Posted on 10/01/2012 6:39:02 AM PDT by SoftwareEngineer
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows President Obama attracting support from 50% of voters nationwide, while Mitt Romney earns the vote from 47%. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, and two percent (2%) are undecided. See daily tracking history.
These results include “leaners,” people who are initially uncommitted to the two leading candidates but lean towards one of them when asked a follow-up question. Platinum Members can still see the more detailed numbers along with demographic breakdowns, and additional information from the tracking poll on a daily basis.
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Ugh.
Romney’s say-nothing campaign isn’t working—unless this is the result he wants.
If Romney’s aides actually believe running against Obama as a cipher up until the last couple of weeks of the election is a winning strategy, we are indeed in trouble.
Well, he had always said he was going to do that starting Oct 1.
At this point anyone who says she/he is a leaner, is pretty certain to vote for that guy
Gallup is also shifting to the likely model as of today
Remember how his campaign was going to change in August, and then after the conventions and Labor Day?
This is shaping up as McCain II.
didn’t early voting already start?
A young African-American lady was there and said “Romney?!!? No way I’m voting for him...I don’t want my food stamps taken away”.
And I don’t want my money going to pay for your food stamps.
There we are even.
Rasmussen having Obama at 50% is terrible news for Romney. It doesn’t matter how undecideds break when the O is at 50%.
Everyone keeps waiting on Romney to throw open the throttle and go for the throat.
Here’s my guess.
He actually has always wanted to be a senator from Massachusetts. Since candidates can save their campaign funds from race to race, he is in the process of building a war chest for his next run at a Massachusetts senate seat.
Holy cow. I just found a website with a TON of documents about Obama SR. I don’t know what good it will do and I didn’t read all but this is just to let all know what’s out there. I’ve never seen this on FR.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54015762/Barack-Hussein-Obama-Sr-Immigration-File
I wonder too if using the word “uninformed” is not too generous to such persons and therefore inaccurate. They may be well unreachable.
“52% want Obamacare repealed, but they still want Obama anyway”
That’s partially Romney’s fault, for running a “repeal and replace” campaign. Would Romney’s replacement be 99% like ObamaCare? 1% like OC? No one knows.
“Only two Presidents have had less support than the first time out and been re-elected: James Madison and Andrew Jackson.”
I don’t think that’s correct.
Michael Medved is the one who stated that no President ever one reelection without a larger vote the second time around. Madison won 122 electoral votes in 1808 and 122 in 1812. Jackson had 43.1% of the vote at 151,271 with 99 electoral votes in a four way race in 1824 and 56% of the vote at 624,286 with 178 electoral votes in a two way race in 1828.
You are right; Romney hasn’t done much since April, when he pushed Santorum out. He seems just idling by hoping against “hope”. It is really absurd to hire those McPain staffers for 2012. Makes one wonder what is going on; maybe the Republican establishment is really for Obama.
This is bleak. Rasmussen is the best and he has Obama at 50%. 50% means it makes zero difference how the undecideds break.
More than anything else, though, this says that Romney’s invisible campaign strategy is not working.
No way this economy, this foreign policy, this jobs data, and this distrust of America’s direction should have the guy responsible for that leading in a campaign for the presidency.
I’m in Ohio and I see/hear Obama ads regularly and seldom run across a Mitt ad. Someone explain that to me. The “keeping my powder” dry strategy was supposed to end with the Dem Convention. Are we now waiting for the first debate? After that will be await the 2nd?
This non-strategy should make ABOs who felt obligated to turn to Romney for the sake of their nation livid.
good question
Romney couldn’t win anything in MA again: they are for John Forbes Kerry there and shall so remain.
Paradoxical Quote of The Day From Ben Stein:
“Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen.”
Now add this, “Many of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.”
This is the reason Obama is not just making food stamps available, but out there actively advertising them and giving states financial incentives to sign people up. It has nothing to do with helping the needy and everything to do with getting as many people as possible signed up for government freebies so that he can in effect buy their votes.
I remember it being said in 1976 “Just wait, Gerald Ford is going to get the black vote!”
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