Posted on 09/10/2012 10:13:49 AM PDT by mandaladon
President Obama holds a small lead over Mitt Romney in New Mexico, a key battleground state that has been trending in the Democrat's favor.
Obama attracts 45 percent of the support to Romney’s 40 percent, with 8 percent of voters undecided, according to an Albuquerque Journal poll of likely voters. The survey includes the state's former governor, Gary Johnson, who is running as the Libertarian candidate; he garners 7 percent of the support. Romney edges Obama among independent voters -- who make up 17 percent of the electorate -- 38 percent to 35 percent.
The president carries 56 percent of self-identifying Hispanic voters, a key constituency to Obama’s potential success there in November. Romney wins 26 percent of the Hispanic vote, with 12 percent undecided about which candidate they will support on Election Day. Romney leads Obama among those who consider themselves to be Anglo, 48 percent to 39 percent. Obama holds a relatively small lead among women, compared to other polls, 46 percent to 40 percent.
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The 8 percent undecided voters will go for Romney at the end, undecideds always break for the challenger
I’ve noticed Obama has started falling back to earth in gallup, over the weekend his approval was up by 11 points, today it’s 6 points, he’s fallen 5 points overnight, by the end of the week he will be back to his pre-convention numbers.
Bill Clinton was impeached in his second term.
Totally misleading spin. NM is supposed to be a solidly blue state that it is this close is bad new for 0.
Obama always seems to do better on the weekend, the prick will fall down to earth with more people waking up and saying to themselves “Holy crap the economy sucks.”
Obama “edging” Romney in New Mexico is devastaging news for the Zero campaign.
How about something like: “Looks like Romney's going to win New Mexico—Obama campaign panicked!”
Has Romney even been running ads in New Mexico?
NM is a Democrat state, especially with the current Latino voter trends. The fact that NM is tightening is really, really interesting. Add this to WI, MI, IA and others, and the states that had a great Republican year in 2010 are looking like they are still trending well in our direction.
Loos like Romney is comfortably ahead with anglos.
This blue state should already be in Obama's pocket but it could be a pick-up for Romney.
Romney will win New Mexico by 3 points. The 8 percent who are undecided will break for Romney. Obama already has his voters locked in, the undecided ones are the ones thinking “Should I vote for Romney or stay home?” Once they see the debates they will break for Romney and Obama will be in deep doo doo
New Mexico would be a huge pickup for the GOP. Don’t forget that Republican Susana Martinez won the governorship there in 2010 and she’s doing a great job there.
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If someone was going to support Obama, they would have done it already, they dont need to wait days before the election to all of a sudden support him. Those undecideds are still trying to figure Romney out and see if he’s the right guy to vote for
America knows who Obama is. He's got all the votes he's ever going to persuade, and they're pretty much just the 'I hate Republicans' vote which is only for the true believers. You'd really have to want to save Obama to go vote for him.
Reminds me of the last two years watching people go idiotic over the Rasmussen polls (e.g. "Obama is at -21 approval! He's toast! Oh no! Now he's at only -17 approval!? What's WRONG with America? Yahoo! Obama at -24, the highest approval gap EVER! Oh my God! Now it's -18! I want to cry!") and the various elections I've witnessed since my FR membership began in 1998.
I swear, I want to slap some of you.
Keep Calm and Carry On.
Only fifty-six percent support for Obama from New Mexico Hispanics? That’s, what, an eleven percent drop from ‘08?
New Mexico does this every election cycle in an attempt to exaggerate its own importance to the point that its politican gods might deign to stop over every now and then rather than just fly over.
Clinton was here a lot, largely because the adoring Chicanas presented an opportunity.
There are so few people, so few electoral votes and so little interest in getting rid of the patron system that has prevailed for 400 years that these stories about New Mexico suddenly turning into a swing state every time there is a national election is ludicrous. It is a blue state in a sea of red.
There are people here still arguing over the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe / Hidalgo; there are regularly counties with more voter turnout than residents; and it regularly takes the major counties weeks and months to tally the votes because the dead or illegal voters are old, slow, stupid or need a ride. There was an argument at the time Congress was debating whether or not to admit New Mexico to the Union. There was a large faction convinced that New Mexico lacked the innate ability most other states exhibited to govern itself.
There was a lot of truth in that argument then and now.
It wouldn't surprise me if there are precinct judges that are dead or illegal.
Speaking of Susana, people were writing lots of letters to the Journal because not one of the major networks carried her speech at the RNC. Not one. Here you had the first ever female hispanic Governor in US history give a major convention speech and not a single network carried it! Any bets on whether they would have cut her out if she had been a Democrat?
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