM do it again.
I look at the electoral map and there’s a heck of lot more connected red than blue. We could always vote them out.
We’ve got most of the resources and the breadbasket. Seriously outside of bad TV and the Kardashian’s, what do they contribute?
Internals of this poll? I sense a University-based BS model.
It will be 2010 all over again.
the GOP paid the consequences for doing this in 2008- it will not happen again...
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