Rasmussen: PA - 0bama 51% - Romney 39%

Rasmussen Repors ^ | 9-20-12 | Scott Rasmussen

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President Obama has jumped to a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Pennsylvania shows Obama with 51% of the vote to Romney’s 39%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate in the race, and seven percent (7%) remain undecided.

[ncalburt]

here is the link to the Axelrod demanding the 2008 polls be used
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/22/quotes-of-the-day-1153/

The Ras shift has been posted here too awhile back

[Perdogg]

thank you

[Perdogg]

I live in NoVa. I was at the gym today for 2 hours on the elliptical and I maybe saw a total of two ads total in two hours on 7 different TVs. One of them occured after the 6pm hour, it was for the independent Maryland US Senatorial candidate Rob Sobhani. The other was for Maryland’s Question 7. No Romney No Obama ads

[sneakers]

"I mean, I do not know of any other way to say it, but I have had it up to here with stupidity in this country.

It has reached the point of being utterly disgusting."

On that we can agree! I look at some of the people around me - the ones who are REALLY the idiots! - and still don't understand why they don't see what the bas#$%d in the White House is doing to our country. That said, our county has coal mining communities and a state university with a student population of 15,000 and the county still goes red every election. Of course, I know the guy who oversees our balloting and sets up the polls for the elections, and he makes DARNED SURE there's no voter fraud!

[HamiltonJay]

This poll is BS. No way obama is getting more of the vote in PA in 2012 than 2008.

I don’t know what is up with Ras but not buying this one for a minute.

[sneakers]

My brother-in-law and his family live out that way. My sister-in-law doesn’t talk politics with me. We are on opposite ends of the spectrum. I haven’t heard her say much lately though........but I’ll bet she still votes democrat.

[chris37]

I can definitely relate to where you are coming from, sneakers.

I have had a growing tendency lately to feel overwhelmed by a sea of stupidity.

I feel like a pebble at the bottom of an ocean, and there may be another pebble a few feet over from me, but it just does not matter because we are still at the bottom of an ocean.

Sometimes I refer to my country as America the Stupid. Now I realize that there are some smart people still here and that my description is negative of everyone, but it just does not seem to matter in the end how many smart people are left, because they are so vastly outnumbered.

Stupidity seems to be growing at a geometric rate. The only thing that makes sense ot me is that it is being purposely manufactured and successfully so.

I really am not sure what the solution is, or if there even is one, so I pretty much just get angry about it.

[cookcounty]

Wow, that’s really at odds with Rasmussen’s national polling, according to which Romney is overall in somewhat better shape than McCain was in 2008.

Why the dip in PA? Seniors bombed with AARP lies? I got my full color AARP endorsement of Obama yesterday in the mail, comparing the two candidates stances on Medicare and SS. According to them, there is no medicare option with Romney/Ryan, and seniors will be forced into a voucher plan. Such liars.

[flaglady47]

However the stickers I do see are 2-to-1 Obama. And the Obama voters are more enthusiastic, judging by them having a lot more stickers all over their car than Romney people, who never have more than one on their bumper.

That’s because the Pubs know the irrational, nutso Dems will key their cars if they have a Romney bumper sticker. They value their cars. Dems don’t have to worry about that because Pubs are civilized. But that may change one day....

[Nowhere Man]

That's exactly right -- just like when now-deceased traitor John Murtha described his constiuents as racist, redneck yahoos. Well, guess who re-elected Murtha.... AND built a statue to commemorate him???

I compare it to "battered wife syndrome" a political version of it. The wife hates the husband who beats her and resents him but is afraid to leave or change because he supports her. Murtha called us (I live near Pittsburgh but not in his district) basically "stupid rednecks" but the rubes keep electing him. I guess because he brings home the pork, the old folks still see the Democrats using FDR glasses and the able bodied welfare bums are on the take. Some also call it the political version of the Stockholm Syndrome.

I think we can neutralize the Pittsburgh democrats but the Philly ones are the huge millstone around our neck. Sometimes I think we need to split the Commonwealth into two or let the Western half join Ohio but I doubt they'd let us. B-P

[Nowhere Man]

More Americans are loving the idea of a Federal “parent” taking care of you, even some Republicans like this idea. Why the surprise when someone promising more wins? Freemen can overcome Obama, unfortunately freemen cannot overcome the electorate who vote for public servants like Obama.

That's a huge problem, like an airplane or a rocket, we cannot fly without reducing drag. The people who want a Federal parent are the ones dragging us down. I just wish we could lighten the load. We currently live in a house divided.

[BizBroker]

“In fact, if my country re-elects it, I am not even certain I will be able to stomach living here anymore.

I mean, I do not know of any other way to say it, but I have had it up to here with stupidity in this country.

It has reached the point of being utterly disgusting.”

I agree with you 100%. The problem is, where else could we go? I have lost everything in this economic downturn. I am 42 years old, and I always was optimistic about my future prospects. I always believed that I could make money on my own or that I would always be able to get a job. I have worked hard, gotten an education (M.B.A.), served in the military and Gulf War I, and followed the rules by doing everything I was told that I was supposed to do. Now, I have to wonder, have I lost it, or has the landscape changed?

[rollo tomasi]

Not enough to offset the ones voting for a pay raise on Election Day. That is my point. In order to counter act the taking class, you need to convince those who do vote for dems in the rural areas to quit that madness. Surly Republicans do not get 100% of the rural votes, or excuse me, votes in cities 30-70 thousand strong around Penn. That is who the focus is on, every percent counts, everywhere.

[chris37]

I don’t know. there is no place to go.

If I could choose to go anywhere, I suppose it would be Israel.

I have respect for that country. I can’t say the same about my own anymore.

If there is going to be a clash between good and evil, then I want to stand with the good guys, even if we lose and die.

I don’t really want to be in a country with a bunch of people who threw their freedom away, who voted to be slaves. I cannot respect that at all.

Man, your story makes me feel sad. It’s like everything my parents taught me has been turned on its head. I can’t recognize my country anymore and hardly anyone in it.

I have a bad feeling things are going to get much, much worse.

God Bless you and may God Help us all.

[JediJones]

I think we can neutralize the Pittsburgh democrats but the Philly ones are the huge millstone around our neck. Sometimes I think we need to split the Commonwealth into two or let the Western half join Ohio but I doubt they'd let us. B-P

Wasn't there a proposal on the table to portion out our electoral votes based on district? Which means they wouldn't be winner-take-all to the popular vote winner in the state. I think our Republican state reps derailed the proposal, or put it on the back burner, after it seemed like there was a good chance it would go forward. I believe one or two other states do this with their electoral votes already.

[tcrlaf]

The ONLY thing that matters is 50%+1

[JerseyDvl]

Wth is the matter with Pennsylvanians?

[JediJones]

Here's the article. In my opinion this would be a great move. Article says Obama would've only gotten 11 out of 21 electoral votes in 2008 under this system. Of course the PA Democrats voraciously opposed this move, knowing how much of a lock this state is for them with the popular vote.

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/state/change-proposed-for-states-electoral-vote-process-314523/

Only two states -- Nebraska and Maine -- divide their electoral votes instead of giving the whole bloc to the candidate that wins the state's popular vote. Even for those two states, the piecemeal approach has been a rarity, with Nebraska historically dividing its five votes in the 2008 election, when one went to President Barack Obama.

[wardaddy]

Israel is very liberal by our standards...folks here don’t think about that.

[JerseyDvl]

Wow, 25 years? I didn’t realize that.
No need to throw good money into a lost cause.