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Poll: Romney takes lead over Obama in Pa.
abc27.com ^ | Oct 18, 2012

Posted on 10/18/2012 9:16:28 PM PDT by rdl6989

Harrisburg, PA (WHTM) Mitt Romney has taken the lead over Barack Obama inbPennsylvania and now leads the President by a four-point margin, according to a new statewide poll.

The poll conducted by Susquehanna Polling and Research on behalf of the Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania found that 49 percent of likely voters now support Romney while 45 percent plan to vote for Obama.

Obama led Romney 50-46 percent in an SP&R survey conducted October 12-14. The latest poll was conducted 11-13, prior to Tuesday's debate.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2012election; 2012polls; 2012swingstates; pa2012
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To: MortMan; haircutter; FredZarguna

From the poll;

“regional support shows Romney has managed to run up big margins in Western Pa. with conservative Democrats and at the same time make significant inroads in the socially-moderate, vote-rich Philadelphia suburbs where Romney now leads 48-46. Winning the suburban Philadelphia collar counties would be an historic accomplishment since no Republican presidential nominee has carried these counties in decades”


21 posted on 10/18/2012 10:34:37 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: everyone



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22 posted on 10/18/2012 10:42:32 PM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: FatherofFive

I’m sorry, but the majority of PA, NY, and CA voters are idiots by voting 0bama

Amen to that. See my tagline.


23 posted on 10/18/2012 10:56:10 PM PDT by RacerX1128 (Cornered in CA)
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To: MortMan; haircutter; Born to Conserve
Over educated: Guilty and not ashamed of it.

Talking to you? No. Probably your neighbors, though.

Attacking Pennsylvanians? Hardly, since I've lived in Pennsylvania all my life. My children are fifth-generation Penn Staters. I've lived almost everywhere in PA except Erie. Born in York, raised in Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, and lived in Chester, on City Line Avenue (in Philly), South Philly when Rizzo was mayor, and also Phoenixville, and Wilkes-Barre. My mother's family was in Cumberland County PA before there was a United States of America.

So please spare me the indignation; if you don't acknowledge that a majority of our neighbors are idiots, either you haven't lived in the Commonwealth as long as I have, or you aren't paying attention. The five counties around Philly are the reasons we've been losing national elections in PA. It's easy to blame fraud, but it isn't true.

24 posted on 10/18/2012 11:06:53 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Maybe he was a neutrino for most of the jump.)
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To: rdl6989

one day difference in the polls and an 8% shift. I so want it to be correct but i don’t see how.


25 posted on 10/18/2012 11:30:32 PM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: wiggen
one day difference in the polls and an 8% shift. I so want it to be correct but i don’t see how.

The poll headlines and the sample distributions are changing, but the underlying detailed results by category are not changing so much.

Pollsters have to incrementally move their headlines and sampling distributions toward reality as election day approaches, or else their perceived credibility will suffer in the eyes of the public and their future paying customers.

Those who have been watching and collecting the underlying details from the various polls, and comparing those to the detailed information from previous elections, already have had a good idea that this is going to be a historic landslide tsunami @$$-whupping.

26 posted on 10/19/2012 12:22:38 AM PDT by meadsjn
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To: FredZarguna
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre

There isn't much intelligence left in that neck of the woods. If there is a sporting event going on, that's the only hope that the dimwits don't turn out to vote. I have family up in the area. Sad to say that we even share a single stand of DNA.

27 posted on 10/19/2012 12:58:18 AM PDT by voicereason (The RNC is the "One-night stand" you wish you could forget.)
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To: voicereason
There isn't much intelligence left in that neck of the woods. If there is a sporting event going on, that's the only hope that the dimwits don't turn out to vote.

Any chance of arranging a last minute 20K "Race To The Voting Booth" run, with the course signs reading "THIS WAY TO THE POLES"...and at the end, in a remote area, have a sausage cart serving 3 types of Polish-dogs & giving out ballots to vote for one's favorite?

Think enough would fall for it?

28 posted on 10/19/2012 1:15:48 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: jonno

I hear ya.

At least I get to point to Bachman and say, hey, I voted for her!

Hope she wins again :) I’ll do my part to help (vote/send money)


29 posted on 10/19/2012 1:50:32 AM PDT by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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To: cableguymn

Most interesting. Undecideds, if they have to choose, go to Romney 13-2.


30 posted on 10/19/2012 1:57:00 AM PDT by hawaiian
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To: cableguymn

Most interesting. Undecideds, if they have to choose, go to Romney 13-2.


31 posted on 10/19/2012 1:57:09 AM PDT by hawaiian
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To: onyx

“Volunteer at Non-Prophet Orgs.” ???


32 posted on 10/19/2012 2:12:10 AM PDT by posterchild (Remember that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return.)
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To: haircutter

Relax, dude.

Did the poster you directed your angst to use the word “Idiot?” Or were you just feeling like an idiot when you wrote that?

I thought his post was even-handed and fair.


33 posted on 10/19/2012 2:12:49 AM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: goldstategop

Dave Dobbyn has something to say about that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3cacgPo7o4


34 posted on 10/19/2012 2:29:30 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: rdl6989; All
The other day when someone was complaining of no Romney Ad's in PA I noted maybe it is a lock and they are moving on and should put some energies into Michigan.

I am not looking so crazy now for saying that...

35 posted on 10/19/2012 2:55:30 AM PDT by taildragger (( Fubarward Obama 2012, think about it :-) ))
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To: taildragger

No offense, but yes, you do look crazy for saying that. Romney will NOT win PA. and knows it. Therefore is not spending money there. Republican’s had this same pipe dream in 2008 and while this isn’t 2008, the result will be the same.

People are starting to get a little cocky around here. You can expect this whole thing to tighten up right before election day.


36 posted on 10/19/2012 3:04:28 AM PDT by paul544
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To: onyx

That donate-to-FR graphic is compelling, but would be even more so if “Non-Profit” were not misspelled as “Non-Prophet” (or, is it supposed to mean “volunteer at organizations not associated with one of the 3 monotheistic religions whose holy texts were written based on the prophecies of their founders”?). Sorry to be the grammar police...


37 posted on 10/19/2012 3:09:56 AM PDT by lump in the melting pot (Communism - a social experiment which, for ethical reasons, should not be performed on live humans)
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To: jonno
"Imagine how we Freepers in MN feel. Cycle after cycle, Minnesotans - collectively - vote like idiots"

Well, yes, we do have quite a record, don't we? Jesse Ventura, Al Franken, and Doofus Dayton ...TWICE!!! I think many of our fellow citizens have been suffering gray-matter loss from progressive brain-freeze ever since hats went out of style.

38 posted on 10/19/2012 3:20:46 AM PDT by Reo (the 4th Estate is a 5th Column)
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To: haircutter
Oh GOOD GRIEF! Calm down Nancy.

If MY state had voted for a commie who we KNEW would destroy the Oil Industry (I'm from Texas)...I would call them a bunch of IDIOTS too.

I'm sorry good people get caught into the mix of it...but your state IS a bunch of idiots for voting for dems. PERIOD.

39 posted on 10/19/2012 3:32:53 AM PDT by NELSON111
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To: rdl6989

A few minutes ago I made the maximum allowable donation by law to Mitt’s campaign ($2500). I don’t know if he can turn my Commonwealth from blue to red, but as long as he can throw the Communist in the WH out on his backside I don’t care.

The other $2500 went to Rick Santorum back in November. And if anyone is wondering how I could be so enthusiastic about Romney after supporting Santorum, my answer is simple. Helping Santorum was just as much about protecting Romney, Perry, and everyone else in the primary. As long as Santorum could be a serious contender, he could run interference for everyone else. His presence made it impossible for the fifth-column leftists in the media to paint anyone else with the “right-wing religious extremist” card. Not that I think Santorum is one—I don’t—but the media would have used that card, and that’s what mattered to me. From what we’re seeing today, I consider it a huge success. No one, from CNN to MSNBC, to the alphabet networks, has been able to level that charge against him.

Bury them, Mitt. I want to see those “fashionable leftists” crying into their beer on November 6.


40 posted on 10/19/2012 3:36:08 AM PDT by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda machine.)
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