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Rasmussen Daily: SUN: 10/21: R:49% O:47% Obama -16%
Rasmussen Reports ^ | 10/21/2012 | Rasmussen Reports

Posted on 10/21/2012 6:31:49 AM PDT by SoftwareEngineer

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 49% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns the vote from 47%. One percent (1%) prefers some other candidate, and two percent (2%) are undecided. See daily tracking history.

These numbers are unchanged from the morning of the second presidential debate. They suggest that the president’s stronger performance in that debate stopped his slide in the polls but did not regain lost ground. The first debate had a bigger impact, changing the race from a two-point Obama advantage to a two-point Romney edge. Still, the race remains too close to call with just over two weeks to go.

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012polls; election; notbreakingnews; obama; rasmussen; romney
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To: SoftwareEngineer

Every day since October 3, Romney has inched further and further ahead. No reason to think his momentum will stop now. Unless a major misstep by Mitt.


41 posted on 10/21/2012 8:50:23 AM PDT by mandaladon (Hit the road Obama!)
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To: rashley

Rascals are cool but I’m a Doo Wop kind of guy.


42 posted on 10/21/2012 8:53:57 AM PDT by Lacey2
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To: SoftwareEngineer

This is good.

I was surprised that the comment from Mitt about people getting married and THEN having kids was not pounced upon by the left. I guess they see the damage it does to society when overwhelming numbers of children are born to single women. Still, I thought they would use this as arsenal in their phony war on women.


43 posted on 10/21/2012 8:55:08 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: SoftwareEngineer

Thanks!


44 posted on 10/21/2012 9:23:24 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoftwareEngineer; P-Marlowe

I am not at all impressed with talks with Iran. After all, another Jew hater, Adolf Hitler, who also wanted to exterminate the Jews was willing to have “talks”.

In fact, he used those “talks” to manipulate entire nations.


45 posted on 10/21/2012 9:56:32 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: Sherman Logan
Only a few weeks ago, when Romney was way behind, the most common reaction around here was that the polls were worthless.

First of all, Romney was never "way behind" at any point in this race. As for the polls being "suddenly accurate" now that Romney is ahead, well that's a function of the election being only about a couple of week away.

The polls are always more accurate as we close in on Election Day. This is because pollsters need to stay in business for future election cycles so any manipulation needs to go away.

We are still not quite at that point yet. There is still some special sauce "cooking" these polls. For example, using a D+8 sample for Ohio? Ridiculous. But over the next 15 days, you will see that Ohio sample be more like D+3 and Romney will be 5-6 points ahead on their final Ohio polls. Count on it.

Look at any modern presidential election and you will find that nearly all major pollsters (Gallup, Rasmussen, etc.) are surprisingly accurate with their final polls. However, go back a few weeks and they are all over the place. Remember in 1980 that September polls showed Carter beating Reagan handily - does anybody believe that? Or in 1996, when Clinton was ahead of Dole by 22 points in September.

So yes, the polls of September were garbage and as we head into late October, the polls are suddenly showing a Romney "surge". In my opinion, there is no Romney surge. The pollsters are simply beginning to come into line with reality so their reputations will be secure for future elections.

46 posted on 10/21/2012 10:05:38 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Sherman Logan; SoftwareEngineer
Only a few weeks ago, when Romney was way behind, the most common reaction around here was that the polls were worthless.

So now that we like the results they’re suddenly accurate?

I realize, of course, that they may still be understating the degree of support for Romney for the same reasons they were criticized before.

Actually none of the poll junkies at FR have changed our tunes.

We all believed that the polls UNDER reflected Gov Romney’s strength by 4-5% points as most polls were using 2008 turnout samples.

So, we were always compensating for that in our analysis. What is happening now is that DESPITE the pro Democrat weighted polls, Gov Romney is either showing as tied or ahead.

Agreed.
BTW, I wish polls weren’t as accurate as they are. Polls have taken a great deal of the meaning and interest out of elections.
I think we need to pull the plug on all the uncertainty to the maximum possible extent. And the way to do that is to institute a system by which facts and logic are placed on prominent display and allowed to throw political sophistry into bold relief.

If you look up “political sophistry,” what you should find is a video of Joe Biden trying to laugh the facts and logic of our situation out of the debate - with cooperation by the moderator. The opposite of that situation would be

The purpose is not to obtain a “gotcha” but to make the facts and logic being appealed to explicit. This runs directly counter to the interests of journalism - and of the sophistry-dependent Democratic Party.

I want the process of electing our officers to be boring - because a reasonable selection, rather than the risk of a President Obama, is foreordained.


47 posted on 10/21/2012 3:22:18 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which “liberalism" coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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To: Perdogg

Thanks for the ping!


48 posted on 10/21/2012 4:13:59 PM PDT by 1035rep (Obama: "I killed Bin Laden" ...you didn't do that. Somebody else made that happen.)
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To: SoftwareEngineer
That's just it! I am looking at the polls and most of them are pointing to a Romney advantage. Then on the radio and in discussions it appears to be the opposite. So it is factual data vs. percieved facts that is ruling the day for the media. Can team Obama allow Romney to win? It seems so implausible for the Chicago Mafia to let this happen. This scenario reminds me of the 1960 elections where JFK just squeaked by with the help of the mob in Chicago. It is scary about how many underhand options team Obama possess.
49 posted on 10/22/2012 12:25:42 AM PDT by Netz (Netz)
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To: Netz

That was one of the closest elections in history, that was why Kennedy could steal it.


50 posted on 10/22/2012 1:41:36 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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