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Rasmussen: WED: 10/03: O:49% R:47%: Obama -15%
Rasmussen Reports ^ | 10/03/2012 | Rasmussen Reports

Posted on 10/03/2012 6:46:43 AM PDT by SoftwareEngineer

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows President Obama attracting support from 49% of voters nationwide, while Mitt Romney earns the vote from 47%. One percent (1%) prefers some other candidate,...

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Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows President Obama attracting support from 49% of voters nationwide, while Mitt Romney earns the vote from 47%. One percent (1%) prefers some other candidate,...

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KEYWORDS: 2012polls; election; obama; rasmussen; romney
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To: Galtoid
"Four years ago, it was All Zogby All the Time. Where is he?"

Doesn't matter. We got a new Zogby special saucer named Nate Silver at the NYet...

21 posted on 10/03/2012 7:29:04 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (2008 + IN, NE1, NC, FL, VA, OH, IA = 272EV)
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To: Williams

I think Romney is winning by 3-4 points. He’s up anywhere from 4-10 points with Independents. In the NR poll he’s up 49-41 with Indies. Obama will NOT win without winning Independents.


22 posted on 10/03/2012 7:30:10 AM PDT by NoobRep
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To: Williams

Kerry won 20 states and McCain won 22.


23 posted on 10/03/2012 7:35:52 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: SoftwareEngineer
Just a couple of anecdotal events that I thought I'd share. This has NEVER happened to me before and I've been politically active since 1968. I have yard signs for Romney, George Allen and Scott Rigell up in my yard. I was leaving my house last evening to hit the driving range and a car stopped at my house and the driver got out and asked where I got my signs. I told him and then offered a Romney sign to him. I always carry a few extra fro friends. As soon as I got back from the driving range my doorbell rang. It was someone from the neighborhood out walking their dog who wanted to know where they could get a Romney sign. I gave him one. He said he'd never been active before and usually didn't even vote but he was voting this year and this would be the first campaign sign he ever put up (the guy was about 30). Then...today on my way to work, stopped at a light a car pulls up next to me and the driver starts making gestures at me to get my attention. I ignored him until he got out and knocked on my passenger window...he wanted to know where I got my Romney bumper stickers!

Three times in two days I've been approached by strangers wanting Romney gear. I know it's just anecdotal and really doesn't mean anything but I'm amazed by it...and encouraged.

24 posted on 10/03/2012 7:36:05 AM PDT by pgkdan (A vote for anyone but Romney is a vote for obama. GO MITT!!)
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To: nhwingut
It is statistically a dead heat if you look at just one poll. But the aggregate indicates 0 is ahead outside the margin of error, so he will win if the election were held today. I am certain of that....

Having said that, the significance of the very low poll participation rate (9%) should not be forgotten. If there is indeed a systematic skewing of the demographic sample due to the low participation (R&R supporters like me consistently refusing to answer polls) then the actual results may be very different, but not because the polls were inaccurate. The polls only predict what those willing to be polled will indicate.

25 posted on 10/03/2012 7:39:34 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: RetiredArmy
It just continues to amaze me that 49% of this nation is that stupid. Too believe that four more years of this scumbag is going to make America better. We are very very close to total collapse. And this 49% wants its. They beg for the “rich” to be torn down. What the stupids fail to see is that when the so called rich get flattened, the free money is cut totally off. America is going down folks. When Obama wins, it is over as a Free Republic.

You said it. I simply cannot believe that there's that many stupid people in the Republic. We are done if the bastard gets back in, of that I have no doubt.

26 posted on 10/03/2012 7:43:51 AM PDT by Marathoner (If the bastard were to win reelection, let America burn. IDGAF anymore.)
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To: nwrep

Huh? He’s up by 1.5 points based on the last 6 polls. The MOE is 3ish. He’s not outside the MOE, not by a long shot.

Furthermore, these are based on a avg of D+5 samples. The turnout will not be D+5. So factor that into it and the race is certainly not in Obama’s favor, and most likely in favor of Romney by a point or two.

And finally, the bulk of the 4-6% undecideds are almost assured to go for Romney at probably a 2-1 pace. They are not undecided about Obama after 4 years, while many are scared of the race card beatdown, hence it is easier to say, “not sure, undecided” and then go in the booth and punch the Romney oval.


27 posted on 10/03/2012 7:45:39 AM PDT by nhwingut (Sarah Palin 12... No One Else)
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To: snarkytart

McCain wasn’t running against an incumbent. Kerry should have won one or two states, and 30 years earlier that would have been the case.

For that matter, Obama never should have been elected. The democrats have been allowed to mainstream a destructive form of liberalism. They have New York and California locked up and the problem starts there.

We have people here who can vote but they are not citizens of this country in spirit. No other way to explain that the people of New York City would never have supported wars against the people who attacked them.

But I digress.


28 posted on 10/03/2012 7:48:14 AM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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To: ZULU; SoftwareEngineer; xzins; Andrei Bulba; nhwingut; HamiltonJay; larryleo; RetiredArmy; ...
ZULU:
Black voters = 13%
Hispanics = 20%
Hardcore liberal Whites = 20%
That’s where those figures come from.

Zulu's post tells it all. >50% baby.

This is why I don't understand all the navel gazing on polls and ballots.

We've got to do an LBO on the MSM, and take over the Journalism schools and government schools for the long term NOW.

Carpet bombing the TV ads and GOTV? We need to be voting in Board of Directors at NBC. New media is, is that stupid Hannity video "firecracker" last night.

Suppose Romney wins? The MSM will turn 53% into 65% by 2014.

Newt or Santorum would speak to these Obamaphone freaks how?

The GOPe is just rearranging the deck chairs...that's all that's left to do.

29 posted on 10/03/2012 7:53:45 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: SoftwareEngineer

Who won the independents


30 posted on 10/03/2012 8:07:38 AM PDT by zt1053
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To: SoftwareEngineer

If Americans want four more years, they deserve it.


31 posted on 10/03/2012 8:12:10 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (You didn't build that. The private sector is doing fine. We tried our plan and it worked.)
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To: SoftwareEngineer
scotty rasmussen admitted that he raised the dim to republican ratio because he has more dims answering his poll. Of course they are... we are voting against obama no matter what... the dims actually are voting for obama and are more motivated to waste their time answering his poll. THAT is what is wrong with the polling today.

LLS

32 posted on 10/03/2012 8:13:03 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("if it looks like you are not gonna make it you gotta get mean, I mean plumb mad-dog mean" J. Wales)
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To: Uncle Miltie
If Americans want four more years, they deserve it.

And all the mocking and derision that comes with it.

33 posted on 10/03/2012 8:23:15 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Record high turnout is our hope for sending 0bama home. Pray hard!!!)
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So in a Dem +7 poll it is tied, but in a Dem +3 poll Obama has a 3 point lead?


34 posted on 10/03/2012 8:36:34 AM PDT by Crimson Elephant
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To: LibLieSlayer

Dear sir, where did you hear this if you dont mind me asking? THats not very professional of him if he did and only tells me that he wants to keep it very close so that more people sign up for the “premium access” so that they can track everything daily. What a jerk imho.


35 posted on 10/03/2012 8:45:23 AM PDT by lsrusso1971
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To: sam_paine

Unless we knock out the government schools we’ll never get our country back. Here’s a typical teacher at one of Chicago’s top grade schools:

About me: https://sites.google.com/site/mrbarashsocialstudies/mr-barash

Make sure you check out his photo.

The “good” speeches list: https://sites.google.com/site/mrbarashsocialstudies/home/speech-links

This school is known as Bell School. Look it up. Parents fight to get into this school, they’re very involved, etc. Yet without school competition it’s a liberal echo chamber.


36 posted on 10/03/2012 8:49:56 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD
Unless we knock out the government schools we’ll never get our country back. Here’s a typical teacher at one of Chicago’s top grade schools:

And yet, schools are state funded and we can't affect them even in the Reddest of red states.

37 posted on 10/03/2012 8:53:49 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: larryleo
Let’s hope Romney knows the price of a gallon of milk is $4.69 which is ridiculous.

I don't care what the price of milk is.

I want Romney to know the price of a gallon of gasoline, and what it was in January, 2009.

Almost every other price is at least somewhat derived from that.

38 posted on 10/03/2012 9:04:33 AM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: lsrusso1971
He was on Hannity I think Monday night and I read it in a thread on polls here on FR. He said he is using his current polling data to extract that more dims are ID’ing now than last month. I suggest that most of us are not thrilled with Romney but will be voting against obama and for Romney/Ryan. I know that I would not waste time on polling... I would hang up. Only 9% to 11% are answering any of these polls and dims have more to gain from positive polling than those that are going to vote for Mitt because he is not obama. That is why I think that Mitt will win... because we are highly motivated to vote... we are just not all hyper and enthralled with who we are absolutely going to vote for.

LLS

39 posted on 10/03/2012 9:08:50 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("if it looks like you are not gonna make it you gotta get mean, I mean plumb mad-dog mean" J. Wales)
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To: pgkdan
i live in NoVA and my evidence was anecdotal too, until i saw this noting the lopsidedness of yard signs for Romney in NoVA. and the genius obamabot in the article who said yard signs don't vote? well if people are beating down the door looking for Romney signs, logically one would assume they care enough to go to the polls to vote for him on election day.
40 posted on 10/03/2012 9:54:07 AM PDT by xsmommy
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