Dead heat for Romney and Obama in latest Michigan poll

Fox Detroit ^

[TigerClaws]

Who are you most likely to vote for in the Presidential election - Democratic President Barack Obama, or Republican Nominee, Governor Mitt Romney, another candidate, or are you undecided?

Republican Nominee Mitt Romney 46.86% President Barack Obama 46.24% Another candidate 4.94% Undecided 1.96%

[NeverForgetBataan]

I Can’t wait to see the expression on that pinched little face of Ozero’s nurse maid surrogate mommy, Valerie Jarrett, when he is mumbling through his bitter and trite concession speech.

[wk4bush2004]

I believe that we are going to see Romney/Ryan win states (such as Michigan) that have not traditionally been won by Republicans in presidential races.

[whitedog57]

Since Democrats will cheat, Obama will win Michigan.

[Jane Long]

Since Democrats will cheat, Obama will win Michigan.

Praying that the cheaters are handled with Divine intervention.

[Mad_as_heck]

If Michigan is really this close it bodes well for the race on a national level.

[Combat_Liberalism]

What’s up with 5% going to “other candidates?” That figure should actually be closer to .5% I suspect some of those responses are motivated by fear (could the union find out?). Maybe the majority of them will actually pull lever for Romney. Since the majority of the undecideds should be expected to vote Romney, he has a good chance of winning Michigan if the cheating factor is not too big.

[equaviator]

Obama’s not ebonic enough for the racists who voted for him in 2008 so they won’t be voting at all this time.

[Brandonmark]

Should be a run away state for Obama since he single-handedly saved the auto industry with his GM bailout!

[Izzy Dunne]

mumbling through his bitter and trite concession speech.

Do you think he will give such a speech?

I'm thinking he might just crank out the lawyer army on Wednesday and not speak.

Gracious, he ain't.

[johncocktoasten]

Obama’s ‘08 margin was 16.44% in Michigan. Now a statistical dead heat in MULTIPLE Polls?

Obama’s ‘08 margin in Ohio was 4.58% but is also now a dead heat slightly favoring Romney?

I think the conclusion of the election will be that 2008 was an outlier election where due to the “unknown” blank canvas of the candidate, conventional voter decision making was skewed. I think that 2012 is going to be a more “conventional” election where normal voter patterns and decision making prevails. Also I think that due to ‘08’s “outlier” status, the polling in this cycle is off the charts all over the place. Dems argue that some segment of Independents is made up of “proto” Republicans, but when R voter registration has increased nationwide, I’m not sure how that argument holds water. If I’m right, and 2012 is a conventional race, then Romney will win by at least 6%.

[cripplecreek]

Since Democrats will cheat, Obama will win Michigan.

I wouldn't count on it. We have a rock solid secretary of state and attorney general. Both of them were targets of fraud in 2010 and they are NOT tolerant of it at all. We also have a voter ID law firmly in place and recently purged the voter rolls.

[Darren McCarty]

Beydoun is dem, but has had the most republican friendly polling in Michigan this year. Hopefully, they are right.

[equaviator]

“We have a rock solid secretary of state and attorney general.”

Michigan’s chickens are coming home to roost.

[cripplecreek]

Also I think that due to ‘08’s “outlier” status, the polling in this cycle is off the charts all over the place.

FReepers don't hear it because they're afraid of losing a favorite whipping boy but Michigan is trending rightward in the long term (Outside of the "historic" 08 election.)

John Kerry only beat Bush here in 04 by around 4% and that is questionable due to open fraud in Detroit that year. However our voting laws have tightened considerably since then.

2010 was a complete blowout election for the democrats. The GOP ran the table and the democrats didn't pick up a single seat above the county level. Even the seats they did hold cost them serious money they shouldn't have had to spend like John Dingell's seat who faced a late entry tea party challenger.

This year, the democrats appear to be concentrating almost entirely on holding the seats they have without mounting any real challenges to take new ones. Even the big pro union ballot proposals appear to be losing.

[Darren McCarty]

That 16% was partly due to McCain sucking so bad as a candidate. He quit the state, and made a public spectacle of himself doing it.

[tomkat]

Please do stop by on Wednesday for a nice crow sandwich !              :^)

[cripplecreek]

McCain was downright insulting.

You didn’t vote for me in the primary so screw you. LOL

[VanDeKoik]

Michigan checks IDs, at least that’s what happened there in 2010.

[cripplecreek]

I see Kid Rock just released a song dedicated to Detroit. In my opinion its nowhere near as good as born free but at least he puts his money where his mouth is and promotes Michigan with the best of us.

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2012/11/kid_rock_releases_detroit_mich.html