Posted on 11/02/2012 11:47:47 AM PDT by ScottinVA
With four days to go, President Obama and Mitt Romney are tied in the critical battleground state of Ohio.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Ohio Voters finds Obama and Romney each with 49% support. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, while one percent (1%) is undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Ohio remains one of eight Toss-Up states in the Rasmussen Reports Electoral College Projections. Obama won the Buckeye State in 2008 by a 52% to 47% margin.
At the beginning of the week, Romney held a slight 50% to 48% advantage. It was the first time Romney has taken even a modest lead in the race of Ohio's 18 Electoral College votes since late May, but the two candidates have been within two percentage points of one another since then.
Forty percent (40%) of Ohio voters say they have already cast their ballots, and among these voters, the president has a comfortable 56% to 41% lead.
Both candidates earn better than 90% support from voters in their respective parties. The president is ahead 50% to 41% among voters not affiliated with either major political party.
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Come on now, tell us the other two.
Remember Ras showed Romney +2 a few days ago? Now he says tie. Dems say they have been working on the OH ground game for 4 years. We’ll see how many winos, illegals, and alzheimer’s patients they round up.
” We’ll see how many winos, illegals, and alzheimer’s patients they round up.”
Plenty
That’s what I hope- I cannot take 4 more years of Obama. He is our walking national nightmare.
Dang Ohio.
Something is very wrong here. Romney is whipping Obama with Independents nationally, consistently by 10-20%. And Mark Halperin even stated Romney was winning Ohio with Independents.
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/10/31/Halperin-Romney-Winning-Independents—In-Ohio
R/R will be in Columbus, OH Monday night.
If I may, I look the internals of all the Rasmussen polls and sometimes those figures jump up and down.
Just the other day in the presidential tracking the support of black people for Obama was “only” around 85%, than the next day went back around 95%. So don’t draw too many conclusions based on a single day poll internals.
The only conclusion is that the match is close, which we already knew.
This is God’s world and His decision. Pray that we the people seek repentance for all our sins and unbelief and that God blesses us with His chosen leader.
Maybe I will settle down after some time. Maybe not.
As of this moment at least, Chris Christie is my most hated Republican of all time. In a landslide.
Wed you will be praising Ohio and cursing Ras.
LoL! I’ll give you a hint.......amazingly, BO falls into the #2 type.
If Obama wins prepare to eat the dust from the golden calf!
Obama won by 4.5% in 2008, 51.5%-47%.
I find it hard to believe after 4 disastrous years, we can’t move 2.5 points up and down to give Romney the win. It would amount to swapping out about 130,000 votes.
How can Mitt tie Obama at 48% if Obama is leading independents by that much? I think Scott made a mistake in the wording. Typically Dems poll a bit more than Repubs, right? This would be a 50% Obama, 46% Romney poll if that were true.
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NumbersMuncher @NumbersMuncher
Not worth panicking over a 1.2 change in an Ohio poll though. Romney is getting good crossover support. If Romney wins indies he will win OH
You know what you’re talking about. I can’t believe there’s so many bedwetters on this thread. Romney takes Ohio comfortably. Any reports on early voting all clearly state that Obama is way underperforming (he may be ahead in Dem strongholds but he’s way way underperforming from 2008). Obama is getting a small surge from indies because of Sandy. That will evaporate by election day as indies remember they have no job, are paying $5/gallon for gas, the US is 16 trillion dollars in debt etc etc etc. It really is the economy stupids. No way Obama wins siting at 47% a few days beore the election.
Romney did good in the polls when he had his own big block of time that the media had to air, the convention and debates. With that gone, the media is in near complete control of what people see of Romney and Obama and how often they see it. And with 2 weeks post-debate, that's enough time to affect how people will vote. As far as political ads, both Romney and Obama have equal money, so those are going to be a wash.
All:
I am in Columbus Ohio and I do not believe this poll. I know Romney’s ground game has been very productive here. I have had them knock on my door and I have had mailings every day for at least 2 weeks. None from obama. All of the yard signs are for Romney with the exception of 2 signs for Dear Leader, yep only 2 yard signs in my area.
TV ads have been running forever all day every day for Romney. No one that I have spoken to are going to vote for obama. All Romney, even if they do not like him they are going to vote for him. I was a Republican for 30 yrs, but I am now an Independent voting for Romney!
I believe SE does.
Rasmussen has been pretty consistent in having Obama up among Indies. Him, and CNN. All others give them to Romney.
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