Mitt Romney has pulled ahead of Barack Obama on two key measures of the voters’ opinions of both men, just days before the first presidential debate. Both issues are expected to be key issues in the election.
Rasmussen polled voters to find out which candidate is trusted more to handle the US economy. Mitt Romney leads Obama by seven points, 51-44.
Bloomberg polled the question of which candidate do Americans trust more on terrorism. The Obama administration is rapidly becoming engulfed in charges that it has attempted a cover-up after the terrorist attacks in Libya and Egypt left four Americans dead. President Obama had expected, prior to the attacks, that authorizing the mission that ultimately killed Osama bin Laden would allow him a cushion on foreign policy and especially on terrorism. Bloomberg found that there is no such cushion. In fact, Mitt Romney leads Obama on trust on terrorism by six points, 48-42.
Update: In light of that second poll, the president’s spokespeople may need to come up with a new catch phrase.
Only seven points?? Does the raped ambassador’s body have to be dragged through American streets in order to awake the national consciousness??
Madonna was right, there is a Muslim in the White House, and he is not on our side of this fight.
Bryan, can you find a video clip of CNN a few days ago going over the “average” poll numbers for the presidential race? (which don’t mean anything due to the differences in how the polls are carried out). After they wrapped up how great Obama is doing in the polls, I watched incredulously as the CNN anchor added something to the effect of “And this poll has no margin of error, so the numbers are exactly what they say they are”. So an average of different polls, all with margins of error when by themselves, has no margin of error?
Sure, the poll jockeys call thousands of people at random – only 9% or so of those actually answer and are willing to talk to them, according to one pollster – and 50% of them self-identify as Democrats voting for Obama. Yup, that’s it, game over, why even bother having the election? Let’s go right to the inauguaration.
No this is unpossible! Why are we even polling anymore, his choomness has already won- according to our utterly unbiased media(lmfao)?
If they try to bury Romney, they are going to have to beat him with the shovel, cause he sure doesn’t seem dead yet…..and I think a lot of people are going to vote for Mitt anyway, just for the heck of it, even though they have be told every 2 minutes that his royal highness is invincible….
Bryan – Not to be a spoil-sport, but why don’t we see this in the Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking poll. It has O and Romney all tied up. Are the respondents themselves lying when asked whom they’ll vote for, but give honest answers to other questions, or are they lying on the answers to other polls as well. It reminds me of the disconnect between Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll on Presidential Approval Rating and his daily poll on the election. The Approval Rating can change drastically from day to day to the detriment of the President, but the Presidential tracking poll remains tied or slightly in O’s favor. Will the real poll please stand up.