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Rasmussen: PA - 0bama 51% - Romney 39%
Rasmussen Repors ^ | 9-20-12 | Scott Rasmussen

Posted on 09/22/2012 5:14:26 PM PDT by red in brea

President Obama has jumped to a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Pennsylvania shows Obama with 51% of the vote to Romney’s 39%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate in the race, and seven percent (7%) remain undecided.

(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012polls; election; obama; romney
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To: newzjunkey

hehe

Iowa gets called a ‘battleground’ state because it gave a 10,000 vote margin to Pres. Bush in his 2004 reelection. All Dems otherwise. Reagan was the last popular Republican to Iowans.


141 posted on 09/22/2012 6:58:35 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: JohnD9207

I still don’t understand why Romney would bother talking to AARP. That’s nothing more than the marketing arm of an insurance company.


142 posted on 09/22/2012 6:59:07 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: FredZarguna
The NRA could have real influence here (second highest NRA membership in the country -- second in raw numbers only to Texas -- and the highest percentage of NRA members in the US)

Probably because the NRA is mostly about hunting in PA, less about the more conservative self-defense ethic. But, yeah, that doesn't mean they still shouldn't be able to exert some influence. A lot of those might be in the GOP base already. The suburban, well-off voters are not big on guns or hunting but do cower in fear of global warming. As someone said, those are the counties that turned Dem in the early '90s and the NRA has no influence over them.

143 posted on 09/22/2012 6:59:42 PM PDT by JediJones (KARL ROVE: "And remember, this year, no one is seriously talking about ending abortion.")
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To: Hammerhead

.. about the nation’s most fattest, redneck, no class, bad tattoe wearing ..


Even in this pale remnant of America, you're still not required to give evidence against yourself.

144 posted on 09/22/2012 7:01:10 PM PDT by tomkat (it's time)
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To: JediJones
Montgomery and other suburban Philly counties are the most economically thriving in the state.

Not according to the numbers. Of the five counties around Philly, only Chester is really below the state average for unemployment and only Chester has positive economic growth. Philly and Delaware are in the can. Montgomery and Bucks are holding at around the average. Some of Chester's good numbers are coming from the very good agricultural economy in Lancaster, Lebanon and Berks. In overall trends, the Philadelphia area is not regarded as a future area for economic growth in PA.

That all said, I'm very skeptical of these pictures and testimonial, and agree with you that things aren't really that bad in Southeastern PA. You wanna see bad, take a sharp right at Toledo, OH and head up I-75 toward Detroit.

145 posted on 09/22/2012 7:01:42 PM PDT by FredZarguna (James Carville: "PA is Philadelphia in the East, Pittsburgh in the West, and Alabama in the middle.")
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To: rollo tomasi
More Americans are loving the idea of a Federal “parent” taking care of you, even some Republicans like this idea.

There are some who are saying - and I tend to agree - that if Obama wins, it will be the end of the Republican Party and a third party will emerge.

People are getting sick and tired of the "establishment" picking their candidates for them. Both parties have been infiltrated by liberals and neither party is to be trusted as a "party" in terms of standing on principle.

Politics here in the U.S.A. seem to be wafting in the direction of the former Soviet Union where people were bamboozled into believing that come election time, they had a choice of candidates.....when every election result was really a case of "meet the new boss....he's the same as the old boss."

146 posted on 09/22/2012 7:08:14 PM PDT by Sons of Union Vets (No taxation without representation!)
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To: tatown

YO! We are NOT a bunch of idiots! We’re just outnumbered by a bunch of idiots who either live off the government dole or are union drones.

Romney might have shot here if they had any ads! All we see ae Obama TV ads. Add that to the fact that all media coverage is pro-Obama and you have a recipe for a secure Obama win here. But there are lots of ticked of folks here. Given some better TV coverage and PA might actually be in play!


147 posted on 09/22/2012 7:12:55 PM PDT by Cookies4ever
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To: tatown

YO! We are NOT a bunch of idiots! We’re just outnumbered by a bunch of idiots who either live off the government dole or are union drones.

Romney might have shot here if they had any ads! All we see ae Obama TV ads. Add that to the fact that all media coverage is pro-Obama and you have a recipe for a secure Obama win here. But there are lots of ticked of folks here. Given some better TV coverage and PA might actually be in play!


148 posted on 09/22/2012 7:13:07 PM PDT by Cookies4ever
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To: JediJones
As you must know by now I don't really believe there are any independent or swing voters at all ~ which puts me into synch with Barry Goldwater, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and quite possibly George Bush.

It's all about turnout ~ and both parties can turn out enough voters to win any election ~

HENCE, there is no turnout model at all ~ but we do have a phenomenon that creates concern all over the place, and actually fear and loathing in some quarters. That phenomenon is the declining popularity of both major party candidates.

For Obamugabe that drop has been occurring for the last 2 years. For Romney it happened during the debates where he squandered quite a bit of good will, and then during the early primaries where he squandered even more good will by appearing to be oblivious to gross campaigning irregularities by his confederates in the state parties (Virginia in particular).

Usually by the time you work your way through a party nominating convention most of that is out of the way and the game is on to raise your own candidate's popularity.

Now with Obamugabe there's not much he can do about loss of popularity at this late date but his campaign is not doing much to STOP THE LOSS. With Romney he's on his way to California ~ and I am waiting for him to start his campaign. Early voting has begun!

It is depressing to see them hold a presidential campaign and no one attend.

149 posted on 09/22/2012 7:14:14 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: rollo tomasi

You are not hearing me. THERE ARE NO RURAL DEMS IN PA. A union town with 30-70,000 people is NOT rural.


150 posted on 09/22/2012 7:15:34 PM PDT by FredZarguna (James Carville: "PA is Philadelphia in the East, Pittsburgh in the West, and Alabama in the middle.")
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To: GoCards

Texas going blue is a real possibility. California was a red state 30 yrs ago. God help us.


151 posted on 09/22/2012 7:17:05 PM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: gotribe

Not true. Most of PA, most of the time, is run by Republicans.


152 posted on 09/22/2012 7:17:25 PM PDT by FredZarguna (James Carville: "PA is Philadelphia in the East, Pittsburgh in the West, and Alabama in the middle.")
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To: LS; workerbee; red in brea; reasonisfaith; TexasFreeper2009; tomkat; fatima

Here’s something the pollsters don not take into account. Pennsylvania has a Voter ID law this time around. Check out the TV ad (about 40 seconds):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2934994/posts?page=1


153 posted on 09/22/2012 7:20:03 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: LS; workerbee; red in brea; reasonisfaith; TexasFreeper2009; tomkat; fatima

Here’s something the pollsters don not take into account. Pennsylvania has a Voter ID law this time around. Check out the TV ad (about 40 seconds):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2934994/posts?page=1


154 posted on 09/22/2012 7:20:37 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: FredZarguna
Smaller cities than the big metropolises, lol, point still stands. Lived in a town in Texas whose population was 30,000 ;compared to Dallas the town was considered “rural”. Schematics whatever, no Pres. candidate in your column since 1988 and the excuses still pile up. Face it, the dems in those cities dominated by Repubs are a problem regardless.
155 posted on 09/22/2012 7:23:06 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: FredZarguna

I’d be skeptical of the article too, with quotes like these, “The corporate fascist ruling plutocracy uses their propaganda mouthpieces in the mainstream corporate media and government agency drones to misinform and obscure the truth...”

Whatever it is, it wasn’t written as an objective analysis of anything. This guy has an agenda.

Go to this site and click the “compared to state average” unemployment button on the bottom. For July, Bucks, Montco, and Chester were all below the state average unemployment. Delaware of course has more problems, growing right out of the Philly slums on its eastern border. Head north out of these counties, and you run into economically weaker territory.

http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=1216762&mode=2

Also, they ranked 25, 66 and 77 on the wealthiest counties in America in 2010, out of 3,141 counties. No other Pennsylvania counties made the top 100. So there’s enough of a cushion here that a slump isn’t as painful or have as many ripple effects on the local economy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_counties_in_the_United_States


156 posted on 09/22/2012 7:24:35 PM PDT by JediJones (KARL ROVE: "And remember, this year, no one is seriously talking about ending abortion.")
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To: God luvs America

They’re running them in Colorado.


157 posted on 09/22/2012 7:25:06 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: JediJones
Ohhhhhhhh I don't know about that. I haven't hunted in 40 years, but I've got lots of guns and plenty of ammo. We have a good Castle Law and CC laws as well, and we honor everyone else's.

But I wasn't thinking about the NRA being able to influence squishy "Republicans" or Green Dems down on the Main Line, so much as helping GOTV and getting the message out that Dems haven't really changed their tune about the 2nd Amendment with those to whom it matters. And they did nothing in the Bush/Kerry election-cycle to counter that moron -- can't remember his name now, used to play for the Redskins -- and his fake "Sensible Gun Rights" PAC that ran so many adds for John "F" Kerry.

158 posted on 09/22/2012 7:26:51 PM PDT by FredZarguna (James Carville: "PA is Philadelphia in the East, Pittsburgh in the West, and Alabama in the middle.")
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To: gotribe; randita
To give credit to good Friend randita;

In 2010, Republicans took back five congressional seats from Democrats, elected a Republican Governor, and elected a strong conservative U.S. Senator, Pat Toomey. The PA General Assembly is GOP controlled. Republicans hold a 30-20 majority in the Senate, and a 112-90 majority in the House.

159 posted on 09/22/2012 7:28:26 PM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: FredZarguna

160 posted on 09/22/2012 7:31:17 PM PDT by JediJones (KARL ROVE: "And remember, this year, no one is seriously talking about ending abortion.")
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