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Old 08-18-2012, 02:48 PM
 
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General Election: Romney vs. Obama
Gallup Tracking Obama 45, Romney 47 Romney +2
General Election: Romney vs. Obama Rasmussen Tracking Obama 46, Romney 44 Obama
President Obama Job Approval Gallup Approve 45, Disapprove 49 Disapprove +4
President Obama Job Approval Rasmussen Reports Approve 47, Disapprove 51 Disapprove +4

In just 10 days Romney has gone from -7 to +2 and in all polls combined it's a dead heat.

RealClearPolitics - Latest Polls

 
Old 08-18-2012, 03:31 PM
 
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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IMO, polls are kind of like pictures on a menu. Nice to look at, but until the meal arrives you have no idea what the results really are.
 
Old 08-18-2012, 03:35 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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Default Polls showing Romney lead are flawed

Hate to break the news to the desperate Pubs, but any poll which does not show the President leading this goon by a sizable margin, is severely flawed.
 
Old 08-18-2012, 03:36 PM
 
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I also saw this:

If Election Was Held Today Romney-Ryan Would Win By 26 Electoral Votes …Update: Team O’s Forlorn Hope – Just Get Unlikely Voters to Turn Out

If the election were held today Mitt Romney would win 282 electoral votes to Barack Obama’s 256 electoral votes.



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President Obama is on defense over his $716 billion raid of current Medicare beneficiaries to pay for Obamacare, and allowing the hospital trust fund to go broke by the time those aged 50 or below are Medicare eligible. The political director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee warned this week that the issue could cost Democrats the election.


At the same, time, the Romney Plan for a Stronger Middle Class is gaining traction. Voters in the swing states believe that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have a better plan than Barack Obama and Joe Biden “to reduce the deficit, create jobs and get the economy moving.”
And the Biden slavery comments didn’t help Obama either.


UPDATE: The latest forlorn plan by Team Obama – Just get unlikely voters to turn out.

Yes, it’s that bad already.
 
Old 08-18-2012, 03:49 PM
 
Location: Manhattan
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Hate to break the news to the desperate Pubs, but any poll which does not show the President leading this goon by a sizable margin, is severely flawed.
Desperate democrats blinded by an obama Angry Dragon that ignores any poll that doesn't have their Mandingo ahead are just hopeless.
 
Old 08-18-2012, 03:59 PM
 
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Romney will rise in the polls for the remainder of the month and the first part of September. This is typical due to the VP being chosen and then it will be the Rep Nat'l Convention boost.

By mid to late Sept the polls will begin to even out and that temporary boost will go back to normal.

Does anyone know when the debates will begin? This will be fun viewing for all on this board, regardless which side you are on.
 
Old 08-18-2012, 04:02 PM
 
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Race/Topic
General Election: Romney vs. Obama
Gallup Tracking Obama 45, Romney 47 Romney +2
General Election: Romney vs. Obama Rasmussen Tracking Obama 46, Romney 44 Obama
President Obama Job Approval Gallup Approve 45, Disapprove 49 Disapprove +4
President Obama Job Approval Rasmussen Reports Approve 47, Disapprove 51 Disapprove +4

In just 10 days Romney has gone from -7 to +2 and in all polls combined it's a dead heat.

RealClearPolitics - Latest Polls
Try this:
RealClearPolitics - Election 2012 - General Election: Romney vs. Obama

He's seeing a bounce from announcing a running mate. Most candidates get around 5% when they announce. Lets see what the polls look like around the end of September, because that's when they're going to actually matter.
 
Old 08-18-2012, 04:13 PM
 
Location: Inland Empire, Calif
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Originally Posted by sware2cod View Post
Romney will rise in the polls for the remainder of the month and the first part of September. This is typical due to the VP being chosen and then it will be the Rep Nat'l Convention boost.

By mid to late Sept the polls will begin to even out and that temporary boost will go back to normal.

Does anyone know when the debates will begin? This will be fun viewing for all on this board, regardless which side you are on.
You seem to have everything figured out perfectly, and know it all, but you don't even know when the debates are?
Sounds like a lot of wild, hopeful guessing going on by someone who has no clue what is going on around them..
To be even close to, let alone leading, the incumbent at this stage is very foreboding for the corrupt one..
The debates will be the final blow to a corrupt administration...
 
Old 08-18-2012, 04:39 PM
 
Location: 44.9800° N, 93.2636° W
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Nah, the debates will seal the deal for Obama. Romney isnt even that solid of a debater.

If you watch the first debate of Carter vs Reagan from 1980....Carter was a much better debater, but people chose Reagan as the winner. Why? Because they liked him better than Carter. Likeability plays much more into this than the right would like to think it will.

If the general public sees Romney as a rich guy grossly out of touch with the middle class, they will hear him as a rich guy grossly out of touch with the middle class.

Ryan will probably do very well debating with Biden but it wont make the astronomical impact you hope it will. Most people on the left hoped that Palin debating Biden would be this three ring circus blowout of ridiculousness, but even as uninformed as Palin is...it was still pretty tame and controlled.
 
Old 08-18-2012, 04:49 PM
 
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I also enjoy how you said "all polls", when all that one has to do is click to another section of the very site you linked to and.....

RCP Average 8/5 - 8/17 48.0 44.6 Obama +3.4
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