Waiting for the November numbers.
Posted on 10/06/2012 6:44:28 AM PDT by AFPhys
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 49% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns the vote from 47%. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, and two percent (2%) are undecided.
These results are based upon nightly interviews and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. As a result, only about two-thirds of the interviews for today’s update were conducted after the presidential debate. Sunday morning’s update will be the first national polling based entirely upon post-debate interviews.
Still, the numbers reflect quite a debate bounce for Romney. Heading into Wednesday’s showdown, it was the president who enjoyed a two-point advantage. Today is the first time Romney has been ahead by even a single point since mid-September. See daily tracking history. As with all bounces, it remains to be seen whether it is a temporary blip or signals a lasting change in the race.
Both men have solidified their partisan base. Romney is supported by 89% of Republicans and Obama by 88% of Democrats. Among those not affiliated with either major party, Romney leads by 16.
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You should see gas prices here in SoCal, its over 5 bucks a gallon(In some places already 6) but Obama will still be here on Monday and people are still going to swoon for him. People should start putting sticky notes on the gas pumps reminding people that Obama refused to allow the Keystone Pipeline to be built
I agree with your sentiment. Good for us, good for them, good for our nation. The problem has always been one of approach. Most pleas for Republicans to woo black voters have been disguised calls to be Democrat-lite in policy and rhetoric. You are not suggesting this, but there has been the assumption in the media and politics that "reaching out to blacks" equals handing out goodies. To some extent, this is true. The Republicans did not abandon blacks, their platform works as well for them as for everyone else. Blacks, as well as other groups of non-white, non-married or non-Christian voters, simply have a different view of government and society in general.
The electorate is becoming more and more racially divided. This is generally embraced by the Democrats, particularly with a mixed-race POTUS in office. Their rhetoric has become very anti-traditionalist and, by extension, anti-white. I agree that somehow convincing even a modest percentage of black voters that Republican/conservative ideals are good for them would be a great thing. It is difficult to do. The Republican Party would do well to amplify its appeal to white voters, actually. There are many whites who will vote for Romney or simply not vote this year because they have been turned off and angered by the racial aggression from the Obama administration and media.
Republicans should realize that a lot of their current supporters arrived on the Right initially due to being fed up with affirmative action, racial politics and the pushing of white guilt in their schools and culture. As a young man, I was a liberal. After being constantly told I was the enemy, I realized that the Democratic Party was not for me. We should not alienate blacks on purpose, and I liked Romney's approach during his NAACP speech, but we must not alienate whites at all. The real danger to the Republican party is that it becomes the centrist party and an increasing push for a White/Right third party begins to split the conservative vote and ensure that Democrats win national elections easily.
I'm guessing a good portion are the self-righteous "Christians" who "could NEVER vote for a Mormon" - because, in their infinite wisdom, Mormon's - The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter Day Saints - 'don't believe in Jesus Christ.
The poor - and the ignorant - are with us always.
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As a one-time pecan orchard manager in Central Alabama, I've extensive experience with farm labor and rural blacks.
Their poverty is appalling -- both in terms of pocketbook and spirit. There is virtually no interest in education and/or advancement. Instead, their focus is on a welfare check (or two or three) and a job of sorts that brings in a supplemental paycheck sufficient to fund Friday night.
The women are vastly more reliable than the men. And, by generation, the older generation vastly more responsible than the younger.
Lunch-time conversations among the men usually revolve around the "papers" that their women (or prospective women) have -- meaning which programs they qualify for. Aside from the grandfathers and grandmothers, virtually nobody is married.
At one time, during segregation, Montgomery had a thriving "black business district" -- a mile-or-two east of "downtown". Complete with high-rise buildings, a hotel and a full complement of retailers. There were scores, perhaps hundreds, of well-to-do black businessmen then. They are all gone now.
In their stead, perhaps, is the faculty at Alabama State -- engrossed in teaching victimology and "social justice" racism. Along with the black politicians who dominate the black counties -- characters like "Senatuh Sahnders", the Mahatma of Dallas County and the Mayor of Whitehall. All corrupt...to their very core.
In my dealings with several hundred different black people over eight years' time, I became close to perhaps a dozen -- all from the older generation, respectful of maybe a dozen more (including the County Sheriff, a fine man). And I came across exactly two (count 'em, 2!) young men who had any ambition at all to make something of themselves.
I helped one earn a scholarship to Auburn and the other to find a good job with some upward mobility. In the latter case, I had to fire him first -- to get his attention.
Indeed, it is tragic -- yea, criminal -- what fifty years of liberalism have done to the black family. They are left with a slothful dependence and a generally worse economic condition than what they experienced during Jim Crow. And are painfully devoid of community and personal pride, ambition or accomplishment.
And, if my experience means anything, it's going to be a long, slow slog before black America starts responding to a message of independence and responsibility for self. But, the very fact that you can identify "Allen West, Thomas Sowell, Herman Cain, Condoleeza Rice, Clarence Thomas, JC Watts, to name a few" means that the migration may have begun.
Republican politicians need to learn that the way to win over black audiences is not by out-pandering liberals but is, instead, concentrate on the conservative message...and what it might mean to black ambitions.
Sorry for the extended respons, got a lot off my chest...
Truly hope that means Wisconsin's in play for Romney-Ryan.
Did this poll include the re-action to the unemployment numbers?
Waiting for the November numbers.
I think you are right! Obama has made history in a way he never dreamed...as has the msm.
I do it every time I get gas and have for quite some time. Not about the Keystone thought I may add that from here on out.
You aren’t alone....as much as the media trumpeted that comment up, the only people who were really put off by it were the ones who weren’t voting for Romney anyway.
Does anyone know how a Rasmussen call to poll is shown on my caller ID on my phone? I don’t want to miss a Rasmussen call!! Is the incoming call identified as from Rasmussen or unknown caller or by a phone number..or what?
From what Im hearing people are starting to put up those sticky notes comparing the gas prices from when Obama became President to now..will that make any difference, who knows..people here still go ga ga for this guy, he’s coming here on Monday and will clog up traffic yet again to raise more money from his Hollywood leftist jerks
Ann Coulter discusses that phenomenon directly within the opening chapters of her new release, Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama.
“have 3 adult children...none make enough to pay income taxes...are as conservative as they come...support Romney”
Thanks to you for that anecdotal, but confirming report, to the point made that Romney realizes he stepped on his own meaning in those remarks about the 47% who don’t pay taxes being the sum of those who will all vote for Obama.
Romney/Ryan have realized that and have both said he didn’t say what he meant by putting it the way he did.
Around here, though, usually one is attacked for daring to agree with R/R that he didn’t state it correctly and his intended point got lost.
Your post is one of the few that tells it like it REALLY is...
Would love to see that preference cascade in my lifetime!
Romney was right to take back the 47% remark. That's not to say fhat he was completely wrong. He wasn't. There is a parasitic class that will never vote for him. But that class is not defined by paying or not paying federal income taxes.
Romney was right to take back the 47% remark. That's not to say fhat he was completely wrong. He wasn't. There is a parasitic class that will never vote for him. But that class is not defined by paying or not paying federal income taxes.
Romney was right to take back the 47% remark. That's not to say fhat he was completely wrong. He wasn't. There is a parasitic class that will never vote for him. But that class is not defined by paying or not paying federal income taxes.
“Sorry for the extended respons, got a lot off my chest...”
I think your response hit the nail on the head. I agree with it from my own observations.
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