A new Gallup poll released today shows supporters of Mitt Romney less optimistic about the former Massachusetts governor’s chances than President Obama’s — even though the two are in a dead heat in the polls.
The latest Real Clear Politics national polling average has Obama up 1.1 points over Romney. The latest Gallup Tracking poll put Romney up by one point over Obama.
Asked to be as objective as possible regardless of which candidate those surveyed support, 58 percent said Obama would win and 36 percent picked Romney.
That’s virtually unchanged in the three months of heated campaigning since the poll was last conducted in May. In that survey, 56 percent said Obama would win and 36 percent opted for Romney.
In this month’s poll, 86 percent of Obama supporters said the president would win while 65 percent of Romney supporters had faith in their candidate to win. Out of those identifying as independents, 58 percent chose Obama as the winner and 35 percent predicted a Romney win.
When asked about the quality of the presidential candidates, 12 percent thought both Obama and Romney would be good presidents while 17 percent believe neither will. Among independents, the “neither” answer peaked at 24 percent.
“Americans’ prediction of who will win is significant since they have generally been correct in predicting the winner of past presidential elections,” Gallup noted.
God help us.
Romney supporters are taking “don’t get cocky” to heart.
If the Politico story that Rush talked about today is true, that the theme of the convention is “Obama is a nice guy but he’s in over his head”, then Obama will win easily. Romney can win in a landslide if he presents a stark contrast to Obama with a Conservative ideological campaign. He cannot win by saying “I’m not a nice guy but I can competently implement Obama’s agenda” which is the message that the alleged theme sends.
Think about it… what’s the opposite of “Obama is a nice guy but he’s not competent to implement his agenda”. What GOP strategist thinks “Romney is not a nice guy but Romney will competently implement Obama’s agenda” is a winning message? Right, the strategist from the Big Government GOP Establishment that wins regardless of the outcome of the election. We may all be better off if the convention is called off because of rain.
Have you been listening to the Libs lately? They are saying so much stupid stuff, it’s unbelievable!
Have you not yet realised that they are just delusional sycophants of the Church of Communism? They are not persuaded by facts. Thy don’t even acknowledge that facts, as we understand them, even exist.
They are suffering from not getting enough spankings when it would have helped.
The polls showed Reagan being trounced right up until the election, even though I didn’t know one single peson voting for the idiot Carter. When the media and the Dems lie all day long, why are you paying attention, even?
I have a kinda word for you to ponder: Chic-Fil-A.
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant, and fill him with a terrible resolve.” Adm. Isoruku Yamamoto, following Pearl Harbor. He was killed by us about a year later. His Navy stopped being a force within two years.
I don’t answer polls. Neither do you. We’re busy. We work for a living. But I know one poll you couldn’t stop me from: Nov 6. That’s where Chic-Fil-a comes in. People want to send that schmuck packing so bad, they can’t even wait until November. You’d better be there, or suffer, because you surely will. That’s their plan.
(All the people who derided me over the last 30 years, when I told you their goal was to enslave you, and wouldn’t stop until they did, may now genuflect. But not to the East. I don’t much care for their mean, stupid, horrible god).