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President Obama Loses Support in Pennsylvania
Real Clear Politics ^ | August 2, 2011 | Caitlin Huey-Burns

Posted on 08/03/2011 4:33:52 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued

Voters in the key swing state of Pennsylvania have some troubling news for President Obama: A majority say he doesn't deserve another four years in the White House.

According to a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday, 52 percent of registered Pennsylvania voters say the president does not deserve a second term while 42 percent support his re-election.

The president’s job approval ratings are also underwater in the Keystone State, 43 percent to 54 percent. The majority of independent voters disapprove of the job Obama is doing, 56 percent to 40 percent. By a nine-point margin, 51 percent of this important voting bloc don’t think the president deserves re-election.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: pennsylvania; pennsylvania2012; polls
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To: Clintonfatigued

DONE right there. PA going red in the last midterm proved that.You dont go red and then turn around and vote for the idiot that turned your stomach in the first place.With the voter ID in place now in that state just watch what happens.


21 posted on 08/03/2011 5:12:04 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: AuH2ORepublican; Impy; Clintonfatigued
"Irrespective of how bad the GOP’s presidential field may seem to be, whoever wins the nomination will have an excellent chance of winning not only 270 electoral votes, but perhaps 350 electoral votes, if he or she can unite conservatives."

The key point. Which is why the media is working overtime to ensure liberal RINO scum like Slick Willard, Huntsman or some other fill-in-the-blank ends up with the GOP nod. A bad split is the only way to ensure a Zero regime continuation.

22 posted on 08/03/2011 5:12:17 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: Michael Barnes

That would be the scumbags in eastern PA.


23 posted on 08/03/2011 5:15:02 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: crz

I envy your optimism.


24 posted on 08/03/2011 5:16:25 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/01...NEVER FORGET.)
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To: AuH2ORepublican

There is one scenario in which Obama has to carry only 19 states plus DC to garner 271 evs - and these are all states he carried last time.

Whomever wins 2 of the 3 following states will be elected president - FL, PA, OH


25 posted on 08/03/2011 5:18:20 PM PDT by mwl8787
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26 posted on 08/03/2011 5:19:22 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

You Betcha !


27 posted on 08/03/2011 5:21:11 PM PDT by tomkat (Sarah '12)
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE
Without doubt. Do I blame all of eastern PA? Of course not; but the "good guys" are seriously out-numbered in the east.

Harrisburg and Philly are gonna be extreme hotbeds for the 2012 elections when rats try and pull some multi-municipality voting and are denied. I can here it all the way out here in the western side aleady, "I was DISENFRANCHISED!!!!!" and lawyers will swarm in to halt the elections by tying it all up in the multiple layers of the legal system.

Wish I had it in me to be a total douche; fake id's and the makers thereof are gonna make a killing in about 12 months.

28 posted on 08/03/2011 5:21:27 PM PDT by Michael Barnes
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To: mwl8787
Ping'ing ya to #28. I don't think PA is going to be as easily won as others think.

I'm just praying were not the next "Floriduh" (apologies to ya good guys down there).

29 posted on 08/03/2011 5:23:58 PM PDT by Michael Barnes
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To: AuH2ORepublican

I hope your numbers are right, but then there are the American people who don’t like to admit they erred.


30 posted on 08/03/2011 5:33:43 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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This Southwestern Family in Pennsylvania was NOT polled and we sure as He!! will never vote Obama..

I would love to know the areas they polled...

RUN SOON SARAH RUN...PENNSYLVANIA NEEDS YOU...

31 posted on 08/03/2011 5:42:31 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: Tallguy
Oh and here in Somerset County they are building a NEW LANDING PAD FOR HIS HELICOPTER...SO HE CAN VISIT ON 9/11

This area is full of welfare and retired citizens...there is no decent jobs or manufacturing available...our shopping consists of Wal Mart... my family left here almost 60 years ago and how I ever left hubby talk me into returning after retirement...I'll never know...It's beautiful rural country but that is all...

32 posted on 08/03/2011 5:52:47 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: Clintonfatigued

That’s not to say that Pennsylvanians are going conservative. Pennsylvania is full of the meanest, dumbest, commie, union thugs in this whole country. There mad cause they aren’t getting enough Obama bucks. Pennsylvanians will roll out the red carpet for the next commie candidate that promises them something for nothing.


33 posted on 08/03/2011 6:33:55 PM PDT by dWheel
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To: mwl8787

“There is one scenario in which Obama has to carry only 19 states plus DC to garner 271 evs - and these are all states he carried last time.”


That would assume that Obama can carry FL while the Republican carries IN, VA, NC, CO, NV, NH, IA, NM and OH. That’s not at all likely to happen, even if Obama dumps Biden in favor of former FL Governor Charlie Crist or something.

In the scenario I mentioned, the Republican candidate wins all of the McCain states plus IN, NC, VA, FL, OH and the Omaha CD, and Obama draws an inside straight and wins the remaining 23 states (plus DC) and ekes out a 272-266 Electoral College victory. I don’t think that Obama can win FL, so the inside straight is his best bet.

“Whomever wins 2 of the 3 following states will be elected president - FL, PA, OH”

If the Republican wins FL and OH, or FL and PA, but Obama wins the other state, Obama still has a chance of drawing the inside straight and winning (with 272 EVs if he wins PA and with a bare-minimum 270 EVs if he wins OH); remember, Bush won two of those three states (FL and OH) in 2000 and it would have all been for naught had he not carried NH by a little over 1% (the Dems made sure to steal WI, NM and OR). And if Obama carries FL, he could win despite losing not only OH and PA, but WI (or MN, or CO, or both NV and NH, or both IA and NH, or both NM and NH) instead.


34 posted on 08/03/2011 7:12:05 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: Churchillspirit

Thank you. I envy anyone with a handle like yours. He was one heck of a man of which there will be no other like him.


35 posted on 08/03/2011 7:15:58 PM PDT by crz
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To: OrangeHoof

What is wrong with that 42%? Are they nuts?


36 posted on 08/03/2011 10:37:58 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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To: Theodore R.

It’s a secret ballot so they don’t have to.


37 posted on 08/04/2011 3:56:18 AM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: AuH2ORepublican

Right, trade FL for OH. My point is that there are inside-straight scenarios that make his re-election possible in the low 270s - as you’ve identified.


38 posted on 08/04/2011 10:55:49 AM PDT by mwl8787
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