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Rasmussen : Romney 50%, Obama 43%
Rasmussen Reports ^

Posted on 05/11/2012 6:31:42 AM PDT by sunmars

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows Mitt Romney earning 50% of the vote and President Obama attracting 43% support. Four percent (4%) would vote for a third party candidate, while another three percent (3%) are undecided.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012polls; obama; poll; rasmussen; romney
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To: sam_paine
Seems like the worst thing that could happen to the country right now is for Obama to give up on the election and start doing God-knows-what on his way out....not just popping off the "R" keys on all the keyboards.

If Obama starts becoming a drag on the socialist agenda, or looks like he might lose in a historic landslide, he will be shunted aside very suddenly. You watch. They've done it before, even after a candidate had won his primary they've made a last minute substitution. Like pulling a hitter off the on-deck circle just as he is ready to step into the batter's box.

101 posted on 05/11/2012 8:26:05 AM PDT by Tallguy (It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
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To: WILLIALAL
"You are right, nice to have a lead nationally, but its those state polls that will tell the true story."

Only up to a tipping point. If the election were held today, a 50-43 pv for Mittens translates into an electoral landslide without regard to state-by-state polling -- the red states simply don't have enough voters to electorally account for such a robust defeat of Bobo ie Mittens would pick up many Blue states if that many Dogs sat on their hands at 43.

Not unironically, something like the 50-41 Reagan-Carter pv, albeit electorally it would be a bit closer than that 489-49 EV thrashing. More like 360-178, which is probably Mitten's limit, picking up outlier states like Maine, etc.

Now, you get a tight pop vote race, like 48-47 (Gore-Bush), different story. Absolutely state-by-state polling is the key in that instance.

102 posted on 05/11/2012 8:26:06 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (=)
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To: sam_paine

Yep it is all politics.

What does it say about Obama, that he takes this allegedly courageous principled stand on homosexual marriage, because he’s scheduled to go to a fundraiser at George Clooney’s house a few days later?

Can you imagine the MSM, if a Republican candidate or president takes some stand on a key conservative issue, right before a conservative fundraiser? Would the MSM laud him or her for a courageous principled stand on an issue, or would they lambast him/her for doing so because they were going to a major fundraiser??????


103 posted on 05/11/2012 8:26:15 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: sam_paine

Wasn’t it the “W” keys they removed when Clinton left the WH? Those liberals are sooooo clever!


104 posted on 05/11/2012 8:27:00 AM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: Tallguy

But, wouldn’t it be racist to pull Obama out of the election like that????? How can the historic first black president be pulled out like that? Don’t the liberals have a vested interest in seeing this first black president be re-elected?????/


105 posted on 05/11/2012 8:28:06 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Sacajaweau

Negative. She’s radioactive politically.


106 posted on 05/11/2012 8:28:47 AM PDT by rashley (Rashley)
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To: sam_paine
I can tell you this much with near certainty; Homo-bama will completely suspend all enforcement of the Defense of Marriage Act after this act of barbarism. In fact, he will actively attack it, attack all states that still value marriage, unmercifully with his "justice" department - starting with North Carolina.

The homo-Nazis have Obama on a very short chain, and they are tugging on it viciously right now.

107 posted on 05/11/2012 8:29:37 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: Savage Beast

Except for one aberration in AZ that was later corrected, every time gay marriage is put to a public vote, it loses. Gay marriage is illegal in 44 states. Hell, they couldn’t pass it in CA. NC just fit the existing pattern. It is the MSM and phony polls that create the impression that the majority of Americans support it.


108 posted on 05/11/2012 8:30:32 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Dilbert San Diego
But, wouldn’t it be racist to pull Obama out of the election like that?????

C'mon! You know it's not "racist" if the Democrats do it!

109 posted on 05/11/2012 8:31:01 AM PDT by Tallguy (It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
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To: StAnDeliver

“Only up to a tipping point. If the election were held today, a 50-43 pv for Mittens translates into an electoral landslide without regard to state-by-state polling -”

I agree, but I still like to see those state poll internals as state polls seem to be less influenced by daily fluctuations. They usually are taken on a set schedule and not done on a daily tracking.
I like to watch the trends within each swing state and see how each state is trending. I think that is a more solid basis in predicting where the swing electorate is.


110 posted on 05/11/2012 8:33:34 AM PDT by WILLIALAL
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“But, wouldn’t it be racist to pull Obama out of the election like that????? “

Exactly. No way in the world Obama would step aside without an internecine blood bath that would doom the Dems for a decade.


111 posted on 05/11/2012 8:35:25 AM PDT by WILLIALAL
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To: sunmars

Woo hoo. After his ‘for-gay-marriage’ evolving..


112 posted on 05/11/2012 8:36:01 AM PDT by PRePublic (9)
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To: Drew68

Bingo

Folks this is the election of my lifetime so far.

We need to oust the COMMUNIST FREAKS at all costs.


113 posted on 05/11/2012 8:36:11 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: Drew68
It's worse than that. They're "too principled" to vote for Romney but they don't want Obama to win either so they hope there's enough of us "less principled" folk out there to do the dirty work of pulling Romney across the finish line.

Then there are those (like me) who live in states Romney can't win such as Hawaii, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland, Vermont, and Illinois. We're happy to cut into Romney's popular vote numbers to warn and to worry the GOP "leadership", particularly since if Romney is a few votes from carrying our states, it's all over for the druggie in our White House. Of all the potential nominees for our party, Romney ranked dead last on my list, below Paul (who I consider a well-meaning nutcase). I'm glad I don't have to figure out how to vote in a state when my vote might matter. I'm still hoping for the unlikely outcome in which Paul can force a contested floor vote for long enough that the delegates are free to vote their own minds, and that the delegates will act on the overwhelming lack of enthusiasm for Romney among voters.

114 posted on 05/11/2012 8:37:35 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Can we afford as much government as welfare-addicted voters demand?)
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To: dfwgator
Actually Mr. Krabs would be the best choice, he’s a good businessman, and he served in the Navy.

He even manages to keep secrets from escaping to the competition - thus a foreign policy hawk. I think his daughter might prove to be a problem though, a~la Meghan McCain.

115 posted on 05/11/2012 8:39:16 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: sickoflibs

It will hurt Obama, and Romney is off to Liberty U : )


116 posted on 05/11/2012 8:41:04 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: ConservativeDude
What I see as a form of denial are the self-hating Reps who never mention the historic 2010 midterms that shellacked the Dems at the federal, state, and local levels. It is as though it never happened. Just as the 2006 midterms heralded a rout of the Reps in 2008, the 2010 midterms will be a harbinger of what will happen in 2012.

I don't see how any informed person ever thought that Obama was unstoppable. His Presidency has been an abject failure at all levels. And there are possibly some more shoes that will drop before November, e.g., the two SCOTUS decisions on Obamacare and AZ SB 1070, an economic meltdown in Europe as the EU goes into recession with two consecutive quarters of negative growth, a cooling off of the Chinese economy, continuing high unemployment, etc. Obama will have to defy the laws of political gravity to be reelected.

117 posted on 05/11/2012 8:41:15 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Drew68

Truer words were never spoken.


118 posted on 05/11/2012 8:41:50 AM PDT by beandog (All Aboard the Choo Choo Train to Crazy Town)
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To: Nextrush

Brilliant - assist in 4 more years of obama.

Just FNG brilliant. Clooney, Obama, oprah, pelosi, reid , thank you.


119 posted on 05/11/2012 8:42:12 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: sam_paine

Attention spans are short. It’s all calculated early on to maximize donations. I don’t put much stake in the duplicity of his statement, even if the press is gaga over it.


120 posted on 05/11/2012 8:42:54 AM PDT by commonguymd (Freedom is a myth anymore it seems)
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