Mitt Romney Continues to Lead Obama in Latest Rasmussen Poll
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, September 17, 2012, 9:31 AM
Mitt Romney continues to lead Barack Obama in the latest Rasmussen poll.
Rasmussen reported:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 47% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns 45% of the vote. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided. See daily tracking history.
Eighty-five percent (85%) of conservatives support Romney, and 91% of liberals plan to vote for Obama. As they have throughout the campaign, voters under 40 tend to prefer the president, while their elders favor Romney.
When “leaners” are included, the race is tied with both Obama and Romney at 48%. Leaners are those who are initially uncommitted to the two leading candidates but lean towards one of them when asked a follow-up question.
Voters are fairly evenly divided as to which candidate they trust more to handle events in the Middle East: 48% say Obama, 45% Romney. Unaffiliated voters have a slight preference for Romney. By an overwhelming 72% to 15% margin, voters believe it is more important to guarantee freedom of speech rather than making sure nothing is done to offend other nations and cultures. Half (51%) think it’s likely the government of Libya was involved in the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and other Americans.
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Ghost commented:
15%?!
who the hell are these people? I don’t want to know them.
that number in double figures is depressing and disgusting.
Bill Mitchell commented:
This is good news in that it is clear Rasmussen is NOT using his +3 Republican sample to achieve this result. Yesterday’s poll revealed that while Romney lead by 10 among independents, he only lead by 1 overall. You don’t have to be a math genius to realize that result implies a Dem overweight.
This explains why Rasmussen was polling the same as MSM pollsters with +10 Dem samples after the Convention. Apparently Rasmussen also believes turnout will look like 2008. Obviously that is an incorrect assumption.
I think the more likely reason is that Rasmussen would be showing Romney up by 6 or more using a realistic sample and he doesn’t want to be that much of an outlier and be ridiculed as a “Republican Pollster”.
dittogirl commented:
How can anyone be undecided in this election? They either dont want to say, or they are dumber than a rock.
west1890 commented:
Obana is the most hated human being in this country. I see R’s numbers as total BS.
owl commented:
I had to stop posting about Romney’s campaign. I think Laura Ingraham said it for me.
Romney should be far ahead. Having watched many, many presidential campaigns, this is the first I have seen with an invisible man. Quite literally invisible if you turn on a tv and watch and listen. Oh, at times you will hear a Scooper do a poke or see a bad picture or soundbite. The absolute fewest I have ever witnessed. EVER.
Am I a happy camper? I want to beat Obama so bad I can taste it. Have they locked Ryan and Romney up somewhere? Somebody got them taped to a chair or gagged? Pure stupid.
I know I saw Ed Rowlins say stupid things about Clint but this is beyond even that.
Romney, is this how you fight for us? Why have you turned into the INVISIBLE man with nothing to say?
If you must ATTACK the Scoopers…………….to their faces…………….to get a message through the fog………………….ATTACK. Time is short.
ME is burning. Where are you? I do not need a ad. We need to hear you and Ryan. Why have you allowed a bunch of humping Scoopers to do this to you? This is not just about you.
Jim Scrummy commented:
This is a Ras weekend poll, which for some reason usually shows Barky either tying or pulling ahead in the head to head matchup. This poll doesn’t show Barky going ahead. Could it be a turning point? If Ras is using the 2008 model for turnout, that ain’t happening in 2012. A 2010 model would be the starting point. If Barky is losing the Indy vote by 10…? Not good for Barky.
Patty commented:
“voters under 40 tend to prefer the president, while their elders favor Romney”
Here is why I can’t believe these polls.
Bitter Clinger commented:
Weasal Zippers is reporting that the CBS poll has Obama +3 with +13 D polled. That’s why all of this is laughable. They are called media whores with good reason. Why don’t they just get out their knee pads, Obama 2012 buttons, and line w/ with their check books? No one would be surprised.
Ghost commented:
15%?! + Top Democrat Officials + leading State media opinion manipulators
Reagan 1961:
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Reagan 1967:
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.
1927: American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for President on the Socialist Party ticket, said that the American people would never vote for socialism but he said under the name of Liberalism the American people would adopt every fragment of the socialist program.
(aside: Norman Thomas is grandfather to writer/author Evan Thomas)
We’ve been warned.
y’knowwww, we didn’t build this Great Country. It was done for us by our forefathers, just like the song says, “…Land where our fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride…”
Our wonderful lives of peace and prosperity were made possible by their sweat and toil.
ALL we have to do is maintain it, protect it, preserve it, defend it. and we’re having trouble doing that. we might be the generation that loses it all as Reagan feared, or Norman Thomas predicted.
THAT’S the genius of of Francis Scott Key’s epic poem, “Star Spangled Banner” which our more recent fathers adopted as our National Anthem. Key begins with a Question, and he ends it with a Question. it’s as if he’s summoning the vision of the Torch of Freedom, that it is passed on to each generation to protect, and then pass on to the next generation just as it was received. (“Oh say, DOES? that Star Spangled Banner YET wave…?)
15%?! for a FIRST! Amendment Right! that is disgusting and depressing.
(aside: Freedom of RELIGION! is a First among equals, it is the First First Right, also desecrated today by Leftists and their useful tools-
oh boy! are we in trouble)
Patty commented:
WASHINGTON — Republican activists are incredulous: Why can’t Republican Mitt Romney seem to break open a tight race with President Barack Obama given the nation’s sluggish economy and conservative enthusiasm to beat the Democrat?
GOP activists wondering: Why isn’t Romney already beating Obama in tight race?
“He ought to be killing Obama, and he’s clearly not doing that,” said 32-year-old R.J. Robinson, one of the thousands of activists attending the annual Values Voters Summit this weekend. “He should be doing better.”
Added Mike Garner, a 27-year-old hawking “Reagan was right” buttons at the meeting: “If Romney loses this election, the party really needs to do some soul-searching.”
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http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2012-09-16/gop-activists-wondering-why-isnt-romney-already-beating-obama-tight-race#.UFdA5FGCkb1
Patty commented:
Polls show Romney soars with independent voters
http://washingtonexaminer.com/polls-show-romney-soars-with-independent-voters/article/2507679
These are the voters who matter.
lizzy84 commented:
Early voting has started: http://elections.gmu.edu/early_vote_2012.html
Patty commented:
OT
GM WANTS OUT OF GOV’T; OBAMA SAYS NO
http://www.drudgereport.com/
Granny commented:
#1 September 17, 2012 at 9:41 am
Ghost commented:
15%?!
who the hell are these people?
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Ron Paul-bots. They are doing their damndest to throw the election to Obama. My Facebook page is littered with “think about a third party featuring Ron Paul” posts- and anti-Romney posts from the same people.
cal ifkin commented:
Funniest darn thing about the media, 10-20 “journalists” per paper or network- a few hundred or so…you’d think a few would have the cajones or the “right stuff” and enough ambition to break away from the rest of the sycophants and lapdogs to make a name for themself.
Joanne commented:
Iran is just months away from a nuclear bomb. This is a game changer people! Things are going to get ugly quickly.
What is really pathetic is that Obama, the son of an American woman and a British/Kenyan man was ever allowed to run for POTUS. There is a conspiracy of silence amongst both the Democrats and Republicans. You should ask yourselves why and how is it that Obama and his minions have this much power to prevent people from coming forward and kicking Obama the h*ll out for this major breach of the U.S. Constitution. There is something far bigger going on in the U.S. than people want to face up to acknowledge. It is 30 seconds before midnight!
valerie commented:
#4 September 17, 2012 at 9:53 am
dittogirl commented:
They get their news from NPR.
NPR is a radio news outlet that has enormous influence, and they lie like rugs about Republicans and their intent and plans. They do a much better job of it than MSNBC, too, because their tone is calm and non-freakish.
According to NPR, the Repubs are all about taking away women’s access to contraception, and they have offered no solutions to our economic problems.
People who listen to NPR have no idea what is happening to our economy, or the successes of the Republican governors in dealing with their states’ fiscal problems, or the very real support for individual freedom and initiative supported by the Republican party, or the acknowledgment by that party that a safety net is a legitimate part of our society. They also have no clue about the generosity of Republicans, and how they believe in giving generously, but carefully so that their contributions actually make it to those in need.
People who listen to NPR think that the TEA Parties are the right wing of the Republican Party. They have no idea that the TEA Party platform is all about fiscal reform, tabling the culture wars. According to NPR, the TEA Parties are all about the culture wars.
That, my dear, is how you get undecided voters. These people know that hopey-changey stuff isn’t working, but they are terrified that the Repubs will trash their civil liberties and institute Big Brother, intrusive government.
MN Jim commented:
Unless the election is a Romney landslide, the Democrat cheating will sway it for obama. We have seen this in my state in several recent elections.
tommy mc donnell commented:
nobody can poll the acorn electorate.
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