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President Obama won't win reelection, says poll
Christian Science Monitor ^ | 10/4/2011 | Liz Marlantes

Posted on 10/04/2011 7:49:54 PM PDT by Signalman

According to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, just 37 percent of Americans believe President Obama will win reelection; 55 percent believe he will lose to the Republican nominee.

This is not great news for the president, not necessarily because Americans are psychic, but because expectations often shape reality.

In particular, a widespread belief that Obama will lose could widen the already problematic “enthusiasm gap“ for the president.

It’s a tricky balance for the White House. Many of the president’s natural supporters are not feeling especially fired up this time around - particularly compared to the white-hot intensity seen among Republicans. The Obama campaign clearly believes they must do something to energize their base and create a sense of urgency.

To that end, they have been sounding the alarm that this will be a hard-fought election. Last week, top strategist David Axelrod said the election would be a “titanic struggle.” Today, in an interview with ABC News, Obama himself actually agreed that the odds were against him and called himself the “underdog.”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bhusseinobama; csm; maobama; poll; reelectionloss

1 posted on 10/04/2011 7:49:57 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

I guess he could kill Osama bin laden and that will boost his approval ratings. oh wait...


2 posted on 10/04/2011 7:52:52 PM PDT by ari-freedom (I'm a heartless conservative because I love this country.)
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To: Signalman

I think people are getting way too overcinfident, way to early.


3 posted on 10/04/2011 7:56:30 PM PDT by stevem
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To: Signalman

The only poll that counts is the Electoral College and it’s going to be a whippin’ in the proverbial woodshed.

These other polls are nonsense, they mean nothing.


4 posted on 10/04/2011 7:57:01 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: ari-freedom
Maybe he will release the picture - that ought to be worth a couple of approval points.
5 posted on 10/04/2011 8:03:32 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Signalman

The voters are fickle. 50% of them are going to want to give Barry “a second chance” because, to them, “he’s a good person”. Morons. I’m not going to count my cows until they hatch. Sorry Leslie.


6 posted on 10/04/2011 8:04:49 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you always tell the truth, you won't have to remember what you said.)
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To: ari-freedom

Looks like he decided to take bin Laden out of the freezer about a year too early. Obozo can’t do anything right.


7 posted on 10/04/2011 8:07:25 PM PDT by meatloaf (It's time to push back against out of control government.)
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To: Cheerio

Even more if bin Laden’s head was mounted and hung on a wall in the White House. If I’d been president, I’d have put the head on the limo as a hood ornament.


8 posted on 10/04/2011 8:11:28 PM PDT by meatloaf (It's time to push back against out of control government.)
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To: Signalman
...37 percent of Americans believe President Obama will win reelection...

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All of Obama's Occupy Wall Street Rabble I'm sure.

TPJ2

Hope and Change.... Tragic.


9 posted on 10/04/2011 8:17:23 PM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: stevem

I must agree with you.

The Community Organizer In Chief is busy mounting a class warfare event...and doing a mighty fine job of it.


10 posted on 10/04/2011 9:02:22 PM PDT by berdie
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To: Signalman

Are they polling Hillary yet?


11 posted on 10/04/2011 9:21:02 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (Anarchy IS the strategy of the forces of darkness!)
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To: Signalman

The audacity of hope ;)


12 posted on 10/04/2011 10:48:43 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: Signalman

Not only will Zero not win reelection, but his RAT buddies won’t either. The GOP needs to primary out RINO’s as well.


13 posted on 10/05/2011 1:08:04 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Signalman

I believe this. I just hope it’s a landslide loss for him. Otherwise the ‘rats will just give us more of the same (or worse) in 2016 and beyond, and the country can’t take it.


14 posted on 10/05/2011 3:59:32 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Give or take the Occupy Wall Street violence; Fast and Furious fallout; Moslem Winter (formerly known as ‘Arab Spring’); Afghanistan; Iraq; Gitmo; Solyndra; obstruction of justice...

Thanks Signalman.


15 posted on 10/08/2011 12:53:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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