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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: red in brea

http://unskewedpolls.com/qstarnewsquickpoll.cfm


81 posted on 09/22/2012 6:03:50 PM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: nhwingut

Well, right now it is listed a battleground state.


82 posted on 09/22/2012 6:03:55 PM PDT by Marcella (Republican Conservatism is dead. PREPARE)
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To: red in brea

A little disheartening, but not unexpected. As another FReeper pointed out, PA is the big tease for GOP presidential candidates. It always seems like “this year will be different”, but it never quite gets there.

Still, the national polls are close and the states Romney has to have are all still winnable. Pennsylvania would have been nice, and a real thorn in Obama’s side, but Romney can win without it.


83 posted on 09/22/2012 6:04:00 PM PDT by DemforBush (100% Ex-Democrat.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

PA was carried by Obama by over 10% in 08. This is low on the immediate attack plan, but not out of the question. The difference was 600K votes.


84 posted on 09/22/2012 6:05:21 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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To: tatown

Philly has always been dark blue. The idiots are the enviro-conscious white upper middle class folks in places like Bucks County that used to vote GOP but are now card carrying democrats. I used to live there so I know what I’m talking about.

Yes and they vote in alphbetiical order at a 99.9 percent level. I would love to have someone plant wireless cameras in the polling places to see what happens after they close.


85 posted on 09/22/2012 6:05:21 PM PDT by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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To: Elendur
But who are the Catholics there, Elendur? Many, most esp. the under 50's, are cultural Catholics -- just like their parents and grandparents are cultural Democrats. That is, they are groups who pull the D lever because "everyone I know always has", not because they have big emotional ties either way.

Believe me, I will dance a jig in the street if PA goes for Romney/Ryan. But I would never tell the RNC to spend money there... all things considered.

86 posted on 09/22/2012 6:05:27 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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To: mo
Yup


87 posted on 09/22/2012 6:06:04 PM PDT by tomkat (it's time)
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To: MNJohnnie

Because he is smart enough to understand that WI is in play. He is not spending much time in Il, NY, VT...

I don’t think Mitt could win in Pa but he has a better chance being seen by some out of work coal miner there than where he spent tis weekend. Mitt is not spending enough time in swing states and its going to hurt him.


88 posted on 09/22/2012 6:06:52 PM PDT by JohnD9207 (Mitt better grow a pair or this thing will be over soon.)
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To: Moorings

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.

So PA is not like Illinois - not by a long shot. But in presidential years, the urban voters get really revved up and overcome the suburban and rural voters. Bush lost PA by only 4 pts. in 2004.

If Obama weren’t half black, it would be a lot closer.


89 posted on 09/22/2012 6:06:52 PM PDT by randita
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To: workerbee

Sorry Bucks County Pa.We get the Philly and area news.


90 posted on 09/22/2012 6:08:22 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: tomkat
Don't take all this personally, tomkat. We know there are lots of good PA'ers. Hey, try being a conservative in Maryland! At least up there you still get wooed!
91 posted on 09/22/2012 6:08:30 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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To: tomkat

Flop Philthy in Texas and you would find the body in the Rio Grande.


92 posted on 09/22/2012 6:08:33 PM PDT by JohnD9207 (Mitt better grow a pair or this thing will be over soon.)
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To: Elendur
just one factor... lots of Catholics there.

and Obama is down 27% with Catholics, from 2008.

The older ones are "JFK Catholics." They've been in love with the Democrat party ever since JFK's campaign. They're not persuadable.

As far as young Catholics, it's difficult to find any non-immigrant white people who are young and actively religious.

93 posted on 09/22/2012 6:09:24 PM PDT by JediJones (KARL ROVE: "And remember, this year, no one is seriously talking about ending abortion.")
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To: Elendur; workerbee; LS

I wonder if anyone happened to see this article about Montgomery Co PA.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-are-you-seeing-what-im-seeing


94 posted on 09/22/2012 6:10:19 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: rollo tomasi
Wrong.

There are few "rural" Democrats in PA.

Johnstown isn't rural. That's Big Labor Country. Call them bitter-clingers and they don't care.

There is only one "swing" area in PA. That is the old coal region around Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. That is largely ethnic Catholic, there are some traditional morality people there who have gone for Santorum and Toomey.

The reason PA has turned is because of the Philadelphia suburbs, which used to be Republican territory. Those five highly populated counties turned in the early nineties and have not turned back.

95 posted on 09/22/2012 6:11:40 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: workerbee
Having trouble pivoting off of 'wooed' as a comparative reference .. it's been sooo long since being exposed to it, in either direction              
96 posted on 09/22/2012 6:12:00 PM PDT by tomkat (it's time)
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Breakin’ It Down
Keepin’ It Real
Reelin’ It In
Romney/Ryan 2012


97 posted on 09/22/2012 6:12:05 PM PDT by donaldo
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To: stevio

I wonder about that. Can Texas support itself, food wise?
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Yep all those big old steers don’t come from milk farms in minnesota. Texas has everything except a complete wall around it.


98 posted on 09/22/2012 6:12:54 PM PDT by JohnD9207 (Mitt better grow a pair or this thing will be over soon.)
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To: 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.

Toomey won by a tiny margin, 1 or 2 points. That race is probably the best template for Obama/Romney this year, since it was a federal position. 2010 was an off-year election where Tea Party activity surely gave the Republicans an extra 5-10 points. That margin of victory will be pulled down in a presidential year where turnout of the politically ignorant will go way up. If he had to run his race again, Toomey would lose in 2012 by more points than he won in 2010.

99 posted on 09/22/2012 6:14:59 PM PDT by JediJones (KARL ROVE: "And remember, this year, no one is seriously talking about ending abortion.")
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To: randita

Thank you. So many idiots posting here who know nothing about PA. This isn’t Kali, or even Illinois.


100 posted on 09/22/2012 6:15:49 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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