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Poll: Romney gets convention bounce, takes national lead
The Hill ^ | August 30, 2012

Posted on 08/30/2012 5:40:32 PM PDT by SMGFan

Mitt Romney has taken the lead over President Obama with a bounce in the polls from the Republican National Convention.

Romney leads with 44 percent support, compared with 42 for Obama, according to a Reuters-Ipsos national tracking poll released Thursday.

The Republican candidate started the week trailing Obama 46 to 42, and the 6 percentage point swing is likely due to voter focus on the Republican National Convention, which concludes Thursday night in Tampa, Fla.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012polls; 2012rncconvention

1 posted on 08/30/2012 5:40:36 PM PDT by SMGFan
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OK fine. I will put up with the LDS evangelism at the conventioned.


2 posted on 08/30/2012 5:42:29 PM PDT by grumpa
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To: SMGFan

Wow! A bounce already? He hasn’t even given his speech yet. Interesting.


3 posted on 08/30/2012 5:49:19 PM PDT by austinaero (Obama or America - can't have both)
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The Reuters-Ipsos poll of 1,481 Americans was conducted online and has a 3 percent margin of error.

An online Internet poll? It must be really bad for Obama.

4 posted on 08/30/2012 5:55:35 PM PDT by Red Steel
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The speeches going on now are the people who really know Mitt. No matter what you think about him, he’s got a heart of gold, he’s a REAL man, a leader and a damn fine executive.


5 posted on 08/30/2012 5:58:28 PM PDT by TheRhinelander
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"OK fine. I will put up with the LDS evangelism at the conventioned."

This is a ridiculous statement!

As an ordained Southern Bapatist pastor, I have no regard for mormonism or mormon doctrine. With that said, I will be voting for Mitt Romney.

6 posted on 08/30/2012 6:34:06 PM PDT by evangmlw
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I suspect it’s a lot bigger bounce than this. They’re probably still boosting up Obama’s numbers in this poll.


7 posted on 08/30/2012 6:53:53 PM PDT by o2bfree
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To: austinaero
It's consistent with my 'race to the bottom' thesis ~ the idea is that the two 'leading' candidates (Rep/Dem) will exchange relative leads as they both plummet in popularity as the campaign season progresses.

It would look the same as any other set of polls, but in the background both of them would have a fall off in voters. The guy with the lead would simply have the smallest drop off.

Now, as we get further into the campaign they'll be looking at more details and demographics so any sign that this actually is a 'race to the bottom' should start showing up.

This particular analysis shows that you have a -14% who select neither candidate. That's up from the far smaller non-selections reported earlier. Mitt's ahead but that's because Hussein is near to falling off the planet (which happens at 35% ~ so stay tuned, he's gonna' go that bad).

Another report had Ryan drawing 17 million fewer in his audience than Palin had 4 years back.

This is serious stuff for both sides ~

8 posted on 08/30/2012 7:08:57 PM PDT by muawiyah
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That’s what I saw tonight, too. He’s a good man. And he’s humble.

I’m not going to decide on one issue other than that this country is headed in the wrong direction and this is our last chance.


9 posted on 08/30/2012 8:42:33 PM PDT by Terry Mross
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OK fine. I will put up with the LDS evangelism at the conventioned.

What ever indicated to you that he would inject his religion into the deal? Must be one of the "part-pit-bull" folks who can't resist an attack and who are willing to make something up to do it with.

10 posted on 08/31/2012 2:33:24 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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