Posted on 05/07/2012 11:37:19 AM PDT by mandaladon
With six months to go before Election Day, a new poll finds Mitt Romney in a dead heat with President Barack Obama in 12 key political battleground states.
A USA Today/Gallup poll of 12 expected swing states—Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin—finds Obama leading Romney by just two points among registered voters, 47 percent to 45 percent. The results are well within the poll's plus or minus 4 percent margin of error.
That's a major difference from the same poll conducted in late March, when Obama held a 9-point lead over Romney among battleground state voters.
On the question of who would best handle the economy, Romney holds a clear lead over Obama. Sixty percent say Romney would do a "good" or "very good" job handling the economy over the next four years, compared to 52 percent for Obama, according to Gallup.
But Obama still has a key advantage over Romney when it comes to connecting with voters. Fifty-eight percent view the president as "likable," compared to only 31 percent for Romney. Asked which candidate "cares about the needs of people like you," Obama had a 10-point lead over Romney, 50 percent to 40 percent.
While the race has tightened since Romney unofficially claimed his party's nomination, there are still warning signs for the GOP ticket. The poll found that Democratic voters are more enthusiastic about the general election than Republicans—a shift from earlier this year.
According to Gallup, 55 percent of those supporting Obama say they are "extremely" or "very enthusiastic" about November's election, compared to 46 percent of voters backing Romney. That's a 9-point drop in enthusiasm among Romney supporters since January and a 5-point gain among Obama backers.
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Romney’s been campaigning for over 5 years now and he’s only even with Obama?
Anyway they both can lose? I see this and does not excite me one way or the other. What a disaster this election is going to be. Who cares about Romney or Obama.....both 100 percent the same.
If he were 20 points ahead...you would still criticize him.
If he were 20 points ahead...you would still criticize him.
If he were 20 points ahead, I’d be living in another country. There aren’t that many libs here.
This map is more realistic than the RCP averages which include many Obama push polls. Some other things look encouraging such as all the upper midwest states which are undecided but , Solid or Lean Obama in the RCP averages. One Out-Liar like Georgia, we can deal with
Romney’s been campaigning for over 5 years now and he’s only even with Obama?
That’s an absolutely stupid statement. And you know it.
I find it hilarious that the Democrats are choosing to live in a cocoon. Obama is so deeply unpopular right now, the economy is in the trash, the youth and black votes are uninterested now, the religious have been insulted, and many women voters see through the fake controversies that George Stephanapolis and the White House concocted and yet they have this pollyanna belief that they are going to cruise to a win. At this rate, Romney is going to win in a landslide.
Dang, I thought they were dead.
Some things to consider:
1) President Obama hasn't even begun to unleash his campaign cash, which far exceeds what all Republicans and Republican super-PACs spent in the primary — combined.
2) For the next few months, Republicans will be largely out of the news now that the primary is over.
3) Romney won the primary by massively outspending his Republican opponents. He won't be able to do that against Obama.
4) If the maps are correct, they indicate that most of the states Romney won in the primary prior to Santorum and Gingrich dropping out are states Obama will win in the general election. That should tell us something.
5) If Romney wins, he'll have to do it without his home state of Massachusetts. The same will probably be true of Michigan. Can anyone tell us the last time a candidate won the presidency while losing his own home state?
Bottom line: Maybe Romney can win, but if he does, it will be very, very difficult — and mostly because Obama has done such a terrible job.
5 states to win. 5. Bobo's team has already abandoned Indiana. How many Presidents are re-elected without 10+EV states they held the first time around? What were the results of the bellwether 2010 election?
Where is Obama's path to victory?
It may be time, for so many, to stop paying so much, attention to pointing out Romney’s imperfections. Over and over, it’s becoming monotonous.
Romney may not hold strong conservative beliefs. Or he may indeed, and may have been hiding them while governor of MA, simply because so many of the state’s voters, are party-line democrats. Either way, at worst Romney is somewhat squishy. At best, he has insulated himself quite effectively, to being easily typecast by the lackey Obama media.
By contrast there’s no question Obama *does* hold strong communist beliefs. Surrounds himself with committed communists - and is beholden to America’s adversaries.
None of which. NONE. Apply to Mitt Romney.
Focus people. Please.
The election is just 180 days away.
“...there’s no question Obama *does* hold strong communist beliefs. Surrounds himself with committed communists - and is beholden to America’s adversaries.”
That enormously important fact guarantees my vote for whoever has a legitimate chance of defeating him.
Bump. That’s exactly what I thought when I first read it!
On the question of who would best handle the economy, Romney holds a clear lead over Obama. Sixty percent say Romney would do a "good" or "very good" job handling the economy over the next four years, compared to 52 percent for Obama, according to Gallup.
Probably.
Romney may win, but it may be one of the closest electoral contests in history.Romney will win in a big landslide. There is no way Obama wins this one. This one is so easy to predict it amazes me people cannot seem to grasp it.
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