Romney takes lead over Obama with convention "bounce": Reuters/Ipsos poll
Source: Reuters
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Mitt Romney has moved into a narrow lead over U.S. President Barack Obama in a small bounce for him from the Republican National Convention, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found on Thursday.
Romney entered the week four points behind Obama in the first installment of a Reuters/Ipsos rolling poll, with Obama leading 46 percent to 42 percent.
But the most recent daily rolling poll gave Romney a two-point lead of 44 percent to 42 percent among likely voters.
The former governor of Massachusetts has been in the spotlight at the convention in Tampa, Florida, and was to make his acceptance speech on Thursday night in the biggest test of his White House bid.
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JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)emulatorloo
(43,982 posts)Lol
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)greiner3
(5,214 posts)Of FivethirtyEight.com;
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
May change your mind.
Monk06
(7,675 posts)warrior1
(12,325 posts)lost 17 viewers from 2008. Yea, right rmoney got a bump.
Mr.Bill
(24,104 posts)Convention is not over yet, but I think he's toast.
Larkspur
(12,804 posts)so don't give it much credence. We don't elect the Prez by national vote.
It's the polls from the swing states that matter.
bayareaboy
(793 posts)Reuters is not the polling agency to follow.
Samantha
(9,314 posts)Check it out yourself. And be sure to point to Michigan on the map, which Silver says is not a swing state.
Sam
PS okay, okay
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
300.4 versus 237.6 today's electoral college contest projection - Obama leads
donnasgirl
(656 posts)But it's time to get off our asses and get moving,send as much money as you can to help combat the liars machine(THE GOP) and help this president to finally get the respect he deserves.He will only get respect when we hand willard the loss he so justly deserves,i am sick and tired of the lies from this GOP shit machine.
Phlem
(6,323 posts)Romney has F'ing alienated every every possible voting group there is except the old scared white guy's club and jebus walked with the dinosaurs club. Those populations together cannot possibly be that big!
-p
Anarcho-Socialist
(9,601 posts)Obama +2 = "margin of error" "neck and neck" "statistical dead heat"
You gotta love the liberal media.
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)Botany
(70,291 posts)Vegas has Obama winning @ big odds.
Romney has 1 or maybe 2 demographic groups and that is it.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Just wait until next week is done.
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)iemitsu
(3,888 posts)to account for the newly disenfranchised.
Miami4Obama
(41 posts)This is why is good to have the convention after the demonics have theirs. There is NO way Romney will win, NO way, did you all see the headlines in the newspapers today about Ryan lies in the speech? absolutely abominable, specially the one about the GM closing. what do you all think?
demwing
(16,916 posts)not there at all, and the national averages show no bounce for Nitt Robme.
magic59
(429 posts)those old angry white men polls don't really mean a hell of a lot.
Botany
(70,291 posts)..... union workers, nurses, and older people that the Ryan budget scares the crap out of .....
But still we have to win big to get over the republican "fudge factors" i.e. voting machines,
voter suppression, and other things.
PSPS
(13,516 posts)graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Edwood
(1 post)It's an online poll. Anyone who has taken an applied statistics or research methods class knows online polling is completely unscientific and unreliable.
RandySF
(57,661 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)it did come from out of their ass.