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Saturday, September 08, 2012
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows President Obama attracting support from 46% of voters nationwide, while Mitt Romney earns 44% of the vote. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided.

The president is enjoying a convention bounce that has been evident in the last two nights of tracking data. He led by two just before the Republican convention, so he has already erased the modest bounce Romney received from his party’s celebration in Tampa. Perhaps more significantly, Democratic interest in the campaign has soared. For the first time, those in the president’s party are following the campaign as closely as GOP voters. Interest in a campaign is typically considered a good indicator of turnout.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... cking_poll

Not only that but Real Clear Politics has President Obama ahead by almost 2 when looking at the average of ALL polls when they were tied after the RNC convention!

More importantly the President is leading in 10 of 12 battleground states and he only needs 5 to 7 of those to win!

He leads Romney 221 to 191 in the electoral college now.

Obama widens lead over Romney despite jobs data: Reuters/Ipsos poll


(Reuters) - President Barack Obama, picking up support following the Democratic National Convention, widened his narrow lead over Republican U.S. presidential challenger Mitt Romney in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Saturday.

The latest daily tracking poll showed Obama, a Democrat, with a lead of 4 percentage points over Romney. Forty-seven percent of 1,457 likely voters surveyed online over the previous four days said they would vote for Obama if the November 6 elections were held today, compared with 43 percent for Romney.

"The bump is actually happening. I know there was some debate whether it would happen... but it's here," said Ipsos pollster Julia Clark, referring to the "bounce" in support that many presidential candidates enjoy after nominating conventions.

Obama had leapfrogged Romney in the daily tracking poll on Friday with a lead of 46 percent to 44 percent.

The president's lead comes despite a mixed reaction to his convention speech on Thursday night in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Friday's government data showing that jobs growth slowed sharply last month.

Obama's lead over Romney is comparable to Romney's former lead over the president after the Republican National Convention finished last week, Clark said.

"We don't have another convention now to turn our attention to, so (Obama's bounce) may maintain," Clark said. "How big it'll be and how long it will last remains to be seen."

Obama increased his lead over Romney in certain favorable characteristics. Asked who was more "eloquent," 50 percent of the 1,720 registered voters questioned in the poll favored Obama, compared to 25 percent for Romney. Asked about being "smart enough for the job," 46 percent sided with Obama compared to 37 percent for Romney.

In fact, Obama led Romney in a dozen such favorable characteristics, such as "represents America" or "has the right values." The only such category in which Romney had an advantage was being "a man of faith," as 44 percent picked Romney, who is Mormon, compared to 31 percent for Obama, who is Christian.

The Democratic National Convention itself received a rather muted response in the poll. Of those registered voters who had heard, seen or read at least something about it, 41 percent rated it as "average" and 29 percent as "good."

The Republican National Convention that wrapped up August 30 in Tampa, Florida similarly was rated "average" by 38 percent and "good" by 27 percent in Saturday's polling results.

The precision of the Reuters/Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll has a credibility interval of plus or minus 2.7 percentage points.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/ ... 9X20120908

Just now on the news they stated the latest Gallup poll has President Obama leading 49 to 45!

They also said if the President wins PA, MI, and VA it's all over!

The President is also leading in OH and FL!

I make no bones about thinking Obama is a fucking failure, but I also don't think if Romney wins we'd be replacing him with someone who's going to be any better.

brotherplanet wrote:I make no bones about thinking Obama is a fucking failure, but I also don't think if Romney wins we'd be replacing him with someone who's going to be any better.

Romney is best at firing people and cutting benefits! The GOP has already said they'll work with Obama if he's re-elected!

This time they'll have no choice!

RATTrules wrote:

brotherplanet wrote:I make no bones about thinking Obama is a fucking failure, but I also don't think if Romney wins we'd be replacing him with someone who's going to be any better.

Romney is best at firing people and cutting benefits! The GOP has already said they'll work with Obama if he's re-elected!

This time they'll have no choice!

They may not. If they can hurt him they have a better chance of having a Republican win because then a Dem will be leaving office with a bad reputation.

One thing that worked with Clinton... He couldn't work with his own party, but somehow after the Republican revolution, during that particular period of time, that Republican Congress and that Dem President were able to get shit done together even though they hated one another.