Obama Solidifying Lead Among Independents in Swing States
Source: Gallup
PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama has a 48% to 39% advantage over Mitt Romney among independent voters in 12 key swing states. He first moved ahead of Romney among this group in February after being tied in January and trailing last year.
The results are based on the most recent USA Today/Gallup Swing States poll, conducted March 20-26, among voters in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
The poll preceded Romney's Tuesday victory in the key Wisconsin primary that made his nomination look increasingly inevitable. Romney's closest pursuer in the Republican nomination race, Rick Santorum, fared much worse versus Obama among independents in the Swing State poll, trailing 53% to 32%.
Overall, Obama leads Romney by 51% to 42% in the swing states, his first lead in five waves of interviewing in those states.
Read more: http://www.gallup.com/poll/153764/Obama-Solidifying-Lead-Among-Independents-Swing-States.aspx
This is a bit stale but its significant non-the-less. The trends are all up for the President. Rmoney might get a bit of bounce from his primary wins and nearly sealing up the nomination but that wont make up the big deficits here. If this continues until November this will be a major thumping.
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)We must take back congress with strong Democratic majorities in both houses if this nation is to survive.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)Last edited Wed Apr 4, 2012, 07:16 PM - Edit history (1)
This could be a very productive election... but who knows what can happen between now and then.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,297 posts)In order to re-elect Obama with long coat-tails, we must make sure that every voter gets to that voting booth.
The long coat-tails will make it possible to increase our numbers in the Congress, which we must do if his programs are to succeed.
A most encouraging poll!
ShredOfTruth
(2 posts)That's GREAT news but last night I saw a Gallup poll showing Obama only up 49% to 45%. WTF? Obama has done a decent job of pulling us out of a real economic nightmare. Things are gradually improving, faster than I thought they would. It took 8 years to make the mess and it usually takes longer for cleanup.
Does this country have amnesia? Do we not remember what the boat anchor party (read:GOP) did when they had control of things? They kept pushing the same old tired economic policies they've been trying since the Reagan days with no success. Now, enough of the country wants to elect dipstick Mitt Romney to make this a close election? REALLY?
Obama should be killing the boat anchor party candidates by 20 points or more. These guys are a joke. They bring nothing to the table but the same old tired rhetoric and economic policies that had us losing 750k jobs a month when Obama took office. We've been creating jobs now for 26 straight months! Why in the heck would we want to return to the days of lackluster job creation despite gigantic tax cuts for the top income bracket?
I wonder how the polling will be affected when Romney make the veep pick? Paul Ryan shouldn't provide a boost but as stupid as this country is you never know. Hopefully the lead will increase just as it has among latino and women voters. We desperately need an Obama win and strong majorities in Congress if we are to get anything accomplished in the next 4 years.
Domingo Tavella
(41 posts)With enough TV advertising, a factoid can be turned into a fact. Given Romney's unlimited resources (not his own, but the resources of those who understand the value of having one of their own in charge) Obama's chances will look grimmer as the advertisement war starts. People who like what Obama is doing should be very generous with their donations - it is the only way to confront the avalanche of negative ads that Romney's packs will soon unleash. Especially because the demographics who are easily influenced by advertising happens to coincide with those who watch lots of TV.
ShredOfTruth
(2 posts)Obama has set a fundraising goal of 1 billion for this election. Make no mistake, the Obama campaign has already raised a mountain of money and will continue to raise more. Romney can rely on the gobs of Super PAC money but Obama has both. Certainly not the SuperPAC money that Romney has but between his mountain of money and the billionaires on the left (yes we have some) that will make some bigger donations and Super PAC contributions closer to election time I don't think you'll see the money make as big a difference as you might think. Besides, if Romney had to outspend such dipsticks as Gingrich and Santorum by 5 to 1 or 7 to 1 in some states just to eek out an election, Obama should be able to beat him. I don't know if there is enough money to polish the turd that is Mitt Romney...
John
BigDemVoter
(4,149 posts)But it's gotten so much worse than it even was under that senile buffoon, Ronald Reagan. I honestly cannot fathom how any sensible person could vote for ANY republican today. My parents are big progressive dems but live in an extremely red state. When I go down there, I'm always astonished by how many seemingly "sane" people vote for these clowns. I honestly don't get it.
Given the positive swing towards Obama among independents comes as no surprise, but I'm just puzzled why MORE people aren't coming out against the travesty that these crazies are proposing-- anti-women, anti-choice, homophobia, demonization of the poor, blatant racism, etc.