Look, you folks have to realize these polls float up and down. You are not going to see “real” polling results until both conventions are over, and...we are seriously into the race. I watched and studied closely a great number of political races where the poll results were far off the mark, not because they biased, but because they could never get straight answers from those polled. These rolling polls, like Rasmussens, are subject to variation over the three day sprints theyar take. And...yes weekends skew the polls.
Two examples I like to cite, which can be applied to many races. The Rubio/Crist senate race, and....the Cruz/Dewhurst senate primary. Both Dewhurst and Crist were gigantic favorites. The polls were not even close until the very end, when it became obvious, to even the dumbest moron, that Rubio and Cruz were going to wipe out Crist and Dewhurst. On the other hand, the PPP poll had the Wisconsin govenor recall race down to a one point race, the day before election day. And, Scott Walker wiped out the Democrat Party by a seven point victory.
Stay strong!!! Romney/Ryan will win handily, if we all get out there and vote!!!
Agreed. This is going to come down to turnout and who is most motivated. The economy will be the primary motivator.
"Measure of confidence? Romney kicks $3M to NRCC, NRSC While Obama refuses to help Dem committees EdMorrissey @EdMorrissey"
Romney hasn't been spending much, but he's raising more money than Obama. Obama has been spending more money than he's been raising. In 2008, Obama outraised and outspent McCain by 2:1. This is not happening in 2012.
I'm not worried about the polling this week or next week. I'll worry if Romney and the Republican superpacs don't start spending soon, though.
It's just that this election IS the most important of our lives, and it is terrifying to think of what Obama could do to our Republic if he's given another four years to implement his "vision".
May God have mercy on ALL of us, and give wisdom to all those those who might be thinking of voting for, or (in my mind almost as bad) NOT voting against, a man who thinks Government, not God, is the benevolent protector of our rights and freedoms.
You sure as heck better be right.