Posted on 11/06/2012 6:41:32 AM PST by Numbers Guy
BOSTON—The presidential race is tied going into Election Day.
The final POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Tracking Poll of 1,000 likely voters — conducted Sunday and Monday — shows Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama each claiming 47 percent nationally.
Our previous poll, conducted Monday through Thursday of last week, found the race tied at 48 percent. Although Romney and Obama have each led at times, the two candidates have stayed within the margin of error since the spring.
(Also on POLITICO: 9 takeaways from the 2012 election)
Independents break for Romney by 15 points, 47 percent to 32 percent.
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Near the bottom there's a question: Who did you vote for in 2008? The results are Obama 50%, McCain 40% (others presumably didn't vote or were too young to vote). In other words, given that Obama won by just under 7 points, this polling sample is skewed 3 points to the Dems based on something clearly verifiable (the actual results in 2008). Now that's not completely indicative, you likely have older voters who passed on who may have leaned McCain and firsttime voters may lean Democratic, but it is an interesting measure of the skew.
I consider it a very good omen that sources typically biased to the left are constantly calling this race a tie. I do not believe it is.
More accurate would be to determine what the margin of victory was in the battleground states in 2008. It’s possible that it might have been closer than the national spread of 7.27%.
What did Politico do? Poll all the cellphone numbers that their staffers gave them of their ‘drug - connections’ in DC? Ha!
“Independents break for Romney by 15 points, 47 percent to 32 percent.”
So for Zero to win, he’s going to have to get MORE Dims to the polls than what showed up in 2008. Yeah right.
Once again, we are being fed this TOO CLOSE TO CALL crap.
We heard it before with the Wisconsin Recall. The reality: 49 MINUTES after the polls closed it was OVER. Walker won 53-46.
Here is MSNBC saying it would be hours and hours before we knew who won, and then having to eat crow. PRICELESS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pchwcD4IPzs
D+4 and Romney up 15 with Indies? And still tied? Makes little sense to me. How can Romney not win this election?
While it's called "Battleground", the 47-47 tie in the poll is actually across the entire nation, not just in the battleground states, so the 7% comparison (to the 50-40 margin) is the right one.
An incumbent at 47% is not in a good position.
Keeping fingers crossed.
Taking just those states and adding them up from 2008 I come up with 7.08% advantage for Obama, nearly the same as the 7.27% national advantage.
As I understand. Ed Goes one of the two founders of the poll, said last night there model they run, taking poll results and other metrics shows Romney winning 52-47. They are generally one of the most accurate groups out there.
D/R/I breakdown in the poll?
Never used to ask this question, now I always do.
Uncross your fingers and instead, pray. It's much more effective---and your knuckles won't get stiff.
If you go to the full internals, by region, you'll see that the full poll had respondents in numerous non-battleground states (like Texas and California). The 10 competitive states is a subset (and one they have Obama leading in, though I think there's a serious margin of error problem there due to the much smaller sample size).
dead heat-bullshit!
May the heros of Benghazi be proud of how we vote today.
They gave their lives for us, now we need to give our votes for them.
Vote as if the lives of our Military Men and Women depended on it.
Tell me if I am wrong, but some “pundit”...don’t know if it was Carville or Rove or someone else...but was there or was there not some “rule of thumb” that said an incumbent under 50% generally gets 1 or 2 points FEWER than his last poll number?
I was thinking of the same issue: who is voting this year who didn't vote in '08 and who voted in '08 who isn't voting this year? It has to be a bit more nuanced than merely the older voters in '08 having passed on the young first time voters replacing them. There are quite a number of not so young conservatives who foolishly sat out '08 out of frustration with RINO McCain and his passive campaign, but are now strong for Romney. You also have some not so old Democrats, especially so-called "minorities," who were enthusiastic for the Messiah in '08 but are sitting this one out in remorse or resentment at his performance as POTUS.
R&R should have a built in 7.9% advantage with that demographic.
Why? How many unemployed vote Rat, because they think they will keep the government checks coming?
A landside for Romney?
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