Latest Polls: Romney Up in Michigan… And Illinois(?)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 3:12 PM
Mitt Romney pulled ahead by in Michigan in the latest poll 47.68% to 43.88%.
MY FOX Detroit reported:
Foster McCollum White Baydoun (FMW)B, a national public opinion polling and voter analytics consulting firm based in Michigan and representing the combined resources of Foster McCollum White & Associates (Troy, Michigan) and Baydoun Consulting (Dearborn, Michigan) conducted a telephone-automated polling random survey of Michigan registered and most likely November 2012 general election voters to determine their voting preferences.
In what will be a significant blow to Democratic campaign efforts, native son Mitt Romney has climbed into the lead in Michigan’s Presidential contest. The naming of Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan has delivered a targeted affect on the Michigan and Midwest campaign dynamics. We ballot tested the Presidential candidates and we also tested the following two areas of initial campaign impact and awareness:
Congressman Ryan’s impact on voters’ decision to vote for Mitt Romney.
Congressman Ryan’s controversial 2012 fiscal budget plan and voters support or opposition to the plan.It is our conclusion that the results to these questions will help initially either validate Ryan’s selection or provide messaging for Democrats that Ryan is not acceptable to the voters. As our data outlines, currently Romney and Ryan are received positively enough to help vault Romney into the lead.
In another poll… President Barack Obama could lose his home state of Illinois in November.
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atticcellar commented:
WOW! 443.88 percent.. Must be democrats voting
Spider commented:
Preference cascade has started. Cali, Minnesota, New York?
Say it ain’t so, Joe!
Sarah commented:
Nice headline. But I like to stay grounded. A poll is only as credible as it’s methodology. What’s this poll? If it’s junky, the numbers mean nothing. Just keep on working folks! Donate. Volunteer. Time is running out and there is too much at stake to rest on any premature laurels. We’ve got a mountain to climb. Keep putting one foot in front of the other. Make sacrifices and bust your tail so we can win the WH AND both houses of congress. If you’re not doing that, you’re part of the problem.
Sarah commented:
Romney is showing leadership and has come out and asked Akin to step aside:
http://www.therightscoop.com/romney-calls-on-akin-to-withdraw-from-senate-race/
MicahStone commented:
“Shock poll: Obama could lose Illinois, Romney leads in Chicago suburbs”
Yeah, but that poll didn’t include the thousands and thousands of DEAD PEOPLE who always come out of their graves throughout cook county to vote 100% d-cRAT socialist. Ever since they managed to give the county, the state and thus the country a JFK “win,” these deadies have become a key focus of the d-cRAT socialist “get out the vote” effort.
Ace commented:
Akin has 20 minutes to prove he isn’t a leftist plant.
Ghost commented:
#1 and #5
Must be because of those Chicago Young Republicans, y’think?!
see what a clever cover ditty can do? c’monn folks, join in
overheard on the street outside a sealed-off Ozero funer… rally
“Two Terms for Obama! one in office, one in prison”
Aarradin commented:
per RCP its a sample of 1733 likely voters, and they lable the firm that conducted it as (D).
That’s a huge sample for a poll of a single state, so margin of error’s got to be pretty low.
tommy mc donnell commented:
if americans have any sense obama will lose all 57 states.
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redneck commented:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-national-campaign-co-chair-donated-10000-paul-ryan_650365.html………..
SoLongSong commented:
THANK GOD!! Something besides that turkey Akin!!
I could use some good news….but we need those seats to overturn obamacare…
Lightwave commented:
But Enn Bee See has Obamee up by four in their poll today.
You know, the one that has 34% Democrats to 27% Republicans, with 36% independents.
Let’s check Gallup’s party affiliation numbers for the month: 29% Democrat, 26% Republican, 42% Independent.
Serious oversampling of Democrats, and a serious undersampling of swing voters.
The poll is completely worthless. Surprise!
bobdog commented:
Illinois? Don’t believe it for a second. Maybe downstate, but not north of I-80.
tommy mc donnell commented:
you can’t poll the frequent voter.
Gary Gross commented:
I interviewed Eric Foster, the chief pollster for Foster, McCollum, White & Baydoun. Mr. Foster told me many things that weren’t published in the Fox Detroit article. I wrote here that President Obama is in worse shape in Michigan than the horserace numbers indicate.
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