Polls Show Romney Gaining Ground, Winning Independents

[edthecynic]

These polls are conducted by land lines and most of the people I know don't even have a land line, most are cell phones which are not called.

Except if that were true then it would favor Willard because most land lines are used by seniors who generally favor the GOP.

 

[edthecynic]

Mitt Romney's Quest For Swing Vote An Uphill Battle, Say Republican Pollsters

Notice even Ratmuffin has Obama up by 6% in the swing states!

Daily Swing State Tracking Poll - Rasmussen Reports™

In the 11 swing states, the president earns 51% support to Mitt Romney’s 45%. Three percent (3%) prefer another candidate, and two percent (2%) are undecided.

Is that a combined average of all the "swing states"? What a useless stat that is

It's only "useless" because Willard is losing.

 

[Maple]

Notice even Ratmuffin has Obama up by 6% in the swing states!

Daily Swing State Tracking Poll - Rasmussen Reports™

In the 11 swing states, the president earns 51% support to Mitt Romney’s 45%. Three percent (3%) prefer another candidate, and two percent (2%) are undecided.

Is that a combined average of all the "swing states"? What a useless stat that is

It's only "useless" because Willard is losing.

I think you all will be very surprised come election day, Carter was up 5 pts nationally to Reagan just 5 days before the election and if you are too young to remember it was a landslide win, with Carter only winning 3 states. In fact, it was called before they closed the polls in California, which in itself caused quite a stir, as they had a lot of local and state races that people did not show up to vote for. They were Po'd out there in California.

Good night everyone, the real poll is taken on Nov 6th, these polls are fun to talk about but in reality they are pretty meaningless. I know people who delibertly lie to pollsters just for the fun of it. LOL They like to yank the chain. LOL

 

[candycorn]

Is that a combined average of all the "swing states"? What a useless stat that is

It's only "useless" because Willard is losing.

I think you all will be very surprised come election day, Carter was up 5 pts nationally to Reagan just 5 days before the election and if you are too young to remember it was a landslide win, with Carter only winning 3 states. In fact, it was called before they closed the polls in California, which in itself caused quite a stir, as they had a lot of local and state races that people did not show up to vote for. They were Po'd out there in California.

Good night everyone, the real poll is taken on Nov 6th, these polls are fun to talk about but in reality they are pretty meaningless. I know people who delibertly lie to pollsters just for the fun of it. LOL They like to yank the chain. LOL

It's easy to dismiss one or two. Not the last 80 that show the President with commanding leads.

 

[longknife]

Polls Show Romney Gaining Ground, Winning Independents

The final act of the presidential campaign opens today with two new polls showing the race between Obama and Romney tightening. New polls, released this morning, from ABC/WaPo and Politico both show Obama's lead nationally has been cut to two points, 49-47. Also, in both polls, Romney leads Obama among Independents by four points.

Obviously, if Romney is leading among independents by four, yet trailing overall by two points, both polls have probably sampled more Democrats. Indeed, the WaPo poll is D+5. This is a big improvement over past WaPo polls, which assumed that Democrats would have a bigger turnout than 2008's D+7 electorate. I think today's poll is still overly generous to Democrats, but it is more realistic than their previous polls. Politico's internals aren't yet available, but in the past their samples have been fairly reasonable.

The economy is clearly weighing Obama down. 81% of voters rate the economy as "not so good" or poor. In the WaPo poll, 60% of registered voters think the country is on the wrong track. A majority of registered voters disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy, 47-52.

Interestingly, voters are now split on Obama's handling of foreign affairs, with 49% approving and 48% disapproving.

More troubling for Obama, a majority of voters, 53%, are not confident the economy will improve over the next year or two if Obama is reelected. Given that the economy is the defining issue of the campaign, this is a worrisome sign for the President's reelection.

The media spent the month of September trying to convince the public that the race was already over. This morning we learn, however, that it has just begun.

From Polls Show Romney Gaining Ground, Winning Independents

 

[Katzndogz]

GDP down. Manufacturing down. Income, down. People giving up and shifting from unemployment to welfare is up.

Only a democrat would find this good news.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Polls Show Romney Gaining Ground, Winning Independents

The final act of the presidential campaign opens today with two new polls showing the race between Obama and Romney tightening. New polls, released this morning, from ABC/WaPo and Politico both show Obama's lead nationally has been cut to two points, 49-47. Also, in both polls, Romney leads Obama among Independents by four points.

Obviously, if Romney is leading among independents by four, yet trailing overall by two points, both polls have probably sampled more Democrats. Indeed, the WaPo poll is D+5. This is a big improvement over past WaPo polls, which assumed that Democrats would have a bigger turnout than 2008's D+7 electorate. I think today's poll is still overly generous to Democrats, but it is more realistic than their previous polls. Politico's internals aren't yet available, but in the past their samples have been fairly reasonable.

The economy is clearly weighing Obama down. 81% of voters rate the economy as "not so good" or poor. In the WaPo poll, 60% of registered voters think the country is on the wrong track. A majority of registered voters disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy, 47-52.

Interestingly, voters are now split on Obama's handling of foreign affairs, with 49% approving and 48% disapproving.

More troubling for Obama, a majority of voters, 53%, are not confident the economy will improve over the next year or two if Obama is reelected. Given that the economy is the defining issue of the campaign, this is a worrisome sign for the President's reelection.

The media spent the month of September trying to convince the public that the race was already over. This morning we learn, however, that it has just begun.

From Polls Show Romney Gaining Ground, Winning Independents

If this is your "proof", no wonder you've got your head firmly up your ass.

Breitbart TV is credible? You've gotta be kidding...............................

 

[Old Rocks]

Polls Show Romney Gaining Ground, Winning Independents

The final act of the presidential campaign opens today with two new polls showing the race between Obama and Romney tightening. New polls, released this morning, from ABC/WaPo and Politico both show Obama's lead nationally has been cut to two points, 49-47. Also, in both polls, Romney leads Obama among Independents by four points.

Obviously, if Romney is leading among independents by four, yet trailing overall by two points, both polls have probably sampled more Democrats. Indeed, the WaPo poll is D+5. This is a big improvement over past WaPo polls, which assumed that Democrats would have a bigger turnout than 2008's D+7 electorate. I think today's poll is still overly generous to Democrats, but it is more realistic than their previous polls. Politico's internals aren't yet available, but in the past their samples have been fairly reasonable.

The economy is clearly weighing Obama down. 81% of voters rate the economy as "not so good" or poor. In the WaPo poll, 60% of registered voters think the country is on the wrong track. A majority of registered voters disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy, 47-52.

Interestingly, voters are now split on Obama's handling of foreign affairs, with 49% approving and 48% disapproving.

More troubling for Obama, a majority of voters, 53%, are not confident the economy will improve over the next year or two if Obama is reelected. Given that the economy is the defining issue of the campaign, this is a worrisome sign for the President's reelection.

The media spent the month of September trying to convince the public that the race was already over. This morning we learn, however, that it has just begun.

From Polls Show Romney Gaining Ground, Winning Independents

RealClearPolitics - Election 2012 - General Election: Romney vs. Obama

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[JoeB131]

These polls are conducted by land lines and most of the people I know don't even have a land line, most are cell phones which are not called.

I've gotten poll calls on my cell... so that isn't true.

And frankly, older people are more likely to have land lines only, younger people are more likely to have cells only.

Since the Young tend to trend more Democratic, that probably means these polls are underestimating the Obama vote, if anything.