Posted on 10/30/2012 7:26:25 AM PDT by Siegfried X
The NewsmaxZogby Tracking Poll released Tuesday finds Romney ahead in the national race by 1 point — 47 percent to Obama's 46 percent.
Pollster John Zogby reports: "Undecided voters seem to be breaking toward the challenger with Romney gaining 3 points since the beginning, and Obama losing 1 point. Romney is picking up support among independents..."
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While I like this news, Zogby was a one-hit wonder and his polls are unreliable. Still, Gallup and Ras look good.
“I need someone to convince me that this storm isn’t going to boost Obama for the final stretch. I have a sick feeling that this gives him a boost.”
Here’s your convincing. Obama won’t get a boost because:
1. The storm is a “power failure” storm. Power failures are not Federal issues, but only the purview of the local utility company. BTW, my house and 2/3 of my town are currently without power. So I’m not thinking about this in the abstract.
2. Where the storm is a “flood storm” it affects very BLUE communities in NYC and NJ. The rest of the country will see these issues only in the abstract. And the flooding has resulted in relatively few fatalities.
3. The storm’s immediate effects mostly will be over by Thursday. Whatever positive feeling the media engenders about our moronic Dear Leader will be fleeting.
4. The rest of the country has baked in its sentiments. Romney’s support is solid in the states that matter, and importantly aren’t affected by the storm.
5. The argument from leftist media outlets that Big Government does it better is not shared by the majority of the US population. Romney’s argument that state governments and private entities do most things better is a winner.
6. Romney and Ryan are taking steps to look concerned and helpful.
A boost? Tell that to their operation in Ohio where Sandy has hit the Cleveland area, which is key to their early voting effort. Or in Philadelphia, which the Dems depend on to swing PA. For the most part, Sandy has hit the blue states, which Obama would win anyway. But with a depressed turnout due to the storm, the side with the most enthusiastic and motivated voters could steal a win. In this case, the Romney voters are more enthusiastic.
Speaking of Rush...anybody notice how he’s been doing strange stuff like whispering an aside to the effect “It’s going to be a rout” then louder he declares he did NOT say this, that he’ll be free to say more in the next couple of days?
I believe this election’s going to be a rout and the Obama admin is desperately trying to keep the rising rout at Bay.
But I’ve been wrong before. It’s rare, but it happens.
On this I think I’m right.
I understand the Romney campaign lent the Red Cross its campaign bus to help deliver supplies.
Oh Obamer wants to be the hero, it’s why he returned to DC, to get himself back in the middle of things.
As for the flooding, once again America will look at blue state governance. While they might not connect dots between New Orleans and Katrina the sight won’t generate any sympathy for Obama, at best. Worst it will further damn Democratic governance as it did in Louisiana.
This storm has been a major flooding event. I sit right where the thing made landfall and go with me, the winds were not as bad as Irene or Floyd in my memory, the rain was pretty bad but hurricanes aren’t known for their rain so much. Sandy was a post-tropical storm and nobody could have saved NY from the tidal surge, nobody could have stopped the ocean from tearing apart Atlantic City boardwalks, nobody could stop utility poles from falling for the soft ground covered with water.
For now, Bloomingbird and Christie will continue to hold press conferences to entertain us with their brilliance.
Nah. People are sick of him. And you know his malignant narcissism will have his ugly mug all over TV on this thing. He’s doomed.
We will be stuck forever with the 46 million. Thanks, BO and the Democrats.
Not really. He's been doing all the polling for the Washington Times. Nobody's been following them though...
Where the heck did you get that incredible list of pollster’s grades! I don’t recall ever seeing that. Do you have any idea if there is such a list for 2010, or any other election, for that matter?
You might (and probably will) see ABC/CNN come out with some ridiculous pie-in-the-sky polls that show Obama ahead, but none of the major polling firms would dare such a thing this late in the race.
Their future incomes depend upon their accuracy. No way will they risk it, just to help out a president who will soon be just another citizen.
Did John lose his sauce?
5.56mm
I haven’t seen a Zogby poll since at least the primaries and maybe not even then.
I wish I could offer you comfort but I'm afraid to tell you that this storm has given Obama the boost he needed. Obama is now headed for an epic 50-state landslide - No! 57-state landslide! Obama, the Comeback Kid. Obama, who saved us from the wrath of Hurricane Sandy by standing out there in the Rose Garden like a Mussolini statue with his arms crossed and his chin lifted high - until Hurricane Sandy tucked her tail between her legs and scooted harmlessly off the New Found-land coast.
Oh hail Barack Hussein Obama! Savior of us all! Lowering the seas and making us all not look so fat when we gaze into the mirror - for we see not ourselves but the image of Barack Hussein Obama himself!
OK, ok, get a grip on yourself. Obama is not going to win any votes over a damn storm and waddling up the Atlantic City boardwalk tomorrow with Chris Christie "surveying" damage (look! The slot machines are all unplugged!) is not going to win votes either.
As I type this, Romney is pulling thousands of recalcitrant voters to the "early voting" polls and on Election Day itself, we are going to all pull the lever and obtain TRIPLE Chick-Fil-A for the jackpot with a X10 in the bonus reel.
Zogby? I thought that he and his 35% accuracy rate were hiding in a cave in Tora Bora.
GO, MITT, GO!!!!:)
Post of the day!
I hope lots of obamamites stay home because they think obama’s going to lose. I hope lots of republicans vote because they thing Romney is going to lose.
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