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For first time, Romney's favorability rating tops Obama's
WashingtonExaminer.com ^ | 10 19 12

Posted on 10/19/2012 5:39:10 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has finally cleared what many aides have long seen as his biggest hurdle: A majority of voters now like him.

According to multiple polls, Romney's favorability rating has surged since the Republican National Convention and in most he equals or bests President Obama's favorables.

And late Thursday, the Pew Research Center, the poll that has been toughest on Romney's favorability, released results showing that Romney is ahead of Obama by a point, 50 percent to 49 percent. That is a stunning turnaround from March, when Obama's favorable rating in Pew was about twice Romney's, 55 percent to 29 percent.

Gallup also has Romney beating Obama on the favorability rating, 52 percent to 51 percent.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012issues; 2012polls; elections; obama; polls; romney
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1 posted on 10/19/2012 5:39:14 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
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To: InvisibleChurch

Easy to believe after watching this:

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2012/10/19/romney-al-smith-dinner.cnn#/video/politics/2012/10/19/romney-al-smith-dinner.cnn


2 posted on 10/19/2012 5:40:45 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: InvisibleChurch
For first time, the media is admitting that Romney's favorability rating tops Obama's
3 posted on 10/19/2012 5:41:55 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: InvisibleChurch
see and hear Romney slice a dice Obama with a smile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIHbe-aO6oI&feature=share

so little time...so much to redistribute...

This video will go viral accompanied by mucho laughter and dims heads exploding..

4 posted on 10/19/2012 5:54:27 AM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

A crucial point in getting Romney elected.


5 posted on 10/19/2012 5:57:09 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: InvisibleChurch

This is why Romney is surging so much and so quickly in the polls. Voters are finding out they actually like, and maybe even trust, this man, despite everything they have had shoved down their throats about him for so long.


6 posted on 10/19/2012 5:58:52 AM PDT by JustaCowgirl (Fred Thompson said Obama is treating terrorists "as if they robbed a liquor store.")
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To: 1010RD

I watched it again, Romney is no Reagan, but he had that Reagan charm going on last night, and the punch lines were so dead on, I loved it... that film clip is a keeper.


7 posted on 10/19/2012 6:02:55 AM PDT by dps.inspect (rage against the Obama machine...)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Hopefully Mitt can wrap this up.


8 posted on 10/19/2012 6:13:15 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Osama's dead... and so is our ambassador - Coulter.)
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To: dps.inspect
>>>I watched it again, Romney is no Reagan, but he had that Reagan charm going on last night, and the punch lines were so dead on, I loved it... that film clip is a keeper.

Funny, I thought the same thing. I thought "I know this guy is no Reagan...but I feel like I am watching Reagan."

He was slicing and dicing and even Couric thought it was funny. That's charm.

9 posted on 10/19/2012 6:20:12 AM PDT by NELSON111
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To: NELSON111
Yeah slicing and dicing the “Won” with charm and panache

delivered with Steve Martin excellence......

does Mitt play blue grass banjo....?

10 posted on 10/19/2012 6:28:09 AM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

That BET Sitcom performance he gave at the debate the other night sealed it.


11 posted on 10/19/2012 6:38:10 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: InvisibleChurch

Now that Mitt Romney’s rapier wit has been exposed, will any Democratic fool (Joe Biden, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer) dare to continue making their outlandishly ridiculous statements if Romney is elected president? Romney will skewer them and make shish-ke-bob out of their dying political carcasses.

And as for the liberal media, one Romney presidential news conference featuring a few well-executed Romney zingers at the most idiotic members of the White House Press Corps should bring back the respect and seriousness the White House has so long been lacking.


12 posted on 10/19/2012 6:58:09 AM PDT by Bluestocking
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks InvisibleChurch.


13 posted on 10/20/2012 9:33:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: spokeshave

That was a great vid.


14 posted on 10/20/2012 11:03:00 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Leftists are the small hive beetles of the American hive)
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To: InvisibleChurch

So, hundreds of millions of dollars of negative ads by Obama and relentless hourly pounding by a Romney-hating media has all been for naught. Now, that’s a very favorable thought.


15 posted on 10/20/2012 11:04:40 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: NELSON111
Funny, I thought the same thing. I thought "I know this guy is no Reagan...but I feel like I am watching Reagan."

Same here. I have watched a lot of those old Dean Martin roasts, and he was very similar to how Reagan was in these. Mitt Romney would have fit in perfectly with that group. Barack Obama -- not so much.
16 posted on 10/20/2012 11:17:24 AM PDT by jjsheridan5
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To: 1010RD

Romney’s roast of Obama was completely true and very funny at the same time.
To bad they didn’t show 0bama’s expressions.


17 posted on 10/20/2012 3:00:40 PM PDT by Leep (Forward! to serfdom)
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To: Leep

We’ve been saying the same thing. I’m certain that the video recording exists. It would be worth a fortune to watch Obama squirm. I’d even like to see Michelle’s expressions. The truth hurts.


18 posted on 10/20/2012 3:36:54 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: InvisibleChurch

I’ve gained new respect for Romney. I truly believe he loves his country. That’s the first big difference btw Romney and Obama and really at this point in history it’s all I need to vote for him but I do have more reasons.


19 posted on 10/20/2012 11:38:59 PM PDT by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Ping for later


20 posted on 10/21/2012 1:19:27 PM PDT by MacMattico
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