GA appears closer than you would expect +8 Romney per SUSA

[WI_DEM]

I wonder if the nuts at Freeperville will freak out like some do here when a 'blue' state appears closer than it should be?:

In an election in Georgia today for President of the United States, Republican Mitt Romney defeats Democrat Barack Obama 52% to 44%, capturing the state's 16 electoral votes, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for WXIA-TV in Atlanta. Romney is at or above 50% among men and women, voters age 35+, the educated and the less educated and voters earning more than $40,000 a year. Obama leads in greater Atlanta, among pro-choice voters, among African Americans and among moderates. Romney is above 50% among those who have already voted, among those who tell SurveyUSA they will vote before Election Day but have not yet done so, and among those who say they will vote on Election Day. Compared to an identical SurveyUSA poll from Mid-July 2012, Romney is up 2 points and Obama is up 2 points: Romney had led by 8, still leads by 8.

Cell-phone and home-phone respondents included in this research: SurveyUSA interviewed 700 state of GA adults 10/25/12 through 10/28/12.

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=3a2e75e8-050a-4376-a75f-15c2e98935f5

[WI_DEM]

1. appears to be one of the few places that Romney is up in early voting

51-48

[LisaL]

2. GA was never in play for us.

[TroyD]

3. As I was saying on the other GA thread posted at the same time as this one

While the (+8) for Romney in GA is better than the (+5) McCain got in 2008, it's actually only HALF the (+16) level of support Bush got there in 2004.

[WI_DEM]

4. Of course not but it's closer than you would think it would be

given the competitiveness of the election.