Posted on 09/22/2012 6:34:01 AM PDT by tatown
he Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows President Obama and Mitt Romney each attracting support from 46% of voters nationwide. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided. See daily tracking history.
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Hit the road, Barack...
Yep
Ping
It is hard to believe with all that is going wrong with the mid-east and our economy issues, zero is still tied with Romney.
How pathetic that the only media that had the cajones to
call out Obama was Univision!
After a 4 day 24/7 loop on the MSM, looks like the 47% had no impact.
"When “leaners” are included, it’s Obama 48% and Romney 47%. Leaners are those who are initially uncommitted to the two leading candidates but lean towards one of them when asked a follow-up question."
This seems to fly in the face of the basic idea that the UNDECIDEDS ALWAYS BREAK FOR THE CHALLENGER. And note that Raz has pretty consistently shown just the opposite. Obama seems to always sweep up the majority of the "leaners".
What's up with that?
Romney has to make the sale.
If he gets to 50 he is in. He has only hit 46/47.
He must talk about a positive next 4 years. He must paint a picture.
Ryan must be unleashed. He must go on all out CAMPAIGN to young people, colleges Young Republicans, Catholic organizations, CYOs, Knights of
Columbus, Catholic hospitals and charities.
It must be a 24/7 campaign now.
Romney must lead with 3 big policy speeches.
Can he do it? Yes, if he really wants it. He must decide if he really
wants the responsiblility to be President.
It’s specifically because Rasmussen has the race close (and has a reputation for accuracy from last time) that I’m more angry than usual with the manipulated polls that give Zero a phantom lead - and the media that can’t wait to tell us about them.
I’m always angry at these shenanigans, but this year it’s totally obvious and particularly shameless and transparent.
The "prefer another candidate" voters are basically Romney voters not ready to admit it yet. Yes, many of us truly prefer another candidate, but who? The third party candidate out there will combine for less than 1% of the vote on Nov 6 so ultimately they will need to choose between Romney and Obama.
Ditto for the undecideds. If you are not already in the Obama camp, you never will be. So move all the undecideds to Romney.
I think the 46% for Obama is overstated. We are probably looking at a 58-42% blowout for Romney at this point.
I’ve never seen anything like this. Ever.... Gallup (RV) and Ras (LV) have it exactly even... Yet liars like PEW have Obama up by 8. Disgusting
battlegrounds count
I am betting 5% of people polled are saying they are voting for Obama have not intention of voting for him.. They just don’t want to admit it the pollster..This is gut feeling based on andecdotal evidence I keep hearing and seeing.
“Slide those undecided and “prefer another candidates” into the Romney column and it’s a 54-46% Romney victory.”
Not sure that will work. Some undecideds will vote for Obama. You can’t count on all of them for Romney. I’d think Romney getting two-thirds of those who claim to be undecided would be the best we can hope for.
There’s always some people who will still reluctantly vote for Obama (for their own peculiar reasons), but might not want to admit it because the country is in such bad shape. So they tell the pollster they’re “undecided.”
Can you see some person who will only vote for O because of their pet liberal social issues, but still think he’s been crappy on the economy? I know people like this. These are reluctant Obama voters who could still tell pollsters they’re “undecided.”
excellent analysis, preamble...especially about what Ryan needs to do. I hope someone gets it to his campaign people.
You turn the TV on, including Fox, and this race is over, BO has won. Doesn’t compute. Including leaners is now essentially tied too as it was a three point spread for BO yesterday.
Can you imagine if Romney were a confident conservative and articulated it where this race would be.
They tend to be a week behind the daily tracking.
There was a prospective Mass. voter interviewed in the WSJ. A worker in financial services, he stated that he voted for Brown last time, but may vote for Warren this time. Why? Because, although he identfies with and likes Brown more, he thinks there should be a ‘balance of power’ in Washington. So there you have your undecided voter mentality. Pure idiocy.
My reply from another thread, about a rigged pole;
“I got an interesting call yesterday! Rigged! A recording, asking who I was going to vote for. From DC. It required simple “Yes/No” answers.
“First question, answer yes or no; Do you intend to vote for Romney?”
I attempted to answer “Yes,” but the space left for the answer was suddenly filled with a series of beeps, like someone dialing the phone. When the beeps stopped, one word, “Obama?” Betcha my “Yes” during the beeps was recorded for Obama. At the very least, there was no way you could vote for Romney!”
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