Posted on 05/31/2012 6:18:14 AM PDT by sunmars
Mitt Romney has inched ahead of President Obama in Ohio, taking the lead in the key battleground state after the president has led there for several months.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Ohio Voters shows Romney with 46% support to Obamas 44%. Six percent (6%) like some other candidate, and five percent (5%) remain undecided.
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LLS
Every time I go to Rasmussen I get so depressed.
Obumbo always seems to hold his own and not much change since he was elected, when it should be a linear drop into the toilet.
I guess we should never underestimate the total stupidity of the American public.
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Agree with your observation that Barry somehow holds his own when he should be at about 10%
Bright side is that Rasmussen is , compared to others, more accurate on what the real %’s are.
To me a win is a win even if it comes down to .5%.
Ridding the WH of Obozo and MoChelle will be a day for celebration.
Hopefully there will be some pickups in Congress to provide a real platform for a new president to straighten out the mess.
He said he would repeal it and the idea of repealing NAFTA is what upset voters. Ohio is extremely dependent on exports and NAFTA is too important to repeal. Ohio is an exporting powerhouse and cannot afford a trade war to protect what little is left of unionized manufacturing, Government Motors and the like.
As a consequence, watch for the Democrat campaign to be unrelentingly negative and poisonously divisive, and for Obama to become increasingly shrill, desperate... and dangerous.
I am not sure what polling charts you are looking at Rasmussen. Since Odumbo was elected..
Seems to me like a massive change in fortunes for Odumbo in the polls since he was elected.
LibLieSlayer makes a good point. The system is unworkable in its current state. 16 Trillion in debt. There is no difference between what is happening in Greece and where America is headed without radical radical change. Unlike some on FR I think Romney is a good guy, loves America and wants to do the right thing. I know from his Bain years that he is a technocrat who likes the geeky details of turning things around. I can’t help but think that he himself must lay awake at night sometimes and think to himself “I am going to win this but then what? how can I possibly turn this ship?”
You shouldn’t.
The worst beating any democrat got in a POTUS election was George McGovern. McGovern got about 38% of the popular vote.
This means there is a baseline of 38% of voters who will ALWAYS vote democrat.
Jimmy Carter got 41% of the popular vote against Reagan and only won 49 electoral votes.
Getting 44% of the popular vote is DISMAL. Dukakis got 45.7% and only won 111 electoral votes. Dukakis is doing better than Obama.
You shouldn’t.
The worst beating any democrat got in a POTUS election was George McGovern. McGovern got about 38% of the popular vote.
This means there is a baseline of 38% of voters who will ALWAYS vote democrat.
Jimmy Carter got 41% of the popular vote against Reagan and only won 49 electoral votes.
Getting 44% of the popular vote is DISMAL. Dukakis got 45.7% and only won 111 electoral votes. Dukakis is doing better than Obama.
Depressed? These are outrageously...I use that word purposely and I’ll say it again...outrageously bad numbers for Obama at this point in the election. It is only down from here for him. He is at 44% in a state he has to have and in a state he got 51% in last time. And this is at a time when maybe 5% of the voters are even paying attention.
Most voters don’t even begin to pay attention until after Labor Day. Almost all voters have more important (to them) things to do than worry about a subject they hate anyway...politics.
That 44% is dropping toward true bottom for Obama, which in Ohio with its union workers and minority populations, is probably somewhere around 40%. Those undecideds out there will break for the challenger in 4 months time.
Obama looks to lose Ohio by a greater margin than he won it last time. No need to be depressed. Just don’t ever expect giant margins in politics, people vote self-interest...sometimes self-interest takes strange forms but it is self-interest anyway. If Obama loses by 15 points in Ohio - 58-42, which is possible with these numbers now - that is a massive, massive landslide. As one other poster posted before, he’s toast.
The TREND is your FRIEND! And that is going Mitts direction. Today more BAD news for the Pretender in Chief.... lowering of the GDP figure and lower consumer confidence as well as an uptick in unemployment benefits. The stock market is jittering and Obama is shaking at the knees....
Although there will doubtless be several twists and turns during the five months-plus until Election Day, the point you have made, above, remains important: viz., the big lead for President Obama, in the Buckeye State, was quite ephemeral...
I am going to win this but then what? how can I possibly turn this ship?
All I know is, it’s always a good idea to switch from bad policies to good policies, even late in the game.
Republican Nominee West would nullify Obamas Race Card, be cleaner than a hounds tooth, be a true Conservative, be smarter than any known economist, AND be the FAVORITE SON of the key State of Florida!
GO WEST, Republican Party! GO WEST!
“Every time I go to Rasmussen I get so depressed.
Obumbo always seems to hold his own and not much change since he was elected, when it should be a linear drop into the toilet.
I guess we should never underestimate the total stupidity of the American public.”
I explained why there is “no drop”, in this post from another thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2889089/posts?page=61#61
“Every time I go to Rasmussen I get so depressed.”
Don’t be. Take to heart what Dick Morris and Rudy Giuliani have both said — there are 10 states with heavy majority populations of pro-Obama voters (CAL, NY, ILL, etc.) which skew these polls. It takes poll respondents from the other 40 states of majority-Romney to just make this look like an even race. Electorally speaking, Obama is way behind, and this could be a Dukakis scenario.
46% (Romney) + 44% (Obama) + 6% (Some other candidate) 5% (Undecided)..... Do I not know how to add or does that equal 101 percent?
It makes too much political sense for Portman not to be selected...
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Hmmmm....... Is that what you really meant to say? Please re-read that statement.
Love your Post #10. LOL
....voters loathe being treated like fools and idiots.
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And, that’s not just in Ohio. But, honestly, how many Buckeyes have forgotten about his NAFTA promise by now and/or how many do remember how he lied about it, but, they just don’t care anymore?
I hope that the good people of Ohio have long memories and short tempers.
LLS
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