Pew Research has released a new poll this afternoon which shows that the presidential race may have flipped after last week’s presidential debate. Overall, Romney was widely seen to have won the debate, and that win translates into a poll lead.
By about three-to-one, voters say Romney did a better job than Obama in the Oct. 3 debate, and the Republican is now better regarded on most personal dimensions and on most issues than he was in September. Romney is seen as the candidate who has new ideas and is viewed as better able than Obama to improve the jobs situation and reduce the budget deficit.
Fully 66% of registered voters say Romney did the better job in last Wednesday’s debate, compared with just 20% who say Obama did better. A majority (64%) of voters who watched the debate describe it as mostly informative; just 26% say it was mostly confusing.
In turn, Romney has drawn even with Obama in the presidential race among registered voters (46% to 46%) after trailing by nine points (42% to 51%) in September. Among likely voters, Romney holds a slight 49% to 45% edge over Obama. He trailed by eight points among likely voters last month.
Romney’s personal favorability rating has also shot up to about 50% while Obama’s fell to 49%. One more kicker: It’s 47-47 now, among women voters.
Ok, so that’s one poll. Gallup finds the race to be a tie after 72 percent of respondents said Romney won the debate.
Ok, so that’s two polls. How about a third?
Post-debate polls have shown Romney closing the gap in many swing states, and a Rasmussen tracking poll released Sunday said the GOP candidate now held a 49-47 advantage over the president.
Remember when the media kept declaring the race “over?” Even though GOP enthusiasm has long led Democrat enthusiasm, and even though independents are breaking hard against Obama?
Yeah. Well it’s not over either way. My post-debate advice to the GOP team still applies.
The NYTimes staffers walked out in protest over the poll results. Ok, they really walked out because now they have to cover Obama doing a pratfall.
Ok, ok. They walked out because they want to not just emulate Greece, they want to provide an instructional video. They don’t get enough wages and benefits.
In other news, Robert Reich says the jobs report is great news and Rhea Pearlman is leaving Danny DeVito. This war on wee men has turned up a notch.
ACORN Int’l has been community organizing some nice foreign money bundles, no word yet on how the SEIU is helping.
And, oh yeah…the polls. If they demoralize the leftists, that’s a good thing. But, they are going to reverse these numbers by any means necessary. We can’t react to them going up and down.
Keep your eye on the ball, everyone: keep volunteering, keep donating, work work work.
This ain’t over.
Welcome to 1980.
It won’t be over until the last out-of-state bus rolls into Ohio.
Then we’ll know whether a 15% edge courtesy of Pravda plus a 5%+ edge via voter fraud can overcome what would be a landslide in a fair contest.
It there are really 35% who want the Con Man back, the country is so mentally ill that it’s beyond redemption anyway.