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Topic: The polls show a race
that is still up for grabs |
The polls show a race
that is still up for grabs
Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 10/1/2012 10:51:21 PM
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| In the Washington Post-ABC News poll and the Battleground Poll, both of which show a race within the margin of error nationally and with President Obama under 50 percent, Mitt Romney supporters will find confirmation that the contest’s dynamics have changed very little, if at all, since the summer. The dramatic ups and downs in August and September seem to be a wash. But wait, is the race still in the bag for Obama, as some would have you believe? You’ve got to get deep into the weeds to tell what is going on.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
devnull, 10/1/2012 11:08:26 PM (No. 8903353)
I could have sworn that last week the clowns in the DSM had already anointed the Teleprompter Messiah to be the winner. Now it is up for grabs. Hmmm a little bit of noise about skewed polls and in-the-tank media and all of a sudden it is close.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
locarno, 10/1/2012 11:15:55 PM (No. 8903363)
Jennifer Rubin is one of the very few reporters contributing to the WACompost thats worth reading. Obama is doing much worse than 2008 and Romney is doing much better than McCain did in 2008. All the cheerleading and skewed polls isn't going to change this outcome.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
absalom, 10/1/2012 11:46:04 PM (No. 8903406)
Rubin was and remains a tireless pom-pom girl for Romney, savaging his opponents in the primary and raging that he would be a an easy winner. How'd that work out? Let's agree that our Buffoon-in-Chief is arguably the worst POTUS in history. That Romney is tied w/him tells anyone all they need to know about Romney; likely the most inept, incompetent and incoherent candidate ever!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Amereagle-redux, 10/1/2012 11:53:14 PM (No. 8903413)
Hmmm this is the third or fourth legacy media article like this today. Sounds to me like the Pravda Journolistos have accepted that their push-polling propaganda hasn't worked, that Romney is tied or leading despite their best efforts to paint a second Obama term as a fait'accompli, and that they don't want to lose any more credibility than they already have, which is considerable to say the least, so they are slowly revealing the real numbers. Buttclowns.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bighambone, 10/2/2012 12:23:09 AM (No. 8903445)
This is an election like we have never experienced before in the modern era, and because of the special circumstances, there may well be a silent 5% who come out of nowhere, will decide the election, and may well either make the liberal media's heads explode, or make conservatives politically irrelevant in this country for a longtime.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Proud of the USA, 10/2/2012 12:44:17 AM (No. 8903457)
# 2 Posting is exactly correct !
# 3 I strongly disagree with your negative
views of Romney! Mitt is an excellent choice
to lead our Nation! he is a God fearing, loves his Country, plus a wonderful family man!!....go Romney/Ryan 2012
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Spidey, 10/2/2012 6:02:44 AM (No. 8903571)
The average person gets very little exposure to Romney and simply don't know him very well..On the other hand,Obama has close to 100% name recognition and yet he can't get above 50% approval. It's pretty funny how Romney was skewered over his 47% comment,yet that's exactly Obama approval number.
All Bill Clinton cared about was his approval number and it made him more flexible on making deals with republicans.He was also in the right place at the right time o the tech boom.Obama's green energy crap was supposed to replicate the tech boom.The problem is artificial booms don't work.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
TOOTALL, 10/2/2012 9:07:19 AM (No. 8903858)
I've heard that less than 10% of people asked will share their views with pollsters. I don't.
And secondly, what about the Bradley effect? It is not politically correct to share ones' views if they are against the 'Hawaiian.' I believe there are people who won't vote Dem this time round or just won't vote, but aren't revealing that. We'll just have to wait and see.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
absalom, 10/2/2012 1:34:35 PM (No. 8904502)
#6. Accept that Romney is God fearing, loves the USA and has a good family. SO WHAT! Acton shrewedly observed that 'good men are never great men'. Romney's flaccid campaign is testament to that.
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