[nhwingut]

I thought Obama was a slam dunk? That’s what the narrative was yesterday, tucked into the jobs report.

Even a RINO squish (who draws ZERO enthusiasm) can beat Obama by 5 points.

[toddausauras]

I hope this is true. Obama and his minions are making Romney look good lately.

[tobyhill]

The Lame Stream Media knows thesze stats and that’s why they are working OT in pumping out this “great recovery”.

[trustandobey]

Looks like the democrats and Rassmussen really want Romney instead of Newt :)

[LibLieSlayer]

I am happy for all of you republicons... you can win with romney... but you will do it without me and those like me. **** "I like me some grits" romney! He is just a cracker version of obama.

LLS

[sirchtruth]

My squirrely dog can beat Obama this next election!!

The question is do we want a liberal or conservative republican to beat Obama's socialist, radical, anti-american ass this Nov?

[throwback]

Good timing. This should be worth a good crop of ABO votes in the south. 4 more years of Obama at worst or a feckless moderate Republican at best. Oh well, it will be funny to watch how shocked people will be to find out Obamacare isn't really about free birth control: “Really, I can't get my bypass, the government what?, what's this have to do with having sex?”

[FrankR]

They should rename "Rasmussen" as the Romney Reporting Service. I don't recall seeing too many surveys by Rasmussen when Romney wasn't in the lead.

I hope it has nothing to do with the fact that the anagram for "Rasmussen" is "earns sums".

[molson209]

Obama is going to have to fake the poll numbers just like his buddy Putin did ,wait for it .

[jakerobins]

I don’t care what the media tries to make the polls “say”.....Romney is a BAD canidate for the Republicans and will lose the election against Obama!

[Mr. K]

Democrap Media (and pollsters): Wow! Romney's sure a great candidate. You guys should pick Romney did you know Romney can beat our guy Obama. We'd sure be ascared if you ran Romney. ooooh we are sure frightened of Romney running against us- you should pick Romney

He's got ‘electability’! which is why we have to keep telling you over and over and over to, uh.,.. elect him.

[Williams]

IMHO Obama’s ratings go down the more he appears on tv. People do not like him and Obama says the most ridiculous things. Algae is a great example.

Remember when the more he promoted Obamacare the more it sunk in the polls?

[jwalsh07]

Impossible, Romney doesn’t connect with anybody and Obama is the master connector.

[cookcounty]

And when, in history, has a challenger to an incumbent LOST ground from the numbers in the spring to those in the fall?

I don’t have the facts close at hand, but my (perhaps faulty) memory is that the challenger always rises a few points from the early numbers.

I’m sure all the other candidates are passing Obama as well.

[RetiredArmy]

What continues to bother me is that 44% of Americans want socialism and approve of the crap this guy is doing. Thta is what scares me. 44% of Americans want to be sheep. Want to be controlled. Told what too do. All life's choices made by the government for them. 44%!! Unbelievable. Nearly 1 of every 2 people. Unbelievable.

[Bridesheadfan]

Looks like the “mean conservative men want to take birth control away from women” narrative hasn’t worked the way they wanted it to. Fluke you, BHO!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

In addition to gas prices and phony unemployment numbers, perhaps people are waking up to his dictatorial ways when he said that we’ll send our troops to war at world request and “Eff You” Congress.

[cookcounty]

The rest of the report:

Santorum up 1 over Obama (no number given for Newt).

Obama fallen back to -19 on the “Strongly Approve/Disapprove scale.”

Interesting that Boehner beats Pelosi and McConnell beats Harry Reid on the approval ratings, though nobody does well (then again, Congress has pretty much perpetually low approval ratings over the past 50 years).

[Nextrush]

The economy and gas prices add up to a GOP win this year no matter who the nominee is......the voters who supported Obama four years ago are suffering and they are disillusioned while conservative voters can’t wait to line up and vote......Romney will win even if I don’t vote for him, which I may opt to do.

Obmamacare should not be kept in place as Romneycare, devolved to the states.

That’s Romney’s plan for us in a nutshell.

[mc5cents]

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