Posted on 06/03/2012 9:50:00 AM PDT by Innovative
According to the poll, 49% of registered voters say that if the November election were held today, they would vote for Obama, while 46% say they would cast a ballot for Romney, the unofficial GOP presidential nominee. The president's three point margin is within the survey's sampling error. Obama had a nine point advantage in CNN's last national poll, which was conducted in early April.
"Which candidate better understands how the economy works? That's a tie as well - 45% pick Obama, 45% choose Romney," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
Although the race for the White House is essentially tied, Obama does have one big advantage: His supporters right now are far more enthusiastic about him. More than six in ten Obama voters say they strongly support the president, while only 47% of Romney voters feel that way about their candidate.
In the battle for crucial independent voters, the poll indicates Romney holds a 51%-39% advantage.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
Ask yourself how Romney can be leading independents by 12 and trailing Obama by 3. It is not possible unless the poll was confined to New York, California and Oregon.
To be honest I am very surprised that Romney is tied, mich the less close to having the support of Obama in this poll considering CNN uses their newsroom employees and breakroom illegals as the ‘registered voters’ in this poll. True Story.
Thanks, I will.
Political pros can gleen a lot from even a biased poll. Their secret is to follow the trend. Last April, this CNN national poll had Obama up by 9%, in six weeks he has lost six points and now leads by 3%.
As someone else said before, Mitt hadn’t won the nomination—he isn’t on most people’s radar—the majority who won’t start paying attention until mid-September.
Obama is in big trouble. His desperation is showing and the count of his major blunders keep climbing. The media are starting to doubt him, next they will start laughing at him as the rest of us have for some time.
Well you wouldn't know it by looking at DU. Numbers of posts are significantly down.
I’m very motivated to vote against Obama.
Yet Obama holds a slight lead. I guess many of the Republicans must have crossed over.
Bull. Shit.
Bull. Shit.
Oh the horror
Whistles. Graveyard.
Obviously if Romney has a 51-39 lead with independents, CNN must have polled a TON of Democrat “registered voters” (not likely voters) to produce a 49-46 Obama lead to champion.
Think about it. Either they found every Republican that plans to vote for Obama or so overweighted the poll with Democrats as to be pointless.
Wait a minute. There was a point when people were banned for supporting Romney, and he is still vilified as an evil choice here on FR. So why is shocking that his poll numbers among conservatives are so low, when conservatives are doing nothing but bashing him?
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t tell conservatives not to vote for Romney, and then complain that CNN is lying when no conservatives want to vote for Romney.
The results are so ridiculous, that I think it has to be a push poll!
You shouldn’t be such a skeptic. You do understand that 35% of the electorate is complete moron?
I agree 100%. People are either totally insane or incredibly, incredibly stupid. Or the other option is the polls are rigged and so might the election be.
I realized, when Bill Clinton was elected for a second term, that most likely, the only way to save this nation would be revolution, or civil war. We have, fortunately, made some gains over the last few years, but you are correct, even 10% is far too many. Dumbed down populace is the only explanation.
There is a significant residual of Conservative voters who can't bring themselves (at this point) to say they will vote for Romney. Some will come out for Romney, some not,....but they definitely will NOT be voting for Obama.
So that 49% for Obama is almost certainly his "ceiling." While many voters still do not know Mr. Romney, EVERBODY'S DOG knows plenty about Obama, there is no upside for him on "name recognition," he's maxed out.
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