Posted on 09/25/2012 7:38:49 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows President Obama attracting support from 47% of voters nationwide, while Mitt Romney earns the vote from 46%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided.
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Do you know why that is?
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I think that there really are very few true undecideds by now.
This election, to me, will be about turn out and voter enthusiasm. I am not sure which side will be more eager - those who desperately want Obama to go or those who will forgive Obama for anything he could ever do. I just don’t know how this is going to turn out.
I also don’t agree that it’s R & R’s election to lose. If it were a straight up fight between Romney and 0bama on a level playing field, yes. Romney would be winning in a blowout by now. But he’s playing against the media, too, which is blatantly and obviously biased against him. As it is, it will be a tough fight and a lot closer than it should be.
I still cannot believe an unqualified empty suit narcissist communist dictator-wanna be is in position to be a two term President of the United States.
Pray for our country.
“I don’t think [the polls] reflect the composition of what 2012 is going to look like,” Romney pollster Neil Newhouse said in an interview.
“Averaging bad polls that include skewed samples will get you a skewed result,” Newhouse told The Hill.
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Good idea; start this as a separate thread and I’m in.
The self-righteous conservative non-vote is all sound and fury signifying nothing.
It’s already factored into the numbers.
We don’t need them.
The good part is that there are still a few conservatives (say 1%) who THINK they are going to not vote, but, when the day comes, they will show up. And that is going to boost Romney.
Me, I am voting enthusiastically FOR Romney as well as hyper-enthusiastically AGAINST obama.
I think there’s plenty of voters like that....even here at FR.
Yep, and it probably wouldn't be close. Fortunately, there are still 39 days left before election day. Pray for flawless and forceful debate performances by Romney and Ryan, and above all, PRAY HARD for massive turnout by GOPers and conservatives. We're going to need to set records at the polls for Romney to have any shot at winning this.
Isn’t the weekend still effecting this number. People have said Obama normally polls better on weekend polls
Some of the clueless wonders think that Romney is supposed to be their “daddy” and enthuse them out of bed to go vote and save their country from being destroyed.
I realize other factors are at work here, but do you ever wonder if the absence of talk radio (Rush, Hannity and Levin) on the weekend in part accounts for the weekend polling drops for Romney? If it is a possibility, shouldn’t Rush, Hannity and Levin work the weekend before the election?
Anybody expecting this to be 2010 in terms of a GOP turnout advantage will be mistaken.
There is not a huge GOP enthusiasm advantage this time. There is one, but much more even (Gallup even shows Dems more enthused of late, probably just lingering affects of the convention and it still has not moved the numbers...shows a close race even with that poll).
Dems vote in presidential election years, so can’t expect no turnout from them, just not as bad as 2008 thank goodness or we have no shot.
Even the media is starting to get off the campaign in shambles line of thinking in terms of coverage, at least CNN, which I check daily to see their coverage angles. Today it’s basically just showing Ryan’s new attack angles and Romney’s good-natured Clinton joke that won’t hurt him or be in the news for days.
The media said 47%gate had killed Romney’s campaign. That it was all over. That Romney was foolish for ever even thinking he could go up against 0bama...
Oh look. the race hasn’t changed at all. In fact, since the comment, New Hampshire is a state I’m comfortable putting in the same category as North Carolina, and it looks like Colorado may be heading the same way. Now we need to crack Iowa.
That really only starts with the debate season. Otherwise, campaign coverage is dominated by the incumbent, especially in this new campaign where Romney has had to raise so much money to keep up with Obama. He is luckily starting to do more rallies and campaign events.
LOL!
Clearly to win, a guy needs to break away and crack 50.
Until he does that the odds will favor the president no matter what day it is. Ras can’t seem to find Romney breaking away no matter the more accurate polling formula.
At 47%, and this close to the election, of the two candidates, the odds are it is usually the incumbent president who usually come up with the 3 lousy points.
We are being worked over about a win, deluded, if Romney isn’t going light a fire and continues to muzzle his only asset, Paul Ryan.
Historically, the undecided voters break for the challenger about 2:1.
Historically the undecideds are not the only ones with jobs. It is time for Romney to break out. I’m-not-the-other-guy is not yet enough to sink the first black pres with the toothy smile. If Obama has set the world on fire and Obama is loving the enemies of God and the Republic and is still 3 points from breaking 50, we are in sure trouble with Romney so far.
Sadly, Romney is no wordsmith at debate either.
Yes, I am praying God has not washed His hands of us and our decadence.
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