Posted on 09/10/2012 6:46:40 AM PDT by Perdogg
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows President Obama attracting support from 50% of voters nationwide, while Mitt Romney earns 45% of the vote. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, and three percent (3%) are undecided.
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He hit 50%. That is the problem and how the media has said it’s over. It’s not but unless Romney does something it soon will be. Early voting starts 9/21. The way it is looking now the debates may not matter. Of course a Romney loss will please quite a few here, but it sure won’t most of us any good.
I am truly amazed at how easily convinced by liberal talking points the American electorate is... or maybe not so surprised.
We pray for the miracle needed to turn this around, but perhaps God has a different plan. Putting us through a harsh tribulation may be what's in the cards...
Unlike many/most here at FR, personally I think the Romney team is capable of that. If their data shows that is what they need to do, then they will. They will have the money to do so.
Of course, Rove and co. also have the ability and means to do so. We all hate Rove, and we should. But between now and election day, he is against obama and hopefully he will figure out some path forward. Maybe it will be something harshly negative along the lines of Lee Atwater. Discourage turnout, whatever. I think we will see this happen, and I’m all for it. So long as they actually know what they are doing.....at least this is not Rove’s first rodeo.
Would've been nice if Romney's could've been as high.
Romney is in trouble by my estimations, he is a bore for one. Secondly Rush is dead right, they need to be going after Bambi’s FAR-left ideology and weave the story how his ideology has and will continue to hurt the economy. Absolute Dope handlers > GOP-e
Also they just keep letting Bambi make excuses about how bad Bush left it for him. Romney needs to pound into the idiot electorates head that it was Dems blocking Fannie/Freddie reforms that more than anything else lead to the 2008 collapse.
Yes but in 2008 McCain did not want to win really. You could here it in his voice - deep down he may have voted for Obama in another place and time. Mitt does not have that problem but he sure as h3ll seems like he believes that the race is too close to call and he will just pull it out with his calculated state strategies. I would like to hear him talk about Obama’s term in the past tense like Ryan did in the RNC. More swagger backed by hard, even if mean, facts. Stop being so darn presidential. Your not running against George H. W. Bush.
How many of the 50% pro-Obama voters will actually vote? I think Republicans will have better turn out. Will it be enough to overcome the slacker vote? I don’t know. I think they might end up counting chad (or the equivalent) again in this election. It is going to be close.
I trust Ras. These numbers are very troubling.
I hope this is Romney’s version of “Rope a Dope”. But we’re in round 8 of a 12 round fight.
Problems abound with that.
1) The media cooks the polls. They cooked them to show little bounce. If you take a look at what the Romney pollster said this morning, in between the lines, you can read that internals showed a real bounce.
2) The Dem convention was done right up to and after the Rep convention, helping to mask any bounce. Good strategy on the part of the Dems, btw.
These are not conventional times. Substantial number of Americans on both sides of the aisle are angry and scared. Mitts is not the best candidate the GOP offer. Worst he is a Wall Street businessman not a straight forward businessman. If Romney created a product or service that people needed, employed people to provide it, sold it for profit, he would be more acceptable to the guy on the street. Problem is Romney was involve in Wall Street type financing. Granted he saved failing companies, but Bain also brought failing companies with the intention to structure a bankruptcy strategy to sell of its parts of profit and firing all the workers in the process. If Romney was more like Perot and less like Dimon, he would be cleaning Obama’s clock by now. Good news, is many Americans do not like Obama either. So we are back to voting for the lesser of two evils. In the past bad economy sunk sitting POTUS. However with record amounts of Americans on food stamps, this election can be more like FDR re election. Unemployed must decide if they want to eat gov cheese today or no gov cheese so we can avoid the destruction of ballooning deficits. Right now it is very hard to say because all conventions of the past no longer applies today. IMHO I think Romney can win the popular vote but lose the EC count. CA, NY and IL provides the
Dems half of the EC needed to win. That is one hell of a baseline to start with.
Well so he's just had the "dope" part.
The problem is, not everybody in the country are political junkies like us. In fact the vast majority pay little or no attention to politics at all, to put this in perspective, on the best convention night 23 million people watched, there are 310 Million people in the United States that means only 8% of the population watched. So where did the other 150/200 Million (we'll exclude about 100 million as children and people who aren't registered) get there information? From the little tidbits they caught while listening to the radio on the way to work, or maybe news in their internet browser as they were reading the latest celebrity gossip. And what did they hear? They heard the liberal MSM media say that Michelle Obama gave a great speech that "humanized" Obama, that Bill Clinton gave the greatest speech of all times, and that Obama brought the old 2008 magic back. So when the pollsters calls them up, they certainly don't want to look stupid and admit they know nothing about politics, so they parrot back what they have heard or seen about Obama.
And what most of the people heard about the GOP convention was the somebody threw peanuts at a black camerawoman, and some old dude talked to an empty chair.
Meh, the American public voted for FDR 4 teams. 3 times before our direct involvement in WW2, so even that isn't an excuse for them.
The truth is, people are mostly ignorant followers when it comes to politics. They are easily swayed by appeals to emotion and leftist popular culture. It is obviously worse now that more and more people are dependent on government checks. Human nature dictates those people will vote to keep the gravy train going which means voting Democrat.
We pray for the miracle needed to turn this around, but perhaps God has a different plan.
God helps those who help themselves. I don't believe for a minute God intervenes in elections. Those who believe they can pray away election losses are deluding themselves.
I wish I could be as confident as you, but I’m seeing Romney and his campaign going softer and softer by the day, as if their long-planned etch-a-sketch strategy was set to kick in after they dispatched the hee-haws at the GOP convention.
Careful, that is not in the Bible, even though most think it is.
What you said! I swear, if this Marxist bastard gets reelected I'm ready to throw in the towel and renounce my citizenship.
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