I’m 1000% Romney BUT to try to explain the R+5.8% with 12% not voting for Romney yielding only a 1% lead.....I recall, particularly in some Red states Democrats switching Party affiliation in 2010 such that they could vote for bad Tea Party candidates to enable their Dem candidate in the general election.
Also, some Democrats register Republican in Red states so they can vote in primaries that matter.
Don’t know if thats the case but just saying.........how else to you explain 12% Republicans voting for Obama?
I've met them in PA. They're nominal Republicans. Maybe Rockefeller or Bloomberg Republicans. They're Republican because their parents were and they just "see" themselves that way. But their views are mostly liberal. They're likely to have voted for Ron Paul in the primary. They may have succumbed to peer pressure over the years from being in a heavily Democrat region where they were told they were "stupid" if they supported Bush. It also may be a form of "soft" rebelling against their parents votes.