Posted on 08/09/2012 9:01:20 AM PDT by RobinMasters
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 47% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns the vote from 43%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided.
The president enjoyed a bounce immediately following release of last week’s job report. However, the bounce has faded, and the race is back to where it was just before Friday’s report. See tracking history. Following that jobs report, consumer confidence fell to a new 2012 low yesterday and is barely above that low today. Just 24% believe the jobs market has improved over the past year, while 44% believe it has gotten worse.
The president leads by two in Virginia, and the candidates are tied in Colorado. The Virginia Senate race is a tie.
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That’s great, and clearly shows momentum for Mittens, but it’s still all about the electoral college.
It is going to have to be 55% on election day to cover all of the fraud. Keep hitting Ibama!
Unemployment is 2%!!! Yeah! That’s the ticket! Would I lie to you like the Republicans always do? (/sarcasm off)
If you just listened to the MSM, you would think that the Moron-in-Chief is cruising to victory. 43& is not going to cut it providing the good guys bury their differences and turnout to vote. I know that my family will even though Mittens is our least favorite R candidate.
43%
I like to get drunk.
I don’t know how Mitt could possibly be leading by 4 nationally but trailing by 2 in VA, unless he’s getting 75% support in places like Texas.
Demographics... VA is very black and that is the one contingent that will turn out for him in similar numbers to 2008.
I find that such b.s. Are there really voters out there swinging back and forth based on the jobs report?
"Gee whiz, the unemployment rate dropped to 8.2% this week, guess I'm back to Obama...what, back up to 8.4% this week? Guess Romney's my guy..."
These pollsters just regurgitate the same talking points over and over again.
But would Mitt’s lead in Texas and the South not be more than offset by Obama’s lead in Illinois, New York, and New England and on the West Coast?
I agree. The state polling makes little sense right now. We are seeing Mitt even up in blue-leaning states...Colorado, which is seeing the negative ads, as well as WI, MI and others who are not as much. We see Obama hanging in there in FL (albeit with low numbers for himself as an incumbent), but seeing bad results in other swing states where it seems like he’d have better potential.
My only fear (assuming the GOP runs a decent campaign) is that Romney damn near has to run the table in swing states. He likely has to win the midwest, VA and FL, which all have very different voter bases. If Obama finds a good formula in any of the three, he could eek it out.
That number tells us little. We need to see the state by state results, especially states in play.
Romney might be getting that level of support in some places. He’s far from a perfect choice, but I think so many people are disgusted with obama that Romney will get a lot of votes. I just hope he can win the Electoral College also.
If the dead can vote Obama can pull a rabbit out of his golf bag just in time.
WSI reports that Bernake has the votes for another QE3 stimulus in range of Sep -Oct, (just in time to introduce a magic economy by election day) if he isn’t headed off. There are those on Wall Street trying to prevent that from happening.
Romney was heard this week rejecting stimulus, which seems to give some legs to the story.
VA is not only very black, but also has seen its northern counties of the D.C. area invaded by leftist bureaucrats on the government dole and others who fled the very Blue state of Maryland (ironically because they don’t like how Blue Maryland has become!). The Washington, D.C. metropolitan area has become so dependent on the Federal Government that any significant cuts in the budget will send real estate values plummeting in Montgomery and Fairfax counties. Those residents will not take that possibility lying down. In other words, a Romney win means less money in their pockets. The fact that Obama is narrowly leading in the current VA polls speaks volumes of the effective strategy of government expansion this Administration has employed.
The Lefties have gone very quiet with all their national popular vote rubbish this year...
Even legitimate pollsters have to pay the bills.
They will connect X & Y and because their reading public are so desperate for a prediction the reading public will accept such tenuous correlations.
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