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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Good observatiion Pklong. Rasmussen is the honest one.
The truth is that Romney is content with his strategy of the “invisible campaign”, and it’s killing him.
I’m sensing it, and others are sensing it: Romney is coming across as unsure of himself.
tongue in cheek, wolfman.
Although it still isn’t flattering of Romney. The guy is a disaster.
If the media would be doing its job Obama would be losing by 15 points.
Pat Cadell said on FOX last week that thousands of donors who maxed out to Romney in the primary have NOT donated to him in the general election. Cadell said it was the campaign’s fault for not making more of an effort to contact them. I’m not so sure that it wasn’t pro-Obama people who just tried to help Romney win the primary knowing he would be the least electable, as most of us here on FR knew (dull personality, implemented programs in Mass. that the base doesn’t like, inability to attack Obama on Obamacare, exotic Mormon religion, ability to portray him as heartless rich guy who laid off workers, etc.).
“Poll manipulation or nuances aside, a conservative candidate would have a 10%+ lead by now. “
Baloney.
Obama has bought the media, spent billions in taxpayer money to buy off group after group and he’s got the youth, minorities and other groups that conservatives and Republicans arent connecting with.
We need to stop being in fantasy land about the power of Obama’s socialist brand.
“I’m in Ohio and I see/hear Obama ads regularly and seldom run across a Mitt ad.”
Republican columnist Mona Charen says the same thing in Virginia:
“I live in Virginia, the swingiest of swing states. I expected that by now we’d be deluged with ads from both sides. But I’ve seen just two Romney ads.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/328853/romney-campaign-ads-mona-charen
Yep. The only way to stop the media from attacking Romney is to force them to spend time defending Obama against harsh ads. It helps doubly, because those ads then get promoted for free all over the media. Ads that offend libs are the ticket to winning elections (Willie Horton, Swiftboat, etc.).
But the election is not next week. It’s 5 weeks away. Poll numbers fluctuate a lot in 5 weeks. But Romney does have to step it up a notch. It will be interesting to see how each candidate runs their campaigns. The one who is losing usually goes negative, and the one who is up in the polls stays positive. In the past few weeks, we’ve seen Romney essentially not going negative, but Obama has. If he was up in all these polls, you would think he would be the one staying positive. I don’t know. Maybe I’m just grasping at straws. I wish the election would hurry up and get here. I’m suffering severe anxiety from this thing.
I have been reading the pro Obama polls internals.
Something is seriously wrong in America. Most respondents agree with Romney and know America is in the hurt locker due to Obama. And yet, they tell pollsters they are going to vote for Obama!
If the polls are right America is finished. We will have become just another European style socialist state where voters, controlled by a state run media, continually vote for what makes them feel good rather then for their own economic self interests.
At this point, McCain was down 6 in Rass’s poll and it satyed that way all the way to election day.
Keep you mind free of negativity and keep positive...none of us have a crystal ball and we do NOT know the outcome in November..negative thinking drains our energy sources, our desire to fight for this WIN in November. Do not listen to the leftist propaganda...leftists LIE..remember Saul Alinsky confirmed this in his book, and obozo is following the rules of the socialist road to the letter. Don't be suckered in by the BS.
Pray to the Lord for guidance and strength, and then get up and get out there and be active with like minded people toward a win in November. Make sure your relatives, friends, neighbors, co-workers are registered to vote. Offer anyone a ride who needs it to register and vote in November. Volunteer at the polls to protect our vote.
Know that you're not alone when doubt and despair hits you. That's part of the fight, and now we have some idea of how soldiers feel during battle. But, we know the drill, and now let's get er’ done.
Yes, he been up to 50% a couple of times. It ebbs and flows.
How about
1. Ad that thanks those that pay cell phone bills treating one million ohio people to free phones.
2. Bump in the road ads listing all the big bumps
Dole was down 22 points in the polls at this point. Romney is with in the margin of error
Sorry your candidate of choice did not win the GOP nomination. Get over it.
You are not seeing many Romney ads because your state is 10 point pro Romney. No reason to run ads in your state when the money can be spent better elsewhere.
Read your own tag line. It answers your question why Obama is up.
2008 was a virtual certainty Obama would win.
This could easily go either way. Although Ras says debates rarely change things, this year could be different with a massive number of viewers expected. I think a lot are looking for an alternative, and if Romney offers it, he should win.
I see the usual panicky types are here.
Check this out, it might cheer you up:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvEOdIaw0fPNdHVOZnFENDdDYVFTRi1UMlgxQ0F4OVE#gid=0
I think a lot just expect the economy to be bad forever, so that is factored into polls. Romney just needs to say it doesn’t have to be like that and offer change.
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