Poll: Obama, Romney In Dead Heat [America Divided: Despite Poor Economy, 1/2 Want Obama Re-Elected!]

Washington Post ^ | May 21, 2012 | Jon Cohen and Dan Balz

[Steelfish]

Poll: Obama, Romney In Dead Heat

By Jon Cohen and Dan Balz, Monday, May 21

After months of aggressive campaigning on jobs and the economy, President Obama and Mitt Romney, his likely Republican challenger, are locked in a dead heat over who could fix the problem foremost on voters’ minds, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The parity on economic issues foreshadows what probably will continue to be a tough and negative campaign. Overall, voters would be split 49 percent for Obama and 46 percent for Romney if the November election were held now. On handling the economy, they are tied at 47 percent.

Despite flare-ups over issues including contraception and same-sex marriage, more than half of all Americans cite the economy as the one concern that will decide their vote in the fall, relegating others — such as health care, taxes and the federal deficit — to single-digit status.

More than eight in 10 Americans still rate the national economy negatively, but there are strains of optimism as it continues to recover from the collapse of 2008. A majority of Americans — 54 percent — say they are more hopeful than anxious about the situation over the next few years, while 58 percent are bullish about their financial prospects.

[MacMattico]

Romney supported (wink, wink) assorted Super PACS will go after Obama. And if he was only able to win a plurality of the vote , it's because we as conservatives could not come together around a candidate more conservative soon enough. But he still won, and that's the way elections work.

Ask Bill Clinton in ‘92. He won the Presidency with no majority vote, not that he's a good example. But I never thought anyone would make me like Clinton, if only a little bit. Until I met Obama.

I will vote for the Republican nominee, because attempting to change at this point will only help Obama. Candidates had the choice to enter the Primary or not, to get people to vote for them, and it didn't happen. You say Romney only got 40% of the vote, but others got less. That's the way it goes.

[cableguymn]

I don’t see any superpac getting ready to attack Obama..

Your right, to many choices and we conservatives while being accused of being mind numb robots are anything but. So we fractured and supported our candidate out of the 6 or 7 and Romney got the Rino and cross over.

You go right ahead and vote Romney. I can’t and won’t support him based on his record.